29 Up and running.

Zhi Rui took the red lace and tied it on Azula's left arm. Sheclosed in and whispered in Azula's ear.

"try and build your strength, if you're useful to me. I'll consider a objective or wish you might have. but to reach that, first, you'll have to learn how to lead and inspire."

Zhi Rui for the last time gave her a deep gaze and backed off.

Zhi Rui looked at Hilda and started walking outside.

Hilda followed behind.

Hilda took a deep breath and dispelled any feeling she might have and focused on the task at hand. Study Zhi Rui.

Before passing the gates Zhi Rui turned aroundHilda met her gaze with calm.

"Hilda, I need you to find skillful and experienced courtesans in the art of seducing man and women, I need genuine good, their job will be to teach the slaves. You can offer them 20 crystal, try to recruit some of them to run the brothel they can have a 10 percent cut of the overall profit from the brothel. they'll manage it but we have the last word on important issues.

And HildaIf questioned you're the one my brother left responsible.

they can't know who I am, after solving these, walk with them into the slums to find some woman willing to do the job do not use force, only offerthey have to be willing. if there's a woman with children or family offer them a new living place. "

Zhi Rui extended a pouch. "And for last here, for the expenses"

Hilda unconsciously grabbed it, her head was still processing the barrage of instruction."

Zhi Rui tuned away with ha a hand on her head

'headache? on a level one cultivation it's not normal. ugh, lust works in all kinds of annoying ways.'

"W-Wait young miss" Hilda called

Zhi Rui turned back at her

"Why you don't cultivate your core? I know you did refine one but why you don't meditate and only train your body?"

'Is she trying to get information about me? no, it can't be it's too clumsy to be that. ugh' the headache worsened Zhi Rui gave Hilda a malicious smile.

"That common way won't work for my objectives."

Hilda saw Zhi Rui off, she but her lips.'her guard is still up huh.'

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Zhi Rui laid down on her bathtub the cold water startled her warm body.

She closed her eyes 'After this week I'll officially start the business.'

'To win this city I need to take them down from within. My father and the prince are too arrogant and drunk in power. Victory has them by the balls.

'Izaya will take around two weeks to come back, I will need those reneged alchemists ready by then. After all is absurd that the poor get to numb themselves with drugs while the rich have to find other means. Zhi Rui looked at the encyclopedia closed beside the tub. 'it's incredible that so much information about demonic path cultivators and plagues created by them is so explicitly written, I'll only need some alchemists to do a little brainstorming form, then I'll be able to replicate some basic things.'

Zhi Rui looked inside her core, because of her little speech to the slaves her energy is almost white. 'ordinary talent, at twenty years.'

She remembered the old bearded disciples stuck on level two at the sect being treated as bagage boys.

'I need to find what is needed for the spell.' She got her upper body up then picked the thick encyclopedia after drying her hands'

She opened it on the end side of the book, after a hundred pages, the name that helped her appeared. She read to herself.

'Demon Hu, the one who reigned over the blood path for half a century, known for using his adoptive brother, his brother's just born son, and his sister in law on a spell to raise his talent. he kept his core at level one and waited for his adoptive elder brother to reach level three, he hid it well enough only after he reigned over his clan for two hundred years, the people discovered the truth, he laughed; killed five of the strongest people from his clan then run away.. lived three hundred years more. then disappeared.'

'Disappeared? either he was killed, or he lived happily ever after' Zhi Rui laughed.

She closed the book put it away and lied back "In the burial grounds where he did it was foundcorpses ofmad bloodsuckers, pieces of the victims,and a drawing made with blood with skin of an ancient beast where the spell was written, first it was locked away as it was demoniac, but as time passed it became an antique and coincidently the one who has it now is the

is theemperor from the empire of dawn, who gained it as a gift for taking over this corner of the continent.

Zhi Rui dug through old Zhi Rui memories and remembered, 'The glory of times'; a hall with antiques and treasures of the empire in exposition for the qualified. As the daughter of the general, she has the merts to visit. but going alone will bring attention. Zhi Rui smiled, 'Prince Julius will be a good boy and bring me there.'

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Far away from the empire of dawn, Zhun Xuying passed the enormous gate of the sect of light.

She was speechless by the beauty of the mountains around.

'Is this how immortals live?'

"Hello there!"

"Augh- w-what?!" Zhun Xuying jumped backward.

An old bearded man wearing a beige robe smiled, "I'm sorry, I did not mean to surprise you; My name is Ping.A level two outer disciple. I came to introduce you to the sect.

Zhun Xuyin looked at the man's eyes. You could not see anything else but a simple honest smile.

'This is so different." Zhun Xuying smiled back innocently and held the man's hands.

"Hehe, let's go!" She said