Chapter 8: The Domain of the Occult of Lancheng
About 100 meters away from the north entrance of the Xuan Academy, a giant stone carving arc arch is unearthed like the Yellow Dragon, and inside the arch are four avenues interspersed with the shape of Fengzi, and the architectural shapes on both sides of the avenue are also strange, gathering the characteristics of many countries in the domestic continent.
What shocked Long Chen was that the Xuanzhi mount, which was difficult to see on weekdays, could be seen casually in that arch, and there were all kinds of Xuanzhi mounts walking on the four interspersed roads.
Soaring from the sky, there are not only exotic birds, but also huge insects, winged beasts, floating aquariums, and even people squatting on top of extremely brilliant and bewitching flowers, and occasionally you can see a mysterious person who can fly in the air without a mount at all.
Lancheng Xuanzhi Domain, this is the name of the area that is only smaller than the Xuanist Academy, including all the building areas including the four avenues, Longchen originally thought that there were enough Xuanzhi on the Xuanzhi Avenue passing in front of the palace, but he didn't expect that the north gate of the Xuanist Academy was the real gathering point of Lancheng.
Or, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is the place with the most mysteries in the mainland in addition to the Xuanzong Palace!
This is a picture that belongs only to the forbidden and the mysterious! a world that makes people feel like they are in a dream!
After standing under the arch for three minutes, Long Chen took a step, brushed past the strange beast that erupted with a heavy breath, looked at the giant insect with a hideous appearance across the street, faced the strong wind blowing by the wings of the alien birds, or avoided the giant python water beast that made people look hairy like the middle of winter, and those mysterious people who were like a whirlwind under their feet made Long Chen couldn't help but look at it again and again, and was amazed.
"This is the real world of the mysterious!"
Long Chen sighed in his heart, a little self-deprecating that he had been a frog at the bottom of the well for fourteen years.
On both sides of the road, which is only narrower than the Xuanzhi Avenue, there are all shops selling strange and strange items, and there are all kinds of weapons in the last ancient life, as for what armor and cuirass, these are not lacking, and the guys selling on the street are at least high-level master-level strength, and there are many monarch-level ones, and among the Xuanzhi who come and go, you can often see masters wearing special robes and wearing the badge of the Xuanzong Palace.
In such an environment, Long Chen was like a drop of water in the sea, inconspicuous, except for a few people who were almost the first time to come to the Xuanzhi Domain of Lancheng who would look around with curious and excited eyes, all the Xuanzhi were staggered without squinting, each moving towards their respective goals.
After looking for a long time, Long Chen found a shop that specialized in selling materials for the manufacture of shop pages, and after walking in, he thought that he already knew a lot about the manufacture of shop pages, and he was stunned again.
In Long Chen's memory, his father only used three main materials to make the workshop page, dried slag of Xuancao, spar grains, morning dew, and another kind of auxiliary material, which is a random kind of limb residue powder in the six major series, which can be the fur and bone powder of animals, insects, birds, and aquariums, or the rhizome powder of plants, or lava wind stones, etc.
The pages made without miscellaneous accessories are basically all one-star pages, and the success rate is also the highest, while the addition of auxiliary materials, according to the different grades of the auxiliary powder, the star rating of the pages manufactured is also different, but the success rate will also be reduced.
If a second-order insect powder is added as an adjunct, then if the contrived page is successful, seventy percent is a two-star page, and three percent is a one-star page.
And in this small page material store, a dark mahogany cabinet about four or five meters high and looks very old occupies the entire store, like a Chinese medicine store, in the wooden cabinet of about thirty seats, at least hundreds of small cabinets are subdivided, and the copper sheets on the cabinets are carved with the names of materials that Long Chen has never heard of, which directly makes him almost dazzled.
After watching it for a long time, Longchen couldn't figure it out, so he didn't bother to look at it anymore, so he walked directly to the innermost counter against the wall, and said to the shopkeeper who was writing something: "Shopkeeper, I want to buy some slag of Xuancao, spar grains, and morning dew." ”
The shopkeeper asked without raising his head: "How many years of Xuancao slag, what quality of spar grains, and how much purity of morning dew?"
"Ugh. ”
Long Chen was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Ten years of Xuancao slag, the lowest grade spar grains, as for the morning dew, just take the cheapest." ”
The shopkeeper still buried his head and asked, "How much do you want for each of them?"
Long Chen said with some embarrassment: "I only have fifty silver coins. ”
"Fifty silver coins?"
The shopkeeper finally raised his head and glanced at Long Chen with some astonishment, Long Chen thought that he would be ignored or blasted out, but he didn't expect that the middle-aged shopkeeper who was a little thin smiled inexplicably and asked, "Little brother, have you ever made a shop before?"
Long Chen shook his head and replied, "No, but I saw my father do it." ”
The middle-aged shopkeeper asked with some confusion, "Then why didn't your father come?" ”
Long Chen just replied lightly: "Father has something." ”
The middle-aged shopkeeper seemed to see something in Long Chen's eyes, sighed, and said: "Fifty silver coins, you can only buy two hundred copies of each of the materials you just said, I think you should know that this kind of material, even if you add high-end accessories, it can only make three-star square pages at most, most of them are used by novice pagemakers to practice, generally less than a thousand copies I won't take orders, but it seems that you want to rely on these fifty silver coins to start a business, right?" I'll take it as a good thing, but don't blame me for not reminding you, it's the first time you've done it, and it's very likely that none of the two hundred pages of material will succeed, which means that your fifty silver coins may fall into the water and not even bubble, you know?"
Long Chen knew that the shopkeeper was telling the truth, nodded and replied, "I know." ”
After giving fifty silver coins, the middle-aged shopkeeper asked the guy to take two hundred copies of the workshop page materials and handed them to Long Chen, before leaving, the middle-aged shopkeeper thought about it, and asked the guy to give Long Chen fifty more copies.
When Long Chen was a little confused, the middle-aged shopkeeper saw Long Chen's doubts and said to Long Chen with a smile: " These are not for you in vain, wait for you to make the page and make money and then make it to me, to tell the truth, I am also a plant-based mystery, back then it was also like you with dozens of silver coins to run to buy the page materials, I was lucky, I met a kind person, he gave me fifty more copies, and the ones I bought before all failed, it is the last fifty copies of a lot of success, so as not to fall to the point of penniless, and only today, do the shop page is no better than other ways to make money, often sit down for a few hours, the frustration in the middle is only known to us plant mysteries, I don't know if you can be as lucky as I was back then, but I know that if I didn't do it like the kind person back then, hehe, that is, my father-in-law, I would have lived in vain in my life. ”
"Come on! Actually, I say this to make you a repeat customer, hahaha. ”
The middle-aged shopkeeper patted Long Chen on the shoulder, turned around and walked back to the store with a smile, didn't give Long Chen any chance to thank him, and didn't even tell Long Chen his name, and Long Chen knew that what the shopkeeper said just now was actually false, and the previous words were true, but he didn't catch up and say thank you, because some things don't have to be said in his heart.
"Tan Ji Fang page material shop. ”
Long Chen looked up at the plaque hanging on this inconspicuous shop, silently recited it in his heart, and turned around and disappeared into the flow of people with two hundred and fifty copies of the workshop materials.