Immortal Way Retrograde

Chapter 274 The Current Situation of Donglin City

After bidding farewell to the booth selling pills, Fang Shuo briefly explained some events that happened in the Fang family.

Only then did Jun Luo realize that there was such a reason.

The real Fang family is not located in Donglin City, but is located on one of several small islands like the Nie family. Although it is not considered a hermit family, its prestige in the Cang realm is enough to be compared with some hermit families.

These families usually have some special abilities, but what kind of abilities they have, ordinary people have no way of knowing.

The disciples of such a family are often very low-key when they go out. They will not bully others, nor will they deliberately show off their identities in front of ordinary people, giving people a sense of superiority.

Even if he is as famous as Fang Shuo, the first impression he gives people is that he is a junior uncle from Dongchen Island, a genius with extraordinary talents, and few people would say that he is from the Fang family.

But thinking about it, true geniuses will become the support of the family, instead of allowing themselves to be the background of the family. Their dignity and pride do not allow it.

Fang Shuo is independent from and dependent on the family, but this does not mean that he does not love his family. On the contrary, if he finds out that someone has gone out to paint dirty things for the Fang family, he will be the first one who will not forgive him.

Fang Shuo was rarely angry because of anything, but now he was obviously very upset because of this matter.

At present, they still have more important things to do. Fang Shuo did not mention the matter of dealing with the Fang family.

But once this matter is over, Jun Luo has no doubts, Fang Shuo will definitely start to deal with this so-called side branch of the Fang family.

Nowadays, many people in Donglin City don't know the old calendar of the Fang family. They only think that they are really the Fang family, but they moved to Donglin City for some unknown reason, and this also makes these villains take advantage of the situation. The family's influence in Dongchen Island has done many evil things.

As time went by, these offshoots found that the main family didn't realize what they were doing, so they began to become more rampant and more arbitrary, which also made many monks in Donglin City gradually have a bad impression of the Fang family.

However, what is wronged is that the real Fang family has never known what these villains have done, so the person whose hat was deducted is also inexplicably confused and innocent.

Along the way, the three of Jun Luo passed by many stalls, and they would stop from time to time to take a look, one is to understand the current market prices of various items in Donglin City, and the other is to find out if anyone has seen them. Disciples who have passed Dongchen Island.

After walking for most of the day, they basically figured out the current situation of Donglin City.

Just like what the peddler said, the price of all the items related to the pill formation talisman here is extremely high, the price is five or six times lower than that outside, and the price is ten or twenty times higher.

However, it is strange that the basic materials used in the pill array talisman did not soar with the soaring price of the pill array talisman.

The spiritual plants used in the pills, the various spiritual minerals used in the refining, the blank array disks and engraving pens used in the formations, the paper and pens used in drawing symbols, all these materials are not much different from the prices of the outside world.

In other words, in Donglin City, the Pill Array Talisman is a lucrative business with low cost and high income, and the winners of the bulk of the income are the so-called Four Great Aristocratic Families, which completely present a monopoly economy.

And in the middle, I am afraid there are still some things about the city lord. If the city lord does not nod his approval, even if the four great families want to do these things, they can only do it secretly, and they dare not be as blatant as they are now.

It can be seen that none of the high-level officials in this city can escape.

Of course, Jun Luo also asked a material dealer, "Your business is so difficult, don't you think about going to other places?"

The answer Jun Luo got was that there were too many obstacles in the middle. There was such a rule in the city that it was okay to leave the city, but all residents who planned to relocate had to hand over [-]% of their own property, and that was not enough. including real estate.

Nie Feng was startled when he heard this. In his opinion, it had nothing to do with the bandits.

Then he asked again, what about foreign businessmen?

The peddler told them that foreign merchants need to sign a contract after making a transaction here, and they must come to the city to conduct another transaction every once in a while, otherwise, they will never want to go back with the spirit stone they earned.

What's more, all the things that involve the talisman array must be directly connected with the four great families, otherwise it will be a secret transaction, and when they leave, they will still be searched by the city defenders for all the spirit stones they have earned.

Nie Feng couldn't control himself when he heard this, "What about the outsiders who don't do anything?" This was the last question he asked.

The peddler replied, "After checking your trajectory, the other party will only charge you a certain amount of spirit stones and let you go."

The corners of Jun Luo's lips twitched slightly, feeling that this is a city for sightseeing.

"But when we came in, the gatekeeper monk didn't tell us this."

"All these conditions have been said, who dares to enter the city easily."

Nie Feng was stunned speechless, but he asked the last question after a while, "Then what if the person entering the city is a disciple of Donglin Island?"

The peddler smiled, "Did you know that in Donglin City, there are two types of people who can come and go unconditionally. The first type is the monks with Nascent Soul cultivation level and above, and the second type is the disciples of Dongchen Island."

"However, after the disciples of Dongchen Island realized that the prices here were too expensive, they almost never came to this city again, so there are very few disciples of Dongchen Island who can visit now.

Our Pill Array Talismans are also used to sell to city residents or outsiders. "

It's just, is it so expensive that anyone really buys it?

The answer is inevitable. Although the prices in Donglin City are high, the grades are indeed quite good. When meeting monks who are not stingy with spirit stones, this place can be regarded as a small paradise. Of course, for most people, this place is still hell .

Some people couldn't leave Donglin City, so they could only rely on hunting monsters and collecting spiritual plants for a living, but the one pill that could be obtained by collecting three or four spiritual plants, now had to collect thirty or forty.

So when it comes to suffering, the hardest ones are those low-level monks.

They want to stay away from this city, and they are reluctant to part with the resources in their hands. They want to stay here, but it seems that they will not be able to survive.

What I have to say is that a small number of people still have the courage, because they were indeed forced to the point of poverty, and in the end they simply gave up almost all the resources in their hands and left Donglin City.

However, such people are only a minority after all, and most people are silently enduring.

(End of this chapter)