books44 Chapter 76 Business in the World: Give and Take
Chapter 76 Business in the World: Give and Take
Li Tingyun asked, "I want to accumulate a lot of good karma in a short period of time. Is that possible?"
Si Wuxie countered, "How short is 'short'? Give me a timeframe so I can answer."
Li Tingyun: "Three..."
Si Wuxie: "Three days? That's almost impossible!"
"two……"
Li Tingyun said several times, "One."
Si Wuxie: "..."
Are you kidding me?!
He thought to himself: You're dreaming.
An ordinary person lives for sixty years, and at the end of their life, they can't do many good deeds.
As the saying goes, "Doing good is as easy as climbing a mountain, while doing evil is as easy as a landslide." Accumulating good deeds is not easy, but doing evil is not so difficult.
Few people are able to accumulate enough good karma to avoid the calamities of purgatory.
Living is a trial by fire, a crucible of heaven and earth tormenting human lifespan; even in death, suffering continues, as creation itself brings misery to all living beings.
"I think this approach is blocked; you should try a different strategy."
Si Wuxie said, "Instead of 'accumulating' good deeds bit by bit, we'll directly 'alter' the merit book."
Although doing so may incur divine retribution, it is the only highly efficient method.
"It seems I'll have to deal with Judge Cui Jue."
Li Tingyun held a chess piece between two fingers and gently tapped the white jade chessboard. "You know this person better than I do. Are you confident that you can get the Judge's Pen from him and change the Book of Merits?"
"The Judge's Pen is Cui Jue's life-bound weapon. No one would willingly hand over their life-bound weapon to someone else. Moreover, the position of Judge is related to the order of reincarnation. Cui Jue would rather die than touch those two books."
Si Wuxie changed the subject, "However... it's not entirely hopeless. If the hard approach doesn't work, we can try the soft approach. We can find a way to deceive him once, and secretly change the merit book. That way, we can get away with it."
Cui Jue was busy with official duties, having to check the lifespans and merits of a large number of deceased people every day. The pile of documents on his desk could bury him alive, so he had no time to specifically check the detailed information of an immortal cultivator.
"I knew I'd found the right person."
Li Tingyun laughed and said, "You're an expert at swindling and cheating."
"Each each other."
Si Wuxie felt subtly insulted and muttered under her breath, "You're not going to back down either."
"However, on the other hand, in business, there is always give and take."
After understanding the other party's needs, he will start to state his own conditions.
"If I can help you achieve your goal, what benefits will you offer me in return?"
Li Tingyun pointed at Xia Changfeng, "How about I sell him to you?"
Xia Changfeng: "???"
You two are doing business, and I'm just here as a mascot, getting shot even when I'm not doing anything?!
Si Wuxie covered his smile with his Lingyun Fan, "What use would I have for this silly roe deer? In my eyes, he's worthless."
Xia Changfeng: "..."
Si Wuxie's neck tightened, and he couldn't help but cough. He rested his chin on his fan, thought for a moment, and then said, "I can't afford to be with him."
"How about this: while I'm going to find Cui Jue to do things for you, I'll have him assist me. He has to listen to me in everything and is not allowed to disobey."
Xia Changfeng got an erection.
The fist is hard.
"can."
Li Tingyun sold him off cheaply on the spot.
“You sign a contract for three days. During these three days, he will be at your command.”
Xia Changfeng: A humiliated face, but he had no choice but to sign.
Si Wuxie: A smug face, but with a ferocious expression.
See that, little brother? Your older brother will always be your older brother.
Don't even think about disobeying your superiors in this lifetime, you brat, don't you dare cause trouble!
Li Tingyun thought that Si Wuxie was smart enough, but his strength was too weak, while Xia Changfeng was the exact opposite.
The two of them were perfectly matched, just like a mortise and tenon joint.
Using the right combination makes work less tiring and can double your chances of success.
Si Wuxie could naturally see through his thoughts.
If it weren't to ensure absolute safety, why would he let his subordinates follow orders from others?
Selling Xia Changfeng to him was at most a joke.
Si Wuxie still didn't gain any substantial benefits.
He simply gave Li Tingyun a look; smart people don't need reminders.
Li Tingyun said, "In addition, the Taiji Palace will help you reorganize Yongjie Town and reinforce those weak and fragile barriers."
When Si Wuxie heard him suddenly mention Eternal Calamity Town, he was not surprised at all that he had his eye on this seemingly insignificant but highly profitable piece of meat.
Li Tingyun continued, "At that time, you can continue to do your 'black market trade' there, but if we can make money together, I also want to get involved."
Si Wuxie saw through his ambition and tentatively asked, "Could it be that the Taiji Palace is lacking even a little bit of the resources of Eternal Calamity Town?"
"Of course we're short of money! Who in the world would complain about not having enough?"
Li Tingyun lived up to both his nickname and Wangcai's dog name.
But the main reason was not that he loved money, but that Taiji Palace was really short of resources.
After all, it is a newly established sect. How can it compare to the accumulation of several generations of other sects? The ten major immortal sects in the cultivation world have been prosperous for a long time, and all kinds of cultivation resources have been divided up by them, leaving very little.
Take the spirit stone mines, for example. They're all already owned; their territories were established hundreds of years ago.
How many years has the Taiji Palace been established? Li Tingyun himself is only two hundred years old, which is incredibly young in the eyes of many cultivators.
Whether it's a spirit stone mine or a magic stone mine, Taiji Palace can't occupy even one... not counting what they steal.
However, relying solely on plundering is not a sustainable long-term strategy.
In order to hoard resources, the Taiji Palace also had another barbaric method: "reclaiming wasteland".
Clearing land is what is meant by "cutting through thorns and brambles".
Any extremely inauspicious place that no one dares to go to, such as the Land of Heavenly Defeat, the Land of Four Absolutes, or the Land of Extreme Evil, is very much to their liking.
Just like cats eat fish, dogs gnaw on meat, turtles look at mung beans, and Ultraman fights monsters.
It is said that even the East Sea Ruins—a legendary bottomless valley in the vast ocean, the place where all things end—has been visited several times by many ruthless people in the Taiji Palace.
However, dangerous places are fraught with peril, with ridiculously high casualty rates, and most of them are "poor mountains and bad waters," which are not comparable to immortal abodes or ancient secret realms. If you want to develop them, the input and output are disproportionate, and you often can't find any useful resources.
Aside from the fact that the villainous organization is a bunch of lunatics from top to bottom, regardless of any nonsense, no matter where the south or north is, or whether it's three times seven or twenty-eight or twenty-nine, they just dare to roar and charge in!
This is why the population of Taiji Hall and Sixiang City is relatively small.
They love to flirt with death.
Each of them possesses formidable fighting and destructive power.
Perhaps this is a perfect example of birds of a feather flocking together.
The Taiji Hall as a whole has a crazy and frenzied atmosphere, and everyone's mental state looks exceptionally beautiful.
However... you can doubt the villain's intelligence, doubt the villain's purpose, but you must never doubt the villain's execution ability.
What wouldn't they dare to think about, what wouldn't they dare to do?
Even if there's no motivation, create it and go for it!
Give him a shovel, and he'll dig through the entire earth.
It dragged all of humanity down with it.
Faced with a barrage of criticism, the villain will only think that these are stupid humans who are incapable of communication.
When faced with difficulties and obstacles, the villain's first reaction is: things are starting to get interesting.
They dare to think and act, and dare to use blind confidence to overthrow everyone, including opponents and teammates... cough cough.
In conclusion, this spirit of not hesitating to achieve one's goals is naturally suited for building a career, and if one's crooked ideas are used in the right way, they might just create miracles.
Even if it's a bottomless abyss, if you keep going, you'll still have a bright future ahead.