Only Shen Lian, Qian Dai and two maids were left.

Shen Lian looked at the bronze slip with ancient text about cultivation. There were small holes on both ends of the slip for threading a rope.

This should be a piece from a bronze scroll.

Unfortunately, the ancient text on it is too blurry to be clearly seen, and there are scratches visible on the font.

It's a lottery, just for fun, he doesn't care whether it's a treasure or not.

"As you can see, Fellow Daoist Lu, I have been doing this for many years and have won the good reputation of the monks who come and go, so you can rest assured about our transaction."

Shen Lian nodded. Although the behaviors of Qian Dai, the young master of the Qian family, were somewhat unconventional, what he did was still commendable.

"I only have a piece of Xuanling Jadeite the size of a baby's fist in my hand."

As he spoke, Qian Dai's hand flashed, and a piece of raw Xuanling Jadeite fell into Shen Lian's hands.

"This piece is too small. It is not suitable for cutting out a complete Xuanling Jade Marrow, but it can be used as an auxiliary material for refining more than ten magic tools. The selling price is 15,000 low-grade spirit stones."

After Shen Lian checked the raw stone, he waved his hand and a storage bag flew out.

Fifteen thousand low-grade spirit stones can be exchanged for one thousand five hundred Happy Pills.

With Qian Dai's power, these pills would definitely be sold at a price of twenty spirit stones, which is thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones.

For Shen Lian, these happy pills cost about three thousand spirit stones.

Everyone makes money based on their own abilities, so no one should accuse anyone else of being heartless.

"How effective is this Happy Pill, Daoist friend?"

Qian Dai took out a happy pill, put it under his nose and took two puffs.

He squinted his eyes, and because of the excessive fat on his face, it was impossible to tell whether his eyes were open or closed.

Although he himself is not an alchemist, he has heard of things like the Happy Pill. The cost and difficulty of refining this Happy Pill according to the quality of elixir is comparable to that of the Yellow Bud Pill.

Judging from the difficulty of refining the Yellow Bud Pill, the fellow Daoist Lu in front of him should have a good level of alchemy, otherwise he would not have readily agreed to the price of ten spirit stones. At least the success rate of refining the Happy Pill should be above 50%.

However, he didn't care about the success rate of the pills. A deal would only last long if both parties had sufficient benefits.

Fifteen hundred happy pills may seem like a lot, but the Qian family owns thousands of islands, and there are other cities and islands nearby, as well as sea creatures to the east.

This little thing will be gone if you just scatter it.

"You can try it, fellow Daoist."

Shen Lian gestured.

"Forget it. I'm too weak and I'm afraid my maid won't be able to sit down."

Qian Dai put the Happy Pill into his storage bag and asked, "Brother Lu, can you refine a higher-level pill of this kind?"

Shen Lian looked at Qian Dai calmly, "You can also refine the Dian Luan Dao Feng Dan, but the success rate is not very high."

As he spoke, Shen Lian took out a jade box.

After opening it, there were a few pills with blood streaks and a faint fragrance rolling inside and flying towards Qian Dai.

"Happy pill, crazy pill."

After checking the pills, Qian Dai nodded, "It seems that we have the foundation for long-term cooperation."

…

After talking with Qian Dai, Shen Lian returned to the box. This time he found that the door of the box had been patched up, and there was an extra jade cushion on the bed.

Sitting cross-legged on the cushion, he calmed down.

He originally wanted to take this spirit ship to the Canxing Islands to sell the Happy Pills in batches, but he didn't expect to meet a big customer halfway.

It was also exchanged for a fist-sized piece of Xuanling Jadeite raw stone.

The process changes a little, but the result is the same.

"Qian Dai from the Qian family."

According to the words of the monks captured earlier, Qian Dai's spirit ship has been wandering on this route for several years, and its name has long been known.

Many monks were not coming up for the first time.

Observing the appearances of several foundation-building cultivators today, they were all very indifferent to the various scenes on the spirit ship, which also proved that they had already seen Qian Dai's methods.

He and Qian Dai had a verbal agreement that he would launch a spirit ship at the Canxing Islands and then stay there for some time, during which time the two sides would conduct transactions.

At that time, Shen Lian will take out the Happy Pill and the Dianluandaofeng Pill to exchange for the Xuanling Jadeite raw stone in Qian Dai's hand.

So far, this deal seems to be a good one.

…

In a quiet room.

Qian Dai took the Dianluandaofeng Pill and looked at it, then took out a Happy Pill and threw it to the maid behind him.

"Go ask Qian Ya to find someone to try out the efficacy of the medicine."

"By the way, check all these pills."

"yes."

After the maid left with the pills, she came back half a day later with a red face.

"Master, Qian Ya asked someone to try it and said...the drug is very powerful."

"Um."

Leaning on the wide seat, Qian Dai squinted his eyes and tapped the armrest with his fat fingers.

"Send this batch of pills to the sea clan's territory, triple the price, and sell them for thirty spirit stones."

"By the way, don't let my senior sister know that I sell this kind of medicine."

…

In the following two months, the spirit ship kept stopping between the islands, with cultivators at the Qi training and foundation building levels boarding and disembarking.

As a spectator, Shen Lian watched Qian Dai selling his junk in front of batches of monks who had just boarded the spirit ship.

Then, an exchange meeting was organized in the quiet room, and the business of finding various spiritual objects for the foundation-building monks was undertaken.

After some observation, Shen Lian felt relieved.

Half a year later.

On a remote island in the Canxing Islands, Shen Lian woke up from his cultivation.

As his mind moved, in a cave on another island in the sea ten miles away, the Five Elements Spirit Puppets turned into streams of light and came close to him, holding a jade talisman for communication.

Now, through practicing the Silk Condensation Method of the Immortal Puppet Technique, he can control the Five Elements Spirit Puppets at a distance of two thousand five hundred feet, a full fifteen miles. This distance is enough to rival some early Jindan cultivators.

Of course, Shen Lian's spiritual power, which was extended through a secret method, can only be used to control spirit puppets. If he really wants to compete with a Jindan cultivator in spiritual power, he will be the unlucky one.

Although he had some understanding of Qian Dai after experiencing various scenes on the spirit ship, he was still on guard.

The communication jade talisman was placed in another cave ten miles away.

And they happened to be divided into two islands.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, I have ordered someone to deliver the Xuanling Jadeite you need to Fenglei Pavilion on Canxing Island."

After hanging the communication jade talisman back into the storage bag on the waist of the Five Elements Spirit Puppet, Shen Lian packed up the cave and prepared to go to Canxing City to get the Xuanling Jade Marrow raw stone.

…

One day later.

Canxing City, Fenglei Pavilion.

This is the liaison and distribution agency that Qian Dai set up at various berthing points in order to cooperate with the spirit ships.

Or maybe Qian Dai is a talented person.

Shen Lian, wearing a loose robe, walked on the street and looked at Fenglei Pavilion from afar. According to his observation, the strength of the foundation-building cultivator sitting in Fenglei Pavilion was about the fifth level of foundation-building.

The Five Elements Spirit Puppet transformed into Lu You's appearance, wearing the robe on the spirit ship, and walked into the Fenglei Pavilion.

"Please, Fellow Daoist Lu."

Inside Fenglei Pavilion, an old man with a red face led Shen Lian into the quiet room on the second floor.

After the two of them sat down, the old man took out a piece of Xuanling Jadeite raw stone from his storage bag, which was about the same size as the last piece.

"Friend Lu, the young master sent a message saying it's the same as last time."

After Shen Lian carefully examined the raw stone, he nodded, put the counted happy pills into the storage bag and handed it to the old man.

"Brother Lu's number of pills is correct."

"If you have anything to say, you can communicate directly with the young master. I am not responsible for the detailed sales process."

Shen Lian took out the communication jade talisman and sent out a divine thought.

Seeing Shen Lian's actions, the old man grabbed the storage bag and walked out of the room.

After about a dozen breaths, the communication jade talisman lit up.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, can you receive the raw Xuanling Jadeite?"

Qian Dai's voice came from the jade talisman.

"I have received it." Shen Lian played with the chalcedony in his hand, "Fellow Daoist Qian, the chalcedony is a bit small. Apart from being used to refine magical instruments, a piece of Xuanling chalcedony cannot be cut out."

The two pieces of raw stone, front and back, are about the size of a baby's fist, which is just not enough to cut into the specified Xuanling Jadeite.

After a moment, Qian Dai's voice rang out, "The price of larger rough stones is a bit expensive."

"No problem, I'll just pay with Happy Pills."

"Okay, then you need to wait a little longer. Do you still want a piece of Xuanling Jade Marrow of this size?"

"need."

"How much do you want?"

"Friend Qian, please collect as much as you can. The more the better."

In the quiet room, Shen Lian put down the jade talisman.

I think as a descendant of a Jindan family, it should not be a problem to collect seven or eight pieces within a year.

…

On the Haifenglei spirit ship.

Qian Dai handed the extinguished jade talisman to the maid. The maid turned around and hung the talisman on a green, leafless spiritual tree.

This spiritual tree is very strange. It is divided into seven layers, and each layer is like an umbrella cap.

From top to bottom, there are jade talismans of varying numbers and sizes hanging.

On the top seven floors, there are three purple jade talismans hanging.

On the fourth, fifth and sixth floors, there are only five or six communication jade talismans hanging on each floor.

The first layer at the bottom has the largest number of hangings, followed by the second layer, and then the third layer.

The maid hung the jade talisman that she had communicated with Shen Lian on the first layer at the bottom, where there were the largest number of them.

Qian Dai still leaned on his wide seat, tapping the armrest with his fat fingers.

"Mo'er, how many pieces of Xuanling Jadeite raw stones can you find now?"

The maid heard the voice, thought for a moment and said, "Young Master, if you try your best to collect them, you should be able to collect more than a dozen small pieces of raw stones within half a year."

"As for the large piece of raw stone that can be cut into chalcedony... the various sects in the Wanxing Sea have an agreement to limit the sale of Xuanling Jade on the market. The Xuanshi Sect has also acquiesced to this agreement. If we sell it..."

"A bunch of unsophisticated people who have never seen the world are making so many twists and turns just for a secret realm left behind by a sect in the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage."

Qian Dai snorted indifferently.

"Not long ago, my senior sister sent me a message saying that she also went to the Sea King Sect's secret realm. I don't know what's so good about this secret realm."

As he spoke, Qian Dai looked at one of the purple jade communication talismans hanging on the seventh layer of the green spirit tree.

"well……"

Qian Dai let out a long sigh, his eyes wandering on the green spirit tree.

"...They asked me to make more friends and keep more good relationships, but none of these friends are good fighters. Instead, there are many people who are just playing around and selling happiness pills..."

Qian Dai was a little discouraged. After being busy for many years, he didn't make a single potential friend.

The master said that we should make friends with people with potential and even help them on their cultivation path, but who can tell him which of these people in the tree has potential? A bunch of bird people, only a few of them have a chance to advance to the Golden Core stage, and as for the Nascent Soul stage...

"Young Master, don't worry. This is not your problem. It's because we are trapped in this sea area and cannot contact more monks."

“It’s so hard to leave.”

Qian Dai shook his head. He couldn't take a single step forward, at least not yet.

“Collect as much as you can, the better.”

At this moment, Qian Dai suddenly remembered the last sentence in the jade talisman.

"That's quite an appetite."

…

Half a year later.

Shen Lian, who was practicing, received another message from Qian Dai.

"Friend Lu, please prepare enough medicinal pills this time."

"Three days later, our spirit ship Haifenglei will dock at Canxing Island."

Three days later, outside Canxing City, a broken spirit ship roared from afar, slowly descending from a great height accompanied by a strong wind. When it was three feet above the ground, it crashed to the ground with a bang, shaking all the cultivators present.

In a restaurant not far from Fenglei Pavilion, Shen Lian saw the spirit ship landing, and soon he saw Fatty Qian flying into Fenglei Pavilion with his little maid.

He was not in a hurry and continued to eat calmly.

Not long after, the spirit puppet walked towards Fenglei Pavilion.

This time, the Five Elements Spirit Puppet clone was still used, but it was integrated into an ordinary puppet, and various talismans were used to cover up the deathly aura.

"Friend Lu, please."

The red-faced old man who had received Shen Lian before led him to the second floor.

"Fellow Daoist Qian."

After entering the quiet room, Shen Lian saw Qian Dai sitting in a special seat.

In front of Qian Dai, on the wide desk, there was a large wooden box.

"Brother Lu is here, let's check the goods first."

As he spoke, his spiritual power surged and the opening of the wooden box turned towards Shen Lian.

Shen Lian opened the wooden box. Wow... there were quite a lot this time. No wonder Qian Dai came here in person.

In the wooden box, there are a total of thirteen fist-sized Xuanling Jadeite raw stones, and two human-head-sized Jadeite raw stones.

Shen Lian took a quick look and his eyes fell on one of the large chalcedony stones.

It's nothing, this piece of raw stone is square.

He had seen this look before.

Qian Dai narrowed his eyes again and looked at Shen Lian.

Inside the restaurant, Shen Lian's eyes also narrowed.

It seems that he underestimated Qian Dai's ability. In just half a year, he was able to produce so many Xuanling Jadeite raw stones.

After all, this thing appears randomly in the mineral veins, and it takes a lot of time even if it is allocated from all sides.

More importantly, there is a square-cut piece of ore inside, similar to the ones he fished up on Haiyuan Island.

Could it be that it was obtained from the Xuanshi Sect?

All this shows that Qian Dai has a very powerful network of relationships.

I thought it would be enough to get seven or eight pieces, but I didn't expect that not only I exceeded the target, but the time was also reduced by half.

This fat guy is very capable.

Shen Lian shifted his gaze from the square raw stone to Qian Dai, and said with a smile, "It seems that Fellow Daoist Qian wants to keep me here to make happiness pills specifically for him."

"What are you talking about? When have I, Qian Dai, ever forced anyone to buy or sell anything? The old ancestor in our family who is at the peak of the middle Jindan stage and is about to reach the late stage, please have some dignity."

Qian Dai pointed at the wooden box with his narrowed eyes.

"Brother Daoist Lu wants a few pieces, please pick whatever you like."

(End of this chapter)