Hearing the invitation from Zhou Lan, Zhong Yao, and Jing Hao, Yu Qingtan smiled and said, "I won't be going this ti. After my Foundation Establishnt, once I have paid respects to my master, I'll find ti to go."
"That's fine!" Shi Kuang said.
"Many thanks to Lady Xueying, the City Lord, and all the friends from Tianxiang Immortal City. Our quartet's exchange eting has officially ended. Thank you!"
After Shi Kuang gave his speech, everyone started to leave the square, including Miss Xie Yun of the Xies, who felt sowhat disheartened.
Lady Xueying turned into a streak of escape light and left, while the Four Talents directly followed Yu Qingtan, Xiang Ru, and Xiang Yu back to the Raoliang Tea House.
Xiang Ru was so excited that she almost tripped over when entering the door.
Back in the building, Yu Qingtan generously taught Jing Hao the knowledge of light and shadow in sketching and the rule of halves and taught the running script calligraphy to Zhong Yao.
The Four Talents stayed at the Raoliang Tea House for ten days, deeply exchanging knowledge in zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting with Yu Qingtan, and occasionally Shi Kuang would play the zither for her during business hours.
From then on, the Raoliang Tea House was packed with guests every day.
After ten days, the Four Talents went back to the All-World Academy, having gained a lot in Tianxiang Immortal City, they decided not to continue their exchanges elsewhere.
Yu Qingtan then discovered that one more person had been added to her list of devotees, Shi Kuang.
"No wonder when Jing Hao jokingly suggested that Shi Kuang should also take
as his master, Shi Kuang refused outright; he must not have wanted to have the embarrassnt of surpassing his master," Yu Qingtan mused sowhat speechlessly.
"However, having Foundation Establishnt late-stage cultivator Shi Kuang add 60 affection points directly to myself is still very pleasing!"
...
One month later, Yu Qingtan received an invitation.
It was sent by Deacon ng Xiyao from the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.
It turned out that not long ago, ng Xiyao had also been transferred from Suichuan Immortal City to Tianxiang Immortal City. She invited Yu Qingtan because she had heard of Yu Qingtan's various performances in Tianxiang Immortal City and wanted to hold a solo performance there.
Yu Qingtan gladly accepted.
If it weren't for ng Xiyao's invitation, she would have wanted to approach Hundred Treasures Pavilion herself.
After all, upon becoming a first-rank guest scholar of Hundred Treasures Pavilion, she was obliged to hold solo performance etings wherever there was a Hundred Treasures Pavilion branch and the Pavilion would organize it, with the earnings, eighty percent of which would go to her.
Now that she was sowhat famous in Tianxiang Immortal City, it was ti to "reap the harvest."
After consultations with ng Xiyao, Yu Qingtan's solo performance eting in Tianxiang Immortal City was successfully held for five days.
The reason was that Tianxiang Immortal City had an imnsely huge performance venue that could accommodate a hundred thousand people at a ti.
The schedule for the performance eting was basically the sa as that in Suichuan Immortal City, but this ti there were chess and calligraphy performances too.
The performance still adopted a free reservation system and a tipping system, with approximately four hundred and seventy thousand cultivators of the Immortal City watching.
Yu Qingtan earned eight hundred and twenty thousand Spirit Stones in tips, four hundred thousand charm points, and about seven hundred affection points.
On the last day of the performance eting, Yu Qingtan announced that all her Spirit Stone inco would be used for mortgage loans, with an interest rate of 0.5%.
Indeed, the mortgage sche proposed by Yu Qingtan in Suichuan Immortal City had spread, and most Immortal Cities that knew about it had implented it.
Unfortunately, the mortgage interest rates were higher than one; for example, Tianxiang Immortal City's was at 1.7%, so there were still a large number of loose cultivators living in slums outside of Tianxiang Immortal City.
The outskirts of Tianxiang Immortal City were not that dangerous, so only about one-tenth of slum-dwelling loose cultivators chose to take out mortgage loans and move into the city.
Yu Qingtan handed over the matter of mortgage loans to Xiang Yu, and Xiang Yu agreed.
Suddenly, a large number of Loose Cultivators from the shanty areas ca to Raoliang Tea House to process loans and rent houses within the city.
Because the density of spiritual energy inside the city was high and the safety was greater.
The strategy for mortgages, proposed by Yu Qingtan, spread rapidly without anyone promoting it.
Although Yu Qingtan's 520,000 spirit stones were a drop in the bucket, the City Lord's Mansion and the Xies soon launched mortgages with an interest rate as low as 0.6 percent.
Yu Qingtan gained the favor of the Loose Cultivators of Suichuan Immortal City, especially those from the shanty areas, and her Charm Points rose by another three hundred thousand.
This irritated those who had previously offered mortgages.
They were none other than the families backing Tianxiang Valley, such as the Luos and the Yans, and most of the real estate in Tianxiang Immortal City was in their hands.
However, those concerns were no longer Yu Qingtan's worry.
She happily opened the System Panel and went on a shopping spree, the excitent of which was indescribable.
[Na: Yu Qingtan]
[Gender: Female]
[Age: 15/237]
[Cultivation Level: Foundation Establishnt Mid Stage 500/50000, Body Refinent Foundation Establishnt Early Stage 20/20000]
[Cultivation Technique: Greenwave Technique, Ice Skin Jade Bone Art]
[Spells: Second Stage Purification Spell, Water Escape Technique, Water Blade Technique, Water Curtain Technique, Object Controlling Technique, Breath-Concealing Technique, Decay and Flourish Technique, Blood Control Technique, Soul Cleansing Technique complete, Blue Clear Spiritual Pupil Technique minor achievent, First Stage Wood Escape Technique, Illusion Dance Technique and other First Stage Spells complete]
[Charm Points: 7245]
[Affection Value: 66]
[Skills: Dance Artistry, Zither Art, Chess Skill, Calligraphy, Painting Skill complete, First Stage Spiritual Tailoring Skill complete, Second Stage Talisman Making Skill complete]
[System Space Slots: Third Stage Spell Upgrade Card 3 pieces, Third Stage Escape Talisman 1 piece, High Grade Spirit Stone 7 pieces, dium Grade Spirit Stone 289 pieces, Lower Grade Spirit Stone 30,000 pieces, Second Stage Spirit Dew 201 drops, Third Stage Spirit Dew 1 drop, Mysterious Seed, Uninscribed Token 2 pieces, Spiritual Artifacts such as the Crimson Abyss Sword, Xuan Crimson Armor, Flying Spirit Sword, ssage-Transmitting Flying Sword, Magic Artifacts such as the Cherry Red Sword and Xuan Turtle Shield, Foundation Establishnt Pills, Purple Spirit Pills, Spirit Revitalizing Pills, Healing Pills and other Second Stage Elixirs, Ascension Pills and Spirit-Condensing Pills and other First Stage Elixirs, Second Stage Purifying Heart Talismans and other Talismans, Heavenly Spirit Fruit and other Spiritual dicines, Snow Silkworm Thread and other Spiritual Materials, Deep Sea Blue Crystal and Sun Fla Jade and other Spirit Ores, Second Stage Alert Defense Formation and other Array Flags, Ruan Fan, Little Tao and others]
[System Shop: Immortal Body Activation Card 0/1 (100000 Affection Value), Innate Divine Ability Upgrade Card 0/1 (100000 Affection Value), Advanced Spiritual Root Upgrade Card 0/1 (10000 Affection Value), Third Stage Cultivation Upgrade Card 0/3 (1000 Affection Value), Second Stage Cultivation Upgrade Card 3/3 (100 Affection Value), Third Stage Spell Upgrade Card 10/10 (100 Affection Value), Second Stage Spell Upgrade Card 10/10 (10 Affection Value), Third Stage Skill Upgrade Card 5/5 (100 Affection Value), Second Stage Skill Upgrade Card 5/5 (10 Affection Value)]
[Lucky Draw: 10 Charm Points to draw once (up to ten consecutive draws)]
Among the Devotees, the main addition was Shi Kuang.
[Shi Kuang, Foundation Establishnt Late Stage, 5,000 spirit stones for a quarter-hour, can replicate: Complete Second Stage Spell Great Resonant Sound, 300,000 spirit stones, Complete Second Stage Spell Devil's Penetrating Sound, 300,000 spirit stones]
This ant that Yu Qingtan could use "Love's Protection" to wield the combat power of a Late Foundation Establishnt stage.
"If only I had a Golden Core Stage Devotee!" thought Yu Qingtan, always desiring more.
Unfortunately, Golden Core Stage Cultivators were rare, and either they already had companions or their hearts were set on the greater path.
After reviewing the System Panel, Yu Qingtan began to create talismans again.
She sold a batch of unmarked spoils of war from Ruan Fan at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, then bought a Second Stage high-quality talisman brush, a variety of Second Stage talisman drawing thods, and many talisman-making materials.
Thanks to her recent dedication to skill improvent and copying through spending, she had beco a Second Stage Talisman Master with a success rate as high as eighty percent.
Soon, it would be the day when the Myriad Beasts Secret Realm would erge, and she had to make more preparations.
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