As long as he held the channels of consumption in his hands, not only could he earn a cut from the transaction amount, taxes were also another layer of exploitation.
For city lords like them, with the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect backing them from behind, they nominally possessed the highest jurisdiction, and the entire city was their own asset.
Wang Yu could understand scattering Spirit Stones out, letting them give birth to more, then flow back into the City Lord's Mansion's hands, but Luo Chen found it hard to understand.
In his eyes, Wang Yu was like a boy who scattered wealth, yet perversely, the more he spent, the richer he became. If he had tightened his purse a little, even Luo Chen would have been red-eyed with envy at the Spirit Stones he had saved by now.
Little did he know that Wang Yu had exchanged them all for solid, precious spiritual objects. As for the Spirit Stones in his hands, he had used quite a lot on development over these past few years, and after five years, he had only made a surplus of just over a million.
Compared to when he had first arrived in Guiling City, this had already risen by quite a bit, and he had spent far more Spirit Stones on Guiling besides. It was clear that management truly had significant effects.
Seeing that Wang Yu still had not spoken after a long while, Luo Chen could not help raising a cup of wine respectfully and saying, "As long as Junior Brother Wang is willing to help me, from now on in the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect, you will always have me as a friend."
After saying this, he drained it in one gulp.
"Alas... Senior Brother Luo, why go this far.
"This Wang