Chapter 178 Shop Rental
In terms of strength alone, a "Soul Devouring Ant" may not be considered strong, and cultivators of the same level can easily defeat it.
But it does not mean that the value of this kind of spiritual beast is low. In the wild, having a "Soul Devouring Ant" by your side can not only help guard against dangers around, but also enter some dangerous places that cultivators cannot enter, which has extraordinary significance.
What's more, the strength of a "Soul Devouring Ant" is indeed not strong, but if there are five or even more than a dozen Soul Devouring Ants to assist, it can also greatly improve its strength.
At least, in the battle with cultivators of the same level, it can improve the winning rate a lot.
Therefore, all formations and spiritual beasts will be auctioned directly in just a few seconds once they are put on the auction table.
After only two cups of tea, almost all the finale auction items were sold out, but it still could not satisfy the appetite of the cultivators present.
Faced with this situation, Wei Hanshan also took control of the situation in time at the signal of Zhou Daocheng, and promised that from now on, Wugu will sell formations and spiritual beasts "Soul Devouring Ants" for a long time.
This promise not only made everyone present feel at ease, but also raised the status of Wugu Market in everyone's mind.
In the eyes of many people, the level of Wugu Market has even surpassed Baihe Market.
How much can a market that can sell a large number of formations and spirit beasts do, no matter how weak it is?
In the end, the appearance of the Ningling Pill completely raised the atmosphere of the entire auction venue to the climax.
Compared with the first two finale auction items, the Ningling Pill is undoubtedly more significant.
Formations and spirit beasts are only auxiliary means after all, at most allowing them to have higher efficiency and greater sense of security when hunting wild beasts in normal times.
But the Ningling Pill does give them the possibility of breaking through the foundation.
For casual cultivators and small families, it is almost impossible to collect 50,000 or 60,000 spirit stones to buy a foundation pill.
Especially for casual cultivators, even if they try their best, it is absolutely impossible to accumulate so many spirit stones.
Most casual cultivators at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining are also helpless when facing the bottleneck of foundation building.
On the one hand, they really couldn't afford the foundation-building pills, and on the other hand, they didn't have the courage to break through without the foundation-building pills, so they could only let themselves be over 70 years old, and never have the chance to break through to the foundation-building stage in their lifetime.
For example, Wei Hanshan, he was over 70 years old, his meridians were rigid, and his strength began to decline. For him, the road had ended, and it was almost impossible to break through again.
There were also some people who would risk their own death and force a breakthrough to the foundation-building stage. They might succeed, but in most cases, they would die completely during the breakthrough.
Although the Ningling Pill only increased the probability of a breakthrough by one level, it was still an opportunity that could only be encountered but not sought for by many casual cultivators.
Therefore, as soon as the three Ningling Pills appeared, they were immediately scrambled by everyone, and they were all powerful people at the ninth level of Qi Refining.
Even among the bidders, Zhou Daocheng saw Xie Zhouhe, Liu Chengzhou, Yuan Zhong and others.
For them, breaking through the foundation-building stage was also a huge threshold. If they could have the Ningling Pill, they could also increase the success rate a lot.
Until the end, three foundation-building pills were won by three Qi-refining ninth-level masters.
They were Xie Zhouhe, an unknown casual cultivator, and a patriarch of a small family.
When the auction ended, many people were still reluctant to leave.
But the end of the auction did not mean the end of the opening of the market. For many powerful casual cultivators and small families with certain power, today's transactions have just begun.
The auction was just an opening, and the sale and rental of shops in the market was the real climax of today.
A huge market could not be completely controlled by Zhou Daocheng alone. It also needed to cooperate with other powerful people and settle in it for common development.
In the market, most of the small shops near the periphery could be rented directly, and the price was relatively cheap. Even many casual cultivators and forces with average strength could barely afford to rent.
For example, the Xu family, where the third aunt Zhou Shoulan was, emptied all the spirit stones on their bodies and barely bought a small shop, which was considered to be a complete home in the Wugu Market.
There are many similar small families. They are generally weak and have insufficient funds. They try their best to buy a shop with the idea of taking root and multiplying here.
Zhou Daocheng is very happy to accept such small families because they have no complicated background relationships and no messy little thoughts. They just want to survive.
Therefore, even if many small families cannot afford the spirit stones, Zhou Daocheng will allow them to buy on credit and repay slowly in the future.
If they really can't pay, it's okay to expel them directly in the future.
Near the center, the shops here are larger and more valuable, so they can't be rented easily. They need to cooperate with the high-level officials of the market.
For example, the Spirit Snake Sect directly connected with Zhou Daocheng and sold a large shop with an extremely advantageous location at an ultra-low price of 1 spirit stone a year.
There are also Wei Hanshan, Xie Zhouhe, Liu Chengzhou, Yuan Zhong, and female monks, each of whom is assigned two shops, which can be operated by themselves or rented.
At the same time, Zhou Daocheng himself also left a few large shops with very good geographical locations. He planned to open some shops for himself and leave some for the Zhou family.
After the market settled down, he planned to let the Zhou family develop here.
Although the environment of Shenlin Mountain is good, it has been far away from the market for a long time and lacks development opportunities, so the development prospects are not enough.
And Wugu Market is definitely a better choice for the family.
In addition, there are some small families with strong strength or proficiency in immortal cultivation techniques, which are also interested in entering Wugu for development.
In this regard, Zhou Daocheng did not agree to all of them, but asked Wei Lao to conduct in-depth investigation and screening, and select families with relatively clean backgrounds to settle in.
Especially for families proficient in immortal cultivation techniques, their backgrounds must be confirmed again and again.
And in terms of quantity, Zhou Daocheng also gave strict requirements:
In the entire Wugu Market, the number of forces for each immortal cultivation technique must not exceed two.
Zhou Daocheng is a cultivator who grew up in the family, so he knows more about the competition between families. In many cases, the more people there are, the better the competitive atmosphere.
Once there are more wolves and less meat, all kinds of unscrupulous competition will appear, and it is easy to disrupt the market, which is extremely unfavorable for a market, and it is also not conducive to Zhou Daocheng's control of them.
So in the end, Wei Lao and Zhou Daocheng discussed again and again, and after layers of screening, a total of two forces were accepted to settle in Wugu.
The "Xiaodan Pavilion" that is proficient in alchemy was also a foundation-building force a hundred years ago, but because of an accidental loss of foundation-building inheritance, it became a force in the Qi-refining period.
Later, it joined Baihe Market, but was oppressed again, so it had to leave and left. It has become more and more destitute in recent years.
Taking this opportunity, it tried to develop in Wugu Market, and Zhou Daocheng also agreed.
The other one is the Wang family that is proficient in talismans. It is a small family established by casual cultivators. There are three talisman masters in the family, and their identities are also very clean.
