Little Toad, I've Been Through More Capitalist Tricks Than You've Eaten Grains of Salt

In the simulation, it took Lu Ping a whole month to completely overhaul the Formation Technique Restrictions in the core area of Xiaolai Peak.

But this time, the situation is very different.

Lu Ping not only gained several more Trait, but he was also very familiar with all the Restrictions, saving him a little time in deduction and allowing him to get started directly.

More importantly, Lu Ping is now Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator.

After achieving the Spirit Transformation, all myriad wonders are governed by the Primordial Spirit.

As soon as the thought comes up, the surrounding world and the surrounding world will respond to each other, eliminating the need for physical body turnover, and casting spells can only take place in one thought.

That effortless control and efficiency were beyond anything we could have imagined in the past.

Repairing these dilapidated formations was merely a matter of smoothing out a few wrinkles.

With a thought, Lu Ping conjured up a small incense burner out of thin air.

The incense burner, no bigger than a fist, floated slowly to above his left shoulder and came to a steady stop.

[Work from Home, effective.]

[The Artisan Spirit is now in effect.]

[Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement, effective.]

[Workaholic, effective.]

[I Love Working, effective.]

[Overtime, effective.]

[Multiskilling, effective.]

[Exclusive Workstation, activated.]

[Men and Women Working Together Don't Tire; this is effective.]

[Six times the efficiency, four times the profit.]

Every time the "[Men and Women Working Together Don't Tire]" effect took effect, Lu Ping felt that the system was too absurd.

Lu Ping's hands traced afterimages in the Void, with spiritual light swirling around them.

He incorporated the Lesser Celestial Circuit Spirit-Leading Formation into the original Mountain-Protection Grand Formation.

He cleverly concealed two Maze Formations and three Killing Formations in those inconspicuous corners and crevices.

Various materials plundered from Han Shishan were smelted, shaped, and implanted into the earth's veins by Lu Ping.

All in all, it only took two days.

The core Restrictions of Xiaolai Peak have been completely renewed.

The Spiritual Qi was drawn up from the earth's veins by the grand formation and condensed into a thin layer of spiritual mist above the Main Hall.

So, what is the cost?

The price was that Lu Ping's savings were almost gone, and even the resources he had plundered from Han Shishan were almost gone.

Well, Lu Ping's so-called "savings" were almost entirely taken from Han Shishan.

Poor, so poor!

The four essentials for cultivating immortality are: method, wealth, companion, and place.

Lu Ping is desperately short of money.

After the Main Hall was tidied up, Lu Ping headed towards the Medicine Garden on the Back Mountain.

The herbs that were a bit old had long been dug up by the disciples of the previous Peak Master.

Newly grown spirit medicine are at most sixty years old.

But what Lu Ping valued wasn't the herbs at all, but the land, the spiritual soil!

Spiritual soil is a genuine strategic resource in the cultivation world.

Lu Ping reached out and sent a clump of soil flying to his fingertips, which he then gently rubbed together.

The spiritual soil of Great Sects like Azure Cloud Sect is inherently of excellent quality.

In addition, generations of Spirit Plant Planter have been using techniques such as the Little Cloud-Rain Incantation, Rejuvenation Technique, and Spirit-Enhancement Technique year after year, and they also have to add specific rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures nourish it from time to time.

In addition, generations of spirit medicine have taken root here, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and their medicinal properties have accumulated and nourished this land, thus creating a fertile and prosperous place.

This stuff is the culmination of the sect's accumulated wealth over thousands of years.

Compared to the wild land that can be randomly dug out in the mountain gullies, it's like heaven and earth.

Lu Ping stood by the Medicine Garden, his flowing sleeves billowing upwards.

He swept up a whole 1-foot-thick layer of spiritual soil from the Medicine Garden, along with the plants and the fallen leaves that weren't completely rotten.

The Little Toad jumped nervously twice on his shoulder.

Immediately afterwards, the land flashed. A field appeared out of thin air inside the Little Toad's internal space.

This time, the Little Toad, who always pretended to be an inanimate object, could no longer keep up the act.

A flash of light appeared on the furnace, and the little girl with her hair in two buns appeared before the Lu Ping. Her little face immediately scrunched up, and she said in a pitiful tone,

"Boss..."

Little Toad's voice was soft and sweet, with a hint of protest and a Salty Fish smell.

"The mud is so dirty, it's made a mess of my sleeping area, I can't even lie flat anymore..."

Looking at the Artifact Spirit with no fighting spirit, Lu Ping raised his hand and ruffled her hair twice, then launched into a set of practiced workplace rhetoric.

"How can you call this dirty? This is our foundation, the company's core asset."

Lu Ping said earnestly,

"The investment now is for future returns. Once this space is filled with Supreme-Grade Spirit Medicine, the fragrance will surround you every day. Isn't that better than absorbing the depleted Spiritual Qi you're absorbing now? I'm empowering you, do you understand?"

Little Toad blinked, seemingly understanding but not quite. Its initial thought of protest vanished in a daze after being bombarded with such a promise.

She gave a pitiful "oh," then transformed back into a stream of light and disappeared into the furnace.

Lu Ping withdrew his hand, showing no remorse whatsoever.

If the boss gives extra work but doesn't give a raise, what can an employee do besides make a token complaint?

Obviously not!!

That's how Lu Ping lived his previous life.

Little Toad, I've seen more of the capitalists' tricks than you've ever tasted salt.

Having settled his private plot, Lu Ping retrieved the Little Toad back into his Dantian and went to the Merit Hall.

Using the thousand Contribution Points given away for free by the Grand Supreme Elder, Lu Ping exchanged them for a batch of Thousand-Whisker Spirit-Luring Grass seeds.

There are also some auxiliary medicines for refining Lesser Creation Spirit-Stimulating Dew, as well as medicinal materials for Qi-Gathering Pills and Qi-Consolidating Pills.

Even with a thousand Contribution Points, it's impossible to keep spending them all.

Lu Ping didn't dare to use up all his Contribution Points.

Now that he is Grand Supreme Elder, there are some things he can actually have the disciples of the Azure Cloud Sect do for him, so he no longer needs to do them personally.

Therefore, the Contribution Points of the Azure Cloud Sect are the hard currency.

We're still poor, so poor.

The poorest Spirit Transformation Divine Lord in history was poor in every way.

After making some inquiries, Lu Ping learned that the Alchemy Hall also had Medicine Garden, where some Thousand-Whisker Spirit-Luring Grass Medicine Garden planted for the purpose of promoting spiritual growth.

However, either a batch matured ten years ago, withered, and was revitalized, or the next batch will take about thirty or forty years to mature.

It seems I'll have to grow it myself.

With the land and medicinal herb seeds secured, the foundation for the great farming enterprise was laid.

The Lesser Creation Spirit-Stimulating Dew must be put on the agenda.

Without this, he couldn't afford to wait that long to grow naturally in the Little Toad's space.

In the last simulation, Lu Ping had the Creation Spirit-Promoting Dew first, and then it took him three years to create the Lesser Creation Spirit-Stimulating Dew.

Only after the Lesser Creation Spirit-Stimulating Dew was mass-produced did they begin to cultivate the medicinal materials for Qi-Gathering Pills and Qi-Consolidating Pills themselves.

It's like having a chicken first, and then that chicken keeps laying eggs, creating a cycle of eggs turning into chickens and then into more eggs.

And that "chicken" will appear in Doushu City twelve years later...

Doushu City, Gu Wusuan...

Lu Ping's eyes darkened slightly.

In addition to the medicinal herbs and seeds, Lu Ping also exchanged them for a palm-sized piece of Mystic Marrow Essence Jade).

That night...

In the Main Hall Xiaolai Peak, Lu Ping sat cross-legged on the Jade Bed.

The Mystic Marrow Essence Jade floated in front of him, emitting a warm and restrained light.

Lu Ping held the Method Formula in his hand, his mind rapidly processing the structure of the Harmony with Heguang Tongchen Talisman.

The Great Sun Primordial Void Seal Method is indeed very useful, severing cause and effect extremely cleanly. However, to stably conceal one's destiny, the Heguang Tongchen Talisman is an essential trump card to complete the set.

Lu Ping raised the fingertips of his right hand, a wisp of Spiritual Power flickering within them.

The refining process officially begins once he places the first rune.

But just as Lu Ping's fingertips were about to touch the jade surface...

Lu Ping stopped.