In the Longshan Domain, more precisely, in the entire Neno Continent, there are some city-state alliances that are of a special nature.

This kind of city-state alliance basically does not expand externally in the situation of war, and its position is impartial and completely neutral.

This type of city-state alliance is known as a neutral alliance.

Generally speaking, this kind of city-state alliance holds some kind of "lifeline", which is enough to ensure that it is left and right between the city-states and city-state alliances, but it also makes those city-states and city-state alliances guard against each other, and dare not cross the thunder pool.

The merchant alliance where Mochizuki Castle is located is such a purely neutral city-state alliance organization.

The Merchant Alliance, as the name suggests, is a confederation of city-states that focuses on commerce. In other words, this alliance is an alliance of several purely commercial city-states. Among them, there are five giant city-states, 15 large city-states, and 46 medium-sized city-states, and there are no small city-states.

It is not accurate to say that there are no small city-states. It is true that the Shang Alliance did not have a small city-state directly under it. Because they only attract medium-sized and above pure commercial city-states to join. But there are still small city-states as grassroots.

In fact, it is not a small city-state, more precisely, an urban area.

Through the circulation of commerce and the supply of resources, the merchant alliance occupied a district as a subordinate of almost all the city-states with which they interacted. That is, it is equivalent to a concession with independent authority.

Although the hard scale of the Shang Alliance can only be regarded as a large force in the entire Longshan Domain, it is enough to be called the largest force in the Longshan Domain when it is counted. The production of all kinds of resources occupied by it has reached about 40% of the entire Longshan Domain, and it can almost be said that as long as there is something in the Longshan Domain, there is nothing that cannot be bought in the Shangmeng. Even if the Longshan Domain does not have it, the Shang Alliance also has channels to obtain it from other domain boundaries. This is the "lifeblood" of the business alliance.

More than 50 percent of the medium-sized city-states in the Longshan region have special commercial districts, also known as "concessions", and this scale continues to expand with time and the emergence of medium-sized city-states.

The largest business district in Coca City is the Mochizuki District, which was established by Mochizuki City, one of the five giants of the Business Alliance.

There is such a praising rumor about Mochizuki City, one of the five giants of the business alliance: "Mochizuki District in Mochizuki City, Mochizuki District is expected to be Yuelou, Mochizuki Pavilion is on the Mochizuki Tower, Mochizuki Pavilion is hidden in Mochizuki Pavilion, and the best of the world is collected." ”

There is also a Mochizuki Tower in the Mochizuki District of Coca City, and there is also a Mochizuki Pavilion on the Mochizuki Tower, and the Mochizuki Pavilion also has a lot of goods in the Longshan Domain. It's just that the goods in the Mochizuki Pavilion in Koca City are living creatures, to be precise, "people", and "women".

The Mochizuki Pavilion in Koca City is a shop specializing in selling female ** subordinates. The entire Moon Tower is the largest slave trading market in the city of Koca.

Slaves have existed since the dawn of the city-state alliance. Actually, it's very understandable. Where there is war, there will be captives, displaced people, and broken families. Although all the natives of the Neno continent have long been accustomed to war, and they don't care much about who is above their heads, but people, wanting to be rational all the time is a luxury in itself. So even if you take it for granted, you will also have hatred, and you will resist the so-called habitual because of hatred.

So what to do with this kind of existence? It is impossible to kill them all, so it becomes a natural choice to trade as a slave.

The legal origin of slaves is basically divided into three categories, prisoners of war, outcasts in the wilderness, and self-degenerate. Prisoners of war are those soldiers and practitioners who surrender or are taken prisoner. Displaced people in the wild are displaced people who have no or no household registration. And the so-called self-depraved are those who sell themselves for some reason.

As for why he sprinkled a large paragraph to introduce the existence of the Shang Alliance and the slave trade, it was naturally because Xu Yong and the main lord he welcomed back from the resurrection hall were now on the Mochizuki Tower in the Mochizuki district of Coca City.

Needless to say, the purpose of coming here is just "to accompany the prince to study".

In the Mochizuki Pavilion, which specializes in selling beautiful slaves of all ethnic groups, Xu Yong and his younger brothers are also clustered around a young man in a dark Confucian costume.

If a man wants to say that he looks handsome, he is indeed handsome, and his face is born with a sense of arrogance. However, whether it is the deep bags under the eyes, the pale and bloodless face, and the vain and weak steps, all indicate that the young man's body has been hollowed out by wine.

There is no doubt that this is a stumbling stump. And it is not those noble children who are superficially frivolous but are really elite, but the real depravity of self-depravity.

The young man's name is Xue Qing, and he is the heir of a certain big man in Xu Yong's "Torture Eye".

Although there are many heirs of that big man, it is said that this one is quite favored. So Xu Yong could only wait carefully. After all, he had his back to the "Torture Eye", and this one came with that person's instructions this time.

However, it is really not so easy to serve, especially this person who has just been slaughtered once, and now his heart is on fire.

"Did anyone catch it?" After Xue Qing selected a few favorite commodities from the slave materials handed over by the director of Mochiyue Pavilion and asked the other party to bring them over for inspection, he turned to look at Xu Yong and said expressionlessly with a suppressed and annoyed tone.

Xu Yong gestured to a junior brother who was in charge of talking beside him, and the younger brother nodded and replied a little flatteringly: "Childe, the person has been caught." It has been brought to your room, and this time it is guaranteed that the other party will not be able to resist. ”

"Hmm." Xue Qing's expression was slightly relaxed, and his tone softened: "It's a good job." This time, I don't care about your responsibility to protect the disadvantage. ”

Then he gritted his teeth and said angrily: "That cheap maid actually dared to stab my son with scissors, causing my son to lose a soul pill in vain." This son must want her to live, not to die. Hum. ”

After saying a few cruel words, Xue Qing looked at Xu Yong again and said, "You've been here for seven years, right?" ”

Xu Yong motioned for the younger brother to reply again.

"Yes, Childe. My captain has been in Ciudad Coca for almost eight years. ”

"So, did you find that place?" Xue Qing looked at Xu Yongdao coldly.

The younger brother was stunned for a moment, as Xu Yong's confidant, he glanced at his captain, and then said carefully: "Son Qiyu, my captain has never forgotten his mission in the past seven years, and after many investigations, it can be determined that the secret realm is indeed near Longsen." In the past seven years, he has also sent people to investigate, although he has found several underground secret realms, but they are not that place. The captain judged that the place should not be on the boundary of Longsen but on the side of the Fulong Mountain Range adjacent to Longsen. ”

"Have you found the exact location?" Xue Qing asked.

The little brother lowered his head in shame and said softly in fear: "I haven't found it yet." ”

"Huh?!" Xue Qing's eyes turned cold in an instant, and the aura of the superior who had been exposed to him since he was a child enveloped the audience, staring at Xu Yong with cold eyes.

Although Xue Qing was an out-and-out gentleman, and his strength was only a soldier level built up through resources, the aura of the superior inherited from that big man still made Xu Yong's body stiffen slightly, and cold sweat appeared on his shiny bald head.

Xue Qing stared coldly at Xu Yong's intact right eye, looked at Xu Yong's slightly dodging eyes, and scolded in a low voice: "Seven years, you can't even find a secret realm in the past eight years, can you still waste a little more?" ”

"Hmph." Snorted coldly, turned around and walked towards the slave display area, and said in a gloomy tone as he walked: "The surname is Xu, don't forget that my father only gave you ten years, and there is no explanation in ten years, you should know what will happen to you." ”

"Whew!" sneered, and his tone changed to playfulness: "Although the voice of evil is rare, you are not the only candidate, but the only side effect of your is that your body gradually becomes feminine as your talent deepens, if you don't want to completely change from a man to a woman, you'd better hold on to the big tree of my torture eye." Although this son still wants to see what you look like after you are completely transformed into a woman. After all, in history, people like you who are gifted with 'evil voices' have all ended up becoming bewitching beauties. ”

Xu Yong lowered his head and said nothing, his hands clenched unconsciously, and his intact right eye exuded an astonishing cold light.

Since the awakening of his talent, the most taboo thing for him is that others talk about the side effects of his talent, so when the "Torture Eye" promised to give him a platform four years ago, he couldn't wait to create the destruction incident that the entire Coca City knew about and still kept secret.

However, although he wanted to slaughter the gentleman in front of him, Xu Yong still had to endure it, unless he wanted to die.

The city-state natives, while not very different from the player in many of the mechanics, are only similar. Just like the resurrection mechanism, mortals among the aborigines of the city-state do not have the number of resurrections, and if they die once, they must be reincarnated, that is, if they die, they are really 'dead'. Only after becoming a cultivator can you be given three chances of resurrection by the rules of the Neno Continent. This is also one of the reasons why Xue Qing, who is a gentleman, will use his resources to build himself into a soldier-level cultivator.

And the ceiling is set there, three times. There is no way to increase the cap.

Although it is possible to replenish the number of resurrections consumed by various methods like the player, there is also a limit to the number of times it can be replenished. That's three hundred and twenty-seven times. Whether it is the regular gift of the Heavenly Gift Day once every ten years or the replenishment of special pills such as the "Soul Returning Pill" like Xue Qing, he only has twenty-seven chances of resurrection in his lifetime. Of course, this refers to the ideal state when the aborigines have enough channels and opportunities to recover the number of resurrections.

When the city-state aboriginal cultivators have consumed three resurrections and have no way to replenish them, they will actually 'die', and then reincarnate from a mortal baby according to the reincarnation rules. And all memories of this life will be completely lost. Of course, gender, appearance, and even race will be completely new.

The player is different, although Ning Yuan is still unclear about the specific rules, but the basic situation is understood. Regardless of whether a player becomes a practitioner or not, they will immediately receive five resurrections, and the maximum number of resurrections can be increased to nine in various ways. It is also possible to replenish the number of resurrections an unlimited number of times through special elixirs such as "Soul Rejuvenation Pill" and certain special means such as rules.

Of course, like the city-state aboriginal cultivators, if you consume the upper limit of the number of resurrections and have no means to replenish them, you will be forced to reincarnate by the rules. It's just that unlike the natives of the city-state, the player will not completely lose the memory of his previous life, but will only lose a part of the undetectable, of course, Ning Yuan doesn't know this yet, and I believe that the player as a whole will not easily notice this change for a long time.

And the player's gender does not change after reincarnation. As for appearance and race, if you don't want to, they don't change.