Chapter 100: Treasure House Headquarters

Resigning was clearly impossible.

But just as Li Luo had said, the current problems of Xiyang House were truly not small, and the most serious among them were three.

The first was naturally the loss of Material Refiners. The previous president Han Zhi's betrayal had taken away nearly half of the Material Refiners, which was simply an unbearable loss for Xiyang House. After all, Material Refiners were productivity, and lacking them would affect Xiyang House's output.

The second was Xiyang House's lack of high-grade Material Refiners. The entire Xiyang House originally had five Wu Wei Wu Pin Material Refiners, including Han Zhi and Pang Pang Qianchi. Now that Han Zhi had defected and Pang Pang Qianchi had been sidelined, only three Wu Pin Material Refiners could be put to use. This number was truly a bit shabby.

As for those Spirit Water Odd Light Houses ranked in the top ten of the Great Xia, such as the Great Marsh House of Duze Prefecture, the number of Wu Pin Material Refiners reached dozens, and even Liu Pin Material Refiners numbered seven or eight... The strength gap between the two was clearly enormous.

The third problem was that the Spirit Water Odd Light formulas owned by Xiyang House were not considered high-grade, and could only barely be considered mid-grade.

In the Great Xia Kingdom, Spirit Water Odd Light formulas, for each pin, were meticulously divided into five star grades, with one star being the lowest and five stars being the highest.

As for Xiyang House's formulas, such as the Green Jade Spirit Water that Li Luo was most familiar with, it could only be considered two-star grade among Yi Pin formulas.

Li Luo's ability to defeat Ink House's Black Star Spirit Water in Tianshu Prefecture with the Green Jade Spirit Water was entirely and completely due purely to his Mi Fa source water with a purity reaching up to Shang Qi Pin, brute-forcing it through, because their Black Star Spirit Water was rated as a three-star grade formula.

Li Luo had reviewed all of Xiyang House's Spirit Water Odd Light formulas and found that the highest was the current flagship product of Xiyang House, the Third Rank "White Feather Spirit Water," which was a three-star grade formula.

As for four-star grade formulas, there really wasn't a single one.

If Xiyang House's future goal was to become one of the top ten Spirit Water Odd Light Houses in the Great Xia Kingdom, relying solely on this one three-star grade formula was clearly not very possible.

Li Luo rubbed his brow and looked at Zheng Ping, saying: "Elder Zheng, the matter of recruiting Material Refiners must be carried out as soon as possible, otherwise Xiyang House's output won't keep up."

Now they could only solve these problems one by one. The matter of high-grade Material Refiners couldn't be rushed; the current Xiyang House probably didn't have that kind of attractiveness. Spirit Water Odd Light formulas were also a hopeless matter; aside from spending a great deal of time researching, one could only purchase them.

But the price of high-star grade formulas was outrageously expensive, and the current Xiyang House couldn't afford them.

"Yes." Elder Zheng Ping acknowledged.

Then he hesitated for a moment and said: "Young Master, when will the high-purity Mi Fa source water be supplied to the headquarters here?"

Li Luo felt a headache coming on when he heard this. Although half of the Material Refiners had been poached from Xiyang House headquarters, the number was still far greater than the Tianshu Prefecture branch, so the demand for Mi Fa source water would also be greater.

But after all, he was still just a child at the Ten-Seal Realm!

How could he possibly afford to support so many ravenous Material Refiners?

But he had already made a promise earlier, so of course he couldn't go back on it. If he did, his prestige at Xiyang House headquarters would likely be wiped clean.

"I'll make some preparations first. I should be able to provide a batch to the headquarters soon." Li Luo sighed inwardly, then forced a smile and said.

Elder Zheng Ping hurriedly nodded, his eyes full of anticipation.

Li Luo didn't dare linger, so after giving some instructions, he finished today's Xiyang House business, then somewhat flustered, left the headquarters with Jiang Qing'e and the other two girls.

He felt that the current top priority was still to quickly break through to the Material Master Realm, otherwise his small frame really couldn't withstand being squeezed dry.

But before that, he still had to make a trip to the Golden Dragon Treasure House headquarters to get his hands on the last two types of wood and earth rare materials he had been longing for, and refine the second Acquired Phase.

The next day, Li Luo said goodbye to Jiang Qing'e and headed to the Golden Dragon Treasure House headquarters.

Although the public security in this Great Xia City was very good, as a precaution, Li Luo still brought along several guard experts whose strength had reached the third stage of the Material Master Realm, just in case.

As a neutral force in the Great Xia Kingdom, the Golden Dragon Treasure House headquarters was clearly quite special. Its headquarters was located in a bustling district of the city, its scale majestic, far surpassing the Golden Dragon Treasure House branch in Tianshu Prefecture. From afar, it looked like a towering giant beast crouching on the earth, inspiring awe and making one dare not cause trouble here.

Outside the Golden Dragon Treasure House headquarters, the flow of people was at its peak. The thick, imposing bronze gates were open on three sides, yet it still appeared somewhat crowded, showing how popular it was.

Li Luo squeezed in along with the crowd. The great hall within was like a massive plaza, the dome over ten meters high, with richly luxurious and brilliant crystal lamps hanging, illuminating the hall as bright as day.

Various counters were neatly distributed in all directions, and maidservants dressed in Golden Dragon Treasure House attire enthusiastically received guests from all sides.

However, Li Luo did not stop here, but walked straight through the corridor toward the deeper area.

At the end of the corridor was the high-grade area leading to the Treasure House. Upon entering, the boiling, noisy sounds immediately weakened considerably, the flow of people dropped sharply, and in the spacious, bright hall, crystal cabinets stood in great numbers, displaying a dazzling array of items.

Those items were clearly much more high-grade than those in the ordinary area outside.

Of course, the prices were also more expensive.

When Li Luo walked into this place, a slender, young and beautiful maidservant immediately came up to greet him. Her looks and temperament were clearly much superior to those of the maidservants in the ordinary area.

"May I ask what the honored guest needs?" The beautiful maidservant gazed at Li Luo's handsome face with her pearly teeth lightly biting her red lips. Working at the Golden Dragon Treasure House, she had also seen much of the world, but such a handsome young man was still a first for her.

Her gaze swept lightly toward other directions, where several young maidservants had unwillingly stopped, clearly somewhat resentful of her getting there first.

Li Luo smiled rather blandly. He had experienced too many scenes of open and covert struggles caused by him, so he was long immune.

"I need odd materials containing wood and earth energy," Li Luo said with a smile.

"What quantity grade do you need?" the beautiful maidservant asked carefully.

These various odd materials also had subtle classifications, distinguished by quantity, such as hundred-quantity grade, thousand-quantity grade, ten-thousand-quantity grade, and so on. The so-called quantity referred to energy.

Simply put, it referred to what level of energy was contained within this odd material.

"Let's look at the thousand-quantity grade first," Li Luo thought for a moment and said. At the Golden Dragon Treasure House in Tianshu Prefecture, most of what he saw were hundred-quantity grade odd materials; thousand-quantity grade was relatively rare, and he hadn't found suitable ones after looking at some, so he planned to try here at the Golden Dragon Treasure House headquarters first.

"Alright, please follow me."

The beautiful maidservant smiled charmingly. Thousand-quantity grade odd materials were priced at around several thousand gold each, which wasn't cheap. The young man before her didn't seem to mind, clearly a young and wealthy patron. She liked such customers the most.

Having said that, she turned and walked forward, her slender waist swaying gently, her pert bottom swaying, with a hint of charm.

Li Luo appeared quite indifferent to this, because he was used to the coquettish charm of Sister Cai Wei, these little vamps before him truly held no attraction.

And as Li Luo followed this maidservant forward, on the second floor of this high-grade area, a beautiful girl wearing blue clothes, a short skirt, and white silk stockings swept her gaze over and stopped on Li Luo.

Then the girl's somewhat listless, cold eyes suddenly blossomed with radiance.