Chapter 64: Hall of Beasts
With a plan in mind, Li Yuan did not bother with the Black Whale Hammer anymore, exited the secret realm, and fell into a deep sleep.
The morning in Daocheng was also quite lively. Under the wisps of smoke, there were already many pedestrians on the street, most of whom were going to work. On the way, he also met several blacksmiths recruited by the Forging Shop.
The Forging Shop was located on the left side of Minghua Street, which was a more prosperous street in the outer city. Although the area was not as large as when it was in Zhelong Mansion, it was considered a large shop on this street.
Li Yuan came very early, and the blacksmiths in the forging room had not started work yet. Liu Zheng got up early and was looking at the accounts in the backyard. When he learned that Li Yuan had come, he hurried out to greet him.
"Brother Li."
Liu Zheng came quickly and told the shop's apprentices to buy breakfast.
"How is the business of the shop?"
Li Yuan asked casually. He was used to being a hands-off shopkeeper. In addition to paying and collecting money, most of the chores were done by Liu Zheng.
"This is the expense account of the shop in the past six months, as well as the list of personnel."
Liu Zheng took out the account book and handed it over. Li Yuan flipped through it while he reported on the side.
It's called income and expenditure, but in fact most of it is expenditure.
The forging shop has only been open for a few days. For several months, it has been recruiting blacksmiths and apprentices, building facilities such as forging rooms, and purchasing various iron materials.
Not to mention the prices of several shops, the profit of the forging shop in one or two years is not enough to cover it.
If it weren't for the huge demand for weapons, Li Yuan felt that doing other businesses might make money faster, of course, this is excluding himself.
In Daocheng, all kinds of expenses are huge, and the value of famous weapons is also rising. With his current weapon forging attainments, if he really keeps his head down and forges iron, he can make at least ten prosperous shops a year.
"It's okay to have a slight loss. There is not much business when it just opens, but it will be fine later."
Li Yuan put down the account book and put down the several sharp blades and famous weapons he was carrying. These are fine products he made by himself, and they can be used as treasures of the town shop for the time being.
"Everything is expensive in Hengshan City. The staff expenses and iron materials are more than 50% more expensive than when I was in Zhelong Mansion."
Liu Zheng felt very painful when he mentioned the loss.
"That's different. Huizhou is one of the largest mines in Hengshan Road. In addition, the materials are naturally cheap with the Divine Weapon Valley taking care of them, but there is no such treatment in Hengshan City."
Li Yuan is not very proficient in business. In his previous life, the small supermarket business he ran was very bleak, and he could barely make ends meet.
In recent years, he has been able to make money by doing business in many places. First, he has good ironmaking skills, and second, his status is high enough.
In fact, it is the same when he came to Hengshan City.
If he was not a disciple of Longhu Inner Sect, and did not have the "approval of the ancestor", Liu Zheng, no matter how talented he was in business, would not have been able to gain a firm foothold so quickly and buy several prosperous shops at market prices.
"That's true. "
Liu Zheng actually knew it in his heart, but if he didn't complain, how could he appear to have done something?
Li Yuan didn't care much about his little thoughts. The two talked for a few words, Liu Zheng was reporting and Li Yuan was giving orders.
"You want to expand the scale?"
Liu Zheng was a little surprised.
"Well, the shop's location needs to be multiplied several times on the current basis. As for recruiting personnel, blacksmiths and apprentices should be recruited. Well, spread the word that I will occasionally come to guide apprentices, and spread the word privately."
Li Yuan didn't explain, just gave orders.
These days on Chungang Peak, he was not just forging iron, but also familiar with the operation of Chungang Peak. He was very interested in the assembly line style of forging iron.
For ordinary martial artists, the more special the weapons, the better, but for him, the more similar, the higher the success rate of combining weapons.
"I understand this."
Liu Zheng bowed his hands in response.
"As for the forging of weapons, in addition to the common swords and knives, make more hammers, preferably of the same style. "
Li Yuan reached into his bosom, but actually took out a blueprint from the weapon control space. This was drawn by him before he came here. It was a long-handled six-sided hammer.
Chapter 64: The Hall of Beasts.
"Ah, hammer soldiers?"
Liu Zheng was startled. Hammer soldiers were not as easy to sell as swords, but the doubts turned into a question:
"How many?"
"Hmm..."
Li Yuan calculated that a seventh-level hammer soldier required three sixth-level famous weapons. By analogy, it would require 2,187 hammer soldiers that were not in the same level.
If there were seven, it would be...
"The more the better."
Li Yuan didn't count with his fingers, but he knew that it would require a huge amount of silver. Even if he made it himself, the artificial iron materials would cost money.
Not to mention that the Divine Fire Furnace not only needed incense, but also gold and silver as firewood.
However, compared with incense, this was a small problem.
High-level incense is not easier to get than divine weapons...
"Ah? "
Liu Zheng was a little confused.
"If you don't have enough silver, come to me anytime to withdraw it."
Li Yuan took out five thousand taels of silver notes and one thousand taels of gold notes and handed them to Liu Zheng, thinking in his heart that it would be great if he could build a few mines.
"Yes."
Liu Zheng took the silver notes, suppressed his doubts, and thought about how to get things done.
Normally, if you ask for the amount and the other party answers "the more the better", then this amount must not be a small number.
"Thank you, Brother Liu."
The hands-off shopkeeper was naturally very comfortable. Although he paid the money, Li Yuan was in a good mood. He took out a booklet from his pocket:
"This is the booklet I wrote these days. It's my experience. You can flip through it when you have nothing to do, and give Pei Yao and the others a copy..."
"Thank you, Brother Li."
Liu Zheng's face became serious and he took it with both hands.
"Give this 1,000 taels of gold to Pei Yao. Don't stop collecting the leather, bones and blood of spirit beasts. If there are finished boots, take them all."
Li Yuan spent money like water, and he didn't feel sorry at all, which made Liu Zheng a little shocked.
He heard that before leaving the valley, the valley master had given him a sum of gold and silver. Now think about it, it must be a large amount.
"Well, that's all."
Li Yuan ordered everything he could. Liu Zheng was memorizing it at first, and later he had to take out paper and pen to write it down.
"Huh!"
After seeing Li Yuan off, Liu Zheng breathed a sigh of relief and found that he was sweating.
"Brother Li's aura is getting stronger and stronger."
Liu Zheng was envious and a little awed. Even though he had been with Li Yuan all these years, he still felt that he could no longer see his back.
"This is also the best opportunity for my Liu family to rise to prominence!"
Liu Zheng was determined in his heart and opened the booklet left by Li Yuan. He had no confidence in his martial arts talent, and he didn't think this notebook could help him.
But after opening it, he couldn't help but shudder.
"The correspondence table of the various styles of the White Ape Zhuanggong and the Six Breathing Methods of the Ape..."
"All the nodes and sequences of the small circulation of qi and blood to the large circulation..."
"The sequence and tricks of the internal force..."
...
"This?"
Liu Zheng subconsciously straightened up and widened his eyes.
All martial arts secrets and predecessors' experience are mysterious and mysterious, making people look at the clouds and mist. Only those with excellent comprehension can understand their meaning.
But the booklet left by Li Yuan is different.
This is no longer easy to understand. It is not only pure plain language, but also lists which style of Zhuanggong corresponds to which breathing method, when the breathing method changes,
how the qi and blood circulate, and every step is listed.
"This, even if a fool follows the map, he can become strong internally, right?"
Liu Zheng had already stood up. He held the booklet, and was surprised and shocked in his heart, and soon immersed in it.
…
“If this doesn’t work, then I can’t do anything.”
Looking back
Chapter 64: The Hall of Beasts.
Looking at the forging shop, Li Yuan muttered to himself that he really wanted to help his old friend.
He put a lot of effort into this booklet, completely analyzing and sorting out all the steps from practicing martial arts to changing his form. This is not martial arts, but according to the saying in the previous life, this is a strategy.
It is only suitable for people who have learned martial arts that are similar to his.
“Well, Senior Brother Yue and Senior Brother Wu should also be able to use it. And second brother, I am also familiar with the Bull Kung Fu. Well, by the way, I will also learn a Tiger Roar Kung Fu…”
After wandering along the long street, Li Yuan found a large escort agency and prepared to mail several other experience booklets and letters to his second brother, Yue Yunjin and others.
Hengshan City is too far away from Dechang Prefecture, and ordinary escort agencies will not accept it at all. Only large escort agencies will do this business.
Of course, it is to take it while escorting the convoy.
Li Yuan went to several houses before he found one, paid the silver, and then returned to Longshan.
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Then, Li Yuan resumed his boring and regular life.
He stood on the Dragon Zen Vajra Post before dawn, went to Chungang Peak to forge iron after dawn, and went home in the evening to play with the little tiger cubs and feed the little mice, and then changed his roots and practiced the method of visualization.
After practicing martial arts for several years, Li Yuan's temperament became more and more stable. Although he had many things to do, he could hold back and wait quietly.
He traveled back and forth between Chungang Peak and his own courtyard every day, and sometimes went to the library to read and borrow books.
Occasionally, he would go to Dou Yue Monk to ask about the Dragon Zen Vajra Sutra, and he also went to Long Xinglie several times until the latter went down the mountain.
During this period, Wang Xuanying came to visit. This time, he asked Yu Xuanji and his sister to be the middleman and brought generous gifts to apologize.
Master Li was not a vengeful person. He just asked for five years of spiritual rice and spiritual pills, as well as two mines outside the city.
The latter was in pain, but he still gritted his teeth and agreed.
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Time passed quietly like water.
As the north wind came overnight, the Longhu Mountains were covered with white frost.
In the morning, Li Yuan opened the door and saw that the sky and the earth were white, and the snow was enough to cover the ankles. In the snow, the little tiger cub, whose body shape had not changed for more than half a year, paced in the snow, leaving a few plum blossom footprints, and no one knew where he came back from.
"Today's pill."
Li Yuan flicked his finger, and a bottle of blood-enhancing pills fell into the cat's paw.
"Woo~"
While the little tiger cub lowered his head, Li Yuan quickly reached out and touched it. As the latter screamed, he laughed and disappeared.
In the past two months, he has changed his spiritual form three times, and all of them are the form of spiritual birds. His body movement speed is faster and more flexible than before.
"This little tiger cub's speed growth is not inferior to mine."
Walking slowly in the wind and snow, Li Yuan was somewhat surprised. If he had not seen progress every day under the blessing of the Palm Weapon Talisman, he would have been unable to hold on to this kind of intensive hard training.
This cat cub sleeps and eats every day, and eats and sleeps, and it has made such rapid progress...
"Even if this little guy is not one of the legendary beasts, I'm afraid it's not much different, right?"
Li Yuan thought in his heart and stopped.
In front of him was not Chun Gang Peak, but "Hundred Beast Peak", which belongs to the Three Halls of Longmen, under the Hundred Beasts Hall, and is also the largest hall of the Nine Halls of Longhumen.
"Roar! "
Li Yuan looked out at the mountains and seemed to hear the sound of dragons.
There are hundreds of spiritual beasts in captivity in these mountains, including the king of spiritual beasts worth "ten thousand gold". It is said that the descendants of the mounts of Zen Master Longyin and Taoist Chunyang are in these mountains.
The White Sandalwood Spirit Sheep King and the Spirit Fire Bull King, whom he had been thinking about for a long time, were also there.
Chapter 64: Hall of Beasts.