A Millionfold Return: My Children Cultivate Immortality, I Become a God - Chapter 458

Chapter 458 Wu Commerce Association

“President, this year’s losses have reached three thousand units of Lower-grade Divine Source. At this rate, I’m afraid our Wu Commerce Association won’t survive another hundred years.”

“President, the other three major commerce associations have issued a sanction order against us. They’ve openly declared war on the Wu Commerce Association. Should we fight back against them?”

“President, all of our people have been poached by the three major commerce associations. They’re taking advantage of us too much!”

Meanwhile, inside the Southern Sky Natural Domain, Wu Rulong listened to reports from his Elders, his expression darkening to the extreme.

After a long moment, Wu Rulong took a deep breath to calm himself before speaking.

“If the three major commerce associations want to compete with us through financial power, then we’ll fight them on that front! I, Wu Rulong, don’t lack Divine Source. If it comes down to it, I’ll ask my father to step in!”

“Yes, President!”

Soon, those under his command withdrew, leaving only Wu Rulong and two True God Peak powerhouses who had helped him build Wu Commerce Association to its current scale.

The two looked at Wu Rulong and couldn’t help but sigh as they spoke.“President, the strength of the three major commerce associations cannot be underestimated. If things don’t improve, perhaps we should agree to their demands.”

Upon hearing this, Wu Rulong abruptly stood up and shouted angrily,

“Impossible! They want me to join some Ten Thousand Merchants Association and hand over forty percent of our annual income? What kind of good deal is that anywhere in the world?”

“Besides, if anyone’s going to join, it should be them joining our Wu Commerce Association, giving us fifty percent of their annual income!”

The Xuanyuan Realm lies within the Southern Sky Natural Domain. After ascending into the Natural Domain, Wu Rulong did not act rashly. Instead, he found a suitable location before founding the Wu Commerce Association.

By chance, he also rescued two True God Peak powerhouses, Zheng Zidan and Mo Qianyun. Thanks to Wu Rulong’s abundant financial resources, they chose to join his Wu Commerce Association and work for him.

With their unique business methods, the Wu Commerce Association quickly established a solid foothold in the Natural Domain and continued to grow stronger.

However, Wu Rulong never expected that an organization called the Ten Thousand Merchants Association would come knocking, demanding that he either join their ranks and hand over forty percent of his yearly income or be driven out.

As the son of Wu Hao, Wu Rulong naturally would never allow such a thing to happen, so he rejected them without hesitation.

Soon after, Wu Commerce Association faced hostility led by the Ten Thousand Merchants Association and the other two major commerce groups. In just one year, the scale of Wu Commerce Association was cut in half.Zheng Zidan and Mo Qianyun looked at Wu Rulong in front of them and couldn’t help but sigh.

“President, it’s only because the Ten Thousand Merchants Association hasn’t chosen to settle this matter with force that we’re still holding on. If they did use force, I’m afraid we wouldn’t last even a day.”

It wasn’t that Zheng Zidan and Mo Qianyun were speaking recklessly. The Ten Thousand Merchants Association, being the largest commerce group in the entire Natural Domain, had powerful figures at the Divine King Realm level stationed within.

If they had decided to use force, Wu Rulong’s group would have been wiped out long ago.

The next moment, Wu Rulong stood up and walked over to the window of the loft, gazing out at the vast Wu Commerce Association grounds. With a look of melancholy, he said,

“I’d be glad if they used force. If they did, I could openly and outright destroy them.”

Hearing this, Zheng Zidan and Mo Qianyun exchanged a glance, curious about where the president’s confidence came from.

Previously, Wu Rulong had saved them because they owed a faction thousands of units of lower-grade Divine Source, which Wu Rulong happened to pass by and paid off.

To repay Wu Rulong’s lifesaving kindness, they became his subordinates.

As for Wu Rulong’s own strength, they knew full well he was only in the initial stage of True God, still weaker than both of them. So where exactly did this confidence come from in Wu Rulong’s situation?“All right, just follow my orders. I’m not short on Divine Source; as long as I can build up the Wu Commerce Association, that’s enough.”

“As for the Ten Thousand Merchants Association, if they want to resolve this matter by force, then I wouldn’t mind wiping them out directly.”

From Wu Rulong’s tone, Zheng Zidan and Mo Qianyun could tell he wasn’t joking, so they quickly went to carry out his orders.

After they left, Wu Rulong sighed deeply and said in a low voice,

“Father, don’t you think the stronger a being’s realm is, the less likely they are to take action lightly? My Wu Commerce Association has held out this long—why haven’t they made a move yet?”

Ever since arriving in the Divine Realm, things hadn’t been as straightforward as they were in the Immortal Realm or the Spiritual Realm. In the Spiritual Realm, other factions, once they learned of the Wu Commerce Association, attacked without hesitation.

Though the Immortal Realm was a bit slower, they too began to act within a year.

But in the Divine Realm, it had been so long without any action, which made Wu Rulong’s plan to intimidate them through sheer strength impossible to realize.

Shaking his head, Wu Rulong stopped overthinking. When confronted with force, meet it with force; when faced with water, build a dam. Now it was just a question of who would lose patience first.

As for financial resources, not to mention one Ten Thousand Merchants Association, even if there were a hundred of them combined, their collective wealth wouldn’t match Wu Rulong’s alone.Meanwhile, within the Ten Thousand Merchants Association, the presidents of the three major chambers sat together, their expressions utterly calm, barely giving the small Wu Commerce Association a second thought. The reason they targeted the Wu Commerce Association was to warn the other chambers in the Natural Domain not to oppose the Ten Thousand Merchants Association, or else there would be no way out but death.

“Everyone, it’s been nearly ten years. How long do you think the Wu Commerce Association can hold out with their current strength?”

The middle-aged man seated in the center quietly asked. He was Qin Jiangshan, president of the Luobao Chamber of Commerce—one of the top three elite chambers under the Ten Thousand Merchants Association—and his cultivation had reached the peak of Heavenly God.

Hearing Qin Jiangshan speak, the portly man sitting across from him with a cheerful smile responded, “Not much longer. It’s much slower to crush a commerce association through business tactics than to use direct force. If we used force, the Wu Commerce Association would be wiped out in a single day.”

“Only President Lu has such a kind heart that he chooses to fight a business war instead.”

President Lu, Lu Yijia—leader of the Qianlong Chamber of Commerce, one of the three major chambers—also stood at the peak of Heavenly God cultivation.

It was Lu Yijia who originally decided to take the approach of business warfare against the Wu Commerce Association, which refused to join the Ten Thousand Merchants Association. That decision was why, after several years, they still hadn’t managed to bring down the Wu Commerce Association.

Hearing Huang Ziyi’s words now, Lu Yijia’s expression darkened somewhat. He had initially thought the Wu Commerce Association was just a rookie, a small fledgling chamber that the Ten Thousand Merchants Association could easily defeat with minimal effort.They never expected the Wu Commerce Association to cling to life for so long.

“In that case, let’s move on to the second plan. There’s no time to keep playing around with the Wu Commerce Association.”

“Nearly ten years… are we finally going to take direct action against the Wu Commerce Association? If you ask me, it would have been a lot simpler just to use force from the start instead of dragging this out for so long.”

Huang Ziyi shook his head, sounding somewhat displeased. After all, his principle was that if you can crush them through force, you should never waste time on business warfare. Only absolute power could command a truly strong commerce association, wasn’t that right?