Business Time

Heading out of the office he checks the time and see's its almost evening as the sky's where already dark. He heads over to his restaurant to have dinner and orders a burger with chips, a peperoni pizza, along with a large milkshake. For dessert he ordered a large ice cream Sunday and a whole chocolate fudge cake.

He has long recreated foods from his home world using new ingredients that are even tastier due to the presence of Qi and using runes to power machines that create things like ice cream.

This was the main reason for his restaurant's huge success. It's not just the Qi rich food or the cheap prices for the mortals but the unique range of flavours, textures and combinations available that have never been seen before.

While eating he is thinking once again about future business opportunities. 'I should start preparing shops ready for when I have a large enough stock pile to sell these food items. The chocolate in the restaurant is the biggest selling point so being able to sell more mass-produced ones in packages should rake in the cash. I should also change the production method and add a more refined version for nobles and cultivators with higher standards.

As for the other things to be sold, I can sell many different types of biscuits and cookies along with some pastry goods like doughnuts and croissants. Packaging is still an issue because since I am the first to create things like packaging, I would like to avoid plastic due to the environmental impact it can have. I don't want to ruin my new world, though plastic might be fine since there is magic and stuff but rather not risk it.

Paper bags would be a good option since I could make them bio-degradable and can use the left-over wood dust and scraps and other plant waste, but its not resistant to the rain and are pretty flimsy. Ooh that's right, I remember hearing from father that high quality clothes are made from a special silk produced by certain spiders and caterpillars. He said they are quite rare but he maid limitation causing the silk to be expensive is that for the creature to make the silk a lot of Qi in the air is needed.

My inner world would be perfect due to its crazy amount of Qi and I could even make a farm and put an inscription to increase it more. Can then have some of the sect's servants or some slaves harvest the silk and breed the creatures. I will have Meng Yating use her business connections to get me some and have Su Da start work on building an area for them within the inner world, it would be pretty similar to the orchard building I presume. Depends on the size of the creatures though, don't want to waste toom much space as it's still not big enough to place stuff haphazardly.'

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The next day he finished cultivating and after breakfast went to check out his pill busines. Although he calls in a pill business it actually sells a lot more and is more like a treasure trove that sells its items. He sells anything from pills and herbs to weapons and resources. He just tends to generalize it as a pill shop since that's what I started out as.

He heads to wards the same street as yesterday and instead of heading into the large majestic building of the guild he instead goes towards the large tall pagoda at the other end of the street. It had 8 sides and got thinner as it went up with only 8 floors. The outside was decorated with extravagant materials like gold, jewels, multiple colours of jade and created an exquisite look.

Unlike the outside of the guild where is it filled with people the pagoda only has people sitting on the near by benches looking at it with satisfaction with the occasional person showing a hint of jealousy over not owning something so extravagant. The entrance was pretty clear of people with 2 large burly men fully armoured up in deep black heavy armour and large black and red long sabres.

They radiated a clear controlled bloodlust showing their might. He stationed these two here to ward off most of the riffraff from making trouble. They where part of his Brotherhood of Blood and where people who betrayed the army and where imprisoned because of it. They are both peak stage 2 and very close to stage 3, but that is only the strength they show off. In actuality they are already stage 3 and have made it to level 4.

Wearing the same get up as the day before which completely hid his identity, he entered the building walking past the intimidating guards. When he entered it opened up to a large room covered similarly to outside with gold and jewels but unlike the outside where it was made to stand out, the inside looked more professional and less overpowering. It created a posh but comfortable feeling and even for mortals wouldn't be overwhelming due to the way its combined with woods and lighting.

At the back of the room is a stair case leading to the next floor with another guard standing next to it. Near the stairs is a desk with multiple beautiful ladies dressed up with smiles and neat clothes ready to greet any customer.

The first floor had a few displays stands with standout features or well-known rare items. The first floor was the reception and most of the items where just for show and where rare but not particularly useful items. It worked however to show off the shops wealth and ability to find rare things.

Ignoring the items around the room and the few people gawking at the fancy items he went straight to the stair case and placed his hand on the box in front of the stairs which had a handprint shape on it.

This was a safety method he introduced where anyone who wishes to go the floors above have to scan their hands to assure identity and prove cultivation. He has 2 reasons for this, the first is to prevent anyone who masks up looking to steal for what ever stupid reason they have by making it so they know exactly who said person is even if they where to come again but not disguised.

The second reason was so he can add special types of VIP levels and is a way to authenticate them. The top levels can't just be allowed to be accessed by anyone after all. Only top elders would be given a rank which the hand print identifies and checks in case of anyone typing to impersonate them.

His hand print went through smoothly and the pale blue barrier in front of the stairs opened up for him to go through. On the second floor just as he got up the stairs there was a lady standing in front of him with some texts explaining what grade of items there are on this floor and to ask the lady if they have specific questions or items they need checking for stock.

The floor was a lot more filled than the bottom as the first was only the reception whereas this was an actual shopping floor. There are over 200 people on this floor ranging from level 1 – level 10 of stage 0. Most of the level 10's are old men signing a sheet of paper and the desk with excited expressions.

When seeing the 9 old men each writing on the pages he smirks. 'Seems these old foggies are willing to sign their life away at the prospect of finally being able to advance to stage 1. Seems my suggestion to Meng Yating about adding a place for old people with nothing else a chance at advancing to stage 1 in return of them signing their life over to us and them becoming our slaves basically but to make it attractive we said employees. Seems many are desperate to advance whether it be for longer lifes or family/personal reasons, well its easy workers for me and even though they are old, using pills I can forcefully burn away the remnants of their talent and vitality to make them stage 2 pawns.'

Not being interested in anything else on the floor he once again scans his hand on the next stairs and moves to the next floor. He kept on going up with each floor having nothing really, he needs to care about.

Each floor had less and less people and by the time he got to only the 4th floor it was empty apart from the staff and guards. From the 4th floor to the 7th floor the items where more and more precious with the 7th floor being the most expensive floor and contained even rank 4 and 5 items and materials.

He however didn't stop on the 8th floor and continued to the last floor, the 8th. Unlike the others the floor was much smaller and didn't have any items displayed. Instead, it was filled with staff rushing about with papers in their hands and many desks being filled with people writing stuff down, counting coins and some even checking over items and writing down some information.

This was the last floor of the shop and was the staff exclusive floor for handling paperwork, apprising items and any thing else that needed to be done. He walked through the halls with everyone who saw him bowing as he walked past.

All of them where enslaved so they all knew his identity, many where family members from the sect disciples, some were hired from failed buisnesses and some where friends of Meng Yating who she vouched for.

He soon reached the end room which the manager worked in. He entered and was greeted by a fat middle age man. He had many golden rings and chains on and looked almost like a pig. He gave off the typical merchant tyrant pig who lusts over women and is greedy for money, the type who normally fucks with main characters and is the cause for lots of commoners and low tier cultivators' troubles.

Though one shouldn't always judge by his looks as although he gives off that vibe and looks, he is actually a great manager and was someone highly recommended by Meng Yating and was her main business partner when she worked at her family's auction house. Due to her recommendation, he hired him after his own business started failing due to the success of his own.

He was a kind man with a single wife and kids and even though his own business was basically ruined because his own was too good, he accepted it and didn't hold any grievances. Impressed by his record of starting from nothing and creating his own company he assimilated it and hired most of his previous staff again and put him in charge of the main store.

The fat man smiled and welcomed him in. The two then spent a long time speaking about the progress of the shops, how they will continue to expand and new products to sell.