Big Data Cultivation
Chapter 1054: Shared Profits

Chapter 1054: Chapter 1054: Shared Profits

Feng Jun blinked at Huang Fu Wuxia’s words before breaking into a laugh, "If you monopolize the market, my profits... seem to be not very well-protected."

"I won’t deceive you. You will know the details of the trade sooner or later," Huang Fu Wuxia responded nonchalantly, confident about her future maneuvers, "What you need to consider now is... confidentiality!"

"Confidentiality is a big deal, both for me and for you... Only by ensuring exclusive operations can anyone tolerate small-scale trades. Otherwise, no one can bear it, especially when inter-dimensional trades are just for tens of thousands of Gold."

Feng Jun really took those words to heart, as they indeed made sense—not everyone could have a Stone Ring that easily facilitates inter-dimensional traversal, and without substantial trading volumes, the costs could hardly be recouped.

Look at Earth’s ocean-going freighters, there are those that carry one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand tons—why aren’t there any that carry just one thousand tons?

Still, he was a bit curious, "Why would you take such a small order? You just hung up on my phone."

Huang Fu Wuxia’s face flushed, her eyes widened, "I’m idle anyway, why not?"

"Haha," Feng Jun laughed heartily, realizing it wasn’t appropriate to ask further, though he couldn’t help but wonder—could this fellow be trying to probe my background?

He couldn’t be blamed for thinking this way, especially since Chairman Huang Fu had quite the infamous history; he couldn’t afford not to be cautious.

Could it be that Chairman Huang Fu had taken a liking to him? Feng Jun thought it was an improbable scenario; he was past the age for such fantasies.

Time flew swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten days had passed, and the weather warmed up day by day.

It had been a dry spring, but finally, on this day, the drizzling spring rain began to fall.

Feng Jun flew low around Mount Zhige for a week, having already chosen the "Forming Spirit Stones" to be mined. Now, it was time to double-check, looking for any unusual phenomena nearby. If none, he planned to go mining the Spirit Stones at night.

In stolen winds not the moon, stolen rain, not the snow; rainy weather is most suitable for such deeds.

Indeed, there were no unusual phenomena; even because of the rain, eminent monks like Master Xu, Master Yan, and Master Luo had evacuated from the Spirit Gathering Array—being prominent Cultivators, they need not cling to rain-day cultivation, as if they had never seen Spirit Gathering Array before.

However, in the evening, Shangguan Yunjin arrived at Mount Zhige, bringing the latest news from Wang Botai.

Wang Botai was now in Thunder Plains, and he hadn’t forgotten Feng Jun’s request, directing Luo Lieyang to help find mines for "Petrified Firewood" and "Fossilized Insect Corpses."

To Feng Jun’s surprise, even in the Cultivation World, people used coal as an energy source, not only for heating but also for making coke to forge weapons—of course, these were very primitive weapons.

So, coal mines were somewhat valuable, and people were not keen to sell them.

However, the Thunder Plains had three coal mines; one belonged to lightning Cultivators, while the other two were on the plains’ edge. Luo Lieyang told Wang Botai, "Just let me know if you want to buy, and I’ll drive them off. This is the territory of lightning Cultivators; I don’t believe they dare not sell."

Wang Botai had also handed over samples from these three coal mines to Shangguan Yunjin to bring over.

Regarding oil, all was good news. Although this substance also had a high combustion value, since it wasn’t solid, burning it was really troublesome—first, you need a container to hold it, and the smell... only those who burn it would know.

The Thunder Plains had put some effort into finding substitutes for diesel, collecting information about these mining sites, two of which Wang Botai felt quite met Feng Jun’s requirements.

Both of these crude oil sites contained the light crude oil that Feng Jun had requested, and one of them had such high-quality oil that Wang Botai could pour it into a tank, and an all-terrain vehicle could be driven right off.

It must be said, Wang Botai really was a technologist in the wrong line of work, daring to conduct all sorts of experiments—why even bother with cultivation?

The two oil fields’ reserves had also been estimated by people Wang Botai trusted.

Since it was an inter-dimensional matter, they didn’t bother with complicated conversions. To put it in Earth Realm’s terms, the high-quality oil field had reserves of eight billion barrels, while the slightly inferior one had reserves approaching two hundred billion barrels.

These were indeed exceptional oil fields, with the two hundred billion barrels one surpassing Earth Realm’s fifth largest oil field, Iraq’s Rumaila oil field, and not far behind the fourth largest, Saudi Arabia’s Safaniya Oil Field.

Moreover, the reserves of these two oil fields were rough estimates taken at the lower limit; actual reserves being three to five times larger would be normal.

These oil fields spanned more than one hundred square kilometers each, with some scattered households above, which wouldn’t be difficult to relocate—in the Cultivation World, scattered households almost equated to Loose Cultivators.

Most interestingly, both oil fields exhibited self-spouting qualities.

An eminent Cultivator just randomly unleashed a Sword Qi towards the ground, and "pua"—oil spurted out! Seeing the situation getting out of hand, the Cultivator hastily rolled a several-hundred-ton rock and flung it over, "Poof... see if you dare act violently!"

Anyway, that’s the situation. People in the Cultivation World also know that there is some bizarre liquid over there that can burn, but it heavily pollutes the ground and once it erupts, the surface can no longer nurture Spirit Plants.

The way they view oil is roughly how Earthlings view volcanic lava; they know it contains heat, but it’s inefficient to exploit, environmentally damaging and smells terrible. Only the few with special needs would go there to try and extract some.

Both oil fields are located in the wilderness, and the land is cheap. Each location could be acquired for around seven thousand Spirit Stones—keep in mind, Feng Jun spent eight thousand Spirit Stones on a small courtyard in Qiuchen Market.

Feng Jun felt this was a huge win, and immediately decided, "Let’s secure these two oil fields and relocate the people there."

"Brother Wang has already paid a deposit, two thousand eight hundred Spirit Stones," Shangguan Yunjin replied with a smile, "He also thinks that these would definitely be to Mr. Feng’s liking, so he took the initiative..."

"That’s a good initiative," Feng Jun smiled and nodded, "That deposit is twenty percent of the selling price, count it as your share in Wuyou Platform... How you split the profits is up to you, I’ll handle the rest of the investment, and naturally, profits will be split accordingly."

After a pause, he added, "Of course, if Botai thinks that two thousand eight hundred Spirit Stones was a loss, I’ll buy back his share at the original price...no, three thousand Spirit Stones, letting him earn two hundred."

"If you agree to include him in the shareholders, he definitely wouldn’t sell," Shangguan Yunjin laughed upon hearing this, "If he does sell, I’ll want to buy it, four hundred Spirit Stones for a ten percent share!"

Shangguan Yunjin also comes from a minor family, much smaller than Wang Botai’s family. In the old days, even a few Spirit Stones could cause much argument, and she was reluctant to stay at an inn in Qiuchen Market.

However, last year she followed Feng Jun and picked some leftovers, initially earning some dividend and then investing in bets, ultimately acquiring five hundred Spirit Stones.

Now, she could pull out four hundred Spirit Stones, almost depleting her entire wealth, and what she bought was merely ten percent of the share Wang Botai spent two thousand eight hundred Spirit Stones on, over forty percent above the market price.

In short, she spent four hundred Spirit Stones to buy a two percent stake in these two oil fields, meaning she valued the two oil fields at over twenty thousand Spirit Stones—this shows how much confidence she has in Feng Jun.

"Don’t join the hype," Feng Jun said with a smile, "You go talk to Botai, anyway, that twenty percent is a token of my gratitude for his help in purchasing the oil fields, if he doesn’t want it, I’ll take it back, just like that."

Shangguan Yunjin blinked curiously, "Sir Feng, what about us at Wuyou Platform buying those two oil fields?"

"Haha," Feng Jun couldn’t help but burst into laughter, "Then you buy them, feel free to buy, I don’t mind at all."

Though the oil fields are great, one must know how to develop them, and Feng Jun did not believe that Wuyou Platform could exploit these two oil fields.

Without his involvement, whoever bought these oil fields would just be waiting to lose money—after all, those oil fields had been there for who knows how many decades, who ever cared about them?

Moreover, there are already two light crude oil fields; he didn’t believe that there wouldn’t be a third quality oil field around—he was too lazy to even consider the regular oil fields.

Upon hearing this, Shangguan Yunjin also laughed, "Alright, then I’ll notify Brother Wang."

Feng Jun still underestimated the ability of these people to seize every opportunity.

He had been busy all night, and since none of the three masters were in the Spirit Gathering Array cultivating, he easily dug out over sixty coalescing Spirit Stones—having reached the Immortal Ascension stage, digging for Spirit Stones had indeed become a lot easier.

Even Spirit Stones coalescing hundreds of meters deep were not an issue for him; like a drill, he silently burrowed into the ground, and in about ten minutes, he was holding the extracted Spirit Stones back on the surface.

However, after extracting the Spirit Stones, the landscape was difficult to restore to its original state; such large holes were not easy to flatten. He could throw broken stones into them, but before that, this area used to be one solid piece of rock.

Previously, his excavations were shallow, so these were not issues, but now that he was digging deeper, this problem could not be hidden.

So Feng Jun considered taking advantage of the rainy days to mine more Spirit Stones. After a few days of digging, the weather cleared up, and it might not be possible to disguise his tracks anymore. At that time, he would concentrate on blasting and completely destroy any traces.

On careful thought, he wasn’t quite sure why he was so obsessed with the coalescing Spirit Stones of Mount Zhige—strictly speaking, in terms of gathered Spiritual Energy, one coalescing Spirit Stone wouldn’t exceed ten Spirit Stones.

Of course, if calculated based on the Minor Destiny Stone, then the exchange rate wouldn’t be this.

But if Mount Zhige really was the source of the Minor Destiny Stone, then... that would be a different scenario.

Feng Jun calculated his night’s gains and swiped on his mobile phone, looked up at the sky and sighed deeply, "Ah, days without a weather forecast are really hard, not knowing how long this spring rain will last... I hope it lasts a bit longer though."

At that moment, Liu Feifei reported that Chairman Huang Fu Wuxia was visiting.

Following the announcement, Chairman Huang Fu Wuxia directly entered the small courtyard, driving an open-top all-terrain vehicle.

Sitting in the vehicle, she wiped the rainwater off her face and spoke joyfully, "Mountain Master Feng, this time I’m here to take some Gold away!"