Chapter 20: The Way of Making Money

  "Xia Yan, are you confident that you can defeat Xi Qiu Shui?" asked the Great Elder Xia Lei.

  Xia Yan had never seen Xi Qiushui before, but even if the opponent had opened up all 108 meridians in his body, Xia Yan was confident that he could defeat him. However, in this situation, Xia Yan felt that he shouldn't speak too confidently, lest the clan leader and elder think he was being arrogant.

  Xia Yan thought for a moment, his brow unfolding as he said: "This Xiachun Shui I have never seen before, nor have I ever crossed hands with him. However, on the day of the trial, I will definitely defeat him with all my might!"

  "Hehe, very good!" Xia Fei Long nodded and said in a condensed voice: "Starting from tomorrow, Xia Yan, Xia Zixing, Xia Liu, Xia Ming, and Xia Chunye can enter the Summer Family's Heavy Gate Pavilion at will to study and research the classics stored within."

  The Jing Pavilion is the most important place in the Xia family, and the guardians of the Jing Pavilion are the four former elders of the Xia family, who have extremely strong powers. The Xia family children who can enter the Jing Pavilion to study and observe have already been recognized by the patriarch and the council of elders.

  However, Xia Yan and the other four had already learned martial skills. If they were to choose another martial skill in the Scripture Pavilion, they would have to start from scratch. Moreover, with Xia Zixing's abilities, if they were to learn another martial skill, they would definitely be unable to keep up. Before they could learn more advanced secret techniques, Xia Zixing and the other three would not easily learn another martial skill again.

  However, for Xia Yan, this was not a problem. The only issue Xia Yan needed to face was how to strengthen his body and toughen his willpower so that he would no longer feel mentally exhausted when refining his martial skills.

  With a smile on his face, Xia Yan spoke up: "Clan leader, is there anyone in the clan who has achieved the Human Class?"

  Human-class scriptures are entry-level secret books. With the power of the Xia family, it is certain that there are human-class secret books in the heavy land of Jingchu, but the number will not be too many.

  Xia Fei Long burst out laughing and said to Xia Yan: "Human-grade secret recipe, that's something that requires clearing all 108 meridians of the martial path to learn. Xia Yan, you're close to completing your marrow washing, but you still lack a few meridians. You can't be too ambitious! Wait until you've fully cleared all 108 meridians of the martial path before considering learning human-grade secret recipes!"

  Human-level secret recipe, must open up all 108 martial arts meridians throughout the body before learning and practicing.

  Xia Yan smiled lightly and said: "Don't worry, Clan Leader, I know my own abilities."

  "Ah, that's good. There are indeed a few human-class secret books in the pavilion. You can take a look at the changes in martial arts techniques later on. However, remember not to be infatuated with human-class secret books, as it will do no good for your future cultivation."

  Xia Zixin and Xia Liu also responded in unison.

  "There's another thing, all of you will soon be crossing the threshold of 15 years old. Once you're past 15, you'll be adults. In the future, the Xia family will rely on you to become stronger. So, starting from today, you will be assigned to various industries within the Xia family to inspect and take charge as inspectors."

  The Xia family's excellent children, before the age of 15, will come into contact with the family business, which is also a process of getting familiar beforehand. The business operated by the Xia family occupies about one quarter of the market share in Yushui City. The Wang and Xi families each occupy one quarter, and the remaining one quarter is jointly occupied by other families.

  "Xia Yan, you'll be in charge of our Xia family's North District Market. Of course, don't neglect your own cultivation, just need to go and inspect every few days, understand the various accounts." Xia Fei Long looked at Xia Yan with his eyes.

  Beiqu Fangshi is the most important Fangshi of Xia's family in Yushui City, and now Xia Yan serves as the touring inspector, which can be seen how much importance is attached to Xia Yan.

  Xia Yan naturally shouldered the responsibility, which was what he should have done and didn't affect his cultivation.

  Back in his own courtyard, it was already nighttime, but Xia Yan did not lie down to sleep. Instead, he sat cross-legged on the bed and began to circulate his internal energy according to the Ling Luo Secret Classic. Although all 108 meridians of his body had been fully opened, Xia Yan had never relaxed in his cultivation of the Ling Luo Secret Classic. He continued to guide his internal energy through the 108 meridians of his body, circulating it endlessly.

  The path of cultivation, having only the talent beyond ordinary people is not enough, one must also have perseverance that ordinary people do not possess. Xia Yan, apparently is someone who does not lack either talent or perseverance.

  Starting from ten months ago, Xia Yan had hardly slept, and almost every day was spent in cultivation. Internal energy, martial skills, Xia Yan had never slackened off.

  "I've recorded most of the martial skills on the square, but now I'm having trouble refining and combining them due to a lack of spiritual energy. The old Holy Emperor said that strengthening my body can also increase my spiritual energy. However, ordinary methods of strengthening my body are very slow to take effect. The old Holy Emperor wants me to use medicinal elixirs to rapidly strengthen my body, but the required materials - 50-year-old Six Leaf Fruits and 50-year-old Green Bamboo Grass... these things will cost a huge sum of money!"

  "And this is just the first time we need to buy medicine, who knows what else we'll need in the long run. Not having enough gold coins is a big problem!" Xia Yan thought hard, thinking of ways to quickly earn a lot of gold coins.

  He is now serving as the Inspector of the Northern District of the Fang City, and if he wants to, he can use his position to make some money, but this is not a good thing to do. If the elders of the family find out, it will be bad...

  "Huh...... Why didn't I......"

  Suddenly, Xia Yan's eyes lit up, "Extreme Challenge! Right, why don't I go to the Extreme Challenge arena?"

  The Extreme Challenge Arena is available in any city on the Dragon Continent, this is a place to play a game of life and death. Inside the arena, cultivators can challenge the arena. Successfully challenging the arena will become the arena master. The arena master must guard the arena to welcome challengers. For the primary arena, after the first victory, the arena master can get ten gold coins. Ten gold coins are already a considerable amount of money, and ten gold coins are equivalent to 100,000 copper coins after conversion, which is enough for ordinary people to maintain their living expenses for a year.

  So ten gold coins were enough to make many people go on an adventure.

  After the first victory on the primary arena, you can get 10 gold coins. If you continue to accept challenges and win twice in a row, you can get 20 gold coins. Winning three times in a row gets you 40 gold coins, four wins gets you 80 gold coins, five wins gets you 160 gold coins...

  After five consecutive victories, you will be qualified to challenge the intermediate champion!

  The Extreme Challenge Arena is just a place for businessmen to make money, but the businessmen who run the Extreme Challenge Arena are all backed by powerful forces. Even families like the Xia family, Wang family, and Xi family of Yushui City do not have the qualifications to operate an Extreme Challenge Arena. It's like the auction house, there is only one auction house in the Dragon Continent, and this auction house has branches in all the main cities and county towns of the Dragon Continent. The owner of this auction house is said to be a legendary strongman at the Spirit level!

  Having thought of a way to make money, Xia Yan felt much more at ease in his heart. At this time, the sky had already turned white, and it would be dawn in less than an hour. Only then did Xia Yan lie down on the bed, planning to rest for an hour before going to the Extreme Challenge arena to take a look.