“Take a look at that white fox over there. It’s naturally gifted in illusory spells and can be used to charm an opponent’s mind in battle. I don’t need to tell you what happens after that.
Next to the white fox is a Diamond Berserker Ape. Although its bloodline is impure, it’s quite good when it comes to fighting. This guy is extremely wild when it fights. Within the same rank, very few cultivators could take its attacks head on.”
Qin Guanpao then introduced the pros and cons of each spiritual beast to them.
Although the family’s spiritual beast manual had records of quite a number of spiritual beasts, they were spiritual beasts of the lowest grade. It was a simplified version used by the Beastmaster Sect for entry level disciples. A lot of demon beasts were missing from its records. Qin Guanpao took that opportunity to teach them some things about those demon beasts.
Qin Feng looked at a huge Berserker Ape locked in the huge metal cage standing slightly over 10 feet and asked in an astonished tone, “The sect is willing to sell a demon beast of this kind with such amazing combat power?”
“Hehe!”
Qin Guanpao looked around. Seeing that there were nobody apart from the few disciples doing menial tasks, he whispered to them, “If there were any demon beast with great potential, the sect would not sell them easily. However, this Diamond Berserker Ape is different. Although it has good combat strength, its fur is turning black and its eyes taking on a bluish tint. It’s obviously an impure breed and would be difficult to grow stronger due to its limited potential. This is why it’s put on sale here.”
Qin Feng raised his eyebrow, feeling enlightened.
The Beastmaster Sect were the most knowledgeable in regards to the various demon and spiritual beasts with all sorts of big shots in the sect. They would have a keener eye for this than himself and would not make a bad deal.
With that, he did not ask any further and instead continued to listen as the patriarch introduced them to other demon beasts.
“How would the other cultivators control the demon beasts? Are they reliant on these spiritual beast collars?” Qin Xi asked.
“That would depend on what tricks those cultivator has.”
Qin Guanpao chuckled. “It would be great if they have some unique methods to control the demon bests. Otherwise, the Spiritual Beast Collar from our Beastmaster Sect can be sold for a fair price. Regardless of the ones used to control a demon beast at the Qi Refinement Stage or one used to control a beast at the Foundation Establishment Stage, it would only be double the price of a spiritual tool of the same level.”
Qin Feng gave the patriarch a weird look. How would doubling the price of a same grade spiritual tool be considered fair?
The patriarch ignored him and continued, “If one wants to restrain a demon beast that had its demon core formed, then the Spiritual Beast Collar would have to be at the level of a magical treasure. The Spiritual Beast Collar of this level is extremely precious and our sect does not have many refined, therefore it is hardly put for sale. However, any one of them that’s being circulated outside would be extremely valuable. Some would even have the price driven up to the level of a spiritual treasure.”
Hearing that, Qin Feng strongly suspected the price was being driven up by the sect itself.
After all, if it were really that precious, the Beastmaster Sect would not have let those Spiritual Beast Collars fall into the hands of outsiders.
Furthermore, the Beastmaster Sect themselves were the experts in controlling beasts. They would have a plethora of methods to control demon beasts. If a disciple of the sect required the help of a Spiritual Beast Collar to control a demon beast, that disciple would surely be the joke of the Sect.
That was why Qin Feng felt that the Spiritual Beast Collar was made to sell for profit right from the very beginning.
It seemed that the External Affairs Elder in charge of Myriad Demon Pavilion was a genius entrepreneur!
Since the third floor had no other guests, Qin Guanpao’s explanations were extremely detailed. It included all the demon beasts’ pros and cons, their behavior, weaknesses, methods to deal with them, and so on.
Of course, some of the methods to fight the demon beasts involved the sect’s secret techniques which he was not supposed to teach them. Those were just given a passing mention.
When they had browsed through the various demon beasts, Qin Feng and Qin Xi felt they had benefited greatly.
The only regret Qin Feng had was not finding any spiritual toads among the demon beasts.
Although he was not in a rush to fuse a bloodline into the Heaven Swallowing Toad to awaken other special abilities, it did not stop him from paying attention to things related to the various spiritual toads in preparation for the bloodline fusion in the future.
However, that was just a branch of Myriad Demon Pavilion in one city and the beasts put on sale were relatively average. Even if they looked like a good purchase, it was difficult to find any demon beasts that were worth nurturing.
As for those young beasts, they were not high-grade spiritual beasts. Moreover, quite a number of spiritual beasts could give birth to multiple in one go. The sect did not need to invest much and it was being sold at the Myriad Demon Pavilion for such a high price. Qin Feng was unwilling to be the great benefactor of such a place.
If he really wanted to make a purchase in the Myriad Demon Pavilion, he could wait until he had officially joined the sect and browse through the Myriad Demon Pavilion’s headquarters for a suitable demon beast.
After all, the Myriad Demon Pavilion offered their disciples a special price. Moreover, the headquarters would have the most complete collection of spiritual beasts, unlike the Tieling County City branch with only such limited choices.
After that, Qin Guanpao brought the both of them out for a stroll in the market. He would occasionally let them check out a store or two by the road.
Within the market were a few stores that were comparable to the Myriad Demon Pavilion, for example the Soaring Sword Emporium belonging to the Taiyi Golden Grotto Sect that specialized in dealing with various flying swords.
There was also the Myriad Elixir Hall run by the Scarlet Elixir Sect, where the scent of elixirs could be detected the moment one set foot inside it. The elixirs of various grades left Qin Feng and Qin Xi filled with yearning.
Then there was the Divine Arms Pavilion run by a weapon dealing family from the Divine Wind Valley. Their magical and spiritual tools that gleamed sharply dizzied one’s eyes with their selection.
Apart from that was the House of Taliman run by the Hidden Mist Sect. They had a master talisman maker overseeing the place. Apart from selling a variety of spiritual talisman with varying effects, they also sold talisman making supplies. Whether it was specially made talisman papers, talisman pen that could increase the success rate in talisman drawing, or other specially formulated cinnabar, and other related items were all available for sale.
Although the Hidden Mist Sect was a small sect, their sect was located in the Hidden Mist Mountain within the Chu Country borders. It was only about a thousand miles away.
Because of their relatively weaker strength as a sect, they could not extend their reach too far off. It focused most of its efforts on the cities nearby instead. That was why the business here seemed to be worse off compared to the businesses run by the other sects.
Apart from the businesses under the sects, the other stores were not as grand as the Myriad Demon Pavilion.
However, all those shops had their own specialty. The various arts within the world of cultivation could be found there.
Nevertheless, the majority of them were still various stores offering refining services for magical tools.
Tieling County City was famous for its various spiritual metal ores after all. Purchasing tool refinement materials would be relatively cheaper here. With that, it attracted a lot of tool refiners.
The factionless tool refiners had pretty much taken the place as their home and ran an honest business, taking contracts for various refining works.
As for the tool refiners belonging to the various factions, their stores would often have disciples from their sect coming over for training. If they were lucky, they might even have these disciples forge a few top notch spiritual tools for them.
Meanwhile, the small magical tool specialty store run by the Huang family looked extremely mundane. They only managed to find the store’s sign in a corner after following Qin Guanpao all the way to the edge of the market.
Many cultivators knew where they could purchase relatively cheaper spiritual and magical tools, therefore quite a number of cultivators from various places would visit this area in order to look for a tool that suited them.
As for magical treasures, those were a rarity. After all, only a master tool refiner at the Gold Stage would be able to refine such an item. The price would be exorbitant as well. That was not something the small fries like Qin Feng would get in contact with.