Lingxiao Immortal Clan.

the other side.

After traversing countless miles, Ling Wantong and Hunwen Daojun finally arrived at Jinyuan Market, a market under the jurisdiction of Jinyuan Valley, a Void Refining Force, near the territory of the Hunyuan lineage.

Immediately afterwards, they went to the best teahouse in the area, 'Jin Yuan Teahouse', and found a quiet room.

During this time, Hunwen Daojun also sent out a communication talisman.

Afterwards, he and Ling Wantong waited for a while, and then a middle-aged cultivator wearing a Golden Yuan Valley Taoist robe came to their door with a happy expression.

Although his appearance was ordinary, he looked particularly capable and had profound cultivation, seemingly having reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage many years ago.

"Brother Hunwen, you are a rare guest indeed. If I count the days, it has been almost ten years since you last visited my Jinyuan Market."

"Where have you been making your fortune lately?"

After the capable middle-aged cultivator entered the meditation room, he greeted Hunwen Daojun warmly, clearly indicating that he had a good relationship with Hunwen Daojun.

"Brother Liu, please don't tease me. How could I possibly make a fortune? I just manage some miscellaneous tasks in Hunyuan Market."

"But then again, there are so many miscellaneous things to do in that market, I'm so busy I'm dizzy."

"I don't know how you've managed to manage Jinyuanfang Market so well all these years. I really have to learn from you in this regard."

Hunwen Daojun smiled and flattered.

"Brother Hunwen, you're being too modest. Everyone knows you're the head manager under Senior Hunyuan, and you're a shrewd businessman."

After being praised, the capable middle-aged cultivator's face lit up with even more joy, clearly indicating that he greatly benefited from the adulation.

"Hahaha, let's stop with the mutual flattery."

"By the way, Brother Liu, we should get down to business. The person next to me is the fellow Daoist Wan Dao I mentioned in the communication talisman."

"You probably already know something about his purpose in coming here from the communication talisman. I wonder if you can help him with what he wants?"

Hunwen Daojun introduced Ling Wantong, who was standing beside him, to the middle-aged cultivator.

He then introduced the middle-aged cultivator to Ling Wantong.

“Fellow Daoist Wan, this is Brother Liu Song, the owner of Jin Yuan Market whom I told you about before. His status in the market is extremely high, and he can even control the allocation of resources in the entire market with a single word.”

Upon hearing this, Ling Wantong's eyes lit up slightly, and he began to pay more attention to Liu Song, who had reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

He then quickly cupped his hands in greeting.

"I have long heard of Fellow Daoist Liu Song's extraordinary cultivation, and seeing it today confirms it. I truly admire you."

He speaks with perfect tact, like a cunning old fox.

Furthermore, according to Hunwen Daojun's previous introduction, Liu Song not only had a high level of cultivation, but also had a background that was quite extraordinary, just like Hunwen Daojun's.

He was even the junior brother of the newly promoted Void Refinement cultivator from Jin Yuan Valley.

Moreover, it is rumored that he had a particularly good relationship with that newly promoted Void Refinement cultivator in his early years.

Furthermore, Jin Yuan Market is of paramount importance to Jin Yuan Valley, serving as its trading center.

Therefore, after the newly promoted Void Refinement cultivator successfully broke through to the next level and took control of the Golden Origin Valley, he handed over the management of the Golden Origin Market to him.

Upon closer examination, Liu Song could be considered a confidant of that newly promoted Void Refinement cultivator.

Moreover, its status within the market was undeniable, almost equivalent to a monopoly on power.

That is why the first thing Hunwen Daojun did after bringing Ling Wantong to Jinyuan Market was to look for him.

"Fellow Daoist Wan, you are being too kind. With your status, it won't be long before you reach the peak of the Nascent Soul realm."

"By the way, Fellow Daoist Wan, the matter you are seeking this time is quite complicated, so I cannot make a decision on it for the time being."

"Moreover, it is rumored that the most powerful artistic foundation behind your Lingxiao Merchant Alliance is the art of weapon crafting. It is even rumored that the rogue cultivator behind your Lingxiao Merchant Alliance is a highly skilled and experienced fifth-tier top-grade weapon crafter. Therefore, your Lingxiao Merchant Alliance is most adept at selling high-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasures."

"But this kind of business... clashes with my Golden Yuan Valley. Once your alliance enters my sect's Golden Yuan Market, the interests of my sect's weapon refining will likely be affected to some extent, and your alliance's development in the market may not be very good."

"Therefore, it is not a wise move for your alliance to set up shop in my Jinyuan Market."

Although Liu Song had a fairly good relationship with Hunwen Daojun, friendship is friendship, and the person who was interested in doing business with him was not Hunwen Daojun, but Ling Wantong. Therefore, after giving a brief greeting, he said seriously.

In addition, although this was his first meeting with Ling Wantong, Hunwen Daojun had previously sent him a message to introduce Ling Wantong to him, and had briefly informed him of Ling Wantong's information.

In addition, when he came to this teahouse earlier, he specifically used the Jin Yuan Valley intelligence network to learn about Ling Wantong and the Lingxiao Business Alliance behind him.

Therefore, he is extremely familiar with the situation of Ling Wantong and Lingxiao Business Alliance.

He even knew the strengths and weaknesses of the Lingxiao Business Alliance in business.

It is also worth mentioning that Jin Yuan Valley is most skilled in the art of weapon crafting. In fact, the sect has produced many sixth-order weapon crafters throughout the ages, and has several sixth-order spiritual treasures as its foundation.

In addition, it is said that the newly promoted Void Refiner of this sect also has extremely high talent in weapon crafting, and is only one step away from the realm of a sixth-level weapon crafter. Perhaps it will not be long before he can step into that realm.

As for the ordinary high-level weapon refiners in this sect, they are as numerous as hairs on a cow.

Moreover, this sect has many unique aspects in this field, and the magical artifacts it produces are of extremely high quality.

Furthermore, this sect also possesses a powerful magical artifact called the Golden Yuan Bursting Pearl.

This magical artifact is a one-time use artifact. Once it is activated, it can unleash an extremely powerful explosion of metallic spiritual energy. It is said that it can directly kill or severely injure cultivators of the same level. Its power is particularly domineering, and its reputation is also extremely great.

Most importantly, the cost of activating it is extremely low, and even low-level cultivators have the opportunity to activate high-level Golden Yuan Bursting Pearls.

Therefore, this ritual implement is also known as one of the few excellent protective ritual implements.

Even on ordinary days, there are many cultivators from the outside world who travel long distances to the Jin Yuan Valley to seek such magical artifacts.

As the largest market under Jin Yuan Valley, Jin Yuan Market gradually became the place where Jin Yuan Valley sold the most magical artifacts and spiritual treasures.

This kind of business is even the most popular in the entire Jinyuanfang Market.

Therefore, even though Lingxiao Merchant Alliance's business of magical artifacts and spiritual treasures cannot compare with Jinyuan Market.

However, once the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance settles in this market, it will indeed conflict with their business.

Furthermore, the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance is suspected to have a mysterious Void Refining expert behind it, and even the Hunyuan Heavenly Lord treats him with utmost respect.

Moreover, Jin Yuan Valley has only recently emerged from the Void Refinement stage, and its strength is currently weak.

Indirectly, Liu Song developed a slight aversion to the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance. In fact, if he hadn't been afraid of offending Ling Wantong, who was suspected of having a Void Refinement Realm backer, and if it hadn't been for the fact that this meeting was arranged by Hunwen Daojun, he probably wouldn't have even met Ling Wantong.

"And I am naturally aware of this business conflict."

"In addition, while our Lingxiao Merchant Alliance is indeed most skilled in the art of weapon crafting, we also have considerable expertise in other arts and crafts."

"For example, spiritual food, pills, talismans, array formations, and so on. In fact, my Lingxiao Merchant Alliance often sells those kinds of spiritual items to the outside world."

"The business of spiritual items does not conflict with your sect's business. In fact, as far as I know, it is precisely what your sect's Golden Yuan Market lacks. As the owner of the Golden Yuan Market, you should be well aware of its shortcomings."

Ling Wantong knew Liu Song's thoughts well, and since he had come prepared and had investigated everything in Jin Yuan Market well in advance, he immediately smiled and asked in return.

The shortcomings of Jinyuan Market need to be discussed in detail.

Although the weapon-refining business in Jin Yuan Market is booming, no one is perfect. Jin Yuan Valley is, after all, only specializing in weapon refining, and it is slightly lacking in other areas.

Indirectly, Jin Yuan Valley is not particularly strong in selling other spiritual items, and is only two or three times stronger than top-tier Nascent Soul merchant alliances like Lingxiao Merchant Alliance.

This gap can be large or small, depending on how you look at it.

After all, the scale of the weapon-refining business between Jin Yuan Valley and Ling Xiao Merchant Alliance is at least ten times, or even dozens of times.

Moreover, it is somewhat insufficient for a large market like Jinyuan Market.

To address this deficiency, Jin Yuan Market attracted numerous forces skilled in alchemy and other crafts to settle there many years ago.

"Whether other forces profit from this or our Lingxiao Business Alliance, it's all the same."

"But as long as your sect agrees to let the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance set up shop in the Jinyuan Market and does not hinder the development of the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance in the market, the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance can promise your sect that it will never sell any high-level spiritual treasures or even magic weapons in the Jinyuan Market, and will only do business in spiritual items such as pills and spiritual food."

"Moreover, my Lingxiao Merchant Alliance can privately sell at least 100,000 first-tier pills, 10,000 second-tier pills, 1,000 third-tier pills, 100 fourth-tier pills, 10 fifth-tier pills, and other spiritual items to your sect every year at 30% of the market price."

"In addition, privately, my Lingxiao Merchant Alliance can also sell a fifth-grade top-quality spiritual food to you every year at 30% of the original price."

"I wonder if you are interested in this type of cooperation?"

Ling Wantong said with a smile.

"Your alliance is willing to sell a large number of pills to my sect at 30% of the price every year, and even a fifth-grade top-quality spiritual food?"

"This is quite a grand gesture, fellow Daoist, you truly have great ambition."

Upon hearing this, Liu Song was immediately startled.

Even the Martial Lord of Chaos was somewhat surprised by this.

After all, the number of spiritual items that the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance is willing to sell to Jinyuan Valley every year is truly large, almost the same as the number of such spiritual items that an ordinary top-level Nascent Soul Merchant Alliance sells to the outside world in a year.

It should be noted that the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance already has a huge business market in Hunyuan Immortal City, and it needs to put out a lot of spiritual items to sell every year. In addition, the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance is now also planning to expand its business in Jinyuan Market, which will probably require it to put out a lot of spiritual items to sell as well.

Otherwise, it's likely that expanding the business will be impossible.

Under such circumstances, it is extremely rare that the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance can still provide a large number of pills and other spiritual items to sell to Jinyuan Valley every year.

If the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance can actually accomplish this, its ability to produce pills, spiritual food, and other spiritual items will likely already be one or two tenths of that of an ordinary Void Refinement Merchant Alliance.

This is something that even a top-tier Nascent Soul merchant alliance like the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance would find difficult to accomplish; it requires the assistance of an extremely large number of artisans.

Most importantly, the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance was willing to sell the spiritual items to Jinyuan Valley at extremely low prices, almost at cost.

This is essentially no different from giving it away directly, and selling it in this way will cause the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance to indirectly lose nearly a hundred fifth-tier spirit crystals every year.

This is no small sum.

One hundred a year, one thousand in ten years, and ten thousand in a hundred years.

That's why Liu Song couldn't help but be tempted.

Although he was of noble status, being the head of Jinyuan Market, he didn't know the cost of firewood, rice, oil, and salt when he wasn't in charge.

According to the sect's rules, Jin Yuan Market must contribute a very large amount of spirit stones to the sect every year.

In recent years, because his senior brother, who had just entered the Void Refinement stage, intended to gather enough refining materials to try and break through to the sixth-order refining realm, the market has had to pay an extra amount of spirit stones every year.

Otherwise, he, as the head of the market, will surely be punished.

However, the market can only generate so much profit each year, and currently, the market's annual profit can barely cover the profits that need to be handed over.

Indirectly, this has put immense pressure on him in terms of handing over spirit stones over the years.

He was even afraid that something unexpected might happen and affect the business in the market.

After all, by then, the balance between the profits generated by the market and the profits that need to be handed over will be broken.

And he will be finished.

Therefore, in recent years he has been looking for any way to increase the profits of the market.

Even if it's just one more fifth-tier spirit crystal produced each year, that would be great.

Under such circumstances, the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance's willingness to give away so many low-priced pills to Jinyuan Valley every year is exactly what he wanted.

If this matter can be accomplished, the pressure on him to pay spirit stones to the sect every year can be reduced.

In addition, although the merchant alliances or individual shops that Jin Yuan Market recruited in the early years would also sell a lot of pills and other spiritual items to Jin Yuan Valley at low prices every year.

However, the number of spiritual items sold privately each year by a merchant alliance of similar size to the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance is nowhere near that of the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance.

Even the Lingxiao Business Alliance was only willing to sell 30% of it.

It's like heaven and earth.

"Fellow Daoist, are you sure that the Lingxiao Merchant Alliance behind you can achieve the low-price sale of spiritual items you proposed while simultaneously managing the Hunyuan Immortal City and expanding your business in my Jinyuan Market?"

Liu Song's tone changed slightly, becoming more polite to Ling Wantong and asking curiously.

"That's natural. Moreover, if my Lingxiao Merchant Alliance can do a good job in developing businesses such as pills in your city, my Lingxiao Merchant Alliance is not unwilling to sell some additional profits to your sect at a lower price."

"At least... the spiritual items that my Lingxiao Merchant Alliance sells to your sect at low prices will definitely be three times more than those of other merchant alliances of similar size in the Jinyuan Market!"

"Moreover, this matter can be signed into a contract. If my Lingxiao Merchant Alliance violates the agreement, your sect can directly seize my Lingxiao Merchant Alliance's business in Hunyuan Immortal City."

Ling Wantong said with a smile. (End of this chapter)