The Fourth Financial Crisis

As Yang Lu's understanding of the Haiya System continued to deepen, he increasingly felt that the Haiya System was unfathomable.

The profits from ocean trade in the southeastern coastal areas of Zhongzhou are extremely astonishing. However, such huge profits are exclusively monopolized by the local cultivator force of the Haiya Clan. This is definitely not something that Jiang Hua'an, a third-level golden elixir monk, can do. After all, in terms of combat effectiveness, Jiang Hua'an is not even as good as Chen Ming, the leader of the Mountain Eagle Sect.

If the Haiya Sect is really just an ordinary local cultivation force, it will never be able to hold on to this cash cow.

What's more, according to the information inadvertently revealed by Han Fulai, the Haiya Clan has long been deeply tied to the major interest groups in Zhongzhou by relying on its exclusive trade channels. Based on this alone, the Haiya Clan can make its relationship invisible. The network radiates to the entire Zhongzhou, and even directly penetrates into the top management of Wuliang Sword Sect.

From Yang Lu's point of view, Zhu Ziming's plan to bind the Zhu Family Shang Hui to Liu Hanxing by backstabbing the Haiya system was undoubtedly a very naive idea, and could even be said to be a stupid decision made by someone who was too smart.

Because the hidden strength of the Haiya system may be far beyond what outsiders imagine!

What's more, Liu Hanxing, as the head disciple of the Wuliang Sword Sect, represents Lin Jianxing's supreme authority. With the huge gap in status between the two sides, Liu Hanxing is unlikely to regard the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce as an ally, and will most likely regard the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce as an ally. I wish the merchants would use it as a tool.

The biggest evidence is that poor Zhu Ziming can only report to Liu Qi until now.

Compared with Zhu Ziming's choice to give up the Haiya system and join Liu Hanxing, Yang Lu did the opposite and kept moving closer to the Haiya system.

Among the three giants in Haiya City, the Han family in Haiya City has been deeply tied to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

When testing the spiritual root qualifications at the Haiya Immortal Conference, Han Xinhe even openly stood up for Yang Lu in front of Jiang Huaan. He obviously regarded the Qingning Chamber of Commerce and Yang Lu as his official allies. If Yang Lu could get the support of Su Yuanfeng, chairman of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, even the opinion of Jiang Hua'an, the boss of the Haiya Department, would not be so important.

After all, the Haiya family has always been governed by the four major families, and it is not who has the final say who has the strongest cultivation.

Since the Xu family, the fourth largest family in the Haiya Department, has been responsible for the overseas business of the Haiya Department all year round and hardly participates in the decision-making of Zhongzhou affairs, as long as Yang Lu has the support of the Su and Han families, he will be able to overwhelm Jiang Hua'an within the Haiya Department.

But the problem is that there are serious conflicts of interest among the four major families in Haiya City. Su Yuanfeng and Han Xinhe each have their own bases, and Yang Lu doesn't know how to make good friends with these two factions at the same time. Now that Su Yuanfeng was in danger in Tianshu City, Yang Lu definitely couldn't let go of this god-given opportunity to connect with him.

A high-ranking and powerful boss like Su Yuanfeng would not let himself be in debt of favors easily.

Yang Lu didn't expect that this helping hand would be reciprocated. After all, even if he didn't take action, the dignified president of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce would not be killed by a few rebellious monsters.

Despite this, Yang Lu's act of righteousness at least gave him a reason to contact Su Yuanfeng openly.

If he misses this opportunity, even if Yang Lu wants to take the initiative to visit Su Yuanfeng, the other party will most likely not be willing to see him. So no matter how eloquent and capable he is, it will be in vain if he doesn't have the opportunity to show it.

And after what happened today, if Yang Lu wanted to visit him, he would be able to find a reason why he couldn't refuse.

Of course, Yang Lu was by no means a reckless man and had made careful preparations before taking action.

Although few people have seen the Surge Sword activated at full power, Yang Lu was still worried that after seeing the power of the Surge Sword, some people would associate him with "Mr. He" from the Liu Family Auction, so he deliberately used it. The power of the Golden Wheel of Merit blesses the water attribute light blade cut by the Surge Sword with a layer of rich power of heaven and earth.

On the day he just completed the introduction of Qi into his body, Yang Lu used the Golden Wheel of Merit to strengthen his spells.

However, if the cultivator does not actively activate the power of the Golden Wheel of Merit, then this strengthening effect will be completely random, and the probability of triggering is even less than 1%. When Yang Lu waved more than a dozen light blades in succession, he could The passive special effect that automatically triggers the Golden Wheel of Merit can be called an explosion of character.

After consulting Xu Yannan, a senior holder of the Golden Wheel of Merit, Yang Lu learned that the passive special effects of the Golden Wheel of Merit can actually be actively triggered, but Yang Lu currently only has one Golden Wheel of Merit added to him, which actively activates 1-2 If the power of the Golden Wheel of Merit is exhausted, the power of the Golden Wheel of Merit will be exhausted, causing the skill to enter a CD state for several consecutive days.

But don’t underestimate the ability of active reinforcement in one or two times.

When cultivators fight, victory or defeat can be determined by a single thought. If one of two cultivators with similar cultivation levels suddenly uses the Golden Wheel of Merit to double the power of a spell, the life or death of both of them can be decided almost instantly.

This is just the strengthening range of a golden wheel of merit.

If two golden wheels of merit are added to the body, the cultivator can double the power of the spell. If there are three golden wheels of merit, that is a threefold increase. And if he has five golden wheels of merit like Li Qingyang, even It can instantly increase the power of spells by five times. With such a large increase, it may be easy to kill enemies across levels.

What's more, there is no cost to using the Golden Wheel of Merit to strengthen your spells.

You must know that ordinary cultivators like Li Wen, the killer of Heyu Pavilion, who do not have the golden wheel of merit, need to permanently deduct their merit through merit sacrificial vessels in order to bless their spells with the power of heaven and earth. If Yang Lu wants to do the same thing, he only needs to wait for the skill CD time to end.

And the power of the Golden Wheel of Merit doesn’t stop there.

It can not only strengthen the spells cast by the cultivator himself, but also strengthen any spells guided by the cultivator's spiritual consciousness, such as the power of the talisman activated by the cultivator, and the power of the formation controlled by the cultivator...

Just now, Yang Lu used the method of manipulating the Golden Wheel of Merit learned from Xu Yannan to mobilize the mighty power of heaven and earth to strengthen the Qi Refining Dzogchen Realm Light Blade stored in the Surge Sword, and increase its power to the level of "half-step foundation building" .

As for why the light blade was flashing with colorful aura just now, it was mainly due to the nearby aura environment.

According to the explanation given by Xu Yannan, the powerful attributes of heaven and earth blessed by the Golden Wheel of Merit are closely related to the aura attributes of the place where the spell is cast.

Since Tianshu City had just activated the Nine-Turn Tianshu Formation, the majestic power was extracted from the Tianshu Mountains with a radius of a hundred miles, resulting in the various attributes of the Tiangang and Earth Power within Tianshu City being extremely mixed and chaotic.

So after Yang Lu activated the Surge Sword through the Golden Wheel of Merit, he directly attached seven different attributes of the mighty power of heaven and earth to the light blade, turning the original blue light blade of water attribute into a big peacock with its tail open. It was Qu Jiajiang, the creator of the Surge Sword, who saw it with his own eyes, and probably couldn't recognize the Surge Sword he had made with his own hands!

After cutting out this colorful light blade, Yang Lu knew that the secret of the Surge Sword would not be exposed.

Since no one would discover any flaws, of course Yang Lu had to vigorously publicize his good deeds after he had done them, so he roared with all his might and reported his name to President Su.

In fact, Yang Lu's performance can be regarded as super high.

Since Su Yuanfeng's body-protecting energy had been dispersed by the Black Pool Python, his ears were already unprotected. Yang Lu's lion's roar almost deafened the other party on the spot.

Now it is difficult for Chairman Su Yuanfeng not to remember the name "Haiya City Yang Road".

Although Yang Lu's Surge Sword was not exposed, his sword strike from Wai Feixian just that day still attracted a lot of people's attention. If someone found him, a novice in the early stage of Qi refining, wandering around outside Tianshu City, It will definitely arouse suspicion.

Therefore, after Yang Lu finished his good deeds and left his name, he directly chose to give up as soon as he got good, and found a remote house to hide.

Although nearly two thousand monsters have already poured into Tianshu City, Tianshu City is a super city with a population of one million, so the density of monsters in the city is not high, and there are only a few areas where cultivators exist. The battle was fierce.

If an ordinary person hid like him, he would definitely not be able to avoid being chased by monsters with keen senses, but he had ambergris potion to protect his body. As long as he stayed still, the monsters would go around on their own.

Of course, Yang Lu's honest behavior is not foolproof.

Although the monsters will not take the initiative to approach him, many attacks by both monsters and cultivators are of the AOE type.

Not to mention that once the Black Pool Dragon King shows its power, it can easily turn the surrounding houses into ashes within a hundred meters. Even Su Yuanfeng's two super killing moves just now can be regarded as indiscriminate bombing. What's more, now the cultivators behind the inner city barrier of Tianshu City have gradually gained a foothold and are turning their attention back to the outer city.

Where the monsters are densely populated, long-range strike spells fall like raindrops from time to time.

If the Mountain Eagle Sect had not issued a strict order prohibiting cultivators from using AOE spells to destroy real estate in the outer city of Tianshu City, it is estimated that the entire outer city of Tianshu City would have been wiped out by various long-range AOE spells. Even so, looking at the spells and sorcery exploding from time to time outside the window, Yang Lu even felt as if he was in the center of a street fight in Ukraine.

Yang Lu's strongest trump card, the Surge Sword and the Golden Wheel of Merit, have been used up to help Su Yuanfeng. Currently, he only has a [Golden Bell Cover] talisman that he just bought from Tianshu City Square Market that can be used to save his life. , this protective talisman seal worth 2,000 yuan of spiritual stone coins can only defend against an attack with a strength of Qi refining stage at most. It will stop when it encounters a spell in the foundation building stage.

If it weren't for the effect of the ambergris potion, there were almost no monsters near him, so that cultivators rarely used long-range strike spells to greet him, he might have died accidentally from a stray bullet.

Seeing a fireball spell explode less than 20 meters away from him, Yang Lu couldn't help but said to himself: "Miss, for the future of your Qingning Chamber of Commerce, I risked my life for this. You are taking a chestnut out of the fire, it would be a bit inappropriate if you don’t agree with me..."

After lamenting his difficulty, Yang Lu began to count the gains he had just made.

Although Yang Lu had not been active outside for a particularly long time, he relied on the power of the ambergris potion to go deep into the outer city wall and searched several places where monster corpses were concentrated. He picked up a bag full of glass balls. The demon pill.

These demon pills alone already exceed the entire net worth of ordinary monks in the foundation-building stage!

Even if the favor of helping Su Yuanfeng is not included, these demon pills are not worth the fact that he has been hiding in Tianshu City for so many days and planning. As long as he stays in this private house and waits until the war is over, he will have successfully completed his mission.

According to Yang Lu's calculations, this sudden monster war should be coming to an end.

However, what Yang Lu didn't know was that his caution did save his life.

On the other side of the battlefield thousands of meters away, relying on the same ambergris potion to protect his body, Liu Qi was occupying the top of a high tower with an excellent view outside Tianshu City, overlooking the situation in Tianshu City from a high position. . The lion's roar that Yang Lu just made was so powerful that even though the battlefield was extremely noisy, the sound still reached Liu Qi's ears.

Seeing Su Yuanfeng, the target of his focus, break out, Liu Qi couldn't help but frown deeply.

He knew that it would be difficult to kill Su Yuanfeng when he took the opportunity, but he didn't expect that he would run away so easily. He didn't know where this guy named Yang Lu came from, and he could force back the late-stage foundation-building warrior with one sword. Blackpool Python…

With a helpless sigh, Liu Qi flipped his wrist, and there was a small black flag in his palm.

He gently waved the small black flag in his hand, and the Black Pool Python in the late stage of foundation building, thousands of meters away, seemed to have suddenly received some instructions and immediately turned around and ran towards another unlucky monk who was trapped in a tight siege.

Since Su Yuanfeng failed to kill him, he can only settle for the next best thing and try to kill target No. 2!

It turns out that the siege against Su Yuanfeng just now was not an accident, but a careful arrangement by Liu Qi!

There are no high-rise buildings in Tianshu City. The layout of the city is like spreading out a large pie, relying on the mountains of Yingxiangding. The area spans more than 20 miles in radius, and the distance between the inner city wall and the outer city wall is more than 100 kilometers. Five miles. After thousands of monsters broke through the outer city wall, they quickly dispersed throughout the city. It was obviously not the case like Su Yuanfeng's situation where he could fight hundreds of meters from the top of the city and be frantically besieged by nearly a hundred monsters. What a normal phenomenon.

After all, there were more than twenty cultivators who broke out at the same time. Even if the monsters had the instinct to attack the cultivators, they also knew how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so they could not continue to fight against Su Yuanfeng, his enemy.

The small black flag Liu Qi waved was actually the Wanhua Valley magic weapon specially given to him by the monk surnamed Xia. It can attract a large number of monsters to a specific location by creating spiritual energy bait.

Liu Qi originally wanted to use this magic weapon to kill Su Yuanfeng, the second-in-command of the Haiya Clan, in order to further intensify the conflict between Tianshu City and Haiya City, and also create trouble for the two restless factions, the Haiya Clan and the Shanying Sect. The local princes dealt a heavy blow. Unexpectedly, "Haiya City Yang Lu" suddenly appeared out of nowhere and drove away the strongest foundation-building monster under his command with one sword.

Because Liu Qi was too far away from the battlefield, and the aura environment in Tianshu City was extremely chaotic, his perception of the seven-color light blade was far less accurate than Su Yuanfeng's. He thought that Yang Lu's killing move had reached the foundation-building perfection level. realm.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why the Black Pool Python would actively retreat in the later stages of foundation building!

Liu Qi never imagined that this sword was so terrifyingly powerful, thanks to the ambergris potion he personally sent. It was the aura of ambergris potion attached to the sword light that frightened away the Black Pool Python.

It was precisely because the sword light did not have much aura of ambergris potion that the Black Pool Python did not choose to run away on the spot, and Liu Qi, an experienced user of ambergris potion, could not see the strangeness in it.