This Kid's a Talent, Trading Legacy for Resources!

Canal Gang headquarters.

In Xu Shanyue's study.

Xu Shanyue, Gu Changqing, and Dai Qinghe were all sitting on the sofa.

Gu Changqing was still holding the proposal Jiang Wangzu had written.

Xu Shanyue did have some business sense, but not much.

So the Canal Gang's businesses had always been handled by Gu Changqing.

"Sixth, this was written by that Jiang Wangzu my niece Zhenzhen recommended to you?"

"He really has strength comparable to perfected Strength Training at eighteen?"

Jiang Wangzu's proposal was written in great detail, so clear that even someone like him, who had little talent for business, could understand it.

He knew this man had great ability, that he was a talent.

But from Dai Qinghe, he had learned that this Jiang Wangzu had actually been recommended by his niece Xu Zhenzhen.

And the man was extremely young, skilled with both pen and fist.

That could not help but surprise him a little.

If Dai Qinghe had not mentioned it, he might have almost forgotten he even had such a distant niece.

"Gang Leader, would I really lie to you about something like this?"

"Advisor, you've been looking at it for ages. Is what A-Zu wrote actually feasible or not?"

Dai Qinghe answered Xu Shanyue, then glanced at Gu Changqing and asked.

"The contents are detailed and genuinely feasible."

"And if we open up the market, this will absolutely become a major source of income for our Canal Gang."

"It might even bring in money faster than those gray businesses."

"But this kid held something back."

"He wrote every matter involved in opening a dance hall in such detail, yet the one thing he didn't write specifically was how to operate it."

"Looks like our Canal Gang's dance hall has to be put under his charge."

"Perfected Strength Training, and such a business mind as well, with a fine hand of calligraphy—proof that he has good cultural cultivation."

"Accomplished in both letters and martial arts. He truly is a promising seedling. We can let him give it a try!"

Gu Changqing smiled faintly, not particularly concerned about the little trick Jiang Wangzu had played.

After all, the idea had been his to begin with.

People all had selfish motives.

Having selfish motives made someone easier to control.

If he were some great sage with no desires and no demands, then he really would be too hard to control.

"In that case, we'll pass it at the elders' meeting."

"All matters concerning the dance hall will be handed over to Jiang Wangzu."

"Perfected Strength Training—his strength isn't bad either."

"But whether he can sit firmly in that position is hard to say."

Xu Shanyue spoke with a sigh.

Doing business was not about fighting and killing, but about the ways of the world and human relationships.

Even for him, closing certain deals was not so easy.

A martial arts master at the Force Realm could, at most, make people give him three slivers of face in the business world.

When it truly involved core interests, they would fight to the end.

"I thought about setting up a dance hall long ago."

"But I always believed dance halls were places for the upper class to enjoy themselves."

"If our Canal Gang rashly reached into certain businesses in the Upper District, I'm afraid it would invite unnecessary trouble."

"And there are more than a dozen dance halls in the Upper District. Four of them have made a real name for themselves. We're already a little late entering the field now."

"But I didn't expect that kid Jiang Wangzu would actually find another path, wanting to use our Canal Gang's existing resources in the Lower District to integrate them into a dance hall even commoners could afford."

"It looks like there's something to it."

"If he succeeds, we can use his method to spread the dance hall business throughout the Lower District. When the time comes, we can just sit and wait for the money to roll in!"

Gu Changqing set down the proposal in his hand and spoke.

The business of a single dance hall was not enough for him to take seriously, unless it was on the level of the four great ones in the Upper District.

What he wanted was how to turn going to dance halls into a proper line of business.

"Then let's do it!"

Xu Shanyue made the decision on the spot.

Xu Shanyue, Gu Changqing, and Dai Qinghe were busy convening a Canal Gang elders' meeting.

Jiang Wangzu had become a core gang member, completely breaking away from Chen Tai.

The Little Medical Immortal still had no exotic beast essence blood or black tiger bone, and there had been no movement on the Mysterious Altar Nine-Turn Secret Medicine either.

So he could only go to Chen Liujia's residence and accompany Han Qiao in martial arts practice.

"Sister A-Qiao, I wonder if you have any channels to get black tiger bone and exotic beast essence blood?"

"I can trade you a strength-training secret medicine formula for them. If there's still a price difference, I'll write you an IOU and pay you back when I have money!"

After Jiang Wangzu had accompanied Han Qiao in sparring for two hours, he asked.

He wanted to ask Chen Liujia directly, but he felt Han Qiao would be easier to work on.

Besides, Yan Ruyu had said Han Qiao was someone doing major business in the Upper District. Not only was she a rich woman, her connections were wide as well.

"Black tiger bone?"

"Exotic beast essence blood?"

"I remember Master still seems to have a bone from a black tiger exotic beast."

"It can serve as both black tiger bone and exotic beast essence blood."

"And its quality far surpasses ordinary black tiger bone and exotic beast essence blood. It's also incomparably compatible with the Tiger Form Fist you're cultivating."

"If Master can't bear to part with it, I can search for black tiger bone and exotic beast essence blood through my channels, though it will take time."

Han Qiao thought for a moment, then spoke.

"Strength-training at major completion."

"Looks like you want to adjust your strength-training secret formula."

"It was that girl Yan who modified your strength-training secret formula for you, wasn't it?"

"You really are a lucky kid."

"To be able to meet a top-tier famous physician like that girl Yan."

"That exotic beast black tiger was something I risked my old life to obtain back then by joining hands with several old friends. I got about a quarter of it."

"Now, there's only a hind leg bone left."

"If you need it, then take it."

"But you have to tell me your inheritance, including both strength-training secret medicine formulas. I wonder if you're willing to part with them?"

Chen Liujia, who had been lying on a grandmaster chair beneath the pavilion and resting, heard Jiang Wangzu's words and couldn't help opening his eyes, saying this with a beaming smile.

"No problem."

"Um... Old Master, I'm still a little short on money to brew the strength-training secret medicine."

"Do you think you could be a good person to the end and send the Buddha all the way west?"

"Give me another ten thousand silver dollars?"

Jiang Wangzu immediately agreed, then stretched out one finger in embarrassment.

"Write down your inheritance first. We'll discuss the rest afterward!"

Chen Liujia smiled calmly and did not immediately agree to Jiang Wangzu's request.

Although at first he had not thought Jiang Wangzu's strength-training cultivation method inheritance was especially powerful.

Later, however, he had increasingly felt the terror of Jiang Wangzu's strength.

Now, he had only just reached major completion in strength-training, yet even without counting the enhancement from his external-training cultivation method, his pure strength had already surpassed a martial artist at perfect completion in strength-training.

"Good!"

Jiang Wangzu did not regard the Black Tiger Fist Manual in his possession as all that important.

Even the strength-training secret medicine formula produced by the attribute panel was something he could trade at any time.

Jiang Wangzu's attitude left Chen Liujia very satisfied.

From Jiang Wangzu's actions, it could be seen that this kid was the same sort of person as him, not regarding martial inheritance as all that important at all.

In this era, the views of martial lineages and sectarian boundaries were truly far too entrenched.

People hugged their own cultivation methods and secret manuals like a worn-out broom treasured as if it were priceless, preferring to let them rot rather than ever allow them to spread.

If things went on like this, how could the martial path progress?

When would there ever appear a figure who stood at the absolute pinnacle of the martial path?