Chapter 382: In-Depth Cooperation

After exchanging pleasantries for a moment, Lu Yang handed a storage ring to Vice Cult Leader Shi.

"Inside are two hundred bottles of fire seeds and two hundred barbecue grills, which should last for a while."

Vice Cult Leader Shi sent out a sliver of divine sense to sweep roughly through the storage ring, and his heart leapt with joy, realizing that with these items, the number of branch stores would no longer be an issue.

Vice Cult Leader Shi pushed an account book and a storage ring toward Lu Yang.

"This is the operational status over the past month, as well as your cult's share."

Lu Yang counted the spirit stones within the storage ring, finding roughly one hundred and twenty thousand spirit stones.

The net worth of an ordinary Golden Core stage cultivator was nothing more than this.

He put on a careless front, casually handing the storage ring to Tao Yaoye while saying, "Put this into the treasury when we return."

Tao Yaoye silently accepted the storage ring without a word, though her inner mind was far from calm.

One hundred and twenty thousand spirit stones, the lifelong savings of a Golden Core stage cultivator, and she herself had never possessed so many spirit stones.

Lu Yang sent a voice transmission to Tao Yaoye, confident that with the Immortal Fairy present, they need not fear being overheard by Shi Huagu.

"Junior Sister Tao, keep your composure, once the patent for your Dream Bubble goes through, you will earn far more than this."

"Furthermore, do not feel afraid just because the other party is at the Body Integration stage and serves as a demon cult's vice leader, perhaps in the future he will even have to beg you, after all, your Dream Bubble is the most suitable tool for propaganda."

"Why?"

Tao Yaoye failed to grasp his meaning, but Lu Yang merely smiled without offering further explanation.

Seeing Lu Yang's indifferent manner, Vice Cult Leader Shi worried that the small amount of money might have caused dissatisfaction, creating a rift in the relationship between the Nine Nether Cult and the Heavenly Court Cult, so he explained, "Since we have only just begun operations, the initial investment was too large, making it difficult to turn a profit, so I ask for Celestial Prodigy Lu's understanding, I believe that in a year or two, once barbecue shops are established across the entire continent and business picks up, tens of millions of spirit stones will surely pour into the treasuries of our two cults daily!"

Vice Cult Leader Shi was not speaking wildly or painting empty promises for Lu Yang, this was a conclusion reached through careful calculation.

Lu Yang waved his hand, "Cult Leader Shi misunderstands, I am not complaining that the spirit stones are few, our cult's treasury stores countless ancient treasures, heavenly weapons, and celestial fruits of every kind, if we ever desired spirit stones, selling off a mere trifle would bring endless wealth."

"I merely wished to remind Cult Leader Shi that the barbecue shop established jointly by our two cults is a manifestation of our fellowship, let it not be rigidified by spirit stones, how could the friendship between our two cults be measured by spirit stones?"

If it were merely a transaction of spirit stones to open a barbecue shop together, such cooperation was destined to remain only on the surface, and what Lu Yang desired was a deeper cooperation with the Nine Nether Cult.

Vice Cult Leader Shi felt deeply ashamed, realizing that despite being at the Body Integration stage, his own vision was conversely narrow.

As expected of a genius from the ancient Heavenly Court, the height of his vision made him feel inferior.

Just as Lu Yang felt he had given Tao Yaoye enough exposure to the wider world and prepared to depart, Vice Cult Leader Shi hastily called out to stop him.

"Young Cult Leader Lu, Celestial Prodigy Tao, please stay your steps."

Tao Yaoye's heart skipped a beat, thinking they had been discovered.

"What is the matter?" Lu Yang asked, feeling perplexed, the goods had been delivered, the spirit stones received, what else could he want?

At the same time, he sent a voice transmission to Tao Yaoye, signaling her not to be nervous.

"I wonder what views Young Cult Leader Lu holds regarding the ancient cultivators?"

Vice Cult Leader Shi had a sudden inspiration, realizing that what Lu Yang wanted was not just spirit stones, but a deeper cooperation.

Since that was the case, then they would pursue deep cooperation!

"Ancient cultivators?" Lu Yang gave a light chuckle, his eyes revealing the pride of an ancient celestial prodigy and disdain for the ancient cultivators, "In the presence of our Heavenly Court Cult, who dares to call themselves an ancient cultivator?"

Only then did Vice Cult Leader Shi come to his senses, indeed, whether they were cultivators of the Great Yu or the Great Qian, they were all juniors before Lu Yang.

When speaking of antiquity, who could compare to the Heavenly Court Cult?

When speaking of heritage, who could match the Heavenly Court that governed the stars across the sky?

Though the Central Continent was vast, how could it compare to the star-filled sky?

When speaking of the strength of an era, the ancient era possessed the widely known four ancient immortals, the Immortal Fairy hidden by the era, and Dou Tianzun, totaling six full immortals, whereas whether the Great Yu and Great Qian even possessed immortals remained open to question!

The so-called ancient cultivators held absolutely no comparability to the Heavenly Court Cult!

How muddled he had been!

Hearing Lu Yang speak in this manner, Vice Cult Leader Shi gained confidence in his heart, and he spoke with righteous indignation, "I wonder if Young Cult Leader Lu has heard that during the Qingzhou Grand Ceremony half a month ago, ancient cultivators suddenly appeared, disrupting the order of the ceremony and causing it to end in haste!"

Lu Yang nodded, "I have heard a little of it."

"To tell the truth, I temporarily set up a branch store at the Qingzhou Grand Ceremony, intending to see how accepting the people of Qingzhou would be toward the barbecue shop, yet before I could grasp the situation, we were disrupted by the cultivators of the Great Yu Dynasty!"

Vice Cult Leader Shi grew angry whenever this matter was raised, he was running his shop perfectly well, keeping the river water from touching the well water of the ancient cultivators, yet those blind ancient cultivators just had to come and cause trouble.

Did they know how important Qingzhou was, among the seventeen provinces of the Great Xia Dynasty, Qingzhou's strength was easily enough to rank within the top three!

Opening a barbecue shop in Qingzhou would bring in so much money!

He had heard that in the past, Qingzhou's strength used to rank in the lower-middle tier, until twenty thousand years ago, a provincial governor appeared in Qingzhou, this governor not only possessed a high cultivation at the Tribulation Transmutation stage, but also possessed an unconstrained mind, often doing things that ordinary people could never conceive, and the Qingzhou Grand Ceremony had been proposed by this very governor.

Under the leadership of this governor, Qingzhou's strength flourished day by day, ranking into the top three, and at its peak, it had even ranked first!

"There are fifteen barbecue shops jointly established by our two cults, destroying a single shop is nothing of great consequence, but the problem is that if these ancient cultivators can destroy it once, they can destroy it a second time!"

Vice Cult Leader Shi's words implicitly reminded Lu Yang that what the Great Yu cultivators destroyed was not the barbecue shop of the Nine Nether Cult, but the barbecue shop of both the Nine Nether Cult and the Heavenly Court Cult.

Vice Cult Leader Shi relying on his heavenly tribulation to blast Heavenly Calamity Venerable half to death had not appeased his anger, since Heavenly Calamity Venerable had fled and left him with no options, he could only vent his fury upon the other ancient cultivators.

The barbecue shop concerned his ten-billion debt, if he could not pay it off and ended up blasted to death by heavenly thunder, then he and the ancient cultivators would share a feud of life and death!

If this grudge went unavenged, he swore he would not be human!

Lu Yang understood clearly, Vice Cult Leader Shi had formed a grudge with the ancient cultivators and wanted the Heavenly Court Cult's assistance.

He was naturally more than willing to participate in this.

Lu Yang looked at Vice Cult Leader Shi with a half-smile, "Does Cult Leader Shi still remember the plan I formulated for your cult last time at the barbecue shop?"

Vice Cult Leader Shi blurted out instantly, his memory as a Body Integration stage cultivator being exceptionally powerful, "The Nine Nether Cult connects externally with the Demon Realm and the Eastern Sea, and connects internally with the Unfeeling and Radiant Suns cults. When the struggle of the great age arrives, our two cults shall act in unison, then the celestial enterprise can be achieved, and Nine Nether can flourish!"

"In that plan, did I ever mention joining forces with the cultivators of the Great Yu and Great Qian eras?"

Vice Cult Leader Shi's eyes lit up, indeed, there was simply no position for the ancient cultivators within that plan!

"This world originally belonged to my Heavenly Court, if our Heavenly Court Cult could not tolerate Ying Tian Xian and the others ruling the ancient era, could we possibly tolerate the Great Qian, Great Yu, and Great Xia ruling the continent?"

Vice Cult Leader Shi felt immense joy in his heart, the Heavenly Court Cult's attitude was even firmer than he had imagined.

With the strong reinforcement of the Heavenly Court Cult, let us see what those damned ancient cultivators will do!

"I ask your cult to join forces with my Nine Nether Cult to deal with the ancient cultivators together!" Vice Cult Leader Shi rose, his gaze burning with intensity, hoping to reach a cooperation with the Heavenly Court Cult, speaking with absolute sincerity.

Lu Yang rose unhurriedly, a confident smile playing at the corners of his lips as he shook hands with Vice Cult Leader Shi.

"In that case, a happy cooperation."

After coming out of the morgue, I became normal...

(End of this chapter)