But he wasn't confident he could kill his opponent, so he forcibly suppressed the murderous intent in his heart.
"Want to go again?"
Ian Song looked at Victor Sima and asked. In terms of attack power, he was weaker than a late-stage Profound Immortal, but his opponent couldn't kill him either—after all, he could devour the other's Law power.
However, if two late-stage Profound Immortals came at him, it would be a different story, since the rate at which Chaos Aura could convert Law power was also limited. Looks like he needed to push his soul to its second transformation soon, so Chaos Aura could be upgraded to Chaos Yuan Force.
Victor Sima gave a wry smile. Go again? What for? Even his Law power couldn't do anything to Ian—unless he used that item. But that was his ultimate life-saving treasure and could only be used once. Unless his life was truly at stake, he wasn't willing to use it.
Ian smiled, "Since you're not going to fight, let's get back to negotiations!"
"Alright!"
Victor Sima nodded.
Ian continued, "There's no way I'm handing the top-grade Immortal Yuan Pill business over to Gale Division!"
Victor Sima's face immediately darkened.
Ian waved his hand, signaling Victor not to speak, and continued, "But I can let you sell top-grade Immortal Essence Pills!"
"Top-grade Immortal Essence Pills?"
Victor's eyes lit up with excitement. Top-grade Immortal Essence Pills were for Earth Immortals; even the worst-off Earth Immortal had at least tens of thousands of immortal stones in assets.
Suppressing his excitement, he asked, "How many top-grade Immortal Essence Pills can you supply Gale Division each month?"
Ian replied, "I'll supply you with 100,000 top-grade Immortal Essence Pills at 2,000 immortal stones each. If you can capture the top-grade Immortal Essence Pill market in ten cities this month, next month I'll supply 200,000 pills. Of course, you need to help me collect the Immortal Medicines needed to refine them!"
Hearing this, Victor quickly started calculating in his head.
The market price for top-grade Immortal Essence Pills was around 3,000 immortal stones.
If they got them for 2,000 stones, they could easily wholesale them for over 2,600 each. That meant a profit of 600 stones per pill, totaling 60 million for 100,000 pills.
Even after expenses, they'd still clear at least 50 million.
And if they managed to take ten city markets in one month, they'd get 200,000 pills the next month. Conservatively, that was at least 1.2 billion in annual profit.
Besides, there was no way they'd settle for just ten city markets. As long as they opened enough markets, they'd have every reason to get more pills from Ian.
If they could guarantee a monthly sales volume of one million pills, they'd earn at least five billion a year.
After hammering out the details, Victor hurried off with 100,000 top-grade Immortal Essence Pills.
Maybe Gale Division was just tired of being poor. As soon as Victor returned, he mobilized all their Golden Immortals, sending them out with batches of pills to negotiate business in twenty cities.
Even though top-grade Immortal Essence Pills didn't sell as much as top-grade Immortal Yuan Pills, demand still far outstripped supply.
Victor set the resale price at 2,500 stones. With such huge profits, pill merchants just couldn't resist, and Gale Division quickly took over.
So, in just eighteen days, Gale Division sold all 100,000 top-grade Immortal Essence Pills and established stable sales channels.
Victor rushed back to Greenrock Town to see Ian again.
Since they'd finished the task ahead of schedule, Ian didn't hold back—he handed over 500,000 top-grade Immortal Essence Pills, but reminded Victor to collect Immortal Medicines fast, or risk running out of stock.
Every pill sold meant pure profit, so there was no way Victor would allow a shortage. As soon as he got back, he ordered everyone to start gathering Immortal Medicines.
Actually, Ian had a huge stockpile of top-grade Immortal Essence Pills—over fifty million—and plenty of Immortal Medicines, enough to refine hundreds of millions more.
But since Gale Division was free labor, he had no reason not to use them.
A year passed in a blur.
That year, Earth-Prime Hall teamed up with Earth-Brave, Earth-Fiend, and Earth-Elite Halls to sell a total of one billion top-grade Immortal Yuan Pills. All four halls made a fortune, and even the five halls getting leftovers earned over a billion each.
Earth-Prime Hall alone made over thirty billion in profit.
While raking in immortal stones, Adrian Moon, Queenie Green, and Piper Willow kept recruiting top experts. Earth-Prime Hall now had over a thousand Golden Immortals and more than ten thousand Earth Immortals.
Just in terms of Golden and Earth Immortal numbers, they'd surpassed every division except Gale.
Meanwhile, Gale Division...
Over the year, they sold a total of twenty million top-grade Immortal Essence Pills, earning over ten billion in profit.
Though they didn't make as much as Earth-Prime Hall, they still outperformed every other division by far. With all that cash, Victor Sima was able to recruit plenty of Golden Immortals.
He even managed to recruit three Profound Immortal experts at an annual salary of fifty million immortal stones each.
But he still wasn't satisfied—ambitiously planning to open even more markets and sell even more top-grade Immortal Essence Pills in the second year.
Gale Division and the various halls all made a killing.
Naturally, Ian earned even more.
After all, the cost to refine a top-grade Immortal Yuan Pill was just three stones, and a top-grade Immortal Essence Pill cost less than a hundred.
As for how many immortal stones he had, Ian hadn't bothered to check in ages—they just kept piling up every month.
"Sir, someone from Saint Alliance's Qilin Division is here to see you!"
That day, while Ian was enjoying a massage from Chloe Snow on his lounge chair, a maid came to report.
"It's actually someone from Qilin Division?"
Ian was a bit surprised. Of the nine Saint Alliance divisions, Lake Division was geographically closest to Gale Division. He'd expected Lake Division to show up first, but it was Qilin Division that came ahead of them.
Soon, Ian received the Qilin Division's emissary in the reception hall—a mid-stage Profound Immortal who served as their Left Protector.
The visitor was extremely humble and even brought Ian a gift.
Two stunning twin fairy maidens at the Earth Immortal level.
Ian was half amused and half exasperated. Victor Sima had already tried to get close by gifting several beautiful Earth Immortal women, and now Qilin Division was doing the same. Did they really think Ian was just a lecher?
As for the women Victor sent, Ian didn't take them into his own rooms; he simply assigned them as maids to his other women.
After some polite conversation, the Left Protector from Qilin Division asked to cooperate with Ian.
Ian didn't refuse and handed the top-grade Elephant-Origin Pill business to Qilin Division. Elephant-Origin Pills were high-tier cultivation pills for Golden Immortals, priced at a sky-high 100,000 immortal stones each.
Ian said he could supply Qilin Division with 100,000 pills per year at 80,000 stones each, but payment had to be made in Immortal Medicines.
The Left Protector instantly realized there was at least a billion in profit, so he agreed without hesitation.