81 Upgrade (1/2)
”Tell me, what happened actually!” the owner of the Golden Wolf Syndicate, also the appointed city lord, Cao Ming, questioned the subordinates kneeling before him. He was infuriated by the fact everything was stolen from the Inner Courtyard to Outer Courtyard vicinity.
Worst of all, the treasures that were arranged in the open to make them look less obvious suffered consequence when the thieves completely cleared every accessible structure. At this time, only the Core Tower, where the precious item such as Qi Accumulating Pills, Spatial Stones, Qi Weaving Stones, and others is stored, remained safe from the thieves plundering.
With a total amount of 600,000 to 650,000 Qi Sensing Pills this time, their losses in outrageous. As a greedy corrupt official managing the Wen Qing City's financial, this losses is too painful for him to accept! Along with the cauldrons, books, firestones, and medicinal herbs, all raw material is plundered by the group of thieves that not even a single member of the syndicate caught their existence.
But even in his wildest dream, he will never expect that this robbery is not done by a group, but it was the effort of Zhang Wu Ji alone! Will he end up with a heart attack if he knows the truth about how he lost half of his hard earned corrupted fortune?
”City Lord... The representatives from Upper South Merchant Corporation came.” his assistant came forward and reported this incident to his lord. When the news about the representative is made known to Cao Ming, his facial expression becomes better.
”My Money Shaking Tree is here! I wonder what did he bring me this time! You and you, quickly go to the four brothels and bring me five prostitutes from each establishment. Tell them if they do not comply, wait for the Militarized Forces to enforce their duties!” Cao Ming pointed at two of his subordinates and gave them instruction.
”As for the two of you, quickly go purchase some Universal Health Pills for the representatives! Bring back the chefs from Heavenly Flavors Pavilion and Five Spice Pavilion to prepare a feast.” his efficiency is unbelievably amazing. In a short period of time, he arranged most of his subordinates to prepare everything for the enjoyment of the representatives.
When all of them is ready, he returned with plenty of gifts to be presented to the representatives. For him, these people are the one that brings him with the wealth he can never imagine, and for them, the City Lord, Cao Ming, is nothing more than the best pimp in the Wen Qing City.
Since the business will be conducted no matter what happened, it was pointless to behave like a proper gentleman. Their meeting starts with a grand feast accompanied by dancers especially hired to entertain the guests. Given the fact they're literally allowed to do anything they wish, none of them controlled their mortal lust.
The group of dancers is the first to be ravaged by the beast in human skin, with a few corpses lying on the entrance due to their perseverance to not allowing the guests to violate their virginity. After the starters are done, three claps are heard.
In the next moment, twenty prostitutes from the Wen Qing City's top four brothels came inside the room to start serving them. By popping a few Universal Health Pills into their body, their Ancestral Inheritance Roots is aroused once more to begin defiling the beauties sent into the hall like a group of lambs waiting for slaughter.
At the end of the banquet, three dancers dead, with thirty-seven of them defiled. Amongst the twenty prostitutes, nineteen received mental trauma from ravaged by the ten honored guest. The last one failed to bear their brutality and died on the spot.
”I say... City Lord... Each time I'm here for the sake of doing business, I am always welcomed warmly by you with all of this hospitality.” one of the ten representatives initiates a conversation with the City Lord to praise him for the top-notch service.
”Representative Wan's word is too much for this humble lord to accept. As long everyone is rejuvenated with all of these little gestures, this humble lord can be said as doing the right thing at the right time...” Cao Ming smiled as he replied to the first sentences.
”With these kinds of hospitality and gestures, how can the ten of us be mean to you! People! Bring in the merchandise we took here this time!” another representative joined their conversations and ordered his subordinates to bring out all the treasures into the middle of the hall.
”Krang! Krang...” the pile of treasures hidden inside the stacks of higher quality Spatial Stone is withdrawn and arranged nicely. Here, at least treasures worth over 400 Million in gold coins is taken out for Cao Ming to inspect.
”City Lord, based on our relationship, I will not twist around with my words. As long you can make sure that the Upper South Merchant Corporation can establish a foundation here to increase the flow of our business, we will not be stingy with our yearly gift before the starting of every year.”
”As a City Lord that loved his people so much, you won't reject our generous offer, right?” Representative Wan speaks his request. The way he started the word is humble, but the sharpness of the sword in his words still aches the people listening to his words.
”Ah... Representative Wan... This surname Cao have to obtain approval from the Seven Star Sect before he can make such a decision. Hope representative Wan understand the crucial importance of this matter...” Cao Ming bends his standing posture slightly to indicates how sorry he felt regarding this matter.
This reply made Representative Wan's expression to turn sour. The way his mood changed is recognized by the other fellow representatives, where they soon step forward to start retrieving the treasures presented in the middle of the hall.
”Representative Wan, what is this means?” Cao Ming questioned. His emotion becomes nervous as he looked at the treasures slowly decreasing at every flowing second. Staring at Representative Wan and his fellow colleague, Cao Ming mind swayed.
How can he not be? The treasure worth 400 Million Gold Coins decreased until only 150 Million left. One minute later, everything returned into the hand of the representative. They shared their Spatial Ring for a moment to stack all the treasures in one and handed the ring to Representative Wan.
”City Lord, what do you think this surname Wan is? They're collecting the treasure for the sake of my lord. Do you know the price of this Onyx-Class Spatial Ring? In the Crystal Auction City, the price for this ring starts from 300 Million Gold Coins, but they usually sold around 450 Million to 500 Million at the end of the bidding.”
”I'm sure you're interested in this treasure right? What is better than having a wearable ring that able to store so much treasure wherever you go?” Representative Wan presents the ring along with 400 million gold coins worth of treasures inside.
”Hahaha! Representative Wan, you made me nervous for a while there. Deal! I will make sure the Headmaster of Seven Star Sect agrees with the participation of Upper South Merchant Corporation to establish a new foundation in the Wen Qing City!”
”Do Representative Wan have a location for the starting of foundation in mind? If not, this City Lord can introduce you a few locations.” Cao Ming approached Representative Wan and collected the ring in his hand.
”This surname Wan do have a location in mind. Would the City Lord be generous to present the piece of land belonged to your Golden Wolf Syndicate?” Representative Wan smiled as he looked at Cao Ming.
”Wha... What? You want the land where my Golden Wolf Syndicate is occupying for years?”
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Meanwhile, in the Wen Wu City...
”Now now... This kind of waiting is suffering.” Zhang Wu Ji stares at the black gemstone that starts to form in the air. After putting all the ingredients and Spatial Formation Inscriptions and Fighter Qi into the Formation Plate, he activates the plate for it to start the conversion.
But, he thinks differently compared to the people originated from this world. With his UPGRADE System, Zhang Wu Ji already able to shorten the process from ten hours into one hour is all its required. Next, he did not place all his hope on one single Formation Plate, but instead, he activates seven plates at one time.
With the conversion of 0.1 Carat of Spatial Onyx Gem in every hour, Zhang Wu Ji needs to activate this seven plates for a total of 50 times for them to reach the requirement of 5 Carat Spatial Onyx Gem. In total, he'll need a total of fifty hours for them to complete, which is over two days worth of time.
While waiting for the preparation of the Spatial Onyx Gem to complete, Zhang Wu Ji proceeds with the other activities he might have in mind. First of all, he will have to process all the material he stolen from the Golden Wolf Syndicate.
Five days passed without himself noticing about it.
With all materials is processed into their best quality, Zhang Wu Ji now can either choose to proceed with the rewriting of his Cultivation and Martial Manuals or forging pill and equipment. He gave both of them consideration and finally decided on working with the Manual Rewriting first.
Reason?
After such a long period of having no improvement in his martial arts, Zhang Wu Ji is now carrying a new intention to improve them and created something new. Similar to his Bronze-Grade Nourishment Art, it was a duality Attack and Healing ability that's unexpected by any other cultivators.
He's daydreaming. In his mind, a Martial Art that can overwhelm all his opponents below Inner Qi Warrior's strength, and the Cultivation Art that can strengthen a cultivator from his weakest strength into the top of Inner Qi Fighter in less than a year as he does.
”Master, we brought back everything you instructed.” Li Jing and Li Yin reported outside of him private building. Before waiting for his next instruction, Li Yin already entered the Forging Room to arrange the materials neatly in case his master wanted to start forging for something.
As for Li Jing, all the books inside the six Wooden Universal Plates is for his master's direct reading. This means, instead of going into anywhere, it shall go to his master's hand directly. When Zhang Wu Ji came out from his room, he was satisfied with their excellent performance in completing his task.
Their gift for completing his task? The Qiyue Flying Sword. It was a gift worth 300 Million Gold Coins. And like it was nothing, Zhang Wu Ji allowed them to keep it for their personal use. If Yang Chen Kun knows about it, he may throw out not only blood but his internal organs out of anger.