owlsbooks Chapter 33 Shop Business Declines
Chapter 33 Shop Business Declines
"Of course! In fact, if there are enough spiritual materials, I can complete this task in three months at most."
"I can even achieve a 70-80% success rate in refining spiritual items, and a 20-30% success rate in refining superior, high-quality items."
Upon hearing this, Ye Xuan'an was somewhat puzzled, but he spoke sincerely.
"Excellent, excellent. If you can achieve this level of skill, I'm afraid the stuff you can refine will be much stronger than those two bastards, Huang Che and his wife. At that time, we can completely suppress them and find an opportunity to break the deadlock."
Qiu Yang, the old drunkard, was immediately delighted.
"That's actually quite possible."
Li Dong belatedly realized what was happening and exclaimed excitedly.
Subsequently, he and Qiu Yang considered Ye Xuan'an's formidable talent, and also saw Ye Xuan'an as their lifeline.
They then planned to use all their resources to help Ye Xuan'an collect spiritual materials and hone his skills.
The time limit is three months.
During this period, Ye Xuan'an will receive at least three hundred sets of materials for refining weapons and arrays.
Moreover, Ye Xuan'an can devote himself to this matter in seclusion without having to worry about anything else.
However, they have one small condition.
During this period, Ye Xuan'an was required to hand over some of the magical artifacts he crafted to the shop, based on a 50% success rate, to cover the expenses related to spiritual materials.
"By the way, if this matter succeeds, and you help the shop turn its business around, we can make it so that all the spiritual materials you purchase from the shop in the future will be discounted by 50%."
Knowing that Ye Xuan'an was fast at refining weapons and arrays and had a high demand for spiritual materials, Qiu Yang and the other man offered him generous rewards to increase his enthusiasm.
At the same time, they also intended to take this opportunity to completely bind geniuses like Ye Xuan'an to their own shop.
After all, if a genius like Ye Xuan'an were to leave the shop in the future, it would be a huge loss for the shop.
"A 50% discount? And you can get a large amount of spiritual materials as support?"
"This is truly a wonderful thing."
Upon hearing this, Ye Xuan'an was overjoyed.
After all, although he often uses spiritual materials to hone his skills, he also needs to refine some innate magical artifacts and other things to earn profits and purchase spiritual materials.
As a result, his energy was more or less diverted.
If he could focus solely on honing his skills without worrying about the availability of spiritual materials, his progress would likely be extremely rapid.
This is great news.
In addition, the spiritual materials are extremely cheap at half price; if a shop were to sell spiritual materials to him at such a low price, it would definitely lose money.
Furthermore, he would purchase at least ten or twenty sets of materials for refining weapons and creating formations each month.
If it's discounted by 50%, it could save you nearly a hundred, or even over a hundred, spirit stones.
This is no small sum; it's enough to save a lot of spirit stones.
Therefore, Ye Xuan'an was extremely interested in Qiu Yang and the other person's idea.
"The benefits you two have given are truly great."
Therefore, I can agree to this matter.
Upon hearing this, Ye Xuan'an quickly smiled and agreed.
"Alright, then it's settled."
Qiu Yang and his companion were immediately overjoyed.
After careful consideration, they took out a Yuanhun Contract and signed a three-month agreement with Ye Xuan'an.
Immediately afterwards, they left the shop and quickly obtained a large amount of spiritual materials for refining first-grade low-level Fiery Flying Swords and great formations through various channels.
In addition, Zhou Shan and others also acquired a batch some time ago.
They managed to gather three hundred sets of materials for refining weapons and arrays for Ye Xuan'an.
"The efficiency with which they gather these spiritual items is truly astonishing."
Upon seeing this, Ye Xuan'an was startled.
After all, ordinary people don't have the ability to gather spiritual objects.
Even for ordinary people, it would be considered quite good if they could obtain three sets of materials for refining weapons and arrays in a short period of time.
Moreover, such items are extremely valuable, even roughly estimated to be worth at least several thousand spirit stones.
"Young friend Xuan'an, everything is up to you. This batch of spiritual materials is practically our last reserves."
Qiu Yang and the other person expressed their hopes.
"Rest assured, both of you, I will do my utmost to hone my skills."
Ye Xuan'an nodded solemnly.
He then immediately bid farewell to Qiu Yang and the other man, and returned to the quiet room in the courtyard to cultivate his skills with the help of the spiritual materials.
Every now and then, he would give Qiu Yang and the other person some of the magical artifacts and formations he had crafted, based on a 50% success rate.
They would then sell the surplus in shops to make a profit.
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But as time went on...
In the blink of an eye.
Three months have passed.
Meanwhile, the weapon-refining shop next door opened successfully and was named Xiuche Weapon-Refining Shop.
Because Huang Che and his wife were highly skilled in crafting magical artifacts, and they also hired servants who would intentionally or unintentionally mention the high quality of their artifacts when someone visited the Dongyang Array Artifact Shop.
Therefore, it stole a lot of business from Dongyang's weapon shop and even developed rapidly.
In addition, it can be transmitted from person to person.
This attracted many customers, and business was booming.
now.
Inside Xiuche's weapon-refining shop.
"My husband, your idea of opening a shop here was truly brilliant. I never imagined that in just a few months, we would have opened a shop to this extent."
"Moreover, this is probably not the limit of the shop's business. If this continues, it will probably not take more than a few years for us to purchase a large number of spiritual materials and hone our weapon-refining skills to the mid-grade level of the first rank."
Seeing the bustling crowds at their shop, Huang Che's Daoist partner, Zhao Xiu, beamed with joy and couldn't help but say something to the smiling Huang Che.
"That is indeed a chance, but it's only the beginning."
"Once we've accumulated some capital through that shop next year, we can try to leverage the profits to hire other weapon refiners. At that time, we can earn even more."
Huang Che's face was full of wicked smiles.
"My husband is wise."
Zhao Xiu said with a smile.
"That's right."
After laughing a few times, Huang Che and Zhao Xiu continued refining weapons.
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the other side.
Recently, the business of Dongyang Array Weapon Shop has been declining due to the impact of the epidemic.
It has even decreased by nearly 50% now.
And it continues to decline.
Perhaps in a few months, it will fall below 30%.
By then, it will probably be difficult to sell more than a dozen magical artifacts a month, and the profits will probably only be enough to cover the shop rent. It would be more profitable to sell magical artifacts at a street stall.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the entire Dongyang Array Weapon Shop became somewhat somber.
Inside the shop.
"Although, young friend Xuan'an has increased the probability of refining Fiery Flying Swords and formations quite a bit recently, and the probability often hovers around 60%, 70% or 80%, it is difficult to stabilize at 70% or 80%, and it is still a little short."
"And the March appointment is approaching, and it is unknown whether they will be able to cross that line."
Li Dong and Qiu Yang were both extremely worried.
"Alas! All our hopes rest on Fellow Daoist Xuan'an."
Shopkeeper Li Cui sighed because business was slow and after hearing about her grandfather Li Dong's feelings.
"Brother Xuan'an, keep it up!"
Zhang Fu kept encouraging Ye Xuan'an in his heart.
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at the same time.
Shop, backyard.
A quiet room.
Ye Xuan'an was sitting cross-legged here refining a weapon.
Flames soared into the sky all around, filling the air with a thick, intense heat.
As time went by, he continuously crafted one first-grade low-level Fiery Flying Sword and Fiery Array after another.
But he was still not satisfied with this.
"The success rate of refining is still unstable, and we have also encountered bottlenecks in refining superior high-quality magic weapons and formations."
"We must keep pushing harder."
Ye Xuan'an frowned and continued his frantic refining process.
The magical artifacts and formations around him also increased.
The spiritual materials he possessed were dwindling.
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