"Settlement Screen"

Two days later, Zhong Shuo sent someone back from Coral City with a ledger.

It recorded every flow of funds handled by the Mutual Aid Society over the past twenty years. Yang Wenqing read the ledger from beginning to end, then closed it without making much comment.

After thinking it over for a night, he had Yang Yuan notify Yang Yulin, the current head of the family chamber of commerce, to come over.

Yang Yulin was one of the most promising members of the younger generation of the Yang Family to enter the Entry Realm. Now at the Fifth Turn of the Marrow Cleansing Realm, he had spent nearly ten years working his way through the commercial system of the Redstone Region and knew every aspect of the chamber's operations inside out.

Yang Wenqing handed him the ledger and gave him two instructions. First, take over all the lawful businesses left behind by the Mutual Aid Society and reorganize the financial records. Second, deal with those within the family who had been too deeply involved in the Mutual Aid Society incident.

Then, in the blink of an eye, it was late March.

The weather was pleasant that day. Sunlight spilled in from the eastern sea, warming the stone-paved ground of the Governor-General's Mansion's rear courtyard.

Yang Wenqing gave himself a day off. He handled no documents and received no visitors. Dressed in a dark gray casual outfit, he sat on a stone bench at the edge of the rear courtyard's training ground, watching his two disciples spar.

The two stood roughly thirty paces apart, each using the improved Goldfire Technique to condense a flying sword. The swords darted and blocked through the air before them, each collision sending fine sparks scattering in every direction.

At the same time, they each