Chronicles of Ascension: The Path to Immortality

"Half of the remaining 4,500 shops will be included in the clan treasury." Zhang Sanqian said.

"That's reasonable."

"Take 1,500 of the remaining 2,250 shops and divide them equally among the ten clan elders and strong branches, but each shop needs to pay 30,000 spirit stones to the clan treasury."

"30,000 spirit stones for one shop is not expensive, and what about the remaining 750 shops?"

"The remaining 750 shops will be put up for public auction."

"If it is publicly auctioned, it is estimated that all of them will fall into the hands of Dawangbao."

"That may not be the case. Now the clan elders and strong branches think that 150 shops are too few, and they plan to buy more shops during the public auction. It is estimated that each shop will be sold for more than 100,000 spirit stones."

"100,000 spirit stones for one shop?" Zhang Xuan was shocked, "Is it so exaggerated?"

"Definitely more, the locations of these shops are really good, and the third-level spirit clams have agreed to trade with us through these shops."

"Third-level spirit clams have such business acumen?" Zhang Xuan felt amused.

"The third-level spiritual clams have integrated all the second-level and first-level spiritual clams in the Lingchao Lake. Now the spiritual beasts in the lake respect the third-level spiritual clams. The spiritual clams can produce spiritual pearls, especially the special spiritual pearls, which are priceless. Once the third-level spiritual clams take the lead in trading, the profits will be unimaginable!" Zhang Sanqian was born in a business family, so he naturally knows the value of these shops.

"If that's the case, then it's not expensive to sell a shop for 100,000."

"Yes, now many casual cultivators and weak branches of the Zhang family have found me and are willing to rent a shop for 5,000 spiritual stones a year."

"5,000 spiritual stones a year?" Zhang Xuan was surprised again, "Then if we calculate it this way, we only need 6 years to recover all the costs."

"Yes, if we run it ourselves, I guarantee that we can recover all the costs in three years."

"Okay," Zhang Xuan nodded "How many spiritual stones do we have in Temple Street now?"

"We have sold a lot of elixirs and spiritual medicines recently, and the accumulated spiritual stones are as much as 3 million."

"If we buy 150 shops, we still need 1.5 million spiritual stones," Zhang Xuan took out a storage bag, "Uncle Sanqian, there are 1.5 million spiritual stones in it, go and buy the 150 shops that are allocated to us."

"Aren't you going to bid for the 750 shops?"

"150 shops are enough for our operation in Temple Street." Zhang Xuan said.

"Well then..." Zhang Sanqian was a little disappointed.

Zhang Xuan actually wanted to bid for a few shops.

But the prices of the shops that were sold out for auction were too high.

He still had 4.5 million spiritual stones left.

If he bid, he could only bid for 45 shops at most.

For the current Temple Street, these 45 shops really can't affect the overall situation.

And Zhang Xuan must accumulate a certain amount of spiritual stones.

He refined spiritual tools, and the Taiqing Creation Map needed spiritual stones.

The spiritual stones he had now were only enough for him to refine 5 high-quality spiritual tools.

Moreover, there were too many places to use spiritual stones.

The operation of the cross-domain treasure boat required spiritual stones.

To maintain the formation, spiritual stones were needed.

He would not risk throwing all the spiritual stones in.

The next day, Zhang Xuan continued to control the six-bladed sword and left the Fairy Cat Valley.

Still a large number of locusts came.

Like a boiling tide, they surrounded him.

Zhang Xuan's Heavenly Demon Refining Spirit Technique came out.

The Dantian Inner Cauldron directly put these locusts in.

The Nine Flames True Fire burned "sizzling", refining all these locusts into plasma.

A large amount of blood and qi and residual souls for him to absorb.

"The reproduction capacity of these locusts is too strong, the more you kill, the more there are!" Zhang Xuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw these locusts coming one after another.

This time, he didn't fight to the end.

Feeling that the collection was almost complete, he returned to Fairy Cat Valley.

The rib in the sternum was also tempered with 70% of the Qi and Blood.

"Let's take it slow, anyway, these locusts are right at the doorstep, and it's convenient to use." Zhang Xuan thought to himself.

However, his idea made him suffer a big loss when he went out for the third time.

When he drove the six-blade sword out of the valley again.

Six second-level locusts directly cut off his retreat.

There were eight locusts in front of him, rushing towards him aggressively.

There were a total of 14 second-level locusts, and countless first-level locusts.

"I was scared to death, but fortunately I have a backup."

Zhang Xuan directly took out all 20 holy corpses and seven second-level monster puppets.

Including Zhang Xuan, 28 foundation-building combat forces appeared at once.

On average, two against one second-level locust.

Zhang Xuan held the six-blade sword and faced a second-level locust.

What surprised him was that these second-level locusts were obviously much stronger than the last time they attacked Fairy Cat Valley.

It has only been less than a year!

I didn't expect these locusts that only knew how to devour would advance so quickly!

14 second-level locusts, one against two, and they didn't lose.

Of course, the second-level locust Zhang Xuan faced was obviously not his opponent.

Zhang Xuan had too many cards.

He held the six-bladed sword in his right hand and performed the other side of the flower.

His left hand was integrated with the broken weapon hammer, and one punch was comparable to a half-step golden elixir.

This second-level locust was beaten dizzy and retreated step by step.

However, the second-level locust is extremely difficult to kill.

Even if Zhang Xuan beat it to pieces.

It didn't take long for the second-level locust to recover.

"We can't delay for too long!"

Zhang Xuan directly used the Heavenly Demon Refining Spirit Technique.

The inner cauldron of the Dantian appeared, covering the second-level locust in it.

"Success or failure depends on this time."

Zhang Xuan's Nine Flames True Fire burned fiercely on the second-level locust.

The second-level locust struggled desperately in the inner cauldron of the Dantian.

The sharp teeth kept gnawing at the wall of the inner cauldron of the Dantian, making a "sizzling" sound.

Zhang Xuan's refining of the second-level locust at this time was also extremely consuming.

He swallowed a second-level golden pill, while recovering his spiritual power, he refined this second-level locust.

This was the first time he refined a second-level locust that still retained its full combat power.

The wall of the inner cauldron of the Dantian was hit by the second-level locust and made a "ping-pong" sound.

Several times, Zhang Xuan felt that he could not hold on and the inner cauldron of the Dantian was about to break.

However, he still gritted his teeth and held on.

This fierce battle depends on who can hold on to the end.

Finally, the second-level locust became weaker and weaker, and its body layer by layer was burned by the Nine Flames True Fire.

Until this second-level locust could not move and turned into a ball of flesh and blood.

A large amount of Qi and blood power poured in, and Zhang Xuan used these pure Qi and blood power to refine the treasure bone.

The rib that had been tempered 80% was completely tempered into Qi and blood treasure bone.

Until the second rib was also completely tempered into Qi and blood treasure bone, the Qi and blood power generated by this second-level locust was exhausted.

What made Zhang Xuan even more happy was that he got 400 drops of vitality spirit milk by refining this second-level locust.

Adding his original 500 drops, he now has 900 drops of vitality spirit milk.

However, the spiritual power in his Qi sea has been exhausted.

"It's time to go back."

Zhang Xuan waved his hand, and the holy corpse and puppet monster behind him quickly retreated with him.

Finally returned to the Fairy Cat Valley.

The second-level locusts behind them were grinning, but they didn't dare to step into the Fairy Cat Valley.

Zhang Xuan hurried back to the outer cave, sat cross-legged, practiced the Heavenly Fire Art, and restored the dried up spiritual power in his Qi Sea.