I Can Accumulate Proficiency, Starting from Alchemy

Translator: 549690339

“Friend Yu, I have to reiterate.”

“Our deal is to ensure your safety, so as long as you are safe, I consider it as me having fulfilled our agreement.”

“In other words, if I encounter some crises that I believe I can’t handle, I can directly take you away, escaping danger, instead of letting us both fall into crisis because of your issues.”

“Of course, if you are unwilling to leave with me when a crisis presents itself, then our agreement naturally becomes null.”

“Having said that, do you have any concerns?”

Han Yi’s words were quite clear.

Yu Xi paid him to protect her, but didn’t specify how. In Han Yi’s understanding, as long as Yu Xi is alive, it counts as protection. If they encounter danger, they can simply retreat.

It doesn’t mean that no matter what Yu Xi does, he has to resolve all the dangers she faces.

His job is to ensure Yu Xi’s personal safety, not to guard her while she accomplishes something. The nature of these two tasks is vastly different.

Han Yi’s words caused Yu Xi’s complexion to change dramatically, but in the end, she nodded.

“Don’t worry, Master Wang. If things become impossible, we will naturally retreat first before figuring out a solution.”

Han Yi’s expression relaxed a bit when Yu Xi agreed to this.

“From what your father said earlier, protecting you won’t be that simple.”

“Tell me more, what kind of agreement do you have with the Supreme Pavilion?”

Before now, Yu Xi had only told Han Yi that they had secured a downstream business from the Supreme Pavilion, but Han Yi was uncertain about the nature of the business.

However, from Yu Wei’s brief comment, Han Yi guessed that this business wasn’t as easy as Yu Xi had described.

Therefore,

Could it be that apart from the Zhang Family, even the Supreme Pavilion was involved in the Yu family’s troubles?

If that was the case, this would be a major problem.

That is the Supreme Pavilion we are talking about.

In the Daqin Immortal Country, even the four holy places don’t dare to cross paths with the Supreme Pavilion. After all, behind the Supreme Pavilion stands the strongest force in the Yu Heng World – the Daqin Emperor, rumored to be just one step away from the Immortal Road.

Yu Xi hesitated for a moment, but eventually, she shared the entire truth.

The Yu family previously operated a trading company, which had signed an agreement with the Supreme Pavilion. They received four hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones from the Supreme Pavilion, and within a set time period, they needed to provide a series of cultivation resources to the Supreme Pavilion, including spiritual talismans, magical equipment, pills, formations, etc.

The Yu family was initially eager to take on this lucrative deal, but they suddenly discovered that even with spirit stones, they couldn’t purchase any resources. Their past business partners were all unwilling to do business with them, and refused to supply goods.

Further investigation revealed that the Zhang Family was sabotaging them behind the scenes.

The Yu family tried many methods, and eventually had to travel far to Daqian, from Tian Nan Immortal City to Jinyun Immortal City, and from Jinyun Immortal City to Daqian Immortal Country. They initially sought out the Immortal Pavilion, but the Immortal Pavilion quoted a higher price and wasn’t willing to deliver to Daqin, because it involved the Supreme Pavilion. The profit wasn’t worth the risk for the Immortal Pavilion.

Afterwards, the Yu family reached out to other large-scale trading companies in Daqian, all to no avail. In the end, they approached the Profound Immortal Pavilion.

That’s why Yu Xi was willing to pay such a high price to purchase a large quantity of resources from the Profound Immortal Pavilion, aiming to fulfill the agreement with the Supreme Pavilion.

In simple terms, the Yu family was set up. The business deal was not as straightforward as it seemed. Even if they managed to fulfill the requirements, they would still suffer a substantial loss of spirit stones.

But if they failed to deliver the resources to a designated cultivator in Yu State Immortal City on time, it would not only result in a loss, but outright bankruptcy.

According to the amount Yu Xi mentioned, if the task is completed smoothly, the Yu family would suffer a loss of more than two hundred thousand spirit stones. Although it would be a significant hit, it wouldn’t bankrupt them.

But if they failed to complete the task, a tenfold fine, which is four million high-grade spirit stones, would be imposed. Even if they sold the entire Yu family, they couldn’t raise a quarter of this amount.

This was the true origin of this incredibly lucrative business deal.

Of course,

The involvement of the Zhang Family was indeed the root cause of this situation, and Yu Xi did not lie about it.

As for the Supreme Pavilion, everything they did was reasonable, and there was nothing inappropriate. Whether there was any hidden information involved, Yu Xi couldn’t be certain.

However,

From Yu Wei’s previous comment, Han Yi couldn’t believe that the Supreme Pavilion wasn’t involved, at least to some extent. It was highly possible that they knew about the grievances between the Yu and Zhang families, and took advantage of the situation to make a profit from the Yu family at their expense.

The biggest problems with this situation were from the Zhang Family and the Supreme Pavilion, each contributing equally to the trouble.

This was probably the main reason why the Yu family could only look for a deal in Daqian, because in Daqin, no one wanted to offend the Supreme Pavilion. If the Supreme Pavilion turned its attention to them, it would definitely be troublesome and the scale of the trouble wouldn’t be small, so everyone chose to stay out of it.

This was what Han Yi inferred from Yu Xi and Yu Wei’s conversation. He believed that it was at least 80 percent accurate.

However,

After hearing all of it, Han Yi had some doubts and furrowed his brows.

“The Yu family has four Gold Core cultivators. Besides the old Gold Core protector, the other three should be those I met earlier.”

“Even if your father is severely injured, there are still two Gold Core cultivators. Logically speaking, they guarding you on your way to Yu State Immortal City should be more reliable than me, an outsider.”

“So why do you still want to hire me?”

Han Yi had this question since the moment Yu Xi proposed to hire him, and now felt the right time to ask it..