He thought for a while, patted his storage bag and took out a jade slip.
This jade slip is the nautical map of Yaoyuanshui that I got from Luo Xiao today. On this chart, there are more than 10,000 islands of various sizes in Yaoyuanshui.
Some of these islands have been developed by monks.
But more islands are desert islands that have not been developed by monks.
After all, if you want to run a fairy island so that the output exceeds the investment, you will not only need to spend a lot of spiritual stones in the early stage, but also invest a lot of manpower.
Unless this kind of thing is done by a cultivating family tied by blood, it would be very difficult for ordinary cultivators to run a fairy island.
This is also the reason why Xianxia Sect encourages casual cultivators to run Xiandao.
If you want to run a fairy island well, you can't just open up a few acres of spiritual land.
If a monk really wants to plant spiritual fields, he might as well become a tenant in the Xianxia Sect, which at least saves him a lot of transportation costs.
Because monks can’t practice in seclusion on a desert island.
For monks to practice, the first priority is resources.
What are resources?
Spiritual stones, spiritual energy, spiritual medicine, spiritual rice, and even spiritual wine and spiritual tea that are consumed in daily life, these are the treasures that help monks in their cultivation.
Which monk can do all this on a desert island?
And besides practicing, monks must have means to protect themselves, right?
Next, spiritual talismans, magic weapons, spells, and formations are all inseparable.
There is no way a single monk or a certain family of cultivators can handle all of these things.
This requires a perfect society or civilization that is suitable for spiritual practice.
The entire Yaoyuan Water Realm, or the entire Lanzhou, is such a society suitable for cultivation.
Only in such a fertile soil for cultivation can monks step by step from Qi training and foundation building to the golden elixir and even the Nascent Soul stage.
In Lanzhou, not to mention ordinary casual cultivators and cultivating immortal families, even the Xianxia Sect, the leader of Lanzhou, is not a closed sect.
The Xianxia Sect itself operates many industries in Lanzhou.
Otherwise, it would not be able to provide for the huge number of disciples in the sect.
"This is Jiling Island."
From Zhang Jingchen's conversation today, Su Ming learned that the Zhang family settled on Jiling Island.
Judging from the map, the area of Jiling Island is almost as large as Xingluo Island, where Su Ming settled before. It is a rather large island.
But its location is somewhat remote, more than 15,000 miles away from Tianshu Island where Yaoyuan Taoist Temple is located.
For such a long distance, even taking the fastest spirit boat would take three or four days.
"It's indeed a bit far,"
Su Ming pondered for a moment, "There are advantages to staying far away. At least destroying the Zhang family will not attract too much attention."
That's right, Su Ming has already begun to think of destroying the Zhang family as his enemy.
Originally, after he took revenge on the Zhang family in Shangyang County last time, he did not intend to continue to entangle with the Zhang family, but in this world, sometimes if you don't want to entangle, it will not come to you.
Just like Zhang Jingchen.
Just after taking a photo with Gong Xiaocai on the street, he started to think of murder and silence, and even Su Ming, who was traveling with him, was not willing to let her go.
Cut off the roots!
This principle was taught to him by the Zhang family.
At this moment, Su Ming warned himself in his heart that since he came to this world, he had to adapt to the rules of this world.
When he thought of this, Su Ming had already sentenced the Zhang family to death in his heart.
After thinking about how to deal with the Zhang family, Su Ming began to think about earning spiritual stones.
As mentioned earlier, Su Ming does not intend to use strengthening points to strengthen magic weapons to earn spiritual stones.
At first, he thought it was a huge waste of strengthening points.
Secondly, if he sells a large amount of finished second-level high-grade magical instruments, it will definitely attract the attention of interested people, but if he sells low-level first-order magical instruments, it will not be able to keep up with his increasingly huge cultivation consumption.
Su Ming finally discovered that compared to pure cultivation, building the Hall of Immortals and Yiying Puppet consumes more spiritual stones.
As for the Wordless Book, Su Ming doesn't even dare to use it for the time being.
It’s too scary to waste spiritual energy!
"Manage Fairy Island Industry."
The conversation between Zhang Jingchen and the Zhang family's servant cultivators rang in Su Ming's mind, and he immediately shook his head, "The Zhang family has so many cultivators, so naturally they can run various industries, and I am the only one."
"etc!"
A flash of light suddenly flashed through Su Ming's heart, "Who said I am a person?"
next moment.
He slapped the storage bag, and the Hall of Immortals flew directly into his palm.
In the courtyard.
Su Ming gave an order, and paper puppets roared out of the Immortal Palace.
Including the paper bird puppet, a total of two hundred and two puppets appeared in front of Su Ming.
The entire courtyard suddenly became overcrowded, with almost no room for one paper puppet next to another.
“Can they farm?”
The sudden thought made Su Ming's heart beat fast.
"If I were to control them to cultivate the spiritual fields, it would definitely not work. I have to practice myself, so I can't have so much energy."
Su Ming frowned again, "It would be great if my paper puppets had intelligence and didn't need to be controlled by me."
If we say who is the wisest in the world, the answer is undoubtedly human.
yes!
people!
Suddenly, a bold idea suddenly appeared in Su Ming's mind.
"In that case, can I put the soul of the dying person into the paper puppet and let it control the paper puppet? This is equivalent to reincarnating the dying person!"
At this moment, Su Ming's mind opened wider and wider, and his thoughts continued to diverge.
High-level monks may not be interested in this method of reincarnation, but what about Qi-training monks or even mortals?
At this moment, if there were any outsiders around, they would definitely hear Su Ming's heart pounding.
There has always been a huge limit on the number of paper puppets that can be manipulated.
Even if the Immortal Palace gave birth to a magical species and was promoted to the second level peak.
But Su Ming estimated that it could control at most about ten Sword Immortal puppets at the foundation level.
If you replace it with Qi-training level paper puppets, that would be five hundred.
To be honest, if you can control ten sword immortal puppets at the foundation-building level at the same time, let alone compete with the golden elixir monks, at least you can go sideways among the foundation-building monks.
Compared to Su Ming, who was only at the eighth level of Qi training, this strength was already incredible.
Without strengthening this golden finger, he would not be able to do this even if he got the paper puppet technique.
But this is just his personal strength.
Walking sideways during the foundation building period sounds very powerful, but in Lanzhou, this strength is simply not enough.
Not to mention other things, on the Tianshu Island at the foot of Su Ming, there are many monks who can easily crush ten Sword Immortal puppets.
Any golden elixir monk can do it easily.
Not to mention that there is a powerful Nascent Soul sitting here on Tianshu Island.
Although Su Ming has some strength, he is still far from invincible. Not to mention that Tianshu Island is only a fairy island within the Yaoyuan Water. Above the Yaoyuan Water, there is the entire Lanzhou and the fairyland.
Xia faction.
If you get carried away because you have some strength, you are not far from death.
Wanting to understand this level, Su Ming, who was cautious by nature, immediately decided to continue to lie dormant and not to be high-profile.
But he didn't want to give up the idea he just had.
After all, the idea of stuffing a human soul into a paper puppet and acting as its intelligence is too tempting.
Su Ming didn't expect the paper puppets to have much combat effectiveness. He only hoped to create a diligent farming team.
The key is that the cost of hiring workers is very low.
From beginning to end, it only requires a tied paper man, a drop of Su Ming's blood essence, a little strengthening point, and finally, a mortal soul.
How many mortals are dying in Lanzhou?
Su Ming couldn't count them at all. Is there any of these mortals who would be willing to take the initiative to reincarnate here with Su Ming?
there must be!
Even if not, Su Ming could tell a strategic lie and say that they came to the fairyland after death.
The most important thing is that Su Ming firmly believes that these people will not suffer losses in the future if they follow him.
If he becomes prosperous in the future, these first batch of souls who have taken refuge in him will become entrepreneurial veterans.
With Su Ming's character, he was never stingy with his own people.
Su Ming carefully considered his idea, and then thought about the extremely long control distance of the Immortal Palace's paper puppets, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became.
He kept revising the plan in his mind.
Gradually, Su Ming became more and more confident in this farming plan.
Then, there is only one last question left.
How to stuff a mortal soul into a paper puppet.
Su Ming has found a way to solve this problem - magic!
Thinking of this, Su Ming helplessly sank his consciousness into the Hall of Immortals, looked at the wordless heavenly book floating in the air in the hall, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I told you not to use you, but I still broke my promise."
Shaking his head, Su Ming decided to use the Wordless Heavenly Book again to deduce a technique that could put the soul of a mortal into a paper puppet.
Not only that, Su Ming also demanded that the final control be firmly in his own hands.
In fact, this is not difficult. The paper puppet relies on the spirit puppet technique. Even if a mortal soul enters the body of the paper puppet to control it, it is only equivalent to obtaining the second level authority of the paper puppet.
The final authority is still in the hands of the Hall of Immortals, that is, Su Ming.
"However, if you want to deduce this technique, you must prepare enough spiritual stones,"
Thinking of this, he looked at the spiritual stones in the storage bag again and shook his head, "This little spiritual stone is far from enough."
Therefore, Su Ming unknowingly thought of the Zhang family again.
The next day.
Su Ming got up early and rushed to the Tianshufang City Port Terminal.
At the port of Tianshu Island, there are a large number of shops dealing with spirit boat-related businesses. Some of the spirit boats in these shops are for sale and some are rented out.
There are even some monks who have no need of their spirit boats for the time being. They can store their spirit boats in these intermediary-like shops and rent them out. The income earned can be shared proportionally or a fixed commission can be paid.
In short, all walks of life in Tianshu Daofang City are extremely mature.
Here, as long as you have enough spirit stones, you can almost say that there is nothing you can't think of.
"Shopkeeper, do you have any spirit boats for rent or sale here?"
In a shop selling spirit boats near the port, Su Ming found the owner and asked straight to the point.
"This Taoist friend invited me,"
When the shopkeeper saw a customer coming to the door, his face was full of joy, "I wonder if you want to rent or buy?"
"What about leasing? What about buying?"
"If you want to rent a spirit boat, our store can only provide this kind of small spirit boat for the time being,"
As he spoke, the shopkeeper took out a shadow stone and waved his hand. The shadow stone immediately projected the shadow of a small spirit boat in front of Su Ming, "Fellow Taoist, you only need to pay a sufficient deposit to drive this spirit boat away.
"
"How many spiritual stones will it cost to rent a spiritual boat like this for one day?"
The shopkeeper stretched out a finger and said with a smile: "The rental price of this small spirit boat is relatively cheap. It usually only takes ten spirit stones to use it for a day."
Hearing this, Su Ming kept shaking his head.
How can this price be called cheap?
You know, for ordinary Qi cultivators who cultivate spiritual fields, the income from one acre of spiritual fields in a year will generally not exceed 10 spiritual stones, and most of the time it is only about six or seven spiritual stones.
The price of spiritual rice in Lanzhou is higher than that in Lizhou, but it will never exceed the profit of 10 spiritual stones.
As for ordinary Qi-training monks, they can only farm a dozen acres of spiritual land throughout the year.
Calculating this, a spiritual plant husband in the Qi training stage can earn about a hundred spiritual stones after being busy for a year.
The rental price of the small spirit boat mentioned by the shopkeeper is 10 spirit stones per day, which is very expensive.
Seeing Su Ming shaking his head, the shopkeeper smiled and said, "If fellow Taoist disciples are dissatisfied with this small spiritual boat, you can consider purchasing other spiritual boats in our store."
As he said that, the picture projected by the shadow stone changed again.
This time, a spiritual boat about thirty feet long and four to five feet wide appeared in front of Su Ming.
The overall proportion of this spiritual boat is relatively slender. Judging from its shape, it cannot sail too slowly in the sea.
Su Ming fell in love with this spirit boat at a glance and asked, "Shopkeeper, how can I sell this spirit boat?"
"This spiritual boat costs one thousand, four hundred spiritual stones."
The shopkeeper said with a smile.
Traveling in the Yaoyuan Water Realm is impossible without a spiritual boat. Otherwise, given the distance between the major islands, if we rely on ordinary sailing cargo ships, we will not be able to reach the Year of the Monkey and the Moon of the Horse.
After buying a spiritual boat, the number of spiritual stones in Su Ming's storage bag dropped to 6,496.
But when he walked to the port and saw the brand new spirit boat docked at the port, the heartache in Su Ming's heart disappeared instantly.
Just one thousand four hundred spirit stones.
After boarding the spirit boat, Su Ming found that the control of the spirit boat was simpler than he imagined. There were a total of four formations engraved on the spirit boat.
One is the water avoidance formation.
The second is the wind shelter.
The third is the perception array.
The last formation is the spiritual source formation that provides power for the spirit boat.
If you want to drive the spirit boat, you must install ten spirit stones in the core of the spirit source formation.
Su Ming took out ten spirit stones from his storage bag and placed them in the formation's eyes, then activated the formation with his true energy, controlled the spirit boat and slowly sailed out of the harbor.
For monks, there is no such thing as a driver's license to control a spirit boat.
With the perception formation, the monks who control the spirit boat can easily detect all situations within a few miles of the spirit boat with the help of the perception formation.
In addition, when everyone's spirit boats sail into the port, their speed will slow down.
Ship collisions generally do not occur.
As for leaving the port and entering the Canglan Sea, the sea is even more vast and you can jump in any spirit boat without any problem.