Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis

Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis Chapter 110

2022-04-05

Chapter 110 Tianshu City (Silver Alliance Leader Plus Update)

The Sea Cliff area is the collective name for the coastal plain near Seacliff City.

This coastal plain is long and narrow in shape and small in overall scale, but it is worse than the flat terrain and developed transportation. Although the agricultural output is not as good as that of the fertile Sunset City, it is far stronger than the neighboring rocky hills. region and the Tianshu mountain range area.

According to Bo Nanke's theory of cultivation Economics, infrastructure construction is the best way to drive the economy. For thousands of years, Seacliff Sect has used Earth Element Immortal Technique to build several smooth official roads, Seacliff City is connected to several nearby large cities. These main traffic roads also greatly facilitate the daily life of mortals in the Seacliff area.

Even a cultivator like Yang Lu, who can't fly in the wind, can enjoy the convenience brought by the developed transportation.

Apart from this, as a regional commercial center, Seacliff City's official road has a considerable flow of people rushing to and fro, so there is no need to worry about someone blocking the road and looting, which makes Yang Lu, who has just been cultivating a little Small Accomplishment, a little regretful.

Other people's cultivation world is full of murdering to seize the treasures and plucking the wild goose. On average, 80 of every 100 people the protagonist sees will die. It has been a few months since he came to Nine Provinces cultivation world. , I haven't done it myself yet. Anyway, come to the road to rob and let myself be addicted to it!

The two of them traveled day and night, along the official cultivation in the Sea Cliff area, and occasionally rested at the roadside Inn to recover their mana. Finally, after two days, they left the coastal plain area controlled by Seacliff Sect and entered the Tianshu mountain range area controlled by Shanying Sect.

The Tianshu mountain range is located at 200 li or so west of Seacliff City.

The terrain here is steep, and it is shrouded in thick fog all the year round. The sight suddenly became clear, and suddenly a mist rushed over, and I couldn't see my fingers again.

Tianshu mountain range main peak stands proudly above the layers of clouds and mist, like a hub connecting Heaven and Earth.

The word "Tianshu" is named after it.

Tianshu mountain range The terrain is dangerous and the arable land is scarce, so it is not suitable for mortals to live in. Although the continuous huge mountain system, the total area is more than ten times that of the sea cliff plain, the total population of this area is , not even half of the Sea Cliffs area.

However, Tianshu City also has its own advantageous industries.

The vast forests in the Tianshu mountain range provide a natural forestry and paper industry base.

Apart from this, due to the huge valley system of Tianshu mountain range, there are various complex landforms such as stone forest, lakes, rivers, towering ancient wood, abyss and ground seams, so Tianshu mountain A large area of the range has been designated as a monster beast nature reserve by the Immeasurable Sword Sect, where various types of Low Rank Monster Beast often appear, and even the Golden Core Realm monster beast can occasionally be seen.

After the hunting ban ends every year, there will be a large number of cultivators, holding the hunting license jointly issued by the Immeasurable Sword Sect and the Mountain Eagle Sect, to go to the Tianshu Mountain Range Nature Reserve to kill the monster beast to obtain merits. By the way, get the cultivation materials produced by monster beast.

Forestry and papermaking, monster beast industry, and cultivation market together constitute the economic pillar of Tianshu City.

Compared to Seacliff City, a sea trade commercial center with a more secularized degree and full of copper odor, Tianshu City, which is located at the foot of Tianshu mountain range main peak and surrounded by clouds all the year round, is more in line with Yang Lu's desire for Impression of traditional cultivation world.

However, Immortal Qi Piao Piao cannot be eaten as a meal. In the final analysis, the cultivation sect still has to compete with hard skills.

Because the geographical environment of Tianshu mountain range is very bad, both in terms of population and economic development level, Shanying faction is far inferior to Seacliff Sect, and has been at an absolute disadvantage for a long time in the competition with Seacliff Sect .

However, with the current Sect Master Chen Ming of the Shanying faction in power, the power gap between the Two Great Sects is rapidly closing.

Chen Ming is a high grade Wind Spirit Root cultivator, this kind of spiritual root aptitude cultivation genius, in order to achieve better achievements, he will most likely worship Central Plains Great such as Immeasurable Sword Sect or Golden Blade Sect prestigious families. To worship a local Sect like the Seacliff Sect or the Mountain Eagle is equivalent to giving up hope of becoming a Nascent Soul Realm Great Cultivator.

Because Seacliff Sect and Mountain Eagle's Earth Grade cultivation technique add up, there may be less than five books in total. It is very difficult for a cultivator of high grade spirit root aptitude to find a cultivation technique that matches his spirit root attribute. .

The reason why the Immeasurable Sword Sect is powerful is because the cultivation technique of the Immeasurable Sword Sect, although the formidable power is common, does not pick the spirit root aptitude very much, such as Yang Lu's cultivation technique "The Infinite Heart Sutra - From From entry to master", almost all spiritual root aptitude cultivators can practice.

Nevertheless, when Chenming participated in the Great Immortal Ascension Assembly, he made an amazing decision-

Join the Mountain Eagles!

The reason is very simple, Chen Ming's background is very similar to Murong, and he is also an abandoned baby without a parent. He was taken in by a shantang run by a cultivator of the Shanying sect since he was a child, and he has strong feelings for the Shanying sect. .

He resolutely refused the invitation of the Immeasurable Sword Sect and became the direct disciple of Wu Ming, the Sect Master of the Shanying faction.

For this high-grade spirit root genius who took the initiative to join, the Shanying faction naturally attaches great importance to him. Since just entered, Chen Ming has been trained as the next Shanying faction Sect Master .

And Chen Ming lived up to expectations, he spent nearly 400 years, and finally became the Great Cultivator of the Golden Core sixth layer, and the cultivation base stably controlled the Seacliff Sect Sect Master of the Golden Core three-layer cultivation base. Jiang Hua'an even has a great chance to challenge the realm in the later stage of Golden Core.

Chen Ming is also known as the number one expert in the southeast coastal area of Central Plains, even Liu Hanxing is not his opponent!

As the saying goes, Heaven and Earth all work together, Shanying has not only ushered in the Sect Master with powerful battle strength, but also with Immeasurable Sword Sect vigorously promoting the management concept of "the rule of law Central Plains", Shanying has Pai's paper industry also ushered in a golden age.

According to the theory of Immeasurable Sword Sect Management Master Luo Shen, the core of the legal system is procedural justice, and the core of procedural justice is to leave marks. The traditional cultivation sect management mode of high-rank cultivator making decisions will lead to excessive expansion of the high-level power of the vassal Sect, which can no longer meet the development needs of the Central Plains cultivation society.

In order to strengthen the strength control of the Immeasurable Sword Sect over the vassal Sect, the Immeasurable Sword Sect requires all the vassal Sects to form all important daily affairs into rules and regulations, all major decisions must be made in accordance with the legal process, and form meeting minutes If there is a problem with local governance in the future, the archives sealed by each vassal Sect must be able to ensure that the Immeasurable Sword Sect can be checked back for 200 years.

This is also why each department in the Seacliff City main mansion has such a thick departmental charter.

In addition to these heavy departmental regulations, the main mansion of Seacliff City has also built a huge archive storage room with constant temperature and humidity immortal array, from which Immeasurable Sword Sect can even consult hundreds of years ago. Seacliff Sect high-level meeting minutes and work ledger.

Although cultivators can also use magic weapons such as jade slip to record information conveniently and quickly, but cultivators are usually busy with cultivation and will definitely not personally preside over the tedious daily management work, they are all handed over to Han Fulai. Ordinary clerks run the operations and give some directional guidance at most. Therefore, this management model of "everything has a charter, and decisions must leave traces" has inevitably led to a substantial increase in the amount of paper used in the entire Central Plains, and the price of office paper is also the same. soaring.

As the largest paper industry base in the Central Plains southeast part, Shanying's profits have experienced explosive growth in recent years.

Chen Ming is also a talented Sect leader. He is not overwhelmed by the huge profits of the paper industry, but clearly realizes that the prosperity of the paper industry in Tianshu City is very dependent on the success of the Immeasurable Sword Sect. Policy Support.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to bribe the Immeasurable Sword Sect Merit Hall Supreme Elder Cheng Shuying, so that the Shanying faction vassalized Sect from the edge of "no one above", and became the most die-hard supporter of Cheng Shuying's command. The Seacliff Sect, who supported it, took the stand.

Facts have proved that Chen Ming's judgment is not wrong.

"Legal Central Plains" brought prosperity to the paper industry in Tianshu City, but also brought a heavy burden to other Sects. Many vassal Sects have proposed to Immeasurable Sword Sect that the vassal Sect should be simplified. To improve the work process, reduce the consumption of office paper, don't make a lot of literature, and increase the financial burden of the local Sect in vain.

However, Cheng Shuying, the big backer of the Shanying faction, refuted all such doubts on the high-sounding reasons that "the law of the ancestors cannot be abolished" and "the work of leaving marks is an important starting point for performance evaluation". went back.

If Cheng Shuying hadn't come forward to block a lot of guns and arrows on behalf of the Shanying faction, the Shanying faction would have been impossible to enjoy the huge profits of the paper industry over the years. Not only that, Cheng Shuying also pushed the Immeasurable Sword Sect to issue an import ban on the grounds of jeopardizing the safety of Central Plains, prohibiting Cloudfire Prefecture office paper from being imported into Central Plains, which further pushed up the monopoly profits of the Central Plains paper industry.

In return, the Eagles have also become the most ferocious pawns of the Immeasurable Sword Sect Merit Hall.

Cheng Shuying was clearly at a disadvantage in the competition for the dominance of the reform of the Central Plains cultivation social security system. In order to help his backer turn the situation around, Chen Ming took the initiative to call out to pilot a new generation for Merit Hall. cultivation The slogan of the social security system.

You must know that the new-generation cultivation social security system is the eye of the storm in the high-level power struggle of the Immeasurable Sword Sect, and the cultivation forces in various places are afraid to avoid it. He pushed himself to the cusp and welded the entire Mountain Eagle faction to the war chariot in Merit Hall.

This approach can make the Shanying faction the absolute direct line of Cheng Shuying, but it also makes the Shanying faction offend almost all set up Sect factions and hostile factions in Central Plains. It is hard to say whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.

It must be a bold choice anyway!

However, Yang Lu can also deeply understand the difficulties of Chenming. Tianshu City does not have the conditions of blessed by heaven like Seacliff City. The prosperity of the paper industry and cultivation market is highly dependent on the Immeasurable Sword Sect policy.

Today Immeasurable Sword Sect thinks Seacliff Sect is too strong and needs Shanying Party to check and balance it, so I set up the cultivation market in Tianshu City. Another day I feel that Shanying Sect is disobedient, Immeasurable Sword Sect is OK Re-establish Fang City in another city.

In fact, Ren Tianyuan, the Immeasurable Sword Sect Supreme Elder from Luanshicheng, has been promoting the relocation of the entire culture market to Luanshicheng, but he gave up because of Cheng Shuying's strong opposition. In contrast, the Seacliff Sect has no such problems, and the Immeasurable Sword Sect is definitely impossible to remove the coastal plains and ports in the Seacliff area.

In the case of Innate's lack of talent, Chenming Sect Master wants to make a comeback against the wind, he can only take risks!

Compared to the low-key Seacliff Sect Sect Master Jiang Hua'an, Chenming Sect Master obviously has a very aggressive personality, and perhaps only people with this kind of personality would reject Immeasurable Sword Sect Olive branch, resolutely become the Sect Master of the hawk faction.

Yang Lu and Chen Ping just came to the Tianshu mountain range of Immortal Qi fluttering, they felt the inconvenience brought by the geographical environment to the life of ordinary mortals, such as the flat official road in Seacliff City, after entering the mountains It became rugged, not to mention the difficulty of transportation for ordinary mortals, and even the spiritual Qi consumption of a cultivator like Yang Lu increased sharply.

In the eyes of outsiders, Yang Lu cultivation should be the Profound Level low grade of the Golden Blade Sect, or even the yellow-rank cultivation technique.

Although it is also the first level of Qi Refinement, whether it is the speed of returning to blue or the total reserves of Spiritual Qi, ordinary low-level cultivation techniques cannot be compared with the Supreme book "Infinite Heart Sutra - From Beginner to Mastery". Cheats mention on equal terms.

So every once in a while, Chen Ping will take the initiative to stop and let him recover a little mana.

Yang Lu didn't intend to expose the fact of his cultivation Heaven Grade cultivation technique, so he only used three points of his strength to cast Divine Movement, followed behind Chen Ping, neither too fast nor too slow. Not rushing ahead.

When resting, he will also pretend to absorb some Spiritual Qi, although according to the formidable power of Heaven Grade cultivation technique, he can run directly to Tianshu City without panting,

After the two stopped walking and came to a mortal town in the middle of the valley, Chen Ping took the opportunity to rest and introduced the situation to Yang Lu: "This is the Tianshu mountain range monster beast nature conservation. The entrance of the district is only 30li or so away from Tianshu City. After your Spiritual Qi is recovered, we will go to Tianshu City in a spurt of energy!”

In Nine Provinces cultivation world, mortals It can be called cultivator through cultivation success, and wild beast can also be called monster beast through culture success.

In fact, about the origin of monster beast, there is a lot of debate among the historians of culture. The current mainstream theory in the academic world is the exogenous theory put forward by Bo Nanke senior more than 2,000 years ago.

As everyone knows, cultivation is a business with a strong Matthew effect.

A Sect occupies a large area and has a lot of resources, and the number of high-quality spirit roots produced will be larger, and the cultivation of Sect members will progress quickly; In turn, it can seize more resources and more territory. The two strengthen each other, which will naturally produce the effect of powerhouse constant strength.

Therefore, monster beast and cultivator, as opposing cultivation forces in the same ecological niche, are difficult to achieve a long-term equilibrium at the game level.

As long as one side has a certain advantage, this advantage will snowball more and more until the other side is completely eliminated. This is like the native Indians of the Earth Stone Age. Compared with the wild beast martial power of the Americas, the advantages are not obvious, but the accumulation of such a little advantage eventually led to the extinction of all large creatures in the Americas by humans.

According to this, Bo Nanke believes that the monster beast, which is in the same ecological niche as the cultivator, but cannot compete with the cultivator, appeared impossible from the very beginning, so the relationship between the monster beast and the cultivator should be similar to that of the Indian In the relationship between the natives and the large wild beast in the Americas, the birth of one of the two must be influenced by external forces.

This theory is not for nothing.

The Nine Provinces cultivator has long realized that the Nine Provinces world is not the only civilization world, there are many other worlds outside the Nine Provinces, such as the legendary Foreign Domain battlefield and Demon Realm. Even within the Nine Provinces cultivation world, there are two humanoid races from the outer world, which are called "Demon Race" and "Spirit Race" by cultivators.

Because monster beast can provide valuable cultivation materials, in order to prevent the disorderly expansion of Human Race cultivator and lead to the complete extinction of monster beast, they finally choose to establish monster beast nature reserve to provide sustainable cultivation world. cultivation resources.

The weather has just turned warmer, and the hunting period stipulated by the Immeasurable Sword Sect has not yet arrived. There are no cultivators in this mortal town, but according to Chen Ping, when the hunting period begins, there will be There are a lot of cultivators gathered here.

The two did not stay in this deserted town too much. After a short rest, they set off again and arrived at Tianshu City, the final destination of the trip, before dark.

Tianshu City is built on a mountain, at the foot of the Tianshu mountain range main peak. According to the ups and downs of the mountain, Tianshu City presents a layered structure, with two towering city walls at the foot of the mountain and halfway up the mountain, dividing the city into two parts: the inner city and the outer city. The outer city of Tianshu City is the residential area of ordinary mortals, while the inner city is the Commerce District, the wealthy area, and the cultivation area in order from low to high. The planning is quite neat.

The Tianshu City Overlord Mountain Eagle Sect is headquartered at the top of the Tianshu mountain range main peak, the top of the Eagle Flying Peak, overlooking the vast mountains like a king.

This magnificent mountain city has far exceeded the limit of the productivity of traditional agricultural society. From this cloud-shrouded city itself, you can see the moving mountains and suppressing seas of the cultivator. Supreme Power!

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