Transmigrated as Investment Banker in Cultivation world

"Send this young friend to Nightblade city, please!" David immediately commanded and gestured for Ark to get ready.

Ark was even more surprised and couldn't help but doubt David's words.

If this man deliberately played with him in order to waste his time, he would never forgive him, no matter how powerful he was.

David could also understand Ark's thoughts but he couldn't do anything about it. Even if he explained, Ark would not understand.

Teleporting people! Teleportation stations in every city! He didn't have the energy to explain these things to him. It wasn't that David was looking down on his intelligence or anything.

Teleportation was something that people rarely used in this world to travel from one place to another, except for extremely rich families and organizations. Normal cultivators could never dream of using such extravagant means for private travel.

Before the situation could further deteriorate, David used the sound transmission technique to urge Mary to do things fast.

He didn't want his first customer to have a bad impression.

"Everything's ready, we can move him at any time."

Mary's voice sounded in David's head. Hearing the good news, he immediately smiled.

He looked at the young but stubborn boy in front of him and proceeded to say, "Although normally, this service would cost you ten mid-grade spirit stones, but as you are our first customer, you can use these services for free."

Hearing David's words, Ark's face turned ugly and he cried out in anger.

"Ten mid-grade spirit stones! Why don't you just rob me!"

David looked at the young man and sighed. Not bothering to speak, he signaled Mary to begin.

Mary looked at his signal and smiled.

Immediately a light hum was heard in the surroundings, as if an ancient beast was waking up from its long slumber.

Following which, the formation seemed to light up and started to rotate.

"Hey~ Stop what you're doing!" Ark cried out fearfully while trying to run away from the square as fast as his legs could carry him.

Right now, Ark was truly afraid. He thought the unknown expert was sacrificing him to some unknown evil god.

Despair filled Ark's heart and his eyes turned red.

'I shouldn't have come here in the first place.'

This was the last thought that Ark had before he was swallowed by a white light and his body disappeared.

David, however, wasn't paying attention to the ungrateful Ark. His attention was on the status report floating in front of him.

[Name: Ark

Age: 24

Potential: SSS

Cultivation: Peak Body Refining Realm

Crystallization of life: The Rage Star, an Earthly Emperor grade Crystallization of life.

Remark: Worth nurturing, can give decent return on investment. Currently he hates you because you wasted his precious time. On a special note - Never anger him or you won't have a good ending.]

Earthly Emperor and SSS grade potential, and given his current situation, this guy was definitely a protagonist.

The last line was clearly the system trolling him - what could this guy do with his measly Body Refining Realm cultivation?

David suddenly wanted to laugh at the bank's remark. Was the bank underestimating him? Hmm? Wait a minute, why was he thinking like some cheap third-class villain?

He had to roll his eyes at his thoughts - truly, power tends to corrupt. In the future, he had to make sure that he did not become overly arrogant.

David sighed and walked toward Mary.

He looked at the crystal in her hand and asked, "How much power was consumed?"

This was what he was more concerned about for the time being. After all, he wasn't constructing these formations for social service; the end goal was to earn money.

He had to see if they could even be profitable at all.

Mary didn't immediately answer his question but looked at the void stone in her hand seriously.

David didn't disturb her and let her do whatever she was doing.

After some time, she placed the void stones back in their place and said,

"We should be able to run this formation smoothly and can even make a decent profit while charging ten mid-grade spirit stones per person."

David's eyes immediately lit up; this was what he wanted to hear.

"Good, good! Mary, you really are the best." David started to praise her. She really deserved it; after all, she had single-handedly made the entire formation.

Such actions were worthy of praise.

[...]

"Mr. Iron Bones, what do you think, do I look majestic or not?" Borrito arrogantly posed and raised his cigarette in the air. He was clearly trying to look badass.

However, the only other being present in the room, the Origin Guard, didn't pay attention to him, but its eyes under the helm seemed to suddenly glow ominously for a moment.

The runes engraved on the floor suddenly glowed, and under the surprised eyes of Borrito, a young man's figure materialized in mid-air.

With a thud, Ark's body hit the ground. Flustered and confused, he hurriedly tried to get up, but the world around him seemed to be spinning. Before he was able to stabilize his body, Ark fell to the ground again.

He had never experienced such a situation before in his life. If it wasn't for his Body Refining Realm cultivation, his body might have burst into nuts and pieces.

Borrito immediately understood the situation. Mary had told him some days ago to expect the arrival of some cultivator using the teleportation formation, so he wasn't surprised.

Still curious, Borrito slowly walked ahead to take a look.

"Welcome to the Nightblade city, young man!" Not caring about the young man's condition, Borrito proudly said.

If David was here to witness the arrogant duck's behavior, he might have already smacked the duck's head in annoyance.

The first customer was in such a miserable condition, and yet he had the gall to pretend.

He was really asking for a beating!

Hearing Borrito's words, strength seemed to return to Ark's body. He hurriedly got up and looked at Borrito with an agitated appearance.

"What did you say! Am I really in Nightblade city?"

In the next moment, Borrito shook his head and sarcastically said, "Nah! This is not Nightblade city but heaven. Now prepare to be judged."

"Yeah, this should be it. After all, how can I cover such a large distance in a few moments?" Ark muttered with a soulless expression.

Borrito suddenly felt pity for the young man and decided to get serious.

If he played around too much and ruined father's plans, that scary woman would kill him!

"This is really the Nightblade city. You must be someone from the Crouching Tiger city, right?"

"Earlier I was just joking. If you do not believe my words, you can just walk out and check the surroundings for yourself."

After saying those words, Borrito no longer paid attention to him.

Left alone, Ark slowly walked out of the hall with trepidation in his heart.

"Impossible!" Ark shouted immediately after taking the first step out of the Nightblade city teleportation station.

In front of his eyes was a completely different landscape that he had never seen before.

Sky-high walls, tall trees covered with a thick layer of snow.

He really was in Nightblade city; the black-haired youth hadn't lied to him.

Immediately, Ark started to run.

[...]

[Regretfully! You lost one of your clients today. However, the Bank of Eternal Origin can never suffer a loss.

Even if he died, the client will have to pay back somehow, therefore his soul was captured. You now have the following options, keep in mind that you can only choose one:

1 - Extract Client's Crystallization of Life (One liver more, Grade - Uncommon)
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2 - Extract Jim's memories from his birth till his death

3 - Any item that client owned in his lifetime

4 - Do Nothing, let the compound interest do its thing and decide again when the Client dies in his next life

Please note as capturing the soul and imprisoning it requires a large amount of mana, because of which you only have nine days left to make a choice.]

David only needed to take a look to choose his option.

The guy was true trash! There was no need to think about it.

Without hesitating, he commanded the bank to consume the Crystallization of life.

Immediately he heard the bank's confirmation, and a small window appeared in front of his eyes.

[Crystallization of life needed to consume for Breakthrough: 1/1000]

David felt depressed after seeing this little window. The breakthrough felt extremely close yet very far away.

He shook his head and focused on Mary, who wanted to say something but had stopped after realizing that he was busy.

Noticing his gaze, Mary immediately started to explain.

"We will need to recruit at least two grade-one formation masters to keep the teleportation formation up and running without any problem."

David frowned and said, "Do we really have to?"

He couldn't help but ask. If possible, he didn't want to recruit anyone.