As a practitioner from a side sect, John's advantage is that it is easy to get started and he can cultivate quickly. He has opened up his spiritual power early, so he does not have to work hard to polish his body like the disciples of the orthodox Sword Immortal Sect for at least a year and a half, or even more.
It takes three to five years to reach the stage of refining the Qi, and then the poor Qi can be used to refine the sword body in order to be in harmony with its spiritual spirit.
John directly and tyrannically used his spiritual power equivalent to that of an innate monk in his previous life, which in his previous life was called magic power to warm the sword.
Thanks to the inheritance of Xuanmen, he has surpassed most extraordinary professionals in this world in terms of skills in using spiritual power. His spiritual touch directly conquered the spirituality in the sword and left his own mark.
In just a quarter of an hour, the Marquis's sword vaguely turned into a magical artifact that was connected to John's aura.
"The next step is to work hard. Fortunately, the sword of Marquis Nicholas has a very good foundation. It will probably save me most of my time."
John estimated that it would take him three years to refine a sword, even if he had a famous ancient sword, but now that the Marquis sword has extraordinary foundation, he should be able to do it within a year.
It will be completed within.
If you are willing to use precious jade, spiritual water and other rare spiritual materials as materials for sword refinement, then this time may be further shortened.
However, the few pieces of jasper that John has that can barely become spiritual jade are the few pieces of high-quality jasper that were turned into arctic stones by the Brooke colonists. These are now the only things he has that can be called extraordinary materials, and they are used as consumables to refine the flying jade.
The sword is somewhat ruined. Wouldn't it be delicious to refine it into a magic weapon or make it into edible fairy bait?
"It seems that there is a chance to visit the extraordinary trading base in the underground black market of Sands Port that Arthur mentioned."
After finishing the sword refining, the night passed in a blink of an eye. After breakfast the next day, John took the initiative to approach the manor's housekeeper before he started working for the day.
He finally remembered that this time when he returned to Jinsha Port, in addition to the call from his family, there was another matter that needed to be dealt with, and that was the matter of the copper mine that belonged to Klaus.
After asking the steward what was happening in the copper mine, the steward, who had served the Hessenser family for more than twenty years, gave John an unexpected answer.
"Haunted?" John said with a strange look on his face.
It turned out to be a supernatural incident, but in the territory of his disciple and extraordinary professional from Black Wind Mountain, are you serious about those ghosts and ghosts?
"Yes, John Knight, something strange did happen in the mine. After two miners disappeared in a row, all the miners did not dare to enter the mine again. Now the mine is at a standstill, and the family has sent people
We even invited a nearby priest to exorcise the demon, but the priest was said to have been frightened."
Hearing this, John immediately understood that the steward who was responsible for the family's public affairs obviously did not know about the existence of the supernatural world, or he could vaguely guess it but would not delve into it due to his identity.
That's why he suggested asking a priest to exorcise the devil.
Arthur mentioned to him that because Puritanism is the state religion in the Federation, although they also believe in the Lord of Light, neither the Light Church nor the Protestant Church recognizes the status of Puritanism, so most of the Puritans who were originally from poor families did not
Without a systematic supernatural inheritance, there are very few clergy who have acquired extraordinary power.
Even if there are, most of them are folk exorcists or psychics, or even demon hunters, rather than priests and priests that are popular in the Old World.
Obviously, the pastor they found before was just a pastor, the kind of mortal pastor who could only chant scriptures and preach.
Otherwise, the priest's magical spells can be said to be the nemesis of existences such as the undead and the undead. However, every priest who officially takes office will have one or two magical spells specifically aimed at the undead. If there are real ghosts, they will never be as embarrassed as that priest.
"I'll go and see for myself later!"
He was still very curious about ghosts and things like that. Although he was officially a supernatural being, except for the Van der Linde brothers and the Salvatore brothers, he had never seen many inhuman supernatural creatures.
After listening to John's words, the steward advised:
"John Knight, I think you'd better find a private detective to investigate. Whether there is a real ghost or someone doing it, the detectives in Jinsha Port are still very capable."
John does not deny this. He feels that the current world is very similar to the era when detective novels were popular in the Western world.
Since the first detective novel appeared about twenty years ago, detective novels have now been serialized in almost every well-known newspaper. It can be said that they are as popular as online novels in their previous lives.
In recent years, the detective trend that has spread from Brooke has spread throughout the New World with the huge sales of those detective novels. At least the number of private detectives registered in major cities in the federation has reached more than tens of thousands in a short period of time.
This can be proven by people above the level.
You must know that the current population of the entire Federation has just exceeded five million. This is still related to a large number of immigrants from the Old World.
Although there are definitely a mixed bag among the tens of thousands of private detectives, it is estimated that at least 70% of them got into this industry after seeing the huge profits. It is estimated that less than 30% of the truly capable detectives are, but even these two or three thousand detectives are already a lot of people.
The numbers are small, divided equally among the cities. Basically, each federal city has about twenty or thirty people. It can be said that the competition in this industry is gradually becoming fierce.
"That's okay, Mr. Butler, I don't know if you know about the shops in Jinsha Port. I plan to buy some properties on the street."
The housekeeper looked at John with some surprise.
The housing prices in Jinsha Port can be said to be the highest among the three western states, and John has grown up watching it. Although he can get an annuity from his family, it is only ten pounds a month, which is a lot of money for ordinary people.
It was enough for a family of three to feed and drink for a year, but it was only average for aristocratic children. If they wanted to buy a house, they couldn't afford this amount of money.
But when he thought that John had already split up with Klaus and moved to Rem Town, he understood something, and he secretly thought that smuggling was indeed the most profitable business.
So he introduced:
"The best commercial street in Jinsha Port is Ailon Street in the wealthy area. The average shop price is between one thousand and five thousand gold pounds. There are also several small commercial streets in Clinton District, where the middle class gathers, with the average price of five hundred gold pounds."
About pounds, I wonder what conditions you need, John Knight?"
John thought for a while and said:
"I want a store that is best facing the street but relatively hidden. I plan to open an antique store and sell some rare goods. The area does not need to be too big, just three thousand square feet."
John deliberately put an emphasis on the word "rare", and the butler suddenly showed a look of understanding.
The area of houses here is calculated using the ruler derived from Brooke. One thousand feet is equivalent to about thirty square meters in the previous life, and three thousand feet is approximately one hundred square meters.
In the vast and sparsely populated New World, this area is indeed not very large.
The housekeeper thought for a while and said:
"The shops on Ellon Street are not suitable. It's too busy there. I recommend Wensley Street in Clinton District. Most of the shops here are antique shops, jewelry shops and custom-made clothing shops. The consumption is high and only the middle class
Only wealthy businessmen and nobles will frequent it, and few outsiders and civilians enter. It won’t be like the crowds gathering on Ellon Street, so it suits your requirements very well, Knight John.”
John recalled the situation on Wensley Street. He had been there several times with Klaus, and his impression was that it was very peaceful and clean, and the people who came and went were all polite gentlemen and ladies.
So he smiled at the housekeeper with satisfaction and thanked him.
The housekeeper enthusiastically asked him to wait, and after a while handed him a piece of paper.
As the local gangsters of Jinsha Port, the Heisenser family naturally has information about local detectives and can easily identify which ones are high-quality detectives who are capable and strictly abide by professional rules.
After looking through the list provided by the butler, John decided to go to Wensley Street to check out the shops and at the same time, stop by several detective agencies.
On the one hand, I wanted to choose a location for my own antique store, and on the other hand, I wanted to find a reliable detective agency to issue a commission.
"Things at Jinsha Port are not ready yet, and the mine is not in a hurry. We will hire a private detective to explore the situation first. Anyway, Klaus can't afford to lose the profit from a few more days of shutdown."