Reform, Monopolize the Market!

"What invisible big hand? It's clearly my own hardworking little hands!" Mu Xingqi quipped.

His current cultivation was all earned through his own Spirit Stones, one by one.

In the simulation, he only needed to cultivate diligently. But in reality, he had so much more to do: earn Spirit Stones, find a breakthrough, strengthen the family...

Simulator: "Yeah, yeah, yeah."

[November, your grandfather personally guided you in Spirit Platform Condensation. You felt the effects were significant, at least faster than figuring it out yourself.]

[December, your grandfather enfeoffed you as Young Clan Leader and formally held the ceremony.]

[You began to get involved in family affairs and gradually learned about the family's various businesses.]

[You learned: Your Mu Family's main pillar industry is currently alchemy. You have two pill shops and one pharmacy in Jinzhou County.]

[Although your Mu Family only has your mother as a true alchemist, you learned that many rogue cultivators cannot afford genuine pills. Therefore, the most popular pills in Jinzhou County are mainly unranked Healing Powder, followed by Yellow Grade Low Rank Qi Gathering Pills.]

[Unranked Healing Powder can be made by alchemy apprentices. Low Rank Qi Gathering Pills are refined by your mother. These are the two main pills your Mu Family currently sells.]

[Your family's spiritual herbs are mainly Gold Injury Leaf, Qi Gathering Grass, and Clear Spirit Tea.]

[Qi Gathering Grass is used to refine Qi Gathering Pills, Gold Injury Leaf is used to make Healing Powder, and Clear Spirit Tea is mainly sold as spiritual medicine in the pharmacy.]

[The yield of Qi Gathering Grass and Gold Injury Leaf is considerable. However, Clear Spirit Tea has a very small annual yield, causing the pharmacy to operate at a loss all these years.]

[After you became Young Clan Leader, your status in the clan soared. Even elders had to address you as Young Clan Leader.]

[Your reputation among the younger generation reached its peak. At least within the Mu Family, everyone knew you, the Young Clan Leader.]

[You enjoyed the satisfaction that came with power.]

[Sometimes, you used your power to do some shady things.]

[In January of the second year, you proposed to your grandfather to change the family's shops and make new plans.]

[After understanding your proposal, your grandfather praised you not only for your exceptional talent but also for your intelligence.]

[With your grandfather's support, you waved your hand and began the reforms.]

[First, you changed the three shops: one was responsible for selling Healing Powder, one for Qi Gathering Pills, and the last pharmacy was converted into a tea house.]

[Your plan was for Healing Powder to target the low-end market, leveraging high volume and even pricing it slightly lower than the market price.]

[You posted daily tasks in the Pill Hall, recruiting clan disciples to process Gold Injury Leaf. After your investigation, you found that the main difficulty in refining Healing Powder lay in the ratio of ingredients, while the processing of Gold Injury Leaf could be handed over to ordinary disciples, and the ratio to alchemy apprentices. Simply put, it was dividing the process, like an assembly line in your previous life. This would greatly speed up the production of Healing Powder.]

[You then positioned the shop specializing in Qi Gathering Pills for the mid-to-high-end market. Instead of selling Low Rank Qi Gathering Pills, you focused on selling Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pills, with a limited sale of one or two High Rank Qi Gathering Pills each month.]

[According to your calculations, although the growth cycle of Yellow Grade Mid Rank Qi Gathering Grass is longer than that of Low Rank, it's only about double. However, the selling price of Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pills is more than double that of Low Rank. This means selling Yellow Grade Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pills yields double the Spirit Stones compared to Low Rank. Moreover, the market for Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pills is substantial, as cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi Cultivation need them. This is especially true for rogue cultivators; even if they break through to the late Qi Cultivation stage, they lack the Spirit Stones or means to obtain High Rank Qi Gathering Pills.]

[As the final step, you converted the pharmacy into a tea house. Firstly, you noticed that the Clear Spirit Tea grown by the clan had low yield but high quality, which could be made into various tea products for sale. Secondly, the tea house's function was not limited to drinking tea and selling tea; you intended for it to become the Mu Family's intelligence agency. With your Mu Family's prestige in Jinzhou County, the tea house could also serve the functions of selling and collecting information.]

[After your major overhaul, the first person to benefit was your mother. Previously, your family mainly sold Low Rank Qi Gathering Pills, and your mother was busy refining pills every day. Yellow Grade Low Rank Qi Gathering Grass matures quickly, taking less than a month to ripen, so your mother had an endless supply of pills to refine every day.]

[However, after you positioned your family's Qi Gathering Pills for the mid-rank market, your mother's workload was halved. She could even go home every day to take care of you.]

[Seeing more smiles on your mother's face made you happy too.]

[In February of the second year, Mu Xinger successfully became a Yellow Grade Low Rank Alchemist. Your plan was subsequently adjusted. You had Mu Xinger take charge of refining Low Rank Qi Gathering Pills, but the quantity didn't need to be large. They would be supplied to the pill shop specializing in Healing Powder for sale, with a fixed monthly quantity and priced a few percent higher than the market.]

[The reason was simple: hunger marketing. Since the Spirit Stones earned were from rogue cultivators, you didn't feel any pity.]

[You firmly believed that wherever there was profit, you should extract it! You were a believer in Spirit Stones above all else.]

[Under your reforms, the family's revenue increased this month.]

[However, your Mu Family's reputation suffered a blow. But they were all just lowly rogue cultivators, so it didn't significantly impact your Mu Family's interests.]

"Why does this Business Acumen talent make me more and more like a cunning merchant?"

"As expected from the system, it's always a trap!"

Mu Xingqi grumbled.

[In March of the second year, as the family's businesses earned more Spirit Stones, your grandfather decided to increase the benefits for everyone in the family.]

[You felt a bit resentful, thinking that this was all the Spirit Stones you painstakingly earned, and now you had to share them with the useless parasites in the family. You thought all the gluttonous and lazy parasites in the family should be rounded up and put to work for you.]

[However, on the surface, you smiled and agreed.]

[Your status in the clan was further strengthened, even surpassing your father, the family head.]

[In June of the second year, your Mu Family expanded its business, opening a second shop selling Healing Powder.]

[You also expanded large-scale production accordingly.]

[Almost all disciples from the branch lineages began working in the Pill Hall, processing Gold Injury Leaf.]

[In September of the second year, your Mu Family opened a third Healing Powder shop.]

[Relying on your price advantage and large-scale production methods, your Mu Family successfully crushed all the Healing Powder shops in Jinzhou County, taking control of the entire Healing Powder market in Jinzhou County.]

[In December of the second year, your Mu Family opened two more shops, announcing a complete monopoly of the Healing Powder market.]

[As your Mu Family's spiritual fields gradually became insufficient, even all the land on Muye Mountain that could be converted into spiritual fields was utilized. However, there was still a shortage of spiritual herbs, especially Gold Injury Leaf.]

[You decided to find...]