46: Chapter 46 Making a fortune every day, wealth rolling in

It completely overturned the commercial landscape of Luoyun Town that had persisted for decades.

In this earthquake, the former hegemon—the "Hundred Herbs Hall" of the Town Mayors Office—became the biggest loser.

Their Low Grade Qi Gathering Powder turned from a highly sought-after hard currency overnight into worthless trash that no one cared about.

Facing the "Gus Pills" which had no medicinal toxins and efficacy over ten times stronger, no Cultivator with a normal brain would spare another glance at the shelves of "Hundred Herbs Hall".

In just three days.

The Medicinal Pill business of "Hundred Herbs Hall" completely collapsed.

Daily sales plummeted from hundreds of taels of silver in the past to less than one tael, and they couldn't even pay the shop rent, so they had to close down.

On the other side, the entrance to "Gus Pills" presented a completely different and bustling scene.

Gu Yan struck while the iron was hot, renovating the rice shop that had been sealed by the Town Mayors Office and converting it into the Gu Family's first and only specialized Medicinal Pill store in the market.

From the first day of opening, the entrance to the shop was packed tightly by Cultivators who had heard the news.

The queue extended dozens of meters from the shop entrance, even turning a corner and stretching onto another street.

"Each person is limited to purchasing three pills per day!"

"Stay in line! No cutting in line! Violators will have their purchasing qualifications revoked!"

The Gu Family's employees maintained order with hoarse voices, so busy they didn't have a moment to rest, not even time to drink a sip of water.

There was no helping it, there were simply too many people!

Not only local Cultivators from Luoyun Town, but even Loose Cultivators from surrounding villages and towns rushed over overnight after hearing the news, just to obtain one of the legendary "Divine Pill"s.

The top-grade Qi Gathering Powder had completely become a strategic resource.

In short supply!

Every day, apart from Cultivating, Gu Yan spent almost all his remaining time in the Pill Refining Room.

Fortunately, he was now at Qi Refining Stage 6, with vigorous True Qi, and coupled with his mastery of the knowledge in "Basics of Alchemy", refining such low-level Medicinal Pills was merely a trivial task for him.

One furnace of Medicinal Pills produced five pills, taking less than an hour.

In a day, he could easily refine nearly a hundred top-grade Qi Gathering Powders.

And each Medicinal Pill could bring him an income of five Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

One day meant five hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones!

What a terrifying number this was!

One must know, the former Wang Family's entire fortune accumulated over several generations was only a mere one hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones!

The Gu Family had truly begun to make a fortune daily!

The financial crisis caused by the previous blockade of their industries was completely resolved on the second day the Medicinal Pill business opened.

Not only that, the Family's treasury began to be filled rapidly at a staggering speed!

Inside the accounting room in the backyard of the Gu Family mansion.

Steward Gu Zhong, with a few carefully selected and most loyal old employees, was busy counting the day's income around a huge Eight Immortals table.

There was no room left on the table for copper coins and broken silver.

Piled up like a mountain were ingots of gleaming gold and boxes of... Low-Grade Spirit Stones shimmering with a lustrous light!

The clatter of the abacus sounded incessantly.

"Uncle Zhong... I... I have never seen so much money in my life..." A young employee, looking at the golden light before him that was enough to blind one's eyes, said with a trembling voice from excitement.

"Have some ambition!" Although Steward Gu Zhong scolded him, his wrinkled old face had long since bloomed into a chrysanthemum with a smile, and even his hands counting the money were trembling slightly. "This is just the beginning! This is all thanks to the Old Ancestor's blessing!"

"Exactly! The Old Ancestor is truly a living immortal descended to earth!"

"I finally understand now, what Town Mayors Office, what Wang Family, in front of our Old Ancestor's immortal methods, they are nothing!"

"Haha, counting money until my hands cramp, this life... I wouldn't have dared to dream of it before!"

The accounting room was filled with a joyful atmosphere.

The gloom and mist that had previously shrouded the Gu Family had long been swept away.

Replacing it was an unprecedented sense of pride and a vision full of infinite hope for the future!

Gu Yan was not carried away by this sudden huge wealth.

He knew very well that gold and silver were the lifelong pursuit of Mortals.

But for Cultivators, Spirit Stones were the true hard currency.

And more precious than Spirit Stones were resources!

He unhesitatingly invested most of the daily Medicinal Pill income into purchasing various Cultivation resources.

Higher-year medicinal herbs were used to research and refine more Advanced Medicinal Pills.

Tough Yao Beast skins and bones were used to make protective inner armor for his Family.

Ore containing Spiritual Qi was used to lay the most solid Cultivation Foundation for his two children.

He even spent a large sum of money to buy a set of incomplete "Spirit Gathering Formation" Formation Flags from a passing merchant, which were said to be able to gather Spiritual Qi.

The Gu Family's Foundation grew rapidly and became substantial in these short fifteen days, like a snowball rolling.

As one grew, the other waned.

The Gu Family's business was in full swing.

While the Town Mayors Office's industries plummeted.

The complete destruction of the Medicinal Pill business was just the first falling domino.

Due to the disrepute of "Hundred Herbs Hall", other businesses under the Town Mayors Office, such as cloth shops and restaurants, were also hit hard.

The townspeople no longer believed in the "quality" of the Town Mayors Office.

They would rather walk a few more steps to buy from others than step into a Town Mayors Office shop again.

After half a month, with one waning and the other waxing, in terms of wealth alone, the Gu Family already had a faint trend of surpassing the Town Mayors Office and becoming the wealthiest household in Luoyun Town!

Town Mayor Zhao Hong's proud plan of "removing the firewood from under the cauldron" had become a complete joke in the face of Gu Yan's dimensionality-reducing strike that could be called a "technical barrier".

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Town Mayors Office, study.

The atmosphere was as oppressive as a solid block of ice.

"Clap!"

A fine blue and white porcelain teacup was smashed fiercely onto the ground by Town Mayor Zhao Hong, shattering into pieces.

His chest heaved violently, and his face, which was usually as calm as an ancient well, was now filled with gloom and rage.

Kneeling at his feet was a trembling servant, reporting the outrageously booming business of "Gus Pills".

"Daily... daily income of five hundred... Low-Grade Spirit Stones..."

This number was like a red-hot steel needle, fiercely stabbing at Town Mayor Zhao Hong's heart.

Five hundred!

All the industries of his Town Mayors Office worked hard for a month, and the net profit was only this much!

And the other party earned it in one day!

"Good... a very good Gu Yan!"

"A very good... technical barrier!"

Town Mayor Zhao Hong squeezed a few words through his teeth, his voice filled with bone-chilling coldness and murderous intent.

He knew that the commercial means had completely failed.

To deal with Gu Yan and to obtain the secrets on him, there was now only one last, and most direct, path left to take.

He slowly closed his eyes, seemingly making a difficult decision.

After a long while, he opened them again, his eyes filled with indifferent murderous intent.

He took out a gold-stamped invitation and wrote a few words on it with a brush.

"Come here."

"Deliver this invitation to the Gu Family."

"Say that in three days, I will host a banquet at Wangjiang Tower in the town center, firstly to apologize to Old Immortal Gu for my son's previous recklessness."

"Secondly, I also want to discuss with Old Immortal Gu the future... commercial landscape of our Luoyun Town."