Chapter 256 Opening a Store

"You are right, let's go for this one, No. 85, Horseshoe Lane, East City." Yuan Ming handed the jade slip back and said.

This house is a bit remote, and the rent is 150 spirit stones a year.

"Daoyou has a good eye. This house is not only on the street, but also has a good area and layout. You can open a store to do business, and you can live in the inner room to practice. It can be said that both are perfect." The white-robed cultivator said.

"This is the first year's rent. Hu Tu, a free cultivator from Yue State." Yuan Ming calculated that if it costs one spirit stone to go in and out every day, plus accommodation, it is more cost-effective to rent a house directly, so he took out a small bag of spirit stones and put it on the table.

The white-robed monk counted the items quickly and did not ask any more about the origin of "Hu Tu". He took out a key and a token with Hu Tu's name and the room number that proved that he lived in Xiaohu City and handed it over, saying: "You can change the layout of this residence at will, but don't touch the walls. The bricks and stones of the houses in this city are specially made and have a certain effect of preventing espionage. If they are damaged, you need to pay compensation according to the price."

It's true that it's expensive for a reason.

"Excuse me." Yuan Ming responded, took the key, got up and left.

He went to the market first and spent fifty spirit stones to buy two sets of simple house protection arrays for the cave, and then went east.

When he came to Ma Ti Lane, it was more remote than he thought, and there were few people.

Yuan Ming quickly found House No. 85.

This house was built on the street, and there was a yard with a garden and two inner rooms behind it. The layout and environment were indeed good.

It's just that no one has lived here for a long time, and there is a layer of dust everywhere.

After cleaning, Yuan Ming sat down in a room in the inner room of the yard, and then he changed his mind and went to the rental house again.

He soon returned to the place where he rented the house.

Yuan Ming rented the house No. 86 across the street in the name of Ha Gong. This time, he used illusion on the person in charge of the rental, quickly completed the formalities, took the token and left.

Since he had offended Changchun Temple, he spent more spirit stones to prepare an extra residence just in case. He went to the market and spent 100 spirit stones to buy a short-distance teleportation array, and placed three spirit stones at the center of the array.

Yuan Ming arranged the teleportation array for the two houses and returned to the house No. 86.

The layout of this house is the same as that of No. 85. He chose a room in the inner room as his place of practice and arranged a complete set of house protection array here.

As for the other set of arrays, he arranged them around the entire backyard to form two lines of defense.

After doing all this, it was already dark.

Yuan Ming was quite satisfied with the results of his hard work for a day. Although it was still a little shabby, he finally had a decent residence and began to arrange the next cultivation plan.

For him, the most important thing was naturally the improvement of his cultivation. Although the Nine Yuan Jue performed well, it was still quite slow to cultivate in the foundation-building stage. If there were pills and spiritual incense to assist, it would be twice the result with half the effort.

Although he had bought a batch of four spiritual pills, the price of such foundation-building pills was really expensive. With his few spiritual stones, he would spend them all in a short time. He had to open up a way to make money that could sustain.

He rented these two shops on the street for this reason.

Yuan Ming thought about the current means and decided to make spiritual incense for sale after repeated consideration.

He looked around the market yesterday and found that there were no shops selling spiritual incense here.

Spiritual incense was not valued in southern Xinjiang, and it was probably the same in Dajin. However, he believed that this had a lot to do with the sales philosophy of Xuanhua Zhenren. Although it was less effective than pills of the same price, the auxiliary effect of this thing was actually very good.

In a world of immortal cultivation like Dajin, there are always cultivators who are not short of spiritual stones, and there are even more sects that are not short of spiritual stones, but they just lack publicity.

With the several kinds of spiritual incense he currently has, it should not be difficult to earn spiritual stones as long as he operates it properly.

In the long run, his cultivation has now reached the foundation-building stage. Burning incense to possess Xuanhua Zhenren will make it easier to influence the other party's behavior and learn to make new spiritual incense. There is no need to worry about not being able to launch new products. Sooner or later, he will be able to learn all the skills of Xuanhua Zhenren.

Yuan Ming returned to room 85 from the teleportation array, opened the door and went out. He purchased a batch of materials for making spiritual incense and counters, shelves and other items needed to open a store in the city, and began to recruit shopkeepers and other matters.

Ten days later, a brand new shop was opened at No. 85, Ma Ti Lane: "Xuanhua Lingxiang Shop".

The shopkeeper was called Mu Yang, a cultivator of the third level of Qi Refining recruited by Yuan Ming. After some investigation, his master was a casual cultivator who had passed away and knew several low-level earth-related spells. Yuan Ming hired him with a salary of ten spirit stones per month, and asked him to open the shop and sell incense every day during the day.

The new shop opened, but it did not attract much attention. The shelves were filled with ordinary spirit incense for blessing, exorcism, and calming the mind. The only valuable one was the "Qingxuanxiang", which sold for one spirit stone each.

He planned to put more advanced spirit incense such as "Zixuanxiang" on the shelves after a while.

Other merchants nearby were quite curious about such obscure things as spirit incense, and came to investigate openly and secretly.

The business of Xuanhua Spirit Incense Shop was very ordinary, and there was often only one order every few days. Those people soon lost interest and stopped coming. As for the bleak business of spirit incense, Yuan Ming was not in a hurry. Doing business also depends on chance, and it is useless to just shout and work yourself to death.

Everything was arranged properly, and Yuan Ming's life was on the right track.

He returned to No. 86, making incense while taking the purchased pills to improve his cultivation, and learning the spells recorded in the book in his spare time.

In addition, he spent three days flying to another small town on the edge of Leizhou, and sent a letter to his parents and Liu Tianming, reporting his safety, but did not mention where he was now.

He also sent "Mr. Sheng's Journey to the East", compiling his experience of going to Yue State and hunting beasts at sea into a new storybook, and the recipient was Tianming Bookstore.

As the days passed, Yuan Ming overcame his initial discomfort and felt that his decision to stay in Xiaohu City was the right one.

He didn't have to look at anyone's face, nor did he have to worry about his secrets being exposed. He could arrange all his time freely.

He often went to the market to stroll around, went to the teahouse to drink tea, communicated with other cultivators, learned about the dynamics of the cultivation world, and met many cultivators. Although he was busy every day, he was extremely fulfilled, and he liked his current life more and more.

Huazhi was active by nature. In the past, when he was on the road, he could still hold back. Now that Yuan Ming has settled down, Huazhi can no longer hold back and clamors to go out for activities.

Yuan Ming couldn't beat it, so he had to release it from the spirit beast bag.

Huazhi didn't take the right path, and wanted to escape underground from Xiaohu City and enter the swamp outside the city, but was blocked by the formation of Xiaohu City. He could only shrink in the bag and follow Yuan Ming through the city gate.

This swamp is called Yuxu Swamp. It covers a large area and is a famous dangerous place in Leizhou. Because of the humid climate and rain all year round, it is full of poisonous miasma and many poisonous insects and monsters live in it.

Huazhi is not weak in strength, and his methods are even more weird. In addition, now that he has learned to escape underground, Yuan Ming is not worried about its safety.

Another month passed in a blink of an eye.

In room 86, Yuan Ming recited the spell and pointed it out.

An invisible shield appeared around him, covering a range of four or five feet. All the sounds outside disappeared and were completely isolated.

He showed a satisfied smile on his face. This is "soundproofing", which can be regarded as a more difficult one in the spell book. Ordinary cultivators may have to practice for a long time to master it.

With his foundation-building cultivation and powerful spiritual awareness, Yuan Ming learned it in just two days.

He tried the other effects of the soundproof cover spell again and was very satisfied. He waved his hand to cancel the spell.

Yuan Ming picked up the spell book beside him and put it away.

He had already learned all the spells in this book, making up for the shortcomings of the previous spells.

Unfortunately, the book only recorded some ordinary spells, which were okay to use on weekdays, but difficult to work when encountering strong enemies.

However, Yuan Ming was not worried. He saw many foundation-building cultivators from Changchun Temple and other sects in Dajin at the succession ceremony. It should not be difficult to possess these people and give hints to steal some spells.

He took out the Stealing Heaven Cauldron and inserted a black incense into it.

This black incense was made of Xuanhua Temple incense ash. He mixed it with the fire pine wood he had obtained before. He didn't know how effective it would be, so he just tried it.

Yuan Ming lit the black incense, and after a little hesitation, his mind locked on the old woman with crutches in Bailuo Villa.

This woman's cultivation is not very high. She is very old and her energy is weak. It is easier to control her. Let's start with her.

The black incense quickly burned, and Yuan Ming's eyes went dark. When he came to his senses, he was already possessed by the old woman with crutches.

This place seemed to be a spacious cave with no one. The old woman was meditating and practicing. Strands of purple air kept coming out of her mouth and nose, quickly wandering around her body, and finally slowly merging into the nails of her ten fingers.

Her fingertips slowly turned purple, looking extremely charming.

Yuan Ming was surprised and was about to sense the consciousness of this woman when he suddenly thought of something.

"After possessing, can't I only observe the surrounding environment through the sight of the possessed person? Why can I see the surrounding situation when this woman closes her eyes and practices?"

It seems that he had had similar experiences once or twice before, but he didn't care at that time.

"Could it be that my cultivation has improved, or the black incense has been constantly improved?" Yuan Ming couldn't help but guess.

He quickly stopped his useless thinking and concentrated on sensing the practice of the old woman with crutches.

The old woman seemed to be practicing a poison spell at the moment. The wisps of purple air contained a deadly poison. After being integrated into the nails, the deadly poison was superimposed layer by layer, and it was released to hurt the enemy when necessary.

This not only made it easier to poison, but also strengthened the toxicity. The deadly poison in the old woman's nails had obviously reached an astonishing level, and she herself was very careful.

Yuan Ming was quite interested in this technique. After careful understanding, he quickly learned most of it.