After Chen Xuan's careful care, the spiritual rice in the spiritual field has sprouted and grown, and is already more than 20 centimeters long. However, the spiritual medicine planted has just broken through the soil and sprouted, and only one-fifth of it has successfully sprouted.
"Only twelve of the sixty elixir seeds germinated successfully."
Chen Xuan frowned slightly.
The germination rate is also too low.
Moreover, even if the elixir germinates successfully, it may not always grow, and the seedling success rate is generally around 50%.
Calculated in this way, sixty elixir seeds can only yield six elixirs in the end.
If you don't take care of it properly during this period, you may not be able to harvest even a single mature elixir.
"Profiteer!"
Chen Xuan took out the elixir seeds and examined them carefully, and soon discovered the problem.
During this period of time, he had read more than a dozen books on elixir cultivation, and his proficiency in planting skills improved rapidly.
Among these books are methods for identifying seeds.
Chen Xuan checked the elixir seeds he bought from the drug store and found that they were adulterated with many defective products.
Only about two-thirds of the truly qualified elixir seeds are available.
The elixir seeds sold in Fangshi drug stores are all packaged, and they are not inspected at all. They can only be purchased in packages.
Sure enough, profiteers are everywhere.
"When my planting skills are improved, I will go to the Fangshi Free Trade Zone to buy elixir seeds."
After watering the spiritual field, Chen Xuan took the spiritual talismans he had drawn these days and headed to Fangshi.
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Baiyunfang City, Free Trade Zone.
It is said to be a free trading zone, but it is actually an empty square.
The items displayed at the street stalls in the square can be resold, and the prices are 10 to 20% lower than those in stores. But if you just look at the appearance, there will be a mixture of genuine and fake. If you don’t have a certain discernment, you will be looking for pitfalls.
For example, some stalls sell elixir seeds, and they mix a bunch of good and bad ones together for you to choose. Without a certain vision, the elixir seeds purchased may be inferior to those purchased in stores.
There are more.
These stall owners who sell elixir seeds basically grow their own elixirs.
They have many tricks to turn the inferior seeds into real ones, making it difficult for people to distinguish them. Not only can they not be distinguished by the naked eye, but even with the spiritual eye technique, you can see that the seeds contain weak spiritual power.
Even some of the books on elixir cultivation sold in bookstores were written by them.
It's impossible to find something missing from a street stall in the free trade zone.
At best, you won't be cheated.
Chen Xuan's current planting skill is only at the first level. He can distinguish between genuine and defective elixir seeds that have not been treated by special means, but he cannot tell the difference for the time being from those seeds that have been treated.
Therefore, even if he wants to buy elixir seeds in the free trading area, he must first upgrade his planting skills.
Soon.
Chen Xuan came to an open space and started setting up a stall.
A piece of cloth was placed on the ground, and on it were placed several signs with the talismans for sale written on them.
Chen Xuanneng draws eight kinds of primary talismans, namely light body talisman, invisibility talisman, evil-proof talisman, wall-penetrating talisman, fireball talisman, amulet, hemostatic talisman and soul-calming talisman.
Before, Chen Xuan came to the free trading area to investigate. Of the eight primary talismans he knew, the invisibility talisman and the fireball talisman were the best-selling ones, followed by the soul-calming talisman and the evil-proofing talisman.
This is because the Tianyin Sect appeared in the world and controlled evil spirits to cause trouble in various counties in Yuanzhou, and even blood sacrificed a county, thus boosting the sales of soul-calming talismans and evil-repelling talismans.
Many of the casual cultivators in the market have families in the secular world, and they will return to their families every once in a while to buy some evil-proofing talismans and soul-calming talismans for emergencies.
After the investigation, Chen Xuan mainly drew the invisibility talisman, the fireball talisman, the evil-repelling talisman and the soul-suppressing talisman.
Because I drew it in my spare time, there are not many of each type of talisman.
In one month, only thirty pictures of each type of talisman were drawn.
After setting up the stall, Chen Xuan took out a book called "Elixir Properties" and read it, waiting for buyers to come to the door.
"How to sell the fireball charm."
Soon, some casual cultivators came to the stall and asked.
There is basically no need to worry about selling elixirs, magic talismans, magic weapons, and formation flags that can greatly increase your strength. However, elixirs are monopolized by the five alliances. The most you can do in the free trade zone is to sell some elixirs you grow yourself.
And the number of elixirs cannot be too large, otherwise the five alliances will come to 'purchase' them.
Magical weapons and formation flags are much more expensive than spiritual talismans.
Because spiritual talismans are one-time consumables, and a magic weapon can be used for a long time. If it is not destroyed by powerful force, that magic weapon can be used for at least hundreds of years before the runes on the magic weapon will wear out.
Therefore, a magic weapon can become a family heirloom, and one weapon can be passed down to three generations.
"One pound of blood teeth rice, six pieces."
Chen Xuan replied.
The price he quoted is the normal price in the free trading zone.
There is a shop in Fangshi that specializes in selling talismans. The fireball talisman costs five pieces per pound of blood tooth rice.
If the casual cultivator wants to sell the magic talisman in his hand, he can only sell it at a lower price than the shops in the market.
Some casual cultivators were cautious and did not have jade spirit money, so they used blood tooth rice to trade.
Basically, in the free trading zone, blood teeth rice is used as the trading currency, or barter is exchanged.
"Give me six."
The casual cultivator took out a bag of bloody rice.
Chen Xuan took the blood tooth rice, opened the bag and checked it. If there was no problem, he took out six fireball talismans from his arms and handed them to the other party: "Here you are, six fireball talismans."
The casual cultivator took the fireball talisman and stood up to leave after confirming that there was no problem.
"Give me nine fireball charms, three invisibility charms, three evil-proof charms, and three soul-suppressing charms."
Not long after, another casual cultivator came over to buy spiritual talismans.
"A total of three kilograms of blood tooth rice."
Chen Xuan spoke.
Taking the bag containing spiritual rice handed over by the other party,
Soon, all one hundred and twenty spiritual talismans were sold out, and twenty kilograms of blood tooth rice were obtained, worth one jade spirit coin.
If he did not farm and devoted himself to making talismans, he could draw about 600 talismans in a month, which would be five talisman coins, and 60 talisman coins in a year.
The rent is thirty jade coins a year.
If he eats blood tooth rice every day, he will lose at least sixty kilograms a month, which is three Yuling coins.
That’s thirty-six Yuling coins a year, plus the rent, it’s sixty-six Yuling coins.
If you think about it this way, you can't make ends meet.
This does not include the various expenses required to draw the talisman.
No wonder some casual cultivators live frugally and eat only white pearl rice.
"My cultivation level is still too low."
Chen Xuan sighed in his heart.
If he reaches the perfection of his inner energy realm and his inner energy is several times stronger than it is now, he can draw thousands of talismans a month and his income can at least be doubled several times.
If you reach the Qi Refining stage, you can earn at least thousands of jade spirit coins that year.
However, his proficiency in talismans and planting can be improved quickly, but the improvement of cultivation level requires energy support. If he does not have the secret medicine of cultivation, he can only do it slowly.
"Fellow Taoist, would you like to buy a jar of spiritual wine?"
Seeing Chen Xuan closing the stall, the Taoist selling wine at the side asked.