After Liu Changxu settled in Jade Mountain City, he found the first few days quite pleasant. He visited his neighbors and chatted with them every day, enjoying the novelty, but as time went on, it all began to lose its flavor!
To while away his boredom and better experience life at the bottom, Liu Changxu joined his neighbors in setting up stalls in the square in Jade Mountain City.
Liu Qing'er sold rouge, face powder, jade ornaments, and jewelry for female cultivators.
Zhang Yushan sold pills he had refined himself, while also buying low-tier spirit medicinal herbs for alchemy.
Chen Changqing and his granddaughter Chen Wan'er sold low- and middle-grade first-tier talismans they had drawn themselves.
Liu Changxu had originally intended to sell talismans, but seeing the Chen Household grandfather and granddaughter selling spirit talismans, he casually refined five middle- and high-grade first-tier magical artifacts to sell instead.
As a cultivator at Nascent Soul great perfection and a fourth-tier supreme-grade artifact refiner, the first-tier magical artifacts he produced were naturally of exceptional quality. No other magical artifacts could compare.
Nor were Liu Changxu's prices high, so soon after he opened his stall, rogue cultivators with discerning eyes snapped everything up.
The sight left Chen Changqing and the other neighbors dumbstruck. They had never imagined that their new neighbor would possess such superb artifact refining skills.
Once the young widow Liu Qing'er witnessed Liu Changxu's abilities, a special notion immediately stirred in her heart, and she began casting flirtatious glances at him without pause.
Even old Chen Changqing developed a keen interest in this young man, Liu Changxu. For someone with one foot already in the grave, his greatest concern was his granddaughter's marriage.
The young man before him was so accomplished at artifact refining that, if his granddaughter married him,