Chronicles of Celestial Origins

After sending Zhao Bao away, Tang Ning walked along the green brick street, passing by several shops along the street. These shops were all duplex loft structures. Most of them had more than a dozen customers, and some of them only had a few people.

Most of the pedestrians on the street are casual cultivators, and their costumes are colorful and different. There are big men with bare upper bodies showing off their strong muscles, beautiful girls wearing colorful clothes with silver pendants on their heads, and some tightly wrapped with black headbands. An unknown practitioner wearing a bamboo hat.

These people's cultivation levels were not very high. Most of them were monks on the fourth or fifth level of Qi Refining. When they reached the end of the green brick street, Tang Ning met a man wearing Qian Yizong clothes coming out of a shop. The two looked at each other. In contrast, the man nodded slightly towards him, and he nodded in response.

There are more than a thousand disciples of the Qianyi Sect, many of whom have never left the mountain gate in their entire lives. There are not a few who are dedicated to ascetic cultivation, and many of them do not know each other.

At the end of the street, at the corner, is a deep alley with several shops on both sides. When you walk out of the alley, you suddenly see a broad zigzag-shaped square with crowds of people coming and going. It is obvious that this is the center of Fang City.

In the center of the square stand three palace-style attic buildings, covering a large area. They are the Qianyi Zong Shop, Shuiyun Zong Shop and Qingyang Zong Shop.

As soon as Tang Ning stepped into the Qian Yizong store, a beautiful woman immediately came to greet her with a polite smile on her face: "Fellow Taoist, are you a disciple of the Qian Yizong? According to the rules of the store, all disciples of the Qian Yizong come to the store. 10% discount on all purchases.”

Tang Ning nodded. This woman was only at the second level of Qi Refining. She was wearing a blue cheongsam. Looking at the hall, there were seven or eight customers looking at the items on the counter. Almost every customer had a customer next to him. A beautiful woman wearing the same costume will accompany you to explain and guide.

These people were obviously just casual cultivators recruited by the shop, not formal disciples of the sect.

No matter how low their cultivation level is, the disciples of the sect will not be sent to do such miscellaneous things.

"Who is the owner of this shop?"

"The big shopkeeper is Senior Wang Yaozu of your sect, but Senior Wang only shows up occasionally. Now the person in charge is your sect Yi Tian Xingxian Envoy. Do you need me to inform Envoy Yi Tian?"

"That's not necessary. I need a small cloud and mist formation to cover the door. Is it available for sale here?"

"There are small cloud formations. Please follow me." The woman leaned forward slightly and made a gesture of invitation. As she walked, she explained: "Our shop covers an area of ​​nearly ten acres. There are everything from low-grade magical instruments to top-grade magical instruments. The counters in the second-floor hall are filled with elixirs, the counters in the third-floor hall are placed with various talismans, and the fourth floor sells various formation flags.”

Tangning followed her up to the fourth floor. The entire floor was empty, and the black counters were neatly arranged. The woman led him straight to one of the counters in the last row. A square wooden box was taken out from it. The wooden box was four feet long, three feet wide and two feet high. The surface of the box was carved with lifelike patterns of dragons and tigers competing.

"This is a small cloud formation weapon." The woman opened the wooden box and displayed it one by one. The wooden box was divided into three layers.

The first layer is eight formation flags of different colors. Each formation flag has a groove for placing spiritual stones.

The second layer is where the components of the formation center are stored.

, the third layer is the center of the formation disk that controls the formation, and also comes with instructions for the use and control methods of this formation.

Tangning watched it carefully for a while before closing the wooden box.

He wasn't very familiar with the art of formation, but he still knew a little bit about it.

"How many spiritual stones does this small cloud formation have?"

"This set of formations sells for one thousand three hundred spirit stones. Since you are a disciple of the Qianyi Sect, according to the store's regulations, you only need to pay one thousand one hundred and seventy spirit stones."

Tang Ning frowned slightly. If the small cloud formation in the sect only had 1,100 spirit stones at most, they actually sold it for 1,300. It was really a big shop to deceive customers. No wonder there was no one in such a big shop. It would be better to see them in front. The small shops I visited were crowded.

However, stores that do not have a strong foundation for such array-type items have no supply, so even if the price is higher, there will be people who will consume them.

"Okay! That's it."

"Please follow me." The woman led him to a room and knocked gently on the door.

"Come in." A rich male voice came from the room.

The woman pushed open the door and entered, followed by Tangning. In an empty room, there was a man sitting on a futon. He was in his forties, with a standard Chinese character face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and an expression that seemed unhappy.

"Shopkeeper Yi, this is a customer of your sect. I purchased a set of cloud and mist formations from our store and will inform you according to the store's regulations." The woman said softly.

"I know, you can get out!" Yi Tianxing stood up and the woman slowly retreated.

"I don't know the name of my junior brother. Yi has been away from home for a long time. He has not returned to the sect for many years and we have never met him."

"This is Tang Ning, a former disciple of the Herbology Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was transferred to Jingbei a month ago."

"Oh?" Yi Tianxing gave him a strange look: "Junior brother Tang was still rich in the Spring and Autumn Period. He was in the prime of life, so why was he transferred to a bitter and cold place like Northern Jing."

"The sect has decreed that we have to go."

"Yes, who can disobey the sect's orders!" Yi Tianxing sighed, seeming to be deeply touched.

"It's a pity that someone with a cultivation level like Senior Brother Yi's is not practicing hard in the sect to prepare for the attack and building the foundation, but instead sitting in this city, worrying about worldly affairs." Tang Ning saw that his cultivation level was already refining qi. On the tenth floor, there were many emotions in his words just now. After thinking about it, he didn't want to sit here, so he said as he wished.

Yi Tianxing sighed again; "To be honest with Junior Brother Tang, since Yi broke through the tenth level of Qi Refining six years ago, he has repeatedly requested the sect to be transferred back to the mountain gate to practice hard in seclusion in order to attack the realm of foundation building, but the sect I have declined the request several times because I don’t have a suitable candidate, but I still haven’t given permission. This shop owner is actually Uncle Wang Yaozu, but I can’t let him worry about such trivial matters, so I shoulder all the tasks.”

"Now that I think about it, if I had come to this place and devoted myself to cultivating in the sect, I don't know how I would have built the foundation by now. The funny thing is that I wanted to be in charge of this place at the beginning, but now I want to escape and can't."

Needless to say, the profits of such a large shop are huge. As a manager, he decides many things based on his words. I’m afraid no one knows how much he has enriched himself. It was not because of the abundant oil and water that he took the initiative to acquire this place, but now he regrets it. .

After getting enough benefits, he just wanted to run away and leave. How could such a good thing happen in the world? If he were the sect's steward, he wouldn't allow it. Tang Ning couldn't help but despise him and couldn't help but sarcastically said: "Everyone That’s right, monks like you and I are not exempt from the secular world. Is there any medicine for regret in this world? But having said that, if senior brother had not come here, he would not have been able to practice so diligently."

Yi Tianxing did not feel dissatisfied, but laughed and said: "Junior Brother Tang's words are true."

I don't know if he is really generous, or if he has been a businessman for a long time and is used to talking sweetly and using swords.

Tangning also smiled, and suddenly remembered something and asked, "Senior Brother Yi, I just entered the market. There was a man with a silver wolf with blood-stained eyes who called himself a business alliance and told me about a few things about the market." The internal regulations also say that all cities in the world are the territory of the merchant alliance. I have no knowledge of what kind of sect this merchant alliance is, and I have never heard of it before. "

"This Merchant Alliance is not a sect, but an alliance formed by all chambers of commerce. Its full name is the Qing, You, Ji, Yan, Yu, Yang, Jingliang, Yi, and Liang Ten Prefecture Chambers of Commerce Alliance, referred to as the Merchant Alliance. The Merchant Alliance has a monopoly All commercial transactions in the world, including the market.”

"The alliance mainly has three major giants, namely the Tianxia Chamber of Commerce, the Human World Chamber of Commerce, and the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce. Each chamber of commerce has existed for a long time, and under these three major chambers of commerce there are many large and small chambers of commerce. I know only a little about this. If it is true, To make it clear, I’m afraid it will take several days and nights.”

"The person you are talking about is a member of the guards in Fang City. We Fangshi have two guard teams, each with ten people. They are used to maintain the normal operation of Fang City. You should be careful and don't make any mistakes. These people No mercy."

"Oh, that's it." Tangning nodded. This was the first time he had heard of the Merchant Alliance: "Which chamber of commerce does this city belong to? Are the guards in the city a member of the chamber of commerce?"

Yi Tianxing said: "You know the place we are in is called Xingang! Including the three countries of Wu, Chu, Qi and Xingang, all the cities in Xingang belong to the Baoxing Chamber of Commerce. This Baoxing Chamber of Commerce is a leading large-scale chamber of commerce in our area. , the headquarters is on Crescent Island, and we have a branch in Xingang, in Duanji Mountain at the junction of Wu and Qi.”

"This branch is located in the largest market in Xingang. They sell everything we don't have in Xingang. They are shipped from other islands. All high-level monks in Xingang, whether they are from our sect, Shuiyun sect or Qingyang sect, , including some high-level casual cultivators and even Demon Sect cultivators, all trade in Duanjishanfang Market.”

"As for the guards in Fangshi! They are naturally members of the Chamber of Commerce, but just like you and me, they are the lowest-ranking people in their respective forces."

Tang Ning was quite fascinated by what he heard, and even wanted to go there to see it now. He had joined the sect since he was a boy and had not left the sect for more than 20 years. Before that, he had read the map of the world in the Sutra Pavilion. , from where he learned that the place he was in was only a drop in the ocean compared to the world, but he had never experienced it in detail.

Seeing that he was a little lost in thought, Yi Tianxing smiled and said: "Look, I just kept talking and forgot about the real thing. Junior Brother Tang, according to regulations, sect disciples enjoy a 10% discount when purchasing items in their own shops. Please show me your sect token!”

Tang Ning handed him the wooden plaque on her body. This was the identity certificate of a sect disciple. The wooden plaque contained all kinds of information about the disciple, including portrait, name, position, etc. It could be known with just one look with the spiritual sense. Otherwise, it was just A set of Qian Yizong costumes can't explain anything. Anyone can easily imitate dozens of them.