(This chapter is a bit off-topic. But it can be regarded as explaining the development in other aspects without being nonsense.)
Since those precious materials were all collected with great pains by the ancestors of the demon clan, only those with truly high cultivation and good skills can accumulate them without wasting them.
Since only Yun Canghai and Jian Zhen have the highest cultivation level, the most profound knowledge, and the highest reputation in Haizhou, they usually handle any issues that cannot be solved by the senior officials of Haizhou Council. Yun Canghai and Jianzhen are also happy to be able to help others.
Why not do good things to others and receive rewards to maintain and expand your influence in Haizhou? So once there are any precious materials that need to be processed, those who have the materials will take action through Yun Canghai and Jianzhen of the Haizhou Council.
In order to make the best use of these precious materials.
The proficiency of Yun Canghai and Jian Zhen also gradually increased in this process. From relying solely on their superb cultivation to forcibly refine weapons and alchemy, they gradually improved their level and entered the realm of masters of weapon and alchemy.
Later, Jianzhen gradually focused on practice. The number of shots he took decreased and his share was gradually taken over by Yun Canghai. This was not because Jianzhen was not good enough or was excluded by Yun Canghai, but because the two had different practice concepts.
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The most important thing in Jianzhen's Buddhist practice is to cultivate the mind and pay attention to "seeing through everything and achieving perfect enlightenment." The deeper the cultivation level, the less dependent on external things, and gradually one can be self-sufficient and finally reach the Buddha's status of achieving perfect enlightenment. Therefore, for cultivation
Those Buddha treasures, elixirs and other things that are cultivated for low-level Buddhas are still useful and can be used as external objects to attach to the body and improve the body. However, once the cultivation level reaches a high level, the effect of these things on oneself is greatly weakened. Only the "heart"
Only through practice can you truly improve your cultivation. This is why there are many more Buddhist monks than Taoist cultivators because they have less demand for resources.
Jianzhen's cultivation has really reached a state where he is "not attached to objects and his mind is as spotless as a bright mirror." At this state, even the physical body can be regarded as a stinker and can be abandoned at will. How can he care about those external objects? At this state,
The best thing is to practice wholeheartedly, sit quietly and meditate, and travel around the world to enter the mysterious realm of meditation; unless it is the survival of the Taoism or the treasure of acquired spiritual treasures, nothing can tempt him. So those things about refining magic pills will only tempt him.
Distractions increase irritability but have no good effect on practice, so Jianzhen will gradually let go.
But Yun Canghai is different. He belongs to the dual cultivation of demons and Taoists. To put it nicely, it means "learning from nature", using nature as a teacher to understand the way of heaven, the rules and then transcending everything; in vernacular, it requires a lot of resources to steadily improve the cultivation of Taoists. "
Wealth, companionship, law, and earth are all indispensable. That is to say, magic weapons, elixirs, spiritual energy, and exercises are all needed. The more you have, the easier it is to improve your cultivation. It is not as extreme as Buddhism. Cultivating demons can cultivate both mind and body.
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Therefore, the resources needed for Yuncanghai's cultivation will only become larger and larger, not smaller. Only after monopolizing the entire high-level weapon refining and alchemy market in Haizhou, Yuncanghai truly entered a state of "rapid accumulation of capital"
.(Haizhou at this time was a hundred times larger than Japan in later generations, and it was also very rich in resources. The materials accumulated by the demon tribes who have lived in Haizhou for generations for thousands of years can be said to be enough to support one person in one state in a day.
That’s weird.)
However, since the tempers of the demon clan are all very weird, it is inevitable that some demon clan with bad tempers will look down upon Yun Canghai and say that his behavior of monopolizing the high-end weapon refining and alchemy market is "abusing power for personal gain, bullying the weak, and discriminating against the demon clan."
"And there are quite a lot of monsters in this group. Objectively speaking, Yun Canghai is indeed much harsher on the monsters than on the humans. Comparing the treatment of the two tribes:
The human race can join the Yin-Yang Sect. Those with good qualifications can be accepted as inner disciples and true disciples as the elite of the Yin-Yang Sect; those with pious beliefs can become priests and priests to serve the gods, and their status is also superhuman. They can all learn the teachings compiled by Yun Canghai.
Cultivation classics and systematic cultivation methods. Sometimes when Yun Canghai gets interested, he will visit some dojos to give lectures and mentor some particularly outstanding disciples. In such an environment, the development of the human cultivation world will naturally be rapid.
On the other hand, although the demon clan no longer suffers from the hatred of the human race, only those who are willing to join the Yin-Yang Sect, and they must have a conscience, that is, a good nature, good character, and have not made any big mistakes can become a disciple of the Yin-Yang Sect. Moreover, they must
Starting from the outer sect disciples, one can be promoted to the inner sect disciples and true disciples after various assessments. As for those demon clans with pious beliefs, they can only start from the most common guardian spirit beasts and low-level shikigami and achieve meritorious service or improve their cultivation.
Only by being valued by others can one become a guardian spirit beast, a guardian holy beast, a guardian divine beast, an intermediate shikigami, an advanced shikigami, and a top shikigami.
From this point of view, the treatment of the demon clan is indeed much lower than that of the human clan. Yun Canghai did not treat everyone equally.
However, there is a reason for this. It should be noted that due to different bloodlines, demons are naturally stronger than humans. **Stronger than humans, their mental power is higher than humans. They have special skills and can inherit some bloodline spells and family skills. In addition to the minds of most demons,
Their understanding and reproductive capacity are lower than that of the human race, and the demon race is far superior to the ordinary race. Under such conditions, if they are truly treated according to the standard of equal treatment, the power of the thousand-year-old demon race will far exceed that of the human race and become the largest force in Haizhou.
This is what Yun Canghai doesn’t want to see’
It's not because Yun Canghai really discriminates against the demon clan, but because it will break the inherent balance of Haizhou and cause unnecessary conflicts. All life is like this. Once the power increases, it will demand a status equivalent to the power, and it will compete with the old ones.
There will be friction among the forces of the demon clan. Once the demon clan's strength grows, it will inevitably put forward requirements for the distribution of Haizhou's interests. At that time, how should Yun Canghai deal with himself? If the corresponding benefits are allocated to the demon clan, it will inevitably infringe on the interests of the human clan and reduce his position in the human clan.
Prestige and triggering the anger of the human race. Then the two human-monster clans will have frictions and disputes again and again. The conflicts between the two will continue to grow like a snowball until both sides are unable to restrain themselves, which will eventually lead to another war between the two human-monster clans.
At that time, the Yin Yang Sect and the Vinaya Sect will inevitably be involved, so what should Yun Canghai do? At that time, no matter which party Yun Canghai helps, he will offend the other party, or he will no longer be able to detach himself from the world and can only join this meaningless fight.
Fighting. This will not only destroy the peace of Haizhou, destroy the construction achievements over the years, but also intensify the human-monster conflict that has been finally bridged. Years of hard work will be in vain. To be serious, it means Yun Canghai’s approach
If it is wrong, it will damage his own confidence, weaken his merits, and cause his Taoist mind to become unstable and his cultivation to regress.
Even at that time, Haizhou's chaotic situation would attract the intervention of external forces. You must know that Haizhou has developed increasingly prosperous since Jianzhen's eastward journey. The spontaneously established cities and towns alone have thousands of connections with the forces of mainland and sea cultivators.
A large amount of wealth has been earned from the exchanges; the prosperous population, huge wealth, and abundant sea resources can be said to be a piece of fat just because there are two top masters, Yun Canghai and Jianzhen, sitting in the Haizhou Council and they are relatively united to the outside world.
That is why we can ensure our own detachment and peace. If this environment is broken and the surrounding evil wolves are like, the forces that have been coveting Haizhou for a long time will definitely take advantage of it and try to take a bite of this fat!
Don't think that Yun Canghai and Jianzhen can stop all enemies. Small, medium and even large sects will be more or less scrupulous about the face of these two immortal-level powerhouses and dare not quarrel with each other; as for those who are arrogant and arrogant.
However, it is completely possible for the top sects to ignore the threats of the two immortals and invade Haizhou with various excuses. Even if Yun Canghai and all the authenticity verification methods are used, they may not be able to win;
Taking a step back, even if they win, the ones who will suffer the most in the local battle will definitely be the local forces. If they are defeated and patted on the butt, they can leave. The mess left behind will have to be cleaned up by Yun Canghai and Jianzhen. And in this way
It will inevitably lead to a break between Haizhou and the mainland cultivation world. The political impact and economic losses caused by this are immeasurable. Haizhou is definitely not an opponent of the mainland. Even if it is just a long-term confrontation, it will be severely damaged.
Under the derivation of my godhead, which is comparable to a super computer, these results derived from the "equal treatment" approach are all possible. Yun Canghai was naturally shocked when he knew such results. These derived consequences are definitely not Yun Canghai's.
Canghai wants to bear it. So even if there is a slight possibility, he will not let this consequence happen. Therefore, there is only one way to avoid such a thing from happening to the greatest extent, and that is
balance!
Only the balance of power can keep the leaders of both sides calm and see the general trend clearly, and no dispute will be caused by the hot-headedness of the bottom; only the balance of the attitudes of both sides can he be able to maintain neutrality; only the balance of overall strength can make the human and demon clans unable to do anything.
Suppressing each other will stimulate their competitive psychology and promote common progress; only a balanced situation in Haizhou can allow various forces to remain monolithic and jointly bear external pressure.
With so many reasons, does Yun Canghai have any other choice? So he strongly supports the naturally weak human race but restrains them from discriminating and harming the demon race; he has strict requirements for the naturally powerful demon race but promotes those who are capable.
Outstanding talents with ideas, conscience and reason let them take over the leadership of the demon clan; in the process, he also quietly conveyed his ideas so that all walks of life in Haizhou gradually accepted his ideas and turned them into reality.
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Under Yun Canghai's painstaking management, the situation in Haizhou is developing rapidly and running well as he expected. Although the human and demon tribes occasionally conflict, they will not seriously cause a big conflict. They will only work together to eliminate conflicts while facing each other.
They strengthened their internal training in order to become stronger and surpass the other party. The strength of the Yin Yang Sect also became stronger due to the improvement of Haizhou's overall strength. It extended its tentacles to other places to provide strong support for Yunlong and its various clones.
However, just like the universality of contradictions, complete unity is a kind of perfection and perfection absolutely does not exist; among the demon clan, there are always those who are naturally bloodthirsty and warlike, or whose demonic nature has not been tainted by Yamata no Orochi.
They have serious violent tendencies, with negative emotions such as jealousy, resentment, cruelty, bloodthirsty, sinisterness, cunning, etc. They are dissatisfied with peace and dissatisfied with Yun Canghai's actions. Although they cannot confront Yun Canghai head-on, they
They can spread rumors behind their backs and distort Yun Canghai's image. Because of their large number and deep-rooted influence among the demon clan, they have really affected some demon clan who are unstable and dissatisfied with the status quo.
These people dare not do anything to Yun Canghai, but they can cause him to suffer losses - for example, they criticize some of his techniques when he is refining weapons or elixirs, or secretly accuse Yun Canghai of embezzling materials and cutting corners. This really confuses some people.
The demon clan either started to wait and see or handed over some less rare materials to the more intelligent and talented races and forces within the demon clan that are good at refining weapons and alchemy. To be honest, a peaceful situation can indeed drive all industries and highways.
The level of weapon refining and alchemy in all walks of life in Haizhou has indeed been greatly improved, and the success rate has been much higher than before. With the efforts of these weapon refiners and alchemists, these not-so-rare materials were quickly transformed into good
Magic weapons and elixirs also bring benefits to the forces to which they belong.
Li Ling Zhihuang, who had tasted the sweetness driven by profit, also began to secretly promote dissatisfaction with Yun Canghai's monopoly on the high-end weapon and elixir refining market. As a result, many fewer people came to Yun Canghai for help in refining weapons and elixirs. In the first period of time,
The income that affected Yun Canghai initially achieved the goals of those demon clans.
But who is Yun Canghai? How could he suffer such a dumb loss? After discovering the problem, his powerful intelligence system and amazing calculation ability quickly found out the black hands behind the scenes. However, those forces are indeed deeply rooted in the demon clan.
Killing them would also break the balance within the demon clan and lead to the imbalance between the human and demon clans. Therefore, Yun Canghai did not directly destroy those demon clan forces but used a soft knife to cut the flesh.
Don’t you think I’m a monopoly? Well, then I won’t monopolize it. I’ll hand over the entire market to you and see if you will be crushed to death! Yun Canghai thought so and did the same thing. Soon he made the news because he wanted to practice in seclusion, so he didn’t
Then accept other people's commissions for refining weapons and alchemy.
This caused an uproar*. You must know that the higher the level of magic weapons and elixirs, the more precious they are. One magic weapon can be worth a hundred low-grade magic weapons, and a top-quality magic weapon can even make the user
A treasure whose power can be increased dozens of times is a priceless treasure! Even more so with pills. A thousand low-level "qi-tonifying pills" that can restore mana are not as good as one "" that can reshape a cultivator in the weapon refining stage and wash away the essence and marrow.
"Foundation Building Pill"; and Foundation Building Pill is just a low-grade elixir; there is also a middle-grade elixir "Qingxin Dan" that can calm the mind, suppress inner demons and help users successfully survive the inner demon tribulation; it can purify cultivation
The "Obstacle Breaking Pill", a spiritual elixir to help users break through bottlenecks; and even the legendary elixir "Transcending Tribulation Pill" that is only available to top sects and can enhance the chance of overcoming the tribulation and help users successfully survive the tribulation.
Each one is equivalent to a priceless treasure, a treasure that cannot be exchanged for even a thousand lower elixirs.
No force has too much of such treasures. Therefore, those monster clan forces that have stocks will do everything possible to ask Yun Canghai to refine weapons and elixirs for them and are willing to pay a high price. Therefore, Yun Canghai's products are always in short supply.
Now that Yun Canghai has quit, those forces that have long coveted the high-end weapon refining and alchemy market have naturally taken over this market and begun accepting commissions. And those demon forces in need have also put forward some commissions with the mentality of giving it a try. "
Since we can refine those medium and low-level magic weapons and elixirs, these high-level ones should not be much different. Anyway, they are all the same price. If they can do it, then entrust them to them. The money will not go to others." Those who are in need.
This is what the demon forces think. Of course, they have also made psychological preparations. After all, Yun Canghai's cultivation and level are there. Except for Jian Zhen, there is no one in Haizhou who can compare with him. These demon forces have just accepted the entrusted technology.
It is understandable that the success rate of proficient people is lower.
But the cruel reality shocked them.
The success rate of 70% is their tolerance limit, which is also very low. Because Yun Canghai's success rate is almost 100%. After all, these precious materials are not easy to collect and it hurts everyone to lose so much. But those monsters who accepted the commission succeeded
The rate is shockingly low.
Not even 100%! No matter how much they improve or how many materials are carefully mixed in, the finished product is still very few. Most of the materials are wasted.
When these entrusters quit, the losses far exceeded their psychological expectations and the harm to others was not so harmful. So after demanding a large amount of compensation, those in need withdrew their entrustment and went to Yun Canghai again. As for those attempts
The demon forces that occupy the high-end weapon refining and alchemy market lost all their money. Not only did they not make any profit, they even lost their capital.
After being "harassed" several times by the trustees, Yun Canghai, who was in "retreat", finally issued a statement: High-end magic weapons and elixirs are treasures in the world without sufficient cultivation and understanding of the rules. It is almost impossible to succeed in refining them hastily.
I advise those who are interested in this path to take it one step at a time, and when you have enough cultivation, things will come naturally.
Only then did the monster clan understand the truth and honestly entrusted Yun Canghai to refine weapons and elixirs. Those clamoring and greedy forces also became honest. When they needed to refine high-end magic weapons and elixirs, they still went back to entrust Yun Canghai. And Yun Canghai
A hidden space has also been added to the "Red Copper Bagua Furnace". Whenever these guys who have caused him trouble come to entrust it, he will take the opportunity to withhold some of the materials and shirk the inevitable loss.
It happened like this once, twice, ten times, eight times, and it happened dozens of times. After the demon clan forces that had made trouble for him finally understood that Yun Canghai was just trying to amuse them. But there was no point in getting angry. If you don’t want to be attacked by other demon clans,
To widen the gap between the forces, high-end magic weapons and elixirs are indispensable. So they were entrusted and slaughtered again and again. Finally, those forces could not bear the "accidents" again and again and began to restrain their actions and no longer carried out actions against Yun Canghai.
Then let them go.
However, this deceptive setting is still preserved in the "Red Copper Bagua Furnace" and is used today.