Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 559 Scheme
With a wave of Tangning's hand, the talisman entered the light curtain.

Not long after, the light curtain melted a gap, and he entered the room in a flash. After receiving the number plate at the management office, he went straight to the shop of Baoxing Chamber of Commerce.

"Senior, what are your orders?" When Fang stepped into the room, a woman greeted him and said respectfully.

"Do you have Huang Yuandan here?"

"Yes, senior, please follow me." The woman led him up to the second floor of the attic, and came to a row of blue cabinets: "I don't know how many Huang Yuan Dan senior needs?"

"Take three bottles!"

"Okay, a total of [-] spirit stones." The woman said that she opened the blue cabinet, took out three bottles of black pills, led him to a room on the fourth floor of the attic, and knocked on the door.

"Come in." A man's voice came from inside.

The woman opened the door and entered, and saw a middle-aged man with a fat figure and big ears sitting cross-legged inside. The woman bowed and said: "Master Cheng, this senior needs your signature to authorize the purchase of three bottles of Huang Yuan Dan. "

The fat man glanced at Tangning, stood up and smiled, "I don't think I've seen a fellow Taoist before, and I don't know your name, Gao?"

"I'm going down to Tangning."

"It turns out to be Taoist Tang from Qianyizong, and I am Cheng Yuxing, the shopkeeper of this shop. Congratulations, fellow Taoist, for condensing the golden elixir, and your cultivation has gone one step further." The man turned his left hand and took out a thin golden book and handed it to him.

Tangning took the thin booklet, signed and put a deposit on it, and gave him the number plate she received from Fangshi.

The chamber of commerce has its own intelligence system, so Tangning was not surprised that they knew her identity.

In Xingang, a palm-sized place, Golden Core monks can be said to be very rare. The news of his successful alchemy has probably spread to all the forces in Xingang by now.

Except for Broken Ridge Mountain Fang City, there is no other place in Xingang that has the supply of third-tier pills, and all monks at the Golden Elixir level have to come here to buy pills.

Cheng Yuxing, as the treasurer of Baoxing Shop, must know the origin of every Jindan monk, so there is no need to hide it.

"Okay." Cheng Yuxing took out the black disc and scanned the number plate, then returned it to him.

Tangning flipped through her hands, took out the storage bag, counted the number of spirit stones, and handed them over to him.

Huang Yuan Dan has two thousand spirit stones each, one bottle of [-] spirit stones, and three bottles of [-] spirit stones. This is the normal market price.

However, scarcity is the most expensive thing, and the price of the pill sold in the square market is [-]% higher than the market price, so it costs [-] spirit stones.

This is the so-called shop bully.

Anyway, if you don't buy it, someone else will buy it. Pills are not as good as magic tools, talismans, and formations.

This is a daily necessity.

The higher the level of monks, the more inseparable they are from pills. If they only rely on absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, with the spiritual power of Jindan monks, even a month is not as effective as a day of pills.

"Welcome fellow daoist to come again next time." Cheng Yuxing checked the number of spirit stones, and handed him three bottles of pills with a smile on his face.

Tangning took the elixirs, checked them one by one, said goodbye, and then left the shop, returned the number plate to the management office, left Fangshi, and headed north.

He walked day and night all the way, finally returned to the Zongmen after a few days, and fell in front of a cave in Xuanyun Peak.

This cave was originally the former Yuanyi Palace steward Yan Shouyi's cave. After he was killed in a battle with the Demon Sect, no one took care of this cave. Tangning was too lazy to spend time building a new one, so she directly occupied the cave.

This cave mansion is much more majestic than the previous one on Zhifeng Peak. It covers an area of ​​several miles, with dozens of rooms inside and criss-cross roads.

Tangning walked in, but within a stone's throw away, a man with a fair complexion and a tall figure walked out of the cave, walked up to him, bowed and said, "Uncle Tang, you are back."

This person was Mu Tiancheng, the son of Mu Pingbo. After Tangning's new cave was built, he was summoned to guard the cave for him.

"Has anyone come to visit these few days?" Tangning asked.

Mu Tiancheng followed behind him step by step: "Mr. Zhu Zhongwen from the Palm Printing Department, Mr. Xu Wenze from the Intelligence Department, Mr. Wei Xian from the Intelligence Department, Mr. Zhang Miao from the Yuanzi Department, Mr. Xu Jie from the Herb Department, and Mr. Xu Jie from the Pill Department." Uncle Huang Yuanqing..."

Tangning nodded slightly, but said nothing. There was no doubt that most of these people came to him for business.

Now that he has been promoted to be in charge of Yuanyi Hall, and Peng Wanli is at the front line, all the financial power of the sect is in his hands, and the funds and Lingshi subsidy for each department are all decided by him, so there will be such a situation. Many people came to visit.

"They didn't say anything specific. They left when they heard that you were going out. Do you need disciples to invite them?" Mu Tiancheng asked.

"No need, go and invite Xu Qingwan here!"

"Yes." Mu Tiancheng responded and left.

Tang Ning returned to the main room and sat down cross-legged, thinking in her heart, after she was promoted to be the steward of Yuanyi Hall, her salary rose to [-] spirit stones a year, plus what she did in private, the income would be around [-] to [-] spirit stones.

It is far from enough to spend a year on pills, and it is obviously unrealistic to rely on the funds and salary income of the sect to support the consumption of pills. You have to find a way to earn spirit stones from other places.

The best way is of course to improve the skill of alchemy and self-sufficiency in alchemy, but this requires years of accumulation, at least decades of work.

If the green aura in the body is used to catalyze the sale of the elixir, not to mention that the sale of high-level herbs in batches is very likely to arouse suspicion from others, and the catalysis of the herbs itself is a long-term process, so it is not as good as alchemy!
After much deliberation, he couldn't think of a good solution to solve his problem of shortage of pills and spirit stones.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it's really hard for a penny to beat a hero, no wonder Xingang hasn't been able to produce Nascent Soul monks for so many years, and he is already like this at the early stage of Golden Core, let alone a late Golden Core monk.

They spend three to four million spirit stones a year on elixir, unless they use the financial resources of the entire sect to support them, it is impossible for them to spend normally, and this is just the most basic elixir cost.

To put it simply, Xingang's practice resources are not enough to support a Nascent Soul cultivator, so no one has been promoted to Nascent Soul for so many years.

After Tang Ning was promoted to Jindan, his lifespan had increased to [-] years. The lifespan of Jindan monks generally ranged from [-] to [-] years. Every time he was promoted to a small realm, his lifespan would increase by [-] years.

He was Dao Ding who broke through the late stage of foundation establishment in [-]. He was only [-] years old at the time, and he had practiced for a total of [-] years.

And now it is the [-]th year of Daoding. From the late stage of foundation establishment to the process of Jindan, he spent a total of [-] years, which is almost as long as all the previous years of practice.

In addition to the expansion of spiritual power, which led to the slow progress of the practice, the most important thing is that he encountered the Sighing Calamity. For thirty-five years, he was trapped by the bottleneck and did not make any progress.

Therefore, it took such a long time to cultivate to the great perfection of foundation establishment, and to condense the golden core in one fell swoop.

While Tangning was thinking, footsteps could be heard outside, and a beautiful woman with a fat waist and hips pushed the door open and entered.

But seeing that his eyebrows are like willow moons, his eyes are like autumn water, and his face is like peach blossoms. Although his expression is cold, there is a spring love that cannot be hidden between the corners of his eyes.

The snow-white neck reveals fat-like skin, slender, round and straight legs, and the willow waist that cannot be grasped makes it look fat and exaggerated. .

Mu Tiancheng followed her step by step, staring at her twisting waist, swallowed secretly, lowered his head and dared not look again, but his eyes still couldn't help but float up.

"Uncle Tang, Uncle Xu is here." Mu Tiancheng said with his head down, worried that Tangning would notice something strange about him.

Tangning waved her hand, and Mu Tiancheng hurriedly backed out.

"sit down!"

Xu Qingwan sat down as she said: "You called me, what do you want?"

"Have you taken up your post in the Palm Printing Department?"

"I went a few days ago."

Tangning said, "Do you have any clues about the sect's financial reform?"

Xu Qingwan pondered and said: "I feel that if we only start with the department's funds, it will definitely not be helpful. If the annual funds of each department are [-] million spirit stones, if it is reduced by half, there will be complaints from below. Because no matter how it is reduced, in the end it will be inevitable. It will be squeezed on the bottom disciples. I have a preliminary idea, maybe I can try it."

"Tell me."

"Zongmen asks you to propose a plan to reduce two million spirit stones each year. In fact, it requires the average of income and expenditure. We can change our thinking. If we can increase the income of one million spirit stones every year, it is better than reducing the expenditure by one million. Much better."

"What's the plan?"

Xu Qingwan said: "Not yet, this is just an idea, increase the income of one million spirit stones, and then reduce the expenditure of one million spirit stones, so that the balance between expenditure and income can be achieved by pros and cons, and it is relatively easy to implement. I think it will be very difficult to make it work if we only reduce the expenditure.”

"Creating an income of one million spirit stones is not something that can be solved in just one or two sentences. You must have a general consideration in your mind! Where do you plan to start?"

Xu Qingwan said: "After I read the sect's detailed financial accounts that day, I have been thinking about a question. Qian Yizong has occupied Chu for so many years, has a lot of cultivation resources, and is living in such a tight situation. How can the Mozong survive? where?"

"The Demon Sect has only occupied half of the Chu Kingdom for less than a hundred years, and the finances of the Xuanmen have been somewhat unable to support it. How has the Demon Sect survived and grown for a long time?"

"Later, I checked a lot of files in the intelligence room, and only then did I learn about the internal financial distribution of the Demon Sect. They don't have a so-called department, so they don't need the expenditure of department funds. Their disciples only receive the most basic salary. It can be said that resources have been compressed to the extreme.”

Tangning waved her hand and said, "It's impossible for us to do what the Demon Sect does. We have a bottom line in reducing the sect's expenditure, and that is, the disciple's salary must not be changed."

"We can't compare with Mozong. The internal system of Xuanmen determines that disciples have very great rights. In contrast, they have very good conditions."

"You know that the system of three halls and three courtyards of the Taoist sect restricts each other, including the restraints of the lower disciples on the upper echelons."

"For example, the selection of the head teacher and the senior management of the Three Palaces and Three Academies is determined by the disciples below. They can promote you to the stage or pull you down."

"Although the situation of this sect is special, there are very few Jindan monks, and there are not many choices for disciples, but the system of Xuanmen greatly protects the rights and interests of disciples."

"That's why we can't deal with the Mozong."

　Something has happened recently, and it may be suspended for a few days, as I said a few days ago.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)