Chapter 50 (1/2)

Chapter 50: Living Printing Technique

Everybody present raised their ears after Fang Xinghan finished his sentence as they were curious about what Hong Xiaobao had in mind.

“Ah, this is rather easy.” Hong Xiaobao treated it like no big deal, “Setting up a sect requires a lot of money. However, I have quite a lot of ideas to earn money. Regarding manpower, I’ll look for people slowly — I’m not in a rush.”

Lots of ideas to earn money? In this world, a lot of martial artists risked their lives just to hunt and earn money. Wouldn’t the materials of Demonic Beasts cost a lot less if hunting them were that easy?

“This…” Fang Xinghan previously received a poem ‘Ode to Gallantry’, that was easily worth more than ten thousand gold to him. He quickly asked, “Xiaobao ah, if you’re planning to hunt, I’ll ask s.h.i.+xian to go with you. Based on his strength, he could easily take down high-level Demonic Beasts. You can sell them for a good amount of money after that.”

Actually, Fang Xinghan himself wanted to go with Hong Xiaobao. However, being a head teacher of a sect, working for an 18-year-old seemed quite embarra.s.sing.

Hong Xiaobao decisively declined his request once again, “No way, hunting only pays for a negligible amount of money. I have big plans up my sleeve!”

Everybody looked like this: （⊙o⊙）

One could sell a 6-star Demonic Beast’s material for at least ten thousand silver taels. This was considered as a negligible amount for him?!

En, in this world, the price of a medicine and its raw materials differed substantially. The main reason was because taking down Demonic Beasts only required a couple of fairly high-level martial artists. However, medicine-refining required a lot of raw materials since the success rate was extremely low, thus creating the huge price gap between raw materials and medicines. For instance, High Yellow Ranked Qi-concentrating elixir was normally sold at twenty thousand silver taels whereas a raw 6-star magical beast material only cost ten thousand silver taels. n.o.body could do anything about it, it was the reality. On Earth, the amount of money earned by building material suppliers and real estate agents always had a great disparity.

“Then… Xiaobao, can you share your plan with us?” Fang Xinghan asked.

“Hehe, it’s actually quite easy. I’m planning to publish something called where I write interesting stories in that had taken place in the Jiang Hu. Furthermore, I might write and publish my own novels as well.” Hong Xiaobao said as he clipped some vegetables with his chopsticks.

? Novels? What were novels?

“This… Xiaobao ah,” Hong Wenqing asked, “I can imagine what Jiang Hu Stories may turn out to be. However, I have no idea what a novel is. Why have I never heard of it before?” Everybody nodded, they had no clue at all.

“Oh, novels?” Hong Xiaobao explained, “Novels are made-up stories about the life of a character. The plot must be interesting and complicated to attract people into reading it. I already have a brief idea on what I’m going to write about and I should be able to get started soon.”

Everybody still did not quite get the idea since this was the first time they had ever heard of it. However, the knowledgeable Fang Xinghan quickly noticed a major issue that required a solution, “Xiaobao ah, this one understands the concept of Jiang Hu Stories as well as publis.h.i.+ng novels. But the quant.i.ty… You will have to hire up to a thousand people to copy with hand to ma.s.s produce it. Wouldn’t it be a little too costly?”