The Arrogant Immortal-Chapter 35 - Xie Jiuniangs flourishing career

Even the dried meat was almost sold out!

Cheng Huaixin and his companions were surprised, “Someone actually bought dried meat?”

“Why, want some?” Xie Jiuniang sized up the four, “If you don’t buy now, there won’t be any left in a while.”

“No, no thanks!”

Cheng Huaixin and the others shook their heads hastily.

They would rather starve than eat it!

Xie Jiuniang lamented, “You don’t know good stuff.”

The dried meat that nobody bought outside was actually the hottest selling item.

You can’t just rely on having enough Fasting Pills and not worry. You also need the capability to hold on to them.

As far as Xie Jiuniang knew, this year’s Sect Elder in charge of the examination was ruthless, arranging for over a thousand Inner Sect Disciples to disguise themselves among the crowd specifically to rob the newbies of their Fasting Pills.

As time went on, the further they went, the more difficult the road became; the number of people running out of supplies would only increase.

Business would only get better and better.

Because most of the participants came from families of good standing, they mostly focused on cultivation alone. Expecting them to provide for themselves with food and clothing?

Don’t make things hard for the kids; they just couldn’t figure it out.

This was Xie Jiuniang’s experience from her previous life.

What if they didn’t have enough Spirit Stones to pay?

As long as their spirits didn’t flag, there were always more solutions than difficulties. Either they could trade with Spirit Plants and materials, or they could add a ten percent interest fee to their debt and sign an IOU.

Sign their names and leave their handprints, clear and straightforward.

Of course, Xie Jiuniang wasn’t willing to let just anyone sign IOUs—only those with good reputations from her past life.

And she wholly rejected deadbeats.

At the same time, Xie Jiuniang also discovered.

Apart from Cheng Huaixin and Mo Chuan, no one else deliberately approached her.

Mo Chuan, having been tricked by her once, didn’t show up again; however, she had run into Gan Long and his sister. They had gotten separated from their team and were very happy to see her, buying two Bone Knives and various Talismans on the spot.

Surprisingly, after buying from her, Gan Long and his sister left without suggesting that they team up and travel together.

Could it be that Mo Chuan had given up?

Cheng Huaixin had only been standing there for a while when he saw three people trading with Xie Jiuniang, “Fellow Daoist Xie, I see your business is doing well.”

“Just so-so, fairly average, haha,” Xie Jiuniang feigned nonchalance, “What does Fellow Daoist Cheng want to buy this time?”

“Do you have any Insect-Repelling Talismans? I’ll take ten.”

“You’re lucky you came early, I only have about ten left.” Xie Jiuniang took out ten Insect-Repelling Talismans, “Among the Spirit Talismans, the Insect-Repelling Talisman sells the best.”

She accepted the Spirit Stones with inner delight.

In just the past seven days, she had sold nine-tenths of her small stockpile. She had originally planned to wait for her parents to open a small shop in the Sect Market to help with the sales.

Now, there was no need for any trouble.

The income from Spirit Stones was seventy to eighty thousand, and the miscellaneous items obtained in exchange were not few. The main thing was the high price, several times more than outside.

The dried meat was a business with no cost.

A single Wild Boar Demon could yield four to five hundred jin of dried meat. Selling a few would make a good sum of money. Moreover, during the examination period, there was no shortage of meat to be found, as many would kill Demonic Beasts and leave the carcasses where they fell.

It was practically meat picked up for free!

It was just that no one had ever managed to handle a Great Sect exam with so much leeway as Xie Jiuniang.

“Master, if I eat some more Spirit Stones, I might regain a bit of my memory, perhaps recalling some divine-level Cultivation Techniques or immortal-level swordsmanship…”

After several days of silence in the Contract Space, Jian Lingyan, seeing a pile of Spirit Stones, couldn’t help but want to freeload.

With the corners of her mouth slightly raised, Xie Jiuniang asked, “How many tens of thousands of Spirit Stones will it take before you can guarantee you’ll remember something?”

“Not sure, it’s a matter of probability…” Jian Lingyan said hesitantly.

“Then forget it. Just by looking at you, one can tell you’re a major resource consumer. My family business is small; I can’t afford to keep you.” It was better to use the Spirit Stones to improve her own Cultivation Base.

Thanks to the contract, Jian Lingyan could vaguely guess what Xie Jiuniang was thinking. It wanted to cry, whining in a milky voice, “I… I can help you work.”

“What can you do?”

“There’s a lot I can do. I can kill Demonic Beasts, find Spirit Plants, slice and dry meat.” Jian Lingyan was eager to prove its usefulness.

Xie Jiuniang spoke with disdain, “I’ve never seen you work. How would I know whether you can do it well or not?”

“I can give it a try first.”

“Fine, you can try tonight.”

Xie Jiuniang did not yet want to reveal the existence of Broken Sword. She could find a cave to rest in tonight, set up a Formation, and also casually let Jian Lingyan try working.

That evening, inside a mountain cave.

A Broken Sword was flying about busily working.

It was quite efficient at slicing raw meat.

Because its stingy master had said that half of the Spirit Stones earned from selling dried meat could be its own.

After working halfway, Jian Lingyan, still unsure, asked, “Stingy master, are you really going to give me half of the Spirit Stones we earn, not just tally them?”

“That’s right, what’s earned in a day is settled on that day, no tallies.” Xie Jiuniang was quite generous.

If you want the horse to run, you first have to let the horse eat.

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A thought struck Xie Jiuniang, and she found a quick method to produce dried meat by boiling the sliced meat in saltwater in a large pot.

Once boiled and taken out to lay on a rock, several Dust Cleansing Techniques were cast, and the meat was mostly dried.

Xie Jiuniang didn’t care whether the resulting dried meat was tasty or not. As long as it didn’t kill anyone, it was good enough. Then, she and the sword began their journey selling the dried meat.

Xie Jiuniang’s walking directions and routes were never fixed. Cheng Huaixin and the others couldn’t keep up with her and eventually gave up, focusing on the examination.

Ever since Jian Lingyan began to receive Spirit Stones each day, it worked like it was on steroids every night, extremely diligent and hardworking.

Xie Jiuniang’s business thrived even more.

It wasn’t just the examining disciples who knew of the little girl hawking dried meat everywhere; the news even spread wildly within the Sect.

Over a hundred Sect Disciples disguised as common ones also sought out Xie Jiuniang, the little cash cow, to make a move on, but she was elusive, always setting up Formations when resting and slipping away swiftly whenever she sensed someone watching.

Not one person managed to catch her.

These good days ended after twenty days into the examination.

Xie Jiuniang encountered a joint encirclement by a group of Inner Sect Disciples, wasting over thirty Explosive Talismans before she could escape.

“These people won’t act human! Bullying a girl like me, shameless!”

“It’s probably because I’ve earned too much and garnered attention…”

Xie Jiuniang cursed inwardly as she ran.

The Inner Sect Disciples who had surrounded her were also in a sorry state, all with dusty and dirty faces.

Where had this little tycoon sprung from?

The Spirit Talismans on her seemed inexhaustible no matter how many were used?!