Zhu Yi wasn't too disappointed that she couldn't get the price down, just like when she bought high-end skincare products during the Singles' Day shopping festival in her previous life.
Major brands don't easily lower prices because they want to maintain their brand image and avoid excessive price reductions that could damage the brand's high-end and sophisticated image in consumers' minds.
However, brands often want to increase sales during promotions, so they add more free gifts. Zhu Yi thought that since she couldn't negotiate a lower price, she could talk more about the free gifts with Su Nuo.
Many of the junior sisters in the Hehuan Sect are quite skilled at needlework. It would be perfectly acceptable for them to get together, distribute the fabric, and sew some small clothes together.
Su Nuo found it somewhat amusing to see Zhu Yi looking like she knew so much about business insider information.
After discussing with the manager of Xianzhen Pavilion, he generously gifted thirty bolts of high-quality cotton cloth, twenty bolts of various colored silks woven from celestial silkworm silk, and five bolts of mid-grade mermaid silk with excellent defensive properties.
Zhu Yi bought one hundred mid-grade Jade Spirit Telephones from Su Nuo. Given that communication products like Jade Spirit Telephones are updated and iterated quickly, Zhu Yi didn't hold back when asking Su Nuo for free gifts.
She picked out sixty jade pieces that were translucent and beautiful, and then Su Nuo picked out forty more as gifts for her...
The three sisters spent two hours at the Fairy Treasure Pavilion picking and choosing, buying many daily necessities for the children who had come from the Joyful Union Sect.
They purchased items according to the standard of two sets of clothes, one jade spirit device, and one medium-grade weapon per person. Zhu Yi and Xue Shan spent a total of 689 medium-grade spirit stones from the goods piled up in the Xianzhen Pavilion's warehouse over the years.
These spirit stones were taken from the storage ring that Master Miaoyin gave her.
Of course, while they were looking at the weapons, Zhu Yi also asked Su Nuo for a bunch of jewelry as freebies.
Su Nuo and her uncle were also a little happy to see that the warehouse was half empty.
The three Zhu sisters bought mostly mid-quality items that had been stockpiled in Xianzhen Pavilion for a long time. Although they requested many free gifts, in the end, Xianzhen Pavilion still made a 20% profit.
Instead of letting these things pile up in the warehouse, why not sell them like this?
The three sisters happily packed up their belongings and left the Fairy Pavilion.
The streets were already sparsely populated.
"We've lingered too late at the Fairy Pavilion; the market vendors are all packing up." Wei Weiwei said with a hint of regret; she wanted to look around a bit longer to see if there were any more interesting items.
"I still have some odds and ends to buy. Let's go check out that stall up ahead!" Zhu Yi counted the hundred or so spirit stones in her storage bag, looking a little worried.
It felt great spending money just now, but none of it is her own! She doesn't actually have that many spirit stones.
Zhu Yi was a little embarrassed. She bought a set of divination tools from the white-haired old man, including yellow paper for drawing talismans and a cinnabar pen. She also cleverly swept up the peach wood sword and glutinous rice on the old man's stall.
"Zhu Yi, why did you buy so many things for Taoist cultivation?" Wei Weiwei asked, puzzled.
Zhu Yi remained unfazed and replied, "Just stock up a little, in case we need it when we go out for training later."
“That’s right. I’ll buy some talisman paper and cinnabar brushes and go back to study how to draw some useful talismans.”
Xue Shan had already given up on buying anything else. She was always frugal and didn't have any excessive shopping desires. Besides, they bought things on a per-person basis, and she had a share, so these things were enough for her.
She and Zhu Yi jointly manage the wealth left to them by Master Miaoyin. When paying at the Immortal Treasure Pavilion, she and Zhu Yi each take half of the spirit stones from their respective storage rings. They will then distribute the items when they return to the Tianlan Sect.
When Zhu Yi was settling the bill with the white-haired old man, she remembered something.
"Grandpa, do you have any incense or candles for the ancestral worship? I need to buy some."
The white-haired old man smiled as he fetched incense and candles for her.
"When we get back, we'll organize the others to offer sacrifices towards Hehuan Mountain to pray for our fellow disciples who died unjustly, and also to hold a religious ceremony to comfort Master Miaoyin's spirit in heaven." Zhu Yi said to Xue Shan and Wei Wei while putting away the incense and candles.
Perhaps thinking of the undeserved calamity that had befallen the Hehuan Sect, the three sisters fell silent for a moment, unaware that several people had already followed behind them.
The moonlight was cold and clear. The four men in black who heard them talking tacitly surrounded the three sisters.
The leader was a woman with a graceful figure, whose face was covered by a silver mask, and whose voice was alluring and captivating.
"Little sister, are you from the Hehuan Sect?"
Xue Shan became alert and stepped forward to protect Zhu Yi and Wei Weiwei behind her.
The masked woman ignored Xue Shan's wariness. She had little patience and asked again, "Speak! Are you the children that Miao Yin took to Tianlan Sect?"
"Yes, I wonder what your purpose is in blocking our path?"
Zhu Yi realized that they were no match for this woman, and became even more candid.
"That's good! You still want to offer sacrifices to those vile people from the Hehuan Sect? Now that I've encountered you all, there's no reason for you to leave unscathed!"
"You are a demonic cultivator," Zhu Yi affirmed. Her expression remained calm as she swiftly used her jade spirit communication device to send a message for help to her senior brother stationed in Fenglan City.
"Hmph, at least you, a young girl, know what's good for you." The masked female demon cultivator raised her hand, signaling her subordinates to tie the person up and take them away.
This woman is too enchanting; she exudes a captivating and alluring aura.
Zhu Yi thought to herself, "Luckily, I'm not a man, otherwise I might really have been captivated by this woman."
"Junior Sister, don't talk to her anymore. This is the main city area, where cultivators are prohibited from fighting. I'll hold them off, you and Weiwei should run away quickly!"
Zhu Yi wanted to say that they had nowhere to escape. The white-haired old man who ran the stall had already been knocked down by the demonic cultivator, and there was no way for them to escape!
"The Hehuan Sect has been rebuilt by us, and now it is called the Heavenly Palace."
The woman was somewhat smug, swaying her slender waist and walking with a graceful gait. Her clothes were thin and sheer, which Zhu Yi found utterly repulsive.
"You're so annoying! Your demon race has its own territory, why don't you stay home and come to the cultivation world to cause trouble!" Zhu Yi complained.
"Having taken over someone else's nest, instead of keeping a low profile, how dare they show off everywhere?"
"Aren't you afraid that the other major sects in the cultivation world will unite and drive you away?" Zhu Yi said aggressively. The more she spoke, the angrier she became. In the end, it was because the cultivation world had declined in recent years and the sects in the cultivation world were not united. Otherwise, how could it be that the demons would come to our door and openly take over our territory?
"You little brat, what do you know? Your cultivation world is much better than our demon realm! I only realized how good this place is after I came here!" The delicate female demon cultivator was a little arrogant, and she patiently explained to Zhu Yi. Zhu Yi couldn't tell whether this demon cultivator was really stupid or pretending to be stupid!
"Especially you male cultivators in the immortal cultivation world! Slim waists, long legs, fair skin and good looks, if you were to engage in dual cultivation, the experience would be absolutely wonderful! Isn't that much better than those burly, hairy men of our demon race who still smell like beasts?" As soon as the masked female demon cultivator said this, Zhu Yi saw her three subordinates all looking down at their arms and legs...
"Stop sniffing yourselves! Immediately arrest these three people for me. I refuse to believe that if I arrest people from the Tianlan Sect, Su Linyuan won't come looking for me!"
The three demonic cultivators were invigorated upon hearing this.
Zhu Yi was speechless: So they captured them to find Su Linyuan. Judging from the decadent aura of this female demon cultivator, could it be that she wants to cultivate with Su Linyuan?
Wait, Su Linyuan? Ah... Su Linyuan!
Suddenly, Zhu Yi saw in her dream Su Linyuan holding the Dragon Roar Sword, a half-smile on his face, his eyes bloodshot as he slew the version of herself who had become a demon in her dream...
Zhu Yi suddenly felt a little dazed, while Xue Shan had already drawn her Hehuan Sword. With her Qi Refining Level 9 cultivation, she should be able to buy her two younger sisters a moment to escape.
Having probably seen this kind of desperate resistance many times, the four demonic cultivators surrounded Zhu Yi and her two companions, toying with them like cats playing with mice. They never tired of this kind of spectacle.
The female demonic cultivator who led them was probably at the Golden Core stage, while the other three were roughly at the Foundation Establishment stage.
Zhu Yi compared the differences between them and the opposing team: Xue Shan was at the ninth level of Qi Refining, Zhu Yi at the sixth level, and Wei Weiwei at the third level...
Alright, no need for comparisons, there's nothing to compare. Let's just wipe them out! We can't even win a fight against this!
"We surrender!"
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