In Yunzhong City, Lin Jiang ordered a super-large cake for himself, with 105 candles on it.
"One hundred and five years old,"
Lin Jiang sighed, and then blew out all the candles in one breath. Today is his birthday. He is one hundred and five years old, and he is still at the seventh level of Qi training.
This makes Lin Jiang very helpless. The cultivation aptitude of this body is really too bad. He is only at the seventh level of Qi training at the age of one hundred and five, and he has been practicing for ninety-three years. It is simply too bad. If there is no system cheat, he would have died long ago.
After eating the cake, Lin Jiang cleaned up and went to Duobao Pavilion to buy some more pills. Now he mainly uses three kinds of pills: Juling Pill, Peiyuan Pill and Yangshen Pill. He has to buy them once a month, which costs hundreds of spirit stones.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang"
"What are you doing in Duobao Pavilion? It's so festive."
At the door of Duobao Pavilion, Lin Jiang saw many employees of Duobao Pavilion cleaning the doors, windows and walls, and some people were applying some red silk cloth to the door plaque, making it look like they were getting married.
"Yunzhong City is celebrating its centenary. Fellow Daoist Jiang, do you know?"
"I haven't heard of it. Can you tell me about it?"
"Well, Yunzhong City was founded 1,300 years ago. Since 1,000 years ago, it has held a centenary celebration every hundred years. During the celebration, the entrance fee to Yunzhong City will be free, and Yunzhong City will hold many activities, such as inviting some acrobatic classes, opera troupes and the like to perform for free.
At the same time, our business will also launch a series of preferential activities, such as 20% off on purchases. In addition, big businesses like our Duobao Pavilion will also take out many of their most hidden treasures for sale, such as the rare Foundation Establishment Pills. There will be a lot of them at that time. Fellow Daoist Jiang, you can prepare. Maybe you can buy some good things then."
"Double Eleven in the world of immortal cultivation,"
Lin Jiang sighed. Who said that immortal cultivators don't do marketing? Isn't this marketing? And they have been doing it for a thousand years. It's really amazing.
"Friend Jiang, what is Double Eleven?"
"It's nothing, it's just a custom in our hometown. On the 11th of November, all the businesses will jointly hold activities, just like you, with discounts and the like, to attract people to shop."
"Then why is it November 11th? Can't other days do that?"
"Uh, that's not the point."
Lin Jiang rolled his eyes. Could he say that it was all caused by you unscrupulous businesses? Originally, Double Eleven was Singles' Day, but you unscrupulous businesses turned Singles' Day into a shopping street. It's really a rip-off.
"Haha, it's like this, Fellow Daoist Jiang, I advise you to prepare more spiritual stones, so that you can buy things at a better price when the time comes."
"When will the centennial celebration be held?"
"There's still half a month left. It will be announced at the City Lord's Mansion seven days in advance. We got the news in advance, so let's prepare first."
"I see, it's a warm-up. Okay, then I'll come back then. Leave some good things for me."
"That's a must. Fellow Daoist Jiang is our honored guest."
The steward nodded. Lin Jiang and him have cooperated for many years and are very familiar with each other. They like Lin Jiang's generous guests the most.
Coming from Duobao Pavilion to the Grand Market, there are also many people in the Grand Market discussing the centennial celebration of Yunzhong City. It seems that the news has spread, but Lin Jiang is oblivious to the outside world, so he doesn't know yet.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang, you are here."
The beautiful young woman saw Lin Jiang and was still enthusiastic.
"Friend Daoist Liu,"
Lin Jiang bowed to the beautiful young woman. As time went by, Lin Jiang was not so indifferent and disgusted with her.
Because Lin Jiang also knew the story behind this beautiful young woman. The young woman's surname was Liu, and her name was Liu Baixue. She had a husband and a child. Her husband was a cultivator who had achieved great perfection in Qi training. However, a few years ago, her husband had a fight with her outside and his meridians were interrupted. He was paralyzed, and the child was still young. Now the whole family depends on her for support.
She sets up a stall at the big market during the day, and goes back to farm at night, and even has to take care of the family, almost sacrificing all her time for cultivation.
The reason why she was entangled with so many men was actually to support her family. After all, she was a woman and didn't have much social experience, so she could only play the best skills of a woman, which was to dance with long sleeves.
Knowing the story behind the beautiful young woman, Lin Jiang admired her very much. There were not many such virtuous women. Although her means were a little lacking, no one was perfect, and we couldn't force it too much.
"Brother Daoist Jiang, have you eaten yet? I brought some food."
"I've already eaten. Thank you, Brother Daoist Liu."
Lin Jiang waved his hand. Of course, although he no longer kept a distance from her, he didn't want to get too close to her. He didn't want to learn from Cao. At most, he would do what the big star Li did.
"Brother Daoist Jiang, do you know about the centennial celebration of Yunzhong City?" "I
just heard about it."
"Then Brother Daoist Jiang, do you know that this year is the tenth centennial celebration? I heard from them that this year the Zhongxing Sect and the Yunjian Sect are preparing to upgrade the centennial celebration to a thousand-year celebration, and the scale is far greater than before."
"Is that true?"
"Of course, this is the Millennium Celebration, and the bigger the scale, the more money they make. The entrance fee is waived, but the tax on the business will not be reduced. If it is done well, the income in half a month can be compared to more than ten years of normal times."
"That makes sense, it seems that it is not groundless."
Lin Jiang nodded, as if it made sense. The transaction volume under this kind of marketing must be extremely terrifying. There are masters in the two sects, and they will not fail to see this.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang can also prepare in advance. At that time, there will be a lot of immortal cultivators pouring into Yunzhong City. I heard that during the celebration a hundred years ago, there were hundreds of thousands of immortal cultivators from other places. Even small vendors like us made a lot of money.
And there will be a lot of good things that we can't see on weekdays, such as skills, elixirs, weapons, etc., which will be cheaper than usual."
"I understand, I will prepare it."
Lin Jiang nodded. The most impressive thing he has now is these talismans. It seems that he needs to reserve some and find a way to make a lot of money at that time.
In addition, he also had some things to sell, such as the Qingyan Pill that Lin Ying bought for him. He had kept this thing for many years, and it was not convenient to sell it at ordinary times. This time, he could sell it, otherwise it would be wasted after the effect of the medicine expired.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang, let's share what we have and communicate more in the future. The lower-level cultivators need to stick together."
"Okay, then thank you, Fellow Daoist Liu."
Lin Jiang nodded. The beautiful young woman was not useless. She had many friends, many licking dogs, and was well-informed. She was much better than him, a person with social phobia. There was a chance to get more useful information in the future.
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As the news of Yunzhong City's centennial celebration spread, the city of Yunzhong City became visibly depressed. This was because the merchants were hoarding goods, and even the small vendors were the same.
Lin Jiang was naturally no exception. Not only did he set up his stall at will, but he also worked overtime for the first time. Now, except for the two and a half hours of practice every day, all the other time was used to draw talismans, and even the sleeping time was reduced to one and a half hours.
In fact, with the physical strength of a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training, it is okay to not sleep for ten days or half a day. If you reach the foundation-building stage, sleeping is basically an instinct, and you can go without sleep for half a year or a year without feeling tired
. Lin Jiang used to sleep for about four hours a day in order to maintain a regular life and be lazy. This time, he was going to make a fortune, so he tried to reduce his sleep time as much as possible, but he couldn't do it without sleep at all.
Three days before the centennial celebration, the flow of people in Yunzhong City began to surge. Almost every day, thousands of cultivators from other places poured in. The news of Yunzhong City's centennial celebration should have spread throughout the Yunzhou cultivation world.
The first to make a fortune were the inns. Lin Jiang even heard that some businesses that did not do well in business on weekdays transformed their own shops and warehouses into temporary inns.
"Some businesses can't help but release goods. These bastards are like crazy. The price is more expensive than usual, and they
have the nerve to say that it's 20% off." Lin Jiang didn't go to set up a stall, but got together with a few friends. They all met at the Duobao Pavilion Exchange. In recent years, Lin Jiang has been attending the Duobao Pavilion Exchange. It was at the exchange that he learned the Soul Refining Technique.
"That's right, I received news that the City Lord's Mansion has received a lot of complaints against these black-hearted merchants. How can they raise prices when
they promised big discounts?" Several people talked about it, cursing those businesses, selling more expensive than usual, and daring to say big discounts and big discounts, just treating them as fools.
Of course, big businesses like Duobao Pavilion will not do this. This little profit is not worth ruining their reputation. It's all small businesses messing around. The City Lord's Mansion has received a lot of complaints. If they really investigate it, they will be in big trouble.
After cursing the business, everyone talked about the goal of this centennial celebration. Some people wanted to buy a high-level technique, some wanted to change a handy flying sword, but more people wanted to take the opportunity to buy a foundation-building pill.
On weekdays, Yunzhong City also sells foundation-building pills, but the quantity is too small and the price is pushed to an extremely high level. This centennial celebration has brought together many forces, and the sales of foundation-building pills will double, so they have a certain chance.
Now, these Qi training immortals pay the most attention to the foundation-building pill, because it is almost impossible for them to break through the foundation-building stage on their own. It is exclusive to genius disciples. As for them, reality has proved that they are not geniuses. If they were geniuses, they would not become casual cultivators, but would have been poached by the sects and families long ago.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang, what about you? Are you not going to buy a foundation-building pill?"
"It's too early for me. I haven't even reached the eighth level of Qi training yet."
Lin Jiang shook his head. He really didn't plan to buy a foundation-building pill, although he could afford it now. His goal this time was to change a technique. If he didn't have a heaven-level one, he would have to get one at the earth-level. Anyway, he didn't like anything below the earth-level.
Although I, Jiang, am not a rich man, but not having money doesn't mean I can't have high standards, right?