Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 742 - 1: Day 1 of Missing Huyan Bin 【2 in 1】_3

Chapter 742: Chapter 1: Day 1 of Missing Huyan Bin 【2 in 1】_3

"I plan to create a unique Soul Realm Space for Tianshu Pavilion, making it the number one in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, ranked even before Shu Mountain. I wonder what your thoughts are about this arrangement?"

Chu Liang slowly narrated.

As for Tianshu Pavilion, the long-standing content provider, even though they temporarily held the upper hand, they still commanded great respect.

On the one hand, the Seven Star Mansion Report still had a large base of followers from across the Four Seas and Nine Continents; its breadth of coverage could not be matched by the Immortal Friends Circle, which had yet to gain popularity in the Immortal Cultivation World. On the other hand, with a Seven-Star Divine Sword, Tianshu Pavilion, a top Immortal Sect, wasn’t any entity that could be easily pushed out of reckoning. The relationship between the two had always been good, and neither could be viewed simply as competitors.

Thus, Chu Liang considered such a solution.

"Number one?" Ye Yongxing blinked, "That sounds great."

"As for the Seven Star Mansion Report, I think you might want to make some adjustments." Chu Liang said: "Keep the existing sections, but offer more in-depth content, conducting more investigations and interviews to set it apart from the surface-level information offered by the Immortal Friends Circle. They can complement each other."

The two opposite nodded at each other in agreement, this idea seemed to resonate with what Tianshu Pavilion was thinking.

"Lastly..." Chu Liang hesitated before saying, "If Tianshu Pavilion still has concerns about the development of the Immortal Friends Circle, or worries about the impact on the Seven Star Mansion Report, I have a plan that could benefit both parties..."

He slowly stated two words: "Investment."

"Investment?" Ye Yongxing and Zhang Xiaohan had a strange look on their faces.

"Yes, as in, you could invest some capital to purchase three to five percent shares of the Immortal Friends Circle. Then, all our proceeds would be periodically split with you. Whether it’s the Seven Star Mansion Report or the Immortal Friends Circle, both would be seen as Tianshu Pavilion’s own properties. You wouldn’t have to worry about competition. We could simply focus on cooperation." Chu Liang replied with a sincere smile.

That’s right, this was his ultimate goal.

Red Cotton Peak was indeed facing a serious financial problem. When Taotie City fell, it left a significant market share, but expansion requires resources and money. The capital from Earth-Wood Hall had already been invested and had yet to be recovered.

This ’outflow without inflow’ situation had been going on for quite some time. If not for this, Chu Liang wouldn’t have actively extended cooperation to Tianshu Pavilion even though they held the upper hand.

Even the landlord is running out of grain.

"Well..." Seeing the two people on the opposite side, Chu Liang gave a self-conscious smile, "If you have concerns, feel free to voice them. I can explain further."

Actually, Ye Yongxing and Zhang Xiaohan both understood the model of investment. As a longstanding media group with access to frontline information, the Seven Star Mansion Report knew the details of cooperation between Taotie City and Red Cotton Peak.

But due to such knowledge, their faces were so strange.

"We don’t actually object to this model, we don’t think it’s bad, it’s just..." Zhang Xiaohan said hesitantly, "Young Hero Chu, if we’re not mistaken, was the first one who invested in Red Cotton Peak, a gentleman named Huyan Bin?"

...

After a while, Chu Liang is left alone in the room. He touched his forehead and picked up the Soul Crystal.

[Chu]: "Of course, it wasn’t going to be that easy."

[Chu]: "I kind of miss Brother Huyan."