Nine Yang Alchemy Emperor

"Exactly, we also feel something is off! Could Manager Pang have uncovered some inside information that we don't know about?" Everyone looked forward to Manager Pang's response.

"Investigate a small shop? You guys are thinking too highly of Longevity Hall!"

"As for them, do they deserve it? I, Pang, tell you, most of the customers queuing in front of Longevity Hall were paid stooges!" Manager Pang said arrogantly. He didn't believe at all that Longevity Hall's business was genuinely thriving.

"Damn, so they were stooges hired by Longevity Hall! They've unfairly stolen my business." The owner of the Elixir Medicine Shop next to Chu Feng cursed resentfully.

"I also guessed this much earlier! Before Longevity Hall even opened, they had already hired a bunch of women to spread the word. On its first day, I even sent someone to keep an eye on it. Guess what, how many Elixirs did they sell? They only sold eleven Elixirs in total on the first day!"

Another shop owner, who had a somewhat cunning look, said with a snicker.

While these people were discussing, the doors of Longevity Hall opened. Nearly thirty customers waiting in line to buy Elixirs swarmed into the store.

"I want two Broken Profound Elixirs!"

"Dear customer, each Broken Profound Elixir costs 1,500 silver taels!" Li Shishi said with a smile.

"Money is not an issue, just as long as the Elixir is good! A junior of mine bought a Broken Profound Elixir from you yesterday, and this morning he was already showing off. He managed to break through a bottleneck he had been stuck at for nearly four years. He advanced to the Great Sword Master Realm in one go. My beloved junior sister has been hanging around him ever since!"

This customer looked to be in his thirties as well.

With a face full of acne, clearly someone with hormonal imbalances, likely still a bachelor.

His secretly loved junior sister suddenly started showing more affection for that junior. This wasn't good news at all.

If he couldn't make a breakthrough soon, he, an Advanced Sword Master, would be ousted. And his secretly loved junior sister would be taken away by his junior.

Li Shishi covered her mouth and chuckled lightly, taking the silver and handing over two Broken Profound Elixirs to the middle-aged young man.

"Give me one hundred First-grade Detoxification Pills!" a middle-aged man exclaimed loudly.

"Wha... what, one hundred? Need that many?" Li Shishi was stunned. She hadn't expected someone to purchase so many Detoxification Pills at once. Detoxification Pills, after all, weren't cheap.

Other Pharmacy shops sold them for a hundred silver taels each.

Even the lowest grade First-grade Detoxification Pills at Chu Feng's Longevity Hall were sold for 500 silver taels each.

If a customer bought one or two, that wasn't unusual.

But this man asking to purchase a hundred all at once was frankly terrifying.

Bang!

The middle-aged man slapped a thick stack of silver notes on the counter.

"Count it, fifty thousand taels!" The middle-aged man bought so many Detoxification Pills without bargaining and seemed unusually anxious. This made Li Shishi wonder internally, could it be that many people were poisoned?

The rule in business is not to pry into the customers' secrets.

After taking the silver, she didn't ask any further questions. She directly took out ten bottles of Detoxification Pills and handed them to the middle-aged man.

"Each bottle contains ten pills, a total of one hundred, please count them in my presence!" Generally, once the goods leave the counter and are handed to the customer, the shop no longer assumes responsibility.

The middle-aged man hastily opened two bottles and counted; each contained ten pills.

And the color was pure, the pills well-formed. Each one was top-grade.

"Your Longevity Hall's Detoxification Pills are five times more expensive than others, but there's a good reason for the price. I hope their effectiveness matches their superior appearance." After speaking, the middle-aged man left quickly.

Li Shishi's sharp eyes caught a glimpse of an injury on the left arm of the middle-aged man. There seemed to be blood seeping out.

Moreover, she noticed another detail.

There was a lot of mud on the middle-aged man's shoes, and deep within his eyes, there was a hint of a strange green glint.

Just as the middle-aged man stepped over the threshold of the shop entrance, Li Shishi's gaze slightly condensed; hanging at his waist was a claw. It was a pangolin claw.

It is said that wearing a pangolin claw can ward off evil. Especially in tombs, it has a certain restraining effect on the 'Zombie', the zombies.

Ordinary people rarely wear such an item. However, there is one kind of people who particularly likes to wear it.

They are the legendary tomb robbers.

Li Shishi herself is a genius in intelligence, well-versed in various kinds of knowledge. She is especially good at discerning people and things.

She keenly felt that this middle-aged man could very likely be a tomb robber.

...

On the street opposite Longevity Hall, a group of Elixir Medicine Shop owners were paying attention here. Someone made a large order in one go, buying a hundred Detoxification Pills, shocking this group of immensely arrogant owners who looked down on Longevity Hall.

"My god, he actually bought a hundred Detoxification Pills in one go! And the selling price is five times more expensive than ours! Is this middle-aged man a dumbass?" one of the Elixir Medicine Shop owners said, his eyes red with envy.

That was fifty thousand taels of silver, equivalent to nearly a month's turnover for his shop.

This was just a single transaction at Longevity Hall.

"Damn, definitely a plant!"

Manager Pang had spoken too confidently just now and was immediately contradicted. Unable to save face, he firmly insisted that this middle-aged man, who the many Elixir Medicine Shop owners called a dumbass, must be a plant.

In fact, although the Elixir Medicine Shop owners cursed the middle-aged man as a dumbass, they were also eagerly hoping to have such a wealthy and foolish big spender come to their own stores.

"Someone come!"

One shop owner gestured to someone in the distance, and immediately a store guard ran over. His strength was not weak.

"Follow that middle-aged man in black, see why he bought so many Detoxification Pills," commanded the shop owner who could afford to hire a guard at the Sword God Level, his shop's strength was naturally strong.

It is one of the biggest shops next to the Pang Ancestor Alchemy Pavilion.

A group of Elixir Medicine Shop owners, ignoring their own businesses, all gathered here, intently observing Longevity Hall's business situation.

They were also waiting for the guard tracking the middle-aged man to come back and report.

About half an hour later, Chu Feng's Elixir Medicine Shop had already sold over one hundred forty Elixirs. This made the many observing Elixir Medicine Shop owners from across incredibly envious.

Longevity Hall had just opened for less than three days, its reputation and credibility had not yet spread.

Many customers came after hearing high praises from friends and relatives who had used Longevity Hall's Elixirs. They were mostly walk-in customers, only buying one or two Elixirs.

Moreover, they also approached with a try-and-see attitude.

When the guard who followed the middle-aged man returned, all the eyes of Elixir Medicine Shop owners were fixed on him.

"How did it go, did you find out?" asked the owner of the guard, a man in his fifties, fat and with big ears.