The territory of the Vermilion Bird is vast, not counting the wilderness and the four seas and eight extremes, there are ninety-nine states.

Due to geographical or power distribution reasons, these ninety-nine states are divided into more than ten large regions.

Among them, the southeast region is separated from the other ninety states, and it is extremely difficult to communicate with each other, forming a large region on its own, which is called the "southeast border", and the monks are also used to call it the southeast Kyushu.

The southeastern Kyushu states are Wuzhou, Pengzhou, Yuhuazhou, Yongzhou, Yunzhou, Chengzhou, Fengzhou, Guanzhou, and Yuzhou.

Among them, there are many big demons entrenched in Wuzhou, and it is not easy for human monks to gain a foothold.

Guanzhou and Yuzhou are the territory of demon cultivation, and the rest of the states either have large sects entrenched, or there are strong Xiuzhen clans together, forming a unique and splendid Xiuzhen civilization.

Among Kyushu, Pengzhou has the widest area, the size of four Yunzhou in terms of area, and is adjacent to the East China Sea, taking advantage of the sea area, and is the most abundant place in the southeast of the country.

The Xinghai Sect, the largest Xiuzhen sect in southeastern Kyushu, is located on the Tianpeng Mountain in Pengzhou.

Countless large, medium and small cultivation sects and families are all attached to the Xinghai Sect to live and survive.

At the southern end of Pengzhou, there is a medium-sized Xiuzhen sect called the Yuchen School.

This sect alone occupies three islands and a large area of the sea, and it is also a snake-like existence.

On this day, in the Jade Dust Sect's Luoyan Daofang City, a young monk who looked to be in his thirties walked into a shop called Jade Dust Pavilion.

He looked a little down, his robe was tattered and had lost its defensive effect, and the storage bag around his waist had lost its luster and was badly worn.

He stopped for a cup of tea in front of a few first-order high-grade magic artifacts before reluctantly moving to the counter selling elixirs.

This person took out a small pile of spirit stones from the storage bag and said, "Get me two bottles of Yuzao Pill!"

Yuzao Dan is a special product of the sea called "Yuya Algae", a kind of elixir refined from spiritual grass, which is suitable for the cultivation of monks in the middle and late stages of Qi training.

The guy who watched the store hurriedly greeted him with a smile, and then began to count the spirit stones on the counter.

The guy finished ordering the spirit stones, and stretched out his hand to the down-and-out young man: "This distinguished guest, there are still ten spirit stones left!"

The young man was stunned: "How come, I just came from Egret Island, and the two bottles of Yuzao Pill over there are a hundred spirit stones!"

"This is Luoyan Island, not Egret Island, Egret Island is in a safe coastal area, and there is no invasion by demon beasts! Our Luoyan Island is in the inland sea, just maintaining the island protection array, it will require a lot of consumption, and the prices here are naturally higher!"

The down-and-out young man looked unwilling and began to fight with his buddies.

He soaked it for half an hour, but the guy really couldn't pester him, and finally gave him a discount of five spirit stones.

Only then did this person make up five spirit stones with a painful face and buy two bottles of Yuzao Pill.

He was just about to leave, when he suddenly saw a wooden sign standing by the counter, which read: "Heavy money to buy moonshine algae!"

There is also an image of moonlight algae drawn below, and the method of harvesting and preserving the object is indicated.

After the down-and-out young man saw it, his face changed first, and then he looked at it carefully, and then asked the guy casually: "May I ask what price is the recovery of this moonshine algae?"

The guy was pestered by him for a long time, and said angrily: "Why do you ask this? Don't dream, moonlight algae is very rare, instead of wasting your efforts to find this thing in vain, you might as well go to the sea and honestly search for jade sprouts!"

The young man didn't care, he laughed and chatted with the guy, and finally got the price of moonshine algae out of the guy's mouth.

This inconspicuous-looking moon-white seaweed costs as much as 50,000 spirit stones per plant!

The down-and-out young man seemed to be a little unsettled, and when he left, he actually hit his head on the signboard erected outside the storefront, and then hurried away amid the scolding of his buddy.

He seemed to remember something extremely happy, his mood became extremely good, and his steps became brisk, and he even bought a spirit fruit from the scattered cultivator who set up a stall on the street, and ate it while walking, and hummed an unknown song.

The man walked around the stall area in the market, as if looking for something. But in the end, he returned disappointed, and then he gritted his teeth and entered a shop, and after a few moments, he came out again with an excited face, as if he had finally found what he was looking for.

After the young man left the shop, an obese middle-aged man came in.

When the guy from this shop saw this person, he hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "It turned out to be the shopkeeper Xu of the Jade Dust Pavilion, welcome to the store, what does the shopkeeper Xu have to say?"

The middle-aged man known as the shopkeeper of Xu Da said with a smile: "I just recruited a guy in my store, it is the kid who just went out, I asked him to buy some spiritual materials in the market, I want to test his eyesight, so come and ask, what did he buy from you just now, how many spirit stones did he use?"

The guy didn't doubt him, and hurriedly replied, "That little brother just bought a moonstone from our store and used two hundred and twenty spirit stones!"

Shopkeeper Xu nodded: "Okay, I know, you can get busy!"

As he spoke, he walked out of the shop and chased in the direction where the down-and-out young man had just left.

Yuchen Pavilion is a shop opened by the Yuchen faction, the landlord of Luoyan Island, and this shop is run by Xu Shen, the deacon of the door.

Xu Shen was originally a young man in the Jade Dust Pavilion, but because of his excellent performance, he was appreciated by the Jade Dust Sect, and he improved step by step until he became the big shopkeeper of the Jade Dust Pavilion.

In the twenty years since he took over the Yuchen Pavilion, he has run the shop quite prosperously, earning a lot of spirit stones for the sect, which has greatly increased his status in the sect, and the sect has rewarded the Zhuji Dan, and he has become a Zhuji monk in one fell swoop, and concurrently serves as the deacon of Yuchen stationed on Luoyan Island.

A close person once asked Xu Shen what management tricks he had for running Yuchen Pavilion so prosperously, and he said with a smile: "The way of management is not so complicated, just four words: observe carefully!"

Only by carefully observing the guests' every move can we figure out the thoughts of the guests!

As long as you understand the customer's mind and then sell the goods, you will naturally be invincible!

Now Xu Shengui is a deacon of the Yuchen faction, and he no longer needs to personally look at the things sold in the store, but the habit he has developed over the years has become a hobby, often making a pot of spiritual tea, sitting on the upper floor of the Yuchen Pavilion, carefully observing every guest who enters the store, and figuring out the thoughts of the visitors.

The guest who came today is very interesting, this is a young man who is in the Qi training period.

This person bargained for a mere five spirit stones for half an hour, which shows how depressed he is.

But it was this down-and-out young man who aroused Xu Shen's great interest.

When this person saw the image of Moonlight Algae, his eyes actually bloomed with a different light!

Xu Shen also climbed up step by step from the bottom of the cultivation realm, and he was very familiar with this kind of light: this was a silver stick that had been locked up for five hundred years, and when he saw a lonely beauty who was powerless and walking in the wilderness, he unconsciously revealed a longing look!

Xu Shen, who had observed countless guests, immediately decided: This down-and-out young man has seen it, at least he knows where there is moonlight algae!

Because from the young man's eyes, he could see that this person was not just envious of the value of moonlight algae, but a kind of joy that was within reach.

After the down-and-out young man came out of the Jade Dust Pavilion, Xu Shen couldn't help but quietly followed.

He saw a person who was still thinking about five spirit stones just now, but he generously spent more than ten spirit stones to buy a spirit fruit that was not of much value except for the excellent taste. I saw him enter a shop and buy a moonstone that was not very versatile for him at a high price.

Once the moonshine algae is picked, it is indispensable in storage to ensure the quality.

If it weren't for the exact location of the existence of Moonlight Algae, no destitute monk would spend a lot of money to prepare moonstone.

The greed in Xu Shen's heart was raging, even for a foundation-building monk, for Xu Shen, the great treasurer of the Jade Dust Pavilion and the deacon of Yuchen stationed on Luoyan Island, the moonlight algae worth 50,000 spirit stones was also a big windfall.

That's the equivalent of five years of his salary!