Chapter 195: Life 70, Age 25, Martial Lord 1
Over the next couple of months, almost all my time was consumed with alchemy.
JiaQi was hiring warriors, Jin ZiHan was hiring builders, Cai XiaoYu was hiring law enforcement personnel, and Meng LuYao was hiring people to deal with the city’s expanding bureaucracy. LiTing needed supplies to rebuild the city’s buildings, and Jin ZiHan needed supplies to rebuild the city’s walls. All of this cost money, and we paid for all of it by selling pills.
I had hoped that the profit from a few Rank 5 pills would have covered everything, but the ziethanite was more expensive than I had planned on, and as a Lord 1, I could only make Rank 5 pills if I had the matching peak four-star affinities, so the ones I could make were limited to those that only required pure earth-based herbs, and the demand for such pills was lacking.
Therefore, I had to spend countless hours locked away in an alchemy workshop in a mad rush to pay for everything that needed to get done. Thankfully, I had Yan to keep everything running smoothly. He had a solid sense of when I would want to be involved in a decision and when he could make a decision in my stead.
During what little free time I had, I wanted to research the formation designs that Jin had hinted at, but I always found myself pulled in several different directions. I needed to help design the city’s wall and defensive formations, I needed to create formations for Jin ZiHan’s herb farm, and I needed to inscribe basic pest control formations to protect the city’s food supply. A lot of these were tasks that should have been delegated to contracted specialists, but Meng LuYao was too busy working to restore basic city services to deal with them. So, while I wanted to improve the citizens’ affinities, that project fell off my radar until I had more time to dedicate to it.
After two months of frantic work, it was time for the sect’s Exam, and I hadn’t even hinted at trying to learn Rank 4 talismans. I could only hope that the elders from the Lightning Peak were paying attention to that.
Right before I headed to the Exam site, I made my purchases.
“System, I want all the knowledge of Rank 4 talismans that could be expected from an expert on this continent.”
Purchase confirmed. Cost 100 billion credits. 539,543,100,650 credits remaining.