The beneficiaries of the Mysterious Bookstore and Wantong Trading Market introducing a ticket-number system weren't just Ma Feifei and Gongsun Qiong. Countless cultivators stood to gain from it as well.
For cultivators, spending all their time waiting in line was a terrible waste. While waiting, they couldn't do anything else. They couldn't hunt spirit beasts to earn Spirit Crystals or cultivate to improve their strength; they couldn't even eat or sleep.
Wasting so much time waiting in line was practically disastrous for cultivators. More importantly, based on what everyone knew about the Mysterious Bookstore, they'd concluded that entering to read didn't guarantee they'd learn anything from the books. Some cultivators spent a whole day inside and still came out empty-handed. Well, not quite empty-handed—they might slightly purify the spiritual energy in their bodies. But what good was that?
People spent dozens of days, or even months, waiting outside your bookstore. They gave up cultivating, hunting spirit beasts, eating and drinking, having fun, and sleeping, all just to gain this minor benefit of purified spiritual energy?
The reward clearly wasn't worth the cost. But people were reluctant to give up the chance to enter the bookstore and read. So some cultivators had started hiring less powerful cultivators to wait in line for them, while others sold their places in line. The practice had even become a trend.
That was why, although many cultivators complained about the exclusive ticket-number system created by the Mysterious Bookstore and Wantong Trading Market, they were actually delighted.
Before, they had to wait in line to read. Now, all they had to do was buy a ticket at the Wantong Trading Market and check when their turn would come. If it was soon, they could stay in Dubian Town. If it would take a while, they could