Chapter 661: On Duty

She said sensibly, "It turns out to be so expensive. I don't want it."

Xiao Chujing and Sikong Qing didn't think so at all.

They didn't speak at first, but were just thinking about how to get the Water Spirit Pearl in just three days.

The Huantian Chamber of Commerce’s auction is held in winter, and it’s only autumn now, so we can’t wait.

If you plan this matter six months or three months in advance, it will be easy. You can use your connections to buy it through internal channels.

Ye Xiaoman's cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds, and she established her foundation much faster than they expected, leaving them unprepared.

They felt so uncomfortable seeing Ye Xiaoman's depressed look.

Sikong Qing said, "Don't give up easily until the final step. Start preparing high-end water-based materials now just in case. I'll help you find a solution for the Water Spirit Pearl."

Xiao Chujing skipped the impossible and went straight to the purchasing stage.

He asked Sikong Qing, "Who is the current owner of the Huantian Chamber of Commerce?"

Sikong Qing coughed lightly and said, "I'll ask my informant."

Immediately contact his demon subordinates.

Fellow disciples watched Xiao Chujing and Sikong Qing busying around with admiration. Although it was impossible for them to get the Water Spirit Pearl, their dog-licking spirit of taking immediate action was still worthy of recognition.

Ye Xiaoman asked curiously, "Are you looking for the person in charge of the Chamber of Commerce to discuss the purchase directly?"

Xiao Chu nodded: "That's right, time is urgent, we can only rely on our connections."

Ye Xiaoman asked about the matter of "being the boss on duty", and Xiao Chujing explained it to her.

After listening to this, Ye Xiaoman understood with her own mind that the Huantian Chamber of Commerce, a large conglomerate, was controlled by an organization similar to shareholders, and the shareholder members came from top families, royal nobles or great monks.

The shareholders will select the best-performing person in charge from over 100,000 branches under their umbrella, a total of ten candidates, to compete for the position of president of the Huantian Chamber of Commerce. Each candidate will take turns every three years. The person on duty is called the "Duty President" and has the authority of the vice president during the three years. He or she can directly invest in promising monks and layout the business empire.

In this way, the cycle will be completed every thirty years. The person in charge who brings the most profits to the Chamber of Commerce will get the most points, and then the next round of competition will be held every thirty years after the survival of the fittest. In this way, through round after round of breeding, the candidates will grow fully, and when the president retires, the person in charge with the highest score will take over and become the new president.

This means that the shareholders are rich but not necessarily good at doing business, but they can hire the best business geniuses at high salaries to keep the Huantian Chamber of Commerce profitable in the long term.

While Ye Xiaoman and Xiao Chujing were discussing, Sikong Qing got the information.

He said: "The host on duty is Qing Yuanhu, who comes from the sea."

"Sea area?" Xiao Chujing frowned, "It's a bit troublesome."

If there is a stereotype ranking list for the six realms, humans are kind, demons are cruel, and monsters are good at living off their wives, then the sea is where profiteers are born.

In fact, Water Spirit Pearls were not originally used exclusively in the sea. There were a few seas in the Six Realms with rich spiritual energy that could produce them. The quantity was sufficient, but the quality was uneven.

In the past hundred years, Haiyu has acquired all the seas that can produce Water Spirit Pearls, carried out industrial integration and upgrading, and built the Water Spirit Pearls into a big brand. It strictly controls quality and output, and hypes up the prices of Water Spirit Pearls to sky-high prices.

Relying on the reputation of the Water Spirit Pearl, Haiyu became the supplier of the highest quality water materials and made huge profits from the cultivators of the six realms.

With the combined efforts of the Huantian Chamber of Commerce and the Sea Region, the biggest moneymaker in the Sea Region was no longer the Water Spirit Pearl, but its various substitutes, such as the Broken Ling Pearl that the Sect Master had purchased with a three-hundred-year loan...

Sikong Qing added, "The head of the household has five water spirit beads for this year. Four have already been sold internally and consumed. He currently only has one left."

Xiao Chujing easily saw through the tricks of the Huantian Chamber of Commerce. "They deliberately released the information to create the appearance that the goods were rare and valuable, and to drive up the winter auction price."

Ye Xiaoman said, "That boss, Qing Yuanhu, is relying on this Water Spirit Pearl to boost sales, so he's definitely trying to sell it for a high price."

Sikong Qing said, "It's good that the things are still there. Let's talk to him in person."

Ye Xiaoman asked, "Can we really get a date?"

She felt a little dreamy, as if she had run to an offline experience store of a Fortune 500 company and told the clerk to ask your boss, the richest man in the world, to come and see her.

Xiao Chujing smiled and said, "Why not give it a try?"

So that was the deal.

The troops split into two groups. The eldest sister and the others went to the branch of Huantian Chamber of Commerce first to help Ye Xiaoman make a reservation for the blessed land.

Xiao Chujing and Sikong Qing took Ye Xiaoman with them, prepared some money, and later rushed to the Chamber of Commerce branch to try to contact the on-duty head of the Huantian Chamber of Commerce to buy the Water Spirit Pearl.

Sikong Qing felt that he had a heavy responsibility. He looked around the scene and saw a group of poor sword cultivators. As the head of the Sikong family, he was the only one with some financial resources. Ye Xiaoman had to rely on him to pay for the beads.

He really liked the feeling of spending a lot of money on Ye Xiaoman. Ye Xiaoman's path could not be separated from him, so she would never dump him.

Financial resources, like strength, are the source of a man's charm. Neither Xiao Gou nor other mediocre people probably realize this.

Sikong Qing suddenly looked like a peacock with its tail spread out. After the Qingzheng Sect monks dispersed, he said to Ye Xiaoman proudly, "I'm going to go collect the spirit stones. When you're done, wait for me under the flying boat. I'll see you in one stick of incense."

After saying this, he didn't even bother to look at Xiao Chujing, and left happily in Ye Xiaoman's moved eyes.

Ye Xiaoman went back to her room to change her clothes. She was still wearing wrinkled pajamas. In order to intimidate the head of the Huantian Chamber of Commerce, she had to dress up in a gorgeous way.

Xiao Chujing followed her into the door.

Seeing that he looked worried, Ye Xiaoman comforted him considerately.

"Brother Xiao, don't worry too much. You built your foundation right at the battle site, drawing down nine bolts of lightning that killed the city lord, who was several times more powerful than you."

"My conditions are much better than yours back then."

Xiao Chujing closed the door and whispered, "It's different."

Ye Xiaoman walked to the dressing mirror and said, "Oh, you mean to say that it's easy to build a foundation with a single spiritual root, but as someone with a pseudo-five spiritual roots, I'm destined to endure ten times the hardship?"

Xiao Chujing walked to Ye Xiaoman and watched her take out a set of beautiful dresses from the storage bag. Some of them were bought by him, but most of them were unfamiliar to her. Perhaps they were bought by the junior sister later.

He said: "When I personally face danger, I think that life and death are determined by fate, so I can take it calmly. But when I think about the possibility of you getting hurt, I can't convince myself that this is also fate."

Ye Xiaoman saw in the mirror that Xiao Chujing lowered his head beside her and kissed the corner of her eye.

Ye Xiaoman lowered her head pretending to be embarrassed, avoiding his further intimate hints, and picked up the comb to comb her hair.

There was no way. In Xiao Chujing's current understanding, they had become a young couple whose relationship had taken a step further and they could kiss and hug each other every day.