At this moment, it was precisely dusk, and the crimson glow in the sky seemed to have faded slightly, reflecting on the Chu Ye Pavilion signboard, emitting a golden light mixed with red.
The three large characters were exceptionally powerful and resonant, as if inscribed by a Sword Cultivator.
Chu Yanqing studied Ye Jingcheng with a slight interest.
However, to her disappointment, Ye Jingcheng remained expressionless.
"Chu Daoist, may I ask who inscribed this signboard? It is truly exquisite!" Ye Jingcheng pointed at the signboard and asked.
"An elder," Chu Yanqing replied, feeling a bit uninterested herself, and didn’t elaborate further. She led Ye Jingcheng into the courtyard, inspecting it from the first to the second courtyard.
Finally, she brought Ye Jingcheng into the main room.
The Chu Ye Pavilion shop was a three-courtyard layout, with the outer area being a shop for attracting customers and the inner one being the courtyard where cultivators resided.
The entire courtyard displayed grandeur starting from the entrance, with red Nan wood columns engraved with gold silk and red armor doors embroidered with bronze patterns, flanked by a pair of lifelike stone lions.
The main pavilion near the street was three stories high, extremely majestic.
Of course, this was also a symbol of status, with the roof of the pavilion engraved with auspicious beast carvings and cloud carvings representing the Chu Family’s identity, a characteristic of both the Ye and Chu Families.
Upon entering the courtyard, the layout was a three main rooms with two side rooms, supplemented by a pair of side wings.
In the central courtyard were planted numerous lush Spirit Wood trees, though all were Evergreen Wood and Jade Cloud Grass that didn’t produce Spirit Fruit.
They could gather Spiritual Energy, but their value and efficacy were much less compared to Spirit Fruit Trees and Spirit Flowers.
However, even so, the Chu Ye Pavilion’s shop in Taichang Market was definitely considered good, and the Spiritual Energy intensity was comparable to a Tier Two Middle Grade Spiritual Vein.
This was extremely valuable in a market city with so many cultivators residing in it.
This was also why Taichang Market could sustain such a high number of cultivators; after all, the mere Spiritual Energy itself could attract many loose cultivators to rent a cave dwelling in the city when they needed a breakthrough, using the Spiritual Energy to succeed.
The only flaw was that the courtyards were not large and had to be shared with the Chu Family.
It was relatively difficult for the Ye Family to sell Spirit Beasts.
The Chu Family had already informed them of this, otherwise the shop could be something other than a Pill Shop since selling Spirit Beasts was what the Ye Family was best at.
"Chu Daoist has arranged things well. May I know how many Magical Artifacts Chu Daoist manages to sell daily?" Ye Jingcheng nodded, having no objections to the layout arrangement.
Furthermore, the Chu Family was sharing evenly, and he did not pay much attention to the primary and secondary nature of things.
Moreover, the connections that the Chu Family had with the Sect were as expected.
But he was very interested in the shop’s customers and the Spirit Stones sold each day.
After all, these concerned his own profits and his future development.
Additionally, once the Pill Shop’s income was stable, he could try to find channels for Spirit Medicine.
If all the Ye Family’s Spirit Medicine were transported from the Ye Family, it would be too impractical, considering expensive ones required Foundation Establishment Cultivators to accompany, and less valuable ones still took more than half a month to transport.
Thus, the customer source became a pretty important issue.
If the sales were not abundant or the profits unsatisfactory, Ye Jingcheng would need to explore other routes, considering that rent here wasn’t low.
Besides, they had three Alchemy Masters performing Alchemy, and his Storage Bag still contained many Spirit Pills given by the family.
"Ye Daoist, no need to worry, my place here with artifact sales can suffice to make a living, and Ye Daoist selling Spirit Pills is no problem," Chu Yanqing replied.
However, she did not specify numbers.
Ye Jingcheng understood this clearly.
This Chu Yanqing was definitely a core family member of the Chu Family; she had tested the Ye Family’s core members during the last marriage discussion.
Now, she keeps family secrets very guarded, unwilling to reveal even such matters.
After all, residing here long enough would make the Ye Family discern it too.
"Thank you, Fairy Chu." Although secretly grumbling, Ye Jingcheng remained polite on the surface.
"Ye Daoist is too polite. Since the Ye Family just arrived today, I will host a banquet here tonight, hoping Ye Daoist and others don’t feel neglected."
"Chu Daoist is too polite. It should actually be us hosting this time." Ye Jingcheng courteously responded.
"Oh, Ye Daoist plans to host where?" Chu Yanqing asked again, catching Ye Jingcheng off guard.
He hadn’t expected Chu Yanqing to turn the situation on him.
He was merely being polite.
"I need to take a look around as I’m not familiar yet." Ye Jingcheng responded as well.
This woman had a deep mind, and Ye Jingcheng didn’t want to be led by the nose by her.
Seeing Ye Jingcheng’s manner, Chu Yanqing laughed instead.
"Ye Daoist, rest assured, I was just being hasty. The Chu Family’s banquet today also includes the presence of my aunt," Chu Yanqing said.
Ye Jingcheng didn’t reply, just nodded.
Secretly grumbling immensely, women truly affect cultivation!
After Chu Yanqing left, Ye Jingcheng led Ye Jingyu and others into the West Main Room.
"Seventh Sister, Brother Jiu, Jing Hao, you each choose a room in the side room, and Fifteenth Uncle and I will each take a room in the side wing. We’ll keep the West Main Room for our discussions," Ye Jingcheng instructed.
Upon these words, everyone nodded.
The main room was separated from the Chu Family next door, which was preferable to maintain a distance.
The others having individual rooms was already quite good for them.
Otherwise, like the flat area they passed through, privacy was truly hard to come by there.
"Then set up your rooms, arrange your Arrays, and attend the banquet at the destined time." After giving these instructions, Ye Jingcheng chose a room for himself.
As soon as Ye Jingcheng entered the room, he released a full hundred Five Poison Bees.