[You decide to seek angel investors.]
[You first decide to look for the Zhang Family because you are relatively familiar with them, and after explaining things to your grandfather, you immediately arrive at the Zhang Family.]
[The Zhang Family Ancestor sees through your cultivation at a glance, and she is shocked: fourteenth-level Qi Cultivation, and you are not far from the Foundation Establishment Realm.]
[She proposes a marriage alliance with you, because as a woman she knows best what can shackle a man, and that is the shackles called family.]
[Possessing memories of your past life, you naturally guess the outcome, but you still put on a hesitant appearance.]
[Your grandfather speaks up and makes a demand: the marriage partner must be Zhang Yutong.]
[The subsequent plot unfolds just like the dream you had before, with both families making the choice for the two of you without asking your wishes.]
[You successfully reach a cooperation agreement with the Zhang Family, and they will contract spirit fields to you for growing Gold Injury Leaves.]
[You successfully resolve the issue of insufficient Gold Injury Leaves.]
[Due to needing to contract the Zhang Family's spirit fields, the cost of making your Healing Powder increases, and you are naturally unwilling to earn fewer Spirit Stones.]
[To you, earning one fewer Spirit Stone is like cutting a piece of flesh from you, making your heart ache.]
[So you decide to raise the selling price of the Healing Powder, and now the selling price of Healing Powder in Jinzhou County is even more expensive than it originally was.]
[This causes a chorus of complaints from the crowd of rogue cultivators.]
[You choose to ignore it, as this has nothing to do with you anyway and you are still the beneficiary.]
[In January of the third year, you hear that a branch lineage disciple of your Mu Family was killed by a rogue cultivator gang attempting to provoke your Mu Family, and your father flies into a rage, with the Mu Family immediately sending people to purge those rogue cultivators.]
[After the incident, you deliberately come to Jinzhou City to give a speech, wishing to use this golden opportunity to promote your newly developed Healing Powder.]
[You walk up onto the stage, give a grand wave of your hand, and lecture: "I know that all of you have had quite a few complaints lately about the Healing Powder produced by our Mu Family, so I immediately conducted a detailed survey. After two days and two nights of deep contemplation, I immediately summoned all the upper echelons of our Mu Family last night to discuss this issue."]
["Where exactly did the problem lie with our Mu Family's Healing Powder? Was it the quality? Or was it the price? Finally, we reached a conclusion that there were both quality issues and price issues!"]
["After 1,080 hours of in-depth research by our Mu Family, and analyzing 121 types of Healing Powder appearing on the Jinzhou County market, we were astonished to discover: 96% of cultivators choose Healing Powders with a [healing effect index greater than or equal to 88.88], and for every 0.1 Spirit Stone drop in the selling price, cultivators' willingness to buy rises by 12%. This number even exceeds the highest-level requirement for cultivators' purchasing thresholds in the Alchemist Career Guide. To break through the ideal Healing Powder puzzle repeatedly discussed by cultivators for 50,000 times, two alchemists of our Mu Family joined hands with a Zhang Family alchemist, utilizing nano-grade Gold Injury Leaves to perform particle-level refinement on 46 flavors of Healing Powder, ultimately refining this fine product with a 99% success rate and a healing effect comparable to Yellow Grade Mid Rank Healing Pills!"]
["This revolutionary Healing Powder is officially named [Half Mi San]!"]
[Your rambling speech leaves the rogue cultivators watching the spectacle in the audience feeling their heads buzzing.]
["What does a hundred feces branch 12 mean?" "Alchemist Career Guide? How come I've never heard of it?" "Nano-grade Gold Injury Leaves?"]
[Before they can think too much about it, waves of cheers of "Half Mi San! Half Mi San!" from around them drown out their doubts. You know that having family disciples play plants has had an effect.]
[You take the opportunity to announce: "The newly launched [Half Mi San] from our Mu Family doesn't cost 9 Spirit Stones! It only costs 6 Spirit Stones!"]
[The original general selling price for Healing Powder in Jinzhou County was 8 Spirit Stones, but after you raised the price it became 9 Spirit Stones. Now, a newly launched Healing Powder called "Half Mi San" only costs 6 Spirit Stones!]
[Such a low price naturally makes all the rogue cultivators cheer.]
[You successfully promote Half Mi San by taking advantage of this.]
[Actually, this Half Mi San is just a mixture of half Healing Powder and some cheap spiritual medicine powder.]
[It still has some effect, though it's a bit poor... But for a businessman like him, this brings only profits without any harm. Anyway, it's not like he is the one using it.]
[Anyway, if there is profit you chase it, revolving purely around profiteering.]
[One month later, in February of the third year, under your exquisite marketing rhetoric, the newly launched Half Mi San from your Mu Family successfully sells in massive quantities.]
[This makes your Mu Family rake in money hand over fist.]
[The cultivation resources you obtain become even more abundant, and you even consume quite a few spiritual medicines and spiritual pills you hadn't even heard of previously, allowing your spirit platform to successfully condense halfway.]
[However, because your Mu Family's Half Mi San only has half the efficacy of Healing Powder, it makes many rogue cultivators realize at the most critical moments when they need healing the most that there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world, and cheap goods have no quality assurance.]
[Some rogue cultivators even unite to rebel against your Mu Family, but they are all suppressed by you using hardline methods.]
[Your Mu Family's reputation in Jinzhou County gradually stinks, and even many three-year-old toddlers know that your Mu Family consists of unscrupulous merchants.]
[You are unconcerned; they are merely a bunch of mud-legged peasants who are green with envy seeing you earn Spirit Stones.]
[In April of the third year, your Mu Family's reputation continues to worsen. Even the County Government gets wind of it and specially sends people to investigate.]
[In the eyes of the three major families, the Jinzhou County Government is actually no different from a mascot, because the County Magistrate is merely a ninth-level Qi Cultivation cultivator and completely dares not openly lock horns with your three major families.]
[As for why the County Magistrate of Jinzhou County only has ninth-level Qi Cultivation cultivation—clearly this is a matter where the Imperial Court could just casually dispatch a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator to suppress the situation.]
[About this matter, you have indeed heard your grandfather mention it once. Firstly, Jinzhou County is far too remote, and the entire Jinzhou County has no resources that the Imperial Court takes notice of, with many cultivation resources still needing to be shipped in from outside. Secondly, the current Old Emperor is critically ill, and all the princes and princesses are busy recruiting talent. Even though any random guard by their side has Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation, it is impossible for them to be dispatched to such a bird-forsaken place like Jinzhou County. Rather than coming to this useless place, it is better to keep them by their side where they are useful.]
[This is what causes the reason why the three major families of Jinzhou County instead hold immense power.]
[You casually dismiss the people sent by the County Government. After all, who says you are not the local tyrant?]
[In May of the third year, your Mu Family's reputation is completely ruined, and the rogue cultivators would rather directly ingest Gold Injury Leaves than purchase your Mu Family's Half Mi San. This causes a certain blow to your Mu Family's industries.]
[Upon learning of this, you couldn't care less. You issue an order to continue selling Half Mi San while simultaneously launching a new product called Half Mi San.]
[Just as the name implies, you take Half Mi San, mix it with half cheap medicinal powder, and its effect is even only half that of Half Mi San, amounting to less than forty percent of the original Healing Powder.]
[You are surrounded by rogue cultivators...]
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