Collecting Rent From All Realms, Even Empresses Must Pay Tribute
Ch. 105 - Selling Medicine

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Ye Chuan opened his eyes and found himself back in his room.

The window was open, revealing the dark blue sky and the twinkling city lights. 

The evening breeze rustled the wind chimes hanging by the window.

Compared to the gruesome scenes of battling ghosts, the gentle breeze felt like a balm to his soul.

It was good to be home.

Those monsters and ghosts were far removed from his normal life.

Ye Chuan glanced at the time.

It was almost the same as before he entered the adventure. So, time in Holographic Adventure didn't affect the real world?

If that was the case, the money was well spent. At least it didn't feel like such a waste.

Every little bit helped.

That's how Ye Chuan consoled himself.

As if remembering something, Ye Chuan rubbed the jade pendant on his chest, and a voice echoed in his mind, "Hey! Stop touching me!"

Ye Chuan rubbed it a few more times.

The jade pendant glowed, and Lilith, with a furious expression, flew out, grabbing his ear and shouting, "Stop touching my body!!!"

"Oh?" Ye Chuan took out a bottle of spirit essence from his spatial backpack.

Lilith froze. Why did he have more spirit essence?

And it seemed to be of quite high quality.

Lilith reached out. "Balala!" (TL: A common sound effect in magical girl anime, indicating magic activation.)

The spirit essences in the bottle floated out, then vanished without a trace.

Lilith's movements stopped. She sensed a faint spatial fluctuation and turned to Ye Chuan. "Did you hide them?"

Ye Chuan coughed lightly, leaning back dramatically.

"I risked my life, went through nine deaths and a lifetime of hardship, to collect these from a horde of ghosts. Aren't you going to show some gratitude?"

Lilith crossed her arms and looked at Ye Chuan appraisingly.

She had been with him constantly, or rather, he had been carrying her around.

She knew what he had been doing.

He hadn't had time to collect any spirit essence.

"What do you want?" Lilith asked, floating in mid-air, her legs crossed, looking rather relaxed.

"I want you…"

"I knew you had ulterior motives!" Lilith's eyes widened.

"I wasn't finished," Ye Chuan rolled his eyes. "Why are you so impatient?"

Lilith relaxed slightly.

"I want you to call me Master," Ye Chuan said with a grin.

"What's the difference between that and what you just said?!"

Lilith immediately rejected his proposal. If she had to call him "Master," she would rather find a way to restore her soul power herself, even without the spirit essence.

Just then, Ye Chuan's phone vibrated.

[Warning: Lilith's Trust has decreased to 1. The lower the Trust, the higher the chance of the tenant leaving.]

"I was just kidding, they're all yours," Ye Chuan quickly took out the bottle, seeing that Lilith was about to run away, and smiled. "Miss Lilith, please enjoy."

Lilith looked at him suspiciously.

"Hmph, I don't need them anymore," Lilith said, narrowing her eyes like an angry cat.

"Don't need them? I could have gotten you a lot more, what a shame," Ye Chuan sighed.

"..."

Lilith was silent for a few seconds, then asked, "Really?"

"Really, really real."

Although she didn't quite understand what he meant, seeing that he wasn't lying, Lilith absorbed all the spirit essence from the bottle. Her form became even more solid.

"What do you want? Magic, potions, puppets, I can teach you anything," Lilith said, her mood improving as she felt her power returning.

Ye Chuan shook his head. "I don't need any of those right now."

"Then what do you want?" Lilith asked, puzzled.

"Your trust."

"..." Lilith frowned. She wasn't afraid of Ye Chuan wanting something from her; she was afraid of him wanting nothing, which usually meant he was plotting something sinister.

"I can't fully trust you yet, we haven't known each other for long," Lilith said frankly.

"It's fine, this is enough," Ye Chuan said.

Although Lilith didn't understand his intentions, she said, "Since you've said so, I'll try to trust you."

Ye Chuan nodded.

Lilith, although still a bit puzzled, returned to the jade pendant. "I'm going to rest."

"Okay, sleep tight~"

Lilith felt goosebumps all over her body, hearing Ye Chuan's cloying tone, and quickly retreated into the jade pendant.

Ye Chuan checked his phone and noticed that Lilith's favorability and trust had increased.

Giving her spirit essence was the right choice.

[Daily Income: 5000 → 9000, medium probability of obtaining magic-related items]

[Daily Points: 15 → 25]

As expected of an S-Rank tenant, her first favorability increase had already reached Bai Qianshuang's level of daily "rent". 

Ye Chuan nodded in satisfaction.

So he was earning 20,000 a day now. (TL: 8000 from Bai Qianshuang , 3000 from Lan Xiaoke and 9000 from Lilith)

600,000 a month.

He couldn't have imagined this before.

[Obtained a Lilith-related item. Added to backpack.]

Oh?

An item drop?

Ye Chuan opened his backpack and found a monocle.

[Item: Magic Monocle

Grants X-ray vision, can see through illusions.]

X-ray vision…

This little witch's item drops were quite interesting.

Ye Chuan took out the monocle and put it on.

Immediately, he noticed something unusual. The wall beside him became semi-transparent, and he could see Lan Xiaoke in the next room, playing with her… slime. (TL: Slime and Backpack are terms this author uses to talk about a woman's bosom)

"..." Ye Chuan watched for a while, then turned to look towards Bai Qianshuang's room.

Bai Qianshuang was taking pictures of her sword, occasionally wiping it with a cloth and posing.

"She really loves that sword," Ye Chuan said after watching for a while and took off the monocle.

His divine sense could achieve the same effect, but the monocle didn't require any mental energy.

It was quite useful.

He wondered what other interesting items he would get in the future.

Just as he was sitting there, his phone vibrated. Luo Xi had sent him a message.

Luo Xi: Chuan Chuan, my dad contacted that CEO. When should we give them the medicine?

Ye Chuan remembered the medicine.

According to his initial plan, the first dose would be free. He had reduced the potency anyway, and if it worked, they would definitely pay a high price for more.

Thinking of this, Ye Chuan refined a few more Deer Blood Pills using the alchemy function.