Chapter 99: Wanting to Resign

In the fountain plaza.

When Li Luo finished burning the three fires of his new appointment, everyone looked at him with complicated expressions. The previous disdain in their eyes had completely vanished, replaced by a solemn respect.

Elder Zheng Ping also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He had truly feared that Li Luo would act brashly in his youth and just slash out all those wavering Material Refiners from Xiyang House in one stroke. That would have felt satisfying, sure, but Xiyang House would have suffered grievous damage as a result.

The key issue was that it would create a bad reputation. Once those Material Refiners were driven away, they would surely make Xiyang House infamous within the Material Refiner circles of Daxia City, and who knew how much effort it would take in the future to recover that reputation.

Fortunately, Li Luo did not choose the most direct method. On the contrary, the three fires he set burned away the Material Refiners' lingering worries and also let them see Xiyang House's future potential.

Although this might not immediately purge Pang Pang Qianchi's influence and planted agents within Xiyang House, it was a good start. He believed that, with Li Luo's methods and the lure of the Mi Fa source water, Xiyang House in the future would surely gradually put an end to the chaos and begin to improve.

Pang Pang Qianchi's face darkened as he stared at Li Luo, then without any more useless words, he turned around and left directly.

In the current situation, Li Luo had already seized the hearts of some people within Xiyang House at the fastest speed. His instigation had failed completely, and now he could only temporarily lie low and wait for a future opportunity.

With Pang Pang Qianchi's departure, the Material Refiners present exchanged glances for a moment, then finally all bowed to Li Luo: "Greetings, President-General."

Li Luo smiled and waved his hand, saying: "Go back to your own tasks for now. Rest assured, Xiyang House will soon be on the right track, and the future Xiyang House will definitely be stronger than before."

Hearing this, the many Material Refiners gradually dispersed.

As the crowd dispersed, Li Luo finally let out a heavy breath, then he turned around to look at the three women behind him who had been watching the whole time but never said a single word from beginning to end.

"How was it?" he asked with a smile.

Among the three women, even Jiang Jiang Qinge stared at Li Luo's face for quite a while. They did not speak, but the look in their eyes clearly carried a trace of admiration.

"Not bad."

Jiang Jiang Qinge chuckled lightly, her eyes filled with appreciation: "You did even better than I imagined."

She could not help but appreciate it. After all, regarding the problems here at Xiyang House, she had always wanted to deal with them, but had no way to step in, and could only maintain that stalemate.

After all, she herself was not a Material Refiner, so she did not understand these matters too well. Of course, the most important point was that Luo Lan Mansion had too many problems, and she truly could not spare too much attention for Xiyang House.

She had watched Li Luo's three-fire measures earlier, and even she could not find the slightest flaw in them. Especially the roster he burned—the truth of its contents did not matter; what mattered was Li Luo's stance on it, which would cut off Pang Pang Qianchi's control over those Material Refiners in Xiyang House to the greatest extent.

Although it was impossible to clean things up completely in one go, this was a very good trend.

Of course, the most important point of all this was still the high-purity Mi Fa source water Li Luo produced. For Material Refiners, this was what truly held an immense allure.

And with the premise of the Mi Fa source water, the subsequent measures were able to achieve such good results.

Yan Yan Lingqing adjusted her silver-framed glasses, a mysterious smile curling on her red lips as she stared at Li Luo: "It seems that Mi Fa source water really is very useful. I just wonder if the Young Mansion Master has enough to go around?"

Regarding Li Luo's Mi Fa source water, among the three women present, probably only Yan Yan Lingqing had vaguely guessed where it actually came from. This was also what she had glimpsed during the Grand Ritual of Spiritual Water Wonder Light in Tianshu Prefecture when Li Luo was assisting her.

Hearing this, Li Luo also sighed. What Yan Yan Lingqing said was indeed a difficult problem. Right now he was only at the Ten-Seal Realm in terms of phase force, and the amount of Mi Fa source water he could condense each day was limited. He had previously promised the Xiyang House branch in Tianshu Prefecture that he would supply them with a certain amount of Mi Fa source water every month, which was already no small burden. Yet now, if he also had to supply the Xiyang House headquarters, it would really squeeze him dry.

Fortunately, he was not far from breaking through to the Phase Master Realm. Once the breakthrough was complete and a phase seed was condensed within his phase palace, his own phase force would see a leap in improvement.

At that time, he should barely be able to withstand the squeezing.

Cai Wei, meanwhile, stared at Li Luo with a hint of grievance: "You just opened that little mouth of yours and directly promised away twenty percent of Xiyang House's annual income. Do you have any idea how frazzled this sister gets every time she procures Spiritual Water Wonder Light for you?"

Li Luo looked a bit embarrassed and said: "Sister Cai Wei, we have to look forward here. Xiyang House's situation is too terrible right now—Material Refiners are leaving in droves. We have to stabilize people's hearts, and then use that to attract more Material Refiners to join Xiyang House. Only then can Xiyang House get better and better."

"Eek eek, getting lectured by the Young Mansion Master." Cai Wei said with a smile, her gaze coquettish.

Jiang Jiang Qinge laughed: "Sister Cai Wei is just joking with you. We believe in your ability. Xiyang House will definitely become one of the top ten Spiritual Water Wonder Light Houses in Daxia under your leadership."

"Sigh, let's hope so." Li Luo sighed helplessly. He had just arrived in Daxia City and had already taken on such a huge burden. Making Xiyang House one of Daxia's top ten Spiritual Water Wonder Light Houses was no simple matter. Even though he could personally produce a high-purity Mi Fa source water, that alone was probably not enough.

Those other top-ten Spiritual Water Wonder Light Houses all possessed more than one type of Mi Fa source water and source light. So if Xiyang House wanted to truly grow strong and big in the future, it would need to find ways to obtain some other Mi Fa source waters and source lights, and could not rely entirely on him alone.

Li Luo chatted with the three women for a while, then together with Elder Zheng Ping, who had been waiting nearby, went to the council hall. Since he had already become the President-General of Xiyang House, it was necessary for him to understand all the affairs within it clearly.

And this understanding took a full day.

When night had covered Daxia City, Li Luo in the council hall finally slumped exhaustedly in his chair, then looked with some sympathy at Jiang Jiang Qinge, who had accompanied him the entire day, and said: "Sister Jiang Qinge, these past few years have really been hard on you."

He had only just taken over one Xiyang House and was already this exhausted. He truly could not imagine how arduous it must have been when Jiang Jiang Qinge first took over the chaotic Luo Lan Mansion.

Jiang Jiang Qinge also stretched her arms, revealing her graceful curves. Although in certain arcs she was somewhat smaller than Cai Wei, the overall proportions were nearly perfect.

"If you truly feel sorry for me, then manage Xiyang House well. I don't want to be distracted over here." Jiang Jiang Qinge said.

Hearing this, Li Luo felt a headache coming on. After reviewing Xiyang House's materials for an entire day, he now had a fairly accurate understanding of it, but it was precisely this understanding that left him somewhat helpless.

Because the problems with this Xiyang House were truly damn numerous.

If he had known it would be like this, he really would not have dared to boast about turning Xiyang House into one of the top ten Spiritual Water Wonder Light Houses in Daxia.

If he were not afraid that Jiang Jiang Qinge would drag him straight to the training room for a spar, he would really want to ask: Excuse me, is it still not too late to resign?

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