Back in the store.
After the two ladies left, Su Ping showed Venerable the Blade to the test room.
“Is this it?”
Staring at the completely empty room, Venerable the Blade could not help but exclaim how simple and crude the setting was.
“What kind of environment do you want?” Su Ping walked to the switch by the door. He randomly chose a forest setting. Instantly, the room began to tremble and the pure white walls changed colors, while sand and rocks emerged on the ground.
Soon, the boring room transformed into a mountain forest.
With both hills and woods.
Venerable the Blade marveled at the change. To his surprise, those rocks and hills turned out to be tangible!
How advanced this technology was!
Venerable the Blade had visited a fair share of fancy venues but this was his first time inside such a miraculous room. A battle venue emerged out of emptiness. Utterly unbelievable!
Su Ping waved his hand. The Little Skeleton hopped out from the swirl in the air. It darted up from the ground, unsheathing its blade and looking around on high alert.
Having found no enemies, Little Skeleton relaxed a bit and looked up at Su Ping blankly.
Su Ping told the Little Skeleton to open its mouth so that he could take out the blood crystal hovering inside its skull. Much of the crystal had been consumed. Su Ping assumed that the Little Skeleton could finish consuming all the crystal in half a month at most. By then, the Little Skeleton’s combat strength would further improve. But at the same time, the rating of its aptitude would drop.
That didn’t matter, though. Su Ping was more focused on the Little Skeleton’s actual combat strength. The aptitude rating was just an assessment of the pets’ potential whereas the combat strength indicated concrete power.
Curiously, Venerable the Blade asked Su Ping, “I can choose whatever venue I want here?”
“Basically.”
Su Ping then switched the environment a few more times, ranging from oceans, a comprehensive environment, to a swamp.
Venerable the Blade was stunned still. Learned as he was, he was amazed by this magic room. He had never known that such advanced technology even existed in the Federation. How remarkable. Eventually, Venerable the Blade chose a comprehensive venue.
“Listen, make the best of your time with him.” After saying those encouraging words, Su Ping patted the Little Skeleton’s skull.
The red glow in the Little Skeleton’s eye sockets flickered as it nodded slightly.
Su Ping bid farewell to Venerable the Blade and left the two of them in the room.
The store received only a few customers in the afternoon.
It seemed that the dragon statues by the door were too threatening. Some customers would flinch and look around before they stepped inside.
All the customers reacted similarly when they laid eyes on Joanna whose look was quite eye-catching
As soon as Joanna showed the customers to Su Ping and told them about the prices, all of them ran away with a blushing face. None of them dared to stay for an extra second.
This place was pricey.
The price of the services in Su Ping’s store was expensive for the average battle pet warriors, but it would be money well spent.
However, only those that had experienced their services understood that their money would be “well spent.” That was the source of Su Ping’s discomfort. The few customers that did enter the store were scared away by the high prices before they even tried the services.
At dusk, Venerable the Blade finished his lesson and went to say goodbye to Su Ping.
Since the business wasn’t good that day, Su Ping had to place all his hopes on his celebrity promotion.
He had dinner at home.
At dinner time, Wu Guansheng was there. Su Lingyue’s healing lessons were still in progress. After all, Su Ping had set up a deadline for him and he was afraid of slacking off. He wished he could be there every day so that Su Lingyue could finish learning as soon as possible, and he could free himself from this duty.
At night, Wu Guansheng had been asked to stay for dinner with the family.
Wu Guansheng could no longer maintain the lofty composure he had when he was alone with Su Lingyue, while in Su Ping and Joanna’s presence. Sitting on tenterhooks, he wished he could just go home, but he couldn’t turn down Li Qingru’s friendly invitation.
“Just one more person at the table.” Li Qingru very much respected the master that was teaching her daughter about healing skills.
Since Su Ping gave his consent, Wu Guansheng yielded with a show of reluctance and stayed for dinner.
Still, Wu Guansheng had no idea how the dinner tasted.
Su Lingyue was perceptive. At dinner, she could tell that her teacher was somewhat afraid of Su Ping and his employee.
That was interesting, but Su Lingyue didn’t let her curiosity show. She sensed that Su Ping had more secrets that she didn’t know of.
After dinner, Su Ping sent Wu Guansheng away in person and took Joanna back to the store.
One of the nursing pens was Joanna’s room. Since the energy inside could nourish her, a nursing pen turned out to be a decent place for her to rest.
Su Ping had also decided to occupy a nursing pen. Since his home was close, staying in the store for the night was not a problem for him.
“The Chaos Star Chart…”
Su Ping sat in the nursing pen, trying to absorb anima and transferring it to his astral powers.
The energy in the nursing pen was seeping into him through the pores, just like water. Every cell inside Su Ping was a vortex that was sucking in the astral powers, storing them.
Su Ping had to admit that his cultivation was efficient. Usually, when people cultivated, they just absorbed energy. However, with his method, he was more like robbing the energy!
“At this rate, I’ll be reaching the intermediate position of the sixth rank in less than half a month. In a month or two, I will be able to reach the seventh rank. By then, with the help of the Star Prism, I can exert astral powers close to the ninth rank!”
The more Su Ping cultivated, the more excited he was.
The next day.
Song Lu paid him another visit for the official contract signing, and she had brought a lawyer.
They confirmed that everything was fine with the contract, and after signing, Su Ping went to the bank to make the transfer to Song Lu.
Only then did Su Ping realize the benefits of having an account at the Federal Bank, just as Qin Shuhai had advised him. He could have a two-star VIP account, with which he could finish the transfer at home without having to pay a visit to the bank. Soon.
Su Ping and Song Lu finished their transactions at the bank. They placed their fingerprints on the contract, and it was then in effect.
Aside from the spokesperson contract, Su Ping signed the promotion contract as well and made the down payment.
“Mr. Su, I am looking forward to working with you.”
“Sure. I hope you can move fast on the promotion. You don’t have to worry about the money. I just want an all-round service,” Su Ping added.
“No problem.”
Su Ping said goodbye to Song Lu and returned to his store.
He was ready to spend all he could to promote his store throughout the available channels. During this time, he would make his store the fanciest in the Longjiang Base City.
Several days later.
Mu Shuangwan had finished shooting the ad. The slogan Su Ping came up with was in the ad as well — “Choose Pixie, and a place among the TOP 100 in Longjiang’s Elite League will be a sure thing for you!”
Since Su Ping had enough money, the person in charge of the ad was a famous director that had worked on many classic movies. The composer and writer for the jingle song were the best in the pop music industry, and the actress starring in the ad was Mu Shuangwan, the most popular celebrity at the moment. This had to be the most famous lineup anyone could get.
While the shooting was ongoing, the company had already hired some internet marketers to share some posts about the Pixie Pet Store to warm up the discussion online.
After the shooting finished, the ad was distributed to all the popular platforms.
The ad was played during most of the highly recommended TV shows.
Apart from the official ad, TV product placement was utilized as well. The name of the Pixie Pet Store appeared in many reality shows and TV programs. Besides that, the ad was repeatedly on display in the upper town area, including large billboards and screens.
The promotion gained a strong momentum. On the first night that the promotion plan officially kicked off, the name Pixie Pet Store was made known all across the Longjiang Base City. “What pet store is this? I’ve never heard of
it.”
“This is a store that my muse Mu Shuangwan recommended. It must be good. I will go there!”
“Come on, Mu Shuangwan fans. Let’s go to Pixie together today. Let us show our combined power to the world!”
“How arrogant of them. How dare they boast about a guaranteed Top 100 in the Elite League?”
“This is so funny. How can a store in the shantytown brag about this?”
“Forget about it. I say we go to Primo. After all, Primo’s got history, and their service quality is guaranteed. What if this new store messes up your pets? The Elite League is about to begin.”
People were sharing different views about the Pixie Pet Store, and some were arguing against it.
The one point that was inviting the most suspicions was the location of the store. It was in the shantytown. For many residents of the upper town area, the shantytown was not a place that people should set foot in, and that was obvious. Naturally, a store in that place could never be up to standard.
Aside from that, the fact that there was no official website of the store was even more questionable.
Some students of the Phoenix Peak Academy saw the ad and read the posts. They didn’t know that Su Ping would take such a grand step and invite Mu Shuangwan to promote his store.
The students argued with those who were questioning the Pixie Store. However, compared to the total number of battle pet warriors in the Longjiang Base City, the students of Phoenix Peak University were like a drop in the ocean. Soon, more doubts buried their supporting words.