Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 57: Gains

The Luodi Merchant Guild’s business strategy was rather progressive. To broaden their brand recognition, they created the concept of a “brand mascot” and invited a master artist Xuan-Daozi. After three revisions, the decided first draft was a mascot.

This first draft featured a chubby little pig holding a coin.

After the Luodi Merchant Guild introduced their brand mascot, their fame indeed grew significantly. When many other businesses learned of it, they followed suit, creating their own unique mascots.

One such business was the tofu store on Qianmen Street in Yanjiang Commandery.

Qin Yuanhao didn't end up killing his underling. Upon regaining his composure and giving it further thought, he realized that his underlings were down-to-earth with their work and never slipped up. If they said that they couldn't find those people, it really means that they couldn't.

It can't possibly be the tofu store’s mascot running about and starting rumors.

“To have such distinctive features but still untraceable? It looks like my fellow diabolic creed members are framing me!” Qin Yuanhao sneered.

How can I still not figure out that someone has deliberately set me up? But I just don't know who.

This was not uncommon in diabolic creeds. Qin Yuanhao himself had done his fair share of harming his fellow members.

Since there were still no leads after all this time, Qin Yuanhao could only swallow this loss disgruntledly and slowly plan who he should take revenge on. “If you can't find them, then there's no need to keep searching.” Qin Yuanhao took out a stack of papers and a few silvers and tossed them to the underling.

This was also a reason for not killing his underlings. Someone must do the work assigned by the branch leader. If I kill them now, where else am I going to look for a replacement?

“Early the next morning, gather all our brothers and go to the nearest eight commanderies. Secretly disseminate these papers in the black market. These silvers will be your stipend and travel expenses. Do you understand?”

“Yes, yes, I understand.” The underling was frightened by Qin Yuanhao”s last bellow.

“Louder.”

“Understood!” The underling straightened his back and shouted until his neck turned red.

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The middle-aged woman from next door yelled angrily, her voice resounding through the wall, “Do you know what time it is now? Why are you shouting?”

She shouted even more loudly than the underling.

Killing intent flashed in Qin Yuanhao’s eyes.

“Big Brother, she is a Foundation Establishment cultivator who is here to live in seclusion,” the underling quickly explained.

Many cultivators liked playing around in the mortal world. Who knew if those selling barbeque skewers on the street were all cultivators?

Qin Yuanhao snorted, saying nothing as he left.

The underling yawned. Boss has finally left. He then fell asleep as soon as his head hit his pillow. There was still work for him tomorrow morning.

Qin Yuanhao’s underlings would often receive some random, incomprehensible tasks from him. To maintain secrecy, he wouldn’t tell his underlings anything, only demanding that they follow his instructions.

It was the same this time around.

After the underling was fast asleep, Lu Yang darted out from the ground. He swiped away three pieces of paper and followed Qin Yuanhao. The latter had only come out to look for his underlings. Once he was done giving his instructions, he went back.

When Qin Yuanhao passed by One More Time Barbeque Shop, he paused for a moment. “I went into seclusion for just four days and a new barbeque shop has already opened up? And it’s already so popular?”

Qin Yuanhao suddenly had the urge to get a meal. It doesn’t matter if there are many people; I can just cut in line. You’re already lucky to have a Foundation Establishment cultivator like me coming to your small place to eat and not making you kneel to receive me. Yet you still want me to wait in line?

However, Qin Yuanhao finally dismissed the idea. Something like barbeque is more enjoyable when there are many people; eating alone is just not as fun.

“I’ll save it for next time.” Qin Yuanhao went home.

Lu Yang returned to the barbeque shop to help out. As soon as he got back, he saw Meng Jingzhou performing xiangsheng comedy. The diners were even applauding and clamoring for an encore, “One More Time!”

Lu Yang took a deep breath. I see that the two of you really want to make this barbeque shop a big success...

Sensing Lu Yang’s knife-cutting gaze, Meng Jingzhou quickly shut his mouth and obediently resumed his role as a waiter, though he would ignore all the diners’ calls.

After a while, the diners gradually left, and the barbeque shop finally regained its peace. The two tiger-henchman ghosts tidied up the grills and utensils and took stock of the ingredients used for the day, estimating the amount of ingredients they needed to buy for the next day. On the other hand, the trio sat on the second floor, discussing their gains for today.

“How much silver did we earn today?” Meng Jingzhou rubbed his hand excitedly. Starting a business from scratch gave him a strong sense of achievement.

“Who’s talking about that kind of gain?!” Lu Yang slammed the table and glared at him. “Did you forget what we came here for?”

“Open a chain store?” Man Gu was still thinking about expanding his family business and taking it to great heights.

Lu Yang stopped paying attention to the two fools. He took out three pieces of paper and recounted the events of the night from following Qin Yuanhao.

“White paper?” Meng Jingzhou took a piece of paper and examined both sides but couldn’t make any sense of it.

Lu Yang also didn’t know how to reveal the content on the paper. “Qin Yuanhao told his people to spread these papers to the black market, so there must be some information on them. It’s just that we don’t know how to identify and decipher them. Is it a special communication method between diabolic creeds?”

Meng Jingzhou nodded, agreeing with Lu Yang’s conjecture. “Very possible; these sneaky fellows often like to use secret codes and the like. This is a paper for all diabolic cultivators, and all of them need to get it. If even we, at the Foundation Establishment Stage, can’t see the text on the paper, it’s all the more impossible for a Qi Training diabolic cultivator to be able to see it.

“So the problem doesn’t lie in the secret code but rather the paper.”

Lu Yang mused over it for a bit, then heated the paper over the charcoal fire.

“What are you doing?” Man Gu was baffled.

Lu Yang carefully heated the paper, casually explaining, “I read in a book that if you write on paper with sugar water, the text will be invisible after it dries. You need high heat to remove the water from the sugar, which then reveals brown-colored text.”

Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu found this piece of knowledge to be very interesting.

After five minutes of heating, nothing appeared on the paper, so Lu Yang could only abandon this method. He summoned a small ball of water on his palm and suddenly squeezed it until it burst. The mist of water droplets sputtered out and landed on the white paper.

“What are you doing now?”

Lu Yang explained, “Special liquids like body wash and laundry detergent are very water absorbent. When they are used for writing, the text will be invisible after it dries. Only by sprinkling water on the paper and making use of the concept of different absorption rates can the characters be revealed.”

The Central Continent might seem to be similar to historical times, but it actually wasn’t the case. Due to the existence of spells, be it by design or by coincidence, there were many things here that didn't belong to ancient times. Such examples were the body wash and laundry detergent Lu Yang had mentioned.

Unfortunately, there was still nothing on the paper.

Lu Yang wasn’t discouraged. After pondering for a while more, he came up with a new idea. “Since this is a communication method among the diabolic path, perhaps we have to use methods common to them to decipher it?”

Lu Yang bit his thumb and let a few drops of blood fall onto the paper. The blood seemed to have come alive, swimming across the paper’s surface.

“As I thought, this is a method used by the diabolic path for forging paper, so it can’t be judged by normal standards.” Lu Yang heaved a sigh of relief. I’ve finally succeeded.

There seemed to be many invisible grooves on the white paper. Wherever the blood flowed, it would fill these grooves and form characters.

“On the first day of the fourth month, the Everlasting Creed’s Yanjiang Branch will recruit new members. The exact location will be announced the day before the recruitment.”