Chapter 123: Lishan Immortal Sect’s Way to Open Source

Wen Rui was not surprised at all when the Mother of Lishan said she had no money. The spirit stone storehouse of the Lishan Immortal Sect had now been converted into a sundry storehouse, filled with a bunch of damaged old items that people were reluctant to throw away. When it was time to distribute the monthly allowance, they would take the old items to Wen Rui for recycling and exchange them for a few taels of silver to distribute to the disciples.

The main force for earning spirit stones in other sects are disciples below the immortal level. Due to the special situation of Lishan Immortal Sect, only immortal-level masters can do this job.

But the Five Immortals of Lishan are also very busy on weekdays. They have to teach their disciples, maintain the mountain gate formation, grow medicinal fields, and practice themselves. How can they have time to go out and collect spirit stones?
Even if you go out searching, you might be lucky enough to find an unowned mineral vein, but if you encounter a situation that requires competition, you have to actively avoid it. Otherwise, you can't even get the hot shit, and even if you do, you can't compete with a group of maggots.

After so many years of continuous losses, the company has become extremely poor.

If it weren't for Wen Ruijin Lingzong's unconditional supply on credit, all the sisters would probably not be able to afford clothes and would have to live in grass skirts like the monkeys in Huaguo Mountain.

Wen Rui said with a bitter face: "Please understand, Madam. I am also a small business owner. I really can't continue to sell on credit unconditionally. If you don't pay the debt, I will have to stop supplying goods from today."

The Five Immortals of Lishan were in embarrassment, as they knew in their hearts that if the Jinling Sect stopped supplying them, life would be difficult for Lishan. The disciples could still hold on in their grass skirts, but due to a shortage of materials for the mountain protection formation, the gates would be wide open and defenseless, which would be too dangerous.

It is possible that some daring villains could take the opportunity to sneak into the important area of the Lishan Sect and abduct people.

Lishan Old Mother still had a kind smile on her face and calmly said only two words: "How dare you."

Wen Rui thought that your shamelessness is quite similar to that of me, and you are sure to defeat me.

"Holy Mother, even a saint has to have some dignity. I am just renting some land in Lishan from you. You can't rely on me, right?"

Wen Rui said angrily, "I am staying in the human world because I am entrusted by the Golden Spirit Mother to keep the Jiejiao religion alive. If I really go bankrupt from being sucked dry by blood, I will just go to heaven and ask for a noble position as a celestial official to live out my retirement. If there are frequent thunderstorms in the Lishan Mountains, don't blame me for holding a grudge!"

The Lishan Old Mother's expression relaxed and she said with a smile, "Xiao Rui'er, if I had a way to conjure up a spiritual stone, I would have given it to you long ago. No matter what you say, I don't have it, I don't have it."

"This is exactly the second thing I came to discuss with you." Wen Rui took the opportunity to say, "I am not talented. I did not inherit my father's talent for cultivation, but I have a lot of experience in business. In the past, managing the army and planning for the country was like cooking a small fish. If there were no gods and Buddhas to help, people like Jiang Ziya would have been swept into the garbage dump of history by me."

Wen Rui was not bragging when he heard this. The Five Immortals of Lishan nodded slightly, and the Mother of Lishan also showed a questioning look.

"I don't want the 49 million spiritual stones debt anymore. I will directly invest in Lishan Xianzong. In addition, I will invest another million spiritual stones to acquire Lishan Xianzong and obtain % of the equity to obtain the cooperative management rights. I will use the new management concept to revitalize Lishan's sunken assets and increase revenue and reduce expenditure for Lishan."

Wen Rui said: "By then, let alone repaying the debt, I guarantee that you will turn losses into profits within a year, the economy will take off within ten years, and you will be the richest man in the world within a hundred years!"

"Little Rui'er, you are talking nonsense." Lishan Old Mother scolded with a smile: "Do you think I will sell my sect to you? I and my disciples are gods at best. How can we listen to the orders of a mere mortal like you?"

"Didn't Jiang Ziya command all the immortals of the Chan Sect back then, and only then did he defeat my Jie Sect? This is all successful experience. So what if he is an immortal? Everyone has his own specialty."

Wen Rui was eloquent and said, "My father was not the highest-level Jiejiao disciple, but he was the chief commander of the war against Zhou. If it weren't for the leader's map opening up the territory, he was itching to take over the battle and took away my father and son's command, how could we have lost so miserably? Five hundred years have passed, and you have forgotten the bloody lesson?"

The eyes of the Tongtian statue enshrined in the main hall flashed with divine light. Wen Rui shrank his neck and muttered in a low voice: "Saints also have to be reasonable. Can't they say what they want to say even if they are allowed to do it?"

Lishan Old Mother lowered her head in deep thought. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Tell me how you plan to run the business. If what you say makes sense, I will agree to your request."

"My disciple has done quite a bit of business over the years. He has financial dealings with several major sects of the Chan Sect. The various demon kings in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and even the demon saints also buy his products."

Wen Rui patiently narrated: "Over the years, there have been many shameless buyers like the Lishan Immortal Sect who default on payments for goods, and they bully the disciples because of their low realm and inability to collect debts."

These words had a bit of an indirect criticism, and the immortals present looked unhappy, but they held back and said nothing because they were in the wrong.

"The first business strategy I came up with is to ask my mother and a group of immortals to go to the major immortal sects with the IOUs to collect the debts. I'll give you a 30% commission. If you collect million, you can earn million, which is enough for Lishan to spend for ten years." "We immortals have become your debt collectors?" Lishan's mother had a strange expression on her face and said, "This is too damaging to our reputation, isn't it? We can't do this, we can't do this!"

"You're just trying to save face, but you're suffering!" Wen Rui commented bluntly, "You think you have face because you're so poor that your female disciples run around naked like monkeys? The next time Manjusri, Samantabhadra, and Guanyin come to visit, they'll see you and a mountain of naked female fairies running a nude camp. Will you be proud?"

He changed the subject and said seriously, "It is only natural to pay back debts. The agreements between disciples are all formal. They are not black loans with compound interest. They are all payments for goods from legitimate business transactions. Those who owe money should not be embarrassed. How can it be a loss of reputation to collect debts in an upright manner?"

This was another indirect attack, but it was reasonable after all. Lishan Laomu did not continue to refute, and asked, "Helping you collect debts is not a long-term solution. After all the debts are collected, there will still be no income, right?"

"Don't worry, debt collection is just a matter of urgency. I have a long-term and stable business with Lishan." Wen Rui knew that his mother was already interested, so he smiled and said, "I'm sure you all know about the 'Heaven on Earth Leisure Club' that I built next to the Jinling Sect's mountain gate, right?"

It would be fine if he didn't mention it. As soon as Wen Rui mentioned Heaven and Earth, Huo Linxian immediately scolded him angrily: "You stinky boy, you are always making trouble. You built a place of enjoyment like King Zhou's wine pool and meat forest, and attracted Lishan disciples to go there to have fun. What is your intention?"

"Let's not talk about other things for now. I'll just ask, is it fun?" Wen Rui swallowed his anger and said with a smile, "I have seen the names of several immortals on the visitor list. Don't think you can deceive my gatekeeper puppet by using a trick to change your skin. Even if you use a high-level immortal method, your whereabouts will not be revealed so quickly. You underestimate my mortal means."

The Five Lishan Immortals looked embarrassed, and the arrogance of Fire Scale Immortal also subsided a lot.

"Several immortals are regular visitors, which shows that 'Heaven on Earth' is a good place for immortals. It is much more interesting than meditating, watching the clouds and drinking tea."

Wen Rui said proudly, "You immortals, don't be ashamed. The immortals in heaven often gather together to have fun. The Jade Emperor always summons fairies to dance in the Lingxiao Palace, and the immortals enjoy the show."

Lishan Laomu frowned and said, "A cultivator should always be pure-hearted and free from desires. Western religions can..."

Wen Rui interrupted immediately, "Wait a minute, mother, you don't know that there are many sects in the Western religion, and only the few great masters you often interact with can abide by the rules and regulations. Some branches of the Western religion have all kinds of tricks, and telling you about them would be insulting to your ears."

Lishan Laomu had her own way of judging the truth of Wen Rui's words. After hearing what he said, she did not accuse him of slandering the good name of Western religion. She asked, "Let's get back to the point. What is your second business plan?"

"It's about opening up 'Heaven on Earth' to the outside world. Mining is a secondary industry, a non-renewable resource industry. It will only flourish for a short time and then gradually decline. Only the tertiary industry can prosper forever."

Wen Rui acted like a shrewd businessman, promoting his business philosophy, saying, "The Lishan Immortal Sect has a unique advantage, that is, the sect is full of beautiful female disciples. This is a valuable resource, a unique advantage that other sects do not have. Once it is brought into play, a huge source of wealth is just around the corner! Lishan has no resources, no technology, so it can only tap into its talent advantage..."

"Extremely outrageous! Heretical! Shameless and absurd!" Upon hearing this, Lishan Old Mother changed color. She could no longer maintain her image as an enlightened immortal and scolded, "What do you think of my Lishan Immortal Sect? I worked so hard to train a group of female disciples, but I sold them to others for their own enjoyment?"

Wen Ruixin said, didn’t you like being a mama-san later on? Why are you pretending to be pure here now?

"Virgin Mary, you misunderstood." Wen Rui complained, "It's also my fault that I didn't explain it clearly. After my heavenly world is open to the public, it will only receive female fairies from the heavenly court. You will be in charge of supervision and ensure that male fairies are not allowed in."

Lishan Laomu was stunned and couldn't figure out the situation for a while.

Wen Rui spoke eloquently: "My business philosophy of 'Heaven on Earth' has broken the old technical barriers, broken through the ideological barriers, realized the extraction and transformation of criminal theories, perfectly occupied the traffic dividends of immortals, realized the classification and analysis of comprehensive categories, occupied the commanding heights to carry out product iteration, accurately hit the pain points of the female immortals in heaven, achieved dimensionality reduction in the ecological niche, and became a paying group with exclusive right of interpretation in this track..."

The Five Immortals of Mount Li looked at each other in bewilderment. The Old Mother of Mount Li was also bewildered, as they were all confused by this set of jargon.

"To put it simply, the fairies in heaven have a strong need to take a bath. If they go down to earth to take a bath without permission, they may be easily taken advantage of by villains who steal their clothes and force them to marry mortals and have children."

Wen Rui switched to human language, "I opened a high-end bathing and entertainment center with first-class service, elegant environment, formal and legal, strict guards, and high privacy for fairies to take a bath. Making this money is equivalent to saving the fairies from the unfortunate fate they may face, and reducing the possibility of female fairies violating the rules and going down to the mortal world to have mortal desires. What I earn is not spirit stones but fairy jade of higher purity and quality. Isn't this a win-win situation for all three parties? If other sects want to follow suit, they will not be like Lishan where all the sects are female cultivators and are not afraid of gossip. Isn't this a unique business?"

(End of this chapter)

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