Qimingfang City is located to the northwest of Binhaifang City, and the distance between them is not that far.
If there was a caravan composed entirely of earth horse beasts traveling between them, it would only take a month and a half to get from one city to another.
Strictly speaking, the distance between them is shorter than the distance from Tianhefang City to Binhaifang City.
But because of the existence of Tianhe in the latter, for those cultivating forces with treasure ships,
Although the distance between Tianhefang City and Binhaifang City is longer, the time spent will be much less.
This creates the illusion that the distance from Tianhefang City to Binhaifang City is closer than the distance from Qimingfang City to Binhaifang City.
Although there is no "shortcut" from Qimingfang City to Binhaifang City, and bulk resources can only be transported by caravans, Binhaifang City is one of the largest cities in the eastern part of the mainland after all, so there are still many people there every year
A small number of caravans traveled back and forth between these two markets.
Exchanging some cultivation resources and earning spiritual stones used for cultivation.
In particular, Binhaifang City and Limeng Island will launch a treasure ship trade operation every four years.
Therefore, every year, Qimingfang City's trade with it will become more frequent.
Countless monks belonging to the Xianyuan Sect will flood into Binhaifang City in a very short period of time.
They hope to take advantage of this opportunity to sell what they have, and also hope to find some cultivation resources that will be useful for their future cultivation.
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Li Xuangang has been practicing so far and has almost never set foot in the northern Xianyuan Sect. When he was practicing in Binhai City, although he could often hear some news related to the cities in the Xianyuan Sect, he did not understand this information at the time.
I'm not very interested, so I don't know much about it.
Therefore, when he brought Zhengda to Qimingfang City this time, the first place he chose to step into was a tea shop with the highest concentration of monks in the city.
Here, he can hear more things that are useful to him. Although some of the information is still not very trustworthy, the information he gets from here is obviously much more reliable than at the city gate.
The reason why Li Xuangang made such a judgment is simple. Most of the people who have the leisure to sit in this teahouse for a while are monks who are in the late stage of Qi Refining and above. Among them, the monks in the Foundation Establishment stage except him and Zheng.
Besides the big ones, there are also three or five.
Therefore, the information revealed from these people is naturally more accurate than what can be obtained from the mixed crowd at the city gate.
After Li Xuangang and Zheng Dacai sat in this tea shop for a while, they already had a deeper understanding of Qimingfang City than before.
For example, half an hour ago, the news he got from the city gate was that Mingfang City was controlled by the Xianyuan Sect, but this was not the case. The Xianyuan Sect only had 50% of the revenue here, and the other 50%.
It belongs to a monk family called Jingjiang Qiu family.
Moreover, the Xianyuan Sect will not interfere in the daily management of Qimingfang City. All the monks and formations that protect Fang City will be provided by the Qiu family.
The four foundation-building monks currently sitting in Zhenfang City are also the four family elders of the Qiu family.
However, as the Qiu family is an affiliated monk family in the Xianyuan Sect, the income from the market must be reported truthfully, and every year the Xianyuan Sect will send someone to collect it.
While Li Xuangang drank tea, he paid attention to the sounds that kept ringing in his ears.
It wasn't until he saw something strange about Zheng Da that he diverted his attention to the latter.
He opened his mouth and said:
"People's hearts are sinister, and monks are sometimes more terrifying than monsters."
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Hearing His Majesty's voice, Zhengda was obviously stunned for a moment, and then a puzzled look appeared on his face.
Li Xuangang saw his doubts at this time, so after placing the teacup in his hand on the table, he continued to explain:
"This casual cultivator named Zhao Xianyun in the Qi Refining Period set up a scam. From the very beginning, the leading monk of the caravan who only had a cultivation level of seventh level of Qi Refining fell into his trap."
"Although Zhao Xianyun's deception is not too clever, any monk who has stayed in Qimingfang City for a few years should be able to see through it, but the leading monk of the caravan was easily fooled because of the words he said to the former
Interested."
"According to general experience, since this leading monk is interested in those words, it should be his first time coming to Qimingfang City."
"And judging from the size of the caravan he led, it should be just a small caravan, so the force behind it is also very likely to be a spiritual force in the Qi refining period."
"For a monk like Zhao Xianyun, this kind of goal is just the right one to start with."
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"If nothing else happens, the monk named Zhao Xianyun should have colluded with the shop he introduced and would have embezzled part of the benefits of the goods carried by that caravan. If they were more ruthless, maybe this caravan would not be able to
Get out of the mountains outside Qimingfang City."
Hearing this, the confusion on his stiff face became even more intense, and he thought quietly for a while.
Li Xuangang picked up the tea cup again and took a sip.
When he put down the tea cup in his hand again, Zheng Da started to ask questions in a rare way:
"Your Majesty...then Zhao Xianyun is not afraid of being traced later?"
Li Xuangang glanced at Zheng Da, casually arranged a simple soundproof barrier, and then he replied with a smile:
"The name Zhao Xianyun is false, the location information of the cave he rented is false, and even when he was talking to people, his face was also fake, covered with an elaborate mask."
"And not only that, this 'Zhao Xianyun' has also practiced an extremely advanced breath-condensing technique. It seems that his cultivation is only at the sixth level of Qi refining, but in fact his cultivation is at the eighth level of Qi refining, which is better than that of
The leading monk is still a small level higher."
"As soon as this deal is completed and the caravan leaves Qimingfang City, I want to come back next time to look for him, but where can I find him? Qimingfang City is so big, and there are tens of thousands of monks in the Qi Refining Period. They
There’s no way.”
"As for the trading shop... they have no room to resist. If they can own a shop in such a medium-sized market, how can the people behind the shop be afraid of such a mere refining shop?
A sect or family with strong Qi period."
"And if these people are more ruthless and take the slightest risk of being punished by the Jingjiang Qiu family to get things done, I'm afraid all the monks in that caravan will never come to seek revenge one day."
"They will be devoured with all their people and belongings, and no bones will be left. Outside of Qimingfang City, in the mountains with a radius of fifty miles, there are probably many more monks' bones than monster beasts."
“From the very beginning, ‘Zhao Xianyun’’s choice of target was very clear. He knew which caravans and monks were his targets.”
"certainly......"
After Li Xuangang finished talking about the scam arranged by 'Zhao Xianyun', he suddenly changed the topic and finally said:
"Such things are not without any risks. Things like pretending to be pigs and eating tigers also happen occasionally, and it is not impossible that counterattacks are completed at the last moment."
"But after all, there are only a few cases like this. Those who have the leisure to make such a game-within-a-game, and eventually eat up both the casual cultivators and the shops, are either the evil intentions of the evil-minded people, or some reclusive people.
It’s a joke from seniors.”
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"In this world...after all, the one with the big fist has the final say."
"As for those with small fists, either they are willing to be eaten, or they can work hard to become the one with big fists."
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After listening to everything the Lord said word for word, his eyes suddenly flashed with a different demeanor than before. He had never thought that there were so many twists and turns in this world.
And Li Xuangang's words, in a sense, opened another door that was slightly different from the past in the simple-minded Zongda heart.
Seeing Zongda nodding his head in confusion, Li Xuangang's mouth curved slightly, he picked up the tea cup and drank it all.
Then he stood up from his seat, waved his hand to remove the soundproof barrier, turned around, and said:
"It's almost time, it's time to get down to business..."
Seeing His Majesty leave, Zhengda stopped thinking in his mind. He stood up quickly and prepared to follow, but he paused for a moment when he looked at the untouched cup of spiritual tea on his table.
Then he stretched out his right hand, imitated your Majesty's actions, drank it all, and finally put down the tea cup and chased after him.
Climbing down the stairs and passing through the crowd, Li Xuangang and Zheng Da stepped out of the teahouse door and once again arrived at the inner streets of Qimingfang City.
There were people coming and going here, most of them were casual cultivators in the Qi refining stage. The two of them stopped in the middle of the street for a moment, and then Li Xuangang chose a direction and walked away.
And Zhengda followed him casually and naturally, the two of them walked side by side, just like they had done for many years before and in the future.
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ps: Yesterday, subscriptions hit rock bottom, only a few hundred. It was almost twice as low as when I first put it on the shelves. Although I do know that it was because of the previous discontinuation of updates, I am still a little desperate. Maybe there is something wrong with my current writing method.
!I won’t stop updating for the time being, after all, my character is almost gone!