Recaps

Li Mubai persuaded Bibi Dong to develop Spirit City’s eastern wasteland and attracted merchants to buy plots, bringing Spirit Hall over twenty million gold coins. As construction began and Li Mubai planned a free academy, Golden Crocodile investigated the project and began to learn how the land sales had generated so much money.

• Li Mubai proposed limiting home purchases and offering mortgages to address Spirit City’s housing problems, then persuaded Bibi Dong to put him in charge of a new district east of the city.
• After Zhao Shuran and Xiao Yu’er were forced out of their home, Li Mubai invited them to live with him, while Li Fengheng arrived seeking his help to impress his father.
• Li Mubai agreed to accompany Li Fengheng home if the Sili Trading Company invested in the new district, and Li Fengheng pledged the company’s support.
• Li Mubai recruited Demon Bear and invited merchants to bid on plots, selling the commercial district and residential land at high prices.
• Li Fengheng brought more than twenty million gold coins to Spirit Hall, where Bibi Dong learned that the plots had sold for twenty-six million.
• Li Mubai outlined a free academy for children without Martial Soul talent, and Bibi Dong promised to protect the project from the two great empires.
• Golden Crocodile suspected Bibi Dong had diverted treasury money, but the guards said the treasury had received over twenty million gold coins and pointed him toward Li Mubai.
• Golden Crocodile questioned workers at the construction site and learned that Li Mubai had sold their plot for two million gold coins as they began explaining the planned housing.