Above Wuji, Lu Yin looked at the ledger in his hand, quite surprised. For a dignified cultivator, this was an unexpectedly primitive way to keep records.
It seemed the writer had wanted to hide it from anyone who might be looking.
Many cultivators used things like Jade Stones to record information. They were convenient, and a thought was all it took to make a note, but they could easily be found by someone with the right intentions. This ledger, on the other hand, was written on paper and bore no trace of cultivation. As long as it wasn't carried around, it would be difficult to discover.
The ledger recorded transactions between Yue Cheng and someone named Wuji. Wuji specialized in sending people to attack shipments carried by the Si Ma Merchant Association. Each attack made a huge commotion but caused little damage. Yue Cheng would then claim that goods had been damaged and hide some of the resources. In the end, he and Wuji would split them.
What was more, Yue Cheng belonged to the Si Ma Merchant Association, which had the right to send people into the dispatching association to monitor the materials used to make Sequence Foundations. Though it had to compete with the General Merchant Association, Yue Cheng knew exactly which merchant associations had which materials. He passed this information to Wuji, who would then strike. The details were thorough: resource lists, routes, and even the strength of the escorts. As a result, Wuji often succeeded in his raids, and each successful one brought in a fortune.
The two of them had made quite a haul this way.
But at the end of the ledger was a line: "If I should die for no reason one day, Wuji will have been responsible."
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