Chapter 65: Mortal World’s Money
After the eight demons left, Jiang Li summoned the attendant of the inn to clean the room.
This Earth-ranked guest room was already smelly because of those demons. Clearly, there was no way to stay in it.
Jiang Li found the owner of the inn and told him about the banquet tomorrow.
Jiang Li’s request was for twenty tables of meat and wine to be served immediately after midnight. However, the boss wiped away his cold sweat and apologized repeatedly in fear.
“Master Immortal Master, it’s not that I’m unwilling, but our store has limited manpower and insufficient materials. We really can’t set up such a huge banquet!”
How could Jiang Li not know what he was thinking? This inn had more than 20 large tables in the main hall alone. They usually had to provide food for many of the guest rooms. A single banquet was a little tiring, but it was definitely not difficult.
All that was lacking was money.
Jiang Li smiled as he stretched out his hand and pressed down on the inn owner’s wrist. Yin attribute spiritual qi corroded the mortal’s flesh and blood, and after gently pressing down, a green-black mark appeared on his wrist.
When the inn owner saw this, he immediately turned pale with fright and hurriedly knelt on the ground, shouting, “Immortal Master, please spare me!”
“Don’t worry, as long as you do your job well, the money will be yours. However, if you deliberately oppose me and something goes wrong with the banquet, this thing will take your life!”
How could the boss dare to say no? He kowtowed as if he was pounding garlic with his head, agreeing extremely readily.
Jiang Li had no intention to lower himself to the level of a small figure, but the thoughts of these insignificant people could sometimes spoil things.
Without putting his life in danger, he would definitely cut corners.
As for gold, silver, and money, the tavern definitely would not be able to afford it. He still needed to find someone to “borrow” some.
“Heh! Those three fellows went to scout the vicinity and still haven’t returned!”
Jiang Li looked for his new subordinates. As expected, the three of them had other intentions and did not return after leaving.
It seemed that they were still planning something.
If they were to find a target and become inner sect disciples, so what if Jiang Li had a contract? With the support of the sect, wouldn’t they be able to suppress Jiang Li as they pleased?
Indeed, such subordinates were unreliable.
Fortunately, Jiang Li originally did not expect them to be of any help. So long as they stayed at the side and acted as three obvious ‘baits’, it would be fine.
Without his subordinates by his side, Jiang Li could only leave the inn alone and walk towards the city lord’s mansion.
Cloud Stream City was not affiliated with any country.
There was once a small piece of spiritual wood forest here, it was a small wooden settlement that served the Scripture Storage Valley.
After the spirit trees were destroyed, this place was also abandoned by the sect. However, due to its superior geographical location, more and more mortals gradually gathered and eventually formed this city.
Therefore, there was only the city lord here and no officials.
Jiang Li walked into the city lord’s mansion. The guards guarding the gate had been exhorted over the past two days that they could not afford to offend anyone wearing such clothes. Therefore, no one stopped him.
“Where is your city lord?” Jiang Li grabbed a servant and asked.
“The city lord is having a meeting with the Immortal Masters in the main hall.”
Immortal Masters?
Jiang Li immediately understood the thoughts of the other outer sect disciples.
Apart from the flying s.h.i.+p flying in the sky outside, there were definitely sect elders overseeing this Cloud Stream City.
The most likely place was undoubtedly the city lord’s mansion.
As such, the city lord’s mansion that was most likely guarded by sect elders naturally became the safest headquarters. The outer sect disciples naturally wanted to run there.
Under the guidance of the servant, Jiang Li arrived at the main hall. Before he even stepped in, a series of loud chatter sounded from inside.
After hearing a few words, Jiang Li knew that those late-stage Qi Refinement realm disciples were currently splitting up the search areas and tricking mid-stage Qi Refinement realm disciples to move together with them.
When the time came, they would take the credit and risk others. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
Jiang Li did not knock and directly walked over. With a glance, he saw that three familiar fellows were clearly sitting in the crowd.
Jiang Li’s eyes under the mask widened, causing the three of them to hurriedly lower their heads in fear.
Since the three of them were here, the information that Jiang Li wore a wooden mask was naturally spread out.
The outer sect disciples recognized Jiang Li.
“Haha, Junior Brother Jiang Li is here as well. That’s perfect. We’re arranging a search plan. Junior Brother Jiang Li, come join us.”
“After all, our opponents are former sect elders and inner sect senior brothers. There’s strength in numbers.”
Guo An was naturally the host of this meeting. He immediately sent an invitation to Jiang Li.
“Senior Brother, there’s no need to be so polite. You guys can just discuss it. I’m not good at these things; it’s best not to get involved.”
“The three of you, hurry up and come over. If you continue to cause trouble for our senior brothers and sisters, I won’t forgive you.”
Jiang Li casually refused them, and then he looked at the three of them. As he spoke, he even took out the contract from his pocket and intended to activate it.
This kind of contract paper of the lowest level could only be activated once. If it was distributed to three mid-stage Qi Refinement cultivators, it might not necessarily be fatal, but it would definitely cause them to be heavily injured and on the verge of death.
The three of them hurriedly took out the wooden mask and put it back on before hurriedly running to stand behind Jiang Li.
After that, he walked past the group of cultivators and directly arrived before the city lord who had been standing at the side.
Jiang Li directly stated his request. He wanted money, food, and manpower.
The city lord was naturally unwilling, but he could only agree on the surface and promised Jiang Li that he could bring people to the major banks in the city to directly move the money.
Jiang Li could not be bothered to pay attention to him. He brought away 30 men and seized more than half of the city lord’s treasury.
“This Jiang Li really doesn’t know anything. Senior Brother Guo kindly invited him, but he actually has such an att.i.tude!”
“That’s right! At this time, he’s actually only thinking of robbing the mortal world. This kind of person definitely doesn’t have a future!”
“As cultivators, gold and silver are nothing but feces, but that Jiang Li only knows how to plunder feces. Haha, he’s only worthy of being a.s.sociated with mortals.”
After Jiang Li left, this group of senior brothers launched verbal attacks at him again, and they were rather disdainful towards his actions of storing away gold and silver…
With the dozen heavy chests of gold and silver in place, the a.s.sembly of the banquet naturally became simple.
With the help of 30 men, they used bamboo poles to support the frame. After covering it with oilcloth, the simple and crude table was completed.
A large amount of ingredients were brought back.
Of course, most of them were roosters, hens, eggs, and a large amount of lard.
Most of the demons that came were probably those two types. Naturally, most of them were prepared for them.
Jiang Li had three of his “subordinates” oversee the situation as cas.h.i.+ers.
Five taels of silver for one ghost, and five taels of silver was one living soul. This meant to say, for each deceased person, the demons would be able to obtain ten taels of silver. To the demons, this price was no different from getting money for free.
Jiang Li prepared 700,000 silver ingots here.
In this Cloud Stream City, the population was only about 400,000. The souls and ghosts could not exist forever, so it should be very sufficient.
However, he did not know if the souls gathered were enough to help him repair the coffin.