Chapter 592 - Negotiation

Chapter 592 - Negotiation

Since the founding of the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, the disciples had sold their pills through collaboration with other shops, and no one had dared to open shops themselves to compete with the sect directly. Even if they worked with other shops, they earned barely enough to cover their expenses.

Even the Lesser Blade Association was restricted to selling its pills on the black market, where profits were modest at best. Opening one’s own shop was a bold—and perilous—move that few dared to attempt.

“Are there any sect rules that forbid it?” Liu Wuxie asked with a smile. He had already anticipated that the sect would try to stop him from opening his own shop. After all, he would be at odds with the sect once he did, and he didn’t want to take that move for now.

After all, the sect showed him kindness, especially in how Mu Yueying helped him in many ways. Fan Zhen and others had their foundation in the sect, and he wouldn’t do anything that would betray the sect or put him at odds with the sect as long as it didn’t cross his bottom line.

“Liu Wuxie, you should know the consequences of opening your own shop, and I hope you can think it through. The sect will consider your conditions as long as they’re not too unreasonable,” Elder He said firmly.

Elder He’s conditions were clear: any requests could be negotiated as long as Liu Wuxie gave up the idea of opening a shop of his own, provided that Liu Wuxie could fix the negative impact on the sect that he had caused. If he couldn’t resolve this issue, nothing else mattered.

He believed Liu Wuxie knew exactly what he meant with everything laid transparent on the table.

“Only one condition: ten percent of the revenue,” Liu Wuxie said, laying his terms down.

“That’s impossible! Ten percent is too high!” Elder He refused immediately. The sect had dozens of shops in Treasure City to maintain the expenses of hundreds of thousands of people. It was too high for Liu Wuxie to take ten percent for himself.

Liu Wuxie calculated briefly that a single shop could generate hundreds of millions of spirit stones every month, and ten percent was tens of millions—a passive income with no effort on his part.

“That’s my final offer,” Liu Wuxie said firmly, standing adamantly about receiving one-tenth of the net revenue. Tens of millions might be astronomical to others, but not to him. With the desolate world to support, the resources he consumed far outnumbered others.

“You’re really asking for a lot. Aren’t you worried you’ll choke on it? We can only give you five percent every month.” Elder He refused firmly as well.

Five percent was equivalent to millions of revenue each month. In addition to their collaboration on the Spirit Restoration Pill, it was already a substantial sum. But if the sales of talismans took off as well, Elder He would definitely regret giving Liu Wuxie five percent.

“I will accept five percent, but under one condition!” Liu Wuxie said, agreeing to Elder He’s condition. Pills were just a side venture to him to disrupt the Lesser Blade Association’s income.

Just the revenue from the Spirit Restoration Pill alone was enough to support the development of the Heavenly Dao Society. As for him, ordinary mid-grade spirit stones would soon be insufficient to sustain his needs.

“What’s your condition?” Elder He asked cautiously, fearing another outrageous demand from Liu Wuxie.

“Eliminate these people and save the innocent civilians. That’s my condition,” Liu Wuxie said as he took out the Memory Talisman from Bai Lin.

Elder He looked at the Memory Talisman carefully before he looked at Liu Wuxie with a complex expression. In a baffled tone, he asked, “You want to give up an additional five percent to rescue these people? I might have agreed to your terms if you had pushed harder?”

Elder He was puzzled because the lives of mortals held no weight to him, and the sect’s upper echelons had been aware of the Lesser Blade Association’s actions all along. They hadn’t intervened because the lives of mortals meant nothing to them.

It wasn’t hard to tell from Elder He’s eyes that he didn’t understand Liu Wuxie’s decision. Giving up millions of spirit stones monthly to do something that brought no personal gain was hard to fathom.

Even though it looked like the sect had made concessions to Liu Wuxie, the sect was the biggest winner in the end. Liu Wuxie even helped the sect eliminate the underlying threat.

Liu Wuxie, however, didn’t point it out. He knew the Elder. He wanted him to be grateful to the sect master and to the sect.

After sending Elder He off, Liu Wuxie finally looked relaxed at the inn’s entrance. He no longer had to worry about the pills and only had to make an appearance at the shop’s opening. The sect would handle everything else.

Fan Zhen and Bai Lin finally came in after Elder He left. They were frightened when Elder He released his aura in the Nascent Transformation Realm, and they had nearly barged into the room under the impression that there was an invader. They finally relaxed when they realized it was a negotiation between Liu Wuxie and the sect.

“Wuxie, how did the negotiation go?” Fan Zhen asked. After such a long discussion and the satisfied smile on Liu Wuxie’s lips, he could already tell the negotiation went smoothly.

“Everything is moving in the direction we’ve anticipated,” Liu Wuxie said and returned to the inn.

“Junior Brother Liu, what about the matter I mentioned last night? What’s your consideration? The longer we delay, the more innocent people will die,” Bai Lin asked, catching up to Liu Wuxie.

“It has been taken care of,” Liu Wuxie said, simply waving his hand as he walked away.

Bai Lin and Fan Zhen were stunned. They thought the talk between Liu Wuxie and Elder He was only about pills and nothing else. After all, Liu Wuxie hadn’t kept them in the dark about what happened in the black market.

“That’s great!” Bai Lin waved his fist and finally felt relieved.

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When Elder He returned to the sect, Mu Tianli was still in the grand hall, looking into the distance.

“Greetings, Sect Master!” Elder He bowed when he entered.

“Elder He, there’s no need to be so formal,” Mu Tianli said as he waved his hand, gesturing for Elder He to sit down.

“Sect Master, this young man is no ordinary person,” Elder He said.

There was no change in Mu Tianli’s expression as if he had already known.

“Tell me, what’s the outcome of the discussion?” Mu Tianli smiled.

Elder He didn’t hide anything from the sect master and recounted every conversation detail. When Mu Tianli heard that Liu Wuxie was willing to give up five percent of the profits, he was surprised.

The maximum limit for compromising he had given Elder He was twenty percent, and they would have agreed if Liu Wuxie had pushed hard on ten. Thus, he was surprised to hear that Liu Wuxie was willing to take a cut of his share.

“Do you think he only wanted five percent without other conditions?” Elder He said mysteriously. His attitude towards Liu Wuxie wasn’t great yesterday, but it had changed after the meeting.