Big Data Cultivation
Chapter 1094: Chaos Panics (Second Update)

Chapter 1094: Chapter 1094: Chaos Panics (Second Update)

In common sense, renting a house is actually quite normal as one has to consider the cost of living.

Inside the mountain gate, it’s all Feng Jun’s territory; even if you build a house, you don’t own it, so renting is a bit more cost-effective.

Feng Jun hasn’t thought about dealing with these houses yet, but if you don’t dare to build on my land, it just shows that you either don’t have much money or it’s a short-term action—you don’t trust me.

Among those who can stay on Mount Zhige, aside from several big families, there are also quite a few who are neither short of money nor afraid to invest.

Let’s skip over the details of these economic behaviors. Right now, inside the mountain gate of Mount Zhige, there are just over three thousand permanent residents; the rest have been driven out of the gates.

Therefore, the outside of the mountain gate of Mount Zhige is busier than the inside, with forty to fifty thousand people gathered there, one can imagine just how bustling it is.

However, the inside of the mountain gate has been tidied up, and come night, the brilliant lights and dazzling street lamps suggest an air of high-end luxury.

Outside the mountain gate, there are also scattered lights, with about a dozen Boiler Camel Motorcycles working nearby. The owners of the Boiler Camel Motorcycles provide paid electrical services, and many others use various types of emergency lights, with some even pulling electricity from inside the mountain gate through connections.

Actually, outside is a sea of lights too, but in comparison to inside the mountain gate, it lacks a certain order.

When Huang Fu Flawless returned at night and saw this scene, she was stunned for a while before she spoke, "This... There seem to be a bit too many idlers in front of our courtyard, right?"

The location of Tiantong Courtyard is close to the mountain gate. She chose this place for its tranquility and convenience for handling matters. However, with Mount Zhige’s sudden expansion outwards, she felt as if the ’urban village’ had turned into a ’city center’ in an instant, and found it somewhat hard to accept.

The personnel staying behind from Tiantong had no choice but to explain, "We’ve tried our best to disperse them, but those who remain are the ones we cannot drive away."

Tiantong also has people they can’t drive away? Of course, there are, and many of them. After all, Huang Fu Flawless is the chairman of the Eastern Sub-rudder, and she oversees not just Fushan County but six counties in total.

Tiantong conducts business among the mortals, and it’s not without its network of relationships. Those with connections who came to Mount Zhige and had nowhere to go ended up camping outside. Once they heard that there was a Tiantong outpost here, they naturally clung on.

Most of these people are mortals, and among the personnel Tiantong left behind, there are no lack of Qi-Refining Practitioners, but indeed they couldn’t really stop them—after driving them away, how would the Eastern Branch continue doing business in the future?

Upon hearing this, Huang Fu Flawless understood what was going on. So she waved her hand indifferently and instructed, "Let them keep a distance from us... With so much land available outside, can’t they buy a piece? It’s not like anyone is short of money."

Tiantong’s personnel could only smile bitterly inside. The land outside has already been taken by the locals.

Typically, the local indigenous people wouldn’t be taken seriously by those from other places, especially by the families from the other five counties - they are indeed quite extraordinary, including families from the Family Alliance.

But the locals have a unique skill—"Someone from my family is currently on official duties inside Mount Zhige, if you want to run wild, please consider the consequences."

This is... who would dare to provoke someone who has work to do inside Mount Zhige? That’s serving the otherworldly ascetics.

Huang Fu Flawless waved her hand impatiently, "Tell the locals that we will buy out the land around our courtyard within a radius of one mile at double the price and let them leave. Say it’s my word, and it’s related to Mountain Master Feng... Do they even match up?"

The people from Tiantong had already thought of saying exactly this because they knew that Chairman Huang Fu’s relationship with Mountain Master Feng was truly extraordinary. But without her approval, who would dare to say such things to the locals?

The solution has been there all along, just... without a decision-maker.

Tiantong’s people immediately accepted the leadership’s instruction and went to implement it, leaving only one person in charge, who is a trusted confidant of the Huang Fu Family, "Miss, you must be tired from your journey, go rest inside. There’s a new ice cream that recently appeared in Mount Zhige that’s really delicious..."

"No need," Huang Fu Flawless waved her hand, "Inform Mi Yunshan that I have something to discuss with Mountain Master Feng and ask him to come out."

At these words, the person was immediately stunned and only after a long while mustered the courage to speak up, "Miss, you can directly go in."

"Hmm?" Huang Fu Flawless glanced at him indifferently, "Why would you think that?"

The Revered Master who came back with him snorted softly, "Go and inform them, will you?"

Before long, Feng Jun came out from the mountain gate, looking weary, "Huang Fu, you’re here, you could have come in directly... Huh, you’ve also advanced to the Ascendant phase?"

Upon hearing this, the messenger immediately staggered several steps backward, hair on end with alarm: I hope the young miss didn’t take my words to heart.

The corners of Huang Fu Flawless’s mouth lifted slightly, and the smile in her eyes was unstoppable, "It’s nothing much. You’ve advanced some time ago... I know your rules, so I didn’t rashly come in."

"Haha, keep pretending," Feng Jun laughed out loud, "You just want to surprise me, how could I not know? Alright, I am indeed surprised... The Flawless Ming Xin, truly impressive."

Huang Fu Flawless glanced at him disdainfully, "I will become more and more formidable, and sooner or later I’ll surpass you."

"Alright then," Feng Jun yawned. He had just spent two days on Earth Plane, giving his father and mother massages and helping them enter the stage of Mortal Shedding. Flying back to Luohua overnight, he was truly exhausted, "You surpass me... do you want to say something else?"

Huang Fu Flawless’s eyes rolled around, "Chaos Plane hopes the trade can continue."

Feng Jun wasn’t at all surprised, only offering a cold smile, "Didn’t they think my food was too expensive?"

"Tactics, I suppose," Huang Fu Flawless said nonchalantly. She was now a person of the Ascendant Realm and needed to act the part. She couldn’t be as unrestrained as before, "They now hope that the previous agreement can still be implemented."

She knew very well that after a four-month halt in trading, Chaos Plane was nearly jumping with urgency.

The last time she invited the thoughts of the Ancestor for consultation, she got no response, not even the smoke from an incense stick. It was because the Ancestor was busy discussing issues, one of which was the need of Chaos Plane—a major difficulty. However... the Ancestor had left in a hurry and didn’t have time to explain.

She received this information only after she went back to handle the affairs of the management committee.

But the nature of Huang Fu Flawless was somewhat similar to Feng Jun’s. She also disliked the sudden change of heart by Chaos Plane—if everyone started raising prices on a whim, how was anyone supposed to do business?

Therefore, her effort in this persuasion was lackluster and insincere.

In fact, over at Chaos Plane, they were almost on the verge of exploding from desperation.

There were various forces within Chaos Plane, and those contacted by Ancestor Huang Fu were not the most powerful but had a sufficiently renowned reputation that everyone simply recognized their authority.

The leader of this faction was named Hao Te. At this moment, he was complaining to his subordinate at the Initial Golden Core Stage, "Wu Jia, I have already supported you a lot. You asked me to inflate the price, and I did. But what’s the outcome? What’s the outcome?"

Wu Jia was a man with a refined appearance, his brows slightly furrowed, "Then let’s go hungry for a few days. Didn’t we also live through the past like this? What’s there that we can’t endure?"

On Chaos Plane, their rallying cry was "Equal Wealth for All, Food for Everyone".

But to achieve food for everyone was easier said than done. The land of Chaos Plane was inherently barren, and though not sparsely populated, the stark wealth disparity largely stemmed from a vast food shortage.

They had finally made contact with an external force willing to provide a steady food supply, and it was truly a joyous occasion—having food meant everything could be negotiated.

As for what they were giving in return, it could be extremely valuable or perhaps negligible—no one knew the true worth of graphene.

Wu Jia believed that since graphene was valued by the opposite side, it must possess extraordinary qualities that others hadn’t noticed.

His reasoning was sound, and then he raised an important point: if the other side cared so much about this material, then it was indispensable. Why not raise the price?

"Endure it a bit?" Hao Te’s voice grew louder. Everything else can be endured, but hunger? "We’ve produced so much graphene, are we supposed to eat graphene instead of food?"

The weight ratio of food to graphene was one hundred thousand tons to fifty tons, which is two thousand to one. Producing graphene on Chaos Plane was not as difficult as they claimed, but it was not an easy task either.

A martial master working at full capacity could produce thirty to fifty grams a day, exchanging for sixty to one hundred kilograms of food. A Qi-Refining Practitioner, able to control magic artifacts with Spiritual Energy, could produce even a kilogram or more a day, exchanging for over twenty tons of food.

Three thousand martial masters could produce enough graphene in one day to exchange for two hundred tons of food. With nearly one hundred Qi-Refining Practitioners, they could produce two thousand tons a day. The number of people producing graphene before was far greater than these numbers.

Additionally, since Cultivators had refined some devices, Martial Artists could also produce graphene, albeit with lower efficiency. However, they were far more numerous, and at first when everyone made an all-out effort, they could produce nearly five tons of graphene daily.

Discounting the substandard graphene, the peak daily output of the Mobile Phone Plane was four and a half tons, a steady one hundred tons per month. Now they had accumulated over three hundred tons of graphene, still unable to exchange it for food—how could they not be anxious?

This was the equivalent of six hundred thousand tons of food. Even with Martial Cultivators’ larger appetite, consuming four pounds of food daily, it would be enough for one million people to eat for half a year.

The abundance of food isn’t measured by absolute quantity, but by the shortfall. Once there is a shortfall, panic sets within the hearts of people.

After venting his frustrations, Hao Te sighed again, "Let’s wait and see if other Plane’s traders are interested in graphene."

Wu Jia had always opposed this action because he wasn’t sure how valuable graphene was in other Planes. If it was a precious resource that could attract the coveting of powerful Planes, Chaos Plane might face annihilation.

The food trade requests from Kunhao Plane were relatively reassuring for them.

However, now he could only nod silently, "Alright, I’ll go and approach them cautiously."