While Fen Chang was having fun with his new maid Sung Wei, Lu Peng on the other hand was experiencing hell.
*Pov Change - Lu Peng and Ma Tan*
After his horrifying defeat Lu Peng was slowly coming too as his once unconscious mind slowly came back.
Once awake Lu Peng was furious and filled with rage and regret. He tries to stand up on to feel that all his four limbs where chained down to a hard bed.
"You bastards, where am I? Let me go this instant. I am the young master of the Lu family and an inner disciple of the Blazing Heavens Sect. If you let me go now then I can grant you a painless death."
Lu Peng kept shouting, expecting someone to come and release him soon.
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It wasn't until 50 minutes later that a figure started appearing in his field of view.
After being chained down and humiliated by waiting for 50 minutes. Lu Peng's eyes showed nothing but rage and venom as he yelled. "Let me go right now. I will kill all of you. If you let me go now then I will grant you a painless death. Do you hear me!"
The towering figure just kept standing in front of him, even as he was shouting out his threats. The figure showed no reaction, as if these threats are nothing to them. This angered Lu Peng even more, but a sense of dread started welling up within him after seeing his current situation.
Lu Peng could only watch as the towering figure standing in front of him started to move. They took off their cloak to reveal a very muscular build resembling beast. Long pink hair that was in the style of 2 ponytails. They were wearing a pink frilly skirt and with a short pink shirt only covering the top of their chest. Their legs had frilly leggings, tightly fitting the muscular legs with large red shoes.
The scene of this bulky man dressed as such was burning its way into the depts of his soul. Even with Fen Changs ability to alter memories, the trauma of what Lu Peng was seeing would always stay with him.
"Hehe, so you're my new friend? Master has asked me to play with you. Don't worry, I will take very good care of you new friend. Now first I'm going to have to suggest you don't tense up, it will make what's going to happen a lot worse."
To Lu Peng this voice was demonic, as contrast to males' body the voice was that of a 15-year-old girl.
Lu Peng watched in horror as Ma Tan ripped of his clothes, leaving him with nothing on. Ma Tan then moved Lu Peng into a position where his chest was flat against the stiff bed he was laying on with his ass in air.
"You have quite the white ass, lets add some colour to that."
With a harsh "bang" in the air Lu Pengs face went from terrified to despair and pain as a whip mark appeared on his ass.
Ma Tan spent the next half an hour doing various kinds of things to Lu Peng. It ended with Ma Tan getting a dildo prepared by his master that was in the shape of a horse's dick. He then plunged it into Lu Pengs ass and did a multitude of other things with it as well.
After this Lu Peng was broken and his spirit beyond repair as his eyes fell into a soulless state.
His final thoughts where how many times he has seen this state he is going in with the women he captured, and how he now feels so much regret after now having experienced what he did to them.
*End of Pov*
When Fen Chang left his inner world, what confronted him was Ma Tan on a seat in his usual black cloak and 4 body's that although conscious, their eyes looked soulless.
"Ma Tan seems you did a good job breaking them, I should be able to enslave them now."
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Fen Chang had to spend a lot of energy to enslave and change the memories of 4 stage 3 experts. It took almost 20 minutes just to do 4 people.
Once enslaved it didn't take long for the previous soulless look in their eyes to change to ones full of vigour.
"Master, we understand out orders and will do your best to fulfil them."
"Good. Now Sung Ping, I want you and your daughter to convince your patriarch to send your daughter to me as a maid. Say to use her as a spy or something. I will deal with her current fiancé. Now as for the rest of you, take your people back and start working on the plan. Get me as much information as you can and start building up resources and send them to me. Lu Peng, you especially. I want you to get an elder from your sects' attention, even better if it's the leader and become their disciple and then send me all the resources you can extort from them."
Fen Chang suddenly has an idea. 'I should use the analysis feature on him and find the best cultivation technique for him. I haven't really used the analysis feature much. I focused more on inner world tests instead of the Heavens Database. Hopefully the analysis should work and tell me what technique currently available should suit him, and if any don't exactly suit him it should compound one that suits him best. That should help him get elders attentions, he could even sell some of the less valuable ones off and get me more resources. He also has high talent so it would be worth training him.'
Fen Chang then looks at Lu Peng and is willing for information on what technique suits him best. A singular name comes up. "Coiling Fire Snake Mantra". The information about the technique rushes to his head.
'This seems to be a compounded one, I think most of them will be as the chances of someone to have perfect compatibility with a certain technique is next to impossible. This a low immortal technique. I didn't previously know the technique levels until recently when went though the information. There are 7 different tiers. Mortal, Earth, Sky, Heaven, Immortal, Divine, Unique.
Each tier is better than the last with divine being the highest. Unique is different as it just categorizes ones that don't have a specific level. So, the unique tier is for ones that evolve or change depending on constitutions.'
Fen Chang using the slave seal, alters Lu Pengs memory again and adds the cultivation technique.
"Thanks, you very much master for giving me such a high-level technique. I promise I will go above and beyond your orders and will aim to become the grand elder's disciple. His status is above even the sect leader."
"Good, I expect you to get me as much information and resources as you can. I also want you to mark beautiful girls and invite them to this restaurant, make sure they are within my enslavement level though. Also, since you already have a history, if you see any beautiful females that are commoners or of lower status then make sure to get them for me."
Fen Chang then decides to give the rest of his new subordinates personalised cultivation techniques. Most of them got middle heaven techniques but a few got high heaven grade. He gave his new maid Sung Wei an immortal high-grade technique called 9 Tails Fire Phoenix Technique, which if cultivated to perfection allows her to create a physique called the 9 Tails Phoenix constitution. Jing San on the other hand gets a technique called Medicinal Cauldron Hands Technique which is an immortal high grade. When trained to perfection it allows him to use his hands as furnaces for refining pills and greatly increase his control over fire, while also boosting his pill quality.
Fen Chang sends them all off to go complete their missions. The audience outside is confused when they see everyone walking out and no one seeming to claim ownership.
Lu Peng then announces to these people "My Lu family, Sung Family and Phoenix Company have formed a deal with the owners of this restaurant. You pathetic ants don't get to know more information than that, be thankful."
Lots of the audience was scared when that last bit of information was said, but also curious as to why even the arrogant Lu Peng would make a deal. They where especially confused when he said "Restaurant".
With the 3 factions gone, the crowd soon dispersed as well since the action was over. Some stayed in hopes of seeing the owner, while others curious about the building.
With only 30 minutes left before the emperor arrives, Fen Chang sneaks out to join his father and family in the carriage. It would look weird if the prince wasn't, they're with the rest of the family after all.
Fen Chang enters the carriage just before its about to set off. He wants to make it a big show after all. As such the carriage will parade around town for a little and draw people's attention so when they get to the restaurant.
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The family spends the whole evening talking and chatting about the restaurant. His sister was especially excited when she saw the size of the building.
So, with the evening falling into darkness and the family happily finishing their main course, getting ready for dessert. Fen Zung starts to talk to Fen Chang about the future of the empire.
"Son as you know we are nearing winter. It has been predicted that this winter will be an especially harsh one. The people in villages and have less support than towns and cities and will be in an especially tough position. They won't have enough food or warmth to stay alive. We where thinking of sending out food rations to these places so they have a chance, but that would take up more than 60% of our food reserves. Do you have any ideas?"
'Hmm, winter huh. Sounds fun, I love the cold and snowy weather.'
Fen Chang takes a bit of time mumbling to himself as he thinks of solutions.
"Father, the main ways we can directly help people stay warm are clothes, firewood, food and alcohol. We can also help improve homes to stay warmer but that would be a lot of effort."
"Hmm, Alcohol you say. How would that keep people warm?"
"You are currently drinking my best wine, is your face not warm and flushed red? Alcohol although doesn't specifically keep you warm it can help you stay warm when traveling, so should they need to hunt or make a trip for supplies then wine would be essential."
"I never though of that before, your right I do feel warm. That could be an option, main problem is alcohol in that quantity would be impossible to make. There are 10's of millions that need help."
"You can leave that to me. My master knows ways to turn milk and rice into strong alcohol. Although it isn't the nicest, it is strong and will help a lot. But alcohol isn't the main way we can help. We can hunt more and get more clothes but that would require a lot of time to hunt and craft them. These are only direct ways to support them though.
My master during teaching me basic inscriptions showed me a useless inscription that can only create a flame barely strong enough for cooking. Normally that would be useless but, if I combine it with a rune that gathers small amounts of QI then I can create small miniature fires that don't require wood, but only a few hours to gather QI and can then keep a fire going for most of the day. The best part is the materials are very basic, with them only being mortal materials. I will need ink, tree sap and molten metal and a few other basic things."
"Really, well done. Being able to do inscriptions and even runes at such a young age. You must thank your teacher yet again for me. Well since the materials are easy to get, we can give it a go, but how many will you be able to make. After all you would need to create millions by yourself within a few months."
"I can manage father. I have been practicing basic runes and inscriptions so much I can do basic one within 4-5 seconds. Doing this many I might even be able to them within 2-3 seconds by the end. I can make enough within a month or two. We can also hunt more and turn the meat into rations by drying them using special techniques and the hide into clothes."
With the empire discussion over dessert soon arrives and Fen Caihong is salivating at her mouth.
The evening soon comes to an end and the family head back home. The people outside see a miraculous scene. The royal family exiting a majestic building, and the emperor personally using a brush on a board. Servants then put up the sign board next to the building.
It reads "Welcome to the "Halls of Valhalla" Restaurant." When the crowd saw this, they went ballistic, as they saw the emperor himself writing the sign.
Fen Zung turns to the crowd before leaving and states "People of Emperors Rest I Fen Zung the emperor am announcing this restaurant open for business and giving it my seal of approval." Before leaving in the carriage.
The calm city then descended into madness at the declaration of the emperor.