Chapter 404: Small water flows! [Four thousand words chapter
"In the past three years, the number of monks who have gone to explore the new world of immortality through Oasis No. 1 has reached more than 2,300, including thirteen monks in the foundation building period."
"According to your instructions, Supreme Elder, our Zhou family gave every monk who went to explore the new world of immortality through Oasis No. 1 a map leading to Rhinoceros Continent, and informed them that they could go to various man-made oases to recuperate and replenish their supplies.
thing."
"After three years of continuous exploration, the number of oases that have been explored in the new immortal world has reached eight, including one medium-sized oasis with a third-order low-grade spiritual vein, and one small-medium oasis with a second-order high-grade spiritual vein.
There are two small oases with second-level mid-grade spiritual veins, and the remaining oases are all micro-sized oases. Even if there are spiritual veins, they are insignificant first-order spiritual veins and cannot become the foundation of a family."
"At the same time, during the three-year exploration, our Zhou family received news about seven mineral veins, including two second-level mineral veins, five first-level mineral veins, and even a large-scale concentrated iron vein."
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In the Zhou Family Affairs Hall, Zhou Yang, who had recovered from his injuries, listened to the Zhou Family monks' report on the development of the new immortal world.
In fact, he had always paid attention to news in this area. He even knew that the discoverer of the medium-sized oasis was actually a monk from a relative of the Zhou family. For this reason, he made a special decision and rewarded the other party with 20,000 family contribution points.
However, the information he knew was definitely not as detailed as the person in charge below, so now that he had walked out of the cave after recovering from his injury, he came to listen to the detailed report.
At this time, after listening to the other party's report on the exploration of the new world of immortality, he thought silently in his heart and asked again: "Where is the Rhinoceros Continent? Guangxiang and the others have been in Rhinoceros Continent for three years. Can they find out clearly?
Do you know what’s going on there?”
"There are currently twenty proven spiritual veins in Xijiaozhou, including one fifth-order low-grade spiritual vein, two third-order high-grade spiritual veins, four third-order low-grade spiritual veins, seven second-order high-grade spiritual veins, and second-order mid-grade spiritual veins.
Six pulses!"
"At the same time, there are seven proven mineral veins on Rhinoceros Continent. Apart from the almost hollowed-out spirit stone mine, there are still six mineral veins, including a small third-level mineral vein [Xuanjing Iron], a large second-level mineral vein
The mineral vein [Platinum Stone] mine..."
"In addition, the family's animal trainers also discovered several monster beasts with great taming value on Rhinoceros Continent, such as [Iron-armored Rhinoceros], [Green-spotted Deer], [White-tailed Black Sheep], and [Fire Horse].
Four kinds of monsters."
"Oh, by the way, the clan leader sent a message some time ago that a large underground river with a large amount of water was found under the Rhinoceros Island, and the aura of a third-level water demon was found in it. He suspected that the water in this underground river was very likely to
It flows down from the snowy mountains of Duanyun Mountain Range."
The resources of Rhinoceros Continent are undoubtedly extremely rich. Although in the last battle of Rhinoceros Continent, most of the easily mined spiritual herbs and elixirs on the oasis were taken away by immortal cultivators, no one could take away the spiritual veins and mineral veins.
The Zhou family has only occupied Rhinoceros Continent for three years, and even before they have invested all their manpower in development, they have already discovered as many as six mineral veins, which shows the rich resources above.
Zhou Yang originally thought that this rhinoceros horn continent could feed the Zhou family for a hundred years, which was not unreasonable.
"I understand the situation. Next, we can let the monks from Caitang take action on the low-level magic weapons, talismans, and elixirs they have hoarded over the years. Our Zhou family has spent so much manpower and material resources to open up the path to the new world of immortality. It is also time.
Collect some rewards!”
Zhou Yang's eyes flashed, and he spoke in a deep voice of another plan.
When he held a family meeting after his return, Zhou Guangyun, the then elder of the Zhou Family Finance Hall, suggested to him that he temporarily reduce the supply of low-end materials to the market because the market was already saturated and supply exceeded demand.
At that time, his opinion was not only to reduce the supply of low-level materials, but also to purchase low-level materials from other places for hoarding. At that time, many Zhou family monks were puzzled.
Now his plan back then is finally showing its power.
"Great! Now that more and more monks are participating in the exploration of the new oasis, the demand for various low-level materials has skyrocketed, especially for spiritual talismans, healing elixirs, and bigu elixirs. The prices have risen to levels not seen in a hundred years.
New high!”
"Our Zhou family currently has a stockpile of 350,000 Bigu Pills, more than 80,000 various healing and detoxifying elixirs, more than 40,000 second-level magic talismans, and more than 5,000 second-level magic weapons..."
"According to the current price of these things, no, even if they are sold at a 20% discount from the current price, we can earn at least 500,000 yuan in profit!"
Zhou Tongxin, the current financial elder of the Zhou family, his eyes lit up, his face was full of excitement and he couldn't help but cheer loudly.
As the financial elder of the Zhou family, he has been under a lot of pressure in recent years.
Not to mention the spiritual stones invested in building a new oasis every year, as the number of monks in the Zhou family increased year by year, the spiritual stones spent on purchasing various resources every year were already worrying him so much that he could hardly eat.
In the early years, the Zhou family had enough resource dividends brought by having less land and more land. Now they have almost enough. If they want to take advantage of this dividend again, they can only take advantage of it after the Rhinoceros Continent is fully developed.
But as the elder in charge of the finances of the Zhou family, he knows better than anyone else that due to the distance between Rhinoceros Continent and the Immortal Realm of Boundless Sand Sea, Rhinoceros Continent will not be able to provide much benefit to the Zhou family for at least thirty years.
After all, whether it is mining or farming, a large number of mortals must join in, and it is almost impossible for the Zhou family to directly move hundreds of thousands of mortals there like they did when they moved to Chihu Mountain.
During the two to three hundred thousand miles journey, even if there were twenty-five oases where we could stop and rest, it would be difficult for any ten mortals to reach Rhinoceros Continent alive.
Under such circumstances, as the financial elder of the Zhou family, how could he not be anxious when faced with increasing expenses year by year.
If the Zhou family's financial expenses are greater than the income in his hands, then he, the financial elder, will appear too incompetent.
"Okay, I also know the family's financial situation. It's not your fault. The second big auction will be held in exactly two years. At that time, I will let Guang Xiang take out some precious treasures from the inner treasury and put them up for auction.
, this should be able to enable the family to survive the next period of financial difficulties!"
Zhou Yang glanced at the excited junior, smiled lightly, and told another piece of news.
That's right, it has been more than thirty years since he returned to his family from the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent. The grand auction he originally planned to hold every thirty years will be held for the second time soon.
The first auction event allowed the Zhou family to earn hundreds of thousands of spiritual stones, thus providing starting capital for the "New Home Project". Now that the second auction event is being held, all subsequent sources of funds for his plan will be
be resolved.
Next, Zhou Yang asked some more questions about the clan, and then set off for Huangshamen.
After the Battle of Rhinoceros Island, Jiang Yuyan passed away after returning home within half a year.
Because Zhou Yang's injuries were too serious at the time, he was unable to go to pay homage to him. Now that he has recovered from his injuries, he has to go and pay homage to him, both emotionally and logically.
What's more, he also had some things to discuss with Zhang Yunpeng.
With the fourth-level monster Golden-winged Thunder Eagle taking his place, only a few hours passed before Zhou Yang arrived outside the gate of Huangshamen.
Then, he was first received by Zhang Yunpeng, who came after hearing the news, and went to pay homage to Jiang Yuyan's tomb before talking about business with Zhang Yunpeng.
"Master Zhang, you personally participated in the last big auction and saw the benefits of this kind of auction. Now my Zhou family is about to hold the second big auction. I wonder if Huang Shamen is interested in joining it?
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In the main hall used by Huangshamen to entertain distinguished guests, Zhou Yang and Zhang Yunpeng took their seats as guests and hosts. They just politely took a sip of the spiritual tea on the table and directly stated the reason for their visit without any politeness.
Hearing what he said, Zhang Yunpeng's face changed. He couldn't help but look at him and said: "Oh, but I don't know how to join?"
Last time the Zhou family made hundreds of thousands of spiritual stones from a large auction, he was naturally envious of it, and even came up with the idea of holding a similar large auction after returning home.
However, thinking that doing so might make Zhou Yang feel that he was deliberately targeting the Zhou family, he had to stop this idea.
Now that Zhou Yang took the initiative to ask Huang Shamen to join the big auction, he was naturally moved.
"Zhou knows that Guimen has purchased a large number of Foundation Building Pills, Ziyun Pills, and some other mid-to-high-level spiritual pills from the Xuanyang Immortal Sect over the years."
"These elixirs must not be digested normally by your family for decades. So why not take out 10% and participate in this big auction to sell them, so that you can exchange for a large amount of spiritual stones to buy [Purple Heart Chalcedony"
], [Jade Liquid Golden Pill] and other treasures can also benefit the entire world of immortality, isn’t it killing two birds with one stone?”
"And Zhou can promise that every time your family consigns treasures at a big auction in the future, the Zhou family will not charge any commission."
Zhou Yang had a faint smile on his face, and he was well prepared to tell his plan.
Except for Zhang Yunpeng himself, probably few people know the situation of Huang Shamen better than him.
Now that Huang Shamen and Xuanyang Immortal Sect are on the line and have obtained the right to purchase foundation-building pills at an affordable price, there will be no shortage of foundation-building pills in the next few hundred years.
However, the Zifu period monks are a big shortcoming of Huangshamen. So far, including Zhang Yunpeng, there are only three Zifu monks in the entire Huangshamen.
A sect is only supported by three Zifu monks. This is a situation that can only occur in the Immortal Cultivation World of the Boundless Sand Sea. If it were in a place like the Liuyun Continent Cultivation World, such a weak sect would have been wiped out long ago.
Therefore, Huang Shamen now urgently needs to increase the number of monks in the Zifu period.
However, the "Purple Heart Chalcedony" used to assist in the opening of Zi Mansion is an extremely rare treasure and is not included in the transaction list between Xuanyang Immortal Sect and Huang Shamen. If they want to obtain this treasure, they can only participate in it
Obtained from various high-end auctions held by Liuyunzhou Immortal Cultivation World.
But in places like auctions, flower spirit stones are like running water. Once a treasure like "Purple Heart Chalcedony" appears, the price will be driven up to two to three hundred thousand spirit stones.
In the past, Huang Shamen, for the sake of long-term development, would only be willing to buy a "Purple Heart Chalcedony" at such a premium every twenty or thirty years and hand it over to the monks of the sect for redemption.
But this was in the past. In the past, Huangshamen had always had Jindan monks in charge, and had maintained more than five Zifu monks for a long time.
These forces are completely enough to suppress the entire boundless sea of sand cultivating world and ensure that Huangshamen's dominance is as stable as Mount Tai. Of course, they can continue to do so.
Just like the current Zhou family, Zhou Yang obviously still has more than a dozen Foundation Establishment Pills in his hand, and there are obviously materials that can be used to refine dozens of Foundation Establishment Pills. Why not just refine the Foundation Establishment Pills and give them to the family monks for use, once
Sex creates dozens of foundation-building monks for the family?
The reason is simple, it's not worth it.
It should be noted that the resources in the world of immortal cultivation are limited. Every time a foundation-building monk appears, a part of a force's resources will be allocated.
If Zhou Yang creates dozens of foundation-building monks for the Zhou family, not to mention where he will go to get foundation-building pills for other descendants to use in the next tens or hundreds of years, just the family contribution points that these dozens of foundation-building monks will be given out every year and
Resources such as elixirs and magical instruments used for various practices are not something the Zhou family can afford.
At that time, if he does not want these foundation-building monks he has trained to break away from his family, his only option is to launch a war to plunder Huang Shamen and his vassal cultivating families, and then he will die because of the "Netherworld Blood Pact".
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From another perspective, it is basically impossible for these foundation-building monks who were forcibly created with a large number of foundation-building pills to break through Zifu.
No matter how many such foundation-building monks there are, what effect will they have on the Zhou family, which is actually the number one force in the world of immortal cultivation in the boundless sand sea?
It's just an extra batch of "rice bugs" worshiped by many families!
Therefore, even a large sect like the Xuanyang Immortal Sect that can refine a large amount of Foundation Establishing Pills would rather sell the Foundation Establishing Pills to outsiders than give the Foundation Establishing Pills to those with spiritual root qualifications within the sect for free.
It should not be taken by monks who are not in the required Qi training period.
No one will treasure something that is too easy to obtain. The reason why the Foundation Establishment Pill is precious is not only due to its rigid demand that is in short supply, but also related to the value control of major forces.
This principle is actually the same when it comes to the higher-level "Purple Heart Chalcedony".
In fact, as long as the former Huangsha Sect was willing, they could search the resources of the entire boundless sand sea to cultivate immortals, buy more than ten or twenty copies of "Purple Heart Chalcedony" for the sect at one time, and bring back all the purple hearts in the sect.
The monks piled up double digits.
But what's the point of doing this?
How many of these piled-up Zifu monks can reach the ninth level of Zifu before their lifespan is exhausted?
If they cannot practice to the ninth level of the Purple Mansion and reach the golden elixir stage, to Huang Shamen, these monks are poisonous insects that lie on the sect and suck blood, and will only consume the sect's resources and development potential.
Moreover, if they can use their resources to create Zifu monks, can they also create Jindan monks?
Since it cannot be done, it is better to use the slow-flow method to maintain the sect's inheritance, and then concentrate resources to cultivate those truly talented monks, in the hope of cultivating the Golden Core Stage monks who can really take the sect further, or even the Yuan Dynasty monks.
Infant monk!
Of course, these are the situations of Huangshamen in the past.
The situation is different now. There are only three monks from Huangshamen and Zifu. This number is not enough to suppress the entire boundless sand sea cultivation world, or to protect Huangshamen's current interests from losses.
So the best way for Huangshamen now is to use his savings to first pile up a few Zifu monks to stabilize the sect, and then consider cultivating Golden Core monks.
To pile up a few Zifu monks, the amount of spiritual stone resources consumed will definitely be an astronomical amount, and Huangshamen's current inventory of spiritual stones is far from enough.
"Okay, I agreed. In this big auction, our Huangshamen will take out seven foundation-building pills, one purple cloud pill, and some other third-level and fourth-level elixirs for auction."
"But I also have a small condition, which I hope fellow Daoist Zhou can agree to."
Zhang Yunpeng thought about it, and even though he knew that Zhou Yang asked Huang Shamen to take out the foundation-building pill as an auction item to build momentum for the auction, he still agreed.