Hidden Moth-Chapter 370 - 208: You Seem Fortunate Yet Uneasy (Part 2)

Many people have benefited from this... Earth Master Gu Chun rides a cloud every day, floating leisurely, and this Divine Artifact was obtained from the secret repository of the Huiming Shi Family.

The Ancestral Hall dispatched over fifty sorcerers to assist in handling this matter, and they can’t work for free—like Lawyer Yao Shaolan, who received a huge agency fee; the wool still comes from the sheep’s back.

The Ancestral Hall operates with rules and cannot arbitrarily seize the Huiming Shi Family’s various resources and wealth; repossession must have a basis in Karma.

The ones handling this matter are sorcerers too, and if they commit any offenses in the future, they must follow the same procedures.

The Huiming Shi Family claims five generations of sorcerer lineage, indeed a solid four-generation Technique family. The businesses they run cannot all be related to the Magic Sect, and the amassed wealth can’t all have been seized through illicit means.

Their enterprises can be simply divided into two parts. First, those unrelated to the Magic Sect and Technique; these have mostly been retained, and Shi Haotu was originally responsible for managing this type of business.

Secondly, those related to or touching upon the Magic Sect and Technique; some have been directly repossessed by the Ancestral Hall, others need restructuring, with sections that shouldn’t be repossessed separated and still left to the Shi Family’s remaining members.

These tasks are very complex, hence so many professionals are enlisted to help. These professionals are knowledgeable, knowing which Shi Family businesses are profitable, so during restructuring, they often take a share.

The Shi Family’s attitude is surprisingly welcoming; not only do they not refuse, but most of the shares were invited by them!

The warlock family of the past has fallen, and the survivors are dividing the inheritance, so having other sorcerers willing to join is considered providing new security.

These professionals are all dispatched by the Ancestral Hall, indicating they may be valued by the Elders and the higher-ups, being their cultivated direct line... In short, much that happened over the past half year revolves around redistributing interests.

No one could have foreseen that the half-marginalized Shi Haotu would see his fortune doubled.

The Huiming Shi Family has a trading company registered in Nanhua, called "Nanhua Huisi Trading Group," in which Shi Haotu holds eighty percent of the shares, maintaining absolute control.

Shi Haotu was essentially working for the family’s higher-ups, while supporting a batch of relatives—the shares listed under his name—but many things weren’t his to decide, as plenty of family members were employed within the group.

But now, with Shi Zhizhai and other higher-ups dead, Huishi Trading truly becomes Shi Haotu’s controlled industry; from both legal and practical operation levels, no one can vie for control anymore.

The Shi Family has ten remaining sorcerers who retained the Micro Realm Sect disciple identity; they are the current internal family decision-makers. With Shi Zhiliao and Li Chun’s mentor-disciple pair present, others can’t again covet Shi Haotu’s assets.

Shi Haotu has no other plans, just intends to continue managing the businesses he was initially responsible for.

Calculated roughly, Shi Haotu’s wealth amounts to at least ten personal goals. Although for the Huiming Shi Family’s original vast fortune, this is but a small, inconspicuous portion, yet it’s considerably substantial.

More significantly, it’s not just the wealth on paper; Huishi Trading is also a highly profitable platform, with annual profits very high, and cash flow substantial... thus becoming targeted.

Those eyeing Shi Haotu and his spouse include another Shi Family sorcerer, Shi Yunlu. Blood-related, he’s actually Shi Haotu’s own nephew, yet only two years younger than Shi Haotu.

Shi Yunlu’s father was Shi Haoguang, who failed to master his Technique and died young. His mother, Chang Manxia, now serves as a high executive at Huishi Trading and holds five percent of the shares, considered a minor shareholder.

In the original family enterprise, Chang Manxia merely held the shares in trust, drawing a generous salary without concern for the business, as her son, Shi Yunlu, is already a Tier Three Sorcerer.

Shi Yunlu, due to his father’s early death, didn’t gain much in the Shi Family’s internal distribution of interests and power struggle, and being somewhat problematic character-wise, the elders didn’t favor him, leading him to study abroad.

He earned a Ph.D. overseas, and while pretending to start a business spent two years, expending much money but achieving little in entrepreneurship, thus escaping the Ancestral Hall’s cleaning of the Huiming Shi Family and only returning domestically after the turmoil.

His mother told him that the days ahead might not be as easy as before, but Shi Yunlu thought otherwise.

He considers himself knowledgeable in business and law, and after research, realized that as long as he eliminates Shi Haotu and Li Chun, he and his mother could take over Huishi Trading.

The other Huiming Shi Family industries, he didn’t dare covet; unfamiliar with many conditions, potential grievances with the sorcerers dispatched by the Ancestral Hall could arise. Yet Huishi Trading, under Shi Haotu’s control, was precisely what his mother was familiar with.

Lan Jiwan once noticed Shi Yunlu secretly researching the relationships between stock inheritance and control with a lawyer. Although codes were used in the case studies—company names like A, B, and names like Zhang San and Li Si—they resembled the situation of Huishi Trading.

Shi Yunlu concluded that removing only Shi Haotu wasn’t enough; Li Chun must be eliminated too. As for the elder Shi Zhiliao, aged and frail, already negligible as an obstacle, as long as he executes skillfully without getting caught.