Fairy, please step aside, I've taken a liking to your man.

In the course of a year, both Li Bai and Shen Bai disappeared from everyone's sight, and the entire Qiyuan Star entered a stage of rapid development.

At this very moment, a new type of business company is emerging.

"I'm so hungry at lunchtime, what should I eat?"

Zhang Hong is a martial arts teacher at a training institution. Having just entered the Qi Refining stage, she still occasionally craves food. She's tired of the cafeteria food, so at noon she and the other teachers were discussing what to eat for lunch.

"I heard a new snail rice noodle shop opened in the west of the city, and the reviews on Lingwang (a Chinese online forum) are really high. How about we try it?"

The receptionist approached Zhang Hong with the latest communication talisman and showed her a video of the snail rice noodle shop.

"Let's eat this!"

Zhang Hong looked at the other teachers, who all nodded: "Then let's order together!"

Zhang Hong picked up the communication token, quickly placed an order, and ten minutes later, she heard a voice outside the window: "Please open the window to pick up the order."

Zhang Hong exclaimed in surprise, "So fast?"

She walked to the window, opened it, and saw a yellow-blue flying sword hovering in front of her, with a projection stone projecting the image of a handsome young man onto it.

After seeing Zhang Hong, the young man bowed slightly and said, "This order is complete. Please give me a five-star review, dear!"

Zhang Hong waved to the young man, who waved back with a smile. After she took a food box from the flying sword, the yellow and black flying sword immediately turned into a streak of light and disappeared in front of her.

"This food delivery company called Ele.me is amazing! They actually came up with the idea of ​​using flying swords to deliver food! Even though we've been using it for a few months, every time we use it, we still feel that the person who came up with this idea is incredible!"

Zhang Hong distributed the snail rice noodles to everyone, and a swordsmanship teacher in red clothes laughed and said, "That's right. Although it doesn't take too much effort for everyone to fly their swords to buy things, this kind of flying sword delivery is really convenient for Qi Refining stage, innate martial artists, acquired martial artists, and ordinary people."

"I heard that these flying sword delivery workers are just ordinary people, some aren't even martial artists. They just need to sit on the other end of the spiritual network and remotely control the flying swords!"

The receptionist exclaimed, "I have a friend who works there. She's just an ordinary acquired martial artist, but it's said that she can control a hundred flying swords to deliver food. Innate martial artists are said to be able to control two hundred, and Qi Refining stage employees are even more amazing, they can control a thousand flying swords."

"What if my takeout is lost or stolen?"

The teacher in red asked.

The receptionist chuckled, "I also asked my sister, and she said that the flying sword is equipped with multiple image stones that are interconnected. If it is robbed, the image will be transmitted to the nearest law enforcement hall immediately. Moreover, valuable takeout can be delivered manually, and different levels of deliverymen have different prices, which is similar to the ancient镖师 (bodyguards/escorts)."

"That's truly genius, the plan is so comprehensive. I heard that this group's market value is skyrocketing, already exceeding 10 billion, and its boss is still a young man?"

Zhang Hong's eyes were filled with envy.

"I heard it's Shen Bai, probably only 23 years old! The former national martial arts champion, he entered the Qingbei Dao Academy less than five years ago and has already reached the Golden Core stage, making him the youngest Golden Core cultivator in the nearly thousand-year history of the Xuanyuan Empire!"

The receptionist's eyes lit up when she mentioned Shen Bai: "Shen Bai has risen to become the most popular male cultivator in the entire empire, and is also the dream lover of many female cultivators!"

"Little girl, you're getting horny, aren't you!"

Seeing the young receptionist's infatuated expression, Zhang Hong couldn't help but point at her: "I've heard that Shen Bai is the sixth princess's chosen husband, and they'll get married as soon as he reaches the Nascent Soul stage."

"But he hasn't become the prince consort yet, has he?"

The receptionist slurped down her snail rice noodles while chuckling, "So what if he becomes the prince consort? Does that mean he can't have a mistress? Marrying a princess is good, but there are so many rules in the royal family. I don't believe Shen Bai won't cheat!"

"I don't think Shen Bai is that kind of person. He's been in the industry for so long and there haven't been any scandals about him."

Zhang Hong shook her head, indicating that she did not believe it.

The teacher in red chuckled and said, "What can you do if you don't believe me? But there's a rumor that Shen Bai has several mistresses."

"A little lover?"

The receptionist immediately perked up: "Who is it?"

"Who else could it be? It's said to be his two childhood sweethearts, one named An Li and the other Bai Qingqing. I heard that Shen Bai offended the Chu family and several other families because of them..."

The gossip made lunchtime much more interesting.

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"The trial operation of the FastDrop Flying Boat in the capital city went quite well. The next step is to roll it out to all cities in the empire..."

At the beginning of the new year, inside the Sixth Princess's residence, Shen Bai was discussing the recent operations of two business companies with the Sixth Princess.

Feeling that Qiyuan Star was developing at an increasingly rapid pace, while the Sixth Princess's funding gap was widening, Shen Bai presented two business plans that he had been planning for a long time: a food delivery service and a delivery airship.

The emergence of these two businesses immediately garnered a following among young people.

Ordering takeout with flying swords has become a new trend in the Xuan Yuan Empire.

Taking a fast-moving boat has become a new mode of transportation for ordinary people.

Previously, airships were expensive, but now they have become a fast mode of transportation that ordinary people can enjoy at will, so the airship service has been rapidly promoted in Beijing.

Unlike other worlds that require huge human resources, Shen Bai's Hungry Ghost Delivery and Courier Flying Boats greatly reduce his reliance on manpower due to the addition of various magic arrays and the integration of drone concepts.

Therefore, Ele.me and Feizhou Express achieved profitability in the shortest possible time.

"With these two companies, Your Highness will never lack money again!"

Shen Bai's confident tone made the Sixth Princess unable to help but smile happily, and the elders sitting opposite Shen Bai also nodded in agreement.

These elderly men were all from the Sixth Princess's maternal clan. They had come to discuss the funding gap with the Sixth Princess. The original plan was to achieve a balance between income and expenditure by this time, but Qiyuan City was developing too fast.

In this year, the total population of Qiyuan City exceeded 1000 million, and the total population of the entire Qiyuan Star exceeded 5000 million.

The population explosion has led to the continuous emergence of new cities within a radius of tens of thousands of miles of Qiyuan City. Some of these cities belong to various countries, while others belong to large corporations and powerful forces.

More and more families from Blue Star began to flock to Qiyuan Star, hoping to get a share of the pie on this wild and untamed planet.

Humans from Blue Star, like termites, are rapidly devouring the living space that originally belonged to the beastmen of Qiyuan Star.

The ultra-long-distance spiritual network between the two planets was finally connected a year after the opening of the ultra-large-scale ultra-long-distance teleportation array, and communication between the two planets was no longer an obstacle.

Over the past year, Qiyuan Star experienced another spiritual surge, but thanks to preparations, the damage to various countries was not significant this time.

Only a very few unlucky cultivators recklessly used their spiritual power and became beastmen.

Recently, another man-made relic has been unearthed. With more and more evidence emerging, countless scholars have definitively confirmed that Qiyuan Star was indeed a planet with a highly developed cultivation civilization. However, due to spiritual tides or other unknown reasons, all humans have turned into beasts.

Some scholars have argued that the main reason why Qiyuan Star did not stop its losses in time like the humans on Blue Star was the lack of a Spirit Network for mutual exchange.

The emergence of the Spirit Network turned many secrets into common knowledge. Although the first wave of the Spirit Tide caused considerable damage to various countries, a methodology for dealing with the Spirit Tide was quickly developed and adopted by various countries.

The cultivation sects on Qiyuan Star still relied on the ancient, closed-door approach to communication, which resulted in delays in information transmission. Coupled with the impact of the beast tide, they simply didn't have the energy to help each other.

This is the difference in social structure.

The social structure of Blue Star is mainly composed of academies and enterprises. The way people live together is different from the tribal-style living of Qi Yuan Star, which is based on sects as individual strongholds. The connections between people are closer, which gives everyone a better foundation to deal with beastification and beast tides.

Some scholars have also argued that the complete transformation of Qiyuan Star into beasts may be due to the scarcity of high-level cultivators on Qiyuan Star, namely, the lack of Nascent Soul cultivators, Body Integration Ancestors, and Tribulation Transcending Supremes, which resulted in the absence of powerful beings at the Rule level to turn the tide.

Some scholars believe that the demonic path on Qiyuan Star is too strong, and the occurrence of the spiritual tide is inextricably linked to the demonic path. However, this argument lacks evidence and is only considered as a direction of argumentation.

No matter how much scholars research, everything is developing in the best possible way. More and more people are discovering treasures, obtaining high-grade spiritual herbs and materials, and occupying powerful spiritual veins on Qiyuan Star...

As the population grew, powerful cultivators who broke through to the Nascent Soul stage emerged in various countries.

In order to deal with the threats from various countries and protect the ever-expanding territory of Qiyuan City, the Princess's Mansion is once again under financial strain.

The sixth princess did not want to rely too much on her maternal clan, so Shen Bai stood behind her again, constantly cheering her on and replenishing her energy.

"Very good, Lord Shen truly deserves to be the most promising Golden Core cultivator in our empire."

The Sixth Princess said to Shen Bai with a reserved expression, "I have already communicated with Lord Wanlin and transferred all your subordinates to Qiyuan City. From now on, you will be in charge of the Night Fiend Hall in Qiyuan City. I hope that you, Lord Shen, can share my burdens and solve my problems."

"It is my honor to serve Her Highness the Princess with all my heart."

Shen Bai smiled at the Sixth Princess. After not seeing her for several months, the Sixth Princess had become even more charming. Her already elegant and noble appearance now had an added touch of alluring charm.

Seeing the longing in the other person's eyes, he couldn't help but say, "Later, I would like to give Your Highness a private report on the recent work of the Night Fiend Hall."

The elders exchanged glances, all understanding Shen Bai's meaning. One of them, an old woman with white hair, coughed lightly and said, "Your Highness, I have already spoken with your mother about the Zhang family's intention to arrange a marriage."