Chapter 367: The Mu Family Takes Action

Bao Kang County.
Inside a magnificent blacksmith shop.
Over thirty young blacksmiths from the Colorful Robes Sect and the Mu Family stood energetically and proudly in front of their respective forging stations, heads held high as they gazed at the stern-looking, tall and burly man before them.
…
The head of the Mu Family—Lei Zhan!
Less than half a month after the gang was established from nothing, it not only managed to stand firm and grow but also purchased ten shops in Bao Kang in a short time.
Pharmacies; blacksmith shops; equipment stores; and some grocery stores.
While purchasing various high-grade resources from the countless players living in Bao Kang, a large number of pharmacists, blacksmiths, tailors, and merchants settled in these shops.
Although Lei Zhan was not among the top figures on the Dragon List, he ranked high on the renowned list. As the leader of a gang that was only of medium size, he became the most influential leader in Shenlongjia. Both the three local bosses of Bao Kang and the Heroic Gate implicitly regarded the Mu Family as their leader.
Additionally…
Lei Zhan had accomplished many significant things these days.
At the pharmacies, he purchased the ingredients for Yu Lu Pills at 50% above the price in NPC shops, as well as the materials for making Rong Hua Su, antidotes, high-grade pills, and other currently popular medicines.
At the pawnshops, after buying a large amount of medicinal herbs, he purchased more at slightly above market prices.
The prices of medicinal herbs across the entire martial world rose slightly…
Just as everyone thought Lei Zhan was a wealthy fool who hired others to collect medicinal herbs, the gangs that had secretly been training pharmacists suddenly faced shortages and raised their purchase prices.
Medicinal herbs!
Their prices soared in less than two days…
By the time many merchants realized they had missed the chance to stock up on medicinal herbs, the Mu Family had already quietly acquired an astonishing amount of them and sold them at higher prices in the pawnshops, reaping huge profits from the price difference.
It is said that the behind-the-scenes mastermind behind this surge in medicinal herb prices was a female merchant from the “Thirteen Rod Monk” group. She connected Lei Zhan and Kai Xin, using over a billion silver coins obtained from resources in a short time to double the prices of various medicinal herbs, earning hundreds of millions in profits…
However, according to high-ranking officials, the Mu Family’s gang warehouses still had plenty of medicinal herbs; they simply converted the funds from this purchase and used them to replenish their warehouses.
But pharmacists received unprecedented opportunities for growth.

Dozens of pharmacists, through continuous refinement, advanced from 6th- and 7th-rank pharmacists to 4th-rank, or even 3rd-rank, providing a large amount of Solvast, Golden Jade Liquid, and even Jade Condensing Powder for blacksmiths and tailors…
Within three days, the Mu Family stepped in again, spending a billion to sweep up tens of thousands of low- and mid-ranked masterpieces being sold at low prices in pawnshops!
Most of these masterpieces had seen their prices plummet since the rise of the forging trend. As many people calculated, the cost of materials for secondary forging was even higher than the value of the items themselves, causing these masterpieces to be ignored and abandoned by countless players. Everyone was chasing high-ranked masterpieces, so the prices of mid- and low-ranked ones plummeted drastically—some were even thrown into shops.
Mid-ranked items worth tens of thousands of silver coins could be found everywhere!
Just as everyone despised mid- and low-ranked masterpieces, with their prices so low they rivaled those of items sold at discount shops, the Mu Family intervened.
Just one move, and the entire martial world was shaken!!
Overnight, merchants in cities across the land were surprised to find that equipment that had been hard to sell was now almost completely sold out.
Cash flow restored!
But when they checked the pawnshops, the pages showed only a few medicines, manuals, resources, and some basic daily items—once-page-long ads for masterpieces seemed to have vanished.
By the time merchants realized something was wrong, purchase listings suddenly appeared on the pawnshop’s bulletin board…
Buying low-ranked masterpieces at cheap prices;
Buying low-ranked masterpieces at cheap prices;
Paying 50,000 for one set or a batch of low-ranked masterpieces;
These buyers were mostly blacksmiths from gangs who needed masterpieces to level up their forging skills, but to avoid high costs, they only purchased low-ranked ones!
As such listings increased, some realized this approach wasn’t effective and that prices needed to rise…
From tens of thousands at first, prices quickly rose to 100,000 per piece.
Yet it was still insufficient—masterpieces were produced in such small quantities that once they appeared, they were immediately snapped up. Some even listed newly forged low- and mid-ranked masterpieces at 150,000 or 200,000.
Many merchants scoffed at such prices, mocking those who were desperate to make money!
Yet!
Before their mockery could fade, these items were marked as sold, disappearing quickly from the supply list, leaving countless merchants utterly devastated.

At that moment, a message with the code “Merchant of Fine Weapons” began to appear frequently on the pawnshop page, listing ten pieces of inferior fine weapons at a bundled price of 2.4 million.
With many gangs competing for these weapons, after some hesitation, they endured the financial pain and placed their first orders; once the first order came in, soon followed more.
On the first day alone, 2,000 pieces of inferior fine weapons were delivered, allowing the Mu family to recover over a quarter of their initial investment!
Yet there were still countless orders on the pawnshop page, with some even sending messages requesting large quantities of inferior fine weapons at slightly higher prices.
Among these merchants, the “Conscientious Tycoon” offered the highest prices—280 silver taels for ten pieces of inferior fine weapons and 3.4 million silver taels for ten pieces of medium-quality weapons.
Many merchants secretly calculated the profits for the Mu family.
From this purchase of fine weapons, the Mu family earned at least a 700% profit, amounting to over 7 billion silver taels…
The “Conscientious Tycoon” even posted a message praising the Mu family for seizing the opportunity of the rising demand for forged weapons and taking advantage of others’ neglect toward inferior fine weapons. They boldly brought the profits from these weapons back to normal levels. Their decisive actions, bold strategies, and methods of releasing the weapons maximized their profits, serving as an example for all merchants.
It was these two brilliant strategies that allowed the Mu family’s gang to gain several billion more in liquid assets…
Moreover, the remaining inferior and medium-quality weapons were given to the blacksmith shops, where the forgers assigned by Happy and Lei Zhan practiced to improve their forging skills.
However…
By now, they had all reached the level of skilled workers. Their next goal was to obtain large quantities of inferior and medium-quality weapons at the 1st level from Lei Zhan in order to advance to the 2nd level.