All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 223 - 83 Earning Wildly Without Capital (3/3)

Chapter 223: Chapter 83 Earning Wildly Without Capital (3/3)

"I’m grateful for the reminder, brothers,"

An Jing smiled slightly, cupping his hands in thanks, and then gestured for Huo Qing to keep driving.

"I really thought they were going to demand a bribe..."

As the car slowly started moving, Huo Qing, still shaken, said, "The Day Tiger Gang used to do just that... If you didn’t pay, they truly wouldn’t let you enter the town, and might even give you a good beating!"

"Don’t worry."

An Jing was clear, "Those people are just talkative, they bully the weak and fear the strong. If you really show weakness, they indeed might rob you."

"But if you’re not afraid of them, how could such members of the City Guard Army dare to strike someone who is a ’city dweller’ like you?"

"So that’s how it is..."

Huo Qing and You Ruhui both nodded, somewhat confused. The former was used to being cautious, while the latter had not expected such a confrontation.

Interpersonal skills are indeed a crucial part of being powerful.

That’s what An Jing thought, even though he himself often couldn’t help thinking ’just kill them all’, but not to mention that many people don’t deserve death, some conflicts could be avoided with just a few words, without needlessly creating problems.

"The manager responsible for Chonggang Town from Mount Xiao Zhe is named Lu Huohong, just call him Mr. Lu,"

At that moment, Huo Qing also made contact, and while communicating with the other party through the chip, he briefed An Jing and You Ruhui on the details of the transaction, "This time, we are buying Warehouse No. 3, a large-scale warehouse located at the southwestern edge of Chonggang Town. It occupies a large area and has older facilities; the last maintenance was six months ago, and this transaction does not include follow-up maintenance, meaning we are just buying the warehouse and the land."

"The specifics of the contract process have already been drafted. Next we will simply exchange spiritual objects for the signing of the contract, very convenient."

Indeed very convenient, An Jing nodded slightly. All this was facilitated by Huo Qing’s identity as a ’Xuanye City man.’

If it were someone from the safe area, buying a house would definitely be troublesome, first needing to submit past living records, establish various breach-of-contract oaths, and most importantly, the contracts from the housing authority are difficult to get approved, requiring numerous submissions and many guarantees, all intended to tightly bind the person to the property.

As for someone like An Jing, from a foreign wilderness?

Pah! What filthy wilderness person, coming to our safe area to beg?

Only residents from Xuanye City could purchase property in the safe area so easily and conveniently.

This is also why Huo Qing, or rather, the majority of those in the safe area, have always longed to be city dwellers, which indeed has its privileges and conveniences, tangible benefits!

It’s not that Chonggang Town lacked residents, just that at this time they were all at work, while a few were at home waiting for the battles to end.

Above the dusty long streets, only a few pairs of City Guards patrolled, but as An Jing and his group moved to more remote areas, even the guards became scarce.

Shortly after, they arrived in front of a large, grey-white warehouse that was surrounded by a wall.

There, An Jing and the others met the first resident aside from the City Guards, a middle-aged male worker with grey hair, a weary expression, and wearing a robe from Mount Xiao Zhe.

"Is this Mr. Huo?"

As everyone exited the vehicle, the manager approached An Jing directly, sighing deeply, "It’s good that you arrived quickly, or I would have been gone by afternoon."

"Manager Lu, this is Mr. Huo,"

An Jing glanced sideways to signify and Huo Qing stepped forward, Manager Lu reacted for a moment, then understood the situation.

—Wealthy wilderness individuals purchasing property in partnership with city friends? Not unheard of.

After they exchanged formalities, he still turned back to An Jing, who obviously was in charge, "If we’re going to transact, please make it quick. Otherwise, the handover work here would take at least half a ten-day, or at worst, start from one or two months, which is really too troublesome."

"No problem."

And An Jing directly took out the spirit stones from his pocket, "Two and a half taels, market price 7,500 Good Deeds."

"Hmm?"

Manager Lu, originally weary and all about getting the work done quickly, suddenly looked up.

His strength was the same as that of the grey-haired ponytail female manager An Jing had encountered before, both at the sixth level of Qi Refinement; at this moment, his eyesight went straight when he saw the spirit stones.

Swallowing a gulp of saliva, Manager Lu initially wanted to keep up appearances, but realizing there was no need, he simply dropped the act, "Are these natural spirit stones? No contamination by demonic Qi, and never reused?"

"Try them yourself."

An Jing was not afraid and tossed the Spirit Stone towards the other party, startling Manager Lu who exclaimed. He immediately displayed his Wind Controlling Skills, guiding the Spirit Stone securely into his own hands, "What are you doing! If it breaks, I am not compensating!"

While he said this, the moment the Spirit Stone was in his hands, Manager Lu revealed an overwhelmingly joyous expression, "It really is a Natural Spirit Stone! My god, such a pure aura, the Breath of Pure Spiritual Essence..."

An Jing patiently waited while the other party fiddled with the Spirit Stone, rubbing and handling it extensively, while he quietly asked Ruohui beside him, "How is it?"

"Upper-middle." Ruohui formed a silencing hand gesture and whispered, "The metal is strong and the flame intense, the flame molds the metal shape, it’s an excellent place for storing and forging metal... Even if it’s not used as a warehouse, it’s suitable for a Forging Soldier factory, very suitable for cultivation!"

"Alright."

An Jing slightly nodded. Having gone through so many battles, he actually felt his Taibai Divine Skill, or at least his Special Abilities, were about to awaken, especially since he was a Metal Spirit Root, indeed he had some natural talent in this area.

As long as he learned more about forging or puppetry Art of Magic, maybe he would awaken related abilities as well?

"Subdue Evil, do you know how?" An Jing asked inwardly, and Subdue Evil gave an affirmative reply, "I do. But we have always been on the run, where would we have the time to learn these skills that require a stable location?"

"So you want to buy a base in the Tianyuan Realm, I support that, we indeed need a stable and private place for cultivation."

After confirming all this, An Jing let Ruohui remove the silencing hand gesture and looked at Manager Lu, "Is that enough?"

"It’s missing about ten percent of its Spiritual Power."

After pondering for a while, Manager Lu frowned, "This Spirit Stone has been used, hasn’t it?"

An Jing knew very well this was just Manager Lu’s instinct to drive the price down, and he calmly replied, "Only if it’s been used would you know that this is an original Natural Spirit Stone, not a recharged second-hand one."

"Anyway, it’s not much, it won’t hinder you from refining the Breath of Pure Spiritual Essence."

"That’s also true." Manager Lu obviously couldn’t give up on this Spirit Stone, clearly planning to substitute it with his own personal Spiritual Objects to deliver to his superiors.

Few thousand Good Deeds for a Spiritual Object, he indeed had some, but Natural Spirit Stones, a controlled item like that, he couldn’t buy at all.

Good Deeds are easy to earn, but Spirit Stones are hard to find.

Not to mention that An Jing’s price on the Spirit Stone exceeded the house prices, even if it didn’t, he would cover the extra cost himself.

"Alright."

Lifting his head, Manager Lu appeared much more amiable, "I’ll count it as seven thousand Good Deeds for you, the extra one thousand three hundred will be calculated separately later... Mr. Huo?"

He looked at Huo Qing, who was busy catching a break on the side, focused on reading the Formation Method Catalog. Huo Qing, tapped by An Jing, finally reacted, coughed once, and put away the catalog, seriously saying, "Then let’s sign a contract!"

"No." An Jing tapped Huo Qing’s shoulder again and suggested, "Puppetry!"

—The extra Good Deeds, ask Mount Xiao Zhe if they have any second-hand Puppetry!

Though An Jing didn’t specify, Huo Qing suddenly realized, he immediately said, "Then, can we use the extra Good Deeds to purchase your company’s second-hand Puppetry? Suitable for mining and civil construction alike."

"Not to hide from you, we are quite interested in the art of Puppetry?"

"Indeed, there are."

Manager Lu stroked his beard, considering selling some second-hand Puppetry would just be a matter of signing another document for him, making the accounts even easier to handle, "But let me be upfront about it."

"Without company authorization, these puppets cannot connect to the main Earth Vein, if you want to use them, you’ll have to provide your own energy source."

"Just for learning."

An Jing also spoke up, "Just tell us how many can we buy with one thousand three hundred Good Deeds?"

"Five units." Manager Lu calculated, "But they are all nearly abandoned mining project Puppetry... it wouldn’t be surprising if they turn into scrap at any moment, if you want them, I can add a set of maintenance tools and spare parts."

In reality, they were just scrap still capable of movement.

Manager Lu found it hard to imagine that you could actually exchange Good Deeds for such half-abandoned Puppetry.

This world, how could there be such a lucrative business?

"Five units!"

And An Jing also felt full of emotion internally, "A random Spirit Stone obtained from a grunt of the True Demon Sect could exchange for a large warehouse and five high-tech semi-automatic Puppetries in the Tianyuan Realm?"

"This world, to think there could be such a profit-making business without any capital?"