The table was filled with Open Heaven Pills, dazzling the three people in the room. After the business was done, the only thing left was to divide the spoils. This was an exciting moment.
Yang Kai looked at the two of them and waved his hand, splitting the pills on the table into two and pushing half of them towards Die You, “Xiao Die, this is your capital.”
Die You smiled and put it away. Today’s purchase of the Jade Fire Silkworm had cost Die You a lot of money. Without her, this plan wouldn’t have worked. Yang Kai didn’t have any Open Heaven Pills with him, so there was nothing to say about taking back her capital.
Yang Kai took action again, splitting the remaining half in half and pushing the other half to Die You, “This is yours.”
Die You stared at him with her beautiful eyes.
Yang Kai replied, “We agreed to give you double.”
He then took out another fifty pills from his half and pushed them towards Old Fang, “Old Fang, don’t think it’s too little. Xiao Die put in a lot of money, and she was the one who came up with this idea, so it’s more than enough.”
Old Fang’s face flushed red with excitement, “It's a lot, quite a lot. I’m just running errands for Young Lady Die You, that’s more than enough.” It was indeed quite a lot. A servant’s salary was three Spirit Pill a year, and they could occasionally receive some rewards from the Great General. If they were to remain neutral in the fruit garden, perhaps they would receive some other Spirit Pills, but overall, a servant could earn more than ten or twenty Spirit Pills a year, with the smallest being five or six. Any more would be difficult.
But today, all he had to do was follow Die You and obtain fifty Open Heaven Pills, equivalent to several years of hard work. How could Old Fang not be satisfied?
All of this was thanks to Yang Kai. Old Fang really didn’t think it was too little, so in his excitement, he wanted to put away the Spirit Pills, but seeing that Die You hadn’t made a move yet, if he acted too rashly, it would make him seem too unscrupulous, so he suppressed his eagerness and waited.
Die You pursed her lips into a smile and split the half in front of her into two, pushing the other half back to Yang Kai.
Yang Kai and Old Fang both stared at her in shock.
Die You said, “Little Brother is benevolent, how can an older sister like me take advantage of you? This time, I’ve paid for it, so I’ll take more. You can keep the rest. Since you’ve just arrived, you need to use the Open Heaven Pill.”
Yang Kai looked at the one in front of her, estimated to be around a hundred pills, and couldn’t help laughing, “Didn’t we agree to split it and add another half? You can’t expect me to go back on my word, right?”
Die You pursed her lips and said, “I know you’re a man of your word, Big Sister didn’t misjudge you, but no matter how much effort you put in, no matter how many benefits you receive, if you insist on giving them to me, I won’t feel comfortable holding them… Moreover, since the path has been opened, it’s not like this is the only time. In the future, if Big Sister follows you, will we be afraid of not being able to earn enough Open Heaven Pills? I believe that as long as I follow you in the future, the amount of Open Heaven Pills I can earn will only be greater. This is called a thin stream flowing endlessly!”
Seeing how serious and honest she was, Yang Kai guessed that even if he tried to force her, she wouldn’t accept it, so he nodded and said, “Good, then we’ll work together to make a fortune.”
On the side, Old Fang’s heart was filled with anxiety. He had contributed the least, and although he had also taken the least, compared to the price he had paid, these fifty Open Heaven Pills in front of him were already a generous reward. After struggling for a while, he took out five Open Heaven Pills and pushed them back with a pained expression, “I’ll also take less? If Little Brother still has such good things in the future, don’t forget about me.”
Yang Kai glanced at him and laughed, “Forget it, just keep it.”
Old Fang quickly stored the fifty Open Heaven Pills into his Space Ring with a satisfied look.
Yang Kai and Die You also put away their respective Open Heaven Pills. The three people in the room looked at each other and couldn’t help laughing.
Who wouldn’t be happy after making such a big fortune?
“There’s one more thing I need to tell the two of you. The other Spiritual Land’s paths have already been opened. When the market opens next month, we can go there and collect the insects. At that time, the profits we’ll gain will not be one servings, but seven!”
“Did you come to agreement with someone?” Die You asked curiously.
Yang Kai explained what had happened after he met Yu Xueping today and told her that he had found an agent in each of the Spiritual Lands and asked them to help him purchase the insects in each of the Spiritual Lands, a ratio of one to four!
Die You couldn’t help sighing after hearing this, “Yu Xueping is quite smart, she actually saw the key to this matter.”
Yang Kai played with an Open Heaven Pill in his hand and chuckled, “In any case, this will be beneficial to us, and if we don’t have their help, we won’t be able to go to other Spiritual Lands to buy insects.”
“That’s not bad… En, I have a suggestion!”
“Speak!” Yang Kai looked at her.
“When the time comes, Old Man Fang and I will step in and contribute our resources. You don’t need to worry about anything else, just be responsible for feeding the Great General and collecting his rewards. When the time comes, Old Man Fang and I will share ten percent of the profits and the rest will be yours.”
Old Fang chuckled, “Half of my achievements is enough.”
Die You smiled lightly at him, “Old Fang, do you know what ten percent is? Are you sure you won’t regret giving it away so generously?”
“How much?” Old Fang asked.
Die You smiled and said, “According to the profits of our Fire Spiritual Land this time, it is almost seven hundred Open Heaven Pills, one achievement is seventy. Moreover, this is a one-to-two ratio of purchasing insects. The other six Spiritual Lands should have a higher ratio, so we should be able to earn more. Ten percent is probably six or seven hundred Open Heaven Pills…”
With a gulp, Old Fang swallowed a mouthful of saliva and stared at Yang Kai anxiously, “Little Brother, I’m afraid I drank too much just now and spoke without thinking. Please don’t take it to heart.”
Yang Kai laughed, “Since the two of you have helped me so much, how could I let you suffer? Ten percent!”
Old Fang felt a burst of gratitude and couldn’t help calculating in his heart. If he and Die You each took ten percent of the Open Heaven Pills, that would be six or seven hundred, so wouldn’t the remaining eighty percent be five or six thousand? He couldn’t help being shocked; this number was simply too terrifying. He had been here for hundreds of years, but he hadn’t been able to collect so many Open Heaven Pills, yet Yang Kai was able to earn so many in a month.
With a solemn expression, he said, “Little Brother, you must not let anyone else know about this, otherwise there will be no peaceful days. This old brother here also swears that if I, Fang Biqi, were to leak even half a word of this matter, I would be struck by lightning and my soul would not be at peace.”
Die You slowly shook her head, “The Fire Spiritual Land’s matters can’t be kept a secret for too long, but the matter of purchasing insects from other Spiritual Lands must be kept strictly confidential. When I go back to see those agents, I’ll have a chat with them. I’m sure it won’t be difficult for them to keep their mouths shut. After all, they’ve also benefited from this, so who would want to make things difficult for themselves?”
Yang Kai nodded, “Then I’ll leave this matter to you.”
“There’s one more thing,” Die You looked at Yang Kai, “You must maintain a good relationship with Manager Zhou. If news of what happened here in Fire Spiritual Land were to leak out, he will definitely be jealous. If you don’t maintain a good relationship with him, you will definitely be hindered in the future.”
Yang Kai suddenly felt a bit annoyed, but after thinking about what she said, he nodded and said, “I’ll find an opportunity to clear things up.” It would be best if he could use this opportunity to pull him out of the problematic fruit garden.
But then again, in the future, when the road to wealth opened, the profits from the Fire Spiritual Land would only be small, so even if it was exposed, it wouldn’t matter. At most, he would just give Zhou Zheng some benefits, which was not a big deal.
After chatting for a while longer, everyone dispersed. Now that everything had been discussed, all that was left was to wait until next month’s opening of the market.
However, the acquisition of Jade Fire Silkworms in Fire Spiritual Land could be brought forward, and this matter was also handled by Die You and Old Fang, so Yang Kai didn’t need to worry about it.
Sitting cross-legged in his room, Yang Kai casually tossed the Spirit Pill in his hand into his mouth. He had never eaten the Open HEaven Pill before, so he couldn’t bear to part with it before. Now, he naturally wanted to taste it.
There was nothing special about it. Zhang Ruoxi had said that the Open Heaven Pill had two uses. One was to increase the grade of an Open Heaven Stage master, but there was a limit to it. At most, it could only increase by one or two grades, and the higher the grade, the harder it was to increase. The other was to help a cultivator purify the power of the Yin-Yang FIve Elements. Therefore, in the entire Outer Universe, the Open Heaven Pill was a hard currency. Basically, the improvement and growth of every cultivator’s strength was inseparable from this spirit pill.
However, the medicinal efficacy of these pills was limited. Only the Open HEaven Pill born from the Heavenly Universe Furnace could help one reach the peak.
Yang Kai had yet to reach the Open Heaven Realm, and the Wood Element energy he had condensed was the essence of a top notch Eternal Tree. This Open Heaven Pill, besides feeling warm and comfortable, had no effect on him. Knowing that eating too much of it would be a waste, Yang Kai ignored it.
Three days passed in a flash.
Early in the morning, the Golden Chicken announced the start of dawn, and the servants’ house was filled with people, transforming into streams of light as they rushed towards the fruit garden.
In front of everyone’s eyes, Great General Si Chen’s body flashed with a golden light and transformed into the size of an ordinary rooster. With a single movement, he landed on Yang Kai’s head, his fat butt twisting in Yang Kai’s hair in a most comfortable position.
Yang Kai’s face twitched as he felt embarrassed, but thinking about the huge benefits this guy had brought him, he could only endure.
After arriving at the fruit garden, he continued to take care of the fruit trees, fertilizing them, watering them, and catching insects, extracting the Earth Vein Fire Spiritual Force and using the Wood Element to nourish them.
However, he didn’t need to bring the Great General around to rob others like he did last month. Doing so would offend too many people, and the benefits he obtained in the end also proved that he will not get as many as Xiao Die's method.
When he had free time, he would drink with Old Fang and live a carefree life. From time to time, people would come to Old Fang to sell Jade Fire Silkworms.
According to Old Fang, he and Die You had already announced that as long as the laborers in the Fire Spiritual Land caught enough insects, they could exchange them for one Open Heaven Pill, so Old Fang’s fruit garden would have people coming over every now and then. As for Die You’s fruit garden, he didn’t know where it is, but thinking about it, the situation on her side should be similar. When they went back to rest, they could feed the Jade Fire Silkworms to the Great General.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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