"Fellow Daoist Qiu, are you still able to make a profit from the price of this spiritual rice?" Li Shiming asked with a little surprise.
"Of course our store will not do business at a loss. You know, it is difficult to sell spiritual rice at a high price. It is a low-profit business. In the sect, there are not many junior spiritual farmers, and even fewer who come out to grow spiritual fields on their own.
Changming Island Market is just one of the many markets within the sect. Spiritual plant owners will sign cooperation contracts with various spiritual plant stores. If I set a low price, won’t you be snatched away by other stores in the next moment? "Qiu Tan explained without hiding anything.
Due to the climate of Tianhai Sect, the spiritual fields within the Nine Peaks can still be protected by the sect's formation and will not be affected much by the climate.
However, the spiritual fields in the sea can only produce spiritual rice for three seasons in six months each year, which makes it more difficult for junior spiritual farmers to survive.
Therefore, apart from the professional spirit plant husbands actively trained by Tianhai Sect, few cultivators who enter the sect through the Ascension Conference choose to be spirit plant husbands.
This is not to say that the profession of spiritual plant husband is bad, but it is more difficult than other secondary professions in the early stages.
Of course, this difficulty is relative. Compared with ordinary sect monks, spiritual plant husbands are still much better off.
The reason why Qiu Tan paid special attention to Li Shiming was because he discovered that Li Shiming was a newcomer in this issue.
This period is quite special. Originally, there would be thirty to forty new members joining the sect every year at the Ascension Conference. Together with the qualified newcomers in the sect’s sea area, the sect can be supplemented with fifty to sixty new members in five years.
But the fact that the spiritual root seedlings were attacked this year and only a few survived had already spread among the sect's Qi-refining disciples.
This not only deepened the resentment between the Tianhai Sect and the Xuanming Sect, but also made the interested Qi-refining disciples take notice of this batch of spiritual root seedlings.
After Qiu Tan met Li Shiming, he asked someone to inquire about Li Shiming's situation.
Li Shiming is the only cultivator among this batch of newcomers who has his own cave residence outside. The other new cultivators are still busy with the simplest tasks and do not even have the ability to go out to the nine peaks of the sect.
Li Shiming is also the only spiritual plant husband. Since there are too few talents in this period, no new spiritual plant husband will appear in at least the next five years.
"I have two thousand kilograms of spiritual rice here, and I also need to buy some spiritual seeds!" Li Shiming said after some consideration.
He was too lazy to sell them slowly. The spiritual rice was not a treasure. Although the quantity was a bit large, he could always explain it away.
Who told him that he was already a spirit plant husband before he joined the sect? The extra spirit rice was his stock, and that was how it should be.
"Two thousand kilograms of spiritual rice?" Qiu Tan was stunned when he heard it, but he quickly reacted and pulled Li Shiming into the reception room next door.
There were two customers in the store at that time, and Qiu Tan didn't want a potential supplier like Li Shiming to be targeted by others.
"Are there really two thousand kilograms of spiritual rice?" Qiu Tan confirmed again after entering the reception room.
Li Shiming took out ten sacks from the storage bag, each of which contained two hundred kilograms of spiritual rice.
"Friend Li, let's do this. From now on, you can only supply me with your spiritual rice. I can increase the purchase price by 10% each time!" Qiu Tan said with gritted teeth as he watched him really take out two thousand kilograms of spiritual rice.
Now the internal competition is very serious. Between the markets and the merchants, everyone has a background, and no one can use special means. The only way is to snatch suppliers with better conditions.
Qiu Tan treats junior spiritual plant husbands like Li Shiming as important future suppliers.
But Li Shiming gave him a surprise, two thousand kilograms of spiritual rice. From this, it can be seen that Li Shiming must have some special means in spiritual plants, otherwise, with Li Shiming's age, even if he started practicing since the age of twelve when his spiritual roots were formed, it would be difficult to save two thousand kilograms of spiritual rice.
Not to mention that according to Qiu Tan's experience, this batch of spiritual rice can be produced within one year.
Qiu Tan doesn't care what methods Li Shiming uses, as he is not a spiritual plant husband. However, he must keep Li Shiming.
"Okay!" Li Shiming thought for a moment and agreed.
A stable channel is also good. Even if the spiritual rice is not grown in the computer room space in the future, there will be more than a thousand kilograms of spiritual rice to sell in the spiritual fields every year.
"By the way, no matter what spiritual seeds you want, as long as they are available within the sect's sphere of influence, I can get them for you!" Qiu Tan continued when he saw that Li Shiming agreed.
They did not talk about signing any contract, as verbal agreements between monks were rarely violated.
In the monastic community, breaking a promise is a very terrible thing, and monks who break their promises will be ostracized by other monks.
Unless it involves something too important, a verbal agreement will be enough.
"I made a list!" Li Shiming took out a piece of paper and handed it to Qiu Tan.
Qiu Tan took it and looked at it. Some of the spiritual seeds inside were relatively expensive spiritual medicines that could be grown by primary spiritual herb farmers.
Many junior spiritual plant farmers will buy the seeds of this kind of expensive spiritual medicine and cultivate them carefully. If they are successful in planting, they can earn a lot of spiritual stones.
Of course, the reason why these spiritual medicines are expensive is because of the difficulty of their cultivation. Although they can be grown by beginner spiritual plant farmers, even intermediate spiritual plant farmers find it difficult to guarantee the survival rate.
Although Qiu Tan knew this, he would not persuade him. The spiritual plant husband would grow faster by planting difficult spiritual plants.
In addition, there were some seasoning spiritual plant seeds. Seeing this item, Qiu Tan couldn't help but smile. He thought about the process of his acquaintance with Li Shiming, which was the intersection of the transaction of sea pig beasts.
It can be seen that Li Shiming still has some ideas about food. Seasoning spiritual plants do not have much practical value, but they need to occupy spiritual fields.
Finally, there were the seeds of three special spiritual medicines. After seeing these three special spiritual medicine seeds, Qiu Tan couldn't help but look up at Li Shiming.
"I can't get these three elixir seeds, but if you really need them, I can try to find them for you. You should be able to buy them!" Although Qiu Tan had some doubts in his mind, he still told the truth.
He knew very well that these three spiritual medicines were the resources needed by the Xuanming Sect, and where could he find such spiritual medicine seeds in the Tianhai Sect.
However, the war between the Tianhai Sect and the Xuanming Sect lasted for many years, with both sides suffering casualties and many storage bags seized.
Most of the resources of the Xuanming Sect are simply unusable to the cultivators of the Tianhai Sect.
What Qiu Tan meant was to look for them from some familiar Tianhai Sect cultivators. Although these three spiritual medicines were also considered precious, he had heard of them and the possibility of finding them was very high.
"Fellow Daoist Qiu, thank you so much. May I know how many spirit stones it will take?" Li Shiming was naturally happy to hear that he could buy spiritual medicines directly, but his spirit stones were limited. These three spiritual medicines were all resources from the late stage of Qi Refining, and he might not have enough spirit stones.
"If Fellow Daoist Li trusts me, leave the 2,100 spirit stones for the 2,000 kilograms of spirit rice, and you can take the existing spirit seeds. I will buy these three spirit medicines. I will refund you the spirit stones if you get more, or give you more if you get less!" Qiu Tan said generously, waving his hand.
Li Shiming rode on a paper crane with a smile on his face. This trip to the market was very good.
He purchased the spiritual plant seeds he needed, sold the extra spiritual rice, and reserved the last three materials for the bronze corpse to be promoted to an iron corpse.
He did not expect that it would be so smooth. The three materials that the original owner of the bronze corpse in the Xuanming Sect could not get were easily available in the Tianhai Sect.
Qiu Tan spoke so confidently, which meant he was very sure of it. Li Shiming even suspected that Qiu Tan knew who had the three materials.
With the help of Qiu Tan, Li Shiming purchased all the talisman ink materials he needed, as well as the relevant knowledge that a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage should master, at a low price.
During the whole process, in addition to the 2,100 spirit stones for selling 2,000 kilograms of spirit rice, he only paid more than 100 spirit stones.
The most important gain this time was the establishment of a channel with Qiu Tan. Although Qiu Tan runs a spiritual plant store, in fact, Qiu Tan has deep relationships with many stores. Through this channel of Qiu Tan, no matter what kind of spiritual object it is, it can be sold or purchased through Qiu Tan.
When he first left the market on Changming Island, Li Shiming was still extremely cautious, fearing that he would run into the same situation he had encountered last time at the market for casual cultivators.
The experience of his first visit to the market after becoming a cultivator was too painful to recall. If he hadn't thrown the 'thermite bullet' that time, perhaps his career as an immortal cultivator would have ended there.
The safety of Changming Island Market is not just talk. After leaving the market, I flew for an hour and did not encounter any cultivators chasing me.
Li Shiming asked IBMz15 to help sense the situation nearby, and he took out the jade slips that recorded the relevant knowledge of Qi Refining cultivators.
He placed the jade slip between his eyebrows, and a large amount of knowledge was transferred into his brain and also to IBMz15.
IBMz15 opened the relevant knowledge of Qi Refining cultivators, and the contents quickly browsed through his mind.
There is a lot of knowledge here, including common spiritual medicines, spiritual minerals, spiritual objects, etc. in the Qi Refining Period. When cultivators travel, they may encounter various spiritual objects. With this knowledge, they will not miss opportunities due to blind spots in knowledge.
Some spiritual objects require special methods to collect. If you don't know this method, even if you collect the object, its spiritual energy will be greatly lost, and its value will plummet.
In addition, he also found that he lacked the containers that normal monks had. Most monks carried a few items with them, one was a jade box for storing elixirs, two was a magic-level skinning knife, three was a container for storing spiritual blood, and four was an instrument for collecting souls.
Don't underestimate these things. If you find elixirs in the wild, they will lose a lot of their spiritual power without the jade box.
A skinning knife, instruments for storing blood and souls, this is a set of magical tools, all for dealing with sea beasts.
The previous sea pig beasts had little value except for their spirit flesh, but for spirit beasts that have reached the intermediate to advanced first level, their skin, spirit blood, and soul are all important resources. If you don't carry and preserve their spirit tools, it will cause considerable losses.
The relevant knowledge of cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage also includes knowledge about elixirs. This is not to ask cultivators to refine elixirs, but to understand elixirs.
Mastering the ability to identify elixirs can prevent cultivators from having to buy elixirs that are unsuitable for their needs or being cheated by unscrupulous merchants.
The elixirs used by Qi-refining monks are first-grade elixirs, which are divided into low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade and top-grade according to their quality.
The distinction in quality is mainly due to the effects of the elixir and the impurities in it, which have a huge impact on the person after taking the elixir.
Take the lowest-level first-grade elixir as an example. When a cultivator takes a low-level first-grade elixir, he needs to consider the problem of elixir poison. It doesn’t matter if the effect of the elixir itself is weaker, but the intake of elixir poison must be strictly controlled.
Generally speaking, there is a certain standard amount of low-level first-grade elixirs per month, and you cannot take more than the standard amount to avoid elixir poison affecting your body.
If the quality level is raised by one level, the poison and efficacy will be greatly improved.
The best is the top-grade elixir. Not only does it not cause any poison after taking it, it also has the strongest efficacy. In addition, it will not cause any drug resistance at all.
For monks, drug resistance is a hidden risk.
Normally, the harm of drug resistance is not obvious to cultivators, but a cultivator who has never taken any elixirs and a cultivator who has taken a large amount of elixirs reach the peak of Qi Refining at the same time, and are given the same Foundation Establishment Pills and matching auxiliary pills to advance.
The probability of a cultivator who has never taken elixirs to advance is one to two times higher than that of a cultivator who takes a large amount of elixirs. This is the conclusion reached by many forces in the world of immortal cultivation after countless years of research.
But the problem is that even though the monks know that drug resistance exists, and that every additional non-top-level elixir they take will increase the body's drug resistance, the monks will still use elixirs to improve their strength.
Not every cultivator has a single spiritual root with extraordinary talents, and can easily cultivate to the peak of Qi Refining without the help of elixirs.
Top-level elixirs that do not cause drug resistance are even harder to come by due to the uncertainty of their production.
It’s not that the alchemist doesn’t want to refine top-level elixirs, but that refining top-level elixirs is entirely a matter of luck.
Most alchemists can only produce one or two top-grade elixirs in their lifetime, but if you ask them how to make top-grade elixirs, they have no idea at all, and the process cannot be repeated.
The elixirs that Li Shiming found in the spoils were all low-grade first-grade fasting elixirs from the Hao family, while the elixirs obtained from the Xuanming Sect cultivators were intermediate first-grade Xuanyin Shengling Pills, which were auxiliary elixirs for the cultivation of the Xuanming Sect cultivators.
He was thinking that even if he was hungry, he would not put the low-level first-grade Qigong Pill into his mouth after knowing its shortcomings.
The knowledge related to Qi Refining cultivators also includes knowledge about various magical instruments.
In the sect, the magic weapons produced by Li Feng are the best. For the monks in the sect, magic weapons are the few spiritual objects that cannot be spared, as they are related to the life of the monk.
Therefore, in relevant knowledge, it is strongly recommended that after a monk has accumulated a certain amount of good deeds, the first thing he should exchange is a magic weapon produced by Li Feng, in order to strengthen himself.
Seeing this, Li Shiming couldn't help but take out the Spirit Turtle Shield, looked left and right again, and made sure that there was no mark of Li Feng on the Spirit Turtle Shield.
"What a loss!" He couldn't help but shake his head and muttered to himself.
He thought of the old monk's sincere farewell smile. Of course it was sincere. It was a smile that could only be revealed after he had earned so many spirit stones!
"Use it first!" He played with the Spirit Turtle Shield. In his feeling, the Spirit Turtle Shield was not bad. Although he was reluctant, he did not want to go back to the market to buy it.
Although he still had some spirit stones, after he inquired about the prices of top-grade magic tools and flying boats, he realized how poor he was. The spirit stones he had were nothing.
Even if I can't afford a spirit boat for the time being, I have to exchange the paper crane in order to travel quickly on the sea.
These all require a large amount of spirit stones. He still needs to practice, and he also needs to keep some spirit stones to wait for news about the three kinds of spiritual medicines from Qiu Tan.