Extra's Strategy: Cultivate Protagonists, Become Invincible-Chapter 143: Businessman Xuhan Strikes Gold

Xuanyuan Zhou didn’t look particularly pleased to see that her attendant was going to get out of her flimsy control. But she smiled thinly and bowed to Xuan Zi without raising a fuss.

"It is up to your wishes, Sect Master. You allowed him to become my attendant, you can allow him to become a disciple as well. I only fear that the resources for an extra disciple..."

Xuan Zi waved her ’concerns’ off.

"What resources? Our sect isn’t so poor that we wouldn’t be able to afford to nurture an extra disciple, hahaha! All I have to do is bend the rules a little for him. One month ago, I couldn’t do so because there was no reason to do so. Things are different now!"

Han Xuhan profusely thanked the man for his kindness, while Mu Ran and Xuanyuan Zhou took a neutral approach to congratulate him and praise Xuan Zi.

"Then you may take your leave. Return to your residences and rest for a while. I’ll send a message to the task administration authorities to re-evaluate your rewards. Your performance was exemplary. You deserve better."

Nodding with a knowing look at Han Xuhan’s anticipating face, Xuan Zi shooed them off.

"Do we really not need to worry about the Pine Town incident ?" Mu Ran asked hesitantly as the sect master turned to leave.

Among the three, he had the biggest secrets, as well as the least amount of time on his hands. He couldn’t wait for the danger period to pass so he could set his foot out of the sect again.

He needed lots of resources, for which completing risky tasks was a must. Wasting his time hiding in the sect was not an option for him.

Xuan Zi gave him a piercing look over his shoulder, as if he was aware of Mu Ran’s impatience brewing under the calm expression.

"It doesn’t matter whether you worry about it or not. If the expert is sufficiently powerful and determined, they’ll find a way to remove your memories regardless of the consequences of messing with our sect.

"But now that you’ve informed the rest of us, don’t you think he would find it a pointless endeavor to keep hounding you? Rest assured, child. What’s done is done. I doubt any enemies of us would go through that much trouble at this point."

Xuan Zi’s lighthearted attitude was rather difficult to trust. But it was evident that Elder Rong believed in him, judging by the man’s approving expression. Mu Ran decided to take the leap of faith and set aside his worries.

"Then there is nothing else for me to say except my thanks," he said to Xuan Zi with a short bow.

At this moment, Han Xuhan cleared his throat and attracted the sect master’s attention again.

"Sect Master, We have a small request."

Mu Ran’s gaze wildly shifted, making contact with Xuanyuan Zhou’s amused glance. He was not particularly sure of what to feel about this part of Han Xuhan’s plan. It felt distinctly wrong to him for some reason.

"Oh? There’s more? What else did you hide from this old man?" Xuan Zi looked a little annoyed at this point. Han Xuhan hurried to explain his reasons.

"It’s not about something we hid, Sect Master. It’s just that disciple Mu Ran here managed to score a cultivation manual from the Holy Land during the final challenge. We wanted to verify it and see if it has any harmful effects. If you’d do the honors..."

Han Xuhan trailed off with an innocent smile. This was the most important part of the script to him. The previous conversations and actions had all laid the groundwork for this one moment.

Sect master Xuan Zi did not refuse, and held his hand out. Han Xuhan reached into a pocket of his robe, taking out the manual Mu Ran had handed to him on the boat.

There were hundreds of wildly different symbols designed across the stack of papers, as well as their meanings, explanations on their nature, and numerous diagrams that explained how to create, detect and use force-type law fragments based on these symbols.

Han Xuhan had taken a cursory look at it and discovered that it provided a pathway up to the peak of a major realm, leading to a breakthrough opportunity. This realm was called an Alphabet Acolyte, a term he had heard before in the Holy Land.

For a veteran Xianxia reader like him, it was jarring to see that distinctly unique Mystic Arts boasted their own cultivation realm designs instead of a uniform scheme of progress.

His Skeleton Monarch Art didn’t even designate any names for its realm of cultivation. From creating the first skeleton soldier at the first layer to creating a whole army at the final layer, the manual labeled it all under ’The First Major Realm’.

As for the subsequent realms? Hehe, this badass technique claimed that nobody would need to cultivate those. The creator of the technique himself did not cultivate beyond that realm either...

The size of the force-type law art manual was thicker than any other technique Han Xuhan had seen in his short life as a cultivator. But Xuan Zi finished studying it within fifteen minutes.

It did not even look like he was seriously trying to examine it, but Han Xuhan had learned to look past his lackadaisical attitude by now.

Moreover, it didn’t matter to him whether there was a trap or not, because the next part of his plans would dump the entire responsibility on Master Xuan Zi smoothly, whether the sect master liked it or not.

"Hmm... As far as I can tell, the reason your foundation tower was infiltrated back in the Holy Land is because there were hidden law fragments in the stadium that worked under the condition that anyone who used its sources to fuel their own laws would trigger them and make them place a seal on the cultivator.

"As for this manual itself, it’s just a set of letters. It can’t harm you like that if you don’t create a law that would harm you."

Han Xuhan nodded like a good boy and decided to reel his hook in now that the fish had caught the bait.

"That’s splendid, sect master! If I might add, we want to contribute to the sect wholeheartedly and sell this cultivation manual to the disciples of the sect. Now that we’ve gotten your assurance, our hearts can be free of any worries while we do so. Thank you so much!"

"Ah?" Elder Rong, having quietly observed the whole exchange until now, couldn’t help but yelp in shock.

Sect Master Xuan Zi also seemed to have been caught off guard. He choked on what he was about to say, eyes bulging, and Han Xuhan took the chance to seal the deal.

"We shall immediately head to the sect’s archives and file an application to let this be displayed on the appropriate floor of the Archives pavilion. Please do approve of it when your signature is required on the application, Sect Master!"

From the start, this was what he had been aiming for. It did not matter to him much whether the sect master was deceiving him when he said that there was nothing wrong with the cultivation manual.

If this cultivation manual found its way to the sect’s archives, then the sect master would be forced to make sure that his assurances held true. After all, it would be ridiculous if the cultivation manual turned all the disciples who practiced it into slave disciples of the land of laws...

Han Xuhan had always wondered why protagonists in cultivation novels were so stupid, keeping their numerous cultivation techniques secret when they could just sell them and become rich.

He, Han Xuhan, would never waste such an awesome business opportunity!

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