Chapter 1946: The Cheng Family, Cheng Siyu

"Fellow Daoist Lu..."

This time, Old Tong spoke up!

Old Tong cupped his hands toward Lu Jianwo and said, "I am the He family's artifact refiner. Recently, we are preparing to manufacture a batch of divine arks and need to purchase some Sky-Blue Purple Tea Wood from your Lu family!"

"I wonder, is that possible?"

"Building arks?" Lu Jianwo looked at He Pingsheng and the other two with some surprise and said, "Why not do something else? Why go do this thing?"

"Sigh..."

He let out a breath.

He Pingsheng asked, "Elder Lu, is there some difficulty?"

"There's no difficulty on my end!" Lu Jianwo said, "Regardless, your He family is also a subordinate family under our Lu family. Some things I'll kindly remind you about!"

"This ark-building isn't easy to pull off!"

"First, in the entire Tianfeng City, only so many new families emerge each year. To put it bluntly, the annual sales volume is almost fixed — just a hundred or so vessels!"

He Pingsheng was clear on this point in his heart as well.

Although it's said that basically every family must possess at least one divine ark.

But the problem is, this thing is already saturated!

Everyone who should have one already does.

Only newly formed families would purchase these.

Or if a family's own divine ark gets blasted to pieces, they'd buy a replacement.

As such, the entire Tianfeng City's annual sales volume is only between several dozen and a hundred vessels.

Very few.

But the He family's current output is only a few vessels. Old Tong refines divine arks desperately, yet the result is only three to five vessels.

"Fellows... I'll speak the truth. There are ark-building families in Tianfeng City!"

"The Long family, the Vice City Lord of Tianfeng City, part of their family industry is ark-building!"

"You... hehehe... never mind whether the divine arks you build can compare to the Long family's. Just the Long family's status... hehehe... do I need to say more?"

Master Tong said, "That's not an issue. First, we build extremely few divine arks — only a few per year!"

"Second, we don't plan to sell in Tianfeng City. We can take them to Tianxie King City to sell!"

"Alright then!" Elder Lu said, "I've said my piece. Since you want to buy, I have nothing more to say!"

"Our Lu family's Sky-Blue Purple Tea Wood is more than sufficient!"

Tong Haotian asked, "What about the price? For that kind... ten-thousand-year divine material grown to a hundred zhang length, how much is one root worth?"

Elder Lu said, "This thing, fifty million divine gold per root... Of course, I'm speaking in divine gold value!"

"If you have physical divine gold, then one piece of physical divine gold gets you two roots from me!"

"How many do you need?"

Tong Haotian said, "Supply me twenty thousand roots per year... no problem, right?"

"No problem!" Elder Lu said, "Our Lu family has plenty!"

He Pingsheng took out a ring. Inside the ring were ten thousand pieces of mid-grade divine gold.

"Holy sh*t... hiss hiss hiss..." Elder Lu stared at these things, shocked beyond measure: "Th-this... mid-grade... this many?"

He Pingsheng said, "We'll pre-order ten years' worth of goods first. You can send these goods all at once, or in batches!"

"Just no mistakes!"

"Certainly, certainly..." Elder Lu said, "Fellow Daoist, rest assured. I'll start delivering today!"

"Hehehe..."

"Oh... right!" He put away the divine gold and looked at Old Cao again: "This Fellow Daoist Cao... hehehe... later, for that female slave, I want a tall, big one. Best if she's curvaceous... looks aren't the most important!"

After returning home, that very day, the Lu family began arranging people to transport Sky-Blue Purple Tea Wood over.

Old Tong didn't idle either. Although it was just him alone now, he still began refining.

Step one: refine the hull first.

This requires a certain amount of time.

A full three months' effort passed before this guy's hull was successfully refined.

"Young Master, how is it?" Old Tong placed that divine ark hull, five hundred zhang in length, on the plaza and invited He Pingsheng to inspect it.

He Pingsheng nodded and said, "Not bad!"

"Next is installing the energy array formations and spatial laws!"

"This will require a trip to Tianxie King City, right?"

He called Yu Si over.

Some time ago, Yu Si took Qiao Huizhu and a group to Tianxie King City and several surrounding major cities, wandering everywhere — counted as travel experience.

They roamed the outer sect for two months and had long since returned.

Next, Yu Si deployed a flying boat, taking He Pingsheng and Old Cao to Tianxie King City.

"Young Master..." Upon arriving at Tianxie King City, Old Cao directly shouted, "I'm going to the black market to get Elder Lu a few slaves he likes..."

"Won't keep you company!"

"With Senior Yu Si accompanying you, in this Tianxie King City it's absolutely foolproof!"

"Good!" He Pingsheng nodded.

Old Cao leaned in again: "Does Young Master need one?"

He Pingsheng's face darkened: "I'll pass... you conveniently buy one for your big nephew while you're at it!"

Hahaha...

He Pingsheng laughed heartily as he left.

He brought Yusi to the Cheng family first.

The Cheng family, which sells the energy conversion grand formation, and the 【Hua Xu Shen Valley】, which sells spatial formations, are both backed by forces bearing the title of God Emperor.

That is to say, these two industries spread throughout the Divine Realm are being run by two titled God Emperors, or rather, by the families and sects of titled God Emperors.

"So it's the God King senior, my apologies for the lack of courtesy..." The Cheng family member originally responsible for reception was a cultivator of the Divine Spirit Realm, but upon learning of Yusi's cultivation realm, he immediately said: "Seniors, please wait a moment, have some tea, I will have our family's grand elder come to receive you!"

Of course, this family's grand elder is not the Cheng family's grand elder, but rather the grand elder of the Cheng family's branch in Tianxue Wangcheng.

A tall woman in a blue Daoist robe entered the reception hall.

Yusi glanced at the woman and sent a mental message to He Pingsheng: "This is an eighth-layer God Venerable Realm cultivator!"

He Pingsheng thus gained a preliminary understanding of the Cheng family's elders.

"Senior..." The woman bowed neither humbly nor arrogantly toward Yusi, clasping her hands and saying: "Senior, you have come for..."

Yusi said: "I accompanied our Young Master here!"

She extended her slender hand and pointed at He Pingsheng.

The Cheng family elder's gaze then shifted to He Pingsheng, and there was some surprise in her eyes: "This Young Master..."

He Pingsheng said: "My surname is He!"

"Good day, Young Master He, do you need formations?"

"Yes!" He Pingsheng said: "Our family needs to craft a batch of third-tier and fourth-tier flying vessels, and wishes to purchase some energy conversion formations to serve as propulsion for the flying vessels!"

"Oh..." The woman said: "I see now..."

"Very well... Young Master He, this senior... please follow me!"

"I am Cheng Siyu, and I will also take you to see our Cheng family's formation crafting site!"

Cheng Siyu was very pleased, feeling that with the God King personally visiting, this must surely be a major business opportunity?

First, let you witness the production site of our Cheng family's energy propulsion formations.

He Pingsheng looked at Cheng Siyu, and his gaze was complex.

Back then, he had a senior martial sister who was also named Cheng Siyu.