Chapter 733

Chapter 733: Exploring New Paths

"That’s too much!"

Su Ziling stomped her foot hard, her pouting lips could almost hold a storage bag.

Wang Chen chuckled softly.

The teenage girl usually displayed a confident and mature demeanor in front of others, but she only showed her youthful and playful side when she was with him.

What made Su Ziling so upset was a newly opened ice dessert shop!

This ice dessert shop was less than two hundred steps away from Wang Chen’s shop, and it was larger and more stylishly decorated, selling a variety of ice dessert flavors.

Not only had they completely copied Wang Chen’s ideas, but they also introduced innovations.

Most importantly, their cheapest ice dessert was only twenty spirit fragments, instantly bringing the price down to rock bottom.

This immediately crushed Wang Chen’s own business.

The once profitable venture crumbled in just a few days, so it would be a lie to say Wang Chen wasn’t frustrated.

But what could he do?

He had no reason and no power to stop their competition.

In the case of ice desserts, once big businesses got involved, they could easily destroy a small shop.

The cost advantage was clear!

"This is so unfair."

Su Ziling knew that getting angry wouldn’t help, but she couldn’t help feeling wronged.

Previously, when Wang Chen opened and offered discounts on spirit tools, he only sold for one day before the Old Local Head warned him not to continue.

But now, those people openly snatched business with low prices, yet they didn’t see the old man come out to say a word.

Where is the fairness in that?

Wang Chen had no words to say in response and could only touch her hair to offer comfort.

In any world, true fairness does not exist.

To seek fairness, one must first have the strong power to protect their own interests; if he were not just a Purple Palace cultivator but a Dao merging true venerable or an Ascendant holy being, who would dare to steal his business?

That would be suicidal!

So Wang Chen felt down but did not get angry because futile anger was merely a sign of weakness.

Moreover, he not only earned a bit from the ice desserts but also managed to sell off most of the spirit tools in stock to the steady stream of customers, recovering all previous losses.

What Wang Chen thought now was to explore new paths and find new sources of income.

Let those who love to engage in the ice dessert business do so!

After Wang Chen’s comfort, Su Ziling finally calmed down but with a forlorn face said, "Master, what should we do with so many freezers at home?"

Previously, due to the booming ice dessert business, at her strong suggestion, Wang Chen had made about ten more freezers.

They filled the workshop to the brim.

These freezers were embedded with frost formations, powered by spirit stones, allowing for long-term ice-making capabilities.

This was a medium-sized spirit tool, and the investment cost was not insignificant.

Now that it was going to waste, Su Ziling felt a pang of regret, as if she had made a mistake.

Wang Chen smiled and said, "It’s simple, we can just sell them! Oh, I have an idea!"

His eyes lit up: "We can sell freezers!"

Wang Chen recalled the story of gold rushers from his previous life!

The ice dessert business already had many competitors, but no one was selling freezers yet. He could produce a large batch ahead of time, modeled after the refrigerators from his past life, and sell them to the "middle class" in Qianxing Immortal City.

With the ice desserts being so popular, there would certainly be people wanting to make their own at home, especially families with children.

Wang Chen could sell the freezers and also provide free recipes and techniques for making ice desserts.

This way, not only could he earn spirit stones, but he could also strike against those copycats—if every household had a freezer, who would still buy from a shop?

No matter how low the costs in the store were, with rent and labor, the price would still be high.

Let them compete with me for business!

Wang Chen secretly vowed.

With a decision made, he immediately began to act.

He took apart all the original freezers, salvaging the important parts for later use, and then drew up designs based on the style of the refrigerators from his previous life.

Double doors, triple doors, side-by-side doors…

Then, apart from the most crucial core components, he commissioned several workshops to produce all the outer shells, liners, and storage bins for the freezers.

The craftsmen in the world of cultivation were incredibly skilled, and orders like Wang Chen’s were a piece of cake for them.

To make the freezers more appealing, Wang Chen also customized different shell colors.

Pearl white, bright silver, dawn gold, sky blue, polar night black, flame red…

Finally, he added his own designed metal logo, making them look stunning.

Once he got all the freezer shells back, he assembled the crucial compressor—the frost spirit tool component.

One by one, freezers with a celestial realm touch popped out fresh!

In order to make enough initial capital, Wang Chen was quite determined, ordering a very large quantity, and for the past few days, he worked tirelessly to refine the frost spirit tool components.

His Nine Directions in Weapon Refining had already reached the Master level, and using the Life Creation Cauldron to refine spirit tools was simply like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, ensuring everything went smoothly.

The success rate was one hundred percent, and the finished products were perfect, achieving high quality while keeping costs down to an extremely low level.

After everything was ready, the next morning, Wang Chen asked Su Ziling to display the freezers.

Five styles and seven colors were lined up outside the shop, attracting a lot of attention!

Immediately, someone curiously approached and asked, "Shopkeeper Wang, what are you selling?"

Su Ziling smiled and replied, “These are freezers, spirit tools for making ice desserts and frozen treats. Our shop has launched new products; buy one freezer and get a complete set of recipes for making desserts, along with three boxes of ingredients!”

"Oh, so this is a spirit tool for making ice desserts!"

The person suddenly understood: "You’re not selling ice desserts anymore?"

Su Ziling pouted, "We can’t compete with them, so we have to sell the backup goods."

The other person laughed heartily: "This little girl has some spirit. So how much is this… this freezer?"

Su Ziling promptly pointed to a bright silver side-by-side freezer: "This one is only five hundred spirit stones, and it only costs one spirit stone a day to operate."

"Sir, would you like to get one? For five hundred spirit stones, you won’t lose out, and you can have a freezer to enjoy ice desserts anytime!"

This pitch was also taught to her by Wang Chen.

The other person indeed showed interest.

Prices in Qianxing Immortal City were very high, and five hundred spirit stones weren’t a large sum; what was most appealing was the incredibly low daily cost of one spirit stone.

The person couldn’t help but ask, "One spirit stone? Is that for real?"

"Of course it’s real."

At that moment, Wang Chen spoke up: “If the daily cost exceeds one spirit stone, you can return it for a full refund!”