The Haiya area is the collective name for the coastal plains near Haiya City.
This coastal plain is long and narrow in shape, and its overall size is small. However, it is advantageous in its flat terrain and developed transportation. Although its agricultural output is not as good as that of Luoxia City, which is thousands of miles away, it is much stronger than that of the nearby Luanshi hilly area and Tianshu Mountains area.
According to Bo Nanke's theory of cultivation economics, infrastructure construction is the best means to stimulate the economy. For thousands of years, the Haiya Sect has used earth magic to build several smooth official roads to connect Haiya City with nearby areas.
Several major cities are connected together, and these main transportation roads also greatly facilitate the daily life of mortals in the Haiya area.
Even monks like Yang Lu who are not yet able to fly in the wind can enjoy the convenience brought by developed transportation.
In addition, as a regional commercial center, the official road of Haiya City has a considerable amount of people rushing to and fro, so there is no need to worry about anyone blocking the road and robbing. This makes Yang Lu Weiwei, who has just achieved some success in cultivation, feel a little regretful.
Other people's cultivation world is full of murders and treasure grabbing, and geese plucking their hair. On average, 80 of the 100 people the protagonist meets will end up dead. It has been a few months since I came to the Kyushu cultivation world, and I haven't even done it myself yet.
At least, let's get some robbers on the road to satisfy our addiction!
The two of them traveled day and night, traveling along the official road in the Haiya area, occasionally resting at roadside inns to recover their mana. Finally, two days later, they left the coastal plain area controlled by the Haiya sect and entered the control of the Mountain Eagle sect.
Tianshu Mountains area.
The Tianshu Mountains are located more than 200 miles west of Haiya City.
The terrain here is steep and is shrouded in thick fog all year round. The fog in the mountains gathers and disperses in unpredictable ways. When the fog dissipates, the vision suddenly becomes clear. Suddenly a mist rushes in, and you can't see your fingers.
The main peak of Tianshu Mountain Range stands proudly above the layers of clouds and mist, like a hub connecting heaven and earth.
This is why the word "Tianshu" got its name.
The terrain of the Tianshu Mountains is rugged and cultivated land is scarce, making them unsuitable for ordinary people to live in. Although the continuous and huge mountain system covers an area more than ten times that of the Haiya Plain, the total population in the area is not even as large as the Haiya area.
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However, Tianshu City also has its own advantageous industries.
The vast sea of forests in the Tianshu Mountains provides a natural forestry and paper industry base.
In addition, because the huge canyon system of the Tianshu Mountains is covered with stone forests, lakes, rivers, towering ancient trees, abyss and ground cracks and other complex topography, large areas of the Tianshu Mountains have been designated by the Wuliang Sword Sect.
It is a nature reserve for monsters, where various low-level monsters often appear, and traces of golden elixir stage monsters can even be seen occasionally.
After the hunting ban ends every year, a large number of cultivators, holding hunting licenses jointly issued by the Wuliang Sword Sect and the Mountain Eagle Sect, go to the Tianshu Mountains Nature Reserve to kill monsters to obtain merit, and by the way, obtain the fruits produced by the monsters.
Training materials.
Forestry, papermaking, monster industry, and Xiuzhenfang City together constitute the economic pillar of Tianshu City.
Compared with Haiya City, a sea trade and commercial center that is deeply secularized and full of the smell of copper, Tianshu City, located at the foot of the main peak of the Tianshu Mountains and shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, is more in line with Yang Lu's impression of the traditional world of cultivation.
However, the fluttering immortal energy cannot be eaten as food. In the final analysis, the cultivation sects still have to compete for hard power.
Due to the very harsh geographical environment of the Tianshu Mountains, the Shanying Sect is far inferior to the Haiya Sect in terms of population and economic development level in the jurisdiction. In the competition with the Haiya Sect, they have been at an absolute disadvantage for a long time.
However, with the current leader of the Mountain Eagle Sect, Chen Ming, taking power, the strength gap between the two sects is rapidly narrowing.
Chen Ming is a top-grade wind spirit root cultivator. In order to achieve better achievements, a cultivation genius with this kind of spiritual root qualification will most likely join the Wuliang Sword Sect or the Golden Sword Sect, a famous sect in Zhongzhou. He will join the Haiya Sect or the Jindao Sect.
A local sect like the Mountain Eagle Sect is equivalent to voluntarily giving up the hope of becoming a great monk at the Nascent Soul stage.
Because the combined total of earth-level exercises of the Haiya Sect and the Mountain Eagle Sect may be less than five, it is very difficult for cultivators with high-grade spiritual root qualifications to find exercises that match the attributes of their own spiritual roots.
The reason why the Wuliang Sword Sect is powerful is that although the skills of the Wuliang Sword Sect are average in power, they do not require much spiritual qualifications. For example, Yang Lu practiced the "Immortal Heart Sutra - From Beginner to Mastery", and almost all spiritual skills
Any cultivator with basic qualifications can practice it.
Despite this, when Chen Ming attended the Immortal Ascension Conference, he made a surprising decision——
Become a member of the Mountain Eagle Sect!
The reason is very simple. Chen Ming's background is very similar to that of Murong. He is also an abandoned baby without a father or mother. He was taken in by a charity hall run by monks from the Mountain Eagle Sect since he was a child. He has strong feelings for the Mountain Eagle Sect.
He resolutely refused the invitation of Wuliang Sword Sect and became the direct disciple of Wu Ming, the previous head of Shanying Sect.
Naturally, the Mountain Eagle Sect attaches great importance to this high-grade spiritual root genius who took the initiative to join. From the beginning, Chen Ming has been trained as the next head of the Mountain Eagle Sect.
And Chen Ming lived up to expectations. He spent nearly 400 years and finally became a great monk at the sixth level of the Golden elixir. His cultivation level steadily suppressed Jiang Hua'an, the leader of the Haiya Sect who was at the third level of the Golden elixir. He even had a big advantage.
Opportunity to challenge the realm of the late Jindan.
Chen Ming is therefore known as the number one master in the southeastern coastal area of Zhongzhou, even Liu Hanxing is no match for him!
As the saying goes, heaven and earth are united in time. Not only did the Mountain Eagle Sect usher in a powerful leader, but as the Wuliang Sword Sect vigorously promoted the management concept of "law and order in Zhongzhou", the Mountain Eagle Sect's papermaking industry also ushered in a golden age.
According to the theory of Luo Shen, the management master of Wuliangjian Sect, the core of the legal system is procedural justice, and the core of procedural justice is to leave traces. The traditional cultivation sect's management model of high-level monks patting their heads to make decisions will lead to the vassal sect's top management
The power has been excessively expanded and can no longer meet the development needs of the Zhongzhou cultivation society.
In order to strengthen the control of the vassal sects of the Wuliang Sword Sect, the Wuliang Sword Sect requires all vassal sects to formulate rules and regulations for all important daily affairs. All major decisions must be made in accordance with legal procedures, and meeting minutes must be recorded and archived. If there is future local governance
If a problem arises, the files sealed by each vassal sect must be able to ensure that the Wuliang Sword Sect can look back for 200 years.
This is why every department in the Haiya City Lord's Mansion has such a thick departmental charter.
In addition to these heavy departmental regulations, the Haiya City Lord's Mansion has also built a huge archive storage room using constant temperature and humidity immortal arrays. The Wuliang Sword Sect can even access the minutes and minutes of the Haiya Sect's high-level meetings from hundreds of years ago.
Work ledger.
Although cultivators can also use magic weapons such as jade slips to record information conveniently and quickly, cultivators are busy with cultivation on weekdays and will certainly not personally take charge of the tedious daily management work. They will leave it to mortal clerks like Han Fulai, at most.
Given some directional guidance, this management model of "everything has rules and decisions must leave traces" has inevitably led to a significant increase in paper consumption throughout Zhongzhou, and the price of office paper has also skyrocketed.
As the largest papermaking industry base in southeastern Zhongzhou, Shanying Sect's profits have experienced explosive growth in recent years.
Chen Ming is also a sect leader with great talent and strategy. He has not been dazzled by the huge profits of the paper industry, but has clearly realized that the prosperity of Tianshu City's paper industry relies heavily on the policy support of the Wuliang Sword Sect.
Therefore, he spared no expense in bribing Cheng Shuying, the Supreme Elder of Wuliangjian Sect's Merit Hall, which made the Shanying Sect go from being a marginal vassal sect with "no one above" to becoming Cheng Shuying's most die-hard supporter.
Send a branch to protest.
Facts have proved that Chen Ming's judgment was correct.
While the "rule of law in Zhongzhou" has brought prosperity to Tianshu City's papermaking industry, it has also brought a heavy burden to other sects. Many vassal sects have proposed to Wuliang Sword Sect that they should simplify the vassal sect's service procedures and reduce the use of office paper.
consumption, do not engage in large-scale literary exchanges, which will increase the financial burden of local sects in vain.
However, Cheng Shuying, a major supporter of the Mountain Hawks, refuted all such doubts with high-sounding reasons such as "the laws of the ancestors cannot be abolished" and "the work that leaves traces is an important starting point for performance evaluation."
If Cheng Shuying had not stepped forward to block many open and secret arrows for the Mountain Eagle Faction, the Mountain Eagle Faction would not have been able to enjoy the huge profits from the papermaking industry over the years. Not only that, Cheng Shuying also used the excuse of endangering the security of Zhongzhou to push the Wuliang Sword Faction to promulgate
The import ban prohibits Huoyunzhou office paper from being imported into Zhongzhou, which further increases the monopoly profits of Zhongzhou's paper industry.
In return, the Mountain Eagle Sect has also become the most fierce pawn of the Merit Hall of the Wuliang Sword Sect.
In this competition for the leadership of the Zhongzhou Xiuzhen social security system reform, Cheng Shuying was already at a clear disadvantage. In order to help his backer reverse the situation, Chen Ming even took the initiative to shout out the slogan of piloting a new generation of Xiuzhen social security system for Gongdetang.
You must know that the new generation of cultivation social security system is the eye of the storm in the power struggle among the top leaders of the Wuliang Sword Sect. All the major local cultivation forces are afraid of avoiding it. Chen Ming forcibly takes the lead in the battle for Cheng Shuying, which is equivalent to pushing himself to the forefront of the storm and putting him at the center of the storm.
The entire Shanying sect was welded to death on the chariot of Gongdetang.
This approach can make the Mountain Eagle Faction the absolute direct descendant of Cheng Shuying, but it also allows the Mountain Eagle Faction to offend almost all neutral and hostile factions in Zhongzhou. It is hard to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Anyway, this is definitely a bold choice!
However, Yang Lu can also deeply understand Chen Ming's difficulties. Tianshu City does not have the unique conditions of Haiya City. The prosperity of the paper industry and Xiuzhenfang City are highly dependent on the policies of the Wuliang Sword Sect.
Today, the Wuliang Sword Sect feels that the Sea Cliff Sect is too powerful and needs the Mountain Eagle Sect to check and balance it, so it sets up Xiuzhenfang City in Tianshu City. Another day, it feels that the Mountain Eagle Sect is disobedient, and the Wuliang Sword Sect can re-establish the Fang City in Tianshu City.
other cities.
In fact, Ren Tianyuan, the Supreme Elder of the Wuliang Sword Sect who was born in Luanshi City, has been pushing to move the entire Xiuzhenfang City to Luanshi City, but he gave up only because of Cheng Shuying's strong opposition. In contrast, the Haiya Sect does not have this
For this type of problem, it is definitely impossible for the Wuliang Sword Sect to move away the coastal plains and ports in the Haiya area.
In the case of insufficient innate talents, if the leader Chen Ming wants to make a comeback, he can only take risks!
Compared with Jiang Hua'an, the low-key leader of the Haiya Sect, leader Chen Ming obviously has a very radical personality. Perhaps only people with this kind of personality will refuse the olive branch offered by the Wuliang Sword Sect and resolutely become a member of the Mountain Eagle Sect.
Take charge.
As soon as Yang Lu and Chen Ping arrived at the fairy-like Tianshu Mountains, they felt the inconveniences that the geographical environment brought to the lives of ordinary mortals. For example, the flat official road in Haiya City became rugged after entering the mountainous area.
It is said that ordinary mortals have difficulty in transportation, but even the spiritual energy consumption of cultivators like Yang Lu has increased sharply.
In the eyes of outsiders, Yang Lu should be practicing the low-level Xuan-level skills of the Golden Sword Sect, or even the yellow-level skills.
Although it is also the first level of Qi refining, no matter in terms of mana recovery speed or total spiritual energy reserves, ordinary low-level techniques cannot be compared with the supreme secret book "The Infinite Heart Sutra - From Beginner to Mastery".
Therefore, every once in a while, Chen Ping would take the initiative to stop and let him recover a little bit of his mana.
Yang Lu did not intend to expose the fact that he was practicing heaven-level skills, so he only used three-thirds of his strength to perform the divine movement technique, and followed Chen Ping unhurriedly, without rushing in front.
When resting, he would also pretend to absorb some spiritual energy. Although according to the power of the heaven-level skills, he could directly rush to Tianshu City without taking a breath.
After the two of them walked around and arrived at a small mortal town in the middle of the valley, Chen Ping took advantage of the opportunity to rest and introduced the situation here to Yang Lu: "This is the Tianshu Mountains Monster Nature Reserve.
The entrance is in, and it’s only about 30 miles away from Tianshu City. After your spiritual energy recovers, let’s head to Tianshu City in one go!”
In the Jiuzhou cultivation world, mortals can become cultivators through cultivation, and wild beasts can also become monster beasts through cultivation.
In fact, regarding the origin of monsters, there is currently a great debate among cultivation historians. The current mainstream theory in the academic circle is the exogenous theory proposed by the senior Bo Nanke more than 2,000 years ago.
As we all know, cultivation is a business with a strong Matthew effect.
If a sect occupies a large territory and has many resources, it will produce more high-quality spiritual roots, and the sect members' practice will naturally progress faster; sect members with good spiritual root qualifications and fast progress in practice will naturally seize more resources.
and more territory. The two reinforce each other, which will naturally produce the effect that the strong will always be strong.
Therefore, as opposing cultivating forces in the same ecological niche, monsters and cultivators find it difficult to achieve long-term equilibrium at the game level.
As long as one party occupies a certain advantage, this advantage will snowball and get bigger and bigger until the other party is completely wiped out. This is like the native Indians in the Earth's Stone Age. Their military advantage over the American beasts is not obvious, but it is
Such small advantages continued to accumulate, and eventually all large creatures in the Americas were exterminated by humans.
Based on this, Bo Nanke believed that monsters that were in the same ecological niche as cultivators but could not compete with cultivators would never have appeared from the beginning. Therefore, the relationship between monsters and cultivators should be similar to that between native Indians and large American giants.
In the relationship between beasts, one of the two must be born under the influence of external forces.
This theory is not without purpose.
Kyushu cultivators have long realized that the Kyushu world is not the only civilized world. There are many extraterrestrial worlds outside Kyushu, such as the legendary extraterrestrial battlefields and the demon world. Even within the Kyushu cultivation world, there are two kinds of
The humanoid races in the world are called "demon race" and "spiritual race" by cultivators respectively.
Since monsters can provide valuable cultivation materials, in order to prevent the disorderly expansion of human monks and the complete extinction of monsters, cultivators finally chose to establish a monster nature reserve to provide sustainable cultivation resources for the cultivation world.
The weather has just turned warm, and it has not yet reached the hunting period specified by the Wuliang Sword Sect. There are not many cultivators staying in this mortal town, but according to Chen Ping, when the hunting period begins, a large number of cultivators will gather here.
this.
The two did not stay too long in this deserted town. After taking a short rest, they set off again and arrived at Tianshu City, the final destination of their trip, before dark.
Tianshu City is built on the mountain, at the foot of the main peak of Tianshu Mountain Range. According to the ups and downs of the mountain, Tianshu City presents a layered structure, with two towering walls at the foot of the mountain and halfway up the mountain.
, the city is divided into two parts: the inner city and the outer city. The outer city of Tianshu City is the residential area for ordinary mortals, while the inner city from low to high is the business district, the wealthy district, and the Xiuzhenfang urban area, planning
Quite neat.
Tianshu City Overlord Mountain Eagle Sect is headquartered at Yingxiang Peak, the highest point of the main peak of Tianshu Mountain Range, overlooking the vast mountains like a king.
This magnificent mountain city has far exceeded the limit of the productivity of traditional agricultural society. From the mist-shrouded city itself, we can see the supreme power of cultivators to move mountains and reclaim seas!