My Beasts Grind Proficiency For Me

"Master."

Iron Head handed the Stock Orders he had purchased to Yang Jing.

Yang Jing nodded and accepted the Stock Orders. He then took out 120,000 Spirit Stones and gave them to Iron Head to purchase more shares. This was almost his entire fortune.

At his reminder, Zuoqiu Feng also threw her entire fortune into the Seven Nations Ticket Shop.

She spent 250,000 Spirit Stones to buy twenty-five shares.

For the first month, all the Cultivators held onto their Stock Orders tightly; no one was willing to sell. It wasn’t until a Golden Core Clan from the Outer Domain raised the acquisition price to 15,000 Spirit Stones that some of the Independent Cultivators and Foundation Establishment Clans who had bought shares began to sell.

By the time these Golden Core Clans from outside the Northern Domain heard about the Seven Nations Ticket Shop, it was already too late. The 15,000 shares had long since sold out.

Their only option was to continuously raise their prices to acquire shares.

As for the Nascent Soul Clans of the Western Continent, they were more patient. They merely sent their clan disciples to study the Seven Nations Ticket Shop’s operational model.

As major powers with Nascent Soul ancestors watching over them, they were fully capable of running a Ticket Shop of their own.

The Six Great Sects reacted quickly, each immediately dispatching Golden Core Cultivators to make inquiries. However, Canyuan True Monarch was certainly not without his own connections.

After a round of negotiations, the Six Sects decided that the Seven Nations Ticket Shop could operate in its current model for ten years to observe its effects. After ten years, it would have to be gradually handed over to the Six Great Sects, but the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion would still retain a seat on the board of directors.

During this period, no other locations in the Western Continent were permitted to start Ticket Shop businesses, and the Seven Nations Ticket Shop was not allowed to expand its operations beyond the Northern Domain.

The Six Sects were extremely conservative and cautious regarding a new entity like the Ticket Shop.

Once this resolution was announced, the price of the Ticket Shop’s shares skyrocketed again. Even the Nascent Soul Clans started to acquire shares. The market price per share shot up to around 20,000 Spirit Stones.

Furthermore, buyers were willing to trade resources that rarely flowed to Independent Cultivators, such as Foundation Establishment Pills and Golden Core Techniques, in exchange for shares.

This made the Cultivators who had sold their stocks early on beat their chests and stamp their feet in regret.

Zuoqiu Feng sat by the stone table in Yang Jing’s courtyard, patting her chest in lingering fear. She had almost sold her shares when the price was around 15,000, but thankfully, Yang Jing had stopped her, saying the stock price was still far from its peak.

It was a curious thing, but the Seven Nations Ticket Shop’s first batch of customers were the very same Independent Cultivators who had suddenly become rich by selling their shares.

As Independent Cultivators, who were solitary and weak, they followed the principle of not revealing their wealth. However, trading shares of the Seven Nations Ticket Shop had to be conducted in a temporary trading hall set up by the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion.

To avoid attracting Tribulation Cultivators, these Independent Cultivators simply deposited their Spirit Stones into the main branch of the Seven Nations Ticket Shop. The Seven Nations Ticket Shop’s Tokens were bound to one’s Divine Soul aura. Other than the owner, no one could access the Spirit Stones in the Token, greatly reducing the risk of attracting Tribulation Cultivators.

At that time, the main branch of the Seven Nations Ticket Shop hadn’t even been built yet. It didn’t even have a Spirit Stone Vault, so the deposits had to be temporarily stored in the secret vaults of the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion.

Cultivators were extremely efficient at civil engineering. If the military situation was urgent, they could even build a fortified city in just three or four days.

Although the branches of the Seven Nations Ticket Shop weren’t built with such haste, they were still nearly completed in less than a month.

Yang Jing followed Meng Sima aboard a Flying Boat to inspect the seven Ticket Shop branches together.

The focus was on the Spirit Stone Vaults in these branches. To ensure security, the various Restrictions on the Spirit Stone Vaults were all laid down under the supervision of every board member to prevent any "inside men" from intentionally leaving a flaw to exploit later.

After Canyuan True Monarch performed a divination and selected an auspicious date, the Seven Nations Ticket Shop officially opened for business.

At this point, it wasn’t just the shareholders of the Seven Nations Ticket Shop watching; Cultivation Clans from beyond the Northern Domain, representatives of the Six Sects, and even Demon Cultivators from the Four Demon Sects were all paying close attention to the Ticket Shop’s performance.

In a single day, the seven branches of the Seven Nations Ticket Shop served over three thousand people. Unsecured personal loans totaled more than 200,000 Spirit Stones. The amount of collateralized loans was even greater, reaching over eight million, though the funds could only be disbursed after the collateral was properly verified.

In the Western Continent, many Immortally Cultivation Clans were constrained by a lack of Spirit Stones, preventing them from fully developing the resources on their clan lands.

Now, with the Seven Nations Ticket Shop, they could obtain start-up capital through loans. They could use it to purchase Spirit Medicine Seeds, Arrays to protect their Medicinal Gardens, and large-scale Magical Artifacts for excavating spirit mines.

Some daring Independent Cultivators even mortgaged their Spirit Fields to borrow Spirit Stones for purchasing Magical Artifacts, planning to repay the loan by hunting Demons.

Such astonishing performance caused interested parties to exclaim in amazement. At this rate, the Seven Nations Ticket Shop’s initial capital of 150 million Spirit Stones wouldn’t last long at all.

Yang Jing was extremely busy during the first three months of the Seven Nations Ticket Shop’s operation. The shop’s board members were all influential figures with their own affairs to manage.

This left Yang Jing, as the secretary of the board, not only having to deal with the issues arising in the various branches but also being responsible for recruiting and training new employees and auditing the branches’ accounts.

In these three months, he traveled throughout the Seven Kingdoms. No matter where he went, he was received with lavish hospitality, surrounded by flattery and praise.

His status had increased dramatically. Not only was he protected by three battalions of the Demon Suppression Army and a Martial Might-level Flying Boat, but to ensure his safety, the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion had even dispatched Judge An Gongyu to act as his personal guard.