In the group of mansions in the west of Hanming City, there is a large mansion full of vicissitudes.

The two big characters of Qin Mansion on it have long been eroded by the years and wind and frost and made dark and dim.

But. The merchants and peddlers who came and went clearly understood that this was the house of the largest grain merchant in Hanming City, "Qin Sandou".

The Qin family only came to Hanming City fifteen years ago, and the largest grain merchant in Hanming City at that time was still the Wang family, who had been in the grain business for generations.

When this foreign businessman in Jiangnan, nicknamed "Qin Sandou", decided to do business in Hanming City.

Immediately, a large amount of low-priced white rice poured into the market, quickly occupying the entire grain business in Hanming City, and the money that could have bought two buckets of rice could now buy three buckets, so it fell into the name of "Qin Sandou".

Hanming City was originally an important transportation town in the north of Dongsang Kingdom, and almost all the silk, grain, and tea transported from the south to the north had to pass through Hanming City.

And the medicinal herbs, spirit beasts, spirit stones, and other cultivation items in the north are almost all produced by the Heaven-Swallowing Great Forest in the north and transported to the south.

Therefore, Hanming City gathered quite a lot of poor people to come here to make a living.

When big families and famous cultivators enter the Heaven Swallowing Forest to find heavenly spirit and earth treasures, they often hire hundreds or thousands of people to carry sundries and explore paths.

There is a saying among the poor people in Dongsang: As long as you can be hired by the Xiuzhen Sect to go to the Devouring Heaven Great Forest, if you have a life to come out alive, your life will be enough to spend.

The place is constantly flooded with outsiders, and the Devouring Forest, as its name suggests, engulfs countless people.

On this continent, the south is conducive to cultivation and harvests three crops a year, while the climatic conditions in the north are difficult, resulting in only one season of grain harvest at the end of the year.

The food grown locally could not feed so many outsiders, and after a long period of land transportation, manpower, material resources and attrition, the grain in Hanming City cost one tael of silver and could only buy two buckets of rice.

In the south, a tael of silver can buy ten buckets of rice. This huge price difference does not mean a huge business opportunity, because land transportation is not only expensive, but also not very peaceful, the mountains and forests are rampant, and there is no strong protective force, which is as fragile and delicious as a lamb for robbers.

Therefore, in order to fundamentally solve this problem, Qin Sandou, who had a novel idea, finally opened up a private channel after drifting at sea for a long time, and the problem was solved.

When Qin Sandou brought the first batch of white rice with a faint smell of sea from the sea, it was only a matter of time before the crown of the first grain merchant in Hanming City fell on the head of the Qin family.

But Qin Sandou, a wealthy businessman, also had troubles.

"Dad, I'm going to cultivate in the True Sect. A young man dressed in a luxurious white robe with silver threads embroidered on the corners said to Qin Sandou, who was sitting on a pineapple chair in the hall.

Qin Sandou touched his head, which was about to lose his hair, looked at his son's face, and said helplessly: "Chengming, I also want to send you to be the cultivator, but now the cultivation sect looks at the qualifications and looks at the appearance, your qualifications are easy to say, and you are a first-class qualification, but your appearance is ......."

Qin Chengming, eighteen years old, the only son of Qin Sandou in Hanming City, his mother died after giving birth to Qin Chengming.

When Qin Chengming was three years old, he suddenly fell ill, and a large purple-red patch grew on the left side of his face, which has not been able to be treated until now.

The whole face looks like a beautiful boy from the right side, and from the left side it looks like a demon from hell.

When Qin Sandou had no money, he had already found countless Lang Zhong and Holy Hand famous doctors to treat Qin Chengming, but none of them could cure Qin Chengming.

Later, Qin Sandou became rich, and spent a lot of time and money to find Elder Yun Xiang, a master of the Seven Star Sect's knot pills, to treat Qin Chengming.

In the end, he came to a conclusion: Qin Chengming belongs to the stagnation of miscellaneous qi in the meridians, and he must practice the cultivation of the true exercises, and then use the spiritual power he has cultivated to comb day and night for more than three years in order to get rid of the root of the disease.

The clever Qin Sandou immediately said to Elder Yunxiang that as long as he could enter the Seven Star Sect, he would not hesitate to spend as much as he wanted.

But it backfired, one of the Seven Star Sect's requirements for recruiting disciples was to have good looks, so even though Qin Sandou promised benefits, Elder Yunxiang couldn't agree to let Qin Chengming enter the Seven Star Sect, but he pointed out a clear path: Longchi Immortal Palace.

Entering the Xiuzhen Sect, in Qin Sandou's eyes, that is to be an immortal, so after Qin Sandou heard that it was possible to enter the Longchi Immortal Palace, he immediately began to prepare, and this autumn, it is the exam for the Longchi Immortal Palace to recruit disciples every three years.

"Dad, didn't Elder Yunxiang of the Seven Star Sect say it, my appearance is that the Longchi Immortal Palace may accept it, their Seven Star Sect dislikes me, I saw the opportunity to participate in the disciple assessment of the Juji Sect, and I also failed, the only sect in the world that does not require appearance is either the evil sect Demon Cultivator, or the Qingzhu Peak of the Longchi Immortal Palace, they are the cultivation disciples who specialize in ugliness, I think I still have a chance." Qin Chengming said while laughing, obviously indifferent to his appearance.

Qin Sandou was unhappy when he heard this: "You said that this giant machine gate is really like a robber, I asked you to give them a blood spirit stone with spirit worms to the elders of the outer gate, but the people didn't go in, and the things were fed to them in vain." ”

"Dad, there is no way, there is a request for others, and it is disgraceful to give gifts, so this dumb loss can only be eaten. Qin Chengming looked helpless, you must know that the longevity of cultivation will increase, and the spiritual outlook of a sect has a certain relationship with the appearance of the disciples, so when each sect selects disciples, it is true that the qualifications are the most important, and the second importance must be the appearance.

Xiuzhen people believe that even if an ugly person has good qualifications, the seniors are reluctant to accept them as disciples, because what they are most afraid of in the Xiuzhen world is to deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors, so this strange theory has always been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

And Longchi Immortal Palace, as the only righteous sect that is allowed to a certain extent for this condition.

It's just because Longchi Immortal Palace has a green bamboo shoot peak, and the conditions for recruiting disciples in Qingzhu Peak are extremely peculiar, and the first qualification must be in the middle and upper grade of the spiritual root, but in terms of appearance, it must be ugly first.

This one is simply the devil's request, so it is said that Qingzhu Peak is the peak with the smallest number of elders and disciples in the Longchi Immortal Palace.

And this is also Qin Chengming's confidence in himself, although Qin Chengming's appearance has been different from ordinary people since he was a child, but because he was enlightened early in reading, he understood early on that he was not happy with things, and he was not sad with himself.

He has never given up on himself because of his appearance, but he is optimistic, and his cultivation qualifications have also been determined by Elder Yunxiang, which is a top-grade spiritual root.

Qin Sandou groaned: "Then in this way, tomorrow, let your Uncle Wang take you to Longchi Immortal Palace, the road is far away, it's still too late to leave tomorrow, and when the time comes, I will still prepare the blood spirit stone this time, but this time I will prepare two pieces, you will send one piece when you take the entrance exam, and then tell the examiner, if you really get started, you will send a big one to the master who accepts you as an apprentice, I don't believe that you can't get in! ”

Qin Sandou was also ruthless in his heart, he was just this one son, how many resources and how much wealth he was willing to spend, not to mention that it was a cultivation sect, if he was really successful in cultivation, how could this investment be compared.

It's not that Qin Sandou didn't raise any more children for the sake of Qin Chengming and Chengming's biological mother, but although Qin Sandou later remarried, he didn't leave an heir, and all his hopes were pinned on Qin Chengming.