After more than a month of continuous weapon refining, hundreds of orders were completed. Within three months after Zhou Yang took over "Yuquan Building", this originally ordinary shop became a business in Jinshafang City.
The best store.
Thanks to the huge customer flow brought by this large-scale refining event, most of the elixirs, magic weapons, and talismans originally accumulated in the store were sold out. In just a few months, the sales volume exceeded that of the past ten years.
Added sales.
Zhou Yang himself also harvested nearly 2,000 low-grade spiritual stones during this large-scale weapon refining, and his pocket suddenly became bulging.
He is not a person who favors one and the other. He eats meat himself, and also lets his clan brothers Zhou Yu and Zhou Xiong, who work as waiters in "Yuquan Tower", take a sip of soup, and with a stroke of his pen, they are given a hundred spiritual stones.
The bonus is a reward for the two of them who have been busy these days.
He doesn't have to pay this money himself, it can be deducted directly from the operating income of "Yuquan Tower". Anyway, the sales of "Yuquan Tower" in the past few months are there, and no one in the family can object to this.
Two months later, as Zhou Yang had expected, the entire Jinshafang City's custom-made magical artifact business declined rapidly as the market approached saturation, and even the sales of finished magical artifacts plummeted.
This sluggish situation is expected to take a long time to recover. After all, magical weapons are not elixirs or talismans, which are disposable consumables. Some high-level magical weapons are inherited as long as the monks often use their magic to warm them and refine them.
It is not impossible to use it for several generations and thousands of years.
But this has nothing to do with Zhou Yang. Anyway, he and "Yuquan Tower" have already made enough spiritual stones in this event, and they will still make money even if they don't sell a single magic weapon in the next ten years.
And since he discovered that practicing in the Earth Fire Chamber would help him break through the cultivation barrier, he would stay there for twenty days every month. He would not refine weapons, but would release the Earth Fire to burn the empty furnace, and then he would
Practice spells next to you.
This was indeed effective. After two or three months of practicing in the Earth Fire Chamber, the layer of cultivation barrier that trapped Zhou Yang became weaker and weaker, and in the end only a shallow layer remained.
At this time, Zhou Yang had a feeling that as long as he went out and found a place with rich spiritual energy to retreat for a few days, he would definitely be able to break through this shallow barrier and enter the ninth level of Qi training.
Feeling something in his heart, he immediately left the Earth Fire Room and prepared to return to the "Yuquan Tower" for retreat and breakthrough.
But as soon as he returned to the "Yuquan Tower", he heard the quarrel between his clan brother Zhou Xiong and his guests.
"I said to this fellow Taoist, let's open the door for business. I don't want to curse. If you feel that the thing in your hand is really a treasure, you can go to another store to sell it and see if they are willing to exchange it for a second-level high-grade magic weapon like yours.
A piece of broken stone!"
"Broken stone? What do you say, kid? This is a rare gold from heaven that cannot even be refined by earthly fire. It is at least a fourth-level spiritual object or above! The fourth-level spiritual object only exchanges for you a second-level high-grade magic weapon. You earn
You’re older, do you understand?”
"Haha, do you think that just finding a harder stone is a fourth-level spiritual object? A fourth-level spiritual object will not emit any spiritual energy at all? You are lying! I tell you, if you don't go out, don't blame me.
You’re welcome to kick me out!”
"You're welcome? How can you, a little fourth-level qi-training monk, be so rude? I'm not as knowledgeable as you, an ignorant boy. You go find your shopkeeper. I heard that he is a second-level Qi practitioner.
A top-grade weapon refiner, as long as he comes over and takes a look, he will definitely know that everything I say is true!"
When Zhou Yang heard this while standing outside the door, a look of curiosity flashed on his face, and then he moved his steps and strode into the building.
When he walked into the building, he saw his clan brother Zhou Xiong confronting a burly middle-aged man with wide eyes. In his right hand, the middle-aged man was holding a piece of pitch-black ore the size of a human head.
This burly middle-aged man was at the eighth level of qi training. No wonder Zhou Xiong was so disgraced that he couldn't get out of the stage even though he was on his own territory.
Seeing Zhou Yang come in, Zhou Xiong seemed to have found someone to support him, and his momentum became strong. He pointed at the burly middle-aged man with an angry face and said: "Brother Ninth, you came just in time, this guy has no spiritual energy."
The fluctuating broken stone came over, insisting that it was some kind of extraordinary gold, and wanted to use this broken stone to exchange for the [Fire Cloud Banner] magic weapon that you consigned to the store, Brother Ninth!"
"Fire Cloud Flag" is the scarlet flag flag magical weapon that Zhou Yang obtained when he killed the bandits in the sand sea. This magical weapon is a second-level high-grade magical weapon, and the refining method is quite good, so he gave it to
He has inspired a lot of weapon refining.
However, the magic weapon in his hand was enough, so after studying this magic weapon thoroughly, he hung it in the store for sale together with other magic weapons and spiritual objects seized from the bandits. Now the other magic weapons and spiritual objects are
Most of the items have been sold, but this item has remained unsold due to its high price.
Therefore, after hearing Zhou Xiong's words, Zhou Yang immediately raised his hands to the burly middle-aged man and said: "In Zhou Yang, Tian is the shopkeeper of [Yuquan Tower]. I wonder if what my brother said is true?"
Friend, can you hand over the spiritual object in your hand to the next person for viewing?”
"You are Master Zhou Yangzhou of [Yuquan Tower]? You look as young as the legend, but I don't know if you are really as powerful as the legend, but you must not live up to your name!"
The burly middle-aged man's thick eyebrows and big eyes twitched, and he looked Zhou Yang up and down with a suspicious look on his face. While shouting, he stretched out his hand and handed the jet black ore in his hand to Zhou Yang.
When Zhou Xiong saw this scene, he immediately jumped up and shouted: "Brother Ninth, look, this guy is so rude, you must not be intimidated by him. We have seen this kind of tricks many times when we open a store. I
I bet that this piece of broken stone in his hand has been passed through the hands of refiners in other shops no less than ten times. If it was really a treasure, it would have been taken away long ago. Will it be our turn?"
"Don't worry, Thirteenth Brother, I know this well. You can go and entertain the other guests first."
Zhou Yang gave this clan brother a reassuring look, smiled slightly, reached out and took the pitch black ore handed over by the burly middle-aged man and observed it carefully.
He is familiar with all the artifact refining books collected by the Zhou family, and has also read the "Records of Treasures of Heaven and Earth" given by his father Zhou Xuanhao. He knows about thousands of kinds of minerals and spiritual objects, but he looked at this pitch black ore from left to right.
, even after using methods such as mana refining and spiritual consciousness penetration analysis, it cannot be matched with any kind of spiritual object in the memory.
The only thing that can be determined is that this stone without any spiritual energy fluctuation is indeed very hard. The burly middle-aged man may not be lying when he says that even the earth's fire cannot refine it.
However, when the burly middle-aged man said that this jet black ore was a rare gold from heaven, Zhou Yang was determined not to believe it.
That day, all the Waiqi gold came from the upper world, and their grades were at least fifth level. The spiritual energy fluctuations they emitted could be felt hundreds of miles away. How could there be any spiritual energy fluctuations like this jet black ore?
nothing.
Of course, although this jet-black ore is not a rare gold from heaven, it is certainly not the broken stone that Zhou Xiong calls it. With its hardness and heat resistance that cannot be refined by earthly fire, it is definitely not an ordinary mortal object.
Zhou Xiong must have known this himself. The reason why he said the jet black ore was broken stone was probably because he was angry at the burly middle-aged man and wanted to lower the price.
If this jet-black ore could be collected at a lower price and brought back to the family to show to the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch might be able to recognize its origin with his knowledge.
However, Zhou Yang knew that since the burly middle-aged man dared to exchange this piece of ore for a second-level high-grade magic weapon, he would definitely not sell this rare treasure at a low price.
So on the surface, he was still looking at the ore with his eyes wide open, as if he was identifying the origin of the ore, but in fact, he was thinking about the lowest price that the burly middle-aged man could afford.
After thinking about it for a while, he started to think about it.
I saw a flash of regret in his eyes. He looked at the burly middle-aged man who looked at him nervously and said: "Fellow Taoist, please forgive me for my blindness. I really don't see much of this ore like yours."
Come."
After saying that, he stretched out his hand and handed the ore back to the opponent's hand.
Seeing this, the burly middle-aged man's face suddenly darkened, and he couldn't help but snorted heavily: "Hmph, it seems that you are also a person with a false reputation. You can't even recognize the rare gold from the sky, and you have the nerve to say that you are a weapon refiner.
Grandmaster!"
"No matter what fellow Taoist says, if you want to exchange this unknown ore for a second-order high-grade magic weapon, it will definitely not work, let alone the [Fire Cloud Banner] even among the second-order high-grade magic weapons.
It is a high-quality product, and it is impossible to sell less than eight hundred spirit stones." Zhou Yang smiled slightly on his face, but was not agitated.
"What unknown ore? This is obviously a rare gold from heaven! Don't talk nonsense if you don't know the stuff!" The burly middle-aged man's face trembled, and he protested loudly with an angry look on his face.
"Yes, we don't know the goods, which has delayed your time to earn spiritual stones. Sir, since you insist that this is the extraordinary gold from heaven, why don't you go to Huang Shamen and the Chen family's store to sell it? Treasures like the extraordinary gold from heaven,
A small family like our Zhou family can't afford to suffer, so you'd better just go back and forth wherever you go!"
Zhou Xiong, who came over again at some unknown time, looked at the burly middle-aged man with a sinister look and sarcastic remarks, his eyes full of resentment.
In his opinion, this big man just came here to cause trouble because of the booming business of "Yuquan Tower" recently, and he had just been given a bonus of one hundred spirit stones by Zhou Yang because of the recent increase in store sales. For this kind of person who wanted to cause trouble
Of course, people who destroy their own business are deeply disgusted.
"You..." The burly middle-aged man pointed at Zhou Xiong with a shy and angry face and wanted to curse, but the suddenly sharp eyes and aura of Zhou Yang next to him made him swallow back the words that came to his mouth.
in stomach.
Of course he had been to Huang Shamen's and Chen's stores, but the clerks in those two stores were not as easy to bully as Zhou Xiong. After the treasure appraiser and refiner in the store both denied that the black ore was a spiritual object, they were rude.
I drove him out, but he didn't even dare to fart.
After Zhou Yang's aura shocked the burly middle-aged man, his face darkened, he looked at him in a deep voice and said: "Fellow Taoist, I respect you as a man, and I know that it is not easy for casual cultivators to practice. If
If you really like that [Fire Cloud Banner] magic weapon, I am willing to make friends with you, so I will accept this piece of 'extraordinary gold' from you at the price of a second-level mid-grade magic weapon. You will pay another five hundred
Just use the spirit stone to take away the magic weapon!"
Hearing Zhou Yang's words, a look of excitement suddenly appeared in the eyes of the burly middle-aged man. After looking at Zhou Yang's face again, a look of hesitation flashed on his face, and finally he nodded and said: "Okay.
, since the shopkeeper has said so, I, Zhong Quan, will make you my friend and do as you say!"
In fact, Zhong Quan, a burly middle-aged man, also knew that the black ore in his hand was nothing like the legendary "extraordinary gold". It was just that he discovered this object in a "tiankeng" in the sea of sand. At that time, he
After searching the entire "Tiankeng", he found that this piece of ore met the standards of a treasure, so he decided that this object was "extraordinary gold".
However, over the years, he has visited every store in the market and tried his best to talk to the world, but no one is willing to buy this piece of ore at the price of "extraordinary gold", so that now he himself does not regard it as a piece of ore.
"Extraordinary gold".
The reason why they keep saying this is "a rare piece of gold" is that they are unwilling to waste time and energy on all these years of hard work, and because it is something they got by chance, they don't want to sell it at a low price.
Before Zhou Yang, even if others offered a price for the black ore in his hand out of curiosity and the desire to take a gamble, they would only offer fifty spiritual stones at most. Naturally, he was unwilling to sell this treasure at such a low price.
.
Now that Zhou Yang was willing to buy a second-level mid-grade magic weapon, even though he was still a little unwilling and uncomfortable in his heart, wondering if Zhou Yang had seen something, he didn't dare to gamble anymore.
If he misses this opportunity, at least he won't be able to find anyone in Jinshafang City who offers a higher price than Zhou Yang. When today's incident is spread, those who laugh at him will probably become more popular all at once.
Ten times, a hundred times, no matter how thick-skinned he is, he can't withstand this!
And since he agreed, it was as if he had let go of some obsession, and his whole mind had undergone subtle changes. The bottleneck of the ninth level of Qi training that had troubled him for many years actually showed signs of loosening.
This discovery surprised him so much that he quickly took out the five hundred spirit stones and the pitch-black ore and handed them to Zhou Yang. He took away the "Fire Cloud Banner" magic weapon that made him excited, and then hurriedly went to Zhou Yang with him.
After saying goodbye, he left "Yuquan Tower" and went home to prepare for a breakthrough.
After Zhou Xiong saw this scene, he couldn't help but cursed: "This guy is really uneducated. He took advantage and ran away. Brother Ninth, you are easy to talk to. If it were Uncle Qi, he would have killed this troublemaker long ago."
If we drive him away, how can we allow him to run wild here?"
"Okay, Thirteenth Brother, please stop saying a few words. I came back just to explain a few words to you. Next, I will retreat in the backyard to break through the ninth level of Qi training. Even if there is a big thing, don't bother me.
Got me."
Zhou Yang waved his hand to stop Zhou Xiong's abuse. After he explained a few words, he put the spirit stone and the pitch black ore given by the burly middle-aged man Zhong Quan into his storage bag and went directly to "Yuquan Tower"
The retreat room in the backyard is closed for retreat.