Global Farming: I Activated The Heavenly Market - Chapter 16

Chapter 16: Sign a Contract

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Gordon saw that Li Tianxiang’s eyes were only casually glancing at his daughters, but not for long. Soon, Li Tianxiang’s gaze was back on him. Li Tianxiang even had a playful smile on his face.

Gordon’s heart skipped a beat. He realized that all his ideas had been seen through by Li Tianxiang. How could he dare to have any ideas? Then, he lowered his head respectfully.

“At your command, my lord.”

Unfortunately, Gordon did not know the original Li Tianxiang.

In fact, the reason his gaze did not linger on May and Lan for too long wasn’t because he had seen through Gordon’s plan to use a honey trap using his beautiful daughters. Instead, in his original world, Li Tianxiang was commonly known as a virgin 20-year-old boy.

Therefore, when he saw a beautiful person, his first reaction was not to stare at her but to turn his eyes away nervously. As for his playful smile…

He was just happy that he was about to obtain a large amount of earth crystals to upgrade his land.

Did he have a playful smile? That was Gordon’s own imagination.

However, it was good that Li Tianxiang didn’t know what Gordon was thinking. At the vert least, he had completely intimidated the man in front of him and made the man stop scheming against him.

“In reality, you’re right.”

Li Tianxiang used Gordon’s hypothesis to threaten Gordon without holding back. He was using his enemy’s tactic against his enemy.

“I do have more advanced alchemy techniques, such as more advanced separation and purification techniques. These techniques can make certain alchemical reactions more cost-effective and increase production yield and purity of the crystals.”

Li Tianxiang had stayed in an ivory tower for over ten years and could not come up with enough strategies when faced with a sly old fox like Gordon.

However, when it came to solving questions on examinations, even though Li Tianxiang was a bottom-feeder student, he was definitely an excellent scholarship boy.

Therefore, when he mentioned alchemy, which was very similar to chemistry, his first reaction was to bring up the most commonly used technology in chemical applications — separation and purification.

However, he wasn’t sure what special materials were present in this world, as well as which materials could be used in the farm. If he were to rely on himself to collect and research these materials, he probably wouldn’t be able to finish even after 100 years.

Therefore, he decided to cooperate with the Schariac Family and make use of the power of the Monarch City to help. He quickly analyzed the available materials.

“However, correspondingly, I need some materials for research.”

Gordon’s heart tightened, and he carefully asked, “I wonder what materials you need? Although Schariac has some influence in the Monarch City, we can’t obtain some very rare materials.”

“Don’t think too much about it. In the beginning, I will only ask you to collect the most basic materials.”

Li Tianxiang naturally meant that both sides would benefit from each other. Once the strength of the Schariac family rose to a certain level, they would be allowed to collect materials that were more dangerous.

However, from Gordon’s point of view, this was a devil’s contract that started from the most basic conditions. Then, Li Tianxiang’s demands would slowly become greater and greater. What would happen if his family could not fulfill his demands?

Gordon thought hard, gritted his teeth, and nodded.

“If we can receive the guidance of the Lord Alchemist, it will be the honor of the Schariac Family.”

Gordon was betting that after his family received Li Tianxiang’s help, they would grow faster than Li Tianxiang’s demands, although Li Tianxiang didn’t need much in reality.

“Is there an agreement or something? Or a contract? If we don’t form a contract in a written manner, I won’t be at ease.”

This was Li Tianxiang’s typical thinking as a scholarship boy. He was too strict with rules.

Gordon stiffened and nodded solemnly at his two daughters. May and Lan looked slightly surprised but went out of the room.

Soon, the two of them walked in with a wooden box.

After the wooden box was placed on the only desk in the alchemy lab, Gordon slowly opened the lid and took out a piece of paper that was made of an unknown material and a crooked pen.

Li Tianxiang raised his eyebrows. The box was probably something that could protect the contract and store magic tools for a relatively long period of time. However, he did not care about this. After discussing with Gordon about the division and the rights and obligations of both parties, it was time to sign the contract.

[Do you want to sign a trade contract with the Schariac Family of the Western Fantasy World?]

Li Tianxiang was silently surprised. He hadn’t expected that this magic tool could trigger the Heavenly Market System.

He carefully looked at the contract in the system. It was basically a copy of the contract in front of him. In the future, if he were to sign more contracts, he would only need to look at the contract through the system.

“Yes.”

Li Tianxiang replied in his heart. Then, he received a system notification.

[The system will collect a 5% tariff based on the profits obtained from signing the market trade contract. Do you want to sign the contract?]

F*ck, how trivial! Although 5% didn’t seem like much, if he were to use the Heavenly Market System to sign such a contract, the contract definitely wouldn’t be with a small business who sold trivial goods like kitchen utensils.

Instead, it was very likely that he would engage in a trade deal involving goods of high value, such as magical crystals and earth crystals. Thus, this 5% tariff was not a small number.

However, the system had also mentioned that once a contract was signed within the system, the contract would be protected by the system. If the other party refused to fulfill the contract’s obligations or damaged Li Tianxiang’s rights, the system would enforce or punish them. This was considered a form of insurance.

Li Tianxiang felt his heart ache. However, at the same time, he was afraid that the contract he had signed would become useless. Thus, he could only scold him for being too greedy and reluctantly agree in his heart.

The moment he agreed, the crooked pen in his hand suddenly emitted an extremely dazzling light. After the light disappeared, his name appeared on the strange paper. It was golden and beautiful.

Meanwhile, Gordon was stunned. He had suspected that Li Tianxiang was bluffing him, so he asked his daughters to take out the “devil’s contract book” from their family collection.

Legend had it that as long as both parties signed their names on the devil’s contract, then even if both parties died and their souls dispersed, the demons would force them to complete the contract in hell.

However, if Li Tianxiang couldn’t write his name on the paper, it meant that he was lying as he didn’t have any better alchemy skills.

Therefore, the contract could not be established and would reject his signature. Even if one tried to force it, they would only damage the table and not leave any marks on the paper.

And now, Li Tianxiang had signed his name. Gordon had never seen such a glittering name in the history of the devil’s contract. Thus, Li Tianxiang’s status in his heart rose several levels.

“Your turn.”

Li Tianxiang’s voice was cold. After all, he didn’t know the rules of this devil’s contract.

However, Gordon thought that Li Tianxiang was angry because Li Tianxiang felt that Gordon was threatening him by asking him to sign a contract..