Liu Yu knew when to quit while he was ahead. He did not let a little profit turn him insatiably greedy.
After taking his benefits, he stopped troubling those shops.
Instead, he helped maintain order nearby, making the payments something of a "service fee."
Thinking of it that way, Jiang Qiushui and Yan Kai found that their lingering guilt vanished completely.
There were two reasons he otherwise left them untouched.
First, the Alliance had ordered them to maintain stability. Liu Yu certainly could not openly make endless demands, or he would become a source of chaos himself. How could he speak of maintaining order then?
As a disciple of a renowned major sect, even if he skimmed off some profits, he could not make too ugly a spectacle of his greed.
Second, these shops were too low-end. Everything they sold and traded was a resource for the Qi Refining Period.
If Liu Yu chose to target them, he would gain some spirit stones at most. His gains in other respects would be virtually nonexistent.
Under the orders of the elders and the Alliance, he had to preserve a reasonably stable order in his assigned area. He could not wantonly undermine it for profits no bigger than a fly's head.
With the Immortal Mansion, he lacked no spirit stones either. To Liu Yu, gains consisting solely of spirit stones truly were "profits no bigger than a fly's head," not worth repeatedly taking action and losing the greater prize for a lesser one.
His real targets were somewhat higher-end shops with unique legacies and skills, but without particularly deep foundations.
Those legacies and skills were the truly valuable things, and Liu Yu had coveted them even before entering the city.
Ordinarily, even spirit stones might not buy them. Now he had a