Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 399 The Financial Oligarch Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School (Daily Ten Thousand Words)

early morning.

The weather was slightly overcast, which made the fog on Poseidon Lake even thicker.

Huo Yuhao woke Wang Dong up early. Wang Dong looked a little angry, and Huo Yuhao didn't know what the problem was.

Could it be that Wang Dong found out I didn't invite him when I cooked lunch and dinner?

Huo Yuhao touched his chin. This shouldn't be the case. When he and Wang Dong were too lazy to go out to buy food, they would cook for themselves in the dormitory. Wang Dong had eaten a lot of his delicious cooking over the past year. Even during the competition, he and Wang Dong would cook for themselves in the hotel several times. This doesn't make sense.

Walking side by side with Wang Dong toward the exit of Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao pondered the dinner from the previous night.

Tang Ya was eventually persuaded by Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei. Bei Bei was momentarily disoriented when he heard that Tang Ya was leaving. When he heard that Tang Ya, a Soul Master, was planning to return to the Heavenly Soul Empire to seek revenge and reclaim her ancestral property, he immediately hugged Tang Ya like a koala and wouldn't let go no matter what.

Huo Yuhao was naturally aware of the danger of this matter.

Unlike the cooperation and competition among classmates at Shrek Academy, the Soul Master world is a place where people can really be devoured. There are all sorts of intrigues and power struggles, and if you're not careful, Tang Ya will be devoured until there's nothing left but bones.

Today you mess with me, tomorrow I'll kill you. These are things that ordinary people don't see, but they do happen.

Not only were there many, but there were also a great many, as numerous as carp crossing a river. Even Huo Yuhao, the old dwarf "Mole" who hadn't even obtained his first soul ring, was able to get his share of the work.

Let's not even talk about whether Tang Ya can take back her family's business on her own. Even if she could, could a mere level 40 Soul Master like Tang Ya really hold onto it?

These days, even businessmen who have built up a large business know that when they pay homage to powerful figures, they need to find a Soul Saint-level expert to act as a backer to avoid problems.

Tang Ya, a four-ring Soul Master and a young woman, returned to Heaven Dou City to become a freelance mercenary, living a life of constant danger. Perhaps she could live for another year or two, or even three to five years or longer if she was lucky.

But those who dare to establish their own sect or school of thought would have a hard time surviving for more than three months!

Do you really think all sects are as good at making money as the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, so they don't even bother to pick up gold soul coins that fall on the ground?

Many sects would really fight tooth and nail for a little gold soul coins or a tiny bit of profit.

Huo Yuhao didn't hide anything from Tang Ya and told her everything. It was like a bucket of cold water being poured over Tang Ya, leaving her feeling completely chilled.

Tang Ya harbored hatred in her heart, but that was all she felt. Despite the upheaval in her family, she was fortunate enough to meet Bei Bei, and thus never truly experienced the cruelty and bloodshed of the Soul Master world.

When Huo Yuhao made Tang Ya truly understand that the Soul Master world was a Soul Beast world disguised as a human world, where people were devoured under a layer of disguise, Tang Ya fell silent.

Shrek Academy.

The name of these five characters is so resounding that most Soul Masters in the Soul Master world who dare to eat people become polite and dance when facing students from Shrek Academy.

Just like what that Soul Master named Bison in the Beast Mercenary Group said.

"Go to hell! Those are Shrek Academy people, the emperors of the Soul Master world, fucking gods!"

[No matter who messes with Shrek Academy members, those lunatics will shove a cannon barrel thicker than a thigh into your mouth, blast you to pieces, and then announce to everyone, "That idiot is an evil spirit master!"]

Under the intimidation of Shrek Academy, many junior Soul Masters within the academy are completely unaware of the truly cruel side of the Soul Master world, and Tang Ya is one of them.

If it weren't for this dinner, Tang Ya might have really returned to Tiandou City with a surge of passion and hatred, only to die a violent death in a very short time.

Fortunately, at that moment, Huo Yuhao extended a helping hand and handed over a land deed.

"Hey, Yuhao, isn't this the land deed for the barbecue restaurant you just bought when you were in first grade?"

Bei Bei is absolutely right. Huo Yuhao had already earned a lot of money before enrolling in school, and after earning another sum after the start of the semester, he directly took over the Xiao Huo Family Barbecue Restaurant, which originally had to pay rent every three months.

When Huo Yuhao saw that the person who came to sign the contract with him was Ning Ge, he was completely dumbfounded, and Ning Ge was also stunned.

According to Ning Ge, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School bought a lot of land in Shrek City, or rather, Spirit City, after the God War ten thousand years ago, and has held onto it ever since.

They kept releasing properties out intermittently for ten thousand years, occasionally buying them back at a premium, ensuring that Shrek City's property prices would continue to rise.

That's why Ning Ge himself didn't know that Huo Yuhao's barbecue restaurant happened to be on land owned by the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.

It wasn't until today, when another elder from a collateral branch who was in charge of this matter went back to the sect, that Ning Ge was allowed to come out and sign the contract on his behalf.

In addition, this elder instructed Ning Ge to create a buzz after the sale, letting everyone in Shrek City know that the land price in Shrek City had increased again.

However, even Huo Yuhao did not expect that not long after he took over his barbecue restaurant, he would run into Dai Huabin. He had no choice but to send his mother to school, and the barbecue restaurant, which originally had two floors and a backyard, was left vacant.

"Yuhao, this, this is too precious."

Beibei and Tang Ya stood there, stunned and at a loss.

This land deed is indeed extremely valuable. From a business perspective, even Ning Ge is not qualified to give Huo Yuhao a discount. Huo Yuhao spent more than 5.5 million gold soul coins to acquire this land, which is an absolute astronomical figure.

The main reason why Huo Yuhao ran out of money after helping Wang Dong buy the Golden Radiance Soul Bone at the start of his second year of school is precisely this.

He used all his remaining funds to buy this shop.

The gold soul coins Huo Yuhao had accumulated over several years of barbecuing, along with the various treasures he obtained from Qian Duoduo and Yan Shaozhe, plus the first share of the new close-combat soul tool, totaled over ten million gold soul coins.

As a result, just taking over this one shop consumed half of Huo Yuhao's funds.

This also indirectly demonstrates just how wealthy the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School is. No one knows how much land in Spirit City, or rather Shrek City, is still owned by the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.

"Wealthy enough to rival a nation" is a compliment used to describe other top-tier wealthy businessmen, but for the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, this phrase can only be described as an objective statement.

Do you even know what long-term operation means?

Is holding onto assets for a few years or even a decade considered long-term operation?

For a financial behemoth like the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, whose assets can be left untouched for hundreds or thousands of years, the so-called long-term operation in the eyes of ordinary people is as laughable as children playing house.

(End of this chapter)