Chapter 1614 (1/2)

Chapter 1614: Crazily Raking in Money

The facts proved that people’s potential was really limitless. As long as you could give someone a target that was easily obtained, they would unleash unimaginable power.

It was unknown whether it was due to the ident.i.ty of the patriarch, or whether it was because Long Chen’s conning skills were simply so great, or perhaps it was a combination of both, but these Elders who had lost their chance to become the new sect leader all went crazy fighting for this chance. None of them wanted to give up a second chance.

After returning to their homes and gathering their things, they rushed off to sects that they had a decent relations.h.i.+p with.

As Elders of a sect, they all had their circle of friends. Some of these Elders were friends with Elders from other sects. Some were even close enough to certain sect leaders to call them brother.

After all, the Evil Spirit Sect was quite famous within the Eastern Xuan Region’s Corrupt path. Back when Long Chen had charged into the Corrupt path’s minor worlds to take their heaven and earth spirit spring, the Evil Spirit Sect had contributed greatly to the force that had managed to drive him away.

Those Elders immediately went to the sects that they had the closest relations.h.i.+ps with and directly asked to borrow money. They were afraid others would take the initiative first.

In any case, the patriarch had already said that the Evil Spirit Sect would be filled with Netherpa.s.sage experts in just a hundred years. No matter how much they borrowed, they didn’t need to worry about it. Even an insane interest rate was no problem. In any case, they were borrowing the money under the name of the Evil Spirit Sect, with the backing of their patriarch.

As a result, practically all the Eastern Xuan Region’s Corrupt path’s sects ended up visited by at least one Elder of the Evil Spirit Sect.

Countless sects loaned money to them. One reason was because the Evil Spirit Sect was a top level sect, and they hoped to form a good relations.h.i.+p with them. Other than that, the Evil Spirit Sect promised to repay them with extremely high interest. They promised to double their investment in a hundred years. Not only could they form a good relations.h.i.+p with the Evil Spirit Sect, but they could also gain so much profit. Where would one even look for such a great thing?

Moreover, the Evil Spirit Sect’s Elders conducted their money-borrowing in absolute secrecy. They demanded whoever they borrowed money from to keep it secret as well. They were not to divulge a single word of what was happening.

Long Chen was sitting in the Evil Spirit Sect, with a large list hanging inside the palace. The list ranked the various Elders’ contributions. However much money they had gathered was listed beside their names. Yes, it was fair, very fair.

Those Elders seemed to have become insane as they borrowed as much money as possible, using any means necessary, from threats to promises, all to increase their own ranking. Some Elders even went to rob their close relatives and friends, while they also brought out all their own savings.

Long Chen sat there, spending each day counting money. He waited for the Elders to come by, kneel toward him, and offer him a spatial ring.

Each time, Long Chen would accept it without his face turning red at all. At the same time, he would encourage them to work harder, even saying that there was no need to be so rigid in their methods. The method by which they obtained the money didn’t matter. What mattered were the results, not the process.

When Long Chen said this, Evilmoon became speechless. “Are you telling them to steal and plunder?”

Long Chen shook his head. “That’s their own problem. I’ve given them a kitchen knife, but as for what kind of food they make, it has nothing to do with me.”

“Tch, you gave them a knife and then pointed them to other people’s heads. What kind of food are you expecting? Hmph, the only food you’re getting is pig heads!”

“A master can open the gates, but cultivation depends on the person. The Dao is limitless and depends on each person’s comprehension. Take me for example. I’m unlucky, and I have to fight for everything I get. However, I’m luckier than them, in that although I come from poor origins, I have a warm mother and a heroic father. They didn’t try to brainwash me. They gave me a blank sheet and let me paint what I wanted. As for these people, there’s already no saving them. They’ve been brainwashed by their so-called Corrupt G.o.d. They don’t even have their own thoughts. Not conning them would be letting down their years of brainwas.h.i.+ng. I should tell you, the Corrupt path’s fellows are all very perseverant. They’re vicious to others and vicious to themselves. That’s why you should just watch. A shocking amount of money is about to come in.”

As Long Chen predicted, on just the second day, he received his first receipts. There were ten million spirit crystals, but it was just a start.

The first Elder who came to give him a spatial ring immediately rushed off after handing him the money. By the third and fourth days, Long Chen was barely keeping up with recording how much they had earned. He was making so much that he was almost tired of recording it all.

As Long Chen kept track of the money, the new sect leader kept track of the rankings. By the seventh day, Long Chen had taken in four hundred and eighty million spirit crystals.

“f.u.c.k, I didn’t expect that the Corrupt path to be so rich!”

Long Chen was shocked inside, but he didn’t show it. He simply continued increasing the pressure on the Elders, saying that they could use the sect’s divine item as collateral. If the other side didn’t believe it, they could come to the Evil Spirit Sect and he would personally speak with them.

Once Long Chen threw that into the mix, there were dozens of new loans approved, and his wealth leaped to nine hundred and thirty million spirit crystals.

After another three days, Long Chen found that this was about the limit. The Evil Spirit Sect’s movements had not gone unnoticed. Although they had carried everything out secretly, there was no way such large movements could be made without raising suspicion. Long Chen was sure that it wouldn’t be long before people would come to investigate.

At this time, Long Chen made the wisest decision. On a moonless, stormy night, he patted his b.u.t.t and left.

The disappearance of their patriarch went unnoticed for three days before all the Evil Spirit Sect’s experts were thrown into a panic.

It was just at that time that the Corrupt path’s higher-ups from the Central Xuan Region came to investigate. Clearly the Evil Spirit Sect’s movements had been reported by others.

This investigation revealed that the patriarch had vanished. As for the story Long Chen had come up with about creating countless half-step Netherpa.s.sage experts, it was also exposed.

The entire Eastern Xuan Region’s Corrupt path went crazy. Only at this time did they realize that they had been tricked.