Tang Shuwen looked at the contents of the booklet, and the fear of Lin Xiao in his heart was renewed, this booklet was like a Pandora's box after it was opened, and it was the devil's fruit that lured people to sin.

The seven sects of the Immortal League plus a large number of second-rate sects, who doesn't have a big or small number of people, these people usually don't affect the overall situation no matter how they mess around, but now, they have become a knife inserted into the chest of the Immortal League.

Tang Shuwen can imagine how surprised those gentlemen will be after getting this booklet, just the price change of spiritual rice in the past ten days, the cost of investing one million Xuanjing, it is possible to get back the value of three or four million Xuanjing, several times the profit, which is extremely amazing.

In their opinion, this is a great opportunity to make a fortune, they have connections, connections, news, capital, hoarding is easy for them, and even their teachers and elders will personally participate in it, and it is extremely difficult to put an end to this situation.

No matter how difficult it is, Tang Shuwen is unwilling to admit defeat, Tang Shuwen summoned the middle and senior leaders of the Tang family, and personally ordered his sons and nephews to confiscate the spiritual rice they hoarded, and spit out the money they had earned, but even Tang Shuwen did not dare to take his own family under the knife, and there could be no substantive punishment, so he could only find some people who were not very important.

After dealing with the Tang family, Tang Shuwen immediately found Yu Pingcheng and talked to Yu Pingcheng about the matter, Yu Pingcheng was also angry, the Immortal League has come to this time, one by one is still so greedy, he doesn't care about the overall situation at all, and immediately authorizes Tang Shuwen to investigate the Su Yu Sect, and Yu Pingcheng also communicates with the supreme of the other sects, each sect must rectify one or two, otherwise the Immortal League will collapse.

For the major supremes, what each family is doing is to harm them, and they naturally will not easily agree, and they all convene high-level deliberations to strictly investigate this matter.

One by one, the hoarding firms were knocked out, and the situation of the Immortal Alliance was temporarily stabilized, but for the scattered cultivators, the panic created was not so easy to subside.

Tang Shuwen met Yi Zhibai of the Five Elements Firm again, and discussed with him about the Lingmi transaction, this matter, Dongzhou had already made a decision, Yi Zhibai was still trading at the current market price, Tang Shuwen did not bargain, but raised the price of high-level resources, especially strategic resources, a Lingming Pill that cost only three or four million Xuanjing, Tang Shuwen dared to offer 50 million Xuanjing, four or five times higher than usual.

Yi Zhibai's face turned pale when he heard this price, if it was such a transaction, Dongzhou not only did not make a profit, but also had to post money.

But Tang Shuwen bit it very hard, if it wasn't for this price transaction, the Xianmeng would have suffered a loss, the shopping mall was like a battlefield, Tang Shuwen would not be willing to admit defeat, he directly told Yi Zhibai that if it wasn't for this price transaction, then the Xianmeng would rather take the risk of smuggling on the side of the Five Continents Alliance, even if the risk is doubled, it can be drawn.

In the end, the two sides are in a cooperative relationship, Yi Zhibai grinded for several days before finally determining the price, the price of spiritual rice is calculated according to the current market price of six percent, and strategic resources such as Lingming Dan will not be as expensive as 50 million Xuanjing, about 20 million, Dongzhou and Tang Shuwen have set a trade agreement of 20 billion catties of spiritual rice, which is about worth one billion Xuanjing, and there are also some low-level Dan talisman arrays and elixir spirit grass transactions.

Yi Zhibai's news spread to Dongzhou, and the five colleges immediately began to dispatch spiritual rice, preparing to transport it to Zhongzhou, two billion catties of spiritual rice, if you use sixth-order storage bags, it will take hundreds of them, Dongzhou can't take out so many storage bags at all, so they can only cross the East China Sea in the way of flying boat treasure ships.

After Penglai learned of this news, Penglai immediately dispatched 50,000 troops to intercept in the East China Sea, Penglai has been operating in the East China Sea for hundreds of thousands of years, whether it is the familiarity with the sea area or the quantity and quality of treasure ships, they are far beyond the level of Dongzhou.

Five days later, Penglai's fleet and Dongzhou's monk's fleet met in the East China Sea, and a large-scale naval battle broke out between the two sides, with eighty treasure ships and one hundred flying boats in Dongzhou, more than thirty treasure ships were sunk, and more than twenty flying boats also fell, and only a small half of the rest fled to Zhongzhou, and the rest retreated to Dongzhou.

In this battle, Dongzhou suffered heavy losses, and the five billion catties of spiritual rice carried by him were lost by one-third, and less than one billion catties were really sent to Zhongzhou, and the loss of personnel, treasure ships, and flying boats reached hundreds of millions of Xuanjing, and all the profits of this transaction have been lost.

And Zhongzhou did not receive Dongzhou's spiritual rice, so naturally he refused to agree, and the damaged spiritual rice could not be counted on their heads, and they sternly asked Dongzhou to send the spiritual rice as soon as possible.

Dongzhou had no choice but to collect more storage bags and use the teleportation array to transport them, and the five major academies scavenged all the remaining storage bags, which were enough to hold two billion catties of spiritual rice at one time, and then these tens of thousands of storage bags were carried by three hundred monks, and the teleportation array was used to teleport to the stargazing city under the command of the stargazing gate for trading, and each teleportation array consumed the equivalent of 1.2 million lower-grade Xuanjing of high-grade Xuanjing.

In the previous naval battle, Dongzhou had already lost all his profits, and every time he teleported, Dongzhou lost money, and the five major academies were almost so angry that they vomited blood.

Therefore, in order to reduce losses, the Five Elements Firm and the Immortal Alliance have tens of thousands of storage bags for transporting goods, Dongzhou lacks storage bags, but Zhongzhou is not lacking, a large number of people died in battle, so that their storage bags have a lot of surplus, and Tang Shuwen will not borrow them.

In this way, Dongzhou can load five billion catties of spiritual rice at a time, and after this transaction, Dongzhou still lost about five million Xuanjing, which is a big loss.

Two hundred billion catties of spiritual rice entered the territory of the Immortal League, which was enough for them to survive this rice panic, and the Immortal League publicized this matter, and the scattered cultivators saw that the major sects could continue to take out the spiritual rice, and their hearts were stable, and the rumors naturally dispersed.

But in this turmoil, Sanxiu was looted by various hoarders, and bought very low-value spiritual rice at a high price, and the two sides entered a war of public opinion.

The Immortal Alliance launched a public opinion offensive, accusing the Five Continents Alliance of squeezing loose cultivation, they obviously have enough supply of spiritual rice, but they continue to raise the price, so that the loose cultivation has suffered heavy losses, and the Five Continents Alliance is to use those hoarding merchants as a point of attack, accusing them of colluding up and down, being corrupt and incompetent, treating loose cultivation as pigs and dogs, looting and squeezing at will, and announcing their practice of squeezing loose cultivation and looting the wealth of loose cultivation.

Taking the cultivators of the Immortal Alliance as an example, they were fortunate to be able to get three hundred Xuanjing in a year from farming, which was enough for the cultivation of the Kaimai monks for a year, but the price of spiritual rice had skyrocketed before, and according to their annual consumption of seven hundred catties of spiritual rice per person, the value of three hundred Xuanjing had disappeared by about one-third, which was not enough for cultivation at all.

As soon as this matter was announced, the loose cultivators in the territory of the Immortal League were in an uproar, and they were all indignant, and strongly demanded that the Immortal League severely punish those profiteers, and the Immortal League replied that the profiteers had already been punished.

But the Five Continents Alliance immediately revealed that the backstage of these profiteers was all the high-level of the various sects of the Immortal Alliance, and their so-called punishment of the profiteers was only the punishment of some shopkeepers.

So Sanxiu became angry, and countless people gathered in front of the mountain gates, demanding that the real murderers be severely punished, or else they would be compensated for their losses.

This situation has never been experienced by the Immortal League, since ancient times, scattered cultivation is a rabble, and the strength is low, even if the people of the sect forces bully them, what if they dare to take revenge, even if they come, they deserve to be slaughtered, and the sect will not care, anyway, there are many scattered cultivators, and there will be more after killing a batch.

But in this special situation, if you don't deal with it well, you will lose most of the casual cultivation under your command, and most of the population will lose half of your taxes.

Tang Shuwen really wanted to solve this matter, but there were too many pig teammates, and he hadn't come up with a way to solve it, and the conflict broke out, and it was those gentlemen who did it.

Although these gentlemen do not have the overall situation, and they do not have much high intelligence, they know very well that among the forces of a family, they are the most worthy of abandonment, in peacetime, they can use means such as family affection to obtain the forgiveness of the family sect, but when the family clan is difficult to protect itself and needs to sacrifice some to protect themselves, they are the first to be sacrificed.

So, these gentlemen panicked, they went to plead, but at this time no one dared to protect them, some ran away, hoping to hide somewhere to avoid these limelight, while others chose to resent those loose cultivators, thinking that these loose cultivators were forcing them to death, so they took action against the scattered cultivators.

The combat effectiveness of these casual cultivators is not worth mentioning, that is relative to a genius monk like Lin Xiao, for the vast majority of casual cultivators who open the veins and condense the veins, these cultivators are still incredible masters, and they rushed into the crowd with their own guards, killing all directions, and immediately there was a river of blood.

Su Yu Sect, Tianxuan Sect, Jade Immortal Sect and even second-rate forces, it can be said that except for the Shenmu Sect, every family has people who have taken action against loose cultivation, and in one day, tens of thousands of people have been slaughtered by scattered cultivation.

Then the extremely terrible consequences happened, the wave of escape of scattered cultivation broke out, and the scattered cultivation couldn't defeat the major sects, but they didn't want to be slaughtered like pigs and sheep, and they were treated as fools, and they couldn't hide if they couldn't be provoked, so run away.

Within a few days, millions of scattered cultivators escaped from the territory of the Immortal League, even Tiansu City, the hinterland of the Immortal League, an extremely safe city, the same is true, more than one and a half million people in Tiansu City left four or five hundred thousand scattered cultivators in just three days, and the resident population has dropped by one million, and it is still decreasing.

The reduction of casual cultivation will lead to the bankruptcy of small and medium-sized businesses, most of which are related to Su Yuzong, and they have advised Tang Shuwen to come up with a way as soon as possible.

Tang Shuwen was furious, ordered to kill the murderer of the scattered cultivator, and took out a lot of resources to compensate the family of the scattered cultivator, which slightly alleviated the fleeing tide of the scattered cultivator, but it still couldn't be stopped, and the more serious consequence that Tang Shuwen didn't expect was that the people of the Immortal League were scattered.