txolops Chapter 148 Development Outside the City
Chapter 148 Development Outside the City
Donghua Mountain, the Immortal City of Jixia.
Qi Hanmo slowly walked out of the secluded place, a smile he couldn't suppress on his face.
The aura emanating from him clearly indicated that he had reached the Foundation Establishment stage.
Not long ago, after reaching the peak of Qi Refining, he decisively chose to go into seclusion to attempt Foundation Establishment.
With the help of the Foundation Establishment Pill and two Foundation Establishment Spiritual Items provided by his master, he successfully broke through the barrier and established his foundation.
From this day forward, he is a Foundation Establishment cultivator, his strength has greatly increased, and he can live for 240 years!
"I never thought that someone with four spiritual roots like me would one day successfully establish my foundation."
Qi Hanmo was filled with emotion. He then prepared to first visit his master to tell him the good news of his Foundation Establishment, and then return to Fenglan Immortal City.
When he went to visit his master, he saw that the master had successfully established his foundation, and the master was very happy.
While he was overjoyed, his master gave him another task: to immediately go to the front lines of the Yuan Kingdom and participate in the war between the Defenders Alliance and the Four Demonic Sects.
According to Master.
As a Core Formation disciple, Qi Hanmo held a superior position among the cultivators of the academy and was able to establish his Foundation by using many of the academy's resources free of charge.
Therefore, when the academy faces external enemies, he must be more proactive than the ordinary disciples of the academy, proving that he is worthy of the resources used and worthy of the identity of a Core Formation disciple.
If blood is to be shed, shed the blood of those who have reached the Core Formation stage first.
Qi Hanmo deeply agreed with his master's teachings, so he temporarily abandoned his plan to return to Huifenglan Immortal City and instead went to the front line of Yuan Kingdom, waiting until the war between the Defenders Alliance and the Four Demonic Sects was over.
Of course, considering that he had just established his foundation, he was not yet familiar with the combat techniques between foundation-establishing cultivators.
Therefore, he will not go directly to the front-line battlefield; his master will first arrange for him to treat cultivators whose primordial spirits are injured.
Among the four major sects of the demonic path, the Nine Nether Sect is most skilled in soul-based attacks, and many cultivators of the Defenders Alliance have been injured by their soul-sweeping magical artifacts.
Musicians are the most skilled at treating damage to the primordial spirit.
Next, Qi Hanmo took the token to the Secret Technique Hall of the Academy to choose a suitable major cultivation method, selecting a third-tier musician inheritance.
Afterwards, he wrote a letter to Li Ping, telling his elder brother that he had successfully established his foundation, and also explaining that he was temporarily unable to return to the Immortal City to visit his elder brother, hoping that his elder brother could understand.
At the end of the letter, Qi Hanmo also told his elder brother that one of his senior sisters hoped to find a doctor named "Yan Buping". If his elder brother had time, he asked him to keep an eye out for news about "Yan Buping".
The letter was entrusted to the Chamber of Commerce.
A few days later, Qi Hanmo followed the academy's supply convoy to the Yuan Kingdom's battlefield. The dangers along the way are well-known.
……
Just as Qi Hanmo was ordered to go to the front line of the Yuan Kingdom battlefield, Li Ping was meeting with Cheng Yao at Xiantao Mountain.
During the pre-New Year gathering, he asked Cheng Yao to find out where Wang Li bought the main ingredients for the Foundation Establishment Pill. Cheng Yao is here now to report this to him.
"Did you buy it from the Yinghai Chamber of Commerce?"
Upon hearing Cheng Yao's answer, Li Ping couldn't help but ponder for a moment. After thinking for a while, he realized that he had never heard of this chamber of commerce before.
Li Ping couldn't help but ask out of curiosity, "Where is this Yinghai Chamber of Commerce?"
Unexpectedly, Cheng Yao also shook her head: "I don't know. The current patriarch of the Wang family told me about this, and after I asked him, he didn't know the origin of the Yinghai Chamber of Commerce either. It seems that this chamber of commerce only communicates with Wang Li one-way."
Upon hearing this, Li Ping became even more interested in the Yinghai Chamber of Commerce. However, the Chamber was so mysterious that he had nowhere to inquire about it, so he could only put his curiosity aside for the time being.
I'll look into it when I have the chance later.
After discussing the Yinghai Chamber of Commerce with Li Ping, Cheng Yao brought up another matter.
It turns out that ever since the Wang family's fraud against independent cultivators was exposed, no member of the Wang family has been allowed to hold any position in the Immortal City. In addition, in order to compensate those independent cultivators who claimed to have been defrauded.
The Wang family had to sell off almost all of their family businesses, including several shops in the Immortal City, and also owed a considerable amount of spirit stones to the Meng family and other cultivation families.
Currently, the Wang family only has one second-tier spiritual land left.
However, this spiritual land is only enough for the Wang family's cultivators to live in, and it produces absolutely nothing.
The cultivators of the Wang family either have to do all sorts of odd jobs in the Immortal City to earn cultivation resources, and they're not even as good as some rogue cultivators, or they can just lie around in the ancestral land and live off their savings.
In the eyes of the Wang family cultivators, since the establishment of the Immortal City, the Wang family has always existed in dependence on the Immortal City. Their suffering was already over when their ancestor followed True Person Fenglan to establish the Immortal City.
They share weal and woe with the Immortal City.
Now that they have been suddenly abandoned by the Immortal City and can no longer hold positions there, even if they want to strive, there is nowhere for them to put their talents to use.
After Cheng Yao took control of the Wang family, she couldn't help but feel irritated when she thought about the debts she owed to the Meng family and several other cultivation families.
Furthermore, the current mess that the Wang family is in not only cannot provide resources for her and Wang Xingwei, both Foundation Establishment cultivators, but also requires them to subsidize the family.
The Qi Refining cultivators lay flat, while the Foundation Establishment cultivators worked diligently without complaint.
This is outrageous! This is outrageous! Following the updates on Cola Novels has never been so enjoyable.
Cheng Yao told Li Ping about the solution she had come up with.
She believed that since Master Fenglan had already given the order...
Apart from her being a special case, the rest of the Wang family, including Wang Xingwei, probably wouldn't be able to enter the Immortal City system.
Since there are no opportunities within the Immortal City, let's go outside the Immortal City and make a name for ourselves.
She planned to lead the Wang family cultivators to occupy a second-tier spiritual vein outside the city and let the Qi Refining cultivators within the family manage it.
With a second-tier spiritual vein in hand, as long as they manage it patiently, not only can the Qi Refining cultivators of the Wang family support themselves, but the surplus profits can also be used to pay off the debts of the Meng family and several other families, and support the cultivation of the two Foundation Establishment ancestors.
Finally, Cheng Yao said fiercely, "They all better go and do their jobs obediently. Anyone who dares not to, I'll expel them all from the Wang family and leave them to fend for themselves!"
"Forehead……"
After a moment of silence, Li Ping finally asked, "So, do you have a goal?"
Near the Immortal City, there are quite a few second-tier spiritual veins, but they are mostly occupied by various Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan. If one wants to seize them from these Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan, one will inevitably have to go through a struggle.
Further west, deep into the Cloud Mist Mountains, there are quite a few unclaimed second-tier spiritual veins, although most of these second-tier spiritual veins are occupied by demon beast clans.
However, dealing with second-tier demonic beasts is definitely much easier than dealing with Foundation Establishment cultivators.
The problem is that the farther away from the immortal city, the higher the danger.
Near the Immortal City, the area is densely populated and has a Core Formation Real Person in charge, so Tier 3 spirit beasts rarely appear.
If it's too far, things might change. A third-tier spirit beast might descend, not only wiping out a family's century-long accumulation, but also leading to the family's extinction.
Li Ping guessed that Cheng Yao would still choose to target the Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan near the Immortal City.
Upon hearing Li Ping's question, Cheng Yao hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Brother, actually, the Bai family's Gaojishan is quite nice, and the Bai family's patriarch is already quite old, but brother, you..."
Cheng Yao didn't finish speaking, but Li Ping understood what she meant.
When seizing sacred land, one will definitely choose to target the weakest link.
The Bai family patriarch is nearing his passing, a veritable member of a retirement home. The risk of punching someone in a retirement home is certainly much lower than the risk of fighting those in their prime who have reached the Foundation Establishment stage.
Cheng Yao was concerned about the relationship between Li Ping and the Bai family.
Li Ping didn't mind her trying to seize the spiritual veins of Gaoji Mountain; the rise and fall of forces in the cultivation world was perfectly normal.
Given the Bai family's situation, even without Cheng Yao, other forces would still be eyeing them.
However, Li Ping had promised the Bai family that he would not deny their relationship when anyone inquired, and he would naturally not break his promise now.
So when Cheng Yao asked him, he nodded affirmatively: "I am a guest elder of the Bai family."
"Since that's the case, then forget it." Cheng Yao didn't dwell on it further, but quickly proposed another goal: "Let's seize the Xue family's Misty Cloud Mountain!"
Yanxia Mountain is about four thousand miles away from Xiancheng, and it is a fairy mountain that is no less beautiful than Gaojishan.
This sacred mountain is occupied by the Xue family, a Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan.
However, the Xue family suffered considerable losses in the beast tide nine years ago, with even the family's Foundation Establishment ancestor sustaining serious injuries. Although he didn't die, many speculated that he had damaged his very essence and was no longer willing to fight easily, making him a confirmed patient.
Li Ping gave Cheng Yao a strange look. It seemed that his fourth sister was determined to carry out the strategy of beating up the "old, weak, sick and disabled" to the end.
However, the Xue family had nothing to do with him, and he couldn't be bothered to care about Cheng Yao's decision.
With her elder brother's tacit approval, Cheng Yao left happily, preparing to call Wang Xingwei and bring along the hundreds of Wang family Qi Refining cultivators to march out of the city and seize territory.
However, her decision was met with strong opposition from the clan chief, Wang Quyan.
"Elder Cheng, the Wang family can't withstand any more trouble!" Wang Quyan lamented, "The Xue family is not to be trifled with either. Why should we make enemies of them for a piece of sacred land?"
Because Cheng Yao and Wang Xingwei are young and juniors, Wang Quyan only calls them elders or by their names, and does not call them ancestors.
"Hmm?" Cheng Yao raised an eyebrow, looking at him calmly. "Can you produce spirit stones to solve the family's debt problem?"
When the topic of spirit stones came up, Wang Quyan stammered, "The family recovered more than eight thousand spirit stones from those rogue cultivators... Xingwei has been hunting demonic beasts recently..."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Yao snorted coldly: "Hmph, those spirit stones were what I demanded back, and I can tell you definitively that I've already used them all. Furthermore, Xingwei needs to cultivate; he can't be out hunting demonic beasts all the time. Also… Xingwei is a Foundation Establishment cultivator and the family's Grand Elder. You are not allowed to address him by his given name from now on, understand?"
Wang Quyan looked up at Cheng Yao, and at that moment, he seemed to see the figure of the ancestor overlapping with Cheng Yao.
He tried to argue, "I..."
But Cheng Yao interrupted him directly: "What do you mean, 'what do you mean, 'what do you mean, 'what do you mean, 'what do you want to do'? If you don't want to do it, then find someone else to do it!'"
After being reprimanded, Wang Quyan did not argue back. Instead, he sighed inwardly and went to organize the Wang family's Qi Refining cultivators to prepare for departure.
Seeing this, Cheng Yao nodded in satisfaction.
She realized that these members of the Wang family could only be scolded; you couldn't reason with them.