Immortal Father - Chapter 43.2 - Father's Ambition

“Dad, I know what I’m doing. You should focus on your Casting Cloud Hall!”

Li Ping’an urged, “Tell me the third one.”

“Third.” Li Dazhi chuckled. “Before Xiao Yue left, she asked me to take care of her disciple. I went to the outer sect to see her. She’s a nice little girl. She’s pretty and not tall. Do you want me to bring her over to be your maid?”

Li Ping’an smiled. “That little girl is actually only seven or eight years younger than you.”

“Huh?” Li Dazhi was stunned. “She looks quite delicate.”

Li Ping’an said, “Elder Xiao Yue just wants an informant around us. Dad, arrange for this little girl to enter the Casting Cloud Hall and let her do some miscellaneous work so that Elder Xiao Yue can rest assured.”

“That’s fine. I plan to organize the Casting Cloud Hall according to the structure of my previous factory. This is what I’m best at.”

Li Dazhi’s eyes narrowed slightly. “Xiao Yue actually has the intention of bringing her troops with her.

“She has been operating in the Myriad Cloud Sect’s external businesses for many years. She has a wide network and a deep foundation, and she is also a disciple of a Golden Immortal.

“I wonder what she wants. If I don’t handle it well, she might become a problem in the future.”

Li Ping’an deliberately teased, “Dad, are you thinking about that matter now?”

Li Dazhi was stunned for a moment before laughing. He whispered, “Ping’an, I have figured things out.”

“Go ahead. I’m listening.”

“Since you and I have already established ourselves in the Myriad Cloud Sect, we should take the sect as our reliance.”

An imposing aura appeared between Li Dazhi’s eyebrows. “I don’t like power, but I have no choice but to fight for this immortal influence now.

“In that case, there’s no need for me to hide anymore. This Casting Cloud Hall is where I will gather my influence!

“Moreover, most of the immortals in the sect are pure and indifferent. They are just a few immortals obsessed with power and authority. I quite like the Myriad Cloud Sect.

“The two of us might as well make a career here and prosper!”

Li Ping’an bowed. “Then, I’ll lie down peacefully and wait for you to bring me to a meteoric rise.”

Li Dazhi immediately lost his cool and scolded jokingly, “Brat! I’m just saying that I have this ambition. There’s still a long way to go to realize it!

“With your grandmaster around, we don’t need to put up with being bullied.

“Let’s work together.”

Li Ping’an smiled. “Dad, look at what you’re saying. The two of us won’t be able to get through today without a drink.”

Li Dazhi glared and scolded, “How can I drink with you? Let’s get down to business!”

In Li Dazhi’s eyes, the Casting Cloud Hall was the Myriad Cloud Sect’s ‘magic artifact factory’. When it came to its future plans, he spoke logically, and Li Ping’an couldn’t get a word in at all.

This was professionalism.

Li Dazhi could only stay here for two hours. He still had to return to the Myriad Cloud Hall to prepare for the Casting Cloud Hall.

The Casting Cloud Hall was his future foundation, so he naturally had to keep a close eye on it.

Before Li Dazhi left, he looked at the empty iron pot and the pile of neatly stacked bones. His expression was indescribable. Ping’an’s master looks so slender, but she can eat a lot.

…

After Li Dazhi left, he didn’t come find Li Ping’an for the next few months.

It was only when Li Ping’an visited his father occasionally that the father and son met.

His father was indeed busy.

With the full support of the sect master and the elders, the Myriad Cloud Sect’s Casting Cloud Hall was established in less than half a month, occupying an entire uninhabited peak.

A batch of 20 Origin Immortals and 300 outer sect disciples were selected from the sect and became the ‘staff’ of the Casting Cloud Hall.

At the same time, the sect master arranged for several elders who were good at artificing to focus on studying the twelve magic artifacts and continuously improving and optimizing them.

This liberated Li Ping’an from having to spend time and effort on this.

While Li Dazhi was running around, he would meditate and cultivate in his free time every day. After all, his cultivation was the foundation for a stable life.

A month later, the first batch of six thousand good-grade flying swords was sent to towns on the coast of the East Sea.

Elder Xiao Yue, who was well prepared, only used two days to sell all the flying swords that were priced at only 60% of the market price.

Moreover, even without instructions, she set a date for the sale of the second batch of ‘good-grade magic artifacts’ and sold preorders.

Li Dazhi immediately announced the expansion of production, and batches of good-grade flying swords were continuously sent to the coast of the East Sea.

The Casting Cloud Hall operated for half a year and earned more than 300,000 low-grade spirit stones for the sect. All the elders of the Myriad Cloud Sect were shocked.

This was a net profit of more than 300,000 low-grade spirit stones after deducting all the costs.

It was not that no one had seen so many spirit stones. The Myriad Cloud Sect had a deep foundation and could be considered a big family with a big business.

However, this family fortune had been accumulated over a long period of time.

The elders really didn’t expect that the Casting Cloud Hall could earn spirit stones so quickly.

After the Casting Cloud Hall operated for a year, it opened a hundred production lines and earned two million low-grade spirit stones for the sect. The elders were indescribably shocked.

An elder asked the sect master to give the order to increase the monthly allowance of the disciples, but Li Dazhi rejected it.

Li Dazhi had a point. It was easy to increase the monthly allowance, but it was difficult to reduce it. The sect could use the excess spirit stones as reserves and also set up some rewards to provide benefits to the disciples.

After careful consideration, the sect master accepted Li Dazhi’s opinion.

After operating for two years, the Casting Cloud Hall could steadily earn more than 200,000 low-grade spirit stones a month for the sect.

Limited by the number of stores in towns and the consolidation of resources in the sect, this number had reached its current limit.

In the various towns on the coast of the East Sea, the Myriad Cloud Sect’s magic artifact stores had already made a reputation for high quality and low prices. They had established a reputation among rogue cultivators, and all kinds of scalpers were on the rise.

Li Dazhi timely launched a batch of top-grade magic artifacts close to the quality of magic treasures. He used flashy and bizarre methods to achieve many results.

For a time, everyone in the Myriad Cloud Sect was discussing ‘Ancestral Master Dazhi’s business talent’ and the many benefits that this man of great fortune had brought to the sect.

Li Dazhi’s reputation in the sect rose, and he even had the nickname of the Great Wealth Immortal.

On the other hand, Deputy Sect Master Mo Yi and Elder Bi tactfully increased the number of years of their seclusion.

While his father was so tired that he almost lost weight, Li Ping’an was much more relaxed.

Although Qingsu was in seclusion most of the time, as long as she wasn’t, she would preach, teach, and instruct Li Ping’an on fighting skills.

Mu Ningning still came to Li Ping’an’s place every few days. He had added a bedroom for her in the cave abode, and she would occasionally stay there for a few days.

Although the two of them didn’t directly express their feelings, they already had a lot of tacit understanding.

Li Ping’an’s self-control was quite good. Facing his increasingly beautiful little junior sister, he could still maintain a stable Dao Heart.

After knowing her senior brother’s intentions, Mu Ningning didn’t force him and let everything develop naturally.

But in terms of cultivation, Mu Ningning was quite depressed.

She didn’t know how Senior Brother Ping’an cultivated. No matter how hard she worked, her cultivation speed was still slower than Li Ping’an’s, and she seemed to be falling further and further behind.

This really made her anxious.

In the past two years, Mu Ningning had reached a bottleneck and successfully reached the ninth level of the Light Condensation realm. She was only half a step away from the Void Refinement realm and could break through at any time.

Reaching the Void Refinement Realm after five years of cultivation was gratifying progress, and the immortals of Rosy Cloud Peak highly valued Mu Ningning.

But when the two of them were alone, Mu Ningning secretly checked Li Ping’an. Even though Li Ping’an didn’t deliberately conceal it, she could no longer see through his realm. She could only see the faint spiritual qi surrounding her senior brother. His skin became clearer and clearer, and his aura was thick, warm, and in harmony with nature. Occasionally, there would be clouds surrounding him…

This was clearly a Dao Rhyme that would only appear in the middle to late stages of the Void Refinement realm!

Li Ping’an was a little embarrassed about this.

It was not that his aptitude had been completely mended.

Relying on the aptitude-mending pill refined by the peak master of Medicine Dust Peak, he had only changed his five elements lacking earth to his five elements having a little earth.

It was really…

Fatherly love was like a mountain.

Just as Li Ping’an thought that he would be able to cultivate peacefully in the mountains for a few more years, a jade talisman pierced through the clouds and fog and entered the Myriad Cloud Sect’s mountain-protecting array.

Four hours later, a patrolling disciple holding a Mortal Affairs Hall jade talisman landed outside the array of Li Ping’an’s cave abode and shouted loudly, “Senior Brother Ping’an, are you cultivating?”