Guo Zhengyang

This middle-aged man was the city lord. He was also Guo Xu's father, Guo Zhengyang. Guo Zhengyang had been very confident in his position in Xuantian City, as he had been appointed by the previous Xuan Master to run Xuantian City for five hundred years. Furthermore, he had even had Ma Xingkong as a backer. But before the five hundred years ran out, he had been kicked out.
== Personality ==
Guo Zhengyang was a greedy and corrupt scrooge and swindler, miserly with others and himself.
Guo Zhengyang was so miserly, that he did not want to spend money to heal his son sooner 
== Story ==
The city lord was a position the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect had set up in Xuantian City, and through the HSMS' backing Guo rose to power. The Xuan Master pretended like he didn't know.
Once he took office, he tried to rack up as much wealth as possible, even depriving disciples of their wages, making up all kinds of excuses. The Xuantian Dao Sect disciples then left and reported to the Xuan Master.
The Xuan Master sent someone to investigate, but Guo showed a detailed accounting list with no mistakes. The investigator then left.
Guo then went more overboard. He kicked out those who 'falsely' accused him and stole their wages too.
Three years after he took office, practically no disciple from Xuantian Dao Sect stayed as there was no money to be made there. They went home.
Guo Zhengyang then invited his own relatives. From his wives' families, he managed to bring over many relatives. In ten years, all of Xuantian City was composed of the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect's people.
With no more disciples coming, his profits were shrinking, and the Xuantian Dao Sect only sent money to fix the defenses every few decades. Therefore, he used his own relatives to make more money.
These relatives were all outer members of the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect, and amongst them, his background was the greatest. His aunt was one of Ma Xingkong's dual cultivation partners. So they couldn't oppose Guo.
Once he had duped four relatives here, he directly bestowed them the title of four grand noble families and said they would jointly develop this region.
This region was filled with countless sea demons and rich in minerals. Guo Zhengyang had pulled them in as investors. And so they naturally had to put in money to get money.
The four grand noble families invested all their wealth into the city. They thought they could make it back in just a few decades.
They were wrong.
Guo oversaw all the accounting books, and he constantly gave excuses that the Xuantian Dao Sect had debts and was taking resources. He didn't dare to touch their investment yet. Only once they had enough accumulated wealth could they go through with the plan, so he told them to wait patiently.
Not only did he not give them dividends, he even started charging them rent and all kinds of other taxes.
The four grand noble families were infuriated, but Guo Zhengyang told them that if they wanted to stay behind, they had to listen. Otherwise, they could scram.
If they left, they would lose the status of noble families and lose their initial investment. So they couldn't leave, but they also couldn't do anything to Guo Zhengyang due to his background. They could only endure.
Guo Zhengyang had them trick more people to come over to the city. He said that he would give them a third of the profits from those duped people. Also if they left Xuantian City, he would give them an extra 15% of their earnings.
The four grand noble families could only start baiting their own relatives into coming in order to survive.
Now, all the people in Xuantian City were the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect's outer members. Even the experts on duty were their people. Most importantly, they had all been tricked over, and they didn't get the slightest salary. Even when they killed sea demons, the profits would go to Xuantian City. With Guo Zhengyang's severe threats, they didn't dare run away. They could only continue like this until they died.
This was also why no one came to help once they saw Guo Zhengyang had been knocked unconscious. They only watched with stupefied expressions because they were already numb.
But when they learned Long Chen had come to replace Guo Zhengyang, they almost wept tears of joy. They wished Long Chen would directly kill him, because only once he was dead would they be freed.
== Accumulated wealth ==
From Guo Zhengyang, Long Chen now had over 300 spatial rings, and each one of them was filled with treasures.
He had at least five hundred million yuan spirit stones. 
Three hundred years ago, the Xuan Master had seen through the character of the miserly Guo Zhengyang. 
The amount of wealth Guo Zhengyang had embezzled from the Xuantian Dao Sect was just 10% of his total wealth. The remaining 90% was what Guo Zhengyang had spent 300 years making. The return on the Xuan Master's investment was huge.
The Xuan Master had subtly hinted that the yuan spirit stones would all go to Long Chen, while the rest of the resources would be sent up to the Xuantian Dao Sect. Because it was Long Chen who personally took them, the Dao Sect wouldn't be affected by much karma. After all, they didn't directly give it to Long Chen. The Xuan Master's intention had been very clear. He had basically been telling Long Chen to be 'greedy' and just not report the yuan spirit stones.
The yuan spirit stones took up almost half the total wealth Guo Zhengyang had had. Over ninety percent of these precious yuan spirit stones were the result of his relationship with the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect.
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