Settlement, A Business Mind?

Mu Xingqi chuckled lightly. A wolf demon was just a wolf demon, or rather, a mid-Qi Cultivation realm Yao Beast was just a mid-Qi Cultivation realm Yao Beast. While they possessed some intelligence, it wasn't much.

At most, it was no different from an ordinary child.

The wolf demon's pounce at this moment perfectly exposed its most fatal weakness: its waist!

Mu Xingqi raised his sword and executed a horizontal slash with the Nan Sword Art.

Whoosh!

Sword energy streaked across the sky.

One strike hit its mark!

The wolf demon was directly cut in half at the waist!

Perhaps his sword art had reached Perfection, or perhaps the Rusty Sword in his hand was extraordinary, or more likely, both. The wolf demon's proud physique was nothing in his eyes.

Mu Xingqi looked at the wolf demon's corpse on the ground, which he had just killed, and began to worry.

"I don't have a storage bag, so how to bring this corpse back is a problem."

He couldn't just leave it, though. After all, the wolf demon's corpse was proof for him to settle the quest.

It seemed he really needed to get a storage bag. Although the clan had them, the contribution points required were a bit too high – a full hundred contribution points, which was a hundred Spirit Stones! That was enough for him to simulate three times right now.

He had looked into storage bags. In this world, storage bags weren't rare items; they were quite common, in fact.

Unlike what he had read in novels from his past life, storage bags in this world didn't use precious materials like space stones, nor did they employ spatial formations.

They were simply made from the fur of a certain Yao Beast.

That Yao Beast was called a Space Rat, but people preferred to call it a Storage Rat. It belonged to the Yao Beast order, and its fur naturally possessed storage functions. By simply inscribing simple formations like stabilization and sealing, it could be directly used as a storage bag.

Space Rats were also very common Yao Beasts, even domesticated by humans. Although his Mu Family didn't raise them, there were forces in Jinzhou County that specialized in raising Space Rats.

Space Rats could be raised to the early Qi Cultivation realm within one to two months of birth, and adults could even potentially break through to the Foundation Establishment realm. However, the strongest a Space Rat could become was the Foundation Establishment realm.

This was also why storage bags were common, especially Yellow Tier storage bags, which only required the fur of a Qi Cultivation realm Space Rat as material.

Mu Xingqi picked up half of the wolf demon's corpse with one hand and started sprinting back.

"I knew I shouldn't have shown off back then. This wolf demon was split in half, making it awkward to carry."

If he carried it on his body, it would get covered in beast blood and stink!

So, he could only carry it by hand.

A moment later, Mu Xingqi returned to the front of Qinghe Village.

From afar, he saw Daniu and the mother and daughter standing there, seemingly waiting for him.

Daniu, seeing Mu Xingqi return safely and carrying the corpse of the fierce wolf demon, breathed a sigh of relief and said with a beaming smile:

"Immortal Master's skills are truly amazing! I knew you could do it!"

The mother also stepped forward and thanked him: "This humble woman and my little daughter are grateful for Immortal Master's life-saving grace!"

Mu Xingqi didn't think much of it. He couldn't just stand by and do nothing when he saw it, could he?

After all, he was a "good" young man.

The little girl also said in her milky voice, tugging on Mu Xingqi's hand: "Thank you! Big brother!"

Looking at the well-behaved and adorable little girl before him, Mu Xingqi couldn't help but pat her little cheek.

After exchanging pleasantries with the mother and daughter and Daniu, Mu Xingqi declined their kind invitation for a feast.

He asked Daniu for a sack, put the wolf demon's corpse in it, and returned to Muye Mountain.

Carrying the sack, Mu Xingqi went to the Internal Affairs Hall to settle the quest.

After he opened the wolf demon's corpse for the steward in charge of quest settlement to confirm, the steward immediately credited him with 20 contribution points.

After Mu Xingqi left contentedly, the Fourth Elder Mu Shenghuan, who was in charge of the Internal Affairs Hall, came to the wolf demon's corpse. He stared intently at the smooth cut, his expression grave...

Mu Xingqi first went to the Finance Hall and exchanged all his contribution points for Spirit Stones.

Then, humming a tune, he happily returned to his room.

"Finally, I can simulate again. A day without simulation feels like three autumns!"

Immediately, Mu Xingqi poured all the Spirit Stones into the simulator.

The simulation points displayed on the simulator also changed to:

[Simulation Points: 30]

Seeing that he could simulate once more, Mu Xingqi excitedly said:

"Simulator, activate!"

At his command, text scrolled across the simulator panel.

[Simulator activating]

[Detected that previous simulation talent has not been saved. Would you like to move the simulation talent "Know One Infer Ten (White)" into the talent slot.]

[Remaining Talent Slots: 0]

"No!"

Although this white simulated talent, "Know One Infer Ten," could indeed make him sharper in simulations, like a detective.

But there was no way, he only had one simulation talent slot right now.

"I wonder how to increase the simulation talent slots?"

He definitely wouldn't ask the system; compared to those "God-Tier Invincible Systems," "One-Hit 999 Systems," and "Deep Blue Stat-Raising Systems" from his past life's web novels, this system was too idiotic.

It was practically an Artificial Idiot System!

Not only were the simulated talents trash, but there were also all sorts of restrictions.

Two thumbs down!

After a round of scolding, Mu Xingqi could only shake his head helplessly and continue looking at the simulator panel:

[Simulator initializing]

[Deducting 30 Simulation Points]

[Simulation starting]

[Randomly drawing simulation talent...]

[Drawing simulation talent: Business Acumen.]

[Congratulations on obtaining the white simulated talent: Business Acumen!]

[Business Acumen (White): You enjoy and are adept at engaging in business activities as if it were an innate talent. Furthermore, you possess an extremely keen insight into changes in the commercial market, always able to find business opportunities from subtle details. If you were still living on the original Blue Star, your talent would be enough to make you a generation's stock god, comparable to Buffett and Soros.]

"Oh? This is good! It's practically the essential cheat for a city bumpkin's counterattack in his past life! But will it be a bit useless in this world?"

You have to know, in this world, might makes right; strength is the foundation for any force to establish itself.

In this world, which merchant guild isn't backed by powerful individuals? Without corresponding powerful strength, if you have Spirit Stones, a hard currency, wouldn't that be like a child carrying gold bars through the marketplace, or a stray dog carrying a hundred-dollar bill walking past you?

In a nutshell: a free opportunity.

Forget it, it was just a white talent to begin with. What more could he ask for from a white talent? He'd be grateful if it wasn't a negative talent.

[You jolted awake from your bed!]

[You had a nightmare.]

[You dreamed: In the fourth year, shortly after your father's Foundation Establishment ceremony and your engagement banquet with Zhang Yutong, in August of the fourth year, a bizarre blood palm descended from the sky. With just one strike, it heavily injured your grandfather. Even with your father, you, and all the clan elders, you could only resist the blood palm for a moment!]

[Moreover, the mastermind behind it could calmly unleash a second palm! Your mother flung you out of the blood palm's range, and you could only watch as everyone was turned into a mist of blood by the blood palm!]

[You later used the sword art "Wave Shadow Falling Pine South" to successfully ambush the black-robed man, and you discovered he was actually the Fire Cloud Evil God from the Secret Realm!]

[You died after he gouged out your heart with one palm. Before your consciousness dissipated, you vaguely heard someone say, "Brother Xingqi"... You guessed the person was Mu Xinger, and you lamented how foolish she was, thinking it was worth sacrificing herself for a dead person like you.]

[You were covered in sweat and remained silent for a long time, as it was difficult for you to accept that all of this was real...]