The Immortal Shop

Jiang Xuan runs a small shop on a cultivation frontier where every pill, herb, and talisman has a price in spirit stones. When a customer cannot pay, he accepts other forms of sincerity: a kiss, a night of warmth, a favor to be collected later. / A widow needs a pill for her sister; a wounded swordswoman offers her first night; a young cultivator trades a family jade. Jiang Xuan tells himself he is only doing business, but every favor adds another thread to a life he planned to keep simple. The shop is small, the debts are not, and the immortals have long memories.