After more than two months of non-stop flight, Xu Wen and the two had traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, leaving Yuanmen far behind.
As the number of monks active in the mountains continued to increase, Xu Wen knew that they were gradually approaching Jietian City.
The Hengduan Mountains are so vast. Although there are immortal cities that are closer to each other, they are not something that Qi Refining Monks can cross.
After flying for another ten days, a towering mountain peak slowly appeared in front of the person.
The mountain peak is huge and very high, with dense forests below, and the upper part goes straight into the clouds. From time to time, monks come in and out, flying up and down.
As soon as we got closer, we found that starting from the middle of the mountain, there were many courtyards, but they were quite messy and it looked like they were built by themselves.
The higher you go up, the more and more the houses become more orderly, until finally a towering city wall encircles the entire mountain.
In each of the eight corners of the city wall, there is a majestic stone elephant giant 100 meters high, holding different weapons in each hand, commanding power from all directions.
The top part of the mountain is shrouded by white clouds that never disperse all year round. It is obviously the core of the entire mountain city and is protected by formations.
This is the prestigious Jietian City under the rule of Bazhou Mountain, guarding a land with a radius of tens of thousands of miles.
Instead of going straight into the inner city, the two of them went to the outer city to find an inn to stay, and then they split into two groups and began to inquire about the news.
Three days later, the two met again and summarized the information they received, and had a general understanding of the characteristics of Jietian City.
Jie Tian City is much larger than Qing Maple City, with several times the area and population, and the way Bazhou Mountain controls this place is also very different from Qing Maple City.
The rules of Qingfeng City are strict, even harsh. In the era of brave virtue, foundation-building casual cultivators are not even allowed to appear at all.
Once there are foundation-building casual cultivators who want to live in Qingfeng City permanently, they must either join the Yuanmen or be expelled.
Jie Tian City is much more relaxed. The outer city basically doesn't care. The inner city only needs to register, hand in a spirit stone and receive a token.
There are no other restrictions except that when Jietian City encounters a huge crisis, all monks may be forcibly recruited.
Moreover, Jietian City is not only full of spiritual energy in the inner city, but also has many caves for rent in the outer city, including second-level caves, which are very suitable for foundation-building casual cultivators who like freedom and pay attention to privacy.
In addition to building caves in advance at the spiritual energy nodes, a few streets were also roughly planned and many ordinary houses were built for rent.
Comparing the two, Qingfeng City is orderly, but inevitably lifeless. It is a bit chaotic, but full of vitality.
For Xu Wen and Zuo Mingyue now, Jietian City is undoubtedly a better place.
After discussing for a long time, the two decided to open a grocery store in Jietian City, mainly selling magic weapons, spiritual talismans and spiritual rice.
For foundation-building monks, the resources needed for cultivation are not necessary for Qi refining. Sharing what is available is the only way.
When he was practicing in Anguo, even if he had second-level spiritual veins, he was still struggling to practice. This was the reason why he had to go out several times.
Even if Xu Wen had the Heavenly Eye and Treasure Light Technique, he couldn't conquer the world. He couldn't hang out in the black market and ghost market every day.
Without the support of a big force, it is necessary to start a business, and it is for this reason that the various arts of cultivation were born.
Fortunately, after these years of continuous wars, Xu Wen had a lot of gains that he had not made any use of, including many second-level products, which happened to be the main products of the store in the early stage.
Zuo Mingyue happens to have some talent in refining weapons. Although she has not advanced to the second level, she is already proficient in refining first-level mid-level magic weapons.
Occasionally, first-level high-quality magic weapons can be refined, which can be used as a long-term supply source.
As for the spiritual talismans and spiritual rice, of course Xu Wen will provide them.
They also have a long-term plan, which is to take advantage of the differences in products and prices between Qingfeng City and Jietian City, and use their contacts in the two places to conduct sales in the two places.
However, due to the distance, this can only be a plan for the time being, and there is still a long way to go before it can be implemented in practice.
On the surface, this store will only be run by Zuo Mingyue. Xu Wen is the manager of the city, so naturally it is not easy for him to run the store himself.
Zuo Mingyue is a foundation-building monk herself, and with Xu Wen secretly taking care of it, there will definitely be no problems in running the store.
Of course, Zuo Mingyue will only appear in person at the beginning, and after that, someone will still be found to handle the specific operations of the store.
After all, the two of them are foundation-building monks who focus on cultivation. They can only grasp the general direction of the store's operation and come forward when needed.
After roughly discussing the store matters, the two of them split into two groups. Zuo Mingyue looked for stores and recruited people, while Xu Wen went to the city lord's palace in the inner city.
When I arrived at the city lord's mansion, I reported my name and soon heard a loud laugh. Nie Laojiu strode out and laughed loudly from afar:
"Brother Xu, I've been looking forward to seeing you!"
Xu Wen was also very happy to see his old friend and stepped forward to greet him:
"Brother Nie, nice to meet you, why are you here?"
"Haha, there are not enough manpower. I will temporarily take over the position of City Lord of Tiancheng. When someone from the sect is sent to pick him up, I will go to the front line!"
Nie Laojiu is very enthusiastic. The combination of the familiarity of wandering around the ghost market and the calmness of being in a high position makes people feel very friendly:
"Those messy things these days have annoyed me to death. Just come and I can get rid of the business."
Under normal circumstances, Jietian City requires five foundation-building city lords. One hopeless old monk is in charge of all affairs, two are responsible for defense, and two are responsible for a mineral deposit outside the city.
Now there are only two people, so naturally they are very busy.
Taking Xu Wen's arm, Nie Laojiu personally welcomed him into the door.
After ordering someone to serve the spirit tea, Nie Laojiu raised his head in the air, and a detailed and detailed map slowly unfolded. He began to introduce Xu Wen to the city of Jietian City.
There are many mineral deposits near Jietian City. This city was originally built to guard these mineral deposits. It took hundreds of years to slowly develop into the fairy city it is now.
There are many people in Jietian City, and there is a lot of output nearby, so the east area of the city has formed an urban area.
With more shops, there will naturally be a lot of things involving money, deception, abduction, forced buying and selling, and shoddy goods.
Because of the complicated flow of people, even robbery occurred several times.
Xu Wen is mainly responsible for handling such special matters, and occasionally helps Bazhoushan's shop Zhenbao Pavilion in Fangshi appraise some special products, which are equivalent to Fangshi's offerings.
As for the specific management of Fangshi, after all, he is not a disciple of Bazhou Mountain and cannot interfere.
There is no need to be there every day. There are two worshipers in Fangshi who take turns to be on duty. If you have to go out for something, let the other person take over temporarily and return them afterwards.
The reward is two thousand spiritual stones a month. If the cave provided by Tiancheng is not used, there will be a cave subsidy of one thousand.
Xu Wen has five-color spiritual vein stones, and he also needs to plant spiritual rice and other spiritual plants. Naturally, he does not need the cave provided by Jietian City, and he has an additional thousand spiritual stones in his account.
For monks in the middle stage of foundation building, about a thousand spiritual stones a month can basically meet the needs of daily practice.
This treatment is indeed as Chu Yin said, not much different from the disciples of Bazhou Mountain.
After introducing these, Nie Laojiu personally took Xu Wen to Fangshi and met Cui Changxing, another Fangshi enshrined.
Cui Changxing is a disciple of Bazhou Mountain. He is more than 200 years old and qualified for foundation building. However, his cultivation is only in the middle stage of foundation building. He has basically stopped the path. He is very kind.
He was very happy to see someone who could be rotated. As soon as Nie Laojiu left, he pulled Xu Wen to chat, hoping that Xu Wen could temporarily guard Fangshi for three months. He had some personal matters to deal with.
Xu Wen wanted to work with Zuo Mingyue to support the foundation of the shop. Xu Wen had not planned to go out during this period, so he readily agreed and asked him if there was a spacious and quiet cave he could rent.
Monks pay great attention to privacy. Even though Xu Wen and Zuo Mingyue are close brothers, they find their respective residences separately.
“Spacious and quiet?”
Cui Changxing frowned and said:
"Every inch of land in the inner city is precious, and the caves are all custom-made. There must be no such place. We can only look for it in the outer city..."
After thinking for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said:
"I remembered that there is a small waterfall courtyard in the north of the city, called Fei Waterfall Yazhu. The scenery is very good, and it definitely meets your requirements. However, the aura is not strong enough, and it can only barely reach the level of first-order high-grade."
"The juniors in the Qi Refining realm can't afford the rent, and the foundation-building monks don't like it, so it's been empty until now..."
Say goodbye to Cui Changxing and find a place specially rented in Dongfu.
Knowing that Xu Wen was a newcomer to Fang City and wanted to rent the cave that had been neglected for a long time, a group of Qi Refining disciples immediately completed all the procedures for Xu Wen with great enthusiasm.
Going north out of the city and going down a distance, the population gradually becomes sparse, and the aura here is obviously lower than in other places.
For monks who put cultivation as their first priority, the concentration of spiritual energy is the first consideration. A smaller residence is acceptable, but a low concentration of spiritual energy is unacceptable.
Soon, a small valley appeared in front of Xu Wen. With a wave of the token, the formation covering the residence was released, and he strode in.
This is a mountain col with a radius of about a hundred feet. This alone is better than many second-level caves.
There is a small waterfall in the back mountain sloping down, making a rumbling sound.
The creek formed by the waterfall divided the valley into two. A house was built on one side and some flowers and plants were planted randomly, while some spiritual fields were opened on the other side.
However, no one has taken care of it for a long time, and the spiritual field has become deserted and overgrown with weeds.
I flew up to the valley and looked around. There were no other caves above, and with the formation covering it, privacy was not a problem.
Looking at this quiet valley, Xu Wen fell in love with it at first sight.
After checking to make sure there were no flaws, Xu Wen turned on the residence formation to the maximum and set up a formation inside to cover up any movement.
Then he took out the five-color spirit vein stone and threw it into the deep pool under the waterfall.
When the magic power is activated, with the crashing sound of the waterfall and the cover of the formation, almost no one can sense the movement of the spiritual veins unfolding.
Three days later, the spiritual veins were deployed, and the concentration of spiritual energy that was originally a first-level high-grade immediately increased to a second-order mid-grade.
Because it has spiritual veins, the effect of the five-color spiritual vein stone has been maximized this time, and it is only a little short of the spiritual energy concentration to reach the second-level high-grade level.
(End of chapter)
