Cultivation is just so scientific!

"Mr. Qiu, is there still a profit to be had in purchasing your Spirit Rice?" Li Shiming asked with mild surprise.

"Of course, my store would not engage in a losing business. As you know, it's difficult to sell Spirit Rice at a high price since it's a low-margin business. Moreover, within the sect's domain, there are not many Junior Spirit Plant Cultivators, and even fewer cultivate spirit fields on their own," Mr. Qiu explained without any concealment.

Changming Island Market is only one of the many markets within the sect's domain. Spirit Plant Cultivators will sign cooperation contracts with various Spirit Plant Stores. If I were to offer a low price, wouldn't other stores snatch you away?" Qiu Tan explained quite frankly.

Due to the climate of the Sky Sea Sect, spirit fields within the nine peaks are protected by the Sect Formation, so they are not affected much by the climate.

However, the spirit fields in the sea region can only produce Spirit Rice for six months of the year, which is divided into three seasons, increasing the difficulty for Junior Spirit Plant Cultivators to survive.

Therefore, apart from the professional Spirit Plant Cultivators actively cultivated by the Sky Sea Sect, few cultivators who enter the sect through the Ascension Conference choose to become Spirit Plant Cultivators.

This is not to say that the profession of a Spirit Plant Cultivator is no good, but it is more challenging in the initial stage compared to other secondary jobs.

Of course, this difficulty is only relative. Compared to ordinary sect cultivators, Spirit Plant Cultivators are still much better off.

The reason why Qiu Tan paid special attention to Li Shiming was precisely that he discovered that Li Shiming was a newcomer in this period.

This term is quite special. Normally, the Ascension Conference would bring thirty to forty newcomers to the sect every year. Added to the qualified newcomers from the sect's sea region, there could be a replenishment of fifty to sixty newcomers to the sect over five years.

But the news of the spirit root seeds being attacked this year, with only a few survivors among the spirit root seeds, had already spread among the Qi Refining disciples of the sect.

This, in addition to deepening the grievances between the Heavenly Sea and Xuanming Sects, also drew the attention of resourceful Qi Refining disciples to this term's spirit root seeds.

After meeting Li Shiming, Qiu Tan had people inquire about Li Shiming's situation.

Li Shiming was the only one among the new cultivators who had his own cave abode outside the sect. The other new cultivators were still busy with the simplest of tasks, without even the capacity to leave the sect's nine peaks.

Li Shiming was also the only Spirit Plant Cultivator. Due to the scarcity of talent this term, there would not be any new Spirit Plant Cultivators for at least the next five years.

"I have two thousand catties of Spirit Rice, and I need to purchase some spirit seeds," Li Shiming considered and said.

He was too lazy to sell it slowly—Spirit Rice was not some treasure. Even though the amount was quite large, it could always be explained.

After all, he had already been a Spirit Plant Cultivator before entering the sect. The surplus of Spirit Rice was part of his inventory, and that's just how it was.

"Two thousand catties of Spirit Rice?" Qiu Tan was taken aback, but he quickly reacted and pulled Li Shiming into the nearby reception room.

There were still two customers in the store, and Qiu Tan did not want a potential supplier like Li Shiming, with his capacity, to be targeted by others.

"You really have two thousand catties of Spirit Rice?" Once in the reception room, Qiu Tan sought confirmation again.

Li Shiming took out ten hemp bags from his storage bag, each filled with two hundred catties of Spirit Rice.

"Mr. Li, look, if you agree to supply your Spirit Rice only to my store in the future, I can offer you an additional 10% above the purchase price each time!" Qiu Tan, seeing that he indeed had brought out two thousand catties of Spirit Rice, said through gritted teeth.

Competitive internal struggle is very severe now. Between markets, between merchants, everyone has a background, and no one can use special means. That only leaves offering better terms to snatch up suppliers.

As a Junior Spirit Plant Cultivator like Li Shiming, Qiu Tan viewed him as a future important supplier.

But Li Shiming surprised him by bringing two thousand catties of Spirit Rice. From this, it was clear that Li Shiming must have some special method in spirit planting; otherwise, considering Li Shiming's age, it would have been very difficult to save up two thousand catties of Spirit Rice, even if he had started practicing since he was twelve years old when his spirit root first emerged.

Not to mention, according to Qiu Tan's experience, this batch of Spirit Rice was produced within a year.

What techniques Li Shiming possessed, Qiu Tan did not care to investigate. After all, he was not a Spirit Plant Cultivator, but it was crucial to keep a talent like Li Shiming.

"Agreed!" Li Shiming thought it over for a moment and agreed.

Astable channel would also be nice. Even if he no longer grew Spirit Rice in the mechanized space, he would still have over a thousand catties of Spirit Rice to sell from the spirit field each year.

"By the way, what spirit seeds do you need? As long as they are within the scope of the sect's influence, I can get them for you!" Qiu Tan saw Li Shiming agree and continued.

They did not discuss any contract signing. Among cultivators, a verbal agreement is rarely violated.

In the circle of cultivators, breaking a promise is a grave matter; a cultivator who breaks their word would be ostracized by others.

It's sufficient for less critical matters to have a verbal agreement.

"I've made a list!" Li Shiming took out a piece of paper and handed it to Qiu Tan. Continue your journey on My Virtual Library Empire

Qiu Tan took it and saw that the list included some expensive Spiritual Medicine that Junior Spirit Plant Cultivators could grow.

Many Junior Spirit Plant Cultivators would buy these expensive spirit seeds and attempt to cultivate them carefully, hoping for a successful harvest that could earn them a significant amount of Spirit Stones.

Of course, these Spiritual Medicines are costly because of their difficulty to cultivate. Even though they are within the capability of Junior Spirit Plant Cultivators, it's still difficult for Intermediate Spirit Plant Cultivators to ensure a high survival rate.

Although Qiu Tan was aware of this, he would not advise against it; Spirit Plant Cultivators grow faster by cultivating challenging Spirit Plants.

The rest of the list included some spice-type spirit plant seeds. Seeing this, Qiu Tan laughed to himself. He thought back to how he became acquainted with Li Shiming, which all started with a transaction involving sea pig beasts.