Chapter 368 - 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."