Chapter Four Hundred and Fifty Four – Financial Crisis (1/2)

Chapter Four Hundred and Fifty Four – Financial Crisis

A Gui looked slightly better and this made Zuo Mo very happy.

Right now, the island was so big, Silly Bird, Lil’ Pagoda, and the others went crazy in playing. De didn’t know where they had run off to and gone to play. There were too many desolate places on the island as the Ren Family’s neglectful care of this cloud island allowed weeds and wild grasses grew in many places. There were also those deep caves, some of which were extremely deep. To the point no one knew what it was like inside.

These caves became the playground of Lil’ Pagoda and the others as they played happily. Since there was Silly Bird and Tenth Grade keeping watch, Zuo Mo did not worry about any dangers.

He was very busy in this while.

The island was very happy. This group who was getting completely outfitted had smiles on their face. Yet what Zuo Mo hadn’t expected was Pu Yao had also come to see him. He asked him if Vermillion Bird Camp was getting new equipment, then why was Guard Camp not getting new equipment?

Zuo Mo stilled at Pu Yao’s question and reflexively asked, weren’t they cultivating mo skills? What equipment did they need?

And then it was Pu Yao’s endless scorn and disdain. Zuo Mo became a country bumpkin with his words. Indignant,Pu Yao then made it out as though he was fighting on behalf of Shu Long and the others. That they were being raised by an evil stepmother, and only he cared for them.

Feeling that he was going to go crazy, Zuo Mo automatically surrendered.

Zuo Mo was informed that the mo cultivated mo skills and did have talismans and weapons. But their talismans and weapons were extremely rare, just one or two items which were called mo weapons! These mo weapons were mostly forged through secret methods from things like fingernails, hair, and feathers that were naturally shed as they cultivated mo skills, and gradually became “talismans.”

Mo weapons were far less complex than xiuzhe talismans but their power was not minute, because the mo would usually only have one mo weapon in their entire life. The time it spent with them was something xiuzhe could not imagine.

Automatically surrendering, Zuo Mo found a new problem. How was he to forge mo weapons?

Fortunately, Pu Yao did not try to torture him, and said there was a cave on the island with heavy fiendish energy and was a perfect place for forging mo weapons. He only had to give the remains of the fiend soul beasts from the Sealed Extinction battlefield to Guard Camp etc etc.

Without another word, Zuo Mo got Bao Yi to throw everything to Guard Camp before Pu Yao contentedly left.

On the second day, Bao Yi came with a grimace to find Zuo Mo.

“Daren, our financial situation is reaching a dangerous level!” Bao Yi put out a grave expression as though he was not over exaggerating.

Zuo Mo scratched his head and comforted Bao Yi, “It should be okay!”

“There are ling veins on the island but most of them are being used on the ling fields. Everyone’s daily cultivation is based on using the Black Processing Meditation mats again. Each mat requires five pieces of third-grade jingshi every day. Daren, this means that we need to give out ten thousand pieces of third-grade jingshi daily, or twenty pieces of fourth-grade jingshi. Other than this, the island formation consumes about one fourth-grade jingshi a day.”

Each expenditure that Bao Yi said made Zuo Mo’s heart jump.

“But we do not have any income. Daren, up until now, we have not made one jingshi of income. The Kun Lun Battalion talismans we took from the battle cannot be sold right now in consideration of safety. Daren!”

Bao Yi’s old face was so wrinkled it was like a prune. As the quartermaster, he knew about Zuo Mo’s wealth better than anyone but he hadn’t expected that Zuo Mo would use an entire sixth-grade jingshi to buy talismans for everyone! In a blink, ninety percent of the jingshi in the stores suddenly disappeared and this caused him to feel unprecedented danger.

“it shouldn’t be this serious … …” Zuo Mo smiled weakly.

“And in this month, Chun Yu Cheng Daren took five hundred pieces of fourth-grade jingshi from me to buy ling beast offspring, and in the following plans, we need to invest approximately five thousand pieces of fourth-grade jingshi. Daren, you agreed to this plan. Shu Long Daren has just taken ten pieces of fifth-grade jingshi to buy all kinds of materials, he said you agreed!” Bao Yi’s expression was excited.

“Ten pieces of fifth-grade jingshi?” Zuo Mo’s eyes suddenly became extremely round as though he wanted to eat someone!

Pu Yao, you are too vicious! Ten pieces of fifth-grade jingshi in one go! Zuo Mo gritted his teeth!

“Daren didn’t agree?” Bao Yi’s eyes lit up, wanting to pull up his sleeves and take the jingshi back.

Zuo Mo reacted and hurriedly waved his hands. “No no no! I agreed, I agreed!”

Bao Yi could not disguise his disappointment. “Daren! Not soon from now, we will be in a situation where we cannot feed anyone! The harvest of flowing cloud silk is at least three months away, and Daren, you know that the income from ling fields is basically nothing! Chun Yu Cheng Daren’s ling beasts can be profitable but that is at least six months away. In other words, we do not have any short-term income.”

When a good person was desperate, their presence was frightening.

Zuo Mo also feel the difficulty of the problem. If they kept spending at this rate, they really could not support it for much longer!

As expected, it was not easy to pretend to be a rich person!

Zuo Mo found, dejectedly, that he had only been a rich man for one day before he was thrown back to his original state!

Make jingshi!

Zuo Mo wanted to cry!

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Xu Zheng Wei made a deep sound. He hadn’t expected Boss Zuo to throw such a difficult problem to him.