19: Chapter 19 Marketplace Renovation!

Three days had passed since the clan rules were changed.

Hongtian City Market also began comprehensive reconstruction...

The original market occupied two streets in the city center; the storefronts were dilapidated, the signs were crooked, and there were only fourteen scattered shops in total.

Six of them were empty and gathering dust, so Sun Boan brought in Mortal craftsmen to demolish and rebuild them.

The storefronts were standardized in size, and the signs were unified in style and dimension, divided by trade: Talisman Area, Medicinal Pill Area, Magical Artifact Repair Area, Accommodation Area, and Stall Area.

Additionally, there was a general goods area, a "goods shop" specifically for purchasing spiritual Materials from Loose Cultivators.

Most Loose Cultivators had quite a few things in their hands, but they couldn't find buyers, or the items came from questionable sources.

If a purchase price could be offered, even if it was twenty percent lower than outside, they would be happy to see it.

It was considered a common "goods washing" trade in the cultivation world.

Of course, it also accepted spiritual Materials; some Materials could be collected through this channel to solve the raw material sourcing for the Talisman and medicine shops.

The finished products could then be sold directly in the market.

Spend one part on raw Materials and earn three parts by selling finished products; the price difference in between is all profit, allowing it to be sustainable.

The market renovation took more than half a month.

Half a month later, the first batch of Rank One Talismans personally drawn by Sun Wanqing was placed on the shelves, with quality slightly improved compared to before.

Among Rank One Low Grade Talismans, they could be considered excellent.

As soon as the new market opened,

A large number of Loose Cultivators flooded in. Most buyers were Loose Cultivators passing through Hongtian City to rest; they were surprised that such a backwater place actually had a proper Talisman shop, and the Talisman effects were actually quite good!

Sun Changping's medicine shop also opened for business.

Fasting Pills, Qi Nourishing Powder, and Small Spirit Recovery Pills—the same old three items—but their quality had visibly improved by twenty to thirty percent.

Following the standard procedures in the chapter of a hundred arts, he recalibrated the furnace temperature and medicinal ingredient ratios, reducing the failure rate from sixty percent to thirty-five percent.

What surprised Sun Boan the most was that collection shop.

In the first month of opening, they actually received seventeen spiritual Materials, three of which were decent Rank One Medium Grade Spiritual Plants...

There were seven Loose Cultivators selling spiritual Materials, and two of them immediately took the Spirit Stones they received and turned around to buy Talismans and Medicinal Pills next door.

The money flowed back again.

Sun Boan squatted at the market entrance, watching the passing Loose Cultivators, feeling that in his nearly fifty years of life, he finally understood what "making money move" meant.

Previously, the Sun, Ye, and Lin families managed it together.

The market was a mess then, with chaotic order and each Family setting prices at will; the difference between now and the past was clear...

At nightfall, he went to the back mountain to report.

Shi Jian listened to the monthly report without much expression.

"The market is just the foundation; it will grow step by step in the future. In time, those eight small families will also move into the market to do business, and trade will only become more flourishing."

"From now on, every month, twenty percent of their operating profits will be required as rent."

"As for the Baiyun Assembly in two months, what do you plan to bring?"

Sun Boan was stunned, somewhat confused.

"At the Baiyun Assembly, families from Nine Counties gather, and Loose Cultivators congregate. If you don't bring goods, are you planning to just bring your old face to wander around their market?"

Sun Boan froze for two breaths before suddenly realizing, his old face turning red.

"Over these two months, collect more Spiritual Items, especially those you don't recognize or rare ones; these can all be offloaded with the help of the Baiyun Assembly."

"Even if the grade isn't high, there must be quantity!"

"At such a large gathering, there's no fear of having no business to do. You must learn to use every opportunity to earn resources; only then can there be a future to speak of."

The night wind swept across the back mountain, and the Spiritual Qi in the Spiritual Vein surged silently.

Sun Boan stood in the moonlight, slightly dazed; he suddenly felt that two months was truly frighteningly short...

Thinking of what Shi Jian said,

He felt as if he were about to miss out on countless Spirit Stones—these were all resources!

Every Spirit Stone would be the provisions for the Sun Clan disciples, a fragment of a future foundation establishment pill—this was all money!

"Yes, Old Ancestor."

"This Junior has learned!"

"Having received Old Ancestor's guidance today, I have finally understood. I will certainly not disappoint Old Ancestor's expectations in two months."