First, the street corners were blocked, preventing ordinary people from entering; now, it's the martial arts world that's preventing people from entering the city.
They're either blocking the road or blocking the gate; anyone capable of doing that must be a powerful figure in the imperial court.
It couldn't be the Fifth Prince; he's probably been kept in the dark too.
That damn guy, like a dog's mouth breathing on you after eating shit, disgusting and begging to be punched.
Lin Qianqian would never let this go. These were the same people who kept coming and going to buy things, and even if all the items were sold, she wouldn't be happy.
Because no matter how many times a person comes, it only counts as one transaction.
In that case, when will her time-travel mission be completed?
If she fails to complete the task and loses points, she will make sure they regret it!
However, this matter still needs to be resolved by the Fifth Prince, so she asked Old Zhang to wait a moment.
She sensed the Fifth Prince's location with her divine sense, and with a flash of the talisman on her finger, her figure vanished instantly.
The Fifth Prince, Xiahou Yi, who was talking to his confidant, was startled when he saw Lin Qianqian suddenly appear.
Before he could speak, Lin Qianqian said with a stern face, "Fifth Prince, if you don't want me to do business here, I can go somewhere else. This world is not just about your Tianwu Dynasty."
The Fifth Prince looked completely bewildered. In all honesty, he treated these people from the mall like immortals; how could he dare to offend them?
Seeing his clueless expression, Lin Qianqian knew she was right; he was also being kept in the dark. So she simply told him what had happened.
Xiahou Yi's veins bulged as he listened. He was about to become the master of this country, so of course he wouldn't do anything to escalate the conflict.
This is clearly someone's doing something shady; only a handful of people can pull this off. The reason isn't hard to guess: they want a monopoly.
Even if they can't monopolize it, they want to delay the process so that they can control as much of the mall's products as possible.
Despite the purchase restrictions, they have many ways to circumvent them.
Everyone knows what these things in the mall mean in this famine year.
It's also because he's been too busy these past two days. There are too many things to deal with back in the capital, so it's inevitable that he'll neglect some things.
"Fairy Lin, this happened due to my negligence. I will resolve it as soon as possible."
The Fifth Prince, Xiahou Yi, adopted a very humble attitude.
After finishing her business, she wanted to teleport away, but then added, "Such a big thing and no one told you. You should really check on the people around you."
Lin Qianqian stopped there, knowing that the Fifth Prince was a smart man and didn't need to say too much.
Once Lin Qianqian had completely disappeared from sight, Xiahou Yi could no longer suppress his anger and smashed everything on the table in a fit of rage.
That damn guy, trying to create a monopoly? Dream on!
After his anger subsided slightly, he summoned his trusted guard and instructed him to take the royal token and go with Zhang Laodao to the city gate to meet the person, while he himself went to deal with those idiots who were holding him back.
Do they even understand that if they displease the immortals, they could be forced to leave at any time, and then no matter how much money they have, they won't be able to buy anything...?
Among the group of martial arts practitioners that Zhang Laodao brought back were members of his Wudang Sect, led by the current sect leader.
Wudang obediently listened to Zhang Laodao's words and brought all the martial arts manuals, secret books, elixirs, and rare treasures from the sect.
They also invited several friendly sects, and together they rode swiftly to the imperial city.
Master Zhang knew exactly what his sect possessed, so he directly instructed his eldest disciple to bring out all the martial arts manuals, including the sect's signature techniques, Tai Chi Gong and Tai Chi Sword.
This is not the kind of health-preserving Tai Chi practiced by old men and women in the squares of Yan Kingdom, but the real deal, a unique skill where the movement of the hands and palms reveals the Tai Chi Bagua diagram.
Zhang Laodao shamelessly used these things to help his sect and Lin Qianqian exchange for a basic cultivation technique.
Although Lin Qianqian agreed to the exchange, there were some things she still needed to clarify first: "The spiritual energy in this world is limited. No matter how good one's aptitude for cultivation is, one's achievements will not be very high. Even if one encounters some rare and precious treasures, the upper limit is only the Foundation Establishment stage."
The Wudang group was somewhat disappointed upon hearing this, but they were all broad-minded people. After their initial disappointment, they happily made the change again.
To be honest, if it were any other sect, it would be impossible to exchange for a cultivation technique, but Wudang is, after all, Zhang Laodao's sect, so let's just consider it an employee benefit for Zhang Laodao.
To go all the way, Lin Qianqian agreed to let them exchange gold and jewelry for a supernatural tree, and also gave them the manual for planting and maintaining the supernatural tree.
What a huge loss! Lin Qianqian said bluntly that if Master Zhang didn't put his heart into teaching the people of Blue Star martial arts, she would make him compensate for these losses.
Old Master Zhang was a decent person. He knew that the things Wudang brought couldn't be exchanged for cultivation techniques and supernatural trees, so he said that the debt would be deducted from his future salary.
After exchanging all the items, the Wudang disciples didn't go to the mall, because what followed was the arduous task of copying books with their heads hanging from the rafters and their thighs pricking with awls.
Many of these books are unique copies, so we had to make a copy for our own records; there was no time to let them browse around.
Lin Qianqian's transactions with Wudang were quick, but Luo Zexuan's transactions with other sects were not as fast.
It was a fierce exchange of words, and as Tang Dezhong had said, Luo Zexuan was capable of talking people to death; he could easily take on ten opponents.
In the end, most of those sects used gold to buy food, medicine, and other necessities.
In this chaotic and disastrous year, the large sects have many people and consume a lot of resources. The procurement staff often have a headache because they can't buy things. Now that there is an opportunity, how can they not stock up more?
Seeing that these sects were keeping their secret manuals very tightly, Luo Zexuan took out the Superpower Fruit and began to introduce it.
Every sect wants this magical fruit that has a 50% chance of making someone breathe fire and water, but exchanging it for their sect's secret manual is a painful expense.
It was only after Master Zhang stepped forward and explained that they could make a copy for their records and guaranteed that the martial arts manuals they received would never be leaked from their hands that the various sects agreed to the exchange.
Master Zhang, a grandmaster of martial arts, still commands respect.
The Fifth Prince quickly found out which families were behind the trouble. He didn't summon them to reprimand or beat them; he would settle the score after he ascended the throne and took power.
Now, he simply sent someone to deliver a few words: "The immortal is very dissatisfied with your underhanded actions. Retract all your claws before nightfall, or the immortal will leave the Tianwu Dynasty. If the immortal really leaves because of this, then you and your families will be sinners of Tianwu."
Feeling that wasn't enough, he added, "Think about how the Second Prince was hung up in the tree. Don't you want to be the next human sausage hung up like that?"
Regardless of what those other companies will do, Lin Qianqian is taking stock of today's gains.
I won't go into how much gold there is, it's all in boxes and crates, but after seeing it so many times, it's all the same.
She never imagined that she would one day find gold dazzling and silver vulgar!
However, she really likes many of the jewelry and clothes, so she'll pick out a few more pieces to collect. Even if she doesn't wear them, just looking at them every day will brighten her mood. What girl doesn't love beautiful clothes and jewelry!
The biggest haul was martial arts manuals, over a hundred in total, though their quality varied greatly. And this is just the beginning; the main force of the martial arts world hasn't arrived yet! Once they do, we'll be able to collect even more martial arts techniques.
She also collected many other prescriptions and classic texts, including medical books, prescriptions for making incense, perfumes, wine, ink, embroidery, and so on. She collected anything that seemed valuable.
She also heard from the Fifth Prince that the Imperial Armory and the private treasuries of past emperors contained a considerable amount of treasures, which were already being organized and copied.
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