Chapter 884 - 467: A Calamity of Heavenly Proportions (Part 2)

Chapter 884: Chapter 467: A Calamity of Heavenly Proportions (Part 2)

"Hey, what’s the big deal about making a lot of money? It’s just a small business!

"Look at those selling watches, they make over fifty billion a year.

"Us here, we’re not even one-tenth of that.

"Is this fair?

"No choice, that’s how the world is, sometimes it’s really unreasonable.

"Ah... hahaha...

"Right, they’re in luxury goods, we’re in luxury goods too.

"Wearing a watch to a banquet or bringing a bottle of Snow Lotus Soup to a banquet, which is more luxurious?

"Yeah, I also feel our products are a bit more luxurious, hahaha."

As Master Chong chatted and laughed, he occasionally leaned over to look at the computer screen.

Suddenly, he heard an excited voice from the other end of the phone.

"Wow, I heard Expert Bai Mo is going to spend big money!

"Hahaha, great news!

"So, is this month’s Snow Lotus Soup going to have more stock available?

"Master Chong, let me order ten bottles first!"

Ah?

Expert Bai Mo is going to spend big money?

Master Chong chuckled while opening the browser to search for related information, and was surprised to find the third hot search entry was [Bai Mo’s Super Centrifuge].

Big project?

He clicked in to see Bai Mo’s reward offer and smirked.

Then called back.

"I thought it was a lot of money...

"This is nothing, just a drop in the ocean.

"That medicine is of great importance! Bai Mo wouldn’t agree to release more of it due to such a trivial matter.

"Sorry, Old Li, try early next month!"

...

"Also wondering, how long will it take for them to make the super centrifuge I want?"

In the whistling mountain wind, amidst the vast yellow sand.

Bai Mo and his apprentices together, shuttle through the Elixir Skin Workshop of Pill Palace.

Seeing the scrapped facilities, he remembered the super centrifuge he was about to acquire in the present world.

"I’ve never bought something so expensive.

"Hehe."

But it’s definitely worth it!

Spending tens of millions to get the top-notch resources, the newest technology, the deepest industrial foundation, the best engineers, the most eccentric ideas, and the most rigorous execution in this industry... It’s worth it to enhance the facilities of Elixir Skin Workshop.

As Bai Mo thought, he pointed to the crocodile valve in front of him.

"This valve is internally rotten, the Immortal Qi circuits are damaged, impossible to repair, discard it."

The fox apprentices beside him immediately rushed forward to draw a red circle around the facility.

"Ying ying ying!"

"Ow ow ow!"

The red circle indicates impending dismantlement.

After the master leaves, they will use the excavator to remove this facility.

Bai Mo continued walking and pointed to a nearby pipeline.

"This one has too many internal cracks and can’t withstand much water pressure.

"Also dismantle.

"That horn furnace over there looks like it has holes, but actually hasn’t damaged the Immortal Qi circuits and can be used.

"Later, let the artisan team patch up the holes.

"Go to the warehouse and get No. 3 waterproof adhesive to coat its inner walls, then it’ll be usable."

White Belt and White Ears immediately rushed forward happily, drawing a green circle and making several marks on the horn furnace!

"Ying ying ying!"

"Ow ow ow!"

In this excavation site, functional facilities are few.

Every time there’s a usable facility, the foxes get excited for a long time!

Thus, Bai Mo led his apprentices to judge, explain, and mark all the way.

Until they walked out of the excavation site, they saw White Earrings carrying a bucket of red marking paint, which had already bottomed out.

While Black Belt carried a bucket of green marking paint, which barely decreased.

Looking at the strange expressions of his apprentices, Bai Mo grinned.

"Actually, it’s normal!

"This part of the ruins functions steadily.

"The relatively well-preserved relic of the Water Element Pill Shell Workshop is the one that’s abnormal."

...

Swoosh...

Bai Mo got into White Earrings’ car and drove away from the Elixir Skin ruins.

Then he heard the rumbling sounds behind, it turned out the apprentices were already clearing out the abandoned facilities.

Turning back, he could even see billowing dust rising in the ruins of the Elixir Skin Workshop.

"Let’s go, let’s visit the newly excavated palace."

...

This newly excavated palace is not far from the Elixir Skin Workshop, uncovered from a pit with a thick layer of earth covering the roof.

Quanquan Hu, Bai Xingxing, White Moon, and Bai Taiyang are busy extracting various stone slabs from the palace.

"Whimper whimper! Howl howl whimper whimper!"

It’s Quanquan Hu, while moving the documents, reminding his fellow disciples to keep the documents in their original order and not to mess them up!

Just as the four foxes were bustling in and out of the palace...

Swish...

Bai Mo’s car stopped here.

He got out of the car and saw the stone slabs arranged on the ground.

"So many?"

"Elixir skin production documents, perhaps?"

But after a closer look, he showed a wry smile.

"Alright, these aren’t documents, they’re the accounting books of the Elixir Skin Workshop from years ago..."

Each stone slab is still arranged in order!

From left to right, Bai Mo could see the business condition of the Elixir Skin Workshop from its inception as time went by.

"Hey, these guys are really meticulous."

Since these are accounting books, there’s no need to take them back to the hall for research; a glance here would suffice.

With a cold mountain breeze blowing, Bai Mo bent down to quickly inspect these slabs.

He soon realized that actually, it didn’t matter if they were not arranged in chronological order.

"All purchases, no sales."

"Some medicinal materials rotted in the warehouse, some got ruined in production."

"All losses, no profit."

Bai Mo smiled wryly.

"Whimper whimper!"

It was indeed Bai Xingxing, who dug up a brand-new stone slab document, emerging from the pit, and presented it to his master.

Although he couldn’t read, he could tell that this pile was different from the others!

"Hmm?"

Bai Mo also noticed that this pile contained a large amount of text, and the handwriting was very familiar, being the Marquis’s own writing!

[Elixir skin business is too difficult]

[Our production line is old, consumption is high, and the yield rate is very low]

[The produced elixir skin is of very average quality]

[With such poor quality, high-cost items, it’s impossible to find a market]

Bai Mo chuckled awkwardly.

[Second month after the workshop opened]

[A batch of medicinal materials rotted in storage, depressed]

[Still haven’t sold any elixir skin]

Bai Mo was no longer that interested in the Marquis’s series of failures, having become quite accustomed to them.

He roughly scanned through, finishing the Marquis’s history of consecutive losses from the third, fourth, fifth, sixth... up to the eighteenth month.

He set down the slab and picked up a new one, preparing to quickly scan it, suddenly discovering something truly new!

[Hahaha, our elixir skin finally sold]

[The buyer asked if the workshop was custom-made, why the elixir skin’s performance was so unique?]

[I was stunned because I never thought my elixir skin was anything special]

[Later, he said my elixir skin was more translucent and luminous than any elixir skin on the market, he liked this texture]

[Okay, it was indeed more translucent, but that was only because my elixir skin was of poor quality, too thin in thickness, having nothing to do with texture]

[This foolish big spender ordered two hundred sets of elixir skin and paid in advance]

[Taking this money made me feel uneasy, but I thought, such a foolish client, if not taught by the market here, he would be taught elsewhere by the market]

[Since he is bound to be taught somewhere, why not extend a helping hand to me who was about to starve?]

Bai Mo was speechless.

Continuing to read, in the next day’s diary, the Marquis had a change of heart.

[Okay, okay, I decided to also gift him the fifty sets of stock]

[Two hundred and fifty sets for the price of two hundred, very fair and just]

[The Pill Palace should remember him, remember that during the toughest times, he gave us orders, he helped us]

[I also decided to give him a lifetime twenty percent discount token, allowing him to purchase our elixir skin at a twenty percent discount]

Oh?

The Marquis is quite particular, huh?

Bai Mo smiled, continuing to read.

Again seeing the Marquis’s diary in the next day.

[Oh no]

[That client, he’s a conman!]

[He should know the quality of elixir skin, the reason he wanted to buy my trashy elixir skin is because he couldn’t purchase elsewhere]

[He is a wanted Fallen Immortal! a rebel! a King Slaughter Faction member!]

[Did I actually sell elixir skin to the King Slaughter Faction?]

[This is truly, creating a monstrous disaster!]