Chapter 163: Taking stock of family assets (monthly ticket plus updates)
This has nothing to do with whether there is a murderer or not, but the evil background that everyone understands.

Such a good excuse for me to exploit you.

You say it’s irrelevant, so it’s irrelevant? Even if you’re not guilty, you’re guilty! Deacon Xu, who was detained and had all his assets plundered, has a lot of experience with this.

“The city lord is generous. It is a blessing for the children of the Guan family to be able to worship the city lord as their master. I wonder if there is a limit on the number of people? There are still hundreds of young people in my Guan family who are practicing at home.”

“The Jiang family also has a hundred people for the city lord to choose from.”

Wang Yu raised his eyebrows.

“No rush. The matter of opening a temple and recruiting disciples will be put off for half a month. Two people from each clan will be enough.”

After saying that, he looked at the representative of Yunmeng Pavilion.

“Before Wang entered the city, I met fellow Daoist Chao from your pavilion, and she helped me a lot.

“As for the North City, I’ll trouble you to help maintain order first. The official documents will be issued once everything is on track.”

Ah? Me!
The person who came from Yunmeng Pavilion was petite, a beauty of the type that resembled a beautiful jade from a small family. Her cultivation level was only at the second level of foundation building, which was the same as Wang Yu. Her status should be below that of Chao Yunniang.

Suddenly receiving such great kindness and power from the new city lord, I felt happy but also a little scared.

Because Wang Yu said in front of everyone that Chao Yunniang helped him before entering the city. How did she help? Thinking about Yunmeng Pavilion’s business, one can immediately guess that it was intelligence!

Once the news spread, Yunmeng Pavilion was like a lone boat in the storm of Wang Yu.

To eat or not to eat? That is the question.

But she…seemed to have no other choice.

The woman was sighing in her heart, but her face was full of joy: “Xiang Xiang thanks the City Lord for his trust. I will live up to your trust and maintain the North City well.”

After all, too many leaders of small hills died in North City. These forces only had one person who had established his foundation, and all of them died here, which would definitely cause a wave of chaos.

“In that case, I will not see you off. Please come back here in half a month.”

Everyone was suddenly shocked at this moment, they still want to come in?

Once the formation was set up in this place, it would be a dead end. Wouldn’t it be at the mercy of others? He was nervous in his heart, but he agreed easily.

Wang Yu knew that the next time they met, they would at most send a representative and would never dare to come in person.

It’s all Tuoba Lei’s fault. He wanted to harm them before he died.

–Should!

The storm in the City Lord’s Mansion was over, but the storm outside would continue for a long time. Wang Yu sent everyone away, closed the door, and prepared to take inventory of the wealth in the City Lord’s Mansion.

He ordered, summoning the three-tailed snow fox.

“Xueyu, freeze all the meat paste and body parts and pile them in the corner over there.”

“Yo~”

I have no one under my command, so I have to clean up on my own.

More than 500 storage bags of spoils piled up into a small hill in front of Wang Yu. He checked them one by one, which took a lot of effort. The gains he finally counted were enough to replenish his empty wallet.

“More than 110,000 spirit stones, more than 600 first-level magic tools, 18 second-level magic tools, mostly of lower quality. Only Tuoba Lei and Patriarch Bai have second-level high-quality magic tools.”

One was the saber we had just seen, and the other was a sword.

After Wang Yu checked it, he found that it was not as good as the Green Water Sword he seized from Lao Lan. After all, it was produced by the Sword Sect and its quality was much better than the magic swords out there.

In terms of skills and techniques, there are many more.

This was the largest amount Wang Yu had ever amassed since his practice.

“Qinglong Liancheng Gong”, “Chihuo Burning Body Art”, “Qingmu Yangyuan Gong”, “Qingxin Yunu Sutra”.

These books were dropped by the foundation-building leaders of North City. The routes of the exercises are complete, but the supporting techniques, secret techniques, magical instrument inheritance, etc. are all incomplete.

According to the standards of the Nilingxue Sect, it cannot be called a complete inheritance, but for independent practitioners, as long as there is a route for practicing the exercises, it is complete enough.

Because of different perspectives, the two have different criteria for judgment.

These are of little use to him, but they can enrich the collection of the City Lord’s Mansion and can also be used to train subordinates in the future. The foundation-building technique already has great value.

In terms of magic, there is only one that is useful to him.

“Purifying Heart Mantra” just as the name suggests, this mantra has the effect of clearing the heart and concentrating the mind. It just so happens that he wants to use the opportunity of the evil spirit devouring his body to sharpen his spiritual consciousness.

Using this mantra as an aid will make things safer.

After all, these people were of too low a level and did not have any good things in their hands. The head of the Bai family and Tuoba Lei, who were of a high enough level, did not have the inheritance jade slips in their storage bags.

The Tuoba family also started out as independent cultivators, and have only developed rapidly in the past hundred years. Their foundation is too poor, and they don’t have many good things.

After counting the spoils, it was the City Lord’s Mansion’s turn next.

A treasure house, storehouse, scripture library, and advanced medicine garden.

These four are of utmost importance. With the city lord’s order, Wang Yu is the person with the highest authority in this area and can go anywhere.

The medicine garden in the mansion should be the private property of the Tuoba family. It mainly contains ordinary second-level spiritual medicines, and only three or four relatively rare ones can meet Wang Yu’s daily needs.

Not bad!

The storehouse in the mansion should be what the Tuoba family prepared for their clansmen and those who serve them. There are many and varied things in it, including magic tools, elixirs, talismans, battle flags… everything is available.

Unfortunately, they are all first-level stuff and are useless to him.

usually!
The treasure house is full of the Tuoba family’s collection of treasures. Only the two people in the foundation-building stage have the right to come in. When Wang Yu came here, he was almost blinded by the dazzling light.

Boxes of storage boxes were made according to the storage bag refining method, and the internal space was expanded. Each box had a capacity as large as a house, and was filled with spirit stones, not only low-grade spirit stones but also medium-grade spirit stones. After Wang Yu counted them carefully, he found that there were a total of 1.36 million. Even if converted into medium-grade spirit stones, there were more than 136,000.

perfect!

After the joy, Wang Yu calmed down again.

“No, these are tributes to the Nilingxue Sect.”

Yes.

The Nilingxue Sect’s territory covers four states, so how many cities are built with spiritual veins? !
Depending on the grade of the spirit vein, offerings must be made every five years. A first-grade spirit vein requires 100,000 spirit stones, and a second-grade spirit vein requires 500,000 spirit stones.

Guiling City is a third-level spiritual vein, and it needs to offer a million spirit stones every five years. It seems like a lot, but it actually depends on the location. It is easy for cities like Guiling to collect the offerings.

“That means that out of the 1.36 million, only 360,000 belongs to me. That’s fine, it’s better than nothing.”

Wang Yu counted the days with his fingers and found that the five-year period would end at the end of this year. No wonder all the treasures were piled up in the treasury. The Tuoba family had all died and he had no manpower. Who should he send to deliver them this year?
this is a problem.

There was no time to think about it, as there were more treasures waiting for him to count.

In addition to spirit stones, there are naturally other collections here. Shelves are embedded in the walls, and the restrictions connected to them are derived from the formations.

Still under his control, after checking one by one, Wang Yu got another surprise.

The third-level precious material: Blood Dragon Essence!

According to rumors, this is a gem that was spontaneously formed from the essence and blood of a rich-blooded dragon after its death. It is blood red in color and has a faint dragon aura.

For his Yinming Demonic Dragon Spine, this is an extremely high-grade treasure that can improve his basic foundation and can also forcibly improve his cultivation in the field of body refining.

This piece of blood dragon essence was as big as a fist. Just scraping off a little bit of the powder was enough for him to refine the secret dragon blood medicine. Wang Yu kept it properly.

Next item.

The third-level elixir: Golden Qi Root!

This thing is quite rare. It is only born in a treasure land where the energy of gold is extremely strong but is in an inert state all year round and has lost its sharpness.

This thing has a relatively narrow application range. Given the Tuoba family’s financial resources, they didn’t know how to use it at the time, so they kept it in the treasury.

Wang Yu just happened to know an ancient elixir recipe.

Its name is [Linglong Baodan], and the golden Qi root is one of its main ingredients. However, the recipe of the pill is recorded in a pile of secret ancient books exchanged at the Law Enforcement Pavilion.

He only knew the general information. If he wanted the actual recipe, he had to go back and exchange it. He also kept this treasure.

Next, the remaining things in the treasure house were almost all second-level spiritual objects.

Wang Yu only left one million spirit stones in the treasury, and turned the rest into his own wealth, still shouting about it when he left.

“Poor… Really poor!

“There is nothing in the City Lord’s Mansion.”

He turned around and entered the Sutra Repository again.

It not only includes the Tuoba family’s accumulation over the past century, but also some secret manuals of martial arts that Zhuo Kuangsheng acquired when he was in office. The number is not small, but not too large either.

Mainly the first and second levels, there is no third level book.

Among them, there was a method of escape that made Wang Yu suddenly realize, it was called [Purple Dragon Earth Walking Technique]. As the name suggests, this was the inheritance of Purple Dragon Mountain.

No wonder Zhuo Kuangsheng once fought with the Lord of Zilong Mountain.

The so-called purple dragon refers to loach. The skills practiced here are the secret teachings of Purple Dragon Mountain, which is equivalent to the true teachings and is a more advanced earth escape method.

It can burrow underground, pass through walls, and swim on rocks. It can be called a panacea-type magic. Wang Yu has earth spiritual roots, so he can also learn this method without getting half the result with twice the effort due to attribute problems.

At this point, the City Lord’s Mansion’s assets have been fully inventoried, and mixed with the Tuoba family’s assets, causing Wang Yu’s wealth to skyrocket to nearly 500,000 spirit stones.

This number may seem like a lot, but if converted into mid-grade spirit stones, there would only be 50,000 left. If converted into high-grade spirit stones, it would be equivalent to 500, which is still poor.

There is only a tenfold difference between low-grade spirit stones and medium-grade spirit stones.

There is a hundred times difference between high-quality spirit stones and medium-quality spirit stones.

Moreover, it only circulates between Jindan and Yuanying, and only cultivators at this level can “rub” it out by hand. Generally speaking, it serves as the equivalent of another level.

It is almost impossible for a medium-grade spirit stone to be exchanged for a high-grade spirit stone.

Next, Wang Yu went to the document library of the City Lord’s Mansion.

The account books of the past income and expenditure of the mansion were found, as well as the development records of Guiling City, the distribution of benefits of surrounding resources… and so on.

This part belongs to the property of the Niling Blood Clan.

Wang Yu, the city lord, is equivalent to a manager, responsible for managing the industries here. The sect has given him a standard of one million spirit stones for five years, and the rest will naturally belong to him.

First of all, income is divided into three aspects.

1. Taxation.

It includes the three major families in the city, cultivators from the major markets in the five urban districts, foreign cultivators, caravans… and so on.

It includes five major taxes: commodity tax, offering tax, public security tax, management tax and transit tax!

This item alone can bring the City Lord’s Mansion nearly 300,000 spirit stones of income every year, which means 1.5 million spirit stones in five years. But the accounts cannot be calculated in this way, as there are still a lot of expenses.

City maintenance, formation maintenance, personnel expenses, special casualties… and so on, this is not a small amount of money.

(End of this chapter)