The concubine who was expelled from his home used an account book, an abacus, and a piece of broken horn jade to make calculations from the pier in the south of the city to the sky - he wanted every mortal to be qualified to ask "why?"
In the winter of the seventh year of Yongchang, Han Chu, the concubine of the Han family, was deprived of his surname and expelled from the family. The crime was to accept a "deficit" of 4,900 spiritual stones for his dead father.
At the age of fourteen, he knelt in front of the ancestral hall. He didn't cry or beg. He just took out a ground-edged book from his arms and read out the Han family's most shady secret in the past seventeen years, word by word. Then he signed the deed of debt, picked up the jade amulet with a broken corner on the ground, turned around and walked out of the Han mansion, and from then on his surname was Chu and his first name was Han.
That night, he drank a bowl of cold porridge from the old counting house at the dock and learned a word -
Living account.
The final score is money. A living account is a matter of fate.
Han Chu soon discovered that the so-called "martial arts" of the Han family were castrated and incomplete methods in the world of cultivation; the salt and iron mines controlled by the four major families were nothing more than the mortal sheep farms of the Jiuxiao Alliance; and the soul boys who were "enshrined" to the Immortal Sect every ten years were actually furnace cauldrons. Among them was his biological sister whom he thought had died young.
No matter how rich a mortal family is, it can rival the country. In the eyes of cultivators, they are just pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
But Han Chu has something that all monks don't have—
Abacus.
He used futures betting to leverage the Zhao family, used three strategies of business warfare to force the Zhou family back, used spiritual stone loans to win over the "turbid Qi seeds" at the bottom of the Jiuxiao Alliance, and used cross-domain arbitrage to cultivate the golden elixir in the secret realm. Others rely on seclusion and hard training to cultivate, but he cultivates...
