Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Tang Ning dodged and raised the knife.

Several foundation-building monks had no power to fight back. In just a moment, the right arms of the five of them fell to the ground, leaving only the monk named by him unharmed.

There was deathly silence in the hall. Yan Ming, Yang Qiushui, Xu Fan, Cheng Qian, Huang Qiansheng and several other monks from the guard hall all stood with their hands down.

The five people who had their arms cut off by him all covered their right arms with painful expressions on their faces and let out slight wails.

Only the monk who confessed to Lin Quan fell to the ground, trembling all over.

"May I have your name."

"Zhang Yan." The man said tremblingly.

"Where is the two hundred and fifty bead elixir that Lin Quan stole?"

"Junior, I don't know, maybe, maybe it's in his storage bag, maybe it's in his room."

Tang Ning took the storage bag with her hand and checked it. There was no Purple Smoke Fruit inside.

"Yang Qiushui, allocate 200,000 spiritual stones to Zhang Yan from the financial funds."

"yes."

"Juniors don't dare, juniors don't dare." Zhang Yan kowtowed repeatedly.

Tangning ignored him and walked straight out of the hall, with everyone following behind him.

Outside the hall, a group of monks stood with their hands down. Although they did not witness what happened inside, the door of the hall was wide open and they could hear everything going on inside. Everyone roughly understood what happened.

At this moment, seeing Tang Ning coming out of the room, everyone lowered their heads and did not dare to look at her.

"Someone took advantage of two hundred and fifty Pearl Purple Smoke Fruits. I hope this is the last time." Tang Ning said calmly.

After saying that, he disappeared into the light and left, leaving a group of people in shock, looking at each other.

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At night, in front of the majestic cave, a ray of light shot out, and Huang Qiansheng's figure appeared. Not long after, the thick fog rolled and cleared a passage. He flashed into the inner room, came to the main room, and sat cross-legged on the futon. Tangning bowed and saluted: "Disciple pays homage to Master."

"sit down!"

"Disciple doesn't dare. I came here specifically to apologize to my uncle. As the person in charge of guarding the spiritual mines in our team, if something like this happens below, I can't escape the blame. After I return, I can't feel at ease. I am ashamed and embarrassed. I have a great responsibility for you, so please punish me."

"It's none of your business, but you really should take good care of those people below. Fortunately, they were found out in time this time. If they hadn't been found out, next time they would not only have two hundred and fifty beads of elixir, but this If we don’t stop this trend, what will happen in the future?”

"Yes, this disciple will strictly control and train the personnel recruited by the Guard Hall in the future. This kind of thing will never happen again."

"Have you found the two hundred and fifty bead elixir?"

"Not yet. The disciple has already searched the rooms of those people, but found nothing. The disciple will continue to investigate."

Tangning nodded slightly: "Take it easy before you go to the Alliance Spirit Gathering Formation to practice! You should focus on training the Guard Hall personnel. We will discuss the quota for the practice formation next time when we have a chance."

Hearing this, Huang Qiansheng was slightly startled, his eyes flashed unwillingly, and he nodded yes.

"Is there anything else?"

"No more, disciple. Take your leave."

Tang Ning didn't respond and closed her eyes. Huang Qiansheng turned around and left quietly.

…

For a period of time after this incident, no matter where Tang Ning went, others would walk around him, fearing to avoid him, as if he was the living king of hell.

On that day, the sun was bright and the wind was clear. In the broad and bright hall, Tang Ning walked in from the outside. Inside, a tall man stood up with a smile and bowed his head: "Junior brother Tang, it's been a long time."

This man is none other than Xie Xuan.

After the two exchanged pleasantries, they took their seats.

"Junior brother Tang, I'm here this time because of the things we discussed earlier. Do you have any problems here?" Xie Xuan said straight to the point.

"It's been prepared, just waiting for Senior Brother Xie to receive it."

"That's good. I heard that your team had some minor problems during the material handover of the brigade?"

"It was my inadvertence that allowed Xiao Xiao's gang to take advantage of it and steal two hundred and fifty beads of elixir."

"Hey, people's hearts are unpredictable, especially those of us who are stationed in Ting City. We have a mixed crew. Don't be too indulgent towards them. Otherwise, they will think that you are weak and can be bullied, and you can do anything."

"What Senior Brother Xie said is, let me take you to check the medicinal herbs!"

"There is no rush." ​​Xie Xuandao said: "Junior Brother Tang, according to our previous agreement, your team will provide us with 2,000 pearls of purple tobacco fruit, poppy flowers, clover, and heart fire sesame every year. The price is 240,000 spiritual stones. Right!"

"Senior Brother Xie, do you think there's anything wrong?"

"There's nothing wrong with it, but I would like to ask one more question, what are you going to do with the extra elixir your team has?"

"Brother Xie, what suggestions do you have?"

"We should still follow the rules we made before. The price of the two thousand bead elixir will remain unchanged, and the extra elixir will be given to us at 50% of the market price. What does Junior Brother Tang think?"

Tang Ning was silent for a moment. Originally, he planned to sell the extra elixir to private shops in need, usually selling it for 80-90% of the price. Now that Xie Xuan offered to buy it for 50%, he was naturally a little reluctant.

After weighing it for a while, he slowly said: "Since Senior Brother Xie said so, let's do what you want!"

After all, Xie Xuan is Xie Minghua's confidant. Although the price will definitely be much higher if sold to private individuals, it may also make Xie Xuan unhappy.

If he fanned the flames of Xie Minghua and said a few bad words, it would definitely be detrimental to himself.

Especially after experiencing the theft of the elixir this time, the impression the superiors had on her would not be much better. At this time, it would be unwise to risk offending Xie Xuan to earn more elixirs, so Tang Ning chose A compromise.

Xie Xuan stood up and said: "Okay, let's go now! After checking the elixir, please ask Junior Brother Tang to send someone to escort it."

"no problem."

The two got up and walked outside.

"Actually! If you ask me, Junior Brother Tang, just buy out Senior Brother Jiang's share in the Alchemy Hall. Otherwise, you can get your money back in less than ten years. From now on, our senior brothers will work together. Isn't it much better than this? ?”

"To be honest, senior brother, I am alone now and have no money. Let alone tens of thousands of high-grade spiritual stones, I can't afford even a few thousand."

"Isn't this simple? I'll give you a guarantee. I'll talk to Junior Brother Jiang and ask him to give you a longer period of time and repay it in multiple installments. Tens of millions per year, within ten years. Just pay it off, I believe he will give me this thin noodle.”

"Thank you for your kindness, senior brother. Let me consider this matter."

"Whenever Junior Brother Tang is willing to take over, just say hello."

In the storage room, Tang Ning ordered the accompanying monks from the Guard Hall to carry four stone boxes containing elixirs to the Yuanling ship and sail out of Pingling Mountain.

………

Stars were shining brightly, the moon hung high, and a screen of light stood among the vast mountains. The Yuanling ship came from the southwest and stopped in front of it. Xie Xuan turned it over in his hand, and the talisman sank into the room.

Soon, a gap appeared in the light curtain, and several figures flashed out, and the light fell on the deck. The leader was a man with a hooked nose, followed by several people.

"Junior brother Tang, let me introduce you. This is Taoist Brother Xue Yuan who is in charge of the Cangxiong Ridge Alchemy Hall. He is also a monk recruited by this department." Xie Xuan introduced: "Xue Yuan, this is the master of our sect's resident garden pavilion. It’s Junior Brother Tangning.”

"Junior has met senior." Xue Yuan saluted.

The Yuanling boat slowly entered the inner room and came to a stone room. Tang Ning ordered everyone to transport the stone box to the inner room, and then checked the number of elixirs.

"Junior brother Tang, please stay here today and let's have a drink. Xue Yuan, take all the brothers down and treat them well," Xie Xuan said.

"Yes, fellow Taoists, please." Xue Yuan responded.

Tang Ning waved her hand and everyone filed out.

The two came to a clean and elegant room, where a banquet had been prepared. Xie Xuan turned his hand, took out a storage bag and handed it to him: "Junior Brother Tang, this is two thousand yuan prepared for you. Four million spiritual stones, please check, I will ask someone to deliver the rest later."

Tang Ning took the storage bag and exchanged a few polite words. The two exchanged glasses and chatted about the north and the south. The guests and host enjoyed a banquet that lasted until late at night.

After resting here for the night, Tang Ning led everyone back to the Pingling Mountain Spirit Mine the next day.

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In the meeting hall, everyone in the fifth team gathered together and talked among themselves.

Not long after, Tang Ning came in from the outside, sat down at the main seat, looked around and said, "Everyone is here, let's get started! Yang Qiushui, first tell me about the situation of your Finance Hall this year. No one is an outsider here. Forget the set of financial statements in the file, tell the truth! How much is the total income and expenditure, and where is each expenditure? "

"Yes." Yang Qiushui responded: "Uncle Master, this year our team received a total of 23.8 million yuan in funds, and spent 24.3 million yuan, with an overrun of 500,000 yuan."

"Among them, the salary expenditure for recruiting personnel is 6.3 million, the daily consumption of formations at Pingling Mountain, Fengyan Mountain, and Xuangan Valley is 6.5 million, and the maintenance and operation of the Eye of the Spiritual Equipment World is 150,000. 100,000, the subsidy share for the mining personnel of Ling Mine is 1.5 million, and the expenses of various ministries are 8 million. "

Tang Ning nodded slightly. This fund was handed over by Jiang Xinquan when he was in office. Its source of 23.7 million yuan was mainly divided into three parts.

The first is the 32.4 million spiritual stones given by the sect, the second is the dividend of 5 million spiritual stones from Pingyang Valley and Crescent Peak, and the third is the spiritual medicine privately sold to Xie Xuan. Because Jiang Xinquan originally He was a partner of the Alchemy Hall, so he offered a very low price and only gave millions of spiritual stones to him.

The total of the three was 47.6 million spirit stones. Jiang Xinquan took 50% of it himself, and the remaining 23.8 million was given to Yang Qiushui as the funds for the entire team.