Thousands of miles down from the plain area where the two sides of Shiwanda Mountain face each other, there is a large Xiuzhenfang City. This is the largest cultivation city in the south. There is an endless stream of monks coming and going every day, making it very lively.
The name of the city is Qingliufang City. Originally, the south of Canglan Continent was a very closed area, separated by hundreds of thousands of mountains, which made the development of the south far behind other directions. Therefore, for millions of years, the South has been a hotbed of native family power.
It wasn't until ten thousand years ago that Jian Cangsheng came to the south and felt the rich resources in the south, so he founded the Famous Sword Academy.
The establishment of the Famous Sword Academy brought a powerful impact to the monastic families in the south. It not only brought the advanced monastic system in the central region of Canglan Continent, but also disrupted the family power in the south.
Cultivating the Tao is essentially going against nature, and it requires huge resources. Therefore, its essence is a struggle for resources and interests. Back then, before Jian Cangsheng came to the future, there were at least tens of thousands of monastic families, large and small, in the south.
They used marriages, alliances and other means to weave a huge web of interests. At this time, the Mingjian Academy was founded. The powerful martial arts, swordsmanship, spells, martial arts, etc. all gave a strong impact to the monks of the male family. They all yearned to learn from the Famous Sword Academy.
But as the saying goes, there is no such thing as a free lunch. You want to come and learn Taoism. It just so happens that the establishment of the Mingjian Academy requires a huge number of disciples and resources. Everyone gets what they need, so use these in exchange!
Such a transaction, mutually beneficial to both parties, could have continued happily. But Jian Cangsheng was playing a trick. While recruiting disciples in the south, he also sent invitations to several small families he had good friends with in the central area.
These families are in the central area and are just small, unpopular families. But when they arrived in the south, they suddenly became an upper-middle-class family.
The long-term isolation has caused the man's monastic system to lag far behind. The corresponding monastic secrets are very scarce. Their swordsmanship, spells and martial arts are very rough, and they are far from the opponents of the monks in the central area.
Moreover, those southern monks have strong family backgrounds, and the interest entanglements between families are very complicated. Jian Cangsheng has seen this clearly a long time ago, and he has made a rule that as long as the disciples with a strong family background can only become outer disciples, the cultivation methods they can learn are very limited.
As for the elite strength of the Famous Sword Academy, it is composed of several small families in the central area and some orphans with no family background in the south. They receive training in the most complete monastic system and have the best exercises, swordsmanship, spells, and martial arts.
As a result, the gap between the two has arisen. The famous sword academy and the small families from the central area are getting stronger and stronger. Although the families in the south have improved to a certain extent, the gap with the former is getting bigger and bigger. Come bigger.
Resources were transferred to the Famous Sword Academy, but the disciples' combat power did not improve much. Gradually, the Southern family finally discovered something fishy. They became angry and began to unite, deciding to unite to fight against external forces.
Up to this point, the first generation master had spent almost all his life in killing. He led several families who went south and started a hundred-year war with tens of thousands of families in the south.
On the battlefield of blood and fire, the elite disciples of the Famous Sword Academy, whose knowledge was much higher than that of the cultivating families in the south, gained good experience, became stronger and stronger, and cultivated more and more geniuses. In the end, with overwhelming strength, they overwhelmingly defeated tens of thousands of families in the south.
That is to say, the interest groups were the Mingjian Academy and several small families in the south. Those small families suddenly became the superpowers in the south. However, as a result, the Mingjian Academy and those families had another conflict of interests.
Until three generations
The president of the academy succeeded him, with a learned background, excellent talent, strong understanding, and an official career in the secular world in his early years. With his clever skills, he united the few remaining families in the south, and also won over several powerful families going south to form a chain of interests.
Jian Cangsheng was devoted to swordsmanship, but was not good at spells and martial arts. However, through these means, the third generation master of the academy managed to get some families who were good at spells and martial arts to attach themselves to the Famous Sword Academy. Coupled with his own luck, the inheritance of the Famous Sword Academy became even stronger.
After thousands of years, it was renamed Sword Academy and finally became the largest monastic force in the south, completely sweeping the local family forces in the south into the dust of history. In the end, only the four major families remained.
As for the three major sects, they were established after the Mingjian Academy became the dominant one, opened up the exchanges between the south and the central government, and then gathered some local monk groups in the south. Their background is far inferior to that of the Mingjian Academy, and even the four major families have a little bit of it. Not as good as.
It's just that the world has changed, and times have moved on. After the disappearance of the third generation master, the Famous Sword Academy never produced any outstanding figures. Gradually, the four major families and the three major sects became stronger. Nowadays, there is another conflict of interests between forces.
The Cheng family is one of the only remaining local cultivation families in the south for tens of thousands of years. The other one is the Ouyang family. As for the Xiao family and the Liu family, they were both families who later moved south from the central area. Therefore, the Cheng family has a history that goes back even further than the Famous Sword Academy.
For the Cheng family, except for the Ouyang family, all other forces are outsiders. Therefore, the status of these two families among the local monks in the south is much higher than other cultivation forces.
Qingliufang City was founded by the Cheng family and attracted the vast majority of monks from the south. It can be said that the entire city is the source of Cheng family's Taoist resources. Therefore, the Cheng family attaches great importance to Qingliufang City and dispatches tens of thousands of family monks to manage it, with the number of direct descendants reaching 5,000.
This is already one-fifth of the strength of the Cheng family. The total number of direct descendants in the family is less than 30,000.
In the past few decades, the power of the Cheng family has become increasingly powerful, not only because the Cheng family has a god-forming ancestor. In the Famous Sword Academy, there is also a direct disciple of the contemporary master of the academy. His cultivation has reached the limit of the peak of Nascent Soul, and he can break through to become a god at any time.
At that time, the third generation of the academy masters saw the Cheng family's magic inheritance and thought of joining forces. Although the southern region is rich in resources, the corresponding Alchemy and Qi Tao talents are very scarce. This is also a factor that restricts the vigorous development of southern forces.
Without a good sword, it would be difficult for the Cheng family to increase their power, so they could only find other ways to study spells. Therefore, if we want to say which side has the strongest magic power in the south, it is definitely not the Famous Sword Academy, but the Cheng family.
Therefore, in the Wuxiang Sword Sect back then, Liu Qingyan could not give any face to the Liu family, but she had to worry about the Cheng family.
In the most prosperous middle street of Qingliufang City, there is a shop with an extremely large area. There is the Cheng family's largest resource gathering station, Qingliu Dan Shop.
Thousands of years of development have gradually deepened the Cheng family's heritage, and more and more monks are attached to the family. In view of his own shortcomings, the ancestor of the Cheng family selected a group of disciples who were interested in elixirs, bought elixir recipes from everywhere, and provided a large amount of herbal resources to create a master of elixirs.
Among the southern monks, except for the famous sword academy which has external channels, most of them buy elixirs from Qingliu Alchemy Shop, which generates hundreds of millions in profits every month.
When Cheng Ling dealt with the Chen family in Luoye City, Cheng Yanbing was able to easily produce so many materials and elixirs. This was inseparable from the fact that the Cheng family used alchemy as its main means of profit!
Early this morning, the early morning sun shone slantingly, giving Qingliufang City a
A little bit of anger. Soon, the number of monks in the city began to increase, and in less than half an hour, the sounds of selling and noise started one by one.
At this time, in the Qingliu Pill Shop in Fang City, a young man of about twenty years old, wearing a robe, was carefully looking at the pills on the counter. This young man is none other than Cheng Ling!
Yesterday evening, the three of them came to Qingliufang City. In order to hide their identities, the three of them made some disguises, and entered the city separately, and stayed at the "Zuiyuexuan" inn on Zhong Street.
They had already agreed not to take any action. The two women waited quietly in the inn, and Cheng Ling went to the Danpu to find out the details of the Cheng family. After all, they have a high reputation in the academy. If they meet a Cheng family kid they know, their secret will be revealed immediately.
As for Cheng Ling, there are far fewer people he knows. After some changes, unless he is a very familiar person, he will not be recognized at all. It is the best choice for him to come to understand the situation.
At this time, he was looking at the pills on the counter. I saw that among them there were Ningbi Pill, Da Huan Pill, and Hunyuan Pill. It was similar to the elixirs sold in the academy. He asked the clerk at the elixir shop to take one. After looking at it for a few times, he found that the quality of the elixirs was also similar.
He secretly murmured in his heart, looking at the fineness and quality of this elixir, it was exactly the same as the one in the academy. Are all the elixirs in the academy provided by the Cheng family? This is very bad, it is equivalent to having someone pinch your pulse.
No wonder the Fa Dao Yuan knew that there were many children of the Cheng family, and unlike the Sword Dao Yuan and the Martial Arts Yuan, there were no restrictions on the number of children in the family. Moreover, relying on the resources of the Cheng family, and now being hostile to the Cheng family's forces, is really a mess!
"Excuse me, what do you need?" The clerk at the alchemy shop saw that Cheng Ling had been looking at Cheng Ling for a long time, just holding the elixir in a daze. He couldn't bear it anymore and asked.
"Do you have any elixirs for body refining here? Prescriptions are also fine. As long as you are willing to sell them, you can give them at any price!" Cheng Ling really looked down upon these elixirs. For him, as long as he had the materials, he could do it himself. For refining, what is missing now is the elixir recipe.
As for the body-refining elixir, the Dragon Spirit Pill has very little effect, and the increase in body-tempering ointment is not large. If there are other body-refining elixirs, he would not mind buying some.
The clerk was startled and said: "We have Dragon Spirit Pill and Divine Power Pill for body refining pills. As for the pill recipe, I'm sorry, the pill shop doesn't sell it."
Cheng Ling nodded. He also knew that ordinary alchemy shops would never sell alchemy prescriptions. That would be like killing the goose to retrieve the eggs, giving up all the ability to make a living.
"How to sell the magic pill?"
"Each divine power pill can increase a monk's strength by ten thousand kilograms. You can eat up to five pills. The price is very high. Are you sure you want to buy it?"
"Then I want five! Tell me, what's the price?"
"One million mid-grade spiritual stones! If you want five, you can get a 10% discount!"
Cheng Ling nodded calmly and asked, "Can I buy it with low-grade spiritual stones?"
"If you use low-grade spiritual stones, you won't be able to get a discount!"
"It doesn't matter, then give me five. Here are 50 million spiritual stones. Do you have any alchemy materials here? Show me."
The clerk took Cheng Ling's storage ring, put five elixirs in the jade bottle, gave them to Cheng Ling, and then said, "Okay, sir, please come this way!"
This time, his attitude was much more enthusiastic. He sold 50 million for the first time. Although it was a low-grade spiritual stone, the transaction volume was quite large. He could at least get a commission of 500,000 medium-grade spiritual stones.
Seeing that the other party was preparing to purchase materials, he became even more attentive and guided Cheng Ling all the way to the counter where the materials were sold.
