High School Student with Immortal Race System

After that night, things were quiet. Even the Pantyhose Trio had vanished.

’Who knows, maybe they got their money and went off to have some fun.’

In the days that followed, everything returned to normal.

Every day when Xu Bamboo came home, she would immediately go to the fourth floor of the ancestral hall to practice Vomiting Valley Qi.

Although this Cultivation Technique didn’t challenge the common knowledge of Cyan Blue’s Martial Artists as much as actual Cultivation, its principles were still radically different. Yet, Xu Bamboo grasped it with incredible speed, which spoke to her exceptional talent.

She was drawing ever closer to the Innate threshold and was even actively suppressing her breakthrough to resolve as much of the accumulated medicinal residue as possible.

Yang Shen, on the other hand, continued to build his strength, focusing his practice mainly on Wind Return. This was his short-term priority.

Yang Shen would also occasionally drink Heart-Inquiry Water to speed up his progress, which was advancing by leaps and bounds.

After the Heart-Inquiry Stone Mirror was moved to the Yang Residence, it had been kept in the small lotus pond under the eaves. Recently, the speed at which it produced Heart-Inquiry Water had increased. It used to be one hundred milliliters every two weeks, but now it was about one hundred milliliters per day.

This was proof of the Yang Family’s growing strength. Though the mechanism was unclear, the output was more than ten times what it had been before.

But... more people were drinking it, and with greater frequency.

He, Xu Bamboo, and Lei Lv were all drinking it. With so many miraculous things happening around the residence, Yang Shen no longer had to explain every little detail. He simply told them it was beneficial for their Cultivation.

So, when all was said and done, they hadn’t managed to build up much of a reserve.

As a result, the lotus pond was usually dry and often collected fallen leaves and dust. Yang Shen simply moved the Heart-Inquiry Stone Mirror to the side of the ancestral hall and placed it in a large water jar.

This was far more practical. ’If I can’t manage to fill a pond, can I at least fill a jar?’

’It just goes to show, a lot of ideas during the renovation were just whims. You only realize they were a waste of money after you’ve lived with them for a while.’

Besides, the jar’s location was still effective. Everyone who entered the ancestral hall had to pass by it, allowing Yang Shen to gauge their loyalty.

On this day, Yang Shen practiced Wind Return in the backyard for a while after school. Once he finished, he went to find Lin Yuebai in the Outer Courtyard.

She had just returned from a business trip.

"Patriarch, the talks went well. I’ve secured a long-term sales contract for several types of medicinal herbs."

A fragrance of herbs filled Lin Yuebai’s small room. She took meticulous care of the place, treating it like her own home. In truth, the Yang Residence suited her aesthetic tastes perfectly, which was unsurprising for a girl who had grown up in the Si Realm.

Yang Shen sat at a small table by the window, flipping through Lin Yuebai’s little notebook, which detailed the results of her trip.

In a normal company, she probably would have used a PowerPoint or a spreadsheet for her report. But Lin Yuebai, being a bit of a country girl, didn’t know how to use a computer and was accustomed to keeping her records by hand.

However, her elegant brush calligraphy was lovely to look at, clearly organized, and easy to understand.

This time, Changshen Biotechnology hadn’t signed a deal with a specific company, but rather with the "Liuzhou Traditional Medicine Association."

Incidentally, Liuzhou was the capital of the neighboring Lan Province.

The association would make bulk purchases and then resell the goods to its member enterprises at a fair price—at least, that was the official line. Whether they actually sold at a fair price... Yang Shen didn’t care, so long as he got his asking price.

This was a common way for some of the old guards of the industry to make a little extra cash. They might not have built a large enough enterprise over the years, but their prestige in the field was high, so they would form an association to earn some retirement funds.

’Lin Yuebai really has her connections.’

Since they were supplying herbs to an association for an entire provincial capital, the volume was still enormous, even if they were only responsible for a portion of the supply.

If they maxed out the contract, it would bring in at least six million a month, since they were selling only premium, top-quality medicinal herbs.

If converted entirely into Qi Gathering Vines, that would only be about 300 vines. Packed roughly, they could even fit into just two burlap sacks, yet their value was immense.

Six million a month. And the cost... was extremely low.

Other than some money spent on Bottom Fertilizer at the start, back when he didn’t know he would have fertile soil, there were hardly any other costs.

Pesticides were rarely necessary. The Sun Worms were masters at devouring pests, and under Yang Shen’s command, they left the crops unharmed.

The seedlings... they propagated those themselves. The occasional new variety didn’t cost much money.

Even the labor was provided by his own disciples, who helped with the work. All Yang Shen had to do was cast a bit of Magic.

Such were the outrageous profits of the Spirit Plant industry.

And this was just the maximum potential of this single order, not the limit of the ten-acre Spirit Field.

This foreseeable explosion of wealth was the very reason Yang Shen had dared to move into Cangwu Garden. Compared to the revenue a Spirit Field could generate, the fixed monthly expenses were entirely manageable.

’If this were anywhere else, trying to find ten acres of land for planting in the middle of the city would be incredibly difficult. They would probably have to live out in the mountains.’

Looking at the numbers on the page, Yang Shen couldn’t help but nod.

Lin Yuebai leaned on the tabletop, craning forward slightly, clearly wanting to observe the Patriarch’s reaction.

Seeing that the Patriarch was pleased, his number-one employee, Lin, was also very happy.

She always dressed modestly, so while she swung her feet, there was nothing flirtatious about it. It just made her seem charmingly cute.

"However, almost all the herbs require preliminary processing and drying. We could outsource it, of course, but that would cut into our profits by at least five percent, and we’d also risk a drop in quality."

’Five percent of six million is three hundred thousand. That’s no small sum.’

Besides, the money was the lesser issue. A drop in quality would be terrible, what with the risk of products being swapped for inferior ones or losses being exaggerated.

"Do we need a factory?"

Lin Yuebai shook her head. "Traditional apothecaries prefer hand-processed herbs. It would be a ’workshop’ at most. It’s not that complicated, really. I know all the techniques."

The girl grabbed one of her braids and toyed with it. "Actually... we have enough space here at the Yang Residence. We’d just need to buy some equipment, like steamers and pestles. The only thing we’re lacking is people."