Letter of recommendation

Mi Ke waited outside for nearly a full hour.

When Yang Yu emerged from the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House, only one of the two large suitcases remained in his hands. Besides the suitcase, he now had a purple card and a neatly folded letter of recommendation in his trouser pocket.

The purple card was a VIP card for the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House and the antique shops it operated.

With this VIP card, Yang Yu would receive higher prices when selling antiques in the future, not just at the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House inside the Ten Thousand Layers Tower. He would also receive certain discounts when buying antiques!

The Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House had a partnership with the Ten Thousand Layers Tower.

Its true identity was a fairly prestigious antique chain operating in Shangjing City and the surrounding cities... Of course, the big boss behind it was also a powerful cultivator.

At the very least, he was a Heaven Tier expert at the Postnatal Lifeform level, just like the sect master of the Ghost Infant Sect!

The Ten Thousand Layers Tower provided the premises. In fact, most of the shops here were rented by outside organizations in partnership with the tower.

The Ten Thousand Layers Tower held a share of those organizations' shops.

Alternatively, it charged astronomical rental fees every year.

Through these two forms of partnership, the Ten Thousand Layers Tower extended its influence into every sector of society... Naturally, its cash flow and profits were staggering!

This was how a terrifying, transcendent organization of ancient-monster stature sustained itself!

It was precisely through this that the Ten Thousand Layers Tower had endured for thousands of years... and spread its influence across the entire world.

Its age.

Its deep reserves.

They made countless leading organizations profoundly wary of it!

Leaving aside the Ten Thousand Layers Tower and the purple VIP card... the letter of recommendation in Yang Yu's pocket had come from the young shop assistant.

At the end of their transaction, Yang Yu had asked about selling Mortal Shedding Treasures.

These items were outside the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House's line of business. At least, its branch on the thirty-second floor did not deal in them.

The young shop assistant had thought for a moment rather than rejecting Yang Yu outright.

He had simply asked an attendant to fetch paper and a pen, then written a letter of recommendation... It would take Yang Yu straight to a shop on the thirty-fifth floor called the Divine Armament Pavilion.

This shop specialized in Mortal Shedding Treasures.

Naturally, dealing in them also involved buying them... Apparently, an assistant at the Divine Armament Pavilion was well acquainted with the young shop assistant, who often referred business there.

With the young shop assistant's letter of recommendation, Yang Yu would receive five percent more for his Mortal Shedding Treasures than an ordinary seller.

That five percent was no small sum. Even the poorest mortal shedding treasure fetched a purchase price of at least five million.

Anything slightly better could easily sell for ten or twenty million!

A five-percent increase on goods worth five million, ten or twenty million, or even more?

That was an astronomical sum by any measure!

Yang Yu reached into his pocket and touched the letter of recommendation. At that moment, it seemed to burn beneath his fingers.

Such a letter was not easy to obtain.

If Yang Yu had not just sold nearly thirty million worth of antiques in one go, the young shop assistant would never have given him this recommendation.

Thinking back, the young shop assistant had shown considerable generosity in everything he did.

It seemed he was no ordinary person either.

When Yang Yu had time, he could certainly return to this shop and get to know the young shop assistant.

Another friend meant another path forward.

As Yang Yu thought this, Mi Ke spotted him coming out of the shop... and stepped forward to greet him.

"Sir, have you finished selling your antiques?"

"How did it go? Were the prices all right... This shop has a very good reputation." As Mi Ke spoke, her eyes narrowed into cute little crescents.

"It really is good." Yang Yu nodded in agreement.

"The service was excellent too... All right, I'm heading to the thirty-fifth floor to sell the Mortal Shedding Treasures I have. Are you still coming with me?"

"The thirty-fifth floor?" Mi Ke froze for a moment, then her expression changed.

"Sir, did you get a letter of recommendation from the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House?"

Having worked as a shopping guide for years, Mi Ke naturally knew how rare it was to qualify for a recommendation from the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House. The fact that Yang Yu had obtained one was enough to show just how large his transaction had been.

Mi Ke grew increasingly excited, but also deeply anxious.

"Yes," Yang Yu replied casually.

"I did get a recommendation. Do you still want to come to the thirty-fifth floor with me? I know you shopping guides must receive substantial commissions here. You probably made quite a bit from my visit just now, didn't you?"

Yang Yu spoke with a faint, knowing smile. His meaning was obvious.

The benefits he offered did not come free.

Nor were they so easy to obtain.

Especially when the other person was dispensable... and Mi Ke was no longer of much use to Yang Yu.

If she wanted to keep benefiting, she would have to show some sincerity.

Yang Yu had spoken tactfully, but after years of dealing with cultivators, Mi Ke had enough worldly savvy to understand.

She immediately caught his unspoken meaning.

Startled, Mi Ke promptly dropped the coquettish expression she had been wearing. She answered seriously, "Sir, the Ten Thousand Layers Tower's shopping guides do receive substantial commissions, but not as much as you might imagine. We also have to grease palms at every level..."

As she spoke, Mi Ke gritted her teeth.

"Sir, you have nothing to lose by taking me along. With a recommendation from the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House, you certainly no longer need a shopping guide to accompany you. But if you take me with you, I'm willing to give you thirty percent of the commission I earn from guiding you today."

As expected of an ordinary person who had spent years dealing with cultivators, even Mi Ke, who looked like a young girl, did not hesitate when decisiveness was needed.

Thirty percent of a shopping guide's commission might not mean much to Yang Yu.

But for an ordinary person like Mi Ke, it was no small sum.

Especially since she knew any transaction Yang Yu made would undoubtedly be an enormous order... Not everyone possessed that kind of resolve.

"Heh." Yang Yu nodded in satisfaction.

"As long as you understand. Come with me."

There was no reason to turn down money that was there for the taking.

Although Yang Yu was now earning a fortune, and the five Mortal Shedding Treasures he was about to sell were worth far, far more than that batch of antiques... he also spent a fortune.

Thirty percent of the shopping guide's commission.

With an order as large as his, his share would amount to several hundred thousand.

Since Mi Ke knew how to read the situation, he did not mind bringing her along to earn something too.

Both of them would make money. It was a win-win.

Yang Yu liked working with smart people, because they understood what truly mattered when weighing gains against sacrifices.

To gain something, one first had to give something up.

Along the way, Mi Ke no longer made any deliberate attempts to flirt with or seduce Yang Yu.

From Yang Yu's behavior just now, she could tell that he was no inexperienced fool who could be easily manipulated.

She was smart. Now that she understood it would not work, she certainly would not keep acting foolishly.

Besides, that would keep her from provoking Yang Yu's dislike.

Angering a cultivator was hardly a wise thing to do.

"This way."

"This way."

"Turn left again. We'll be there soon." Having dropped her coquettish manner, Mi Ke now diligently guided Yang Yu onward. Her brisk, efficient manner was completely different from before, as though she had become another person.

At last.

Five minutes after leaving the Tongbao Acquisition and Clearance House, they arrived at the place that purchased mortal shedding treasures on the thirty-fifth floor of the Ten Thousand Layers Tower.

Right outside the Divine Armament Pavilion!

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