To be clear, the many high-level cultivators of the Hun Zhou Government Office had monopolized everything within and beyond the island. They squeezed those within and harvested those without.
Only the Twenty-Four Main Stores and the interest groups behind them could gorge themselves fat and rake in wealth by the basinful.
A single Sea Market Main Store meant abundant cash flow and a safe, stable environment for cultivation.
It was what the entire Hun Zhou yearned for and pursued with all its might!
That was why the Qian Family had spent years laying out this scheme to plot against the Jing Family.
Yet what others treasured was no more than discarded worn slippers to Jing Qian!
He had dismantled his own Main Store without the slightest pang.
By the time he had torn it down to a sorry state, the director stationed by Earth Dragon Reef Island in the Sea Market had hurried over as well.
This ninth-rank cultivator of the Determining Destiny Realm bowed to Jing Qian and said:
"Greetings, Young Master Qian. May I ask why you summoned us here?"
The newly promoted Government Office cultivator and owner of the Jing Clan Main Store, Jing Qian's status was indeed different now!
Jing Qian replied:
"Thank you for your effort, Fellow Daoist. Please help me assess this. My Jing Clan Main Store occupies nearly six mu. If your island's capabilities were used to build upward, layer by layer, how many floors could you build at most?"
In Jing Qian's previous life, with the capabilities of a construction-mad nation, dozens of stories could be built on six mu of land with ease.
But there seemed to be something extraordinary about cultivators building structures.
Dai Xin, the director of Earth Dragon Reef Island, had been stationed in the Hun Zhou Sea