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Chapter 368 - 338: Shared Rent

Chapter 368: Chapter 338: Shared Rent

The rapid development of Xiao Shui Sect within one hundred and fifty years is not due to Xiao Shui Star Lord’s personal strength (beyond the Cave Void Stage, there are cultivators in the Great Mahayana Stage), but due to his extremely keen, flexible, innovative, and forward-thinking business acumen.

Crafted business models include, but are not limited to, the slave trade—transporting ships of Yaksha Clan slaves from Western Africa’s Hezhou, to cultivate crops and mine Spirit Stone veins in the New Continent.

Futures—establishing meteorological monitoring stations and information posts across various continents and oceans, using vast amounts of data and meticulous analysis to predict the Spiritual Energy tidal cycles of each state, and stockpiling Spirit Stones and Spirit Plants of corresponding attributes in advance.

Insurance—offering risk-hedging financial products such as Heavenly Tribulation Insurance, Heart Demon Insurance, Fire Deviation Insurance, Enemy Revenge Insurance, and Murder for Treasure Insurance.

If VIP clients fail to survive the tribulation and their cultivation regresses, they can receive substantial compensation. If they are struck dead by the tribulation, a Great Mahayana Stage cultivator will personally descend to rescue their fragmented souls, ensuring they are reincarnated into wealthy families.

Real Estate—cutting fragments of the Ancient Secret Realm, embedding them in mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas, and artificially creating Cave Heaven Blessed Lands to sell at high prices to other sects or royalty; customizing Yin Houses for Ghost Cultivators; providing co-rental Cave Mansions for low-level Loose Cultivators who cannot afford individual Blessed Lands.

If they encounter stubborn locals unwilling to sell their land, they can refine the injust spirits of deceased Yaksha Clan slaves into an army of Yin Soldiers, taking advantage of the night to eradicate the locals, and publicly claiming it as a natural disaster caused by the passage of the Yin Soldiers.

Xiao Shui Sect, or rather the Xiao Shui Group under the guise of a traditional sect, climbed to the top three in the Human World through these diverse commercial means at a dazzling speed.

In this process, Xiao Shui Star Lord and Miao Yin Master advanced hand-in-hand, both of them not being kind-hearted—Miao Yin Master was the one who crafted the Yaksha Clan’s unjust spirits into Yin Soldiers, promising them "after working for a hundred years, they could reincarnate, and Xiao Shui Sect’s kindness could never be repaid."

Moreover, she also concocted concepts like school district housing, pre-sale systems for commercial housing, shared areas, and real estate speculating groups.

"Some things weigh less than fifty grams off the scale, yet a thousand pounds on the scale."

Zhang Wei massaged his temples, clearing away the youthful romantic ideal, revealing Xiao Shui Star Lord’s entrepreneurial spirit, his business methods wild and uninhibited.

The evidence in these files is enough for him to be executed...ahem, struck by thunder tribulations hundreds of times.

"With this evidence, it will be difficult to get rid of Miao Yin without a scratch—she is your wife and also a business partner during the expansion period of the Xiao Shui Group. What you know, she knows too."

Yuan Zhixia repeatedly read the materials, calculating quickly in his mind.

In this world, Spiritual Energy is equivalent to water, and Spirit Stones are akin to the industrial lifeblood of petroleum.

Xiao Shui Sect has numerous subsidiaries, covering multiple industries and fields. For Qing Province (with a land area of eight million square kilometers and a population of 300 million), it is comparable to the Samsung Group in South Korea.

The wealth is enormous.

"In terms of Spirit Stones, Xiao Shui Sect’s total assets are about one billion one hundred million Spirit Stones."

Yuan Zhixia asked, "What are your mental expectations for the division of assets with Miao Yin?"

Xiao Shui Star Lord gritted his teeth, "... four hundred million. No more."

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"Seven hundred million, no less."

At the same moment, in the rest area on the other side of the Immortal Court, Miao Yin Master said coldly.

"..."

Howard and Arctic exchanged glances, helplessly sighed.

"Miao Yin Master, I know you’re anxious, but don’t be so hasty."

Haye said calmly, "Your opponent’s lawyer is also professional. Following conventional tactics in a divorce case, you definitely won’t get the compensation you want.

My estimate is that Xiao Shui would psychologically expect to divide property between thirty-five million and forty-five million Spirit Stones.

After all, he is the rightful Sect Leader of Xiao Shui Sect, and nominally most of the assets are his personal property, unaffected by marital relations."

"No."

Miao Yin Master decisively rejected, "At least half! Or I take four hundred million, and he gives me the Lifebound Golden Core. Otherwise, we part ways entirely."

Due to the drastic reduction of Spiritual Energy compared to three thousand years ago, Ordinary monks will share a single Golden Core with their Daoist companion.

After becoming super-rich, Xiao Shui and Miao Yin each cultivated their own Superior Perfect Golden Cores through hefty investments in Spiritual Medicine.

The initial Lifebound Golden Core was not discarded, but kept within Xiao Shui Star Lord’s Qi Sea, symbolizing their love.

Haye paused, their players’ task was to help Miao Yin Master win this case.

A divorce case doesn’t have clear wins and losses like a criminal case, it’s mainly about the protagonist’s subjective feelings.

If possible, Haye even thought of finding insects on the opposing team, persuading both sides’ lawyers to convince their clients to accept a fifty-fifty split of properties, ensuring neither side loses.

The rest area fell silent. In the calm, Ada, who had rarely spoken from the start, suddenly asked, "Miao Yin Master, allow me to ask again, why are you so determined to divorce Xiao Shui Star Lord?

From the data, it seems that your relationship with him has been strained, if not broken, for at least ten years.

For someone of your status, maintaining a marital relationship while being estranged, with each playing their own game, would bring more benefits than disadvantages."

To this question, Miao Yin Master paused and calmly said, "For one hundred Spirit Stones, you can buy a ship of healthy Yaksha Clan slaves, for one thousand Spirit Stones, you can hire Loose Cultivators for assassination, and for ten thousand Spirit Stones, you have an entire small sect’s wealth. Having earned so much money with him, I don’t need to compromise anymore."

"This reason is not sufficient."

Ada continued bluntly, "I need to know your true thoughts, stop lying. Wasting time and opportunity is a foolish act."

Whoa, this young man.

Howard was shocked, and even the seasoned Haye almost couldn’t keep a straight face.

As a Lv5, Ada’s power gap with Miao Yin is akin to the difference between Adrian and Bolt in sprinting.

Who is Adrian? He’s Haye’s neighbor, a centenarian World War II veteran suffering from cerebral thrombosis and hemiplegia.

"Do you dare talk to me like that?"

Miao Yin’s eyes narrowed slightly, the terrifying aura released by the Cave Void Stage cultivator pressed down on Howard and Haye, making them unable to move.

Not just their external bodies, but even their blood vessels, muscles, and blood flow were all paralyzed.

Severe brain hypoxia made the vision gradually darken.

"I’m just stating,"

Aida fearlessly stared into Miao Yin’s eyes, calmly said, "If you really want to win this case, don’t hide from your own lawyer."

"..."

Miao Yin stared straight at Ada, then retracted his gaze and released his oppressive aura, recovering his indifferent tone, "I have another reason for wanting a divorce from Xiao Shui.

Xiao Shui Sect’s Spiritual Energy futures business has always been managed by me. From the data accumulated over the years from meteorological monitoring stations, I estimate that in as short as five years, or as long as twenty years, the Human World will experience a Spiritual Energy revival lasting a thousand years,

at which time the extreme lifespan of monks will increase by at least three to four hundred years."

Miao Yin, with only thirty years of life left, might accept a loveless marriage for now, but with the chance of living for several more centuries, it’d be better to get divorced and enjoy a wealthy life.

"I understand."

Since Miao Yin was no longer hiding, Ada nodded and pulled a stack of documents from the pile, laying them on the table.

"...Rice Mist Mountain Cloud Formation Cave Mansion?"

Miao Yin frowned, "I remember this Cave Heaven Blessed Land development project, the geomancy test failed at that time, so the project was canceled. Is there a problem?"

"The same year the project was canceled, a commercial account under Xiao Shui Sect suddenly lost nine thousand Spirit Stones."

Aida said calmly, "If I’m not mistaken, that Cave Mansion was secretly built under the direction of Xiao Shui Star Lord. Someone he doesn’t want the world to know about lives there."