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Jiucai Rong was still babbling:

"Master, we must increase the number of people. It’s not that our functions lack unique monopolistic qualities; it’s because we have too few people. With only a million limit, what’s the use on the vast battlefield?"

"Our current market share isn’t rising mainly because we’ve reached the population limit."

"Even small countries on the continent of a tiny world have this million-strong army. They use tens of millions or even billions of soldiers to affect the battle situation."

"Right now, we can only take the route of elite soldiers."

"This big cake, we’re destined to take only a small bite."

Jiucai Rong complained incessantly.

But Ning Zheng didn’t seem to have any problem with it.

The current core issue is that there aren’t enough Life Tao Fruits, we need to seize a few more to expand the population.

Or perhaps divining the position of Magical Treasures, using space turbulence to remotely pilfer the big shots’ furniture, finding a Magical Artifact with similar population expansion features?

But now.

The heavenly secrets are obscured, increasing the difficulty of divination.

The price of Immortal Venerates’ furniture at 800 billion has risen to 3 trillion, Ning Zheng doesn’t have money for this divination of the Magical Artifact position.

To compete against the treasury of the Immortal Venerates, filled with generations of stored Ancient Tomb furniture, comparing wealth?

Ridiculous.

It’s enough to earn some money.

Really compete with them?

Being greedy is not a good habit, especially in front of these shrewd and cunning Immortal Venerates. In the enormous market, Ning Zheng has only taken a ladleful, which is already astronomical.

In order to earn more, Ning Zheng has already activated 24-hour night mode for the Heaven’s Chosen, lifting the online limit.

Current daily revenues are very high.

The daily financial flow, on paper, is as high as 80 billion, a massive financial movement by a million cultivators.

And Ning Zheng’s pure profit is a substantial daily sum of 11.5 billion Upper Grade Immortal Stones.

How exaggerated is this number?

Mo Mei, as a True Immortal Great Perfection, his Ink Plum Sect balances its consumption and revenues, its total assets are only a few billion.

Ning Zheng’s day’s profit could equal seven Ink Plum Sects!

The Immortal Realm’s financial reports have long been public; the daily revenues of normal individual Immortal Venerate forces are only between 10-30 billion.

That is to say, Ning Zheng’s profit is already comparable to the lofty Immortal Venerates!

Of course, this is in comparison to individual Immortal Venerates; the Netherworld and Immortal Realm belong to large alliances of Immortal Venerates...

Their two platforms, it is normal that their profits far exceed Ning Zheng’s.

"Anyway, this wave of sudden wealth is too exaggerated."

"My True Immortal level needs a massive amount of resources, but now it’s starting to be sustainable."

"We can start mass-producing the Dharma Aspect Army."

Everyone is busy flying around, Ning Zheng also needs to start getting busy.

Producing Dharma Aspects is strenuous work, pulling out one’s Dharma Aspect, intensely painful, then re-growing it.

It’s equivalent to cutting off the hand, then re-growing it.

These past few days, Ning Zheng even went to the Celestial Destiny World to retreat, successfully making 400 Dharma Aspect breakthroughs, and incidentally achieving Enlightenment once.

With the money, Ning Zheng also went to his Black Market, put a bounty on the "Bottle-Storage Immortal Venerate" knocking a Wooden Fish in his Chongshan Town.

This guy comes every three days to buy supplies and heal injuries, Ning Zheng has observed him through the [Observer Perspective] for several days.

He’s continuously hiding in the wilderness of a small world, secretly recovering his injuries.

In Ning Zheng’s view, it’s been somewhat bothersome.

No matter real or fake, just put a bounty, eliminate him!

Hire the professionals.

Hence, Ning Zheng decisively took out a day’s profit, a huge sum of seven Ink Plum Sects, to put a bounty on this Old Deng.

[Anonymous Mission: 11.5 billion Upper Grade Immortal Stones, bounty on a True Immortal Great Perfection existence, capture alive or bring back the corpse, additional bounty based on specific combat power, and the value of recovered items.]

Thus.

A group of assassin professionals from the Assassin Leaderboard was deployed.

These generational assassin families, rampant among All Heavens and Myriad Realms, very professional in accomplishing transactions.

Once Ning Zheng secretly provided the address.

The next afternoon, while Ning Zheng was producing Dharma Aspects in his property in the Celestial Destiny World, he suddenly saw the scene via [Observer Perspective], and the cultivators he hired to investigate water meters had already arrived.

In the wilderness.

"Bottle-Storage Immortal Venerate" was sitting cross-legged, quietly cultivating.

Yixin Mo pondered in his heart, a sense of unease spreading, why haven’t they come... Could it be that the other side is really honest, without technology to monitor every Heaven’s Chosen, couldn’t discover my Bottle-Storage Immortal Venerate identity, won’t come to beat a drowning dog?

Just then.

His assassin instincts suddenly felt a huge danger.

He swiftly twisted, but still, most of his body got slashed.

Thud!

His arm and leg were instantly severed, spilling Immortal blood.

Assassins, especially one-hit-kill stealth type assassins, those top guys from the Assassin Leaderboard...

"It’s over." He was cold-faced, instantly feeling like he suffered seven or eight types of Tao Injuries, their assassination Immortal Treasures being laced with poison, body sliced in half, already heavily injured by this blow.

Unlike Nine-State Undying ones, for normal cultivators, forget about losing the head, losing a hand, a foot in battle is extremely fatal.

Moreover, there are Law Tao Injuries that prevent the wounds from healing.

The Nine-State Cycle System can wash off the Tao Injuries through mutual circulation, but the normal cultivator system once injured is very hard to recover.

Yixin Mo looked upwards, heavy eyes watching the few figures gradually revealing themselves.

"It’s you, the second and fifth from the Assassin Leaderboard... How can I deserve you to cooperate?"

The Assassin Leaderboard, essentially, is a ranking in terms of single-soldier combat power.

Among the top hundred of the Assassin Leaderboard, there are basically cultivators with Immortal Venerate status.

The top ten have very high gold content.

And the five top assassins are said to be contemporary inheritors of the Flawless System.

Each one is complete with a path through the Three Calamities and Seven Tribulations.

Such level of True Immortal Great Perfection, breaking through to become Immortal Venerate is a much harder challenge than for ordinary Immortal Venerates, which causes these Flawless True Immortals to potentially remain stuck at this level forever.

But in terms of combat power, they can rival some weaker Law Avatars of Immortal Venerates.

"You’ve overestimated me." Yixin Mo’s heart was bleeding, not knowing how to escape.

The two assassin’s calm expressions emerged in the void: "Sorry, the patron’s price is very good."

The two joined forces, ready to retreat instantly if a blow failed.

The enemy is at least a True Immortal Great Perfection level, possibly even a Law Avatar of an Immortal Venerate; if it’s a Law Avatar, failing a blow means retreating immediately.

Who knew their combined blow hit a comrade?

...

Celestial Destiny World.

Ning Zheng quietly watched the scene from [Observer Perspective].

Turns out the normal Immortal’s combat speed is this quick? Is it a decisive win?

The margin of error is kind of low!

Even considering these top assassins, all specializing in concentrated fire-type one-hit Divine Techniques, similar to Blade Drawing Skill, compressing hundreds of moves into one, emphasizing strike-failure-then-flee...

But the speed at which they kill is fast enough.

A one-stroke resolution, Ning Zheng, the patron, wasn’t even satisfied.

"Forget it, let it end here. I thought it was the Bottle-Storage Immortal Venerate himself, but turns out it’s a True Immortal Great Perfection fisherman."

"But he held out for six days, Bottle-Storage Immortal Venerate lasted five days before dying, that’s already doing well."

Having solved the major concern, a constant thorn bouncing before his eyes, Ning Zheng was in a great mood.

Got to say, these assassins’ service attitude is good; killing and immediately bringing back!

Ning Zheng wasn’t stingy, transferring the funds directly!

Moreover, the corpse was recycled, and brought to an appraiser to assess its value, priced at 3 billion Upper Grade Immortal Stones for buying this True Immortal Great Perfection corpse.

In fact, if the corpse were intact, the value would likely double!

After that, Ning Zheng also had Jiucai Rong and the others negotiate with the two assassins to acquire certain poisons, Magical Artifacts, and cultivation resources from the assassin’s Storage Bag.

Spent 500 million, considered as helping disposal.

Eventually, the revenue totaled 1.5 billion Upper Grade Immortal Stones, split between the two top True Immortal assassins.

Additionally, Jiucai Rong chatted with them, discovering the two were quite nice, belonging to ascetic cultivators.

This bounty overall: excellent service, high price.

Only the powerful non-combat professionals could afford to hire them... Spending ten whole Ink Plum True Immortal sects’ worth.

Except for Refining Cauldron True Immortal type money-makers, hundreds of faction shares, poor individuals like Mo Mei True Immortal can’t afford this kind of money.

"Indeed, combat cultivators have no future."

Ning Zheng whispered to himself, "Injured, have to spend money to heal; want to improve combat power, need people to custom-make top-tier Magical Artifacts; aspire to establish a Tao lineage sect, need array experts for array setup; wish to break through, need Alchemists for custom Pill Medicine..."

Combat cultivators earn much, but have no savings, Mo Mei True Immortal as a classic example of living paycheck to paycheck.