"So, Yuzhi, how do you want to use your Academy Points." Academy Points couldn't be traded, but there were loopholes in that system. Yuzhi could now ask Jin Huang to pay for something worth 10 Academy Points and then use it himself. But this wasn't what he wanted.
"Hey, you know what let's drop those 10 Academy Points, instead, I don't know, just give me some gold ingots or so. I would feel bad if I took your Academy Points."
"Really?" Jin Huang was clearly excited, he didn't have a lot of Academy Points left, but he had countless gold ingots.
"Yes, of course, I wouldn't wanna fuck over my friend." Yuzhi had learned that some young masters and mistresses were surprised by his more vulgar language, but Jin Huang didn't care.
"Alright, il give you 10 golden ingots at dinner, is that enough."
Yuzhi was surprised to hear the amount, the currency in this world went from a bronze coin, silver coin, silver ingot, and then golden ingot.
A bronze coin was similar to 1 dollar in his previous world, a silver coin 10, a silver ingot 100, and a golden ingot 1000.
These prices could fluctuate but were mostly around this area.
This means 10 golden ingots would be enough for a family to live a good to almost luxurious life for 4 months.
(The reason why that is is because in this world, mortals don't have energy bills to pay, computers to buy, and so on, so their expenses are much lower than in our world)
"Yeah, of course." For 1 golden ingot, he would be able to rent a good venue in a good neighborhood for more than enough time.
Then for 20 silver ingots, he would be able to buy enough mouth advertising so that most of the city would remember his casino for several days.
then 1 golden ingot should be enough to buy all the paper and ink he needed for several card stacks.
Since he had enough money, Yuzhi would also be able to buy alcohol to give to his guests for low prices, increasing their judgment ability.
The rest of the week quickly passed, and an excited Yuzhi thinking about everything he could do to increase his profit margin.
Despite all his excitement, Yuzhi didn't forget to focus on other important things and kept studying and cultivating. He had recently had a test for a subject regarding history and passed with flying colors.
And besides that, his cultivation base was increasingly getting closer to the Indigo Qi Channeling Realm.
Surprisingly enough, Zhou Jun had already achieved the Indigo Qi Channeling Realm.
In itself, that wasn't very surprising, a few other people already having achieved it before him. But unlike them, Yuzhi didn't have the countless resources from a backer helping him.
Showing how despite his disadvantages, true talent couldn't be hidden.
In the start, for someone like Zhou Jun who was quite shy, all this attention was a bit much, but it seemed that he had also gotten more confident from it.
In fact, Yuzhi had heard a rumor that the academy was considering getting him his own spiritual beast.
While these were all just rumors easily proven wrong, the fact that they existed showed how much attention was on Zhou Jun.
But Yuzhi didn't care too much about it and focused on himself.
And now that it was weekend again, Yuzhi started gathering everything so that next Saturday could be the first day.
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He started by renting a place, hiring a few people, and gathering all the needed materials. And with his cultivation status, this was all very easy.
He then spent the next day making the place he rented perfect.
He had hired no one else for the job of doing the cards for simple reasons. They knew nothing about cards and teaching them wouldn't give results when he needed them.
And to make this casino something he could keep doing. He needed a certain reputation.
If the person he hired had a large mouth and said something he shouldn't, it wouldn't per se ruin his operation, but it also wouldn't be doing it any favors.
After working his ass off, Yuzhi had created something he was satisfied with.
A large room, a bar to buy alcohol for very low prices, and a table where the magical mystical game of blackjack could be played.
The reason why he chose the game was because it was easy to understand, could be played by multiple people at the same time and as the house, he could easily cheat people.
Although he would pay extra since he had decided to rent the venue for this weekend, and the next week, he was content with the changes that he had made.
The casione had become easy to enter but hard to leave with all the small tricks he had used like.
He used decoration to make the space confusing, bright lights with crystals to make it seem like night hadn't arrived, and no way to tell how late it was.
He was excited for the next weekend, making the next week fly by quickly.
Not much had happened, so Yuzhi could only keep thinking about how much money he could make with his casino.
So Saturday, when the small pointer on the clock hit 6, the doors were opened a few people entered within the first 10 minutes.
In total, they exchanged 7 silver coins and bought some alcohol before they started playing.
Since it was only the beginning, Yuzhi opened his pockets and made them win a bit.
His goal today was to create a winner whose fame should spread through the entire city, making his casino more famous.
Even if there were a thousand losers and 1 winner, everyone would focus on the winner, ignoring those who lost a lot of money.
The entire night wasn't very active, a few people came and went, and while a few won a bit, some others lost. There was one person that had made 3 times what he entered with.
Yuzhi closed shop, knowing how fast the news of this one man's victory would spread
So the next day when he opened the casino, there were much more people.
More alcohol was bought, more people played, and more people lost. Everyone but a few people that entered lost, they lost quite a lot of money. But instead of wailing in regret, they looked at those who won and thought that in the future they would be them.
The night felt long, and after counting, in these 2 days, Yuzhi made a total of 23 Silver Ingots, which is a lot for the start of the business.
And Yuzhi's happiness didn't stop, because Thursday, when cultivating, he had achieved the peak of the Purple Qi Channeling Realm and decided to break through, which he succeeded in.
Life was going perfectly. During the week, his strength and knowledge were increasing every day. And during the weekend, his money would rise like it was a horny man's ding dong.
Even though he had only opened the casino for 1 weekend, Yuzhi felt like it was the perfect time to just skip a month and talk about how much richer he had gotten.
But when the weekend arrived and Yuzhi went to the place he was renting, he didn't find employees happy to see their boss, but instead, the chaos that was in the process of being cleaned up, and employees with long faces.
"What happened?" Yuzhi asked one of his employees. He was currently wearing a mask, only the aura of a cultivator showing his identity.
"Last night, we got robbed, since no one was here, they could easily steal all the money inside the safe." When Yuzhi heard this, a complicated expression came on his face.
Fortunately, only the money used to exchange with customers was there, which were 20 silver ingots. Meaning he still had money.
The problem was that now everyone knew he lacked security, more people would try to break in even if he bought security. And the chance of catching the culprit was low.
Although there were a lot of magical things in this world, Yuzhi was but a weak cultivator who was almost more mortal than a cultivator.
For him, the resources he had access to in no way truly allowed him to find the culprit in this large city.
Even the law enforcement here couldn't do much.
Meaning if he tried to go after them, the result was already set in stone.
He could also take the money earned back with him to the academy, but that wouldn't stop the problem, only negate the losses.
Yuzhi opened shop when it became late while thinking of a solution.
'Hiring security costs too much.'
'Laying a trap is a possibility but with how much I can leave the academy, it will be hard.'
Countless ideas entered and left Yuzhi's mind, some stupid some smart, and after thinking for a while.
The best idea he found was to hire a security guard while also opening the casino every day. In this way, he could make money while also keeping the place protected, making more profit while minimizing his losses.
The only problem was that he needed someone to support him in keeping the shop running while he wasn't here.
Someone competent, obedient, with a tight mouth, and a desire to make money.
While he couldn't just make a job application listing those 4 requirements, he knew there was a place where he could search for people with the most important quality. Obedience.