Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Tang Ning waved her hand and the talisman passed through the light curtain.

Not long after, a gap appeared in the light curtain, and he flashed into the inner room. After receiving his license plate from the management office, he went straight to the shop of Baoxing Chamber of Commerce.

"Senior, what are your orders?" As soon as Fang stepped into the room, a woman came up to him and said respectfully.

"Do you have Huang Yuandan here?"

"Yes, senior, please come with me." The woman led him up to the two floors of the attic and came to a row of blue cabinets: "I wonder how many Huang Yuan Dan you need, senior?"

"Take three bottles!"

"Okay, a total of two hundred thousand spiritual stones." The woman said, opening the blue cabinet, taking out three bottles of black elixirs, leading 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 pushed the door open and saw a middle-aged man with a plump figure and big ears sitting inside. The woman bowed and saluted: "Master Cheng, this senior needs your signature to authorize the purchase of three bottles of Huang Yuan Dan. "

The obese man glanced at Tang Ning, stood up and said with a smile, "It seems that I have never met fellow Taoist Taoist before. Do you know your surname?"

"This is Tangning."

"It turns out that I am fellow Taoist Tang from the Qian Yizong. I am Cheng Yuxing, the shopkeeper here. Congratulations to fellow Taoist for condensing the golden elixir and improving your cultivation." The man turned the page with his left hand and took out a golden book and handed it to him.

Tang Ning took the booklet, signed and pledged it, and gave him the number plate she received from Fangshi.

The Chamber of Commerce has its own intelligence system, so Tang Ning was not surprised that they knew his identity.

In a place as big as a palm in Xingang, the golden elixir cultivators are treasured by many. The news that he successfully formed the elixir has probably already spread to all the forces in Xingang. Not only everyone knows it, but at least those who are interested must know it.

Except for Broken Ridge Mountain City, no other place in Xingang has a supply of third-level elixirs. All monks at the golden elixir level have to come here to buy elixirs.

As the shopkeeper of Baoxing Shop, Cheng Yuxing must know the origin of each Jindan monk, so there is no need to hide it.

"Okay." Cheng Yuxing took out a black disk and scanned the number plate before returning it to him.

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

Huang Yuandan costs 2,000 spiritual stones each, one bottle contains 60,000 spiritual stones, and three bottles contain 180,000 spiritual stones. This is the normal market price.

However, things are rare and expensive, and the elixir sold in the market sells for 10% higher than the market price, so it costs 200,000 spirit stones.

This is the so-called shop cheating customers.

Anyway, if you don’t buy it, someone else will buy it. Pills are nothing compared to magic weapons, talismans, and formations.

This is a daily necessity.

The higher the level of monks, the more inseparable they are from elixirs. If they only rely on absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the spiritual power of the golden elixir monks will not be as effective as the elixirs in one day.

"Welcome fellow Taoist to come again next time." Cheng Yuxing checked the number of spiritual stones and handed him three bottles of elixirs with a smile on his face.

Tang Ning took the elixir, checked it one by one, said goodbye, then left the shop, returned the number plate to the management office, and left Fangshi directly to escape the light and head north.

Traveling day and night, I finally returned to the sect after a few days, and the escaping light fell in front of a cave in Xuanyun Peak.

This cave was originally a cave for the former Yuan Yidian steward. After he was killed in a battle with the Demon Sect, this cave had been neglected. Tang Ning was too lazy to spend time to build a new one, so he occupied this place directly.

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

Tang Ning walked out, but could not reach a stone's throw away. A man with a fair complexion and a tall figure walked out of the cave. He walked up to him, bowed and saluted, "Uncle Tang, you are back."

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

"Has anyone come to visit these days?" Tang Ning asked.

Mu Tiancheng followed closely behind him: "Master Zhu Zhongwen from the Palm Print Department has been here, Master Xu Wenze from the Intelligence Department has been here, Master Wei Xian has been here, there are also Master Zhang Miao from the Yuan Zi Department, Master Xu Jie from the Herbal Department, and Uncle Xu from the Alchemy Department. Uncle Huang Yuanqing..."

Tang Ning nodded slightly without saying anything. There was no doubt that most of these people came to him for business.

Now that he has been promoted to the steward of Yuan Yidian, and Peng Wanli is on the front line, all the financial power of the sect is in his hands. The funds and spiritual stone subsidies for various ministries are all decided by him, so there is such a situation. Many people came to visit.

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

"No need, go and invite Xu Qingwan!"

"Yes." Mu Tiancheng responded and left.

Tang Ning returned to the main room and sat down cross-legged, thinking in her mind that after she was promoted to the steward of Yuanyi Palace, her annual salary increased to 200,000 spirit stones. Adding in the personal income, her income was only about 300,000 to 400,000 spirit stones.

It is far from enough to spend on elixirs for a year. It is obviously unrealistic to rely on the sect's funds and salary income to support the consumption of elixirs. You have to find a way to earn spiritual stones from other places.

The best way is of course to improve your elixir skills and make elixirs to be self-sufficient, but this requires years of accumulation, at least decades of work.

If you rely on the green aura in your body to catalyze the sale of elixirs and herbs, not to mention that selling high-end herbs in batches is very easy to arouse others' suspicion, catalyzing the herbs itself is also a long-term process, and it is better to make elixirs!

After much thought, I couldn't think of a good solution to solve my problem of shortage of elixirs and spiritual stones.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it's really hard for a penny to defeat a hero. No wonder Xingang has been unable to produce a Yuanying monk for so many years. This is already the case for him in the early stage of the Golden Core, let alone a late-stage Golden Core monk.

Their annual cost of elixirs is as high as three to four million spirit stones. Unless the entire sect's financial resources are used to support them, it is impossible for them to spend it normally, and this is just the most basic cost of elixirs.

To put it simply, Xingang’s cultivation resources are not enough to support a Nascent Soul monk, so for so many years, no one has successfully promoted to Nascent Soul.

After Tang Ning was promoted to the Golden Elixir, her lifespan has increased to 400 years. The lifespan of a Golden Elixir monk is generally between 400 and 600 years. Every time she advances to a small level, her lifespan will increase by 100 years.

He broke through to the late stage of foundation building in the year 742 of Daoding. He was only 125 years old at the time and had practiced for a total of 109 years.

And now it is the 826th year of Daoding. The process from the late stage of foundation building to the golden elixir took him a full eighty-four years, which is almost as long as all the previous years of practice.

In addition to the expansion of spiritual power, which slowed down the progress of his practice, the most important thing was that he encountered the Tribulation of Sighs. For thirty-five years, he was trapped by a bottleneck and failed to make any progress.

Therefore, it took such a long time to reach the perfection of foundation building and condense it into a golden elixir in one fell swoop.

As Tang Ning's thoughts were racing, footsteps could be heard outside, and a beautiful woman with a waist and a plump butt pushed open the door and entered.

But I saw that his eyebrows were like willow moons, his eyes were like autumn water, and his face was like peach blossoms. Although his expression was cold, there was a hint of spring love hidden in the corners of his eyes.

The snow-white neck reveals skin that looks like gelatin, the legs are slender, round and straight, the waist that cannot be grasped makes the buttocks exaggeratedly straight, and the plump breasts hold up the cyan robe high, as if it is about to burst out of the clothes. .

Mu Tiancheng followed her step by step, watching her twisting waist, swallowing secretly, lowering his head and not daring to look again, but his eyes could not help but drift upward.

"Uncle Tang, Uncle Xu is here." Mu Tiancheng lowered his head and said, worried that Tang Ning would notice something strange about him.

Tang Ning waved her hand, and Mu Tiancheng quickly retreated.

"sit down!"

Xu Qingwan sat down as instructed: "You called me here. What are your orders?"

"Have you taken up your post at the Palm Print Department?"

"Went there a few days ago."

Tang Ning said: "Do you have any clues about the financial changes of the sect?"

Xu Qingwan muttered: "I feel that if we only start from the funding of the ministries and departments, it will definitely not help. The annual funding of each ministry and department is four million spiritual stones. If it is reduced by half, there will be complaints from below. Because no matter how it is reduced, it will inevitably be reduced in the end. It will squeeze the lower-level disciples. I have a preliminary idea, maybe I can try it.”

"Tell me."

"The sect requires you to propose a plan to reduce the amount of spiritual stones by two million per year. In fact, it is essentially asking for an average of income and expenditure. We can change our thinking. If we can increase the income of one million spiritual stones every year, it will be 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. In this way, a positive and negative balance can be achieved between expenditure and income, and it is relatively easy to implement. "I think it will be difficult to just reduce expenditures."

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

Xu Qingwan said: "After I read the detailed accounts of the sect's finances that day, I have been thinking about a question. How did the Qianyi Sect hold on to the Chu Kingdom for so many years and have a large amount of cultivation resources, but still live in such a tight situation? How did the Demon Sect survive? What about?”

"The Demon Sect has only occupied half of the Chu Kingdom for less than a hundred years, and Xuanmen's finances are already somewhat unsustainable. How did the Demon Sect survive and grow for a long time?"

"Later, I checked a lot of files in the intelligence room and learned about the internal financial distribution of the Demon Sect. They have no so-called ministries, so they don't need ministry funds. Their disciples only receive the most basic salary. It can be said that resources are compressed to the extreme.”

Tang Ning waved her hands and said, "We can't do what the Demon Sect does. We have a bottom line in reducing the sect's expenditure, that is, the salary of the disciples must not be shaken."

"We cannot compare with Demon Sect. Xuanmen's internal system determines that disciples have very great rights. In contrast, they have very good conditions."

"You know that the system of the three halls and the three houses of Xuanmen restricts each other, including the constraints of the lower-level disciples on the higher-ups."

"For example, the selection of the headmaster and the senior leaders of the three halls and three courtyards are decided by the disciples below. They can elevate you to the top or pull you down."

"Although our sect is in a special situation, with only a few Golden Core cultivators and few disciples to choose from, Xuanmen's system has greatly protected the rights and interests of disciples."

"So we can't do what the Demon Sect does."

Something has happened recently, and I may stop updating for a few days, as I said a few days ago.