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Chapter 42 - Chapter 42: Shopping(3)

The outer layer is then made using spider silk whose toughness is equal to a high-grade defense shield.

This bag also has anti-scratch, auto-clean functions engraved onto it.

You can use it by opening the bag's mouth, placing the item at the opening, and using your divine consciousness to take in or eject the item after imprinting your soul breath onto it.

Ray followed the shopkeeper's instructions imprinted his soul breath on the bag and got the hang of the bag usage after trying a few times.

After talking with the shopkeeper for a few more minutes Ray took Lily's hand then said goodbye and left the shop.

The shopkeeper watched as Ray left the shop and went upstairs after instructing the waiters to receive guests.

He then went straight to the third floor instead of the second floor where his office is located and knocked on the only Room present on the floor.

After knocking he didn't enter the room immediately but waited for a few minutes, only after hearing the permission to enter did the shopkeeper respectively enter the room and see a young lady sitting at the table and checking the accounts of the shop with concentration.

She lifted her head and saw it was the shopkeeper who had come into the room and asked his business.

"Miss, we had an unusual customer visit our shop to buy some space storage bags." The shopkeeper without any suspense started talking about his purpose while describing Ray.

"He said he is an individual cultivator who has come to our city this morning."

'What's peculiar about him is he came into our shop with no space bags with him and when asked he said they were damaged during his adventure in the wild."

"He also wore the clothes he had just bought from the clothes shop of our city cultivators, at least he had spent 300 low-grade spirit stones just this day collectively in the clothes store and our store."

"He looks quite young and quite strong as I couldn't observe his cultivation level both him and the little girl behind him."

"I thought I should let you know as the lord's mansion has decreed, that we must record the details of any unknown persons in the city and keep a close eye on their activities."

"Originally, I would have gone to the city lord's mansion to inform you but as you are here in the shop today checking the accounts I thought I might report you now."

The shopkeeper spoke and waited for the young lady's reply.

She listened to his explanation and replied "ok, record his details and picture if possible and send them to my office, our men will keep an eye on him during his stay in our city."

"Ok, young lady." The shopkeeper agreed and left the room.

The young lady didn't take the incident seriously as there are dozens of cultivators in the inner city who have reached late qi training in the city, one more extra won't make any difference and let the matter aside and started checking the details of the shop account seriously.

"Recently, Father has been frequently going out to hunt monsters to earn more spirit stones since the family spirit vein cannot support our cultivation."

"But even he hunts the monsters to collect spirit stones they are just a drop in a bucket to improve the spirit vein of our mountain to level two high grade."

"According to the statistics we need at least 300,000 to 700,000 low-grade spirit stones to increase the spiritual energy on the family mountain and increase the grade of spirit vein to second level high grade."

"We now have about 300,000 spirit stones in our treasury and with the maintenance of the family spirit mountain, the city operation cost negates almost all the profits we gain from the city taxes and the shops."

"Even if we operate for 100 more years, we can't earn another 500.000 spirit stones with regular operation."

"And after 100 years, we don't know if our family still exists after not progressing for such a long time."

"If Father misjudges any operation during his hunt and gets injured it will aggravate our family situation"

"And I need to buy a foundation pill from the auction which is conducted in the first-rate city this end of the year which might cost 100,000 to 200,000 spirit stones."

A million spirit stones, we can't even earn them unless we sell the city, but the city is our primary source for collecting resources and there won't be anyone out there who will buy a city from us in a place where there is no resource except for wild beast roaming in the wilderness.

Anyway, I have to ask Father to conduct an internal auction in our city with advanced knowledge such as top-tier inheritance for qi period cultivators before the auction in the first-tier city.

And collect as many as spirit coins, but the problem is the jade pavilion if we conduct an auction in the jade pavilion, they will take a cut in the auction items amount after they are sold, which will cause a loss for us who are in dire need of the spirit stones.

Anyway, we didn't invite them to our city to establish their auction house. They even blackmailed my father with a limit-breaking pill and forced him to sell the land in the city just to get the rights to purchase the pill.

They don't even pay taxes for the city after earning money in our city.

"This time I will have to convince my father to conduct an auction while excluding the jade pavilion."

"Anyway, we cultivators are trying to go against the heavens by practicing immortality why should we take a step back and fear others when conducting an auction in our city," she thought to herself.

After gathering the general details of the shop's operation, she packed her things, secured the account books in her space bag, left her room, and headed back to the City Lord's mansion.

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