Dominating Martial King
Chapter 268 - 268 200 Double Kings!

268: Chapter 200 Double Kings!

(Ten thousand-character mega chapter, requesting votes)_2 268: Chapter 200 Double Kings!

(Ten thousand-character mega chapter, requesting votes)_2 ——In other gangs, who else would provide such expensive gear for their gang members?

Even if a person dies, it’s just a bit over three hundred taels for the consolation and burial expenses, then it’s simply rolling the body in a straw mat and tossing it into the burial mound.

So these Magic Artifacts are generally self-financed by the members.

Chu Xisheng was willing to purchase leather armor for them, a unique practice among the Jianghu gangs.

The members felt that the Hall Master was benevolent and virtuous, so they trained with extra diligence.

But Chu Xisheng felt quite helpless.

The West Mountain Hall was now supporting seven hundred people, plus over a hundred servants, cooks, and so forth, with monthly expenses reaching up to 70,000 Demon Silver.

Now, the rent collected by the West Mountain Hall was just over ten thousand, the entrance fee to the city was temporarily halved, and even with the Peace Money of fifty thousand Demon Silver from the canal, it was not enough to cover these expenses.

Thus, he also had to borrow additional funds to provide meat for his gang members.

Chu Xisheng himself was also spending money like water.

The daily cultivation needs for him and his sister cost up to five hundred Demon Silver a day.

They used the finest pills and the best spell materials.

However, the majority of expenses were still spent on Chu Xisheng.

Chu Xisheng had already begun practicing “Nine Refinements of Extreme Essence Purple Gold Body.”

Chu Yunyun had provided him with a secret medicinal formula from the Tieshan Qin Family, which upon refining and applying as a medicinal oil, enhances any external skill training with effects comparable to achieving twice the results with half the effort, and significantly increases one’s strength and resistance.

However, this medicinal oil is enormously expensive, with the cost for one portion of the ingredients reaching three hundred taels.

Chu Xisheng also took a Fourth-Transformation Golden Body Pill provided by Cao Xuan.

He had already had experts verify it; the pill was safe to use.

This pill, concocted by Pill Masters within the Police Pool of Blood, was specifically intended for use with the “Nine Refinements of Extreme Essence Purple Gold Body.”

A single pill could save him twenty days of cultivation, making Chu Xisheng’s progress divine speed.

January 25.

The accountants Chu Xisheng had sent to collect head taxes and land tax in the countryside were driven back to the city in an utterly pitiful state, covered in urine and excrement.

As soon as they returned to the Chu Mansion, they clung to Chu Xisheng’s legs and wept bitterly.

They had been humiliated in the countryside, not only were they whipped dozens of times, but were also forced to kneel and bow their heads to the ground, crawl through people’s legs, and two of them were nearly thrown into manure pits, nearly breaking down mentally.

The miserable condition of these few made even Lu Luanti, who usually viewed things lightheartedly, unable to stand by idly, anger brewing in her beautiful eyes.

She knew Chu Xisheng was waiting, and had to wait, enduring patiently.

However, that very night, Lu Luanti purposely took out her accompanying sword and sharpened it for half an hour.

These clueless West Mountain Country Landlords had truly annoyed her.

Chu Xisheng, on the other hand, didn’t mind starting with a few of these powerful families.

However, after inquiring carefully, he couldn’t find out the reason.

The ones who had kidnapped his shopkeepers and whipped and humiliated them had all covered their faces, not exposing their identities.

Chu Xisheng thought these people were quite smart.

Unable to take any action, he could only soothe them with gentle words and take out hundreds of Demon Silver to pacify the accountants, while asking the Original Character Platform to investigate these people’s identities.

But with this, West Mountain Hall wouldn’t even be able to collect the taxes from these prominent countryside families, let alone taxes from local townspeople.

Chu Xisheng didn’t really care.

If they couldn’t collect the taxes, then so be it; he simply concentrated all his personnel along the West Mountain Town and the canal, ignoring the rest of the areas around West Mountain Town.

On the fifth day of the second lunar month, at the “Dragon Raising Its Head,” the Iron Banner Gang finally delivered the Sixth-Grade saber that they had purchased on Chu Xisheng’s behalf to West Mountain Hall.

The saber, named “Gentle Wind Thunder Blade,” was a set of Mother-Child Geese Feather Knives.

The meaning of Mother-Child Geese Feather Knives is one mother and one child, one long and one short, a pair of main and secondary Twin Blades.

The main blade was forty-two inches long, while the secondary blade was around thirty-six inches, which could be mounted to the back of the main blade through a latch, significantly enhancing the power and weight of the main blade.

Once separated, their weight was lighter than a typical Sixth-Grade long saber, making them thinner and more agile.

Additionally, the blade incorporated a nail-sized piece of “Eternal Star Iron,” which made the blade exceptionally strong, tough to the level of Fourth Grade.

It also contained powdered “Earth-breaking Immortal Stone”, gathering Primordial Magnetic Power, enabling it to absorb and counter all metal-derived Hidden Weapons.

This set of “Gentle Wind Thunder Blade” was very suitable for him, effective for both individual combat and group fighting.

However, it was very expensive, costing 37,000 Demon Silver.

Chu Xisheng had no choice but to make up the difference of seventeen thousand Demon Silver and paid it to the Iron Banner Gang.

On the fifth day of the second lunar month, Chu Xisheng mortgaged his shares of the canal, following the rule of “Nine Out Thirteen Return,” and borrowed one hundred thousand Demon Silver from several Coastal banks.

Recently, the weapons business in the Ancient Market had suddenly become very lively.

The families in West Mountain Town were massively purchasing weapons and military equipment.

According to information from the Iron Banner Gang, just at the end of January, over three thousand Magic Artifact Level weaponry, more than two hundred leather armors, and over three hundred bows and crossbows had flowed into West Mountain Town.

A large number of Jianghu Travellers were also employed to come to West Mountain.

Not long ago, Chu Yunyun had personally taken a trip to the countryside and found that although it was the beginning of spring, the rice fields were utterly deserted.

All the local tyrants in the West Mountain area had no interest in spring planting; their house guards and tenants, fully armed, gathered at the grain-drying yard, intensively practicing military skills and drilling battle formations.

This gave West Mountain Town an atmosphere of tension and readiness, as if poised for battle.

Just by seeing the posture of these powerful families of West Mountain Town.

One could tell they were resolute like iron, determined to resist paying taxes to the end.

Chu Xisheng had no choice but to make preparations in advance and set aside funds to cope with this impending battle.

Things like talismans, arrows, and funds for post-battle consolation and burial expenses all cost money.