Chapter 45: 042: First Seat of the Gu House (Follow-Up)_1 Chapter 45: 042: First Seat of the Gu House (Follow-Up)_1 Over the next month and a half.
The Gu poison along with Snake Gu and other Gu worms that Chen Dengming and Xu Ning had agreed upon, were gradually transported to the Gold Word Workshop.
They were arranged by Xu Ning to be sold at the market in the concentration area.
Besides, Xu Ning also set aside a few plots of land near Spirit Moon Lake as Gu manufacturing sites according to the agreement.
They were given to Chen Dengming for exclusive use in Gu refining and became Gu goods production sites, guarded by cultivators every day.
The place near Spirit Moon Lake where cultivator Old Lin used to stay, was also given to Chen Dengming by Xu Ning to use as a place to rest after daily Gu refining.
It has to be said that the world is indeed very strange.
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A while ago, cultivator Old Lin, using the pretext that Chen Dengming was wandering around in his clear cultivation land, tried to kill him for two spiritual fish.
As a result, not only was he killed by Chen Dengming, but his place has now become Chen Dengming’s territory.
If Old Lin knows this in the afterlife, he would probably slap himself in the face out of regret.
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However, although the Gu market is booming, the competition between the dozens of forces within the concentration area has begun to intensify.
The cause of all the commotion in the concentration area is the Luo family’s noisy divorce from the Luo family.
Although the Luo Family is not a cultivation family in the Southern Region, they are a big family in the adjoining Eastern Region.
They also have disciples who are famous in certain cultivation sects.
The family’s ancestor is also a cultivator in the later stages of foundation establishment.
The Luo Family had previously formed a marriage alliance with the Luo Family, which greatly increased their influence, and the Zhu Family, which was competing with the Luo Family for resources, had quietened down a lot.
But now, the news of the Luo Family breaking their marriage contract with the Luo family has spread widely, causing them to offend the Luo family.
The Zhu family would naturally not continue to keep a low profile.
The forces they support were the first to cause trouble in the concentration area.
Even the appearance of Gu objects has added a lot of danger and harm to the chaotic fights of late.
Recently, the Gu poison being sold in the market has been robbed several times.
The robbers, all dressed in masks, couldn’t be identified.
Even the Gold Word Workshop has deployed people to patrol the market recently because of this.
At this time, Chen Dengming felt increasingly uneasy and felt that a change was coming.
This change is coming faster than he imagined.
He had only just established himself in this concentration area.
He was just starting to get used to being called ‘Chief Chen’, and was planning to earn more spiritual stones for cultivation, it seems things were going to start going awry…
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“Chief Chen, the Stone Gu sold out quickly in the market this month.
Should we purchase more materials to make more?”
At the gate of the Gu refining field beside Spirit Moon Lake, a stout man politely asked Chen Dengming.
This man, named Wu Chen, was the cultivator who had initially invited Chen Dengming to join the Gold Word Workshop in the old shed area.
Back then, he had to hand over a low-grade spiritual stone through Xu Wei as if he was afraid of dirtying his own hands.
Now, however, he had been assigned to work under Chen Dengming, responsible for guarding the Gu refining field.
This was quite a turnaround compared to his prior attitude.
“The fast sales are due to the escalating unrest in the concentration area.
Has there been any more robberies by masked cultivators at the sales points recently?
Have we found out which force was behind those counterfeit workshops?”
Chen Dengming inquired as he entered the Gu refining field.
The refining process for the Stone Gu is not particularly difficult.
The key lies in choosing the right location and controlling the refining time and daily maintenance.
If any cultivator is dedicated to research, they should be able to gradually figure out how to refine this ordinary Gu.
Now that the situation is tense and the Zhu family is showing strong intentions to win back the concentration areas they once surrendered to the Luo family, the loose cultivators in the concentration area are nervous and buying talismans and magic artifacts for protection.
Compared with talismans, all kinds of Gu poison and snake Gu sell even better and at lower prices.
They are particularly useful during crucial moments and sell extremely well in the market in the concentration area.
Most of the purchasers were innate martial artists and lower-level cultivators, leading to Chen Dengming and Xu Ning earning handsome profits in the past month.
Seeing how profitable the Gu market was, the other forces naturally became envious.
Not to mention the masked robbers, there were even small workshops that started to produce imitation Reed Beetle Gu.
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These counterfeit Gu were slightly weaker in toxicity, but made up for it with a cheaper price.
They were being sold on a small scale in the market and going like hotcakes.
At this point, Wu Chen reported, “In the last two days, the Lord has dispatched more people to guard the sales points, and no one dares to rob them anymore.
The Lord suspects that the folks who stole the Gu objects might be from the Iron Forest Hall.
As for the small workshops, it’s hard to tell which forces are behind them, it could be anyone.
Thus, Lord Xu decided to work with the Business League to sell the next batch of Gu goods at the Jingxiu Workshop, thereby opening up the market there, which is more stable and safe.
We will work together with the Business League to block counterfeit goods on both sides of the market, completely monopolizing it.
The only problem is …”
Chen Dengming raised an eyebrow, “What’s the problem?”
“The only problem is, the Chief suggested that you should personally accompany this batch of Gu goods.
He’s afraid that the Business League might play tricks.
After all, you are the expert in Gu.”
“Hmm ! I’ll discuss this matter with Lord Xu again.”
Chen Dengming paused, turned to Wu Chen and asked, “Anything else?”
Wu Chen was taken aback, and immediately bowed and smiled, “Nothing else, I won’t disturb you anymore.”
“Hmm!”
After Wu Chen left, Chen Dengming raised his brows, looked at the stone forest filled with rock lumps and rotten spiritual loam, and at the two cultivators guarding the entrance.
He pondered in silence.
“Just the profits of one month, from the first batch of goods.
Can’t Xu Ning contain his excitement anymore?
Or am I thinking too much?”
Over the past month, Chen Dengming has made over thirty low-grade Spirit Stones as dividends from the Gu Market at the Gold Word Workshop.
Over thirty low-grade Spirit Stones is a lot for Chen Dengming, but for Xu Ning, they should not be a significant source of income.
But one must know, this income is what’s left after deducting Xu Ning’s so-called site fees, daily personnel expenses, and ‘kickback’ expenses, and then split fifty-fifty between the two.
There are at least reasonable details for site fees and daily personnel expenses.
But for that so-called ‘kickback fee’, it involves the big shot behind Xu Ning and there’s no accounting record for it.
Or, even if there is one, it won’t be shown to Chen Dengming.
Therefore, Xu Ning only needs to take a little profit in the ‘kickback’ fee, he can pocket sixty or seventy low-grade spirit stones without having to notify Chen Dengming.
This is where the real money lies.
For Xu Ning, earning a hundred low-grade spirit stones a month is already a very lucrative deal.
As for this, Chen Dengming turns a blind eye.
He has always held the view that one should only bite off as much as they can chew.
Even if he were given three hundred low-grade spirit stones a month, with his current strength, he couldn’t keep them all.
Thirty would be sufficient.
Moreover, purity clarifies but does not nurture.
But the current problem is that Xu Ning is dissatisfied with the unstable and small market here, and wants to form an alliance with the Business League to jointly develop the territory on the Brocade Mill side.
He insists that he should personally follow the Business League’s merchant team to the Brocade Mill.
This is also a reasonable request.
After all, Chen Dengming is now the main person in charge of the Gu Market and is the Chief of the Gold Word Workshop.
Expanding new markets with him personally in command should be a sure success.
But now, more than a dozen forces in the gathering area have set their sights on his Gu refining skill.
This Gu refining skill can be said as the alchemy.
The situation is not very peaceful now, and Iron Forest Hall and Huayu Sect, supported by the Zhu Family, are very interested in the profits of Gu objects.
A clever person like Xu Ning couldn’t possibly be unaware of this.
At this time, is it too hasty to insist on sending him to follow the merchant team to the Brocade Mill?
Yes, he has already spread the news privately that Miss Luo Family does not allow a third person in the gathering area to know the Gu refining skill.
But this kind of threat, while good for intimidating people on the surface, wasn’t much.
When the benefits reach such a level, many low-ranking cultivators are willing to take risks.
Especially the forces supported by the Zhu family, they won’t take it seriously.
“I need to speed up my cultivation.
The cultivation environment in the gathering place is not stable anymore.
If not, I might have to abandon the difficult business that I have worked hard to establish and go out to avoid all this.
I have enough spirit stones for the moment.
Making money can’t be rushed, safety comes first…”
Chen Dengming was walking slowly on the cobblestone path with his hands on his back, feeling a bit sentimental.
Plans can’t keep up with changes.
He always puts safety first, and making money second.
Unless he is completely out of money hindering his cultivation, he will never take a risk.
Now that the spirit stones are still enough, and the cultivation environment has suddenly deteriorated.
All sorts of interests and petty matters also cause him trouble.
The Zhu family and the Luo family are about to go to war at any time.
The desire to find a quiet and comfortable place to cultivate is becoming increasingly strong.
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After strolling around the Gu refining site, Chen Dengming reminded a few cultivators at the first level of Qi Cultivation to look after the protective array.
Soon after, he arrived in the peaceful residence by the lake.
He activated the spiritual energy by flicking his fingers.
In an instant, the house like a tree house lit up with dazzling light from the spirit stones on the ground, and spiritual energy was born.
Whoo, Whoo, Whoo…
Array flags started to flutter automatically without wind.
The soul snatching array plate at the center emitted spiritual light and was activated.
Chen Dengming began cultivating the “Three Elements Gathering Spirit Skill” in the Soul Snatching Array.
Plenty of noticeable green, black, red, yellow and other spiritual energies are floating in the air.
Only a large amount of white spiritual energy, full of sharp aura, quickly swarmed towards the celestial spirit on Chen Dengming’s head, instantly eliminating a small amount of green energy, and then pouring into Chen Dengming’s celestial spirit.
With the soul snatching array activated, Chen Dengming used the formation to directly snatch a large amount of gold attribute spiritual energy for cultivation.
Once the surrounding gold attribute spiritual energy was consumed, he would snatch the wood attribute spiritual energy.
So going back and forth, the interference between the two types of spiritual energies was reduced a lot, and the cultivation efficiency increased by at least fifty percent, which was quite effective in the wilderness.
However, the only drawback is that he needs to change his cultivation site frequently.
Chen Dengming usually only activated the soul snatching array in the peaceful place every three days.
Three days was almost enough for the missing spiritual energy to gradually recover.
He had already spent a fair amount of money to get Jiang Qiang to make two sets of this soul-snatching array recently.
One set was placed in the courtyard within the gathering place, and the other set was in this peaceful dwelling.
A month ago, when he had just returned to the gathering place, he successfully broke through to the third level of Qi Cultivation, thus increasing his lifespan by another fifteen years.
A month passed, with the help of the soul-snatching array and the Clear Spirit Pill, his cultivation was not slow.
Every time he practiced the Three Elements Gathering Spirit Skill four times, he could accumulate a certain level of cultivation proficiency.
However, compared with the time in the Luo Family, it was still about thirty percent worse.
As Chen Dengming concentrated, the panel surfaced in his mind.
“Qi Cultivation Third Level Cultivator[Chen Dengming]
Life: 163/222
Spiritual Root: Gold, Wood (mid-grade 50/100)
Martial Arts: ”Chen Family Martial Arts Compendium” (Complete 99/100)
Daoism: “Gu Refining Chapter” (Master 25/100), “Three Elements Gathering Spirit Skill” (three-layer 118/300), “Life-Shortening Cultivation Enhancement Skill” (one-layer 37/100), “Big Fireball Skill” (Expert 11/100), “Artifact Controlling Secret” (Expert 11/100), “Wood Escape Skill” (Expert 3/100), “Gold Spear Skill” (Expert 9/100), “Godspeed Skill” (Beginner 10/100)”
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