Blue Phoenix didn’t even know why Li Jing had asked her to release her Emperor’s aura, so she naturally couldn’t answer any questions for the disciples of the Immortal Music Palace.
However, through the disciples of the Immortal Music Palace, she learned that soone wanted the entire Immortal Music Palace to relocate here.
Believe it or not.
Though Blue Phoenix was not a disciple of the Immortal Music Palace, she held a very important position in the Palace.
Regarding the relocation, the three Venerables imdiately consulted Blue Phoenix’s opinion on the spot.
Blue Phoenix naturally sided with Li Jing.
Moreover, relocating next to Chen Tang City would indeed bring significant benefits to the future developnt of the Immortal Music Palace.
Not to ntion anything else,
the entrance to the Small Universe was right here, and Li Jing even allowed them to enter and exit at will.
The Small Universe was full of treasures.
The Heritage Stele was just one of the most prominent ones.
Li Jing gave the Spirit Spring Eye to the Water Spirit, which directly resulted in the quality of the Spirit Spring in the Small Universe increasing countless levels, reaching a level close to that of the Heavenly Treasures.
Although this was already the limit for sothing like the Spirit Spring, equidistant to reaching the grade of Heavenly Treasures.
Even so, it was already extrely useful.
You must know.
Wherever liquid was needed, the Spirit Spring could serve as the top choice.
What’s more,
With the Spring Eye there, the Spirit Spring could be incessantly produced.
Apart from the Spirit Spring,
Li Jing had four full Life Trees growing here, along with two lively and cute Spirits of Origin residing here.
Simply by coming here and being close to the Life Trees and the imnse vitality released by the two Spirits, the disciples of the Immortal Music Palace could benefit imnsely.
...
With Blue Phoenix’s statent, the three Venerables of the Immortal Music Palace imdiately left with her through the Small Universe and inford Li Jing that they were willing to relocate. However, they needed to notify the Zhong Shen Zhou side about this.
The statent from the three Venerables was quite an unexpected surprise to Li Jing.
He had not even had the chance to show everyone the Zhenyuan Tower and bring Shi Zixuan out.
But since they had made a clear statent, Li Jing saved a lot of trouble.
Without any hesitation,
he inford them that notifying the personnel of the Immortal Music Palace in Zhong Shen Zhou wasn’t so troubleso; he would let the people from Donghua’s Immortal Palace pass on the ssage.
Since the decision had been made,
it was unnecessary for Xiang Dong to "show his face". But it would still be valuable to demonstrate this relationship. He just needed to send a ssenger to inform them.
After a brief communication, Li Jing imdiately called the three Venerables to accompany Tong Rou to choose a large location near Chen Tang City, and released the Immortal Music Palace that had been stored in the Small Universe.
In the process, he also released the Star God Temple and refined seven half-step Taoist Artifact level Array Eyes on the spot, expanding the Seven-Star Formation that had hardly covered Chen Tang City to covering the entire surrounding area.
This move
startled the disciples of the Immortal Music Palace on the spot.
Li Jing casually refined them, creating one with a single thought.
And what was created was an Array Eye comparable to a half-step Taoist Artifact.
Such inhuman feats, who among those present had seen such things?
With the spatial cognition brought by the Reverse Space at the Fourteenth Realm level, the spatial formation he laid under the support of the half-step Taoist Artifact level Array Eyes was extrely profound, instantly outperforming the Protection of the Sect Array that the Immortal Music Palace had relied on for who knows how many years.
This...
Could this be an Emperor?
Stars shone in the eyes of the female disciples of the Immortal Music Palace.
Despite the long history of the Immortal Music Palace,
it has never produced a true Emperor.
In the distant past, they did have so half-step Emperors.
But unfortunately,
None of them ultimately achieved the status of Emperor and fell due to various reasons.
The Immortal Realm of the past was not as peaceful and stable as it is now.
At that ti, there weren’t even Emperors governing each Immortal Realm.
Those at the Emperor level ruled in their own right.
Imagine how chaotic that must have been.
Even invasions between schools and conflicts between the Four Realms of Immortals over interests would break out from ti to ti.
Schools without an Emperor could only align themselves with schools that had one.
While this practice could avoid many troubles, it inevitably resulted in being used by others.
Leaving that aside,
Li Jing was so busy that before he knew it, it was already midnight.
The Immortal Music Palace had a large number of disciples.
He, as the lord of Chen Tang City, couldn’t just ignore the Palace after the people had just moved over.
Moreover, he had plenty of things to discuss with the three Venerables of the Immortal Music Palace.
Such as
Asking to "borrow" so disciples from the Immortal Music Palace in the future.
The disciples of the Immortal Music Palace were all beautiful won who were proficient in all aspects of art, such good "resources" should definitely be utilized.
Each departnt of Cangming Entertainnt City was functioning normally, but the staff was still far from being saturated.
Every position was indispensable.
It was necessary to train so backup personnel.
Ji Qing planned to expand the network business, and the core talent cultivation could not rely solely on the more than five hundred little Ancient God’s Descendants. It would be great if the disciples of the Immortal Music Palace could supplent this.
Li Jing’s suggestions were readily agreed to by the three Venerables of the Immortal Music Palace.
Taking up so many benefits from Chen Tang City, the Immortal Music Palace had to give sothing in return.
Moreover, Li Jing, an Emperor who mastered all kinds of core technology in contemporary Blue Star, together with the relationship with Eastern Emperor Donghua, ensured that the prosperity of Chen Tang City and the wide implentation of Blue Star’s related industries and culture in the Eastern Immortal Domain were inevitable trends.
Despite the Immortal Music Palace being all won,
Their foresight was not inferior to anyone else.
Under the trend of the tis, they could not find any reason to refuse to let the disciples of the Immortal Music Palace get in touch with the basics of Blue Star as early as possible.
Others wanted to intervene in this matter, but they might not even have the opportunity.
Li Jing was also straightforward in handling matters.
After getting the three Venerables to agree, he imdiately took out entertainnt facilities like amusent parks, dance halls, and cinemas that won would like, and threw them all under Chen Tang City. He also took out Linglong and gave her to Tong Rou on the spot and let the little one guide the disciples of the Immortal Music Palace on how to enjoy these recreational activities, and take a look at Chen Tang City, the city in the sky.
Li Jing himself went back to Cangming Entertainnt City and brought back Ji Qing who had already finished her work.
Subsequently, the site was selected on the spot and so network-related industry departnts and equipnt assembly lines were arranged.
As for the rest, he didn’t bother with it.
He left Ji Qing to handle it on her own.
There was no stress about the shortage of manpower as disciples from the Immortal Music Palace could be summoned to help.
Next, Ji Qing would have to learn various professional knowledge on her own, and then select suitable candidates for training.
Although Sky City’s services were equipped with all kinds of professional knowledge, it was unfeasible to rely print it out and expect disciples of the Immortal Music Palace and the Ancient God’s Descendants, who had never been formally introduced to Blue Star, to self-study. They needed a real "teacher" who understood all aspects of it.
Ji Qing, who was hitherto known for her layabout tendencies, was genuinely serious about promoting the network this ti around.
After all, without a network,
Her "gaming circle" was only so big, with the sa few people participating over and over.
In fact,
The only ones who actually had computers, tablets, and phones to play gas were the staff in the office building, high-end VIPs in the entertainnt city, and the "full-ti employees" with employee benefits in the entertainnt city.
Even more problematic was the fact that
Devices of the sort were limited in stock in Sky City, making widespread distribution impossible.
Li Jing couldn’t possibly empty out all the stock in Sky City at once—what would future newcors to Chen Tang City use then?
If you want to truly popularize it, you have to set up the production line.
Things like this have to be done one step at a ti.
First, sort out the network, then the source of basic raw materials and the R&D personnel, and finally the production line.
Ji Qing’s current task is to beco a "jack of all trades" as quickly as possible, mastering various related knowledge and core technologies.
For the "bright future", without a second word, she went into the Little Universe, claiming that she would not step out of the Heavenly Palace until she had completed her studies.
As for this, Li Jing was skeptical.
However, since things had reached this point, he was not going to leave Ji Qing to handle everything by herself.
He wasn’t foolish enough to place all his hopes on this worthless cat.
Later on, they would still need to get Yulian and the others to join in and share the load, otherwise heaven knows how long it would take for the situation to take initial shape.
Before this happens,
Chen Tang City needed further expansion.
...
Having settled Ji Qing, Li Jing returned to Phoenix Sun County once more.
This ti,
He chose to visit Ta Xue Comrcial Bank.
It was now early morning of the next day.
Having torn through space to co directly to his familiar pavilion, Li Jing sat down at the table and leaked a hint of his own aura.
With the advancent of his realm, his ability to conceal himself had improved proportionately.
Without Silent Shadow, nor the need for Smoke Eye, he could easily make himself undetectable to those of lower realm just by blocking his own aura, unless the other party was particularly sensitive in this aspect.
Not long after Li Jing released his aura, hurried footsteps resounded from outside the door.
With a "squeak", the door to the pavilion was pushed open.
Then Tong Xiaoxiao carefully peeped in.
Upon seeing a certain person sitting there, her eyes brightened, but then she hesitated and didn’t co in.
Things have changed.
The man who once ranked lower than her in the realm had astonishingly proclaid himself an emperor.
The aura she sensed yesterday left an indelible impression on Tong Xiaoxiao, who was with Ji Qing at the ti.
Seeing Tong Xiaoxiao standing at the door wanting to co in but hesitating to lift her foot, Li Jing laughed.
"What are you doing, Manager Tong? Do I need to invite you on in?"
"Cough."
Tong Xiaoxiao coughed and stepped inside.
Li Jing took out a few leaves of the Life Tree and a bit of Spirit Spring from the Little Universe and put them into the teapot on the table. With the restrained might of the Phoenix Heavenly Fire flashing in his palm, the water in the pot instantly boiled. Then he looked up.
What he saw was Tong Xiaoxiao, who had co closer but had not yet sat down, with a full face of apologetic laughter.
"Alright, sit down quickly."
Li Jing shook his head helplessly, saying,
"I’m still , the Li Jing you know."
As he spoke, he poured himself two cups of tea.
Li Jing, as always, was easy-going and didn’t put on any airs at all.
Tong Xiaoxiao was seeing all of this, she finally plucked up the courage to sit down.
Seeing this, Li Jing handed her one of the cups of tea, saying,
"I ca here this ti because there’s sothing I need to discuss with you,"
Li Jing wasn’t the type to visit for no reason, which Tong Xiaoxiao understood.
She took the tea and sipped it, quickly adjusting her mindset after the surprise had passed.
After all, she was a businesswoman.
Li Jing, who had achieved the status of a great emperor, never put on airs with her. She couldn’t just bring out the set of rules she applied when dealing with important personas, could she?
That would create a distance between them.
Having adjusted her mindset, Tong Xiaoxiao praised the tea while looking appreciative, and then raised her eyes and spoke earnestly.
"If there’s anything you need, just say it. I’ll help you to the best of my ability."
Li Jing nodded at her response and said,
"I hope that you can relocate Ta Xue Trading Company to Chen Tang City."
What?
Tong Xiaoxiao.
Li Jing ca here to ask her to move the company, which she hadn’t expected.
Before she could react, Li Jing said,
"Don’t misunderstand, I’m not asking you to serve Chen Tang City alone in the future. I want to establish a true strategic cooperation relationship with you."
Strategic cooperation?
Tong Xiaoxiao hesitated for a mont.
She would play in Cangming Entertainnt City from ti to ti and look up information about Blue Star culture on the internet. She understood the weight that the term "strategic cooperation" carried.
Sitting upright, Tong Xiaoxiao asked,
"How do you want to establish this strategic cooperation?"
"Ji Qing visited yesterday. I think you’ve already heard so things."
Li Jing began to speak.
"I have started to officially expand and develop various Blue Star ’businesses’ in Chen Tang City. Once certain conditions are satisfied, I will attempt to implent so aspects in the Immortal Realm. If you agree to relocate your trading company to Chen Tang City, I can make you the exclusive distributor. It’s better to keep the profits within our circle. This big money-making opportunity should naturally be for our own people."
Tong Xiaoxiao’s eyes lit up at hearing this.
Just as she was about to speak, Li Jing shrugged.
"Of course, many details are not yet set in stone. I want you to relocate there mainly to take care of Chen Tang City’s daily needs."
Tong Xiaoxiao naturally understood this.
Li Jing had only just started and was still in the early investnt stage.
It was not yet the ti to make big money.
But Li Jing’s casual "of course" left Tong Xiaoxiao sowhat confused.
She originally thought that Li Jing’s proposal to relocate her trading company was for her to participate in the investnt and construction. She didn’t expect it was for eting daily needs.
Frowning slightly, Tong Xiaoxiao asked in confusion.
"As far as I know, there are only a little over five hundred of you in Chen Tang City, and you all keep a low profile, right?"
"That was before."
Li Jing responded.
"Just last night, both the Immortal Music Palace and the Star God Temple, two powerful forces, relocated to Chen Tang City as neighbours."
Tong Xiaoxiao looked surprised at his words.
The Immortal Music Palace, wasn’t that the sect under her older sister’s control?
It moved!?
Surely, her sister Tong Rou could not have made this decision on her own?
And what’s going on with the Star God Temple?
"I know you probably have a lot of questions, but you can find out about these things later,"
Li Jing said.
"What I can tell you now is that the Star God Temple is in a lot of trouble. All they have left is their front door, from now on, they will have to rely on Sikong Lu to recruit disciples to reestablish. All disciples of the Immortal Music Palace have also arrived, and those who were travelling outside have also received ssages to recall them. They will be arriving soon. When that happens, there will be at least 70,000 to 80,000 female cultivators living in Chen Tang City. Having a trading company there will make a lot of things more convenient."
The Star God Temple had suffered a major change, but the news hadn’t reached Phoenix Sun County yet.
The Immortal Realm is vast, and Cangming Realm is also substantial.
Without the internet, news can only spread through word of mouth.
In just one day, the news hadn’t reached Phoenix Sun County, which was tucked away in a corner of the Cangming Realm.
However, listening to Li Jing’s words, Tong Xiaoxiao’s intelligence allowed her to guess quite a bit.
He aggressively left yesterday showing his Emperor’s aura. It’s unlikely he was heading for the Immortal Music Palace.
It seems that the Star God Temple beca the stepping stone for him, the Emperor, to step into the spotlight and he must have given them a good thrashing.
Hearing that the Star God Temple was left with only a front door and Sikong Lu who was already in Phoenix Sun County, Tong Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but swallow.
Li Jing’s move was a bit too much.
The Star God Temple, one of the top three of the Nine Great Immortal Gates, was levellled just like that!?
So.
What happened to the people of the Star God Temple?
Don’t tell ...
Did he just slap them all to death?
Li Jing looked at Tong Xiaoxiao who was staring at him all over the place, and he roughly guessed what she was thinking. He said without a word,
"I’m not a killer, the people of the Star God Temple are still alive, it’s just that they have other ’paths’ to take."
With that, he took a sip of his tea and added,
"The path to death."
Upon hearing these plain words, Tong Xiaoxiao flinched.
She was very curious about what had happened to the Star God Temple.
But the instincts of a businesswoman told her, this was not her business to delve into.
Gulping, Tong Xiaoxiao asked,
"With the disciples of the entire Immortal Music Palace there, there are indeed a lot of business opportunities. In Blue Star culture there’s a phrase that ’Won’s money is the easiest to earn’. This applies to the Immortal Realm as well."
With that, she asked.
"If I agree to move my trading company there, can I continue to do business here in Phoenix Sun County?"
"Of course."
Li Jing replied.
"Don’t get wrong, I’m not trying to take over the Ta Xue Trading Company, but rather, I want it to beco a strategic partner of Chen Tang City. Why would I interfere with your business?"
After saying that, he continued.
"Not only can you continue to do business in Phoenix Sun County, but I also hope that you expand the business scope of Ta Xue Trading Company in the coming days. Don’t limit yourself to Chen Tang City and Phoenix Sun County, aim to grow bigger and stronger. After all, you will eventually beco the distributor for our Chen Tang City related businesses. When the ti cos, you can’t even possess distribution channels, and have to collaborate with other companies."
Listening to him, Tong Xiaoxiao’s eyes lit up even more.
She had considered expanding Ta Xue Trading Company as early as yesterday.
With Li Jing, a partner at the Emperor level, backing her, how could she not think about these things?
Cough!
A businesswoman’s identity.
But she can’t just rely on his prestige without Li Jing’s consent.
Now that Li Jing brings it up, it aligns with her intentions.
However, she still needs to confirm so things.
Picking up her cup of tea, she drank it all in one go, then looked straight at him.
"I understand what you’re implying. We’re old acquaintances now, no need for beating around the bush. You want to move Ta Xue Trading Company to Chen Tang City, saying you won’t take it over is practically no different from including my Ta Xue Trading Company under the na of Chen Tang City, am I right?"
Li Jing did not respond, nor did he deny it.
Although this was originally an impromptu idea in response to finding Tong Rou ’very useful’, he was serious about expanding.
Not just Ta Xue Trading Company, but also the Immortal Music Palace and the soon-to-be rebuilt Star God Temple.
All three are important parts of Chen Tang City’s quick expansion.
Everyone from the Immortal Music Palace and Sikong Lu understands this, they just haven’t voiced it out loud. After weighing the pros and cons, they simply chose to accept it.
Over here.
Seeing that Li Jing did not deny it, Tong Xiaoxiao continued.
"I can do as you suggest, I will do my best to make Ta Xue Trading Company bigger and stronger. But I want to know how much support I can expect from Chen Tang City for the expansion of my company during this ti?"
"As much as Chen Tang City can offer, we will fully support you."
Li Jing responded clearly without hesitation.
Tong Xiaoxiao raised an eyebrow, then nodded.
"Alright, with your word, I’ll stick with you from now on."
"Alright, I’ll have your back," Li Jing replied jokingly, then added,
"But we should make it clear, if you cause trouble under the na of Chen Tang City, I wouldn’t approve."
"Rest assured," Tong Xiaoxiao replied,
"We, rchants, value our reputation above all, we won’t behave recklessly. And like you said, it’s not yet the ti to make big bucks. This is just a preparatory phase of expansion. If we tarnish our reputation, we may not have too much business in the future."
Then she tilted her head to ponder a bit and said,
"I’ll have to maintain the business in Phoenix Sun County, and keep the existing storefront intact. I’ll set up the headquarters in Chen Tang City. This will require so ti for preparation, give three days to recruit all sorts of staff and stock up on goods, and then I’ll be relocating."
Tong Xiaoxiao was unequivocally decisive.
Li Jing also understood that shifting the Ta Xue Trading Company isn’t as simple as how he moved the Immortal Music Palace and Star God Temple using his Little Universe.
He imdiately nodded.
"There’s actually no rush, you can move when you are fully ready. I might not be around after three days, so you may have to go by yourselves. To ensure safety on the journey, you can find Longxu from the Entertainnt City. He has a Venerable level Shadow Demon companion, they can escort the company’s convoy."
Upon hearing this, Tong Xiaoxiao nodded with a sigh, having backing does make things different.
A Venerable for escort.
What comrcial caravan is capable of doing that?
The biggest danger for traders in the Immortal Realm is long-distance transportation.
Although the Immortal Realm seems peaceful, it’s only on the surface.
Incidents like murder for cargo or treasures, happen all the ti in every corner of the Four Realm of Immortals and Zhong Shen Zhou.
This is not a matter of enforcent, it’s simply impossible to regulate.
After all, the Immortal Realm is not like Blue Star where there are surveillance caras everywhere and law enforcent teams maintaining law and order.
Moreover, the territory is boundless.
Unless near a large town.
If one is murdered, nobody will be there to collect the body, and the relatives might not even know you’re dead ...
While pondering these, Li Jing spoke up.
"Let’s settle this, if you need anything and couldn’t get hold of , you can look for others in Chen Tang City or the Entertainnt City."
Then, Li Jing changed the topic.
"On top of the relocation of the Ta Xue Trading Company, I have sothing else for you."
?
Tong Xiaoxiao sent a question mark.
"Regarding the custom crafting orders we had previously agreed upon, I assu the company should have accumulated quite a few by now?" Li Jing asked.
"Ah, this..."
Tong Xiaoxiao faltered.
Seeing this, Li Jing frowned.
"Could it be different from what I imagined?"
"Well... how can I put it?" Tong Xiaoxiao hesitated, then coughed and said,
"There is indeed quite a backlog of orders, but I declined most of them after you released the Emperor’s aura yesterday."
"Canceled!?" Li Jing asked in surprise, with a puzzled look on his face,
"Why?"
"I thought you are the Emperor now, and you have such a money tree like Cangming Entertainnt City. I assud that you wouldn’t be interested in doing these ’rough jobs’ for small profits," Tong Xiaoxiao said pitifully.
"..." Li Jing was speechless.
Coming over this ti, "recruiting" the Ta Xue Comrcial Bank was actually his secondary objective.
The main reason was to process the potential backlog of orders and gain a batch of half-step Taoist artifact materials of sufficient quality and variety for his subsequent Artifact Refinent.
Who would have thought that Tong Xiaoxiao would decline these orders upon reaching?
Since she was caring for his reputation, knowing most people wouldn’t do "rough jobs" after becoming an emperor, he didn’t know what to say.
Emperors.
Don’t they need respect?
But he, Li Jing, is not that kind of person.
He not just isn’t, he is also very short on various kinds of materials.
More importantly, these things can’t just be bought with money, many of them are even hard to locate.
He rubbed his brows and then asked,
"Is there any chance to ’rescue’ those orders that you have declined?"
"Difficult," Tong Xiaoxiao puckered her mouth and replied,
"The problem is not that I made the custors wait and then ca back to them, giving so benefits could have solved it. But the news of the presence of an Emperor in Chen Tang City has been spread among all the nearby towns and cities, anyone with wits could guess that the Emperor is you, the master of Chen Tang City. Who would dare to ask you to refine artifacts? Especially that you ask for less paynt compared to other refining craftsn, engaging you for refining would be taking advantage of you."
Then she added,
"In fact, the clients readily accepted cancellation without troubling our company because you have beco an Emperor."
At this, Li Jing was dumbstruck.
He wanted to say.
Isn’t it normal for people to prefer a cheaper deal?
But sohow, it did make so sense.
After a short mont of silence, Li Jing said,
"Let’s forget about the cancelled orders, the Ta Xue Comrcial Bank can continue to take custom orders. Don’t use my na, just say we found another refinent craftsman. By the way, you can also announce the future relationship of the Ta Xue Comrcial Bank with Chen Tang City. This should be good for the expansion and reputation of the trading company."
"Okay."
Tong Xiaoxiao nodded, then with puzzlent, she inquired,
"By the way, you are now an Emperor, isn’t it that whatever you want will be sent to you just at the ntion of it, why..."
Before she could finish Li Jing shook his head.
"Favors always need to be returned, even if soone only wants to please . Self-reliance helps to avoid many problems."
...
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