Chapter 42: Increasing Income and Reducing Expenditure, Qu Huang's Banquet
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"Master Zombie, the attendant from General Blackfish's residence wants to see you!!"

The shrimp soldiers and crab generals were knocking on the door.

Qingping went to open the door.

"What's the matter, envoy?" Xu Yang asked.

"General Blackfish is holding a Qushui banquet and invites you to attend at dawn on the third day!"

The servant respectfully brought an invitation.

"okay, I get it."

The attendant left.

After being promoted to the ninth rank, not everything is free.

Dealing with surrounding forces, developing new business, recruiting staff and other miscellaneous tasks need to be handled urgently.

Over the next three days, Xu Yang taught Qingping various life skills and spells.

He was not a traditional master, there was no such thing as a kind and compassionate master; Qingping was still a handyman like before, but now that he had a physical body, he was just a more versatile handyman.

The main reason for accepting a disciple was because he could have absolute control over this person, and also for the three acres of spiritual land.

The next day, the banyan god woke up.

"Go to the mountains and have a good rest."

"Yes!" Banyan God was reluctant to leave. Although he was tired this year, he also gained a lot and his cultivation improved a lot.

Wow!

The banyan god turned into a ball of black mist and went up the mountain, heading towards the eerie and terrifying ghost cave.

Xu Yang unfolded the magic book and sensed the secret technique on it.

Sure enough, after being promoted to the ninth rank, the number of secret techniques increased a lot.

There are the yellow and white techniques for refining elixirs, the black altar method for refining ghosts, as well as the five elements rotation technique to increase one's own abilities, the Taiyin red light technique, the black light technique, the black evil god spell, the northern rain cloud spell, the earth escape technique, and so on.

Of course, there is also the cold altar method and the corpse-raising ground method that Xu Yang needs, both of which have eighty merits.

The cheapest ones are around twenty merits. Of course, Xu Yang is not short of merits now. He has accumulated a total of two hundred and thirty merits before. Thirty merits can be exchanged for three thousand taels of silver to make up for the expenses required for cultivation.

"Just keep the four systems unchanged and continue to add secret techniques to them."

"The spiritual fields can nurture zombies for free. If you use materials, one zombie will cost about ten taels a month. It will cost about three hundred taels per month."

There are a lot of quick-growing zombies, but one acre of spiritual field can nurture three at the same time, so it is not a burden.

"We need to increase revenue and cut expenditure..."

Xu Yang's eyes flickered.

It was a dark and windy night, bats were flying, zombie snakes were swimming silently, and the prison gate zombie was flying in the air, controlling the zombies below.

A group of zombies sneaked into the wealthy families in Taiping, Shiqiao and Lingwei townships.

"Ghost!!!"

The howling was earth-shaking, and the village, which was immersed in the night, was suddenly in an uproar.

The next day, early morning.

Eight gentry knelt in front of Xu Yang.

Xu Yang was wearing a green Taoist robe and a black cloak with gold edges. His expression was hidden in the shadows, appearing and disappearing. His eyes were glowing green, giving people a great sense of oppression.

"Master, help me!!"

"There's a ghost in the village!!"

The country gentry below looked terrified and cried for help. Some of these people were farming, some were selling furs, and some were raising fish and pigs. They were all wealthy people in the countryside.

Hearing this, Xu Yang frowned, stood up and paced back and forth, sighing and breathing from time to time, as if he had encountered some difficult problem.

Everyone's heart sank to the bottom.

After a long time, Xu Yang seemed to have made up his mind and took out a pile of stone talismans from his storage bag.

"Got it. This talisman is called the Evil-Breaking Talisman. If you hang this talisman at home, you can avoid evil spirits...but."

"May I ask, sir, what are the conditions for returning this talisman?"

The shopkeepers asked tentatively.

"Ahem, one stone talisman is fifty taels, fifty taels per month."

There are eight people here, and the total amount is four hundred taels. It's not that Xu Yang doesn't want more, but the country people are indeed too poor. Even the gentry and local tyrants don't have much surplus food at home.

Four hundred taels of silver would be enough to support a family of four for eighty or ninety years.

"Thank you, Taoist priest! We are willing to receive the talisman!" Everyone gritted their teeth and paid the money. It was indeed a lot of money, but if it could guarantee their own safety, it would be worth it.

Soon, everyone left.

In the darkness, the Taoist's expression was uncertain.

As his cultivation became stronger, he awakened something new - ambition.

Before, I thought that True Qi was out of reach, and that True Qi at its peak was even more difficult to defeat. But now, people at these two levels can be killed by me in seconds.

After building the foundation, he was also able to fight. Quhuang County had a population of 600,000, of which he occupied more than 20,000. If he could take over the entire county, then what would restrict him would no longer be resources.

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In Yasha Manor, negative energy gathers into dark clouds, and the manor is dark all year round.

The red-faced Yaksha illuminated the hall like a dim green candle. In front of it were four altars, on which green-faced, red-skinned Yakshas were being refined.

After a long time, the negative energy dissipated and the altar returned to its original state.

"Disciple greets Taoist priest!!"

The four people are Huai Gong, Shi Ye, Liu Qingyi Zhuang, and the Taoist priest of the Mountain God Temple. The training of the four Yakshas means that the Red-faced Yaksha's control over them has reached its peak, and is even tighter than before.

Of course, the price he paid was the loss of disciples who could cultivate themselves and become stronger. These disciples in front of him were just Taoist children who were forcibly brought up by him.

"Xu Yang, it turns out you are just like this."

During this year, the Red-faced Yaksha was worried and frightened, thinking that Xu Yang really had a backer. Now he comes to his senses.

This person has no backing at all, but his superior was just praising him casually on a whim.

"There is a long way to go, and I will make you pay the price!" The four messy eyes of Yaksha flashed with resentment.

The ninth rank, the death of his disciple. He took revenge little by little.

Three days later.

The carriage set out from the charity cemetery.

Qingping dressed up as a young boy and drove the carriage.

The sun shines on the golden wheat waves, and the farmers are working with their heads down in their straw hats.

Women who were lightly dressed or even topless were washing clothes while flirting.

The carriage passed slowly, and everyone in the village knew that it was the Taoist priest's carriage.

The little girls bowed their heads shyly, their buds about to blossom. The farm ladies had healthy skin and firm buttocks, with a unique wild charm.

The reason for this attitude was to make the Taoist priest take a fancy to her. Whether taking her as a concubine or making her a maid, it would be a step to success.

Xu Yang had a blank expression on his face, and he sighed inwardly: "There are too many tests, and you are testing me with this."

Just for the ninth rank official, there are already many people who rack their brains to curry favor with him. If he didn't look down on you, as long as he nodded, there would be countless people rushing to send their daughters to him.

The little girl acted shy, but the women were more unrestrained, some of them shook their dices.

"..."

Xu Yang shook his head. These women were more difficult to deal with than ghosts and gods.

The quiet little village makes people feel much better.

The carriage arrived at the entrance of the village, where there was another carriage waiting.

"Taoist Priest!"

The people who came down were Fang Tong and Xuan Ying.

Xu Yang looked at Xuan Ying and said with a smile: "You finally agreed?"

"Greetings, my Lord!!"

Xuanying bowed his head and kowtowed.

"Very good. After the banquet, come to the charity cemetery."

Two carriages rushed to Qushui Gaolou one after the other.

On the road, blood-red clouds flashed by. These were the clouds of Yasha Manor.

A yellow wind rose above Huangya Temple, with several people standing on it.

Many people came one after another, they seemed to be Taoist priests from other counties. Some of them rode the wind, some rode strange blood horses, and some were a ball of blood mist that was hard to tell whether it was real or not.

Seeing this, Xu Yang couldn't help but have an idea.

During this period of time, I have always been concerned about the number and system of zombies. After the zombie breeding ground is perfected, why not adopt a unified and high-quality route.

For example, using the corpse of a spirit beast to refine a mount? After all, a carriage is troublesome.

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