"Old Master Nan, if you work hard, there's still hope for you to reach the Exalted realm," Mo Tiankong said to Nanyang with a smile.
He was certain that he would reach the Martial Monarch realm. Right now, he was a rank eight Martial King. With the Five Elements Marble, he would be able to make a breakthrough as long as he accumulated enough Origin Energy to reach rank nine. As for the path of the five elements, with the Five Elements Marble, there would be no bottleneck for him to make a breakthrough.
"Old Master Nan, I won't disturb you any longer," Mo Tiankong said after the transaction.
After buying the items, Mo Tiankong didn't want to stay any longer. After all, he still had a mission. He had to go check out the other shops. If he delayed too long, he would waste more time to complete the mission.
If there really weren't too many shops, Mo Tiankong could only think of other ways.
"Store Manager Mo, why don't you come to my place for a drink?" Nanyang said.
"Thank you for your kindness, Old Master Nan. However, it's my first time in Songcheng, so I want to go out for a stroll. If there's a chance next time, I'll disturb you," Mo Tiankong declined.
The time for the mission was still very tight. If it was to go out for a stroll, Mo Tiankong definitely wouldn't refuse. However, he really wasn't in the mood now. Auspicious was a little restless after hearing this.
However, Mo Tiankong stopped her. She only knows how to eat, eat, and eat. Why didn't she eat enough in the Gao family? He grabbed her and rubbed her in his hand.
This small size was not bad to the touch. No wonder Luo Ruo sometimes couldn't bear to put her down. She was really good at acting cute. If she revealed her true form, she wouldn't be small anymore.
However, Auspicious had a good background. As she couldn't speak, Mo Tiankong didn't know what she inherited when she reached the Martial Emperor realm.
He didn't know whether it was an inheritance or the System, but there wasn't much difference. She must have mastered some martial skills or something.
Nanyang didn't want to keep Mo Tiankong anymore. He didn't know when the next time would be. However, since he said so, there was no need to keep him.
"Okay, then you must come to our place next time," Old Master Nan said with a smile.
He was just being courteous and saying it out of courtesy.
"Then I'll take my leave first," Mo Tiankong said as he got up and went downstairs.
Nanyang also walked him all the way to the entrance of the shop before turning around to enter the shop.
'Damn … This old man is pretty good, including the aspect of keeping his promise and the time we spent together.'
Of course, it was not easy to judge a person in such a short amount of time. After all, they had only met twice and did not know much about each other. But in any case, they had done as he said. They were not like the Northern Qi Merchant Guild, who acted one way on the surface and another behind their backs.
The reason for this was mainly because of the Gao Clan. The transaction was in the Gao Clan's territory, so there weren't many concerns. If the seventeen companies really joined forces and claimed that it was their own, Mo Tiankong wouldn't be able to do anything.
Of course, this was the understanding of these companies. In fact, Mo Tiankong really did have a way. He just needed to blacklist them. If they were blacklisted, all the items they had bought now would lose their effect.
This meant that the purchased Spirit Stones would be wasted. After that, the items sold would be ineffective. Then, there would be something to look forward to.
The martial artists who bought the items would probably be able to tear down a few shops. If they were added to the blacklist, would the Spirit Stones they had bought previously be deducted from the turnover?
After all, if the items were ineffective, they definitely wouldn't be considered sold. If things went wrong, the turnover of these Spirit Stones would really be reduced.
Mo Tiankong wasn't too sure. If such a thing really happened, it would be a bit of a loss. He had a 10% share of the profits. This transaction had a lot of Spirit Stones. The seventeen companies had a turnover of almost 50 million Spirit Stones.
Fortunately, not every company was like this. Now, he didn't know how many companies were not doing proper business.
Thinking about this, Mo Tiankong continued to walk forward. After about five minutes, he arrived at the Changxing Company's shop.
After walking into the shop, Mo Tiankong pretended to buy items as usual and then asked about some items. The shop also had items from the grocery store on display.
Hearing the introduction of martial artists after entering the shop was good news. The Changxing Company had kept their promise and introduced the origin of the items.
In fact, martial artists didn't have to know about the grocery store. It was enough to just have a concept. Even if the origin was introduced, it was only to give these martial artists an idea that the items came from the Aquamarine Empire's grocery store.
After a meal, people would know where the items came from when they talked about it. This was also a kind of publicity. In fact, this was also how the reputation points came about.
If it was based on the number of martial artists who entered the shop, the number of items on display was actually not that many. There were thousands or tens of thousands of items. If it was based on the number of martial artists who bought the items, and the population of Pine City and the population of the Xiu Mi Empire, these tens of thousands of people were far from enough to earn 1% of the reputation points.
The main thing was to discuss the items sold and inform relatives and friends. One person would inform the relatives and friends around them. If the items were really good, they would really inform them.
Especially after they bought it, they would definitely use it. When the time came and it was effective, they would definitely inform them. After all, if the items were sold in the shop, even if people didn't buy them, the news would spread after a long time.
It was better to tell them themselves. This way, the news would spread very quickly. Most of the news in the Tianxuan Continent was also spread this way.
There were no television advertisements or the like here. It could only be spread by word of mouth. Of course, it wouldn't be too slow to tell the truth.
Because of the items, if the items were good, the news would definitely spread quickly. If the news spread in the city, like the news of a divine beast for sale, most of the martial artists in the city would know in less than a day.
Similarly, the items in the grocery store were also good stuff. Many of the items were monopolized. For example, the array masters of the continent were still unable to set up teleportation arrays. Otherwise, the teleportation era would have started long ago.
Of course, the System might change the item to sell. After all, if the System wanted to earn spirit stones, it had to take out some good stuff. Otherwise, it wouldn't attract people.
If it sold elixirs like in the Tianxuan Continent, there wouldn't be any business if the items on the continent were sold in the grocery store. Unless the price was much lower, martial artists would still be used to buying from familiar shops. There was a guarantee of effectiveness.
After listening for a while, Mo Tiankong walked out of the store. It was enough to confirm the origin of the item. As for the price and so on, it was up to him to decide.
It was equivalent to asking someone to do something for him. It was necessary to give them some benefits. Otherwise, why would they work so hard for him?
As for the price of the items being sold at double the original price, the trading companies should have discussed it beforehand.
The trading companies had their own rules of the game. Even if they didn't want to sell the items at such a high price, they would still do so for the sake of unifying and not destroying everyone's interests.
Unless they could deal with the majority of the trading companies, they still had to abide by the rules of the game. There was no way around it. It could only be said that there were checks and balances.
The current situation was that two of the trading companies kept their promise. There were two trading companies that didn't. Mo Tiankong was still considering whether to punish these trading companies and add them to the blacklist. The main thing was that he didn't know how many trading companies didn't do anything.
When the sky turned dark, Mo Tiankong finally finished visiting all the shops that he had bought the items from. After walking along the main street, he found that most of the shops were still on the main street. As for the other streets, he also walked some.
These trading companies didn't only have shops on the main street. There were also many shops on other streets. Mo Tiankong also visited all of them.
That was why it was so late. Moreover, he had to run. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to finish visiting all of them. With a radius of six hundred miles, if he walked slowly, he wouldn't be able to finish visiting all of them in a few days. Especially when he was at the South Sun Trading Company, he also wasted some time.
The remaining time was also quite tight. If many trading companies didn't state the source of the items, it would affect the mission time. If he didn't clear things up today, the mission time would be delayed again.
After he finished shopping, Mo Tiankong also started to walk back. Of the 17 trading companies that bought the items from the shop, 10 of them did as Mo Tiankong said. The other 7 companies didn't put in any effort. They only put the items on display but didn't state the source.
Mo Tiankong was full of anger. These people were really too much. He gave them benefits but they didn't do it properly. Did they really think that he was doing charity?
At least for these 7 trading companies, Mo Tiankong wasn't going to continue supplying them. He simply didn't buy much. When he was shopping in the afternoon, some of the shops were almost sold out.
These trading companies didn't take out items like the Five Element Marbles. Items like the Wangzai Thousand Island Lake beer were very popular and the price wasn't too unacceptable.
After all, Songcheng had more mid-level warriors than other cities, so there were more warriors who could afford to buy. Most of the trading companies didn't buy much on their first purchase.
For example, when Old Master Nanyang encountered it, he would purchase a lot more items the second time around. Furthermore, most of the items were cheap. Almost every time he purchased an item like Baduanjin, he would buy a set and keep it for his own use.
He bought a lot of things like the Wangzai. It was enough to keep the shops selling for a while.
As he thought about it, Mo Tiankong opened the mission panel. His reputation with Xiumi Empire hadn't reached 1% yet. It was still slow. Even if the 10 shops introduced the source of the items, the speed of spread was still very slow.
However, it had something to do with the fact that the items were put on display last night. No matter how long it took to spread word of mouth, it still took some time. Today was the second day in Songcheng. If he couldn't complete it by tomorrow, Mo Tiankong would be anxious.
To be honest, he could still wait for two days. When he set out, he had already planned out the entire duration of the mission. Basically, excluding the time spent on the road, he could still stay in an empire for about three to four days. If he was fast, he could complete the mission in three days.
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