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Chapter 246: A way to legitimize the goods
"You may go." Feng Buxiu's eyes drifted half shut, as though he were waiting for someone.
Fierce flames beneath boiling oil, fresh flowers laid over brocade-the full moon must wane, and water filled to the brim must spill.
Though he had now advanced to Foundation Establishment and enjoyed great renown, unrivaled in the limelight at Abysswall Market, even the main household struggled to keep him in check.
In truth, danger lurked on every side. The slightest misstep could cost him his life and cultivation over his illicit mining.
"Yes."
The brothers Sheng Yong and Sheng Gang exchanged a glance and respectfully withdrew.
An incense stick's worth of time later, a thin old man in an indigo Daoist robe, his long beard hanging down to his chest, suddenly appeared inside the Myriad Arts Pavilion.
He was none other than Hua Buqi, an outer sect elder of the Mirror Moon Sect and a Foundation Establishment peak cultivator whose strength overshadowed all three of the Shen Household's Foundation Establishment cultivators.
"Greetings, Elder Hua." Feng Buxiu rose and bowed, showing none of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's airs.
A dog had to know its place.
Without Elder Hua standing in front of him, a newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivator making such a brazen show would long since have been casually crushed by the Shen Household.
"How much stock is there this year?" Hua Buqi nodded slightly, his tone calm.
"Please forgive me, Elder."
Feng Buxiu dropped to one knee and used both hands to take a hexagonal piece of ore from his Storage Bag. It was transparent, with fine, golden, starlike grains suspended inside.
"Why is there only one portion?" Hua Buqi frowned slightly and looked at Feng Buxiu.
"Nearly all the cultivators responsible for mining