Chapter 175

The next day, Mo Hua went to visit Mister Zhuang. After all, he was Mister Zhuang's registered disciple, and being trapped in the spirit mine for so long, he hadn't come to pay his respects even once. Mo Hua felt some guilt about this.

Mister Zhuang was still sleeping, so Mo Hua played Five Elements chess with Old Kui for a while.

After so long, their chess skills were still equally poor, with basically no improvement.

However, with this simple chess game, Five Elements chess, thinking too much wasn't good. It was meaningful just to kill and be killed in this simple way.

Mo Hua and Old Kui were evenly matched in chess, going back and forth, locked in a fierce battle.

It wasn't until Mister Zhuang woke up that Mo Hua reluctantly left Old Kui and paid his respects to Mister Zhuang.

Mister Zhuang was basically hands-off with Mo Hua, letting him learn on his own and ask questions if he had problems. He didn't say anything about this either.

As Mo Hua was leaving, Mister Zhuang even praised him, saying, "Well done."

Mo Hua was very happy, his eyes narrowing with a smile.

Only after leaving Mister Zhuang's bamboo room did Mo Hua feel a bit doubtful.

He clearly hadn't said anything to Mister Zhuang, but Mister Zhuang seemed to know everything...

He even praised him for doing well.

Mo Hua frowned slightly. How did Mister Zhuang know?

Mo Hua was a bit doubtful, but then he thought again. Mister Zhuang was a high-ranking person, perhaps he could calculate things. Besides, they had made such a big commotion with the Qian family, so it was normal for Mister Zhuang to know.

Mo Hua nodded and didn't dwell on the matter.

Mo Hua then went to see the Bai Zi Sheng siblings.

When Bai Zi Sheng saw Mo Hua, his eyes lit up, and he immediately complained, asking him where he had been all this time.

Mo Hua then told him about the spirit mine incident.

Bai Zi Sheng listened with excitement and extreme envy.

Bai Zi Xi, on the side, was reading a book, but she also listened attentively, her autumn-water-like eyes flickering, so engrossed that she didn't even realize the book in her hand was held crookedly.

"Next time something like this happens, you must call me! I'll go help you!" Bai Zi Sheng said with high fighting spirit.

"It's probably no use calling you, Aunt Xue won't let you go," Mo Hua said lightly.

Mo Hua's words were like a basin of cold water poured over Bai Zi Sheng's head.

Bai Zi Sheng instantly lost his dream, like an eggplant hit by frost, and lay down on the ground, feeling that life had become much grayer.

Mo Hua sighed. "I'll bring you some food tomorrow."

Bai Zi Sheng immediately sat up straight. "Make it spicy!"

"Okay, okay," Mo Hua said helplessly, then turned to see Bai Zi Xi also looking at him, her eyes bright and shining.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and said, "My mother is making jade crisp cakes. I haven't eaten them yet, but they smell very good. I'll bring some for you to taste tomorrow and see if they are good."

Bai Zi Xi nodded gently, her expression quite leisurely.

The next day, Mo Hua brought the food as promised.

Bai Zi Sheng ate with great relish, while Bai Zi Xi ate the white jade-like soft and fragrant cake in small bites, like a little cat, her eyes slightly narrowed.

Seeing them eating happily, Mo Hua couldn't help but narrow his eyes and laugh.

A few days later, Elder Yu asked Mo Hua to go to the Hunter Demon Hall's warehouse to collect spirit stones.

Many spirit stones had been mined from the spirit mine and could not be distributed all at once. Otherwise, they would be easily squandered without restraint or seized by strong individuals, leading to many incidents.

The Hunter Demon Hall also needed to reserve a sufficient batch of spirit stones for emergencies.

Therefore, the spirit stones in the warehouse were distributed in batches according to merit and time, paying attention to a steady flow, so that the spirit stones could be used for a longer time.

Mo Hua was lining up outside the warehouse. After a while, he was given a storage bag containing probably over three hundred spirit stones. It felt heavy in his arms.

Over three hundred pieces!

Enough to use for a very, very long time. In the short term, he didn't need to worry about spirit stones at all.

Moreover, this was just the first batch. There should be more over time.

Mo Hua was extremely happy.

Not just Mo Hua, but every Hunter Demon Master who came to collect spirit stones had a smile on their face. Some who received spirit stones even looked disbelieving and some cried with joy.

These loose cultivators who struggled to survive at the bottom had never seen so many spirit stones.

With these spirit stones, their children wouldn't need to starve, and they would have resources for cultivation. They also wouldn't need to desperately earn spirit stones.

Under the heavy pressure, they could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

And this kind of life could last for ten years!

Mo Hua felt a bit gratified, but then he thought about it, and his mood became heavy again.

What about after ten years?

Mo Hua frowned.

After ten years, when the spirit stones were used up, wouldn't everyone be the same as before, living a life of hardship on the edge of a knife?

Mo Hua thought of Aunt Meng, Aunt Jiang, and the three people including Big Tiger, and other familiar Hunter Demon Masters.

He thought of the tears in their lives, the blood shed in hunting demons, and their hardship, pain, and precarious lives.

Mo Hua's mood became heavier.

What method could let everyone have a better life for a bit longer?

This thought lingered in Mo Hua's mind.

Mo Hua thought about it while eating, while cultivating, and even while drawing arrays.

One day, Mo Hua was flipping through an array book and suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

He ran to the Hunter Demon Hall's warehouse and found Elder Yu.

Large quantities of spirit stones were stored in the warehouse, and Elder Yu wasn't at ease, so he had been personally guarding it these past few days.

Mo Hua asked, "Elder Yu, how did the Qian family start their business?"

Elder Yu was slightly surprised but still thought for a moment and said:

"The Qian family ancestor was also a Hunter Demon Master at first. Later, he saved a sum of spirit stones and stopped being a Hunter Demon Master, starting trades like refining tools and refining pills..."

"He would collect the materials peeled from demon beasts killed by Hunter Demon Masters at a low price, hire loose cultivators to refine them into spiritual tools and pills, and then sell them to Hunter Demon Masters at a high price."

"Later, he grew bigger and bigger. The price of collected materials became lower and lower, the labor time for employed loose cultivators became longer and longer, and the spiritual tools and pills sold became more and more expensive. The Qian family naturally became richer and richer."

Mo Hua said doubtfully, "Didn't anyone compete with them?"

"They couldn't compete," Elder Yu shook his head. "Their hearts weren't as dark as theirs, and their methods weren't as ruthless as theirs, so they couldn't compete."

Mo Hua said again, "I heard the Qian family started from nothing."

Elder Yu scoffed, "That's the Qian family giving themselves a golden plaque."

"Isn't that how it was?"

Elder Yu's divine sense swept around, confirming that there was nothing unusual. Then he sat down, drank a cup of tea, and said to Mo Hua:

"I just said, the Qian family ancestor saved a sum of spirit stones. Guess how he saved these spirit stones?"

Mo Hua thought carefully for a moment and was suddenly shocked.

Elder Yu raised an eyebrow. "Everyone is a Hunter Demon Master, why couldn't others save money, but he could? The spirit stones needed to open a tool refining hall and a pill refining hall may not be a small amount. A normal Hunter Demon Master can't save that much in a lifetime..."

Mo Hua's gaze condensed. "What did he do then?"

Elder Yu said, "The older generation of Hunter Demon Masters told me that the Qian family's ancestor had a twisted heart from a young age. When he followed others to hunt demons, he even harmed his companions and swallowed the demon beast's inner core alone. Later, he even pretended to be bandits and robbed in Big Black Mountain. After that, it was all cheating, swindling, kidnapping, and deceiving. As long as he could earn spirit stones, he would do anything. That's how he saved his first sum of spirit stones..."

Elder Yu chuckled coldly again. "A horse doesn't get fat without overnight fodder, and a person doesn't get rich without ill-gotten gains. Where in this world are there so many people who start from nothing?"

Mo Hua listened with secret alarm.

Elder Yu finished his gossip, drank a cup of tea to moisten his throat, and then seemed to remember something, saying, "You came over, not just to chat about these things, right? What's the matter?"

Mo Hua's eyes lit up. "Elder Yu, let's also open a tool refining hall and a pill refining hall to earn spirit stones!"

Elder Yu laughed. "Silly child, the Qian family killed people, robbed goods, cheated, swindled, kidnapped, and deceived to save the spirit stones to start their business. Where do we get so much capital..."

Mo Hua laughed. "We don't need to kill people, rob goods, cheat, swindle, kidnap, or deceive. We also have capital."

Elder Yu shook his head and was about to say something else when his heart suddenly leaped, and he turned to look at the warehouse.

Piled up in the warehouse were dense spirit stones! These were the spirit stones just dug from the spirit mine and exchanged from the Dao Court Department!

"But... refining tools and refining pills aren't that easy either."

"There are also quite a few alchemists and tool refiners among the loose cultivators. If there aren't enough people, we can spend spirit stones to hire them."

Elder Yu frowned and thought for a moment. "The most troublesome things are the tool refining furnaces and pill refining furnaces. To make the business big, we need large, high-quality tool refining furnaces and pill refining furnaces."

"Are tool refining furnaces and pill refining furnaces very difficult to refine?"

"Refining requires consuming a large amount of manpower, materials, and refined iron, but the most tricky and most crucial part is the inside of the furnace..."

When Elder Yu said this, his heart suddenly jumped, and he couldn't help but look at Mo Hua.

The most crucial part was the inside of the furnace... the array!

Elder Yu connected the dots in his mind, and his thoughts suddenly became clear.

Everything was ready! They lacked nothing!

They had spirit stones, they had people, and the most difficult array... they already had Mo Hua.

For a moment, Elder Yu found it hard to believe.

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