Chapter 752: Chapter 459 Remittance! Subscription! [First release, asking for monthly votes!]

"The first friend." Yan Chuan smiled and accepted. The code name ’South Sea Crocodile God’ in the Postnatal Realm was now history, henceforth only the Innate Realm’s ’Yun Zhonghe’.

He had over ten thousand friends in the Postnatal Realm, but in the Innate Realm, this was the first.

Not enough.

Far from enough.

[Zhang Tao: Crane God, another match?]

As soon as the friend request was accepted, Yan Chuan received a private message from Zhang Tao, and before Yan Chuan could reply, Zhang Tao sent another message—

[Zhang Tao: Just like before, talking while fighting for three hours, I’m willing to pay 1 Yuan Dan. Which continent is the Crane God on? If on the East Continent, I can use the six major trading houses of Shenchuan, Ancient Pond, True Martial, Red Lotus, Yeji, and Black Pupil for international remittance. If on another continent, it will be slightly more troublesome; I’ll have to go to the capital and use the nine major trading houses of Yuan Chu, Fei Yu, Wuliang, Cangyuan, Tian Mang, Chaos, Sword Heart, North and South, and Qiankun for cross-continental remittance. If in Wangyou Country, it’s simple, dozens of small and large trading houses offer domestic remittance services.]

Zhang Tao was in a hurry.

And the offer was exceptionally high.

Three hours, one Yuan Dan.

The hourly rate was up to 5000 jin of Essence Stone, far more than Yan Chuan had ever charged in Guangling City.

But what intrigued Yan Chuan was—

"Shenchuan, Ancient Pond, True Martial, Red Lotus, Yeji, Black Pupil, the six major trading houses can do international remittance."

"Yuan Chu, Fei Yu, Wuliang, Cangyuan, Tian Mang, Chaos, Sword Heart, North and South, Qiankun, the nine major trading houses can do cross-continental remittance."

"And dozens of trading houses that can do international remittance."

Yan Chuan spotted a familiar trading house—

[Yun Zhonghe: What’s the background of the Fei Yu Trading House?]

[Zhang Tao: Fei Yu Trading House? Is the Crane God in the South Continent?]

Zhang Tao first asked back, then quickly sent a whole bunch of information about the ’Fei Yu Trading House’—

"Its business spans Mo Yin Continent."

"The owner of the trading house is called ’Fei Yu’, an Overlord-level Great Power!"

Overlord level!

Nation master level!

The Fei Yu Trading House is backed by an overlord not weaker than the Sitting Mountain Country Master, and can expand business from the South Continent to the East Continent!

Impressive!

Impressive!

Yan Chuan was amazed.

[Zhang Tao: Is the Crane God still there? I’ll send someone to the capital right away to transfer first and then have the martial arts lecture. What does the Crane God think?]

[Yun Zhonghe: A solo martial arts lecture for three hours, 20 Yuan Dan.]

[Zhang Tao: ...]

[Yun Zhonghe: Observing and listening qualifications, each session three hours, 0.1 Yuan Dan. Monthly package 2 Yuan Dan, with a monthly minimum spend of 1 Yuan Dan, or the friend position is deleted if consumption is less than 1 Yuan Dan.]

...

"Awesome!" Zhang Tao felt like he was being ripped off.

For one martial arts lecture, three hours at a charge of 20 Yuan Dan?

The same duration.

The same price.

The same standards.

Zhang Tao could just invite a Sixth Rank Divine General who understands the Martial Arts Realm to give him a martial arts lecture for more than a day, couldn’t he?

After all, even a Sixth Rank Divine General painstakingly crafting six-pattern Primordial Pills at most earns 6 Yuan Dan profit in a month.

"20 Yuan Dan?"

"Daring mouth!"

Zhang Tao chuckled in frustration.

Yet despite his emotions, he acted swiftly—

[Zhang Tao: Send me the account at ’Fei Yu Trading House’ where the Crane God is, I’ll have my sister in the capital transfer the money over.]

[Yun Zhonghe: Contact me tomorrow.]

...

[Your ’Tiger Soul Divine Spear (First Book)’ has improved from First Realm: Beginner to Second Realm: Basic Insight]

...

[Your ’White Python Whip Skill’ has improved, Skill Level +10]

[Your ’Snake Movement and Fox Flipping’ has improved, Skill Level +15]

[Your ’Nine Yin White Bone Claw’ has improved, Skill Level +15]

...

[Task One: Inspiration +1]

...

"A massive gain!"

Yan Chuan exited the Heavenly Ladder City, his joy unabated.

After the Innate Realm, the first match in the Heavenly Ladder City developed a big client for him, providing at least 1 Yuan Dan a month, which was the first point.

The second point.

This Zhang Tao came from a distinguished family, cultivating the True Skill ’Tiger Soul Divine Spear’. Although it was just the first book, it was a True Skill. This was Yan Chuan’s first serious contact with True Skills. He fought Zhang Tao for three hours, leveraging Mutual Teaching and Learning, and successfully stole and learned the first book of Amber Divine Skill.

This gain was not insignificant.

Meanwhile, after Yan Chuan first encountered the True Skill equal to his own martial arts, the only Self Martial skill in Derivation Skill ’Washing Marrow Scripture’, which was previously a slow crawl, suddenly progressed very straightforwardly by one point.

"Inspiration."

"True Skill."

"Absolute Skill Accomplishment."

"And Yuan Dan."

"My strategy of teaching martial arts in the Heavenly Ladder City was indeed correct. In the future, as I develop more and more friends practicing True Skills, Yuan Dan won’t be an issue. My own Martial Arts Accomplishment and True Skill Research will also improve immensely!"

After reaching the Innate Realm, the most significant function of the Heavenly Ladder City for Yan Chuan is not to increase points or to fight equally matched opponents to hone combat skills.

Instead, it’s to ’control the points’!

"I must maintain absolute strength to stay stably in the low-score brackets, ensuring I can easily have matches lasting at least two to three hours with matched low-score opponents."

Yan Chuan’s thoughts were clear.

The battles in the Innate Realm, once evenly matched, the victory or defeat is determined in an instant, and if Yan Chuan gets distracted by teaching martial arts, he will instantly be defeated. Without distraction, the Heavenly Ladder City Battles have limited utility for him.

Hence, for every match, the difference in strength between him and his opponent must be significant enough that he can focus more on teaching martial arts without putting himself at a disadvantage.

This was the reason Yan Chuan let Zhang Tao kill him at the end of their duel.

Victory or defeat?

It’s not important!

Controlling the points takes precedence.

"When I accumulate dozens, even hundreds of friends, every martial arts lecture will attract dozens or hundreds of Innates to observe. By then, my Absolute Skills will progress rapidly, and the many Absolute Skills in Derivation Skill will swiftly develop."

Yan Chuan anticipated.

Before that, he had to make a trip back to Golden Talisman City to set up a receiving account at the ’Fei Yu Trading House’.

...

Yan Chuan was indeed very busy this day—

First, he lectured martial arts over the skies of Guangming City; then he met with numerous Innates at Tan Valley Royal City while discussing martial arts with them. Later, he talked with Ni Mengtong about the situation with the thirty thousand Tan Valley Army; subsequently, Tan Yunqing brought the unconscious Tan Dou for aid. Yan Chuan obtained the ’Sitting Mountain Order’ and upgraded the ’North Mansion’.

Finally, into the night, he had his first match in the Heavenly Ladder City, gave Zhang Tao a full three-hour lecture, leaving him mentally exhausted—fortunately, Zhang Tao decided to ’consume’, otherwise Yan Chuan would have lost out significantly.

The ’hourly fee’ was an unexpected gain; Yan Chuan previously didn’t know that the trading houses in the Mountain and Sea Realm had cross-regional, international, even cross-continental transfer services. He hadn’t even thought to pursue this aspect.

In fact, if Zhang Tao hadn’t proactively mentioned wanting to ’pay to listen’, Yan Chuan had originally intended to let him enjoy it for free by adding him as a friend, as the benefits Yan Chuan gained from giving them martial arts lectures through Mutual Teaching and Learning along with Derivation Skill were already substantial enough.

Unexpected!

Truly unexpected, that he could charge a fee! And even transfer money!

Since Zhang Tao was so generous, Yan Chuan would feel guilty not collecting a fee.

However, how to collect without exposing himself, this required careful consideration—

"I need to trouble Senior Tan to run an errand." Yan Chuan first thought of Tan Yunqing.

"Just instruct me, City Lord Yan." Tan Yunqing complied without hesitation.

Yan Chuan said, "Please go on an extended journey through the Fifteen States of Great Yan, as far as possible from the region where Tan Valley Royal City and Hunxi Royal City are located, then locate a local ’Fei Yu Trading House’, open a deposit and withdrawal account, then inform me the account number, stay a few days, then withdraw all balance and bring it back to Tan Valley Royal City."

Transfer?

Money laundering?

Tan Yunqing didn’t understand what Yan Chuan intended, but since he was determined to serve Yan Chuan wholeheartedly to rescue Tan Dou, Tan Yunqing had no hesitation: "I’ll return to Great Yan and travel to the farthest north of Ke State, the North Continent of Mo Yin Continent, ensuring that it’s untraceable to Tan Valley!"

"Much obliged, Senior Tan!" Yan Chuan thanked him.

This was secure.

...

The next day.

Yan Chuan took Lu Yuru, Ding Xiang, the newly joined Situ Fei, and the still unconscious Tan Dou on a journey. Of them, aside from Yan Chuan, the other four stayed in the stone room of the ’North Mansion’. Through Tan Valley Royal City’s Wang Zheng’s main body and the Monkey King Avatar at the Divine General’s Courtyard in Golden Talisman City, he swiftly traversed the void back to Golden Talisman City.

A day apart.

As if it were only yesterday.

...

Golden Talisman City.

Divine General’s Courtyard.

Yan Chuan put away the ’Monkey King Avatar’, pushed the door open and saw the sunrise; a new day had just begun.

Today is—

March 13th of the twelfth year of Great Yan Hongwu, the fourth day since the opening of the ’Star Transformation Original Stone Shop’.

...

The ’Star Transformation Original Stone Shop’ was exceptionally busy on its opening day, with all 1106 pieces of Second-Rank raw stones sold out in the first four hours, and through the night, while cutting stones continuously, the First-Rank and Third-Rank raw stones were also being sold.

The next day, the shop ran out of Second-Rank raw stones and had to close for two days to restock and to cut the stones for the first-day customers.

Today is the fourth day of ’Star Transformation Original Stone Shop’s’ opening and the third day closed for business.

The sun rose.

Yan Chuan arrived.

"Boss." Manager Liao Ya came forward to report the situation: "These past days, the masters have been working overtime to finally cut all the sold raw stones. Although the shop was closed, customers who came for stone cutting still spent money, and we sold 722 pieces of First-Rank raw stones and 16 pieces of Third-Rank raw stones."

Thus, in the first three days of ’Star Transformation Original Stone Shop’, a total of—

First-Rank raw stones were sold.

Second-Rank raw stones.

Third-Rank raw stones.

Totaling over two thousand raw stones, no wonder the shop’s nearly forty Stone Cutting Masters had to work day and night for three days straight.

"Everyone worked hard, go home and rest well today, tomorrow morning we’ll open, and everyone will receive a bonus." Yan Chuan instructed all shop staff, from Stone Cutting Masters to sales clerks, to go home and rest.

Only Manager Liao Ya remained; after inventorying the goods and settling the Essence Stones, he said, "I have two sons at home; you might have heard of them, one named Liao Lang, the other Liao Fan. Neither is very smart, but they’re lucky and have been cultivating in the Innate Dao for some years. They heard that the Boss is new to Golden Talisman City and want to befriend you, asking me to invite you to our home. Would the Boss be willing to grace us with your presence?"

Yan Chuan had, of course, looked into Liao Ya’s background and reliability before hiring him as a manager. In fact, it was not so much about Liao Ya’s business abilities; Yan Chuan hired him mainly for access through his two sons to Golden Talisman City’s Divine General circles—his breakthrough in connections.

Faced with the invitation from Liao Lang and Liao Fan, Yan Chuan naturally wouldn’t refuse, "It would be an honor!"

Liao Ya smiled immediately.

Well then, no time like the present, today it is!

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