"Delivery!"
Seeing Yang Genshuo not wanting to move while sitting on the chair, Lin Yue went to the door to receive the delivery.
"Boss, are you hungry?"
"Yeah, I can't cook for myself."
"Alright, then you eat, Lin Yue is leaving."
"Mhm, you go on back, if you don't want to work then take a few days off, I promise I'll call you when I start up a business again!"
"Okay, boss, goodbye, remember to eat more bananas to treat constipation."
Yang Genshuo felt a warmth at heart; his constipation was an old problem, and Lin Yue always kept bananas on his desk, peeling one for him whenever he came by.
He had gotten used to it.
After Lin Yue closed the front door, Yang Genshuo dared to lift the small blanket, revealing Yang Genshuo, big.
"I still need to train!"
Just as he was preparing to continue his strenuous exercises.
Ding dong~
[Lin Yue: "Boss, eating takeout isn't good for you, Lin Yue will come tomorrow to cook for you!"]
Yang Genshuo instinctively began to type a refusal, but thinking of Lin Yue's situation... he deleted everything.
"Never mind, I'll give her something to do to keep her from overthinking."
After another half hour of training and getting his fire down, Yang Genshuo started to eat his takeout.
With his blood circulated many times, most of the fierce medicinal power was stored in his kidneys, while a part was absorbed by his body, making his essence qi plentiful, giving him a sense of being able to mobilize them at will.
"The effects of strengthening the kidneys are really good, worthy of being the foremost of the five organs!"
Even Yang Shi, who practiced martial arts, started from strengthening his kidneys when he reached the Four Layers of body refining.
"The rest of the medicinal power will be absorbed slowly, the more I exercise, the faster it gets absorbed."
"It looks like I need to exercise every day now, perfectly fitting my 5-year fitness dream."
"After I absorb the medicinal power fully, I'll try the [Blood Building and Qi Boosting Powder]."
After a session of exertion, Yang Genshuo returned to his computer. Yang Shi was in the backyard warehouse, sampling the contents of the five large boxes he had been given, surrounded by many opened packages.
Sampling them one by one.
"How can such a small hard block have such a delicious sweetness?"
"This white powder, incredibly, tastes like milk, tea, and orange juice all at once, it's magical!"
"This colorful bag of chocolate... tastes even better than the chocolate in a can, indescribably smooth and delightful!"
"And this..."
Yang Genshuo hadn't sped up the game before taking his medicine.
Unexpectedly, more than two hours had passed in the hustle and bustle, and after not sleeping for a day and a night, on top of taking medicine and intense training, he now felt tired.
"These supplies... are the last large batch of support I can give Yang Shi."
"It's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish, Yang Shi, it's time for you to use the startup resources I gave you today to develop the Yang Family on your own."
"And you have to find a way to help me make money! I have to repay a 200,000 loan in 6 days!"
Both [Blood Building and Qi Boosting Powder] and [Solid Essence Rejuvenation Pills] are great, but they're hard to sell, it's too difficult to gain people's trust these days, and who knows if you might end up in police custody again.
"The next time I make an offering, I need to get something that's easier for me to sell..."
[Manifestation]
[Incense Fire Value -1, remaining Incense Value: 32]
In the backyard shrine, a golden hand appeared, and Yang Shi respectfully kowtowed.
"Please, ancestor, give your instructions~"
Lines of golden characters appeared in front of the spirit tablet.
"The Yang Family must cultivate their own faction, accumulate the family's foundation, and use today's bestowed supplies as the base. Make rational use of the remaining items in the safe house, learn more knowledge in addition to martial training, and take a sustainable development path."
"Cultivate good relations, and do not harvest evil karma."
"Among the beggars, that Hu Zi can be recruited under your command, I see that he has the talent for martial training and is loyal; he will become a great support for you."
"Take good care of Jiang Xiaobai."
"I will be in seclusion for a while, call for me at the shrine if you encounter any difficulties."
As the golden characters dissipated, Yang Shi bowed to the tablet:
"I will heed the ancestor's instructions."
Yang Genshuo sped up the game's pace and went to sleep.
"Yang Shi is quite reliable. There shouldn't be any problems..."
If he always let the game pace match real-time, he would only receive an offering once a year, which would be quite foolish.
It's in his best interest to receive an offering every day, with 6 days he can get 6 offerings and will surely find a way to make money to repay the bank.
"Time to sleep."
"The ancestor is going into seclusion?"
Yang Shi quietly pondered every word the ancestor had said in the backyard.
"Developing the Yang Family's power, huh... that is indeed necessary, as I alone am too weak."
"But how exactly should I achieve sustainable development as the ancestor mentioned?"
He had planned to sell these items to Treasure Pavilion in exchange for money for cultivation, but now it looked like...
"The ancestor must have a deeper meaning, these resources... won't be that simple."
But he couldn't figure out the deeper meaning for the moment, so he decided to visit the safe house that the ancestor had specifically mentioned.
Taking out the resources inside for inspection, there were a few items that he had only glanced at before because they were not immediately useful, so he hadn't paid much attention.
Like the box labeled 'Books and Entertainment.'
After pondering for a whole day, Yang Shi had an epiphany.
"So that's what the ancestor meant..."
...
"Kill!"
"I dodge!"
"Kill again!"
"Ah~"
"Rather than let all under heaven betray me, I would betray all under heaven! I love nothing more than killing in my dreams!"
"Come at me!"
"Discard, pass."
"Understanding Heaven is easy, defying it is hard. Observing the celestial phenomena tonight, one can discern the fates of the world..."
Yang Genshuo groggily woke up and looked toward the still-lit computer screen in the study, where a group of people were playing the Three Kingdoms Kill board game, crowding the table tight.
"No way, it's too fierce. My tabletop game store has come back to life!"
He turned over, planning to go back to sleep.
10 seconds later, Yang Genshuo did a carp flip off the bed and slid onto the floor.
"Ah!?"
The computer screen still showed a crowd playing Three Kingdoms Kill, only it was the speed version; games were whizzing by one after another.
He set the game speed back to normal and stared at Yang's Tabletop Game Tea House in front of him, utterly bewildered.
"What the... what's going on here?"
"Yang Shi, what are you doing?"
My just-closed-down game store, you've opened it up in the Immortal Cultivation World?
Upstairs, Yang Shi was leisurely and contentedly sipping milk tea with the Treasure Pavilion's owner, Liao Cao.
"Yang, as a tea house owner whose business is thriving and who has met all sorts of people, who in Qingshi County can be called a hero?"
"This... Yang Shi really doesn't know."
"A hero, they say, should harbor great ambitions and sound strategies, possess a heart encompassing the universe, and a will to ingest heaven and earth. The heroes of today's Qingshi County... it's only Sir Shi and Liao."
"Sss!"
Yang Shi took a sip of his Immortal Floating Milk Tea and in his panic sprayed it all over the table.
"Hahaha~ so entertaining."
"Classic re-enactment!"
The two clapped hands and laughed heartily.
Yang Genshuo: "?"
"Are you two cosplaying or what?"
[Manifestation]
"Yang Shi, you come out here now!"
Yang Shi, upon seeing the golden characters appear in the air, felt a chill in his heart.
"Mr. Liao, I suddenly remembered there's an urgent matter at home. Let's continue our chat some other day."
"Sure, sure, you go ahead. I'll listen to the storyteller some more."
Yang Shi walked to the back courtyard of the tea house, where a shrine had unexpectedly been erected.
"Congratulations to the ancestor for leaving seclusion!"
"Don't you be happy just yet, how did my Yang Family open up a game store?"
"Ah! I was following the guidance you left behind, ancestor, and realized several strategies for managing the family!"
"My guidance?"
"Yes! From the books you specially left for me, I gleaned several strategies for family management!"
"Books?"
Yang Genshuo looked down and saw several books placed on the shrine's incense table.
The top book was titled "Log On for 100 Free Draws."
Upon seeing the title, he recalled that while running the game store, he had planned to create a new trading card game and bought some tutorial books online, but he had never opened them.
Later, he casually threw a few new books into the safe house just in case there was a power outage they could provide some entertainment.
"You learned from this book?"
"No, no, this one is about farming. Mainly, the tea house is based on 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' and 'Three Kingdoms Kill Basic Version,' and with the enhancement of your magic artifact—the tablet—I realized the board game + beverage model, achieving great success!"
"Now, Yang's Tea House is the busiest tea house in the entirety of Qingshi County, famous for our Immortal Floating Milk Tea and Immortal Coffee. Even wealthy people from neighboring counties line up to have tea here!"
Yang Genshuo was astonished.
This Yang Shi... he's got something.
He spent last year solely focused on martial arts; I didn't keep an eye on him for the first half of this year, and he pulled off something big.
You have to say, he really pulled it off with style.
As Yang Genshuo was pondering, a voice came from outside.
"Master Yang, today there are 3 slaves who were lazy and didn't work the fields properly! I've caught them and brought them here!"
People were still being made to work the fields? He had become a landlord?
"Let's go have a look."
Yang Shi thought for a moment, then took "Log On for 100 Free Draws" with him as he went out.
At the street corner, Hu Zi was holding a whip in his left hand and leading three slaves with a rope in his right.
Yang Genshuo's head buzzed at the sight.
"Wait! Something seems really off here!"
He looked again at the book tucked under Yang Shi's arm; beneath its large title were four smaller characters.
"Log On for 100 Free Draws—The Slave Estate"
A gust of wind blew, revealing the first page of the book.
"Question: What do pillows and slaves have in common?"