Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan took the Lei Peng flying boat and headed southeast.
In a little more than a day, we arrived at the central and southern part of Tianquan Island.
At this time, there were already many palace-style buildings around Yujing Lake.
The clone Jia Qi sensed Wang Daoyuan's arrival and immediately brought the Ming family and his party to greet him.
Lei Peng's flying boat landed on a high white stone platform on the north bank of Yujing Lake. Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan got off the flying boat together.
Jia Qi immediately saluted and said: "See you, Your Majesty."
Others also followed suit and saluted: "See you, Lord."
Wang Daoyuan waved his hand: "No need to be polite, how is the situation here?"
Jia Qi replied: "The conference hall, executive hall, alchemy talisman array, mining and planting halls and other halls have all been completed.
Except for the Information Hall, everyone is already here.
It’s just that there is still a shortage of manpower. Except for the Intelligence Hall, which has completely taken over the Dark Dragon Organization, the other halls are just empty frames.”
There is nothing we can do about this. The total number of members of the Wang family in the Immortal Realm of the Seven Star Sea is less than 200,000, of which there are less than 1,000 monks.
Most of them are low-level monks, not even golden elixir monks.
But Golden Core cultivators are not even qualified to be a minor steward in the Seven Star Sea Immortal Realm.
It is really unreasonable to let these people manage the affairs of the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce.
If you want people to do everything in each place, you need to recruit more casual cultivators.
"Shortage of manpower is inevitable. We will wait for the Chamber of Commerce to build up its structure before recruiting casual cultivators.
After successive wars, the entire world of cultivating immortals is also in relatively short supply of resources.
As long as we can afford the resources, recruiting people will not be a problem."
Jia Qi nodded: "The initial preparations have been completed. Please let me know how to proceed next."
Wang Daoyuan said without hesitation: "Since the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce has been officially established, there must be some movement.
Post a message to each god-forming force, as well as the more powerful Nascent Soul force, and invite them to come to the banquet.
Especially the forces that have declared their affiliation to our Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce must come.
It just so happens that they can also be appointed to their positions in public."
Jia Qi cupped his hands and said, "Yes."
Then, he gave an order to Xuan Chen and Ming Jiao: "Xuan Chen, take the Lord on a tour.
Mingjiao, I leave it to you to send invitations to various forces.
Half a year later, our Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce will be officially established, and we invite all comrades to come and support us."
The two said yes, and Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan followed Xuan Chen and started sightseeing around Yujing Lake.
In Jade Mirror Lake, the water is crystal clear.
There are large and small peaks all around, and there are many streams in the mountains that flow into Yujing Lake.
Driven by the stream, patches of green aquatic plants in the water sway with the water.
Viewed from a high altitude, the entire Jade Mirror Lake looks like a piece of emerald with a clear bottom and floating green flowers.
Xuan Chen introduced with a smile: "This Jade Mirror Lake is known as the first lake in the Seven Star Sea. Although it is not too big, in terms of scenery, it is unmatched in the entire Seven Star Sea cultivation world."
Wang Daoyuan also nodded: "I have visited the hot spring lake of Hot Spring Island, and it is a rare beauty.
But compared with this Jade Mirror Lake, it is still far behind."
“The Hot Spring Lake and Guanhai Tower are indeed famous places with beautiful scenery.
Unfortunately, deep inside the hot spring island is the endless ice sea, and the Wen family is the only one in the family, so few monks can go there.
In terms of reputation, Hot Spring Island is much worse than Yujing Lake."
"Take me to see the Mirror Lake Secret Realm. I got some information about the Mirror Lake Secret Realm.
It is said that there are a large number of tea trees in this secret place.
There is also an ancient tea tree that is thousands of years old.
The tea trees used in Jinghu Spring Tea are all descendants of this ancient tea tree.
The reason why Jinghu Spring Tea can grow in the southeast corner of Jade Mirror Lake is because it is close to the secret realm of Jinghu Lake."
Xuan Chen was stunned, the secret realm of Jinghu Lake was extremely secretive.
Back then, the ancestors of the Ming family discovered the secret realm of Jinghu Lake by accident.
After that, the Dark Dragon Organization was established on this basis.
At that time, although the Yuling Sect had not yet unified Tianquan Island, it had already become a force.
The ancestor of the Ming family did not dare to be an enemy of the Yuling Sect, and the Ming Dragon organization has been developing secretly.
A force that doesn't even have Mahayana monks has been able to persist on Tianquan Island, the center of the Seven Stars Sea, for tens of thousands of years because of the secret realm of Jinghu Lake.
He didn't expect that Wang Daoyuan actually knew about the secret realm of Jinghu Lake.
"My lord is indeed well-informed. The secret realm of Jinghu Lake is indeed very suitable for planting Jinghu Spring Tea.
The Minglong Organization controls many black markets, and these Jinghu Spring Teas are also secretly sold on the black market.
When the Yuling Sect was at its strongest, it was also the time when the Minglong Organization was at its most difficult.
At that time, I just managed to survive by secretly selling Jinghu Chun.
Now the entire Minglong organization has become the intelligence palace under the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce.
Your Majesty, if you want to go and have a look, there will be no problem."
After that, a flying boat was launched, carrying Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan, and headed southeast.
Soon, Feizhou arrived at the location of the Minglong Organization's headquarters, which is also where the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce Intelligence Hall currently resides.
The three of them got off the flying boat and entered the underground space.
The scale of this place is huge, not comparable to that of Xihaifang City on Yinyuan Island.
There are also many monks here, most of whom are responsible for collecting and processing intelligence.
Xuan Chen led Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan all the way to the deepest part of the underground space.
After passing the levels, I came to a stone room.
This stone chamber is full of formations, and Wang Daoyuan is very familiar with these formations.
"The formation here is very clever. It should not be arranged by the Dark Dragon Organization."
Xuan Chen quickly replied: "Back to my lord, some of the formations here were created when the ancestors of the Ming family discovered the secret realm.
There are also some formations that were arranged by the president himself.
It's just that this formation requires the president's token to enter.
Please wait a moment, sir, and I will go to the president to ask for the token."
When Jia Qi was originally sent to prepare for the establishment of the headquarters of the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce, Wang Daoyuan gave him more than ten sets of formations.
Most of the formations in this stone chamber were made by the Demon Prison Clone.
Wang Daoyuan released his spiritual consciousness and checked it: "No need."
After that, he walked straight towards the formation.
The sixth-level high-grade formation was useless in front of him.
Zhou Luan also followed closely behind, and the two of them soon arrived in front of the light curtain at the entrance to the Jinghu Secret Realm.
Xuan Chen didn't dare to take risks. This was a sixth-level high-grade formation. If it was accidentally triggered, he wouldn't even have a chance to struggle.
"My Lord, there are no other formations in the secret realm, so my subordinates will not go there and cause trouble."
"I will stay in this secret realm for a while, and you can go and do other things."
After that, he walked into the light curtain with Zhou Luan.
After entering the secret realm, a pure wood spiritual energy came out.
Wang Daoyuan took a deep breath: "What pure wood spirit energy!"
"What's going on with this aura? Such a strong wood aura doesn't transform into a trace of fire aura?"
Zhou Luan is a fire attribute monk and cannot directly refine wood spiritual energy. Naturally, he doesn't like wood spiritual energy very much.
Wang Daoyuan smiled and said: "This is the second time I have seen this situation.
The last time I saw such an environment with only pure wood spiritual energy was when I was practicing Qi and cultivation.
At that time, I was chased by a pack of black cloud wolves.
By accident, I entered a secret realm.
That secret realm contained only pure wood spiritual energy, and I found the Xuantian Biling Peach and the Life Spirit Fire there.
This secret realm can suppress the transformation of the five elements, either because there are spiritual objects similar to life spirit fire, or there are extremely high-grade spiritual trees.
According to the classics of the Shenlian Sect, there is an ancient tea tree here that is unknown to many thousands of years old.
The abnormal spiritual energy problem here is probably caused by the ancient tea tree."
Afterwards, the two of them walked towards the middle of the secret realm.
This secret realm of Jinghu Lake is not big, that is, it has a radius of two to three hundred miles.
If not, this secret realm would not have fallen into the hands of the Dark Dragon Organization.
Along the way, you can see tea trees, big or small, everywhere.
If the Jinghu Spring Tea produced in this secret place were sold openly, it would probably produce tens of thousands of jins a year.
Of course, if sold like this, Jinghu Chun would be worthless.
Soon, the two came to the middle of the secret realm.
There is a very thick tea tree here. This tea tree is not very tall, just over three feet.
But the trunk of the tree is so thick that it is difficult for four big men to hug it.
The entire big tree is constantly exuding a rich wood spiritual energy, and there is also a refreshing fragrance mixed in with it.
Zhou Luan took a greedy breath: "The aroma of this ancient tea is much stronger than the few Jinghu Spring Tea plants you planted."
Wang Daoyuan nodded: "That's incomparable. The few tea trees I have are descendants of this ancient tea tree for many generations.
According to the records in the Shenlian Sect’s classics, when the Shenlian Sect monks first discovered this secret realm, this tea tree was here.
Moreover, the tea tree recorded in the classics is not much different from what it is now.
This tea tree may have existed much longer than the Shenlian Sect.
This ancient tea tree should be the core of this secret realm."
Zhou Luan was stunned: "I have also read many classics. If the core of the secret realm is a spiritual plant, most of it is a sacred tree born from heaven and earth.
Although this ancient tea tree is clever, it shouldn't be a sacred tree, right?"
"Of course this tea tree is not a sacred tree, it is just a seventh-level spiritual plant at most.
If it is really a sacred tree, then the secret realm of Mirror Lake is much bigger than that.
Eighty percent of the time, this secret realm was transformed by ancient monks, using this tea tree to replace the original core of the secret realm, just like the Five Elements Secret Realm.
Judging from the appearance of this tea tree, it is estimated that the core of the secret realm was replaced hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Moreover, you seem to underestimate this tea tree."
Zhou Luan was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Is this tea tree really a sacred tree?"
Wang Daoyuan shook his head and said: "That's not true. When the Shenlian Sect discovered this tea tree, it was only a seventh-level mid-grade spiritual plant.
At this level, it is useful for ordinary Mahayana monks, but of no use to great powers.
Compared with the sacred tree, it is still far behind.
You think so? Senior Shu."
Zhou Luan quickly retreated, his whole body wrapped in red flames, ready to take action at any time.
"You mean, this tree has a spirit?"
"Of course there is a spirit. As long as it becomes a spirit, no matter how well it is hidden, it cannot be hidden from my detection.
Senior Shu, the two of us are only in the late stages of becoming gods.
With your strength, do you still need to be so afraid of me?
There is no harm in telling your identity, junior.
It's just that the spiritual energy of the Seven Star Sea Immortal Realm is declining now, and there is no seventh-level spiritual vein.
I don't have the means to break through to the Mahayana realm, so I want to borrow some seventh-level spiritual power from you.
If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent."
After saying that, he took out his soul-sealing sword and stabbed it towards the trunk of the ancient tea tree.
A tree branch swept over and caught Wang Daoyuan's sword.
However, in this fight, Wang Daoyuan also had a general understanding of Laoshu's strength.
Strong, but not invincible.
"Senior Shu is indeed a good tactic. This Soul-Sealing Sword was made by the joint efforts of many great masters.
I tried my best, but you blocked me.
Since he took action, he must be wise.
Stop pretending to be dead and come out and have a chat."
Before he finished speaking, an old man walked out of the ancient tea tree.
The old man was wearing a brown robe, but his hair was green.
"You, a junior, are really nothing.
I have nothing to do with the world, I am staying here honestly, and I have not offended you, so why bother pushing me?"
Wang Daoyuan sneered: "How can we allow others to snore under the couch?
Now this secret realm has become my territory.
Do you think I can rest assured that an ancient tree that may have the combat power of a Mahayana monk is guarding this secret realm?"
The old man smiled and said: "You know that I may have Mahayana fighting power, but you dare to come to me for trouble. The son of luck is really arrogant and domineering."
"Senior is really knowledgeable. He stays in this secret realm, but he knows that I am the son of luck.
I’m afraid what I said before is not true, right?”
"I have lived for hundreds of thousands of years, how can I still lie to a little kid like you?
As for the children of luck, I have seen many of them.
As you said before, I am not a sacred tree, nor was I born in this secret realm.
Back then, I grew up on the southeastern border of the Qianyuan Continent. I lived there for many years and experienced three great catastrophes.
During those three great tribulations, I saw a total of more than thirty children of destiny.
Whether you are a child of luck or not, I can detect it the moment you enter this secret realm."
Wang Daoyuan had no doubts about his remarks.
The birth of every natural spirit requires extremely strong luck.
Therefore, the spirit of nature is very sensitive to luck, far superior to humans and monsters.
The strength of his luck is extremely rare among the children of luck.
It makes sense that this old tree can sense it.
"Even if what senior says is right, I don't dare to leave senior here.
Otherwise, please give me some seventh-level spiritual power.
When I break through the Mahayana realm and train a few more Mahayana monks, I won’t have to worry about you."
The old man snorted coldly: "I don't want to fight with you because you are the son of fate.
If you continue to be stubborn, don’t blame me for being ruthless."
Wang Daoyuan waved the soul-sealing sword in his hand, and five five-color sword shadows appeared.
The sword shadow grew rapidly, and countless rays of spiritual light flew out from the sword shadow, forming a huge cage that covered an area of hundreds of miles.
"Junior has practiced a magic, but unfortunately no one can accompany me to fight.
It just so happens that senior is very powerful, so it would be perfect for me to fight with him."
The old man looked at the Five Elements Sword Domain: "This method is a bit interesting, it can actually mobilize a trace of space power."