This was Chen Mu's first time using [Weak Water] since acquiring it, but there was not the slightest trace of unfamiliarity or awkwardness in his movements. His right hand deftly picked up a Slanted-Edge Pen and carefully dipped its tip into the bluestone bowl. Then he placed two other styles of card-crafting pens into it.
Bo Wen's eyes were fixed on the contents of the bluestone bowl. He was not particularly interested in [Weak Water]. Back in his clan, he had quite a few collectibles like it, even if they were hardly abundant. It was the transparent liquid in the little bowl that held his attention captive. Both its initial rich fragrance and its current faint, delicate scent were aromas that only the finest fragrances could produce. If he had harbored a shred of uncertainty before, he was now completely convinced that this little bowl of transparent liquid was worth a fortune.
Within the Tianyou Federation, several great families had made their fortunes through fragrances, and there were even more families just below their rank. The Dongxing Ning Family was a renowned local powerhouse in the Dongxing District, but it did not rank among the great families of the Tianyou Federation. Seventy percent of the federation's great families were concentrated in the Capital and the five major Huahua Districts, with only thirty percent scattered across the twenty-two Common Districts. The Dongxing District had no clan that could truly be considered a great family.
After so many years of development, the Ning Family's growth in wealth had reached a bottleneck. Its existing profit model was preventing further expansion, and it urgently needed a new one to take another step forward.
A set of [Weak Water] pens could not bring about any fundamental transformation for the enormous Ning Family. But if he