"The newcomers should be familiar with the Welcome Pavilion, but they don't know much about the outside, so I'm going to call them out and go to the eastern market to familiarize themselves with the environment. After all, this is our duty as the steward." Meng Jueguang said faintly.
"Senior Brother Meng is right." The Bitter Senior Brother nodded in agreement. The steward took the newcomers to familiarize themselves with the surrounding environment. This was an annual practice. It was not surprising that Meng Jueguang mentioned this at this time.
"En, since Junior Brother Lin is already here, Bitter Senior Brother, you take him to the market and wait for us. I will call the other newcomers." Meng Jueguang instructed.
"Ugh … Senior Brother Meng, why don't I call the newcomers?" The Bitter Senior Brother asked carefully.
Generally speaking, this kind of hard work of running errands was his job. Otherwise, why would he be called Bitter Senior Brother? He was already used to it. However, this time, Meng Jueguang was going to personally run the errands to call the newcomers. Did the sun rise from the west?
Unexpectedly, Meng Jueguang waved his hand and glanced at Lin Yi next to him and said, "No, you should take our strongest newcomer there first, so that you don't waste his precious time. Hehe!"
As he said this, without waiting for the Bitter Senior Brother to speak again, Meng Jueguang took Meng Tong and left.
The Bitter Senior Brother looked at the back of the two people and couldn't help but mutter, "Senior Brother Meng's style today feels a little different from before."
Lin Yi also shook his head. Although Meng Jueguang mocked him just now, he actually didn't take this opportunity to make him follow the Bitter Senior Brother to run errands. This was indeed a bit strange. According to normal logic, even if he couldn't make himself suffer any substantial loss, he could always use this opportunity to disgust himself. With Meng Jueguang's temper, how could he easily let it go?
Lin Yi and Senior Brother Bitter looked at each other. They couldn't think of a reason at the moment, so they could only follow Meng Jueguang's instructions and go to the market square to wait for them.
Although Lin Yi had just been to the market, in order to not give himself away, he had to pretend that it was his first time here. After all, with his original appearance, this was indeed the first time he had come to this market.
The two of them waited at the entrance of the market for a while. Then, they saw Meng Jueguang leading a group of newcomers from afar. As for Meng Tong, he seemed to have fallen behind because of something and had to jog all the way to catch up. He gave Meng Jueguang a look, and Meng Jueguang nodded in understanding.
Xiao Ran and Qiao Hongcai were also in the crowd. After seeing Senior Brother Bitter and Lin Yi, they were relieved as if they had found an organization. They came up to greet the two of them and looked around curiously.
Seeing the bustling market, Li Tianlan's heart sank. The group of newcomers' faces were all filled with excitement. Although the markets in the secular world were a hundred times livelier than this, it must be known that this was a market for cultivators. Everyone who came in and out was at least a Heaven Stage expert. The goods here, whether it was martial arts, medicinal pills, or all kinds of heavenly treasures, were all things that could not be bought in other places. There was no comparison between the two at all.
Although these newcomers only had a piece of spiritual jade in their hands. It was basically impossible to buy anything in this market. However, the purpose of bringing them out was not to shop, but to familiarize themselves with the environment. Therefore, Meng Jueguang still patiently introduced a lot of the rules of the market to them.
Of course, Meng Jueguang wasn't so kind. He just let these disciples think that he was knowledgeable and admired him. Otherwise, this coolie would have long become bitter.
However, this was a great benefit to Lin Yi. After all, he had concealed his identity when he came. Although he had strolled around a few times, he didn't know much about the specific rules of the market. Now that he had heard Meng Jueguang's introduction, he had a rough idea of how to do business here.
In this market. Although there were many cases of bartering, it was rare. After all, it was rare for both parties to trade to be interested in each other's things. Moreover, the value of both parties had to be similar. This situation was still very rare. Most of the time, transactions between each other relied on the common currency, spiritual jades.
This was also very easy to understand. First, spiritual jades were very common on this Heavenly Island. Second, spiritual jades were precious and were of great use to all cultivators. Except for special cases like Lin Yi who had a jade pendant space, basically, even the higher-level experts still relied on spiritual jades for cultivation. Therefore, there was no risk of devaluation. Over time, it became the common currency for transactions between each other. This was also a matter of course.
However, even if everyone admitted that spiritual jades were the common currency, there were still some things to pay attention to. The most important thing was the quality and volume of the spiritual jades.
The so-called quality of spiritual jades was to look at the concentration of spiritual energy in the spiritual jades.
According to the rules of the market, the spiritual jades used for transactions must be unused spiritual jades. Once someone was found to use their own spiritual jades to trade as new spiritual jades, the management of the market would impose a heavy punishment. The purpose was to prevent people from taking advantage of this loophole to fish in troubled waters and ruin the reputation of the market.
After all, for cultivators, the value of the spiritual jades and the spiritual jades that had been used were completely different. If they accidentally bought some spiritual jades that had used up most of their spiritual energy, wouldn't it be a huge loss for the seller? In addition, the waste jades in the spiritual jade mine with insufficient natural spiritual energy couldn't be taken out for use. If they were in the secular world, they would simply be natural counterfeit banknotes.
As for the volume of spiritual jades, it was even easier to understand. Even if the concentration of spiritual energy in the world was the same, if the volume was different, the value of the spiritual jades would naturally be higher or lower.
Generally speaking, the price of spiritual jades in this market was based on the most common average size of spiritual jades. As for the egg-sized spiritual jade in Lin Yi's hand, the actual value could only be a little more than half a piece. People would only reluctantly accept it if three pieces were counted as two pieces. As for the large spiritual jades like Meng Tong's, even if one piece was counted as two pieces, people would still be very willing.
Of course, there was also a rule to pay attention to. That was, don't be dishonest and be the third hand. Once you were discovered by the patrolling management, it was a small matter to abolish your cultivation on the spot. Even if you were beaten to death, there would be no place to reason!
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