Luo Qian wiped the sweat from his brow. "Damn, I finally bluffed him into leaving. He'll be trouble sooner or later, but that treasure of his is rather nice..." An idea began to take shape.
The Open Selections in Pinglu City and Wangjiang City began almost simultaneously and ended the same way. Pinglu City's was bustling and lively; Wangjiang City's was deserted and miserable. Both sides had fulfilled their promises, but Wangjiang City had been forced into it. Construction broke ground on Pinglu North City, with Luo Qian personally presiding over the ceremony. Everyone at Luo Company was in high spirits. Wangjiang City, by contrast, no longer had enough money to finish its waterside pavilions. But the Open Selection results were already out, and there was no getting off the tiger's back. Qi Ren and the others had no choice but to split the cost. Some were driven to draw on their secret accounts, and the Secret Investigation Bureau soon noticed. With their every movement watched these past few days, they were suffering bitterly.
The swaggering Saint had never returned after going out with Luo Qian. Qi Ren and Dongfang Chen had held on to hope at first, but when Luo Qian appeared at the groundbreaking ceremony in Pinglu North City, they fell into utter despair. For the life of them, they could not understand how Luo Qian, once the most useless Tribulation Immortal imaginable, could have dealt with even a Saint!
Fortresses were always breached from within. Luo Qian contacted several Wangjiang City shareholders who had caught the Secret Investigation Bureau's attention, and they soon reached an agreement. These people had no ties to him, so nothing else complicated the negotiations. Luo Qian offered a fair price and promised that the Secret Investigation Bureau would stop troubling them. One