Chapter 1084: Satisfied Grandstar (3)

Fourth day.

Some people were finally reaching their limits.

Some of the minor race experts were starting to regret this. It was already the fourth day. Why was nothing happening? Why were the gates still shut? The city was catching more and more attention.

In Great Xia, some people were feeling very gloomy. Just what was going on? People were finally starting to pay attention to Great Xia again. But that did not last long at all. Everyone was ignoring the Multiple Character Faculty and focusing on Su Yu again.

Then again, that was understandable. The faculty character had yet to produce anything tangible while the so-called Nanyuan ruin was still nowhere to be found. Thus, everyone decided to put these aside for now and focus on Su Yu first. At the very least, they had to witness his death, right?

It wouldn't take that long, anyway.

***

Fifth day.

Some people were getting desperate and started buying heavenly source qi from the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. The pavilion took the chance to double the price.

Su Yu also dismissed all the part time workers as he was afraid of robberies. He would only show up every now and then to deal with the accumulated orders.

Sales were good! He had been selling the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion's own stock. He had applied for a restock from First Profound previously.

Business was very good. Over a period of five days, he had sold about five hundred portions of heavenly source qi while suppressing his death qi. That was all the heavenly source qi in the inventory. Not even the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had an unlimited supply of heavenly source qi.

Five hundred portions were worth five thousand heavenly hunt points. That was the regular price. Since price had doubled thanks to this crisis, the number of his sales had reached ten thousand heavenly hunt points.

Every three years, Su Yu needed to make a thousand points worth of sales to get through his assessment. In the blink of an eye, he had completed thirty years worth of assessments. Meanwhile, he only received ten heavenly hunt points as commission. He was very dissatisfied.

Fortunately, he was only selling the stock provided by Heavenly Hunt Pavilion so he wasn't really losing anything here. It wasn't like he hadn't earned more than these transactions. For example, when payments were made in blood essence, he would swap the blood essence of powerful races with weaker races.

The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion only accepted its payment based on the level of the blood essence instead of the races the blood came from.

When some desperate individuals with only blood essence of powerful races in their possession bought from Su Yu, he would not allow the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion to benefit from this desperation. Instead, he would swap all the blood essence with the blood essence of weaker races in his possession, such as the blood essence from the iron-winged bird and sky tiger races.

Through this method, he had actually profited quite a lot. He had even thought of a way to further milk the pavilion. At the moment, he was casually talking to the First Profound Elder to carry out his new plan.

"Elder, I have obtained a decent amount of blood essence recently, but I'm running out of heavenly source qi. I found an expert in the city wishing to sell me his heavenly source qi for blood essence. But the price is quite high. He's selling for nineteen heavenly hunt points, but we can sell for twenty heavenly hunt points. We can still make a profit of one point per portion. So should we do this business?"

"..."

First Profound cursed inwardly. That so-called expert in the city was Su Yu himself, right? Even the elder was impressed. Wasn't Su Yu trapped in the city? How did he still have the energy to make money and do business? Was this a dream? Holy shit!

The elder wondered if this was all a dream. Profound Nine was actually not Su Yu. Or maybe the mayor was not Su Yu.

Just the fact that Su Yu was still able to continue completing the sales during the past few days was already greatly shocking to the elder. In the elder's mind, Su Yu should be dying from death qi after sealing the city.

But that was not the case at all. With this, absolutely nobody would suspect that Profound Nine was Su Yu. Why? Because Su Yu was the one suffering the backlash to seal the city while Profound Nine was happily doing business in the city. 𝖗à₦ƟBÈS

Su Yu should not have the time or energy to deal with all those transactions. In fact, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion itself would be the first to protest if anyone dared to claim that Su Yu was Profound Nine. That was simply too illogical. How could one be unreasonable enough to make such an absurd claim?

Just what Su Yu had been doing so far was impressive enough. But he was not satisfied. He was even trying to milk the pavilion dry. First, he would sell a product to the pavilion for nineteen points. Then, he could sell the product for twenty points. That way, he would both earn a massive profit and further improve his work performance.

As greedy as the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was, it would only sell heavenly source qi at a price of ten points per portion normally. Raising the price in such a situation was actually perfectly understandable.

If any other person was selling heavenly source qi in such a situation, the others might be too wary of tricks to buy. Meanwhile, this was not the case with Heavenly Hunt Pavilion. Regardless of what others might say about them, they still had a decent reputation in term of doing business.

But the people in the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion also knew that their stock in the city was limited. They were just worrying about the unfulfilled orders in the city when Profound Nine stepped forth with such a solution.

This offer of Profound Nine was actually not profitable for the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion taking into consideration the cost of maintaining the communication network. But this was still worth doing as it would further strengthen the reputation of the pavilion.

Before long, Su Yu received a reply from First Profound, "You can do this, but you need to notify the Yellow Department first. Just tell them that you encountered a mysterious expert. That way, there will be a record internally and nobody in the pavilion can blame you if anything goes wrong."

"Alright." Su Yu laughed, "Elder, will we receive bonus rewards for completing a large number of transactions?"

"Yes. This will also help with your future promotion into an elder."

"Is that so? In that case, I can only hope that I'll gain the qualifications to become an elder as soon as possible."

The elder wasn't too bothered about this little scheme. The more sales Su Yu made, the more commission he would receive. Thus, this would also benefit him. It was worth noting that with this plan, Su Yu could benefit from each transaction twice.

Each purchase and sale was considered a single transaction. Since he would first complete a purchase before making a sale, he would complete two transactions per portion. And he was entitled to a commission per transaction. Thus, he would receive his commission twice per transaction. As the direct superior of Su Yu, the elder would also benefit from this.

This was why he had allowed Su Yu to exploit all those loopholes as long as no rule was directly broken. Su Yu was free to go even crazier if he could find even more loopholes to exploit.

𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

***

That day, the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion's name resounded in the city yet again.

The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion had made a declaration that anyone running out of heavenly source qi could purchase more from them. The price would be fixed at twenty points per portion. The supply was limitless.

Heavenly Hunt Pavilion used this chance to prove that there was nothing it couldn't do. Meanwhile, Su Yu started extracting heavenly source qi from blood essence. What was the cost of extracting a single portion?

Roughly 1,000 human merit points, or 1 heavenly hunt point. By selling his heavenly source qi to the pavilion at 19 heavenly hunt points per portion, he could earn 18 points, a profit of 1,800 percent. And this wasn't even including his commission.

Of course, this was only applicable to him. The Heavenly Hunt Pavilion's cost per portion was probably triple his cost. Including the commission, the communication and transport costs, and everything else, their profit margin was much lower.

Even so, they could still earn a lot even with a price of ten points per profit. But there was no comparing their profit with Su Yu's profit. With the city sealed, demand would skyrocket. This gave him a chance to make even more profit. All the minor race experts started buying from him.

He could reach a sales volume of about five hundred points each day. By the time the eighth day arrived, even the major race experts in charge of blockading the mayor's residence were starting to buy from him.

In this manner, Su Yu continued doing business while keeping the city sealed. He intended to milk them dry. Keeping these people in the city was also beneficial for him as they would also take some of the burden off him.

Yes. Any living person could help withstand the death qi in the city. This did not apply to only the residents. With their usage of heavenly source qi, they could help counteract even more of the death qi.

Even the stone statue was stunned to see this. He found that at some point, even the burden on him had dropped.

Originally, the people in the city would take on twenty percent of the burden, Su Yu would take ten percent of the burden, and the stone statue would take seventy percent of the burden. But now, the people in the city had taken on thirty percent of the burden while Su Yu's burden remained. Meanwhile, the stone statue only needed to take on sixty percent of the burden.

Noticing that Su Yu still had the energy to spare to run around making money, the stone statue made a decision. He gave ten percent of the burden on him to Su Yu. With this, he only needed to take on half the burden.

Since this new mayor was so energetic, the stone statue decided to give him more trust. What a useful mayor. Yes, keep doing this. Go on. The stone statue's burden had never been this light before.

He was very pleased with his new mayor. He had received the service of dozens of mayors before, but none of them had been as helpful as Su Yu.

Meanwhile, Su Yu alone could take on the burden of two mayors. With the lightening of his burden, the stone statue was in a good mood.

Wow. Heavendoom was right. Su Yu might be good at troublemaking, but he was also very reliable! Just look at the good job he was doing as the mayor. Initially, the stone statue was worried that twenty percent would be too much for Su Yu, but he soon realized that his worry was pointless. Su Yu still looked perfectly fine.

***

Meanwhile, Su Yu was greatly alarmed inwardly.

What?

While he was happily counting his money earlier, the death qi inside him had suddenly erupted in intensity. Previously, he had to spend two hours per day to neutralize the death qi in his body. But suddenly, that had increased to three hours.

With this, he had to spend three hours cultivating per day just to maintain a balance of death qi in his body.

"Three hours!"

Su Yu was trembling with fear. What happened?

What did he do?

Was the intensity increasing because he had kept the city sealed for too long?

That was too terrifying.

If this continued, would he eventually be forced to cultivate ten hours just to maintain the balance? In that case, he would have very little time to actually increase his own cultivation. And if this trend continued, eventually reaching twenty-four hours, wouldn't he be the same as all the other residents? His cultivation would no longer grow as all his effort would go toward dealing with the death qi.

Su Yu was terrified. Three hours later, he was finally done with his death qi for the day. Meanwhile, the stone statue looked at him approvingly. Amazing. So he was able to deal with it so quickly? Did this not mean that he could take even more of the burden?

Grandstar had concluded that he had encountered the most precious mayor ever. This felt great! Should he...add another ten percent to the burden?

"No, that would be too obvious. I can't..."

After thinking about it, the stone statue decided to wait for a bit. He would increase the burden the next time the kid did anything big. That way, the kid not suspect anything. The stone statue was very satisfied with his new mayor.

He was not going to let this mayor go no matter what. Nobody could take this mayor from him. What a nice and responsible mayor. Would Heavendoom regret sending this kid away?

Grandstar had the urge to tell Heavendoom about this. He had the urge to show off to the other stone statues. Look at all of them pitifully struggling with their death qi while his mayor was doing most of his job for him.

Ahhh, this felt great!

***

Alas, Su Yu wasn't feeling so great. He was feeling greatly terrified.

He wondered if he should keep the city sealed.

Finally, he was scared. The sudden increase of death qi was too scary. It had happened out of nowhere. He even started considering reversing himself back to a normal human and escape the city's grip. This felt so dangerous. In fact, even his tribulation character had pulsed earlier.