Why don’t you go get a Job?

The boy looked at Fang Shi in amazement, "Aren't you going to test my ability to refine pills before you hire me?"

"No", Fang Shi nonchalantly replied, "I've seen everything I need to, please follow me and I'll get you set up."

"Wait a moment!", a trio of voices interrupted them, "What about us? We wish to work here as well."

Fang Shi and the other boy turned around to see three red headed young adult women standing there with a mixture of frantic, nervous, and angry looks on their faces. After taking a moment to judge the three, and recognizing that they were triplets, Fang Shi shrugged his shoulders.

"Sure, follow me as well", he told them, "Just a warning though that there is not enough space in the dormitory, so I will have to ask you three to share until I can arrange it."

The three nodded in agreement as Fang Shi guided them to the employee dormitory. Once inside the shared living room on the first floor, Fang Shi proceed to point at the five living spaces.

"The room at the end of the hall belongs to a man named Wen Quan who works in the artifact refinement department", he informed the four people, "None of the other employees are here right now since it's the normal hours of operation right now. The next two rooms belong to Yu Xian and Xue Yao, who work in the tea house and alchemy department. Now please introduce yourselves."

The 13 year old boy went first, "I am called Wei Liang, and I have barely immersed in the Dao of Alchemy. Unfortunately, my attainments in refining pills has been unsuccessful, so I plead with the owner to have patience with me."

"Wei Liang?", Fang Shi repeated, "I have this here."

He placed a crystal orb on the table, and then instructed the boy, "Place your hand on this artifact. It will scan you so that I can support your cultivation and alchemy practice most efficiently."

Wei Liang slowly took his hands out of sleeves, and placed it on the orb in front of him. After a few moments, the orb slightly illuminated and and he felt an energy swept though him, making him feel like all his secrets were on display. The energy went away as quickly as it appeared, but after the time it took to burn a stick of incense, a light screen was projected above the orb.

"I see", Fang Shi remarked, "Daoist Wei, you have what's known as the Emerald Flame physique. This is an excellent ability to have for someone who wishes to follow the Dao of alchemy."

"I had no idea", the boy was in shock, "I was quickly dismissed by my nominal master for having no talent in alchemy."

The memories of the last two years caused tears to form around Wei Liang's eyes.

"I'm sure their own evaluation artifact simply missed your potential", Fang Shi tried to comfort him, "Anyways, this is good luck for me, please look over this contract and if you agree, you will join Yu Xian in the pharmacy."

Fang Shi left Wei Liang alone to make his decision, and turned to the three young woman, "Please, one at a time, place your hand on the orb as well."

"Allow us to introduce ourselves first", the lady on the left spoke, "I am Hong Yan, this is Hong Shan, and…"

"Excuse me", Fang Shi interrupted, "My formation is set up by my master to detect and prevent certain actions, so I'll warn you now. If you continue to attempt to use charm on me, I will throw you off my land immediately. Also, Hong Shan, I can see you getting ready to poison me, or am I mistaken?"

Hong Yan's eye widened when Fang Shi was easily able to catch them in their preparations. She sent a look to her two sisters, and they abandoned their previous plans.

"Now I can overlook your previous actions if you still want a job", he said to the three women, "If you no longer wish to work here, please leave. Otherwise, place you hands on the artifact one at a time."

"Owner Fang, there is a reason for this", Hong Yan nervously answered, "We were ordered here by our superiors, who frequently take advantage of us, and we just wished to prepare to protect ourselves if you were similar."

Seeing Fang Shi stare at her, Hong Yan gracefully took her hand and placed it on the orb. Just as with Wei Liang, the light screen appeared and Fang Shi's eyes narrowed when he saw that Hong Yan was a spiritual fox in human form.

"If you are sisters", Fang Shi looked at the three in suspicion, "This must mean all three of you are spiritual beasts?"

The three women were about to change back to their normal forms to attack Fang Shi when the space around them stiffened, and they were locked in place.

"You three are related to the beast tide that appeared recently?", Fang Shi questioned them.

Hong Yan found she was able to speak, but could not do anything else, "It wasn't our tribe that participated in that endeavor, and it is true that we were forced to come here to investigate your store by the instigators. But now that we are here, and have witnessed the strength of your master, we do wish to be employed here."

"Fine, I will give you a chance", Fang Shi responded, "But you will not have the opportunity to choose your position. Hong Yan, you will work in the bar. Hong Shan, you are responsible for the restaurant. And Hong?"

"Hong Li", the woman on the right answered.

"You will work in the cultivation cafe for now", Fang Shi told her, "Here are the contracts with descriptions about your work and benefits. Are you able to read?"

"Yes", Hong Yan replied as she took the scrolls.

The three formed a circle, and began to discuss the contents with suspicion.

After they finished, Hong Yan asked, "Why are you willing to hire us despite our earlier actions?"

"First of all, I feel you are genuinely interested in working here", Fang Shi explained, "I will give you the chance to experience that, but I'll also be watching you. If you try to act again like you did earlier, you will be eliminated."

The other two Hong sisters placed their hands on the orb in order, and Fang Shi motioned to the whole group to follow him into another room. Inside they saw the cultivation pods, and were about to ask about it when Fang Shi began to speak.

"For the first few months, I have to ensure that your cultivation methods and customer service skills are up to standards. You will using these artifacts to cultivate, our restaurant will provide the food, and our store provides the resources."

There were only two empty rooms at the moment, so Fang Shi assigned one to Wei Liang and the other to the three sisters.

"My master will add a floor to the dormitory", Fang Shi said as he was leaving, "Once it's done, the men will take the first floor, and the women will take the second."

Once Fang Shi was back in his house, he ensured that the formation would watch the three Hong sisters. Then he proceeded to design a second floor for the dormitory ensuring each floor had bed rooms, cultivation rooms, bathrooms, and practice rooms.

Fang Shi went over the report of the day next, and was satisfied when his last adjustments seemed to promote efficiency. He was also pleased with the results Monster Slayer had been able to produce, so he decided it was time to add a new adventure to the pod cafe. After a quick consideration, Fang Shi decided on the premiere series of his past life, Fairy and Sword.

To connect better with the audience, Fang Shi started to outline the story and characters of the adventure. The character would share a link with the player meaning that if the player was proficient with a spear and lightning, so would the character in the game. He wrote down the story line and sub plots before adding professions and supporting characters. He also made no changes to most of the story including the ending, knowing he would hear about it later. Once he was satisfied with everything he laid out, he paid the fee to the system to produce it.

'Notice: Request received…processing payment…processing request', Fang Shi heard the system working on his behalf, 'Fairy and Sword will be released tomorrow morning with advertisements and pricing displayed.'

Fang Shi sat to eat before taking a bath and heading to bed, ready to see the surprise on the faces of the guests when they see the new adventure.

The next morning, Fang Shi took some time to guide his new employees through their new routine of dining before entering the cultivation pod artifacts. Then he took his spot at the counter of the main store awaiting two guests. An hour later a pair of carriages arrived as Mayor Chen and Lord Rui arrived as they had previously planned. After seeing the performance of the 3rd rate sect disciples and elders plus the loose cultivators, both men had become very interested in how they had reach this level. Fang Shi had offered to show them around today, and the two had accepted enthusiastically. As they entered the main store, the spotted Fang Shi and walked over to greet him this morning.

"Mayor Chen, Lord Rui, welcome to my pavilion", Fang Shi greeted the pair and their entourage with a respectful bow.

The new arrivals returned the gesture before Mayor Chen responded, "I'm very impressed with your business here, Owner Fang."

"Thank you", Fang Shi told them, "I have expanded too quickly, and I have to solidify my foundation before doing more. It must be embarrassing to show this side of myself to Lord Rui who heads such a prestigious company."

"Nothing of the sort, Owner Fang", Lord Rui smiled, "Just as in all things, experience is the ultimate teacher."

Fang Shi's puppet replacement arrived, so he stood and walked over to his guests.

"Please follow me, I will personally guide you through all the different shops", Fang Shi said as he headed upstairs, "First is our restaurant. We use the fresh ingredients you saw downstairs to prepare many meals you know, and a few you might not. The majority of ingredients are helpful for Body Perfecting, Qi Gathering, and Foundation Establishment cultivators. A minority of rice can be helpful for Golden Core cultivators, but we will be adding more as supply and demand increase."

A puppet brought out several samples of different varieties, and the two leaders and their followers each sampled the presentation.

"I understand what you mean about the food being somewhat lacking for Golden Cores", Lord Rui said, "But the taste is still wonderful. I look forward to trying meals here once you gain a supply to higher level ingredients."

After everyone tried the dishes, Fang Shi took them up to the next floor.

"This is our tea house, and even though you can have these teas downstairs, here you can go just for the taste of our tea", Fang Shi explained.

After the samples were drank, Mayor Chen exclaimed, "Some of these teas have an interesting effect on my spiritual sea and divine sense. Do you sell tea as well, Owner Fang?"

"I do on the first floor", Fang Shi nodded, "Please let's go to the third floor. The bar is there, and we serve spiritual wine alongside something we call beer and liquor."

The group arrived on the fourth floor, and a server had already set up a table for everyone. The Mayor and Lord tried all the samples, but were very impressed with the last liquor made from mid quality spiritual rice.

"That last one was very good", Lord Rui told them.

"Yes, I can feel the Qi filling my core", Mayor Chen agreed.

After drinking and trying the games, Fang Shi led the group to the profession tower using the walkway. As they entered the top floor and went through all the products for talismans, arrays, pills, and artifacts, both men were in awe.

"I've never seen items of such high quality, and in such quantities", Lord Rui stated with a solemn face.

In his pavilion, even 3rd rate products of such quality would be held for the rich, or for auctions. But here, everything was of the same standard, and the he guessed that Fang Shi barely made profit from it. On the first floor, they got a big surprise when they saw the spirit farming section that could allow even mortals to grown spirit rice. The Mayor had been curious why low quality spirit rice had drastically fallen in price, and now he understood why. He wasn't to concerned because he had been notified that the city had received more taxes than ever, so he had no reason to complain.

Fang Shi walked everyone through the bathhouse real quick, describing the baths, the water, and the other things added to increase a person's capabilities, but didn't take them inside. He had no desire to sit naked with them, and drone on about his business.

Fang Shi took the last walkway to the top floor of the Cultivation tower, introducing them to the cultivation rooms, and the special breakthrough chambers before leading them to the cultivation pods.