Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

After the Li family's supply channels were completely cut off, the supply gap in the market was even larger than it appeared on the surface.

The Li family operates not just a few shops, but also an entire industry chain behind them.

Seeds, auxiliary materials, low-grade pill ingredients, and talisman paper blanks all need to be collected and sold.

After the Li family fell, the Wang family took over most of the business, but the Wang family's distribution channels and the Li family's channels were not on the same track, and there were many product categories that could not be connected.

Li Yuan recognized this.

He has goods on hand. He had a good relationship with the Li family before and kept a lot of stock, which he can both buy and sell.

The Li family's supply chain has been cut off, but the gap won't remain empty forever.

In addition, given his status as the head of the market, he could keep the transactions and sales of all the shops, big and small, out of the public eye.

After a day of establishing several new supply relationships, Li Yuan's supply of spiritual field seeds and talisman paper, which had been affected by the Li family's disconnection, was restored.

Not only were they connected, but there were also several more channels than before, and the cost of spirit stones was even less than when the Li family was around.

The main reason is that Li Yuan has a lot of precious items, such as the Purple Fiend Stone and the longevity-enhancing materials he had previously stockpiled.

At the same time, news from the front lines continued to arrive.

The battle between the Qishui Sect and the Shamo Sect is becoming increasingly fierce.

There was more discussion and more tension among the independent cultivators of Yunzhou in the market than before. Li Yuan overheard bits and pieces of information from several independent cultivators who frequently entered and exited the market.

The competition seems to be getting more and more intense.

After hearing this news, Li Yuan went to the market again that day.

Once the war escalates, the first things to see price increases are always a few items: various herbs, healing pills, combat talismans, and various magical artifacts.

Li Yuan can refine healing pills himself, so he has no shortage of them. He can also make combat talismans himself, so that shouldn't be a problem.

However, there are a few wartime consumables that will become more expensive if not stockpiled now.

The core material of the Rejuvenation Talisman, Rejuvenation Grass, was still in stock in the market, and Li Yuan bought dozens of them in one go.

The stock of purple cinnabar powder, an auxiliary material for breaking the seal, was running low, so Li Yuan bought up all the remaining stock from the three shops.

There is another type of array material called Gathering Yuan Sand, which is essential for setting up large-scale defensive arrays. Once the war spreads to the edge of Liangzhou, the demand for defensive arrays will surge. Li Yuan found a supplier in Yunyang Market and ordered a batch in advance.

After several purchases, Li Yuan's spirit stone inventory shrank considerably, but what he got in return were all solid hard currency.

These items are safe to hold and won't depreciate; as long as the war continues, prices will only go up.

When we returned to the stone house, it was already dark.

Li Yuan's three spiritual sense lines were still operating steadily. The spiritual vein monitoring line was transmitting normal feedback from the mine, the daily perception line was covering the area around the stone house, and the third line was checking the results of the alchemy.

The progress of making the ability to use multiple functions simultaneously continues to accumulate.

Li Yuan sat at the table for a moment, going through the day's transactions and purchases in his mind, before his gaze fell back on the transaction records brought back by the management office.

The Dark Abyss Society's actions have indeed been a bit strange lately.

Previously, it was clear that Dark Abyss would openly go on a shopping spree in the market.

Several wandering cultivators from out of town would enter the market every few days to buy large quantities of longevity-promoting medicinal herbs and array materials, driving up prices and increasing the volume.

However, in the last two days, the frequency of open shopping sprees has clearly decreased.

Previously, members of the Dark Abyss Guild would loiter in front of the market shops almost every day, but now they only come once every three days, and they buy less.

Li Yuan looked through the transaction records of the past three days and indeed found changes.

The number of small transactions made by the mole has increased again in the last three days.

The number of transactions has increased from three every two to three days to four to five per day. The transactions are still scattered among multiple shops and independent practitioners, and the amounts are not large; each transaction appears quite ordinary on its own.

But the increase in frequency itself is a signal.

He bought a batch of array materials from each of the two shops. Not the kind he needed himself, but the kind that Dark Abyss would always be collecting.

After buying them, Li Yuan didn't keep them for himself, but divided them into two batches and consigned them to two different shops.

The consignment price is half a percent lower than the market price, and the quantity is not large, which is just enough to attract attention but not too eye-catching.

The key difference is that these two batches of materials were obtained through different channels.

A batch of alchemical materials was sold through the alchemical material shop on the east side of the market. The shop's customers were mainly independent cultivators from Yunzhou.

Another batch left through the general store on the west side of the market. The customers of this store were mainly local monks and traveling monks who ran errands.

The two lines are independent and do not intersect.

If the Dark Abyss Guild were to collect these two batches of materials, the flow of the goods would be crystal clear. Every step could be tracked: which shop they came from, who bought them, and who they were subsequently resold to.

After making the arrangements, Li Yuan returned to the stone house, sat cross-legged on the futon, and began to cultivate.

After making the arrangements, Li Yuan returned to the stone house, sat cross-legged on the futon, and began to cultivate.

Before they knew it, several more hours had passed since they were distracted by other tasks.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and continued to circulate his internal energy.