Chapter Twenty October First

  Yu Zhen didn't wait any longer, after the announcement was made, he started brewing soup. This time, he prepared a large pot of ingredients and began making his signature good soup. After it was done, he had all his disciples drink the soup to replenish their energy.

  This time making soup, Yu Ze Cheng is also for cultivation. I remember Bai He Xi said that his own soup has the medicinal properties of promoting qi and dispersing stagnation. The wine and dishes he devoured were all transformed into blood energy, and his own soup had a strong nourishing effect, which should be much more than the true energy produced by eating those wine and dishes. Using them to transform blood energy will definitely be much faster than before.

  Yu Ze Cheng began his soup-making journey, constantly brewing and deliberately using his internal energy to heat the large pot. After the soup was done, he drank it to replenish his yuanqi and internal energy, converting it into blood energy. He persisted in this way, using this high-quality soup with medicinal properties to support his own blood energy conversion.

  Unexpectedly, it really worked. The first time I drank the soup and practiced my skills, by nightfall, I had cultivated another strand of Blood Energy, bringing me to a total of six strands.

  In the evening, Shi Jia came again with an invitation. Yu Ze Cheng brought Gao Feng and others to attend the banquet. This time, they didn't dine at Hu Zhong Ya Lou, but instead, the head of the Mu tribe from the Ten Thousand Great Mountains had come to spend money here and booked the Tian Ya Lou.

  Shi Tianlong accompanied him for a while and then went to greet the head of the Mu tribe, Shi Fangwu accompanied him all the way, drinking happily.

  Yu Zecheng sent the nourishing soup he had brewed himself to Shi Tianlong as a thank-you gift. Shi Tianlong drank it and immediately praised it, even wanting to send someone to learn how to make the soup so that it could be sold in great quantities at the Rouge Pavilion.

  Yu Ze then just smiled and nodded in agreement, but secretly thought:

  "What's the point of teaching you, Shi Tianlong? If you want to learn, just learn. I won't teach you no matter how much money you give me. What if more people learn how to make this soup? It wouldn't be good for Bai Dage either."

  Even a chef from a famous restaurant who studied for seven or eight days couldn't make such a good soup, so Yu Ze Cheng had an excuse and said:

  "This soup is actually a medicine, and it requires someone with spiritual roots to brew it."

  This has blocked everyone's excuse and the matter is now settled.

  In these more than ten days, Yu Ze Cheng began his own cultivation process, boiling soup, drinking soup, cultivating and transforming. Two days later, Yu Ze Cheng gradually discovered that when using blood energy to replace internal energy to heat the large pot, there would be a magical effect. The soup would taste several times better than before, and its medicinal properties would stand out. His disciples would drink a bowl and their blood and energy would surge, making them want to find women to release their pent-up energy. This blood energy was like Vaseline, it could be used anywhere and would produce miracles wherever it was applied.

  At the same time, using blood energy to boil the soup, not only did the blood energy not decrease, but it also showed signs of increasing. This was absolutely good news for Yu Ze Cheng. He vaguely thought of a reason, and Bai He Xi's older brother had said that this soup had the embryonic form of alchemy. Now, using the blood energy to heat it up instead of spiritual energy, wasn't it even more like alchemy?

  Ten days later, Yu Zecheng's blood energy finally reached nine strands. Unexpectedly, the nine strands of blood energy merged into one strand, and from then on, any increase in blood energy would be measured in strands. It seems that his cultivation has yielded results after all.

  Yu then insisted on going like this, the only drawback is that he didn't love drinking the soup more and more, it made him nauseous, for others it was extremely delicious, but for him it was like poison, every day he made it and drank it, smelling the aroma made him feel sick.

  The days passed one by one, and on the third day, Yu Ze Cheng finally memorized all three secret books, then burned them with a fire, so that Yu Ze Cheng could finally let out a breath of relief, and this secret was thoroughly kept as a secret.

  Every night, I fall asleep in the middle of the night without any dreams. Those two Buddhist scriptures are still emerging in my mind, constantly transforming as before. Now they know how to unite and resist blood energy, but the sea of blood has grown up and every night it will dissolve and refine them.

  In these thirteen days, Yu Zecheng began to visit each household in the business district, sending a small gift to each one and getting acquainted with the bosses of various shops. This was considered as paying respects.

  The owners of these shops were also very respectful to Yu Ze Cheng, the small shopkeeper who was said to have mastered magical skills, drove away Mo Tu, and had a legendary master under his command, which had spread throughout Shan Zhu City, no one dared to underestimate Yu Ze Cheng.

  During the visit, Yu Zecheng discovered many problems. The previous method of collecting protection fees was problematic. The Wolf Gang was foolish and collected the same fee from all 34 shops, which was clearly a stupid move. Some shops made thousands of dollars a day, while others had an income of only two hundred taels of silver per month, which was clearly unreasonable and resulted in tax losses.

  They then come up with a new protection fee collection scheme, calculating how to charge in a way that benefits themselves, wanting to collect more money, just making the payer feel happy to hand it over, even if they're heartbroken, they have to smile and submit.

  Actually, the most unreasonable thing is the rouge building, such a big deal only cost twenty-five taels of silver, but no one dared to say anything, including Yu Zecheng.

  Next month will be like this, let's talk about it next month, first stabilize our own team, and then slowly cook the frog in warm water.

  After days of anticipation, October 1st finally arrived.

  October 1st, Ding Chou year

  Suitable for: traveling far away, going out

  Taboo for: quarrying, stone excavation

  Finally, the day has arrived. Early in the morning, just as the sun had risen, at the hour of Chen, under the leadership of Yu Ze Cheng, forty-eight disciples stood behind him, all standing in the courtyard.

  Today is the day of collecting protection fees. This day is crucial for Yu Zecheng and his men, as it will determine whether they can eat meat or drink porridge in the future.

  For this day, Yu Ze Cheng took out all the money and borrowed some from the boat owner to tailor a set of black tiger warrior suits for everyone. He also bought wooden shields, iron swords and other equipment. Everyone wore new clothes, wore their swords, lined up together, majestic and powerful, with an aura of killing intent.

  First pay respects to the ancestors, then Yu Zecheng said:

  "Brothers, today is crucial for us, I've said what needs to be said, I won't say more, let's set off."

  Having said that, he waved his hand and Yu Ze was the first to walk out, rushing straight to the Rouge Building.

  Before that, Yu Ze-cheng redefined the way of collecting protection fees. From now on, they will no longer collect fees in the same way as the former Wild Wolf Gang, but adopt a new method.

  Yu Ze Cheng first went to the Rouge Building, Yu Ze Cheng was dressed in a white warrior suit, with a huge black tiger embroidered on his back. The black tiger bared its teeth and claws, extremely ferocious. Although Yu Ze Cheng was not tall, he had a unique aura.

  Behind him on the left was Gao Feng and on the right was Lin Ye Hong, one civil and one martial, accompanying him as he rushed to the Vermilion Bird Building.