Chapter 100: Treasure House Headquarters

Resigning is obviously impossible.

But as Li Luo said, the current problems facing the Xi Yang House are truly significant, and there are three most serious ones among them.

The first is naturally the loss of resonance crafters; the betrayal of the previous head, Han Zhi, took away nearly half of the resonance crafters, which caused an unbearable loss to the Xi Yang House. After all, resonance crafters are productivity, and without them, the output of the Xi Yang House will be affected.

The second is that the Xi Yang House lacks high-level resonance crafters. The entire Xi Yang House originally possessed five fifth-grade resonance crafters, including Han Zhi and Pang Qianchi. Now that Han Zhi has defected and Pang Qianchi has been sidelined, there are only three fifth-grade ones left who can be put to use. This number is truly quite pathetic.

As for those spiritual water and light houses ranked in the top ten of the Great Xia, such as the Da Ze House of the Duze Mansion, they have dozens of fifth-grade resonance crafters, and even seven or eight sixth-grade ones... The gap in strength between the two is clearly enormous.

The third problem is that the spiritual water and light formulas possessed by the Xi Yang House are not high-level; they can only barely be considered mid-level.

In the Great Xia Kingdom, the formulas for spiritual water and light are meticulously divided into five star levels for each grade, with one star being the lowest and five stars being the highest.

As for the formulas of the Xi Yang House, take the Azure Jade Spiritual Water that Li Luo is most familiar with; among first-grade formulas, it can only be considered two-star.

The fact that Li Luo was able to defeat the Black Star Spiritual Water of the Mo Shui House in Tianshu County with the Azure Jade Spiritual Water was entirely and purely due to him forcefully pushing it with his secret method source water, which had a purity as high as seven grades, because the other party's Black Star Spiritual Water was a formula rated as three-star.

Li Luo flipped through all the spiritual water and light formulas of the Xi Yang House and found that the highest one was the current flagship product of the Xi Yang House, the third-grade "White Feather Spiritual Water," which is a three-star formula.

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

If the future goal of the Xi Yang House is to become one of the top ten spiritual water and light houses in the Great Xia Kingdom, relying solely on this one three-star formula is obviously quite impossible.

Li Luo rubbed his brow and looked at Zheng Ping, saying, "Elder Zheng, the matter of recruiting resonance crafters must be done as soon as possible, otherwise the output of the Xi Yang House will not keep up."

Now he can only solve these problems one by one. The matter of high-level resonance crafters cannot be rushed; the current Xi Yang House likely lacks that kind of appeal, and the spiritual water and light formulas are also a matter that cannot be helped. Besides spending a lot of time researching, these formulas can only be purchased.

However, the price of high-star formulas is outrageously expensive, and the current Xi Yang House cannot afford them.

"Yes," Elder Zheng replied.

Immediately, he fidgeted a bit and said, "Young House Master, I wonder when the high-purity secret method source water can be supplied to the headquarters here?"

Li Luo felt a bit of a headache when he heard this. Although half of the resonance crafters had been poached from the Xi Yang House headquarters, the number was still far greater than that of the Tianshu County branch, so the demand for secret method source water would also be greater.

But he was, after all, still just a child at the Ten Seals stage!

How could he possibly afford to support so many ravenous resonance crafters?

But he had already made a promise, so he certainly could not go back on his word; if he did, his reputation at the Xi Yang House headquarters would likely be swept away completely.

"I will make some preparations first; I should be able to provide a batch to the headquarters very soon," Li Luo sighed in his heart, then squeezed out a smile and said.

Elder Zheng nodded quickly, his eyes full of anticipation.

Li Luo did not dare to stay long, so after giving some instructions, he ended the day's business at the Xi Yang House, and then left the headquarters in a somewhat flustered manner with Jiang Qing and the other two women.

He felt that the most urgent task now was to quickly break through to the Resonance Master stage; otherwise, his small frame really couldn't withstand being squeezed like this.

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 wood and earth exotic materials he had been thinking about for a long time, so he could refine his second acquired resonance.

The next day, Li Luo greeted Jiang Qing and headed to the Golden Dragon Treasure House headquarters.

Although the public security in this Great Xia City was very good, Li Luo, being cautious, still brought along a few bodyguard experts who had reached the third stage of the Resonance Master realm to be prepared for any emergencies.

As a neutral force in the Great Xia Kingdom, the Golden Dragon Treasure House headquarters was obviously quite special. Its headquarters was located in a prosperous area of the city, and its scale was magnificent, far surpassing the Golden Dragon Treasure House branch in Tianshu County. Looking at it from afar, it was like a towering giant beast crouching on the earth, making people feel awe and afraid to cause trouble here.

Outside the Golden Dragon Treasure House headquarters, the flow of people was bustling. The heavy and grand bronze gates were open on three sides, but it still appeared somewhat crowded, showing its high popularity.

Li Luo squeezed in with the flow of people. The main hall inside was like a huge square, with the dome over ten meters high and luxurious, brilliant crystal lamps hanging, illuminating the hall as if it were daylight.

Various counters were arranged in an orderly manner on all sides, and waitresses wearing the uniforms of the Golden Dragon Treasure House were enthusiastically receiving guests from all directions.

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

The end of the corridor led to the high-level area of the treasure house. Entering it, the boiling and noisy sounds suddenly diminished a lot, the flow of people dropped sharply, and in the spacious and bright hall, crystal cabinets stood in rows, with a dazzling array of items placed inside.

Those items were obviously much higher-level than those in the ordinary area outside.

Of course, the prices were also much more expensive.

When Li Luo walked into this place, a young and beautiful waitress with a slender figure immediately came up to greet him. Her appearance and temperament were obviously much better than the waitresses in the ordinary area.

"May I ask what the honored guest needs?" The beautiful waitress bit her red lips with her pearly teeth while staring at Li Luo's handsome face. Being in the Golden Dragon Treasure House, she was considered well-informed, but this was the first time she had seen such a handsome young man.

Her gaze swept across other directions; several young waitresses were stopping their steps unwillingly, obviously somewhat resentful that she had gotten there first.

Li Luo smiled in a very dull manner. He had experienced too many scenes of infighting appearing because of him, so he had long been immune to it.

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

"What magnitude do you need?" the beautiful waitress asked meticulously.

These many exotic materials also had subtle classifications, distinguished by quantity, such as hundred-magnitude, thousand-magnitude, ten-thousand-magnitude, etc., and this so-called quantity refers to energy.

Simply put, it refers to the level of energy contained in this exotic material.

"Let's look at the thousand-magnitude ones first," Li Luo thought for a moment and said. In the Golden Dragon Treasure House in Tianshu County, most of what he saw were hundred-magnitude exotic materials, and thousand-magnitude ones were relatively rare. After looking at some, none were suitable, so he planned to try his luck at the Golden Dragon Treasure House headquarters first.

"Alright, please follow me."

The beautiful waitress smiled sweetly. The price of thousand-magnitude exotic materials was in the thousands of gold, which was not cheap. The young man in front of her didn't seem to care about this, obviously a young and wealthy master. She liked such guests the most.

After saying that, she turned and walked forward, her slender waist swaying slightly and her hips wiggling, with a bit of charm.

Li Luo expressed that he was very indifferent to this, because he was used to the charming style of Sister Cai Wei, and these little vixens in front of him were truly devoid of any attraction.

And when Li Luo followed this waitress forward, on the second floor of this high-level area, the clear and beautiful young girl wearing green clothes, a short skirt, and white silk stockings swept her gaze over and stopped on Li Luo.

Then, the girl's slightly listless and cold eyes suddenly burst with brilliance.