I only want to win over the fairy.

"It's just for fun, it won't affect anything," you replied confidently. "If you, my rebellious disciple, won't give it to me, then I'll have to take it from you myself."

[Bai: "Ever since you took me as your disciple, we've always sparred, but I've never won. This time is perfect; if you lose, you'll have to listen to me obediently from now on."]

"You unfilial disciple, you don't actually think you've surpassed your master, do you? You'd better stay below me forever!"

After a fierce battle, Qin Xin was defeated by a single move. Bai relentlessly enumerated the mistakes he had made during his time in charge of the Eternal Night Sect, then grabbed him, placed him on his lap, and delivered a series of heavy blows to his buttocks. Helpless, Qin Xin could only return to his bed to recover, obediently admitting defeat, and pondering how to teach this rebellious disciple a lesson.

They should behave themselves now.

Bai Yi felt relieved after subduing the Grand Elder. Allowing someone who was so greedy that even the elders below him were willing to run away to take power was a sign of darkness descending. If she continued to maintain her extravagant lifestyle, the Eternal Night Sect would be ruined sooner or later.

Alas, sometimes too much concentration of power and strength is not a good thing.

In this world, strength and power can coexist. Powerful individuals wield supreme power, and even if those below want to rebel, they will be suppressed by the strong alone. If this were Bai Yi's previous life, under the debauched rule of the Grand Elder, a group of people would have risen up long ago, shouting "Are kings and nobles born with special privileges?"

It's time to make the Eternal Night Cult great again.

Currently, the Eternal Night Sect is beset by internal and external troubles. Externally, it is being suppressed and blocked by other immortal sects, while internally, its strength has been greatly weakened. Although on the surface, its strength does not appear to have diminished, if it does not quickly find all its elders, it may truly be doomed.

In April of the year 1165 of the Myriad Immortals Calendar, you launched a series of sweeping reforms to the Eternal Night Sect, bringing numerous projects such as finance, personnel management, resource allocation, and secret realms under your control. You also undertook large-scale construction and real estate development on the former site of the Myriad Laws Immortal Sect, and contacted several merchants in the cultivation world for investment, attempting to create a luxurious multi-functional residence combining cultivation, entertainment, travel, and accommodation, which you named "Eternal Night Heavenly Palace."

[In June of the 1165th year of the Ten Thousand Immortals Calendar, thanks to the tireless efforts of thousands of disciples of the Eternal Night Sect, this place has taken initial shape. You kindly gave each disciple four times the overtime pay, ten Foundation Establishment Pills, and allowed each disciple involved in the construction to use the sect's secret realm once a month, with priority access to the cultivation resources they need.]

[In July of the year 1165 of the Ten Thousand Immortals Calendar, you concealed your identity and infiltrated various immortal sects, including the Thousand Crane Sect, the Buddhist Sect, and the Hundred Flowers Valley. You bribed online trolls with three Qi and Blood Pills per disciple to begin promoting the Eternal Night Heavenly Palace among these sects.]

Thanks to the superior location of the former site of the Myriad Laws Immortal Sect, and the fact that Bai Yi built it to the highest standards, the residence in the Eternal Night Heavenly Palace is excellent whether it is used as a cave dwelling or something else.

As for the price...

Hehe, since it's the best configuration, I'll definitely price it the highest!

Selling a regular house for a million high-grade spirit stones isn't unreasonable, is it?

Now that you have a house, decorating it will cost money. I'll take this opportunity to start a decoration business. You can customize the functions and magic arrays that you want to equip your house according to your own wealth and needs.

The houses are now built, but Bai Yi doesn't plan to open them for sale immediately. Instead, he wants to plan ahead and launch a million-dollar promotional campaign.

Let the bullets fly a little longer.

Chapter 73 Feather Palace Flower: Sending You Flowers

The era when good wine needs no bush is long gone.

Without massive promotion, no matter how good your product is, it's all for nothing if no one knows about it. At most, it will only generate some buzz within a small circle.

Besides promoting the Eternal Night Palace among various sects, Bai Yi also needed to figure out how to promote it, such as incorporating cultural value elements like binding points.

"When it comes to houses, they really have to be tied to love, family, and children."

Without hesitation, Bai Yi immediately started operating the simulator. He wanted to use the Eternal Night Palace to directly reverse the financial crisis of the Eternal Night Sect, and also use it to develop other industrial chains. He could even solve the problem of recruiting disciples in the future all at once, so he had to take it seriously!

In January of the year 1170 of the Wanxian Calendar, after several years of preparation, the Eternal Night Palace officially opened for sale. In no time, it became known throughout the entire Nine Provinces. Within a day of its opening, nearly 90% of the units in the Eternal Night Palace had been sold.

Find some supporters to start the business, buy 40% of the units, and attract others to join in. Then, once the properties are sold out, sell 30% of the units you own through auctions or other means, and keep the remaining 10% to cultivate relationships.

He wouldn't easily sell the most luxurious mansion, which boasts the richest spiritual energy, the best geographical location, and the highest level of security; he intended to use it for other purposes.

In March of the 1170th year of the Wanxian Calendar, having earned a large sum of money by selling properties, you immediately launched a new round of reforms for the Eternal Night Sect. You no longer solely determined the amount of resources available to disciples based on talent and background, but instead prioritized contributions to the sect and individual strength. Your motto became: "The Eternal Night Sect does not value background or talent; we only value those who get things done."

To establish your authority among your disciples, you selected the twenty individuals who had made the greatest contributions to the Eternal Night Cult and held an awards ceremony. In addition to generous rewards, you bestowed upon them high honors and status, such as the privilege of not bowing to elders and saintesses. This act ignited the passion of countless Eternal Night Cult disciples.

[At the same time, to prevent infighting among disciples within the sect, you began to promote a spirit of unity and cooperation. While guiding disciples to work together to conquer secret realms, you also established a series of resource allocation rules to prevent the fruits of some disciples' hard-won battles from being taken away by other powerful figures.]

For now, this is sufficient, since no system can ever be perfect.

Compared to a perfect system, Bai Yi believes that people are the most important. If a system has problems, it can be improved, but if people are bad, then even the best system is just a mess.

[As the Eternal Night Cult steadily improved, you did not forget the elders who had fought for it. You invited them back one by one with the highest honors, made up for all the resources and offerings that had not been distributed over the years, and gave each of them a luxurious mansion in the Eternal Night Heavenly Palace as a benefit.]

[Even amidst your busy daily life, you haven't forgotten your wife, Qin Xin, the Grand Elder of the Eternal Night Cult. You visit her every night. Although you are now superior to her in both overall strength and status, you still readily agree to her pranks,刁难 (difficulties), and various petty acts of revenge.]

[Occasionally you will return to Tianxuan Peak to visit your master and junior sister, and also to exchange letters with Qiu Yuelian. As for Yu Gonghua, she has always stayed in the Yongye Sect. As the Demon Emperor, she naturally cannot openly appear on the land of the Nine Provinces ruled by humans.]

That was a perfect mid-game performance.

Bai Yi in this phase has a happy marriage and a successful career. Although there are external troubles, they are not fatal, and the internal situation is also developing steadily and positively. He is just waiting for the path to becoming an emperor to open so that he can prove himself as a great emperor.

That's right, Bai Yi isn't going to be reckless this time. He doesn't plan to force himself to become an Emperor before the Path to Emperors opens.

He is still young, he cannot die. He wants to honestly follow the normal process to become an emperor, live for tens of thousands of years, and then willingly end his life.

What forbidden zones and dark turmoil have nothing to do with me? A simple and peaceful life is the best.

As usual, you arrived at a private sanctuary of the Eternal Night Cult and found the Feather Palace Flower, which had been idle and overgrown with weeds. She was already used to your visits, but every time she saw you, she seemed particularly happy and excited.

[As a legendary and noble celestial beast, the phoenix, now confined to this small, isolated secret realm, would be a sight to behold for anyone. However, for Yu Gonghua, this was not unbearable. After all, she had spent countless years in that desolate wasteland and had faced death many times. Now, she was happy to be reborn.]

You brought her some pastries and food that you had made yourself. After she finished eating, to your astonishment, she took a bouquet of flowers out of her mouth and handed it to you with a smile.

Detailed text emerged.

Bai Yi, dressed in the robes of the Eternal Night Cult Master, opened the door to the secret realm. As soon as he entered, he immediately closed the seal and the door.

Yu Gonghua possesses the destiny of a demon emperor, making her a great enemy of the Human Emperor Palace and causing enormous losses to the human race. In order to hunt her down and prevent the demon race from rising again, the Palace Master of the Human Emperor Palace did not hesitate to sacrifice half of his lifespan to lock onto her. As long as she sets foot on the land of the Nine Provinces for too long, she will be discovered by the Human Emperor Palace, and at that time she will face a battle with the strongest fighting force of the Human Emperor Palace.

Although Si Zhou, the Palace Master of the Human Emperor Palace, is a gentle person, he is not a useless person, just not suitable to be a leader.

After making sure that no trace of your presence had been leaked, you were completely relieved. Then you turned around and looked at the slightly dimly lit little secret space, which was only a little over 100 square meters in size. You couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

Bored, Yu Gonghua lay on the table with her head down, and asked Bai Yi, who was walking towards her, "What delicious food did you bring me today?"

"These are all your favorite dishes." Bai Yi laid out dozens of carefully prepared dishes and desserts on the table one by one.

Unable to go out, Yu Gonghua's only pleasure each day was eating. She devoured all the food in no time, even wiping the food scraps from her mouth with her sleeve, showing none of the demeanor expected of a celestial beast or demon emperor.

She is now the enemy of the entire human race. If she leaves, she will inevitably be discovered by the Human Emperor's Palace. At that time, even Bai Yi will not be able to protect her. Therefore, she can only stay obediently in this small room that is comparable to a prison cell.

Although she had no complaints about this place where she had plenty of food and drink and plenty of spiritual energy, she felt uneasy and worried every time she saw Bai Yi.

He himself doesn't care about being locked up, but the other person... is probably constantly blaming himself for not being able to gain his freedom.

Humans are such troublesome creatures. They have enough to eat, drink, and a place to live, which is enough to meet their basic needs for survival, yet they still worry about so-called freedom, the future, and relationships.

She looked at Bai Yi's seemingly smiling but actually self-reproachful expression, then suddenly her face twisted, and she clutched her chest tightly with both hands, as if she had been cursed and severely injured.

"Hua!" Seeing Yu Gonghua in such pain, Bai Yi hurriedly helped her up and poured his spiritual power and reincarnation power into her body, trying to alleviate her pain.

However, the next moment...

Completely unharmed, Yu Gonghua, who had only been feigning pain, suddenly stood up, appearing fully revived. Then, she opened her mouth, tugged at it with her hand, and pulled out a seven-colored flower glistening with morning dew. Blushing, she handed it to Bai Yi.

"flower."

Chapter 74 is amazing, I'm gradually understanding everything.

"flower."

Hana Yumiya had read in a book that when a person is in a bad mood, if someone gives them flowers or performs a show, their mood will improve.

Perhaps because she wasn't human, she couldn't understand why humans were happy to see the reproductive organs of plants.

Plants are, in essence, nothing more than their reproductive organs and food sources that provide energy.

The reason her name contains the character for "flower" is simply because the paulownia tree that nurtured her happened to be in bloom when she was born.

However, she is happy to send flowers if it makes people happy.

Bai Yi, who thought that Yu Gonghua really had some kind of health problem, looked at the words the other party handed him. After a moment of silence, he stopped thinking about the other party's behavior and instead focused on the seven-colored flower that the other party had handed him.

It was the first time he had ever seen a flower of this color. The seven colors were distributed so evenly that it looked almost like an artificial flower, yet the natural fragrance emanating from it was undeniable.

But compared to this, this flower is covered in your saliva!

"Don't you like it?" Seeing that Bai Yi didn't take it for a long time, Yu Gonghua looked at the flower in her hand with a puzzled expression, and then, as if she remembered something, she showed a look of sudden realization: "I see, it's because there are too many colors and it doesn't look good."

She had never seen Bai Yi wear clothes with complicated colors, so he probably didn't like colorful things.

So she stuffed the flower directly into her mouth, chewed it into pieces, swallowed it, and then pulled out another purple iris from her mouth—a fragrant flower that the other person would surely like.

She was born a Holy Spirit, and even now that she has evolved into a phoenix, she still retains her past power. She can break down the food she eats and use her spiritual power to recreate the plants contained in that food within her body.

Bai Yi has made many desserts for her, including flower cakes of various flavors. In theory, she can recreate the plants used to make these flower cakes.

Of course, this is on the premise that she is willing to expend her own strength for it.

To add some vitality and life to these irises, she stretched out her pink tongue and gently licked the petals.

Phoenix saliva has the effects of promoting wound healing, expelling toxins, and replenishing qi and strengthening yang. When dripped onto plants, it can also help keep them fresh. With its saliva, a flower will not wither for at least a month.

"The gift you gave me is quite unique." Bai Yi accepted the iris that Yu Gonghua offered. Although he was a little disgusted that the flower had been taken from the other person's mouth and was covered in saliva, he knew that he couldn't judge the other person by human standards.

"I also think it's very unique." Hana smiled, agreeing that giving away a plant's reproductive organ was quite unusual.

Suddenly, she remembered something and asked Bai Yi, "By the way, did you go to school?"

Since her birth, the Holy Spirit has possessed knowledge bestowed by heaven and earth, while the Phoenix, upon its birth, possessed knowledge related to the Phoenix in its bloodline. Therefore, she did not need to learn anything; she knew how to survive. However, humans are different from her. Humans are creatures that need to learn, and she wanted to understand how humans live.

Knowledge about humanity, whether bestowed by heaven and earth or contained within the phoenix bloodline, is scarce. Therefore, she must study, for only by studying can she understand Bai Yi, defeat humanity with a clear understanding of herself and her enemy, attain the Dao of the Great Emperor, and make all humanity submit to her.

Once I become a Great Emperor, the first thing I will do is raise the tax rate to 100%. This way, I will have an endless supply of spirit stones, and with an endless supply of spirit stones, I can do anything!

She learned this method from Bai Yi, because she had previously seen him complaining about how much land tax should be set, and that the more taxes collected, the more money she would have.

If all taxes reach 100%, all of humanity's wealth will be in my hands!

"Going to school..." Bai Yi pondered for a moment, reflecting on his educational achievements in his previous life, and then said quietly, "I only went up to university and then stopped."

"Why?" Yu Gonghua asked in confusion. From Bai Yi's tone, she understood the meaning of the word "university". As a celestial beast evolved from a holy spirit, it naturally possessed various divine abilities.

"Because of an accident, I graduated from the university of life early." How could Bai Yi possibly say that he was killed in an explosion and didn't finish his subsequent courses!

"Wow, that's amazing! Then teach me human knowledge." Yu Gonghua stared at Bai Yi excitedly: "The reason why humans can defeat various powerful races and become the rulers of Kyushu is because you have mastered the weapon called knowledge. Similarly, as long as I master knowledge, even if I cannot become the ruler of Kyushu in the future, you humans will definitely not be my match!"

"Okay, let's make this clear first, studying can be very boring and tedious."

"I am a phoenix, the only celestial beast in this world. What you can learn, I can definitely learn too. But if I'm going to learn, I want to learn the best. I don't want to learn those things that any human can do. I want to learn your unique skills, the kind of powerful and amazing knowledge that only you know!"

At your insistence, Bai has chosen to impart his knowledge to you.

[You've been studying for a month, and you find it too painful. You'd rather have Bai extract all the knowledge and share it with you, but Bai refuses: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and a great river is formed from countless small streams. You're too lazy to even study, how can you expect to use it in the future?"]