34: Setting up a stall

"Almost forgot, this is the spring bead of that spirit spring. If you take it back and place it in water in a place with abundant spirit energy, it will regenerate a spring eye. Although the Azure Wood Spirit Flame is no longer present, after years of immersion, it has gained some of the effects of the Azure Wood Spirit Flame. It would be good to take it back and brew tea or something with it."

After hearing the words of the Azure Sky Luan, Xu Yan put the spring bead into his storage device and carefully began to collect the various medicinal herbs and spirit items in the valley.

Although the greatest harvest had been burned away by the Azure Sky Luan, these spirit items and medicinal herbs that had been nourished by the Azure Wood Spirit Flame for years were all good things that could not be missed.

After "scouring" the entire valley, Xu Yan took Zhu Yan back to the cave and followed the marks he had made earlier to return the way they came. After walking for a while, they returned to the entrance where they had entered and walked out.

Having obtained a large harvest, the next step was naturally to return to the city to process these spoils; he would use what he could for himself and Zhu Yan, store the rare ones, and process some common ones into spirit food or potions to sell.

Riding the Wind-Treading Steed and clearing out batches of exotic beasts along the way, Xu Yan returned to a spot not far from the city gate; after these few days, the intensity of the beast tide had decreased again.

Conversely, the number of Beast Tamers who looked to be about the same age as Xu Yan began to increase, commanding spirit beasts that were much weaker than the ones Xu Yan had seen fighting before.

These were likely high school students from surrounding cities who, seeing that the beast tide's intensity had decreased, were brought by their teachers to gain some experience.

Of course, compared to the "everyone for themselves" style Xu Yan and the others had used before, although this batch of students' spirit beasts were much weaker in strength, their coordination with each other was not something Xu Yan and the others could compare to when they were fighting earlier.

Under their coordination, even though the exotic beasts were stronger and more numerous, they were unable to break through the spirit beasts' formation and were blocked and killed by them.

After a simple glance, Xu Yan lost interest, took Zhu Yan to deal with the exotic beasts blocking the road, returned to the city, and headed towards the hotel.

The students fighting the exotic beasts naturally saw Xu Yan, a peer. They looked at Xu Yan, who was able to explore outside the city alone, and Zhu Yan's swift and decisive attacks with expressions of envy and admiration.

Of course, some people looked at the General Rank Wind-Treading Steed under Xu Yan with expressions of jealousy and disdain, as if everything Xu Yan could do was entirely dependent on the Wind-Treading Steed.

After returning to the hotel, Xu Yan did not start processing the harvested materials; instead, after a simple shower, he lay on the bed and had a good sleep.

During these few days of exploring the secret realm, although he had maintained normal sleep under the protection of Zhu Yan and the Wind-Treading Steed, the wild was ultimately the wild; it was not very comfortable to sleep in, and he had accumulated quite a bit of fatigue, so now that he was back at the hotel, he naturally had to have a good sleep.

He slept straight until noon the next day. After waking up and eating something simple, he took out the various materials, spirit items, and medicinal herbs he had harvested from his storage device and began to organize them.

After classifying them, he took out various small instruments from his storage device and began to process these things.

Time passed until the morning of the next day. Xu Yan looked at the boxes on the table filled with various potions and spirit food, revealed a satisfied smile, fed a few portions to Zhu Yan, and went back to bed to sleep again.

In the evening, Xu Yan changed into the clothes provided by the hotel, asked the hotel staff for the location of the trading area, took a mask and a small voice changer from them, and headed towards the trading area.

Xu Yan did not have to worry about selling the things he had prepared, so after stepping into the trading area, he did not rush to rent a stall or anything, but wandered around the surrounding stalls instead.

He wandered casually through a few stalls in the outer area, found nothing that attracted him too much, so he skipped them directly and walked quickly towards the central area.

There was no such thing as a sudden epiphany leading him to find a corner stall. Xu Yan arrived at the central area smoothly, paid a high rent to the management, and went to his stall—a location in the central area that was neither good nor bad.

He took out the various potions and spirit food he had prepared earlier from his storage device and placed them on the coarse cloth that came with the stall, then sat down on the small stool that also came with the stall and played with his phone.

The appearance of a new stall naturally attracted the attention of many people.

After all, the rent in the central area was expensive. Ordinary things couldn't even earn back the rent here, let alone make a profit. Anyone who could set up a stall in this area at least had some good things.

Compared to those stalls that had been set up here for a long time, where the good things might have already been bought, Xu Yan's newly opened stall welcomed three customers shortly after he sat down.

After just one glance, one of them was so excited that he wanted to shout out, but he was quickly covered by his companion, who interrupted what he wanted to say.

However, even the two who didn't make a sound showed extremely excited expressions as they looked at the items and descriptions on Xu Yan's stall.

The reason for their excitement was simple: everything displayed on Xu Yan's stall was General Rank spirit food and potions. Some were available on the market but with much stronger effects, while others were not common on the market and required paying a high price to specially commission a Breeder to customize them.

As for those Soldier Rank materials, Xu Yan indicated that processing them took time and earned little money, so except for a few precious materials, the others were directly recycled by him.

And now, such things were placed directly in front of them for them to choose from.

Moreover, although the prices of these spirit foods and potions were much more expensive than the market price, compared to going to find a Breeder, which involved both favors and money, and not necessarily being able to find someone to help make them, it was much better.

They cautiously asked Xu Yan if the effects were really as described. After receiving an instrument test result printed with the Breeder Association logo that Xu Yan tossed out, the three of them were ecstatic and began to pick out the things they needed at Xu Yan's stall.

Looking at the expressions of the three, Xu Yan guessed that if they didn't have enough money, they would probably have bought everything on his stall directly.