Age of Evolution

Chapter 865: Chapter 868: Getting Rich_1

Kressman complied, truly notifying the City Lord’s Mansion right away.

In reality, there was no need for notification, as the drama at the Golden Pill Ffang had already attracted the attention of the City Lord’s Mansion. Immediately, an official from the City Lord’s Mansion arrived and arrested those who had vandalized Lin Zhen’s shop.

The leading official then received a notice from within the Dimensional Universe.

The notice was sent by Old Man Canjing, the City Lord, demanding severe punishment for the culprits who had wrecked Lin Zhen’s shop!

When the chief official announced Old Man Canjing’s demand, all those who had vandalized Lin Zhen’s shop instantly turned ashen faced.

Lin Zhen demanded tenfold compensation, which they could not afford even if they sold off all their assets.

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The shop had just opened for business, and although many elixirs were on display, they couldn’t possibly be worth over twelve billion!

Maybe they’d hit the roof at one hundred and twenty million. Lin Zhen had indeed asked for the moon. After hiking the price tenfold and then tenfold again, he seemed to want their lives.

What confounded them even more was how Li Nian had faked his own death and resurrection.

Responding to the confused gazes of those around him, Lin Zhen sneered, “Li Nian, if I’m not mistaken, you’re from the Canon Clan, right?”

Li Nian’s face drastically changed, “How did you know?”

“It’s simple. If you knew my experience on the surface of the Original World, you wouldn’t have set a trap for me. Because during my time on the Divine Punishment Star battlefield, I’ve dealt with the martial artists of the Canon Clan.”

Lin Zhen addressed the crowd, “Canon Clan’s martial artists come in pairs: one a martial arts prodigy, and the other a genius in other aspects. That’s how Li Nian is. He must have another body that’s a formidable martial artist, while this body is an alchemy genius. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so easy to reach the level of a seventh-grade alchemist.”

“The Canon Clan has a unique aspect. The martial artist serves as the main body. As long as the main body lives, the other body can be revived. That’s why Li Nian dared to commit suicide. The fate of this body is controlled by the other body. Of course, if this body were chopped into pieces, even the survival of the main body would be of no use.”

At this point, Lin Zhen looked at Li Nian with a grin, “Am I wrong? When I was about to chop off your head, your main body couldn’t keep its cool, and you had no choice but to resurrect this body. Is that correct?”

Li Nian glared at Lin Zhen, grinding his teeth. After a long while, he managed to choke out, “Lin Zhen, you don’t know who my main body is, so you dare to be so arrogant. Let me tell you, my main body is a demi-god. You’d better watch your step!”

Lin Zhen promptly slapped him, “Cut the crap! Is a demi-god allowed to misbehave? You led so many people to set a trap and destroyed my shop, you should start thinking about how to repay the damages!”

Li Nian now found himself in an awkward situation, with the envoy awaiting orders from Old Man Canjing, he had no room for retaliation.

Actually, he hadn’t even revealed one secret: that the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill he had just taken was switched by Lin Zhen, and he had only consumed a sugar pill.

It turned out that Lin Zhen had seen through his identity and understood his plot all too well. The guy was audacious enough to tamper with the elixir. He was absurdly ruthless!

But it was too late to say anything now. No one was going to believe anything he said.

After being slapped, Li Nian nearly lost his mind. However, since this wasn’t his demi-god main body, he could only grit his teeth and say, “Lin Zhen, don’t push your luck. We can’t afford to pay over ten billion.”

“No problem. If you can’t afford it, you still have your elixir stores. Transfer them to me at no cost, and we’ll consider it as your compensation.”

After saying this, Lin Zhen turned to the official, “Is it unreasonable for me to ask for their stores as compensation for vandalizing my shop?”

The official had already received orders and naturally sided with Lin Zhen, “No problem. It’s fair and reasonable. All of you hear this, if you can’t compensate Lin Zhen with money, you should transfer your properties right away. Implement this immediately!”

Lin Zhen’s demands were too high for them to afford, so they had no choice but to transfer their properties.

As a result, Lin Zhen acquired five elixir stores. The value of these stores, including their merchandise, was over two billion!

He also gained one and a half billion in cash, making a killing this time.

After these procedures were completed, Lin Zhen’s shop had also been tidied up.

The elixirs were collected. There were only a few that were damaged. The real loss was just some counters and utensils, which weren’t worth much at all. Seeing this, the store owners were red-eyed.

A few thousand dollars’ worth of property had cost them all their assets. They were blinded by greed when they caused trouble here.

Now that they couldn’t afford to offend Lin Zhen, the store owners began to blame Li Nian.

Seeing the bad turn of the situation, Li Nian growled at Lin Zhen, “Lin Zhen, you’ve won this round, but our feud isn’t over. Your reckoning is coming—I guarantee it and it will arrive soon!”

Lin Zhen snorted dismissively, “There’s no place for you in Tianfang City anymore. Get lost. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!” @@novelbin@@

Li Nian left the crowd in disgrace. Having lost his assets and money, he couldn’t stay in Tianfang City any longer.

However, he was skilled in alchemy and could survive elsewhere. Besides, his main body was en route.

“Lin Zhen… we’ll see! Your grave will be the Eye of the Storm!”

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Lin Zhen’s Golden Pill Ffang was open for business again… not just one, but six.

The storefronts of these shops were even bigger than Lin Zhen’s, and their foundations were very strong. Now that they had a new boss, the grand reopening had been a sensational success beyond description.

This time, Lin Zhen’s fame has reached a new peak, and there isn’t a single person left in Tianfang City who isn’t aware of his name, and it spread rapidly to the surrounding areas.

Countless Martial Artists who admire him came to Tianfang City, wishing to purchase the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill.

But Lin Zhen is only one person, and the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill isn’t as common as cabbage, he can’t just concoct it at will. He can only make three pills per batch, and under normal circumstances, he could only do it once daily.

With the current elixir market booming, Lin Zhen can’t let go of the opportunity to earn money. Although he earned billions of cash this time, reopening the business also cost him a bit. If he were to earn money quickly, he would have to buckle down and focus on producing the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill.

His clone stopped deciphering the stone tablet, starting to concoct the pills inside the rear hall every day, making two batches of Nine Revolutions Golden Pill daily. The rest of the time, his clone would be making Yang Hua Pills, a large quantity of mid-stage Three Flowers elixir began to be churned out, and he was also in the process of acquiring late-stage elixirs.

Two batches, six pills, each of the six shops were only allowed to sell one pill per day.

The starting price was ten million, but the closing price was not just ten million, practically all of them were above fifteen million, the highest one even selling for twenty-eight million!

Every day, just from the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill alone, it would bring a fortune of one hundred million to Lin Zhen!

Accompanied with the sales of other elixirs, Lin Zhen could easily net two hundred million each day!

Other elixirs were no longer only made by Lin Zhen alone. After this fame, numerous Alchemists came admiring him, wishing to become his disciple.

Lin Zhen, of course, doesn’t have the time to mentor so many of them. Nevertheless, these people refused to leave, they were willing to help out in Lin Zhen’s Elixir Store, and studying Lin Zhen’s elixir compositions during their free time was what they loved to do more than anything.

With these Alchemists around, Lin Zhen didn’t let them idle, making them responsible for concocting the pills for the store during their free time, Lin Zhen paid them their salaries. All of these matters were handed to Lala Ti and Kressman to manage.

Lala Ti is Lin Zhen’s only disciple, and he is willing to teach her some things.

Lala Ti is a woman who is obsessed with Alchemy, everyday she focused on learning from Lin Zhen, and her realm was drastically improving, showing signs of breaking into the Saint rank.

Lin Zhen even found out that Lala Ti also seemed to be a clone, Lin Zhen didn’t know who her owner is, nor did he need to know.

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A month went by just like that.

During the said month, the six stores had already stabilized, yielding fat profits every day and forming a colossal wealth generation chain.

And the money in Lin Zhen’s card was also rising rapidly, already reaching seven billion!

Today was the day when Tianfang City Auction House held its auction.

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“Lala Ti, you stay home and keep a good watch over the store, I’ve got something to do today.”

“Got it.” Lala Ti responded.

Lin Zhen tidied up, took all of his cash with him, and went out the door.

Today is a very important day. The Ethereal Divine Clock held great significance to Lin Zhen, and he was determined to win it.

After going out the door, summoning his Nine-headed Lion, Lin Zhen headed straight for the Tianfang City Auction House.

He could also participate in the auction inside the Dimensional Universe, but Lin Zhen always felt that it was somewhat inappropriate. If he is not present on the scene, he wouldn’t be able to deal with any sudden situations in time, so it would be more secure to attend himself.

Upon arriving at the Tianfang City Auction House, Lin Zhen put the Nine Spirits away. Instantly, someone came to welcome him.

“Oh my goodness! Saint Master Lin Zhen, your presence brings light to our auction house!”

This person was an auctioneer with a Divine Transformation, Lin Zhen didn’t know him, but that doesn’t prevent anything, there were hardly any people in Tianfang City who didn’t recognize Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen nodded and followed the auctioneer in, while the auctioneer continuously asked him on the way, “I wonder what items has the Saint Master come to see?”

Lin Zhen smiled and replied: “Just looking around.”

“Haha, the Saint Master is keeping his cards close to his chest, that’s fine. However, if the Saint Master has any valuable items, he could also bring them to the auction to participate, it is guaranteed to fetch higher prices than selling them in the Elixir Store.”

The auction house had been trying to contract the auction for the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill several times, but Lin Zhen always declined.

Something too expensive isn’t necessarily good. An elixir worth tens of millions is already turning a huge profit. Going any higher might cause unwanted troubles. After winning the Divine Bell, Lin Zhen even planned to only sell one pill per day, because he was about to head to the Eye of the Storm, and didn’t have time to continuously concoct pills here.

The auctioneer kept on talking on the journey: “Saint Master, we have quite a few good items on today’s auction. We have the Ethereal Divine Clock, the Constant Star Core, and even God Crystals for sale.”

Lin Zhen was startled: “Oh! There are God Crystals for sale too? How much is a God Crystal?”

The auctioneer held up two hands: “The bidding starts at one billion!”

“Ah! The same as the God Clock!” Lin Zhen mused.