#2088 - Making a fortune from national disaster - Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

Over two years, according to the star coordinates provided by Yan Yu, the Lanling army moved all the ancient life stars in the universe to the Azure Firmament Star Region.

The Azure Firmament Star Region originally had a diameter of several light-years.

Now, the star region has expanded more than tenfold.

It has become the center of the upper realm universe, with billions of ancient life stars.

Each ancient life star has laws left behind by Divine Realm experts to counteract the gravitational influence between the ancient stars,

to ensure the ecological environment of the ancient stars.

At this point, the Dawn Dynasty had basically completed the unification of the upper realm universe.

Just as the dynasty's people were cheering and celebrating, a terrible disaster descended.

In the beginning, people thought it was some kind of ancient plague virus being released.

Later, it was discovered that those who contracted the plague actually began to show signs of mental confusion, with crimson hair piercing through their skin and growing out, sharp fangs growing in their mouths, and their pupils turning blood red, becoming violent and bloodthirsty, attacking and tearing at anyone they saw.

The administrators of each region immediately reported the news to the imperial court.

An Ning, upon learning of this, immediately informed Jing Ya, Yan Yu, and others.

They immediately went to the area to investigate the situation.

"This is a curse derived from the power of ultimate darkness!

It seems that the dark creatures are behind this. They allowed those who had embraced darkness to infiltrate the dynasty's territory and cast the curse."

Yan Yu and Jing Ya recognized it at a glance.

"It really is a curse from the darkness. These dark creatures are truly damned!"

An Ning's eyes turned cold. "Fortunately, Monarch God was prepared. Over the years, we have refined a large number of Purification Pills.

However, although there is a large stock of Purification Pills, the dynasty's territory is now vast, and the number of living beings is as numerous as the sands of the Ganges.

The spread of the dark curse is too fast. I'm afraid the stock of Purification Pills will soon be exhausted.

We must order the pharmacies in each city to refine Purification Pills at the fastest possible speed to increase production, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable!"

After An Ning finished speaking, she looked at the city official who was respectfully following behind her and said, "Immediately notify the major pharmacies in the city that this is a dark curse, and tell them to take out the Purification Pills to treat the people, and set up Purification Pill distribution points!"

"By the Holy Decree of the Imperial Lord!"

The officials bowed and responded, then said, "Imperial Lord, after all, the Purification Pills in each pharmacy were refined by themselves. If they are asked to distribute them for free, will they feel resentful...?"

"Tell them that the imperial treasury will allocate funds to subsidize them. Go."

"Yes!"

The officials hurriedly left.

Jing Ya, Yan Yu, and An Ning immediately returned to the imperial capital.

She immediately issued an edict, ordering all pharmacies in the dynasty to fully treat those infected by the curse and set up Purification Pill distribution points, and the dynasty would provide financial subsidies to each pharmacy."

The pharmacies in each city took action under the supervision of the officials.

The speed of the curse's spread was very fast. In just a few days, it had spread throughout the dynasty.

Although there were Purification Pills, the number of Purification Pills was completely insufficient for the huge number of infected people, resulting in the inability to clear them all at once, and some people were infected two or three times.

Each city had to try to isolate the cursed infected as much as possible.

Despite this, it was still impossible to completely stop the spread of the curse, and even the army was infected.

Each pharmacy was refining Purification Pills non-stop for twelve hours a day to supply the huge demand.

In this way, the number of dark curse infections was controlled to a certain extent.

The dark envoys had been observing the situation of the Dawn Dynasty.

Seeing that the Dawn Dynasty could actually refine a pill that purified the curse, they were both surprised and angry!

What were the ingredients of that pill?

It could actually purify the curse derived from the power of ultimate darkness?

They simply couldn't believe it.

If they hadn't sent people to infiltrate the Dawn Dynasty to continuously release the curse, the outbreak of the curse would have been completely purified very quickly.

However, the number of curse source liquid was limited and could not be released forever. Once it was used up, the plan would be completely defeated.

"How could this happen!"

The leaders of the Soul Hunting Sacred Hall, the Heavenly Purity Sacred Sect, the Fallen Red Dust, and the Mu Yang Clan gritted their teeth, their faces gloomy.

...

Time passed day by day.

The outbreak of the dark curse had been going on for several months, from the beginning to the present.

The extent of the curse's outbreak was always under control.

In the beginning, the people in each city were panic-stricken.

At that time, people felt boundless panic in the face of the dark curse.

They watched their relatives grow crimson hair all over their bodies and fangs in their mouths, feeling both despair and horror.

Later, after taking the Purification Pill, the curse could be resolved, making people less afraid of the dark curse.

The curse had never stopped, and a large number of people were plagued by the curse every day.

On the streets, people whose curses suddenly broke out could often be seen.

This curse actually had its own consciousness.

They changed according to the changes in the environment, and their latency became stronger and stronger.

From the beginning, being plagued by the curse was painful and tormenting, but now there was no feeling at all.

It suddenly broke out one day.

Making the streets a scene of chaos at any time.

The army strengthened patrols to prevent the people from being attacked by the cursed, and all departments in each city were operating at high intensity.

...

Imperial Capital, in the Imperial Palace Hall.

An Ning frowned slightly, looking at the memorials presented by the officials of each city, and couldn't help rubbing her forehead.

For half a year, the dynasty had been continuously paying financial subsidies to the pharmacies.

In the beginning, they didn't say anything.

But in the past two months, many pharmacies had opinions.

They said that the subsidies given by the dynasty were too small and not enough at all.

The prescription for the Purification Pill was given to each pharmacy by the dynasty. They only needed to provide manpower and the most basic holy spring water, so the cost was very low.

Although the subsidies she asked the national treasury to give were not much, they were completely enough for the cost of materials and manpower, and there was even a slight surplus.

Now, those pharmacies were asking her for money, saying that the subsidies were not enough.

The dark curse was spreading, and everyone should have the responsibility and obligation.

Under such circumstances, those pharmacies were still thinking about making a profit!

An Ning was very angry, causing the officials in the court to feel terrified.

"Imperial Lord, should we knock them down a peg? These pharmacies have no sense of social responsibility at all. It's outrageous that they're haggling with you!"

"What reason do we have to knock them down a peg?

Our dynasty's pharmacies do not have enough output to support the huge demand, so we have to rely on them to refine Purification Pills.

Besides, they set up pharmacies to make profits in the first place.

Although their demands make me angry, they do not violate the law.

As the Imperial Lord, how can I directly suppress them with power?

At least we haven't reached that point yet."

"What the Imperial Lord said is true, but these months have strained the national treasury.

If we agree to increase subsidies for them again, I'm afraid the national treasury won't be able to come up with so much money..."

An official said.

The dynasty's national treasury was originally very abundant.

However, the dynasty has expanded too quickly in recent years, so that the number of dynasty citizens on Azure Firmament Ancient Star alone is hundreds of millions.

Too many people have been cursed this time, and pharmacies in each city have to be financially subsidized.

Speaking of which, the subsidies given to each pharmacy are not very large, but that is only relative to their output.

In fact, every expenditure is an extremely huge amount.

"Let's get through this first." An Ning sighed, "There are still funds in the national treasury, and even if we increase the amount of subsidies, we can still support it for another two months.

According to the current trend, the dark curse should be completely resolved in two months.

Besides, even if the national treasury runs out of money, we can issue national debt.

Now, there are many citizens in the dynasty, and the issuance of a national debt should be able to solve the huge amount of funds."

"But Imperial Lord, in that case, we will have to pay huge interest rates in the future!

Besides, if the national treasury is empty, will the equipment upgrades of the three armies and other people's livelihood projects have to be temporarily suspended?

This old minister believes that, in addition to increasing subsidies, we can choose another option from the two proposals put forward by the pharmacies, which is to agree to them selling Purification Pills for a fee.

As long as the Imperial Lord issues an imperial decree to strictly limit the price of Purification Pills, it will not burden the people.

The people of the dynasty are living a prosperous life and have accumulated a lot of savings over the years.

A Purification Pill, priced at one hundred Dawn Coins, should be very reasonable.

One hundred Dawn Coins is just the basic living expenses for a typical family of four for three days."

"I second that. This can solve the shortage of funds in the national treasury, and it can also allow the pharmacies to make profits, so they will not have any objections, and they will work harder to refine Purification Pills to solve the dark curse.

The curse caused by the dark creatures this time cannot be borne entirely by the dynasty.

Everyone should bear it together.

The dynasty must develop so that it can better fight against the darkness in the future, so the equipment upgrades and military supplies of the army must not be reduced!"

An Ning pondered in silence for a moment, and finally adopted the advice, "Then we will do as you all say. Leave this matter to you.

There must be no mistakes. The price of Purification Pills must be strictly controlled. Within the territory of the dynasty, a unified price will be charged, and anyone who dares to sell it at a price higher than this will be severely punished!

Notify the officials of each city that the dynasty's free Purification Pills will continue to be provided to citizens with special circumstances!

If there are any dereliction of duty or malfeasance in the cities they manage, I will hold them accountable!

Withdraw from the court!"

...

In the mountain courtyard near the Imperial Palace.

Jun Wuxie has been cultivating in the rune array on the top floor of the main building for a hundred years.

Now, his realm has long since broken through. From entering the Extreme Realm in those years, he has completed the entire Extreme Realm cultivation.

He has now stepped into the Half-Step Heavenly God Realm.

His goal is to break through to the Heavenly God Realm before the Xuan You Realm experts arrive.

Regardless of whether there would be experts of the God Lord Realm crossing realms from the Xuan You Realm, he had to make the most perfect preparations possible in order to cope with it freely.

His improvement over the past hundred years of cultivation was not just as simple as going from the True God Extreme Realm to the Half-step Heavenly God.

His current state of Innate Chaos Mastery had also reached the Supreme Saint Realm from the Saint Realm he had cultivated in the past.

The mastery of each major realm alone had increased his strength by an unknown number of times.

After using the Innate Chaos True Scripture to master the major realms, as more and more major realms were mastered, the Innate Chaos Essence Qi in his body became more and more majestic and pure.

Inside the rune array barrier, time passed year after year.

Within the territory of the Imperial Dynasty, another half year had passed.

Anning originally thought that the problem of the dark curse should be resolved within a few months.

As a result, the dark curse had not been resolved in the past six months.

According to the news reported by the officials of various cities, the effect of the purification pills sold in the pharmacies of many cities had obviously decreased.

In the past, taking one pill could completely purify the dark curse.

Later, one purification pill could only last for half a month, because it did not completely purify the dark curse in the body of the cursed person, but only temporarily suppressed it, and it would recur after half a month.

Unexpectedly, slowly, the news reported by the officials of various cities informed that the effect of the purification pill was getting worse and worse.

From half a month, it was shortened to ten days, and then to seven days.

Now, one purification pill can only last for three days.

This means that every three days, people who are cursed by darkness need to buy a purification pill.

Because the people did not want to increase the burden on the Imperial Dynasty, no one went to receive the free purification pills from the official.

As a result, the officials of various cities had not applied to the Imperial Dynasty's pharmacy for purification pills for a long time.

The people also thought that it was a problem caused by the mutation of the curse.

It was not until last month that the officials of various cities felt that something was wrong, and applied for purification pills from the Imperial Dynasty's pharmacy, and secretly gave them to those who were cursed by darkness.

It had been almost a month and it had not recurred.

They used various methods to check, and finally determined that the purification pill could completely purify the dark curse.

That is to say, there is a problem with the purification pills refined by the pharmacies in various cities!

… …

"They are simply courting death!"

Anning looked at the evidence found by the people of the Prison Administration these days, and was already shaking with anger!

Since she took charge of the Imperial Dynasty, she had never had such intense killing intent towards the people inside the Imperial Dynasty!

"Your Majesty, how should this matter be handled?"

The two commanders of the Prison Administration, Void Shadow and Wind Rain, asked.

"They dare to modify the purification pill formula in this special era, and dare to make a fortune in the face of darkness, how can this emperor let them go!

It's just that this matter is of great importance, involving many pharmacies in various cities.

Those pharmacies are mostly the industries of families with some status and status in the Imperial Dynasty.

This matter will be handed over to Lord Jun to deal with, this emperor will go to Lord Jun to see how they die!"

After Anning finished speaking, she left quickly and went to Jun Wuxie's residence.

… …

In the inner cabinet of a certain pharmacy in various cities of the Imperial Dynasty, a group of people wearing brocade clothes and full of wealth are sitting together drinking tea.

Everyone's face was full of smiles.

"General Manager, how much did we earn this month?"

An old man in brocade clothes stepped forward, his face almost blooming with a smile, took out the account book and looked at it, and said: "Reporting to the Patriarch, the income this month is more than 170 billion!

I have to say, the unification of the Imperial Dynasty, the large population is a good thing, there are many people with curses, there are business opportunities everywhere, we have made a fortune in these months, hahaha!

It's just, Patriarch, this matter will definitely not be concealed, do you think the Emperor will..."

"What are you afraid of? The benefits are proportional to the risks.

Besides, there are so many people with curses that the Imperial Dynasty needs us to refine purification pills.

Even if they know, it's just a punishment, can they still cut us off?

If we are cut off, who will refine pills to solve the dark curse?

The Imperial Dynasty's own pharmacy output is far from enough to supply.

Now the pharmacies in various cities that refine purification pills are all on this road, not just our family.

Even if Lord Jun leaves seclusion, he can't cut us all off, right?

Accepting some punishment in exchange for huge profits is a worthwhile thing no matter how you look at it.

General Manager, don't worry.

Could it be that the rewards I have given you these days are not enough?"

"No, I don't mean that, of course I also want to help the Patriarch make money.