Talisman Reincarnation - All My Clones Are Dao Ancestors-Chapter 146: Avatar and Longbao

Having made the deal, Mu Yan didn’t bother with them any longer and left the room.

Led by the agent, he went to a large room on the third floor. The two children on his side went to sleep in separate rooms too.

...

"This Royal Eunuch is special..." the envoy, back at the Shi Gui Family, explained the situation to the Shi Gui family head.

"He is indeed," Shi Gui Ruguang nodded in agreement.

It seemed like the eunuch made a deal recklessly, but the moment this deal started and he waived the fee, they would directly have a cooperative relationship. By then, their interests were intertwined and they couldn’t turn against him.

"Shi Gui Patriarch, we have done our part of the deal and established a relationship with the eunuch. It’s now your turn to fully open your ships to our products. We know you’ve been trying to reach other families in the Liang Empire, but from now on, we should be the only family in the empire you contact."

The envoy told him the decision of the Zui Family – they knew that cornering a vassal wasn’t good if you wanted them to work. So rather than fully restricting, it’s better to allow some leeway while controlling them by a majority.

Based on his terms, they could create emergency contracts in other empires, but their main trade should be with them until that moment of emergency.

The patriarch nodded with a smile, "Don’t worry, we know this. By the way, I heard the Zui Ancestor is about to reach the sixth stage. I hope you send us an invitation when that happens!" 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"Naturally we will." The envoy chatted a bit more before leaving.

In his room, he directly used a secret technique to convey the success of the mission.

The patriarch also went to discuss the future with his families’ elders.

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Just a few hours later, in the middle of the night, Fu Xian heard a knock at his courtyard’s entrance.

He looked over and saw who it was, so he simply opened the courtyard, using spiritual power to write a few words in the air.

When the guest arrived at the Guest Pavilion, Fu Xian was already seated, pouring a cup of tea.

"Senior brother Longbao, the message arrived very quickly."

"So you know about it too?" Longbao sat down and took the cup, drinking the tea.

"It’s even more refreshing this time!"

"The trees are growing well, their bark robust and their leaves green.

Indeed, I have received the message.

The trade has been completed very smoothly."

Longbao nodded then asked, "It seems there are some issues with the county... do you need help?"

"There are indeed issues, but the Royal Eunuch has already found ways to deal with them. Based on my guesses, in at most a month, all the fourth-stage forces besides the one in the south of the county will be connected to him.

By the way, he asked for grasses, right?

Make sure the grasses you give out are fire or earth element, wind is also fine, but don’t do water.

One of the third-stage forces there, a spiritual plant shop owning underwater fields, is about to reach the fourth stage.

The county grows best when the forces have their own specialty, we don’t need forces to compete at this stage of growth."

Longbao raised an eyebrow – the information he got was a lot less detailed. Not just because the secret technique could only convey few thoughts, but also because their Zui families’ attention isn’t on the county. Besides the county, they had several other vassals all over, and the matter of the ancestor advancing was also very important.

"By the way, junior brother, your own Spiritual Avatar Talisman is quite advanced, allowing you to leave an avatar and control it from so far away!" Longbao chuckled, seeing that the Fu Xian in front of him was see-through.

"Well, it’s a second-stage talisman after all. If it was a third-stage, then I could create a true avatar that could interact better.

You can’t have everything!

But it doesn’t matter, since my mind is connected, I can communicate just fine."

Longbao nodded, "When you have third-stage avatar talismans, I would like to buy them too.

They seem extremely useful! If I could, I’d have three to five avatars running around, doing various tasks for me.

After all, as a merchant cultivator, I have countless tasks."

"That’s true. Alas, if they could help the cultivators with their cultivation or comprehension, then they would be great! But they’re only able to help with some small tasks.

Even then, their cost is quite high.

Only in the hands of merchants like brother can they be useful."

"That is the case. By the way, we’ve tested your talismans in the past few days.

They’re doing very well and we’ll likely buy them yearly from now on.

What do you think about ten Ancient Tree Bark Talismans yearly?"

"Isn’t this a bit much? As far as I see, the Shi Gui family only sails twice a year."

"Haha, this trade is indeed small, but if I’m honest... it doesn’t even cover 10% of our current business.

With the newest deal, it might reach 15% since we’d be able to dump a lot of the stored rice into the Ning Dynasty in a short time, and with the addition of selling grassed, I will go and make the deal personally, so it should boost the industry by another 5%, making it 20% of our yearly income for a few years.

But even then, it’s just 20%.

After all, our forces are at different levels, and while we have a lot of income, our expenses are huge, so we need more businesses.

Using these talismans, we should be able to open up two more trade routes and strengthen one or two older trade routes.

Haha, brother, you don’t know.

With this favour, I should be able to easily boost the income of the next ten years by up to 50%!

Of course that will only be ten years, afterward, the stored rice won’t be dumped and the initial high will fall, competitors will have caught up or found ways to fight us, or the price we’re selling the rice at will rise.

But these ten years will be enough for me to gain an advantage in the lead for fifth-stage advancement materials!

Maybe, just maybe... I might be among those that break through next!"

"Then brother, I hope everything goes well and that you can advance as soon as possible! With another cultivator from our lineage advancing, the creation masters would grow even further!"

He knew that with more people, more businesses would grow, and their lineage will likely have some leverage in the immortal city!