Soon, Sun Haoran thought about it carefully and roughly understood what the situation was.
It seems that the Swallowing Storm is not only an obstacle that prevents people in this space from leaving here and going to the outside world, because it itself is the power of the Sky-Swallowing Demon Kun, so some of it often circulates around the body.
Therefore, no matter where the creature lives in the belly of the Devouring Demon Kun, even if it does not want to explore and seek opportunities in the Devouring Storm, it will have to face the invasion of the Devouring Storm.
In order to avoid too many casualties, the humans who have lived here for a long time have adopted the rules just mentioned by Wang Wei. The strong resist the devouring storm and protect the weak. In contrast, they can get resources first. This way of survival is similar to the way the lion king protects the lions and then has priority to eat. Although it is primitive, it is the most useful.
After watching and listening to his explanation, Sun Haoran in front of him looked thoughtful and remained silent for a long time. Wang Wei couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Could it be that he accidentally said something wrong that made the immortal angry? That's not right... He just told the information he knew.
Just when he was confused, Sun Haoran finally spoke: "There is one more thing I am confused about. I don't know if Captain Wang can answer it."
"Is there anything you still don't understand about the Immortal? Just ask, and I will try my best to answer!" Wang Wei immediately understood that it was not his problem, but that the Immortal in front of him had something to listen to. I still haven’t figured it out after receiving the information.
"I think since living on those islands can get protection from the strong, it's impossible to get protection without paying anything, right? In addition to not having the right to prioritize the use of resources, do the people living there also have the right to use resources first? Do I need to pay some fees?"
"Uh... of course." Wang Wei explained with some doubts after hearing this, "Shangxian, you must not have lived in this area before, right? It is normal to not know this, and you want to live on these islands protected by strong people. Naturally, you need to pay a certain fee. It is best to use the remains of spirit stones that are rich in spiritual power and can be used to extract spiritual power for cultivation. However, the remains of spirit stones are too precious and generally no one will use them as currency. . Most people pay various materials for refining weapons or alchemy. Of course... besides paying fees, there is another way to live there for free."
"What method?" Sun Haoran immediately became interested when he heard this. He was penniless now. He never thought that one day he would be unable to live without money. This would happen to him.
Although he is powerful and not afraid of the so-called strongest people on the island, he can't use force everywhere, right? He kills every island he goes to. He is not a murderer, and he goes to the places where immortal cultivators gather just to learn all the information about the world in the belly of Demon Kun from these people. If he kills all the people, he still understands What the hell.
Of course, the most important thing is that he does not have the support of spiritual power and divine power now. He can only rely on physical strength to fight. Once he encounters monks who are above the golden elixir realm and have spiritual power left in their body, it will be extremely troublesome to deal with it. If the opponent can fly a little bit, he will be helpless.
After thinking about it, it would be better to keep a low profile.
"Speaking of this, this is what our caravan wants to entrust to the Immortal." Wang Wei said with cupped hands.
"Huh?" Sun Haoran looked confused.
Wang Wei continued to explain: "Actually, it's not free, but the cost is borne by the caravan..."
After Wang Wei's explanation, Sun Haoran learned that all caravans like this that traveled between various islands were entrusted by the monks of each island. While doing business, they were also responsible for transporting various resources.
After all, the cultivators are busy cultivating, and retreat is usually done in years. There is no time to waste time between islands just to transport goods, so this kind of tedious matter is naturally left to mortals and some with low cultivation. people.
The mortals in the caravan and the monks with low cultivation levels who are unable to devour the storm to obtain refining materials and cultivation resources can rely on the remuneration from transportation to pay for the cost of living on the island.
As for the so-called free living method, these expenses are borne by caravans like them.
And he lives on the island as an invited guest.
In other words, Wang Wei in front of him seemed to want to invite Sun Haoran to be the guest of their caravan.
"I'm used to being free, and I don't like to be restricted by anything."
In response, Sun Haoran naturally refused without hesitation.
The girls of Qingshui Palace: Ah, yes, yes.
Sun Haoran said this is really different.
Staying with a group of young and beautiful girls, staying with a group of sailors who smell fishy all day long, no, staying here does not smell fishy but smells rotten. Anyway, staying with girls and sailors like Staying together, the feeling is naturally completely different. Just because these rough guys are wearing sailor uniforms, you can't just assume they are girls, right?
"No, no, no...Shangxian, you have misunderstood. Although it is said that you are a guest on the surface, in fact, there is only one thing we need your help with. It is a temporary favor. Please name us here, and then We will help you bear the cost of living on the island." Seeing that Sun Haoran wanted to refuse, Wang Wei quickly explained.
In fact, as long as Sun Haoran saved the lives of everyone on their boat, they had reason to cover all the other party's expenses on the island.
The reason for making such a request is that there is really no other way.
The job of transporting supplies to various islands is not an easy job to get, and the competition between the various caravans is fierce.
The qualifying competition, which is held every five years, is about to begin.
In every competition, each caravan must send the strongest person in its caravan to compete in the ring. After all, sailing on such dangerous seas, if you want to protect the ships and supplies, you naturally rely on the strength of the escort. , if a caravan is composed entirely of mortals and there is not even a monk with enough strength, then who dares to trust them to transport supplies?
Therefore, such qualifying competitions are extremely fierce every year, and many caravans even spend a lot of money to temporarily hire foreign aid to participate.
For example, Wang Wei now has such a calculation.
Sun Haoran's cultivation is obvious to all. As long as the other party is willing to take action, the qualifications for the next five years will naturally be within reach.
In order to ensure that everyone on the ship had food to eat, Wang Wei had to plead with Sun Haoran like this. Of course, Sun Haoran's work was not in vain. He promised that as long as he helped get the qualification, 40% of their caravan's profits would be made in the next five years. Willing to hand it over to Sun Haoran.
Forty percent profit is already a very extreme figure, and Wang Wei has spent a lot of money this time.
After understanding the situation clearly, Sun Haoran still did not agree immediately.
Of course, he also knew that he had saved the life of this caravan member. It was natural for him to bear the living expenses, but helping to participate in the qualification battle and 40% of the profit were something later. In fact, he could not answer the question. It’s okay to agree.
"Tell me first what's in your profits, right? If it's alchemy materials or something, I can't use them."
Substances containing spiritual power are rare in this world where spiritual power is scarce. A small caravan will definitely not get such a reward. After thinking about it, he seems to only have all kinds of materials needed for mortal survival as well as refining weapons and elixirs. Materials and stuff like that.
Naturally, Sun Haoran has no use for mortal things. He also knows nothing about alchemy. Looking at the weapon refining materials, he seems to be of some use. After all, it is necessary to restore spiritual power to swallow the storm. At that time, a cloud shuttle will be needed. With this Even if he doesn't know how to refine the materials himself, he can still ask someone to help him refine them on the island.
"Well... naturally, we will see what you need from Shangxian, and we will give you priority from the rewards we get." Wang Wei replied with some embarrassment, "But there are probably no such things as spiritual stones, very few There will be people on the island who will use this precious material as a reward. Unless it is a powerful caravan that sails through dangerous places, small caravans like ours generally do not get such rewards."
"So what kind of cultivation do the contestants in this so-called "Qualification Competition" usually have? Sun Haoran asked after hearing this.
"Um... Theoretically speaking, most of the contestants are monks in the Qi Refining Stage or Foundation Establishment Stage, but because there are unwritten rules that can hire foreign aid,
Due to the relationship, some powerful trading houses will spend a lot of money to hire monks at the golden elixir stage. "Wang Wei answered truthfully.
"Golden elixir stage..." Sun Haoran looked speechless, "The golden elixir stage monks who would accept this kind of business are probably monks who are not doing well, right?"
In the outside world, with the arrogance of immortal cultivators, generally speaking, they disdain to deal with mortals. That is because the spiritual power here is so scarce that some monks have nothing to do with mortals after their spiritual power is exhausted except for their physical constitution. Big difference, that's why this situation occurs.
"Yes... yes, if you want to live on the island and seek shelter, the expenses are not small. Even if the monks at the Golden Core stage don't have supplies, it will be difficult. Therefore, there will be many such monks who are willing to earn some money. Extra money, anyway, most of the opponents are in the Qi refining stage or the foundation building stage, so it is not a troublesome thing for them." Wang Wei chuckled, "If you are an immortal and you are willing to participate, I think this qualification competition will It’s just a piece of cake for you.”
"Okay~"
Sun Haoran pretended to be reluctant to accept it and replied.
What the other party said is indeed true.
After all, ordinary commercial banks really don’t have the resources to hire monks above the Golden Core stage to compete. Most of the contestants in this so-called qualification battle are in the Qi refining stage or the Foundation building stage, and there are very few in the Golden Core stage. He goes Naturally, it's a blast, and getting rewarded is as easy as breathing. It doesn't matter if you do me a favor.
"I'm so grateful to the immortal!" Wang Wei burst into tears of gratitude.
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After several days of sailing, the caravan ship finally arrived at the port of Ye Ming City amid the cheers of everyone. To be able to survive such a powerful encounter with a ferocious beast is naturally a blessing for the people in the caravan.
Sun Haoran, led by the captain Wang Wei and several other fleet monks, went through the simple procedures to live on the island.
I have to say that the management of Ye Ming City on this island is quite strict. If you go to the island without going through the checkpoint registration, you will be treated as a malicious intruder.
There is a large island protection formation on the island, plus a city protection team composed of monks, and the city lord Ye Mingyue, who is said to have reached the peak of Nascent Soul. Even if a monk in the transformation stage breaks in without permission, he may not be able to get any benefits.
Moreover, it is difficult for monks to cultivate in the world inside Mo Kun. The Nascent Soul Peak is almost considered a strong one, and there are very few monks in the God Transformation Stage. Therefore, it can be said that Ye Ming City is probably the safest place in the nearby sea area. .
In this way, we can understand why many mortals and monks with poor cultivation would rather pay heavy fees and prefer to live here.
After all, if you go to the outside world, you will not only have to face all kinds of ferocious beasts in the sea, but you will also have to worry about the devouring storm that will come at any time.
After entering Yeming City, Sun Haoran headed towards the inn where the caravan was staying, led by captain Wang Wei.
Along the way, he observed that the number of immortal cultivators on the island was roughly equal to the number of mortals. Most of the people in the market are mortals, and the cultivators can only feel through their breath. Except for the monks responsible for guarding the city, most monks disdain to interact too much with mortals and live in a simple way.
Soon, Wang Wei arranged a room for Sun Haoran.
Although it is an upper room, the decoration is still very simple.
After all, the world inside Mo Kun's body is built on Mo Kun's flesh and blood, and this city is no exception.
However, as time passed, mortals and monks piled up various materials bit by bit, turning this place into an environment that humans are more comfortable with.
Although it is still a bit crude, it is much better than being surrounded by a pile of meat.
After Sun Haoran rested for a while, Wang Wei contacted the organizer of the qualifying competition and returned to the inn again to call him together.
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Sun Haoran once again followed the leadership of Wang Wei and others to a building located in the center of the city.
After arriving at a room deep in the building, as soon as he entered the door, there was an old man who looked like an immortal sitting in the room with his eyes closed and meditating.
There are actually spiritual fluctuations on his body.
I saw a complete spiritual stone placed on the table in front of the old man. It was obvious that he was absorbing the spiritual power of the spiritual stone for cultivation.
To be treated like this in such a world, it is obvious that the other party's status in the city is extraordinary.
So pride seems inevitable.
Seeing Sun Haoran and others entering the room, the old man just opened his eyes and glanced at them, then closed his eyes again and ignored them.
The corner of Sun Haoran's mouth twitched at this. He was clearly just a golden elixir stage monk, and he dared to pull him like this. What kind of world is this?
