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Chapter 207 Even Immortals Do Business?

Even immortals...would want to do business?
Qin Yingyue felt her mind was a bit confused.

This is so different from the immortal she imagined!
However, no matter what, Qin Yingyue had no reason to refuse Sun Ping's "invitation to cooperate".

Putting aside the immense benefits of planting immortal peach trees within their own sect, just the fact that these immortals could simply contact the Martial Arts Commissioner and say that the Peach Blossom Sect was now in charge of the White Stone Immortal Sect's immortals' property would allow Qin Yingyue to avoid a lot of trouble.

At least the White Dragon Gang dared not have any more thoughts, and would probably even have to try to send gifts and beg for mercy.

The reputation of the White Stone Immortal Sect has always been very prominent in the North. It is said that recently an entire county offended the immortals, and all the people in the county were exiled to the army. The officials throughout the county were killed so many times that the land was stained with blood.

With such a precedent, who would dare to act recklessly?

Qin Yingyue accepted a few immortal peaches and carefully inquired about the method of growing immortal peaches. Then she stuffed Zhong Hui and the others with all sorts of things from the sect.

Although the Peach Blossom Sect is a small sect, it has some unique "specialties" because it focuses on the study of medicine.

Aside from the fact that they couldn't compare to the medicines used by the immortals, such as face powder, eyebrow tint, lip rouge, honey peach jam to eat, and peach blossom wine to drink, they almost emptied out everything that the Peach Blossom Sect had accumulated over the years!
Qin Yingyue even went so far as to claim that the Peach Blossom Sect was short of money and could only use these things as payment for "peach seeds," and ordered more peach pits from Zhong Hui and the others.

Qin Yingyue was too embarrassed to accept the immortal peaches, so she humbled herself and only asked for the peach pits that the immortals had left over.

Moreover, Xiantao Garden, which "cooperates" with them, doesn't ask for a 50/50 profit split—

"Our sect only needs 20%. Without the peach seeds from the immortals, our sect would have no way to survive. The immortals can find anyone to do this kind of thing, so we dare not ask for anything more."

"You can't say that. It's hard to say whether it can grow in other places. Only here, with the cold pool water, is it possible to grow it!"

Sun Ping didn't give a definitive answer. Coming from a poor family, he had indeed long wanted to start a business, and this opportunity had given him the inspiration. So he assured him, "Even if these peach pits don't grow, it's alright. It's probably just because the spiritual energy concentration is too low. When I go back to the sect this time, I'll think of a way to increase the spiritual energy concentration here, and then we can grow them successfully!"

The more Sun Ping talked, the greater his expectations became.

After so much time spent cultivating and learning the basics of immortality, all the disciples of the White Stone Immortal Sect clearly know that the entire world is currently in a phase of spiritual energy revival. Moreover, with their sect leader's magical power and through the strange tree of the White Stone Immortal Sect, they believe that the spiritual energy in the Daxing Mountain area will soon be abundant.

If we try to steal business by then, we won't even be able to get the meat broth!

Didn't you see that the Ye family from Jiangnan moved all their lives to the foot of Baishi Mountain?

Moreover, after Zhang Chengdao brought the former Zhou Kingdom under the rule of the Baishi Immortal Sect, the Ye family immediately moved to the Hukou Pass next door, which was the former Luzhou and now Lucheng. For this reason, they even gave up most of their business in the Jiangnan region of the Southern Chu Kingdom and began to do business specifically for the Baishi Immortal Sect!

Although Sun Ping came from humble beginnings, he possessed an exceptionally keen sense of opportunity. The fact that the Ye family, the wealthiest family in the land, was behaving this way clearly indicated that there was a huge profit to be made!

If I simply copy the Ye family's methods, I'll surely be able to get a share of the soup!

Therefore, he became even more confident and instructed, "Moreover, you have a lot of experience. You can't make much money just by selling peaches. There will only be more and more of these in the future, so you need to make some different products so that you can quickly make a name for yourself. In this way, even if more people start doing peach business in the future, it won't have much of an impact on our industry!"

Having finally managed to curry favor with a powerful patron, Qin Yingyue naturally agreed to everything, saying, "Our sect will certainly do its utmost to take good care of this Immortal Peach Garden and live up to the hard work of all the immortals!"

Because this trial mission involved Sun Ping, Zhong Hui, Ye Hanxing, Feng Guang, and Qin Jiang, the business they were collaborating on with the Peach Blossom Sect, at Sun Ping's insistence, also became a shared business among the five of them.

The most experienced Feng Guang even wrote a crude "contract" detailing the share of the profits for each person and the tasks that the Peach Blossom Sect needed to perform. Sun Ping, who proposed the idea and was mainly responsible for the task, received 40%, Qin Yingyue of the Peach Blossom Sect received 20%, and the other four each received 10%.

The others only received dividends, while Sun Ping was specifically responsible for all sorts of trivial matters at Xiantao Garden.

After finishing these tasks, Sun Ping took out another paper bird and said to Qin Yingyue, "By the way, besides the matter of the Immortal Peach Garden, there is another matter that I need to trouble Sect Leader Qin with."

“Speak freely, Immortal Sun.”

"Our sect leader has ordered us disciples to investigate because he is worried that monsters may be emerging in the Daxing Mountain area. You just learned about this."

Seeing Qin Yingyue nod, Sun Ping handed over the paper bird, saying, "Since we can't always keep an eye on everything, we've left a 'messenger' for Sect Leader Qin. If you discover anything unusual or if there's any crisis, you can talk to this 'messenger,' or stick a piece of paper on its claw and toss it into the air. The 'messenger' will then transform into a bird and fly up to deliver the message to us."

"By then, within half a day, we will be able to know the situation and respond accordingly!"

"I understand."

As Qin Yingyue spoke, she took the paper bird, carefully holding it in her hands. After hesitating for a moment, she asked again, "May I ask Immortal Sun, what does this 'messenger'... eat?"

"puff--"

Zhong Hui couldn't help but laugh out loud and answered first, "It's made of paper! It doesn't eat anything! Just be careful not to let the fire burn it! But don't worry too much, ordinary fire won't burn it. Even if it does get burned, it will get angry and won't help you deliver messages! Just coax it a bit and it'll be fine!"

Humming... paper bird?
Qin Yingyue lowered her head, carefully looking at the seemingly lifeless paper bird in her hand. She couldn't imagine what the paper bird would look like when it was angry, but she still nodded in agreement: "I understand."

After settling matters concerning the Peach Blossom Sect, the group bid farewell to Qin Yingyue and then stopped by Huaizhou Martial Arts Commissioner's Office to say hello. Subsequently, with three people agreeing, two people objecting, and the minority yielding to the majority, they found the White Dragon Gang's stronghold—Baishui Village.

(End of this chapter)