Why are the Talismans I Drawn Banned Again?!

Chapter 254: Chapter 220 What Level?
Li Youyuan stared at the rolling dark clouds above him, including the faintly emerging white flashes within, and silently swallowed his saliva.

His cultivation level was at the late Foundation Establishment stage, much stronger than the ninth level of Qi practicing.

He wasn’t worried about being directly struck dead by the Heavenly Tribulation.

But that didn’t stop the fact that getting hit by the Heavenly Tribulation hurts like hell!

Just imagine, bolts of lightning as thick as an arm striking down at you with the speed of thunder—no sane person would want to experience that a second time.

Li Youyuan yelled into the communication talisman, “Jiang Cheng, don’t you have any magical treasures for transcending tribulations?”

“Indeed, I have prepared something.”

Li Youyuan felt a burst of joy and was about to ask Jiang Cheng what he had prepared for him.

Then, he saw Jiang Cheng putting on a pair of sunglasses from afar.

“Thanks for the reminder, I’ve got my sunglasses on, Director Li, you can start your performance whenever you’re ready.”

Li Youyuan’s retort got stuck in his throat.

He said, “Prepare for me! Not yourself! Didn’t you prepare any magical treasures for me?”

Jiang Cheng responded with surprise, “Director Li, do you need additional preparation even at the late Foundation Establishment stage?”

“I am a late Foundation Establishment who sits in an office!”

It’s been nearly two hundred years since I’ve last thrown a punch!

Li Youyuan didn’t say the last sentence, valuing his face.

Jiang Cheng was taken aback; he really hadn’t considered that there would be a difference between office-worker cultivators and others at the late Foundation Establishment stage.

“Here’s what we’ll do, Director Li. When you’re getting electrocuted, feel free to scream out loud.”

“Scream out loud? What kind of technique is that?”

“It’s not a special technique, it’s mainly for helping you vent your emotions.”

Li Youyuan’s mouth twitched.

Thank you so much, Jiang Cheng, for your thoughtful preparation.

But it was too late to talk about these things now.

The Heavenly Tribulation wasn’t something only he could endure alone; Li Youyuan could have dragged Jiang Cheng over to get struck together.

But Jiang Cheng was sly.

He still owed fifty thousand for the talisman tests.

If Jiang Cheng got killed by the tribulation, Li Youyuan would truly end up with nothing—struck by lightning and penniless.

So be it.

A mere Heavenly Tribulation.

We Foundation Establishment cultivators don’t even take it seriously.

Li Youyuan summoned the magical treasures he had used in his youth.

Under the Heavenly Tribulation, his figure was tall and straight, his garments fluttering without wind.

His face, framed by graying temples, was full of fighting spirit; at this moment, his cultivation seemed to advance even further, stepping into the realm of complete Foundation Establishment!

In a short while, the flashes of the tribulation lightning repeatedly lit up the buildings next to the open space of Lotus University.

Li Youyuan emitted a scream like that of Tom the cat.

Afterward.

Jiang Cheng duly paid the fifty thousand low-grade Spirit Stones.

The Electro-Purification Talisman experiment was a complete success with his and Director Li’s efforts.

It was time to report their results.

…

Armed with the Land Naming Charm, Liang Wu immediately set out to integrate the funeral industry of the Capital.

After being guided by a “high person”, Liang Wu didn’t sit idle and steeped himself deeply in the knowledge of doing business.

The first step to making money, start small to win big.

Liang Wu tried using the funds given by the high person to acquire several funeral businesses in the Capital.

However, he failed due to the low prices he offered.

Liang Wu pinpointed the pain points, iterated his strategy, achieved a dimensionality reduction attack on downstream enterprises through top-level design, and successfully acquired funeral enterprises in the Capital at low prices, completing resource integration.

The second step to making money, optimize the structure.

The operations of the acquired funeral businesses highly overlapped.

With the Land Naming Charm in hand, Liang Wu thought it unnecessary to maintain a large number of underworld construction teams.

So by supplying outstanding talents to society, he downsized the underworld construction team to just two people.

One to use the charm, one to carry the storage bag, two people were enough.

The third step to making money, control costs.

To motivate the two-person construction team, Liang Wu designed a salary structure with a base wage plus commission for them.

Ten low-grade Spirit Stones per job.

As a result, the two people completed six hundred jobs in one day.

They earned six thousand low-grade Spirit Stones!

Liang Wu thought, no, this won’t do.

Six thousand a day, wouldn’t that be sixty thousand in ten days, and one hundred eighty thousand in a month?

So he reduced the commission from ten Spirit Stones per job to half a Spirit Stone.

This way, the monthly wage expense for the construction team was only nine thousand Spirit Stones, saving a total of one hundred seventy-one thousand Spirit Stones!

I am a genius.

Liang Wu admired his own business acumen.

At night, in a certain cemetery.

“Fuck! I don’t want to do this anymore!”

One member of the construction team threw the talisman he was holding onto the ground.

Before the company was acquired, their treatment was passable; right after the acquisition and the implementation of the talisman reform, he saw a bright future.

Ten Spirit Stones per job.

Earn a small hundred thousand in a month.

The company was like his reborn parents.

Then Liang Wu cut their commission.

After a month of hard work, they could only earn a few thousand.

What’s the point!

“Hey, if you don’t want to do it, don’t do it, but don’t mistreat the charms, these are good stuff.”

The other member of the team picked up the Land Naming Charm from the ground.

“How good can it be for digging holes?”

“Do you know how much this thing sells for in the black market?”

“How much?”

The man held up five fingers.

“Five?”

“Fifty!”

“Holy shit! It’s worth that much?”

The man said mysteriously, “Since this charm can be used for digging, obviously it can also be used for tunneling. Think about it, those tomb raiders who used to spend a month digging tunnels can now go in and out in a day and make several trips! All major tombs and noble ancestral mausoleums are a piece of cake.”

Hearing about the lucrative profit from selling charms, the two construction team members entertained many ideas.

Since honest work didn’t pay much anyway, they might as well take a risk for potentially greater rewards!

…

After the Electro-Purification Talisman test succeeded, Jiang Cheng immediately informed Liang Hong of the good news.

Naturally, Liang Hong was overjoyed.