Absolute Resonance

of House Luolan, and the golden eggs made up Li Luo ’s pocket money.
He had to protect it carefully.

Just like the two leaders had foreseen, there were teething problems for the newcomers.
This was inevitable, but Li Luo had a simple trick to deal with it.
He simply released the first batch of eighth-grade secret watersource, and suddenly they were all absorbed in their newest toy.
It was like putting metaphorical blinders on them.
No one cared who was beside them anymore.
They just wanted to charge straight onwards.

Soon, the Suncreek Villa was in a good rhythm, and the working pace was picking up steadily.

Both Cai Wei and Yan Lingqing were happy to see it take off.
They decided to treat the young lord who had made all of this possible.

It was a moonlit night at the House Luolan headquarters.
The wind shuffled along at a languid pace, enough to keep the night cool, but it was so barely perceptible that the night was quiet.

In a stone pavilion sat Li Luo with Jiang Qing ’e, Yan Lingqing, and Cai Wei.
Besides the visual feast, there was also an actual feast, laid out in sumptuous fashion on the table.

The four ate and chatted.

”It ’s all thanks to the Young Lord that the Suncreek Villa has found such a quick rise to success.
If you have any requests, just say the word, ” Cai Wei said teasingly.

Li Luo looked deep into the eyes of the doll-like beauty.
”Anything? ” his voice trembled.

Cai Wei batted her eyelids.
”Spit it out and find out, ” she said playfully.

”Vixen, how could you tease a betrothed man? ” Yan Lingqing said in disgust.

Jiang Qing ’e continued eating, smiling without comment.

Li Luo looked at the sexy Cai Wei and licked his lips.
Encouraged by her come-hither look, he gathered his courage.
”Dear Cai Wei, I want…

”…you to give me five seventh-grade spirit liquids and purifying lights each month! ” 

Her face froze.
”Young Lord, tonight is actually my retirement dinner.
Working as a manager at House Luolan is too hard, so I ’m quitting.
We will part at dawn. ”

Li Luo was speechless.
Damn, this was a real quick change.

Yan Lingqing was shaking, smacking the table with one hand for emphasis as the laughter peeled out of her.

Jiang Qing ’e just smiled.

”Sister Cai Wei, you said ‘anything!’ ” Li Luo whined.

”Seventh-grade liquids and lights cost 300,000 skygold apiece.
Five bottles is 1.5 million skygold.
In a year, we would be spending over ten million.

”Sure, the Suncreek Villa is taking in good profits now, but it can ’t possibly all go to feed a black hole like you!

”Unless you want me to sell House Luolan ’s other businesses! ” 

Li Luo hastily laughed to soften the sharpness of her tone.
”Well, maybe not five bottles a month.
Surely we can negotiate it? ”

Cai Wei rubbed her brow, all playfulness gone from her manner.
But she did not say no either.
She knew that all of House Luolan ’s businesses were ultimately there to serve the two leaders of the house.
Still, she wanted a bigger source of wealth first before she started feeding them so much.

”Only one bottle of seventh-grade spirit liquid for now.
I can provide a few more fifth and sixth-grade ones, ” she finally said after some lengthy calculations.

”Perhaps two bottles of seventh-grade spirit liquids when the Suncreek Villa gets a little bigger.

”Young Lord, seventh-grade spirit liquids are on a completely different level from sixth-grade ones, you know.
I can count the number of qualified artificers who can make those on my fingers.
They ’re far rarer and far more expensive than sixth-grade liquids and lights by an entire scale, ” Cai Wei grumbled.

”Alright, whatever you think best, Cai Wei.
One bottle a month it is. ” At this rate, Li Luo would never fill up his acquired resonances.
He was broke already at the seventh-grade.
How on earth would he survive the eighth and ninth grades?

Acquired resonances had their own bottlenecks to overcome.
He was feeling it now, although he couldn ’t really tell it to Cai Wei, who would not understand.

Since his seventh-grade spirit liquid intake was going to be limited, he had better channel more of his liquids and lights into his woodearth resonance.
It was only fifth-grade for now, so it should improve a little more quickly.

If he could bring his woodearth resonance to the seventh-grade in the next half a year, he should become much stronger.

Seventh-grade dual resonances against a ninth-grade singular resonance.
Surely he stood a chance?

Now that the Suncreek Villa was on a good track, he would head to Golden Dragon Bank tomorrow.
It was about time for the Golden Dragon Dao Fields to open…