Chapter 44: Knowledge of the Future
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The sound of wolves could not be heard tonight but the insects all over the forest could be heard.
The sound somehow helps him sleep. Li Xian went to his room, decorated beautifully by the trio when he is unconscious.
There is a hemp bed now and he smiles to himself.
‘How beautiful’ he thought to himself.
He did not mind sleeping on the ground or even the cold wood.
Because his body is sturdy and he has internal energy in his body that would dispels any of the cold when he gets up.
Having internal energy is like having a panacea for most common disease, he thought to himself.
He decided against hunting in the night for today but he did spring up a few traps nearby the hut as a precaution of beats or people coming toward this area.
Li Xian also decided that after this trio went away, he will move his residence in the upper part of the mountains.
That would make it even harder for people to know that there is a people living here.
Of course, he also decided to check the area tomorrow while practicing his martial arts, his lightness skill and accumulating points for his life skill
He also has some desire to check out the village at the foot of the mountain.
He already learned the value of Ding, Liang and Wen. It is because of this that he was sure that this Tang dynasty is not the Tang dynasty of his world.
The currency is uniform but in time of instability new currency comes and goes. But since Tang dynasty has lasted this long the currency has stabilized a bit.
He found out from Bai Qingniu, that he could consider himself very rich. Of course Li Xian did not tell this to the old senior.
That would open a lot of question like where did he get the money.
Li Xian did not even remember his origin and whose body he is inhabiting, so how could he explain how he got the money without incurring even more suspicion.
Not many people could spend ten ding easily but Li Xian had spent ten ding like it is water. It is like he is the profligate scion of the capital
By now, how many Ding had he poured down to the system even he does not remember how much?
He uses it up to buy martial arts manual, lightness skill techniques and sword manuals. And most of it cost Dings and rarely it cost him Liang’s or even Wen.
It is only in the beginning that he got a few Wen. But most of his money right now is the form of Ding and Liang
In a way, the reward that the system gave him, returns back to the System.
If he is near big cities with the money, he has he might have started an inflation in the already crumbling Tang dynasty with this money that comes out of nowhere.
Li Xian also has been thinking of setting up a business.
Of course, it is not so that he becomes a great merchant but to wash away the money of the system.
Laundering the money of the system and he is just missing a laundry machine as he laughed thinking of his ridiculous thought.
Though he is making a joke about the laundry machine, he is serious about laundering the money.
Sooner or later if he is not careful of using the system money to use ta the real world, then inflation is bound to happen.
If he flooded the market with tens of thousands of Dings, that is not a possibility but an inevitability.
As such, he could use the system money to invest on a few business and then he would use this world money to buy the things in the store.
That also come into the preparation for the next two years. He wanted to reinvent himself in these two years.
He could not always wear wolf fur clothing. He kind of like the white robe that he wore. He himself look elegant wearing it.
In his world and in this world, he is still the same handsome man, he thought to himself.
He has always been a confident man. Brought up in such a privileged background, he was born with a sense of pride and confidence
But while he has his pride, he is not arrogant and while he is rich, he is not obnoxious.
His mother play a part of shaping his personality and probably also shape his choices in his life.
Like good and evil. The choices of good and evil especially in his family is always hard.
But he always chooses the hard way, trying to honor the memory of his mother.
As such, he is not the same as his friends. It is not fair to call his friend in his world as evil. They do not look down on the poor.
They just…did not care about them.
They care about how much money they have and their family have and from their perspectives there is nothing wrong with that.
They went to charity ball a few times and write up a check to help the less fortunate and give each other pat in the back and their social duties for the year is completed, making them feel that they contributed a lot the world.
And while they did not care about the poor, that charity ball did give birth to shelter homes and facility to helps less fortunate people.
Their duty is to their family and they were brought up that way. Li Xian is not thinking about the normal rich.
Who still talks with the people around them, meeting people of different background every once in a while.
He is thinking about the mega rich, mega corporation head like his family.
Right and wrong has always been hard to distinguish. They after all did not harm people.
But if they do harm people with their money, then that is wrong. At least it is wrong to him.
He sighed again. Even now, after almost a week, he still could not erase the memory of his life in that other world.
He did not want to force forgetting these memories but he knows the more he tries to hold on to these memories, the harder it will be for him to adapt to this world.
‘Let it happen naturally’ he thought to himself.
He thought back about the money problem to distract himself from thinking about the matter of his other life in that other world.
If he has to wait for the system money, he would have to at least found and solve a quest. And when he solves it even though he did get the money, that money would also be spend to the System Store to raise his strength so he could not never save a lot.
It is a different story if he invests in it.
With even a few Ding he could open a few small shop.
But of course for Li Xian how could he be opening like a stall shop on the side of the streets? Not to mention that the world is in chaos right now with the warlords vying for supremacy
How could he have the time to do trades while at the same time practicing martial arts. After all, he had the feeling that if he keeps straying to the path of a great merchant, the Martial System might have ways of restraining him.
And no matter how he said that he did not like the system, Li Xian understood one fundamental truth when he heard the old senior talks.
The fundamental truth that he got from the conversation he had and from his personal experience in this week is that in such a chaotic and turbulent era is strength.
Even if he is a great merchant, if some powerful wandering martial artist wanted to rob him, how could eh protect himself?
of course, he could hire people, but Li Xian did not like leaving his life on the hands of others, not when he himself have the ability to master martial arts.
Li Xian felt a little relaxed since many of the question he had about this world had been answered
Thankfully, there is no immortals that could fly or sweep mountain with one hand.
If not, his martial arts system might not be able to bear it. He then lied down on his bed, taking a deep breath in and out and then he went to sleep almost immediately.
Outside the moon shining brightly at the Black Forest, and the wolves howls in the distance before silent descend on the forest and everything appears to go to sleep.
The scouts on the foot of the mountain went back from their station and then after conversing and reaching an agreement with each other they decided to rest for the night and the next morning they would move toward the Righteous Temple.
Thus, the day ended
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Calculation
MARTIAL SKILL POINTS
7470= 15470
15,470+ 200,000= 215,470
215,470 - 15,000=200,470
200,470 - 21,100 = 179370
179370 – 21,100 = 158,270
158,270 – 50,000= 108,270
108,270-20,000=88,270
88,270- 50,615= 37,655
37,655-30,000= 7655
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LIFE SKILL POINTS
3580+ 50,000= 53580
53580+ 50,000= 103,580
103,580- 54,630= 48,950
48,950-30,000=18,950
18,950-10,00=8950
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LIGHTNESS SKILL POINTS
30700= 70700+ 300,000=370,700
370,700- 42,120= 328,580
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Money
10 Ding 134 Liang+ 50 Ding= 60 Ding 134 Liang
60 Ding 134 Liang-3 Ding= 57 Ding 134 Liang
57 Ding 134 Liang- 2 Ding= 55 Ding 134 Liang
55 Ding 134 Liang - 1 Ding= 54 Ding 134 Liang
54 Ding 134 Liang – 10 Ding= 34 Ding 134 Liang
34 Ding 134 Liang- 30 Ding 100 Liang= 4 Ding 34 Liang
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Fame points
50+5000= 50050
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Era Dates
Lóngjì (**) 889
Dàshùn (**) 890–891
Jǐngfú (**) 892–893
Qíanníng (**) 894–898
Guānghùa (**) 898–901
Tiānfù (**) 901–904
Tiānyòu (**) 904
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