Su Ming's heart moved slightly, and he asked knowingly: "Who died?"
"That's Zhang Jingchen who came with us from Xingluo Island."
Luo Xiao said, lowering his voice mysteriously, "I also heard that all the Jiling Island where Zhang Jingchen's family is located was massacred by the pirate cultivators from Lanyu Island.
For this matter, the Taoist Academy has already offered a high price for the location of Lanyu Island throughout Yaoyuanshui."
Hearing this, Su Ming couldn't help but sweat in his heart.
It seems that the backup plan he deployed on Jiling Island that day worked.
According to Su Ming's thinking, it was just a Taoist disciple who died who was not yet a disciple of Xianxia. There was no way that the other party would send Nascent Soul monks to investigate the cause of the other party's death.
Even the possibility of sending a Jindan monk to investigate is very low.
The most likely possibility is to send a foundation-building instructor to investigate the matter.
After all, Zhang Jingchen is also a disciple of the Xianxia Sect appointed by the Taoist Academy.
It is normal to send a foundation-building monk to investigate.
In this way, the "clues" left by Su Ming on Jiling Island are very important.
It happened that the pirate cultivators from Lanyu Island also attacked Jiling Island that day, leaving Su Ming with an excellent opportunity to shift blame.
"Hey, so when monks develop the fairy island, it's best not to reveal the location of the fairy island to avoid being coveted by pirate cultivators."
Luo Xiao sighed and shook his head, "Forget it, let's not talk about this. By the way, Qin Jiaoxi was still asking me a few days ago, where have you been in the past two months?"
Hearing this, Su Ming smiled bitterly and said: "Where else can I run? I'm just running around for the Immortal Island."
As he said this, Su Ming seemed to have thought of something and said, "Brother Luo, do you know any formation masters who are good at formations?"
"Array Master?"
Luo Xiao was stunned for a moment, then thought for a while and said: "Our Taoist academy has a formation genius, it seems his surname is Mo, his name is Mo."
"Mo Sanniang?"
An idea flashed across Su Ming's mind, and he thought of the shy-looking girl he had met at the Xiaoling Bamboo Peak where he purchased the array.
"Yes, let's call her Mo Sanniang!"
Luo Xiao exchanged fists and palms, "Brother Su, do you know her?"
"Well, I had an interaction with her once and bought a set of array disks from her at Xiaolingzhu Peak that day."
"I see."
Luo Xiao nodded, "If Brother Su is looking for a formation master, it would be best to find one within the Taoist Academy. Let's not talk about the level of the formation. At least safety is guaranteed."
Su Ming knew what Luo Xiao meant.
Zhang Jingchen's death finally caused some waves in the Taoist temple.
Otherwise, Yaoyuan Taoist Temple would not have killed the pirate cultivators on Lanyu Island.
Farewell to Luo Xiao.
Su Ming returned to the dormitory courtyard and immediately activated a communication talisman.
Immediately, the communication talisman turned into a beam of fire and soared into the sky.
The courtyard of the dormitory in Wuzi District.
Most of the dormitories here are occupied by female practitioners, and they are shared dormitories with many people.
Compared with Su Ming's single-family dormitory courtyard.
The courtyard environment where Mo Sanniang lived was much worse. Obviously, although Mo Sanniang was a formation genius, her background was not very good and she belonged to the lowest level of casual cultivators.
If she were in Lizhou, even if Mo Sanniang had extraordinary talent for formations, it was more likely that she would be buried.
But in Yaoyuan Taoist Academy, after Mo Sanniang showed enough talent in formations, the Taoist Academy has been supporting her overtly and covertly.
From my perspective, I cannot feel this kind of support at all.
But with this silent support, Mo Sanniang gathered together various materials for learning the formation.
However, her cultivation resources are still very scarce, and her living environment is extremely noisy.
Mo Sanniang likes peace and quiet very much, but she didn't have a flower spirit stone when she entered Yaoyuan Taoist Temple, and then she asked for a separate dormitory courtyard, which was a bit ungrateful.
It seems that Yaoyuan Taoist Temple also intends to train disciples like her who come from poor backgrounds.
Because the Taoist temple knows that unless monks from poor backgrounds find a unique way to make money, they will face a shortage of spiritual resources for a long time.
Taoist temples can support you for a while, but they cannot support you all the time.
Most of the resources needed for monks to practice must be earned by the monks themselves.
Even if you become a disciple of the Xianxia Sect, if you only rely on the few spiritual stones issued by the sect to practice, you may only be able to stay in the foundation building stage for the rest of your life until you pass away.
"call out--"
In the sky, a ray of fire flashed across, heading straight towards the courtyard of Mo Sanniang's dormitory.
Finally, the fire light rushed to Mo Sanniang and stopped.
Mo Sanniang, who was practicing with her eyes closed, opened her eyes and her consciousness sank into the communication talisman.
The next moment, a hint of surprise flashed across her face.
Zuixian Tower.
When Su Ming saw Mo Sanniang who had come as invited, he raised his hand towards her and said, "Fairy Mo, please excuse me."
"You are so polite, Fellow Daoist Su. You are taking care of my business. I should be the one thanking you."
Mo Sanniang said, a blush flashed on her face.
Su Ming also felt a little embarrassed when dealing with this girl who was usually shy when talking.
He paused and said straight to the point: "To be honest with Fairy Mo, Su wants to develop a desert island in the Yaoyuan Water Realm, and wants to ask Fairy Mo to arrange a large formation around the island."
"Deploying a formation around the island?"
Mo Sanniang frowned, "I wonder how big the desert island Su Daoyou mentioned is?"
"It is about one hundred and fifty miles long and seventy miles wide."
Hearing this, Mo Sanniang nodded: "The desert island that Su Daoyou mentioned is not very large, but if you want to set up a formation around the island, the amount of formation materials required is not a small amount.
I have to check the specific amount of materials required before I can give you an accurate answer."
Mo Sanniang's words were quite conservative.
He neither said yes nor no, and he didn't even give Su Ming the specific price for setting up the formation.
Su Ming raised his hand and said, "Fairy Mo, based on your experience, how many spirit stones would it cost to set up a round-the-island spirit gathering formation on an island of this size?"
After thinking for a while, Mo Sanniang raised her head and said, "It will cost at least fifty thousand spiritual stones."
Hear this.
Su Ming couldn't help but secretly sighed.
It’s so expensive!
You know, the Guangyuan Island he wants to develop is not even as large as the Jiling Island purchased by the Zhang family.
In the entire Yaoyuan Water Realm, there is only one small and medium-sized island.
But according to Fairy Mo, just setting up a large spirit gathering formation, not including other defensive formations, would cost at least 50,000 spirit stones, which was more expensive than a Foundation Establishment Pill.
No wonder many Lingzhifu can only work as tenants of the Xianxia sect or Xiuxian family.
Putting aside everything else, the cost of setting up the spirit gathering formation alone is beyond the reach of ordinary monks.
Fortunately, Su Ming made a fortune from the Zhang family.
Not counting other treasures, he now has more than 280,000 spiritual stones in his hand.
This kind of wealth can be called arrogant even among foundation-building monks.
Even if some foundation-building monks casually take out hundreds of thousands or even millions of spiritual stones, if you look closely at these monks, you will find that behind them there is a huge family of immortal cultivators.
Among foundation-building casual cultivators, there are only a few who can take out so many spirit stones in Su Ming's hand at once.
After thinking for a while, Su Ming cupped his hands and said, "Fairy Mo, I wonder when you will be free. Let's go to the island together first."
"I will be free today."
Mo Sanniang said impatiently.
According to the market price of formations arranged by formation masters, Mo Sanniang would have to charge him at least one-tenth of the material fee for setting up the spirit-gathering formation around the island for Su Ming.
In other words, it cost Su Ming 50,000 spirit stones to set up this formation, so he had to pay Mo Sanniang 5,000 spirit stones.
This is the market price for the formation set up by the formation mage.
Don't think this is expensive.
To arrange a formation for an island that is one hundred and fifty miles long and more than seventy miles wide, Mo Sanniang may not be able to successfully arrange it even if she stays on Guangyuan Island for a year.
As a second-level array mage, she can earn five thousand spirit stones in one year. Although it is a huge amount of income, it is not too exaggerated.
The main problem is that such big deals are not always available.
Among the casual cultivators, there are a few monks who are as arrogant as Su Ming and directly develop a desert island.
Immortal cultivating families often have their own formation masters trained by themselves and will not use outside formation masters.
The reason is also very simple: I am afraid that the outside formation masters will be unreliable.
In the Yao Yuanshui Realm, unless you have full confidence in the military power of this fairy island, such as Tianshu Island, there are both Nascent Soul monks sitting in charge and Xuntian Baojian monitoring the four directions.
Otherwise, no immortal cultivating family would easily expose the location of their own immortal island.
Because there might be some pirate cultivator who is interested in making money and comes to this fairy island.
Even if there are no thieves coming, as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid that thieves will miss you.
Who can guarantee that the defense of their fairy island will always be so sufficient?
Or can the high-level monks of the family stay on the island for the rest of their lives and not leave the island?
Therefore, the best way is to protect the location information of Fairy Island.
In this way, among the countless deserted islands in the vast sea area of Yao Yuanshui, who knows which islands have been developed and which islands have not been developed?
Without a target, there is no need to worry about unauthorized repairs.
Su Ming was stunned by Mo Sanniang's eagerness.
Seeing Su Ming's appearance, Mo Sanniang couldn't help but blush again, and she hesitated: "I can give Fellow Daoist Su a cheaper price, and I have never arranged this kind of island-circling spirit gathering formation.
But the formation itself is not difficult, but the layout range is a bit large and it takes a lot of time."
Afraid that Su Ming would doubt her formation skills, Mo Sanniang hurriedly explained.
"Since Su asked Fairy Mo to set up the formation for me, I must trust Fairy Mo's formation skills."
There was another reason Su Ming didn't mention. Compared with Mo Sanniang, a disciple of Yaoyuan Taoist Academy who knew everything about her.
Looking for an array master in the outside world is always more risky.
There was no guarantee that the other party would have evil intentions during the formation process. Although Su Ming was not afraid of other people's evil intentions, it was still a troublesome matter.
"But there is one thing that Su needs to explain clearly in advance."
Before Su Ming could speak, Mo Sanniang took the initiative and said, "Isn't Fellow Daoist Su worried about exposing the location of the Immortal Island?"
Mo Sanniang said seriously: "Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Su, I can wear a blindfold the whole time, or Fellow Daoist will seal me in the cabin, and I will never leave the cabin until I land on the island."
The other party had already said this, so whatever Su Ming said would seem a bit pretentious.
He pondered for a moment and said: "It's just that it took a long time to set up the spirit gathering formation. Fairy Mo's side..."
Hearing this, Mo Sanniang smiled and said: "I was promoted to the second-level formation mage last month. I was recruited by the Xianxia Sect in advance. I will only wait to be entered into the Xianxia Sect's Taoist Records in three years' time.
Fellow Daoist Su, you don’t have to worry about affecting my sect’s assessment.”
After hearing Mo Xueba's heartfelt words, Su Ming remained silent.
"Okay, let's set off now."
It is better to choose the day than to hit it. Since Mo Sanniang has no problems, Su Ming is also a resolute person.
Mo Sanniang's words just now may not have meant that she was secretly warning Su Ming not to be unreasonable towards her.
After all, Su Ming's cultivation was as high as the eighth level of Qi training, which was much higher than her fifth level of Qi training.
A man and a woman alone went to a deserted island. If Su Ming got interested, she wouldn't be able to escape.
But she is still too immature.
If it were Su Ming, he would never put himself in a dangerous situation with no way out, no matter how great the benefits were.
I just returned to Yaoyuan Taoist Temple for a day.
Su Ming then took Mo Sanniang aboard his spiritual boat and sped towards Guangyuan Island.
Su Ming did not confine Mo Sanniang in the cabin.
But when the two of them approached the thousand-mile range of Guangyuan Island, they put on a blindfold on her.
Coupled with Su Ming's surveillance and Mo Sanniang's lack of a sea map, she would never discover the location of Guangyuan Immortal Island.
In fact, Su Ming's hiding of Guangyuan Immortal Island was due to his lack of strength.
If Su Ming had a golden elixir level puppet in his hands, he would not be so careful to hide the location of the island.
On an island where a Golden elixir monk is stationed, no rogue cultivator will come to rob it.
Generally speaking, because there are so many low-level monks in the Yaoyuan Water Realm, most of the pirated cultivators are low-level monks.
It’s not that there are no golden elixir monks who have thought about becoming a pirate cultivator, but it’s just that the goal of a golden elixir monk becoming a pirate cultivator is too conspicuous.
Even in the Yaoyuan Water Realm, there are many Golden Core cultivators.
It’s not as common as foundation-building monks.
Once a monk of this level becomes a pirate cultivator, he will definitely attract the full force of the Xianxia Sect to kill him, because once a monk of this level creates chaos, he can already pose a threat to the foundation of the Xianxia Sect's rule.
I would like to ask how long a fairy island like Xingluo Island can survive if it is attacked by Jindan monks?
The strongest monk on Xingluo Island is only in the late stage of foundation building.
If the Jindan monks really attack, they probably won't be able to hold on to even half a stick of incense, and the entire island will be plundered by them soon.
Moreover, when monks reach the Golden Elixir stage, they will also be able to master light-escape flight.
Compared with the air control and weapon flight of the Foundation Establishment monks, the speed of light escape flight is much faster.
This also means that if the Jindan monk is a pirate cultivator, he can rob him and run away, leaving no chance for the Xianxia sect to rescue and kill him.
How can the Xianxia Sect turn a blind eye to this threat?
If we don't care, I'm afraid that the entire Yaoyuanshui realm will be in chaos before long.
Therefore, when a monk in the Yaoyuanshui Realm breaks through to the Golden Core stage, he will be crowned as an elder by the Xianxia Sect to appease him.
In this regard, Lingbaoshan and Xianxia Sect are exactly the same.
Of course, the most important thing than reputation is profit.
Only when a high-level monk has enough profits will he not take the risk and become a pirate cultivator.
This is another reason why high-level monks basically control huge industries.
"Whoosh whoosh-"
Inside the cabin.
Mo Sanniang, who was wearing a blindfold, listened to the sound of waves crashing on the coast and couldn't help but asked in a trembling voice: "Fellow Taoist Su Su, are we here yet?"