I'm in Shrouding the Heavens Practicing Eternal Life

After stepping down, Li Daoqing felt a sense of relief. From now on, he only needed to focus on how to break through. With time to spare, he felt inclined to look after the younger generation and decided to encourage Wang Teng to cheer up.

Li Daoqing went up to him.

Li Daoqing quickly retreated.

Wang Teng didn't appreciate it at all. No matter what he said, it was as if Wang Teng's soul hadn't come with him; he only brought his mouth to drink. The dignified Heavenly Prodigy was completely drunk, like a mortal wallowing in his misery.

It's over.

He's fallen apart.

Wang Teng, known as the Northern Emperor and said to have the luck of an ancient emperor, had completely become a useless person.

Li Daoqing returned awkwardly, wanting to say something but stopping, stopping but wanting to say something, after a moment of contemplation.

Wang Chengkun simply waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to say anything more.

It's like needing a stick to practice the Dog-Beating Stick Technique.

If he wanted to re-forge a weapon, he would at least need materials. The Heaven Emperor Sword's material was immortal-grade metal that could be used as a Dao-proving weapon. Where could he find a second piece?

At the previous ceremony, Wang Teng saw the Nine-Colored Immortal Gold Scepter in Jiang Li's hand, and his heart churned with bitterness. He, too, once had a Heaven Emperor Sword, but it was snatched away...

In a gloomy corner, Wang Teng drowned his sorrows alone.

On the other side was a completely opposite scene. Ye Fan introduced Pang Bo to the others. Everyone didn't mind that Pang Bo was a demon, after all, the grudges between forces had little to do with personal relationships, and besides, Ye Fan and Pang Bo had known each other before.

The news of Liu Yunzhi and the others betraying them had been Soul Searched, so the news that Ye Fan and Pang Bo were from Earth was already public knowledge. Among them, the one who was doing the best was Luo Mo, the leader of the Source Heaven Sect. Everyone wouldn't make things difficult for his classmates out of respect for him.

The young prodigies gathered together, throwing out some fresh news to joke and chat.

Children ran around excitedly.

Some people were puzzled, why would there be children at such a solemn occasion?

But upon closer inspection, good heavens, these little guys were all cultivators in the Transformation Dragon Realm, with higher cultivation levels than many of the young people who had come with their elders to see the world. After all, in the major holy lands, the Transformation Dragon Realm was already enough to become an elder.

The clothes they wore had the mark of the Jade Radiance Holy Land, which couldn't help but remind people of the rumors in the cultivation world about the Jade Radiance Holy Land's young prodigies. It was said that they were even younger than Jade Radiance Holy Master Jiang Li was at their level.

The good things always belong to other people's families. Many old fogeys from the great sects couldn't help but want to take these little geniuses home.

After talking about the ship, Luo Mo began to discuss business with the providers of faith power from the five regions of the Northern Dipper. Faith power had already developed into an industrial chain. After all, if you want mortals to pray all day long, you definitely have to give them food. Therefore, there were also grain merchants involved.

The several great dynasties had vast territories and large populations, and because the Great Firmament Realm had been collecting faith power, those mortals within their territories were living anyway, so it was better to let them work for these high-level people and earn faith power. The Central Province was suitable for survival, so they had always been the main players.

You must know that the Jade Radiance Holy Land gave a very high price. The more mortals there were, the more origin energy they could exchange for.

"Holy Master Jiang, will faith power procurement continue to be stable in the future?"

"Stable? Continue? I can't guarantee that," Luo Mo said deliberately. "To be honest, recently I feel that the quality of the faith power I've received is very low, and I'm not willing to take this kind of inferior resource."

"Inferior? What do you mean by that?"

"That's right, we have all strictly tested according to your requirements, and there will never be any negative mental interference such as resentment."

Concerned about their wallets, the heads of the major forces quickly said.

Luo Mo shook his head, "I'm not saying that the faith power you trade has resentment, but that faith power is also divided into grades. How can the faith power generated by mortal prayers compare to that generated by cultivators?"

"Cultivators?"

Everyone looked at each other, "Cultivators don't have time to pray either. If you want cultivators to pray to generate faith power, the price will be unimaginably high. The price difference between a cultivator and a mortal, Holy Master Jiang, you should understand better than us."

The faith power generated by a Revolving Sea cultivator's prayer is only equivalent to hundreds of mortals, and a Revolving Sea cultivator can manage tens of thousands of mortals. Simply buying faith power generated by cultivator prayers for the sake of quality would be a bottomless pit, and even the richest person couldn't withstand such consumption.

"It doesn't have to be cultivators, but if mortals are knowledgeable, strong, and have aspirations without being confused, the faith power generated by their prayers is worth four or five times that of the faith power generated by ignorant, weak mortals. Even more valuable is the improvement in quality."

Knowledgeable?

Strong?

Aspiring and not confused?

Are those still mortals? Many cultivators are still confused about where the road ahead lies.

Luo Mo paused, holding the Nine-Colored Immortal Gold Dragon Scepter in his hand. The light generated by faith power shone brightly, much purer than what they had sent, full of beautiful and pure thoughts, without any impurities. It was clearly different from the mortal faith power they had purchased—after all, it was produced by converted tools, and the quality was excellent.

Luo Mo continued, "The faith power generated by hopeful and bright people is the faith power I need, and it is suitable for refining magical treasures. I only want to use the best."

Ah, yes, yes, yes.

You're paying, you can use whatever you want.

However, this also presented a difficult problem for others, which was how to make mortals hopeful, knowledgeable, and strong. Teach them to cultivate?

No, no, no, that's too difficult.

"I've heard that the mortals near the Five Rivers Plain are practicing a boxing technique called Bright Light Fist," an elder of the Nine Li Dynasty said. "The last time I went to the Great Firmament Realm, when I passed over the sky, I saw the mortals on the ground practicing boxing. I watched for a while, and the boxing technique was simple and unadorned, but it contained some of the charm of the Great Dao's simplicity."

"I've seen it too."

"It's a good boxing technique, quite excellent for mortals, but too useless for cultivators."

Mortals, after all, no matter how strong they temper their bodies, they can only leap ten feet, punch through earthen walls, shatter iron with their hands, and walk on walls.

But becoming a cultivator is different. Opening the Bitter Sea stores divine power, and the Spring of Life flows gurglingly, allowing them to ride rainbows, fly into the sky and escape into the earth, control magical treasures, and move mountains and fill seas.

The martial arts of mortals and the divine power of cultivators have different styles. There's no need to compare to know that cultivation is stronger.

"That's what I created when I was researching the Human Immortal Secret Technique, and I taught it to the mortals by the way," Luo Mo said. "It is also because of this that I discovered that the faith power generated in the area I govern is of higher quality than the faith power generated in your areas."

Luo Mo paused, then prepared to unleash a big move.

"I plan to produce all faith power myself in the future. Using high-quality faith power to refine magical treasures is the best choice. No pain, no gain, I believe the future will not let me down."

"!"

"!"

Everyone was shocked.

You must know that buying faith power is a buyer's market. Only the Jade Radiance Holy Land is buying faith power on the market, and the origin energy or various pills and magical treasures they throw out each year add up to at least hundreds of millions of catties.

However, today, Jiang Li, the new Holy Master of the Jade Radiance Holy Land and the actual controller of the Great Firmament Realm, said that he would no longer buy it.

No longer buying it?

The benefit of earning tens of millions of catties of origin energy for nothing each year is gone just like that?

This isn't just losing a business deal, it's cutting their flesh!

Having benefited for so long for nothing, suddenly losing it is more painful than beating them up!

"Holy Master Jiang, please reconsider?"

"It concerns the refinement of magical treasures and the future of Dao proving. I don't want to be careless."

Jiang Li's words immediately blocked them, after all, this was the best reason. Which prodigy doesn't have the heart to prove the Dao? They are naturally extremely careful about matters concerning Dao proving, and the refinement of Dao-proving weapons is even more important.

"Then, what if we improve the quality of faith power?" Finally, someone said what Luo Mo wanted them to say.

Luo Mo deliberately shook his head, "That's not an easy thing to do. However, I will still buy faith power in the next few months, but I will gradually reduce it and use the origin energy to build my own territory in the Jade Radiance Holy Land. I'll give you all a heads up here."

"..."

This was bad news, a way to make money lying down was about to disappear.

"Holy Master Jiang!"

The Southern Demon Qi Lin walked over with his younger sister Qi Qi and some elders. Some of the elders were wrapped in animal skins and carried large bone sticks, which seemed out of place with the attire of other cultivators.

"Brother Qi."

"Everyone, let me introduce you..."

Luo Mo left behind the group of providers of the Power of Wishes and went to exchange pleasantries with the cultivators of the Southern Ridge, while also discussing business.

Yes, still discussing business. After all, having reached the position of Holy Master, many related issues of interest required him to come forward to negotiate.

If it were a general Holy Land, there would still be Supreme Elders who could handle it on his behalf, but firstly, today was his Holy Master succession ceremony, and secondly, the Great Luo World was almost entirely built by his own efforts. Even the disciples of the Jade Radiance Holy Land were just considered employees.

Therefore, dealing with the Great Luo World, people felt more at ease only when negotiating with him.

Qi Lin of the Southern Demon Clan brought several elderly people from the barbarian tribes, who were very enthusiastic.

"Holy Master Jiang is a young hero! When the little brats in our tribe were your age, many of them were still wrestling with demonic beasts in the wilderness. Not one of them could compare to you!"

Although it sounded a bit strange, it was probably a compliment.

"The Southern Ridge has many demonic beasts, and your tribes are clearly in frequent contact with them," Luo Mo said, going straight to the point.

"That's natural. When it comes to demonic beasts, no one is more familiar than our barbarian tribes. We barbarians are baptized with beast blood from birth!"

Luo Mo nodded, "I need a large amount of demonic beast essence blood, fur, bones, etc., of all levels. I also need a stable supply of demonic beast meat, demonic beast eggs, beast milk, and so on. I just don't know if your barbarian tribes are capable of raising demonic beasts. The quantity I need is quite large."

"Leave it to us! We have our own unique skills in taming demonic beasts. It's just that we didn't have enough resources in the past to breed them on a large scale. After hearing about your plan from Nephew Qi Lin, I can guarantee that as long as you are willing to purchase at the agreed-upon price, we can raise them for you. You want how much, we'll raise how much!"

"That's right, the Southern Ridge has few people, plenty of land, and many demonic beasts. As long as you give us money, we can raise as many as you want!"

"Yes, we haven't contacted several other tribes yet. We're just afraid you don't have enough money."

Several tribal leaders of the barbarians spoke loudly, not understanding what commercial secrets were, but it didn't matter.

"That's good. As long as the lords of the Southern Ridge are willing to sign a contract with us, providing demonic beast meat, eggs, milk, essence blood, fur, bones, Source, and pills, you can immediately take them away."

Cultivation is about resources.

Meat, eggs, and milk are good things.

Demonic beast meat is full of blood energy, demonic beast eggs are extremely nourishing, and beast milk—

Even the Immortal Emperor says it's good!

Eat!

Give me big mouthfuls to eat!

In addition to meat, eggs, and milk, the essence blood of demonic beasts can be used to refine pills, and fur and bones can be used to refine weapons. This type requires sufficiently powerful demonic beasts and hunting, making the harvest difficult to estimate.

Meat, eggs, milk, and the like can be raised by oneself, and there is no need for high cultivation. In any case, they are definitely good things for mortals, after all, Luo Mo only prepares them for mortals.

Although he also opened a farm himself, the scale was not large enough, and the Eastern Wilderness was indeed not as suitable for engaging in the demonic beast farming industry as the Southern Ridge.

In the future, the mortals under his rule will eat rice produced in Central Province, drink beast milk from the Southern Ridge, use pills produced in the Eastern Wilderness, and wield magical treasures refined from materials combined from the five regions of the Big Dipper…

This can also be regarded as the globalization of the Big Dipper.

Moreover, there is no need to worry about problems such as inflation. The higher the cultivation, the more resources one controls. Leaking some from between one's fingers is enough for the people below to eat their fill.

At times like these, Luo Mo really wanted the creatures called Heavenly Demons from "Eternal Life". With enough resources, they could divide themselves and evolve quickly…

Luo Mo's conversation with the tribal leaders of the Southern Ridge naturally attracted attention, and everyone immediately knew what was happening.

Today, people came to this newly promoted Holy Master Jiang to discuss business wave after wave, including the ten major financial groups, providers of the Power of Wishes, and tribes of the Southern Ridge.

Next, several major forces from the Northern Plains also came. The Golden Family of the Northern Plains and the Wang family where Wang Teng was located all came to discuss business dealings with Luo Mo.

Although Wang Chengkun's son was crippled, business still had to be discussed, after all, there was still a huge Wang family to manage.

The Northern Plains are barren.

This is the world's inherent impression, but this is only relative. In fact, the Northern Plains also has many divine lands, with many grasslands and lakes, rich in various beautiful jades, and ice marrow and other treasures are also common in the glaciers, all of which can be discussed.

A good succession ceremony was forcibly turned into a business conference, still a running banquet.

It was just that everyone had a happy expression after talking with Holy Master Jiang, only those few largest providers of the Power of Wishes had gloomy faces. Obviously, only they were hurt this time.

"Have you all come up with any countermeasures?"

"What's there to counter? Holy Master Jiang wants high-quality Power of Wishes, shouldn't we just give it to him?"

Someone sneered, "Easier said than done. Mortals also need to have thoughts in their hearts. Jiang Li can give mortals a chance to cultivate, throwing pills at them regardless of cost. Can we do that?"

"That's right, to put it bluntly, we are just counting on mortals to earn us some Source. Who would invest money in mortals?"

The atmosphere fell silent for a while.

"Hey? What do you say about us selling people?" Someone had a sudden whim.

Someone immediately retorted disdainfully, "How much are mortals worth? And it's a one-time deal. According to Holy Master Jiang's method of scattering money, the Jade Radiance Holy Land probably can't support many mortals."

"I'm not talking about selling mortals."

This person was amused, "Then you want to sell your own cultivators? Wouldn't the ancestors be so angry that they'd crawl out of their graves?"

"I'm still talking about selling mortals, just selling those mortals with aptitude." The person who suggested selling people said unhappily, "Those who have some aptitude, but not enough to open up the Bitter Sea, isn't the Jade Radiance Holy Land treating them like treasures, willing to throw pills at them? We can sell them to the Jade Radiance Holy Land, anyway, we don't raise them."

"Seems like there's some truth to that."

"There are too many disciples without talent, they are just wasting resources, which is insignificant to us."

"That's right, as long as there is the inheritance of predecessors, Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons and Inherited Holy Weapons, the foundation of the Holy Land Great Sect is naturally stable. Even if the number of ordinary disciples in the Jade Radiance Holy Land is several times ours, what does it matter?"

"Yes, what several fellow Daoists said is very true."

"Doesn't Jiang Li have a set of Bright Light Fist? That can be used to test aptitude. Go back and let the mortals practice it, and you'll know who is worth more."

"Wonderful!"

Three cobblers are equal to one Zhuge Liang.

These people who do the Power of Wishes business actually rediscovered business opportunities with their chatter.

"Wait, in that case, wouldn't we be able to give mortals a goal, telling them that practicing the fist well can lead to cultivation? In that case, can we improve the quality of the Power of Wishes by doing this?"

Everyone's eyes lit up.

Someone suddenly slapped his thigh, "In that case, can the transaction of the Power of Wishes continue?"

"Misfortune and fortune depend on each other. I didn't expect that we would find another way, but instead solved the original problem, and even earned an extra sum of money out of thin air!"

"That's right, we earned it!"

They hurried to Jiang Li to discuss it, squeezed out the Buddhist monks, and apologized to some old monks, saying they were cutting in line.

The old monks of the Buddhist sect were very tolerant, their eyes under their white eyebrows narrowed into a slit, and they twirled their prayer beads, "You're welcome, please go ahead, fellow benefactors."

Several major Power of Wishes merchants put forward their ideas, waiting for Luo Mo to reply.

"You want to teach mortals to practice the Bright Light Fist in your territory? And you want those who practice well to join my Jade Radiance Holy Land?"

Luo Mo pretended to be very surprised.

"That's right, Holy Master Jiang, what do you think of this…"

"It's not impossible. It just so happens that I need a lot of people here."

Luo Mo's words cheered them up.

Success!

"It's just that the quality of the Power of Wishes must be strictly controlled. I've been running this place for some time, and all kinds of systems, literacy methods, and various tutorials are very complete. If you want them, you can take them all, and you can also bring some mortals to help manage and teach literacy."

"That would be great, thank you, Holy Master Jiang."

Everyone was very happy.

They were happy not only that the Power of Wishes business could be restored, but also that they could make a population sale, opening up a new source of wealth.

Luo Mo was happy that he had extended many tentacles, and this one was a very important one!

You must know that the Source Heaven Sect is also his.

When the entire five regions of the Big Dipper develop in the future, and the proportion of cultivators among mortals increases significantly, there will definitely be large-scale projects everywhere, adjusting dragon veins and gathering vitality. Who will they think of first then?

It must be the Source Masters of the Source Heaven Sect. Inherited from the contemporary Source Heaven Master, their craftsmanship is beyond question.

At that time, they can be arranged at will within other forces.

After all, there are so many Holy Land families on the Big Dipper, and there are also many Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons. Luo Mo has no way to arrange them at will in other people's territory now, and this is an excellent disguise.

The five regions of the Big Dipper are a huge altar.