After leaving Elysium, Qing Chen felt somewhat conflicted, but overall, he was thoroughly at ease.
He shook his head, cast those thoughts behind him, and stepped into the Formation Treasure Pavilion in Earth Jade Market.
It was the place run by his maid, Su Zixuan, and one of his important bases.
Upon entering the Formation Treasure Pavilion, Qing Chen saw Su Zixuan busy at work.
She wore a simple, elegant dress, and her movements revealed a gentle grace.
Seeing Qing Chen arrive, she quickly set aside her work and came to greet him.
"Young Master, you're back." Su Zixuan's voice was gentle and pleasing to the ear.
Qing Chen nodded, swept his gaze around the shop, and nodded again in satisfaction.
Then he looked at Su Zixuan and asked:
"How has the Formation Treasure Pavilion been doing lately?"
Su Zixuan reported every detail of the Formation Treasure Pavilion's operations over the past few years to Qing Chen.
She told Qing Chen that the Formation Treasure Pavilion had been doing quite well lately.
Meanwhile, she had also gained much from studying the two jade slips containing Formation Dao mystic arts that Qing Chen had given her.
There were now roughly three thousand spirit stones in earnings left on the books, most of which had come from selling various formations.
The rest were profits Pan Yuelian had earned by buying and reselling cultivation resources.
Hearing this, Qing Chen could not help nodding.
He looked at Su Zixuan and discovered that her cultivation had already reached the sixth layer of Qi Refining, which pleased him considerably.
"Good. It seems you've been working very hard lately. I'm very pleased."
For Su Zixuan to have reached this level in the four years since breaking through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining was indeed quite