Chapter 17 Water Vein Restoration (II)
The human groups in the Earthsea Realm are almost entirely indifferent to each other, and every member of the village may be able to fight to the death to defend the village. However, there is hardly any relationship between the two different groups, except for the simplest trade ties.
Here, everyone is wary and self-contained.
If it weren't for your own trouble, you would never have paid attention to it and helped you.
However, the re-attack of the beast tide made everyone have to face up to such a threat, although the earth sea world was rampant with evil spirit beasts, although there were about first-order spirit beasts in the southwest area of the Cloud Court Realm, there were very few second-order spirit beasts like the lion lizard beast.
The civilization of the village for dozens or hundreds of years has written the special surnames of the nearby spirit beasts and how to deal with them, so as to ensure that the village without the appearance of great cultivators can continue to thrive in this field with the power generated by the cooperation of each individual in the village.
Therefore, in this long course of time, although people often deal with some vicious first-order or even first-order top-level spirit beasts, which seem to have a bad ecology, they are actually in danger.
Every village and town group that has existed here for a long time has the hunting rules summarized by their predecessors, which has formed a certain binding force, such as those who have worn official uniforms for generations in Daye, and will subconsciously kneel on their knees when they see the royal power. It's like those ordinary people in the world who look up in envy when they see great cultivators.
Everyone relies on these rules left by their predecessors, these rules and wisdom, dare not transgress and are careful, and in turn as a support, survive, hunt, and live here for generations.
It seems that the world of the earth and sea is unrestrained, but in fact it forms an invisible wall, trapping everyone, like water to fish. It's like air to humans.
"You want to ask me why I'm so sure that someone will come to see the exhibition and learn from our lizard hunting. Yang Ze looked around at the elders of Guyun Village. At their feet were the tidal crowd that entered the mountain gate.
"It's because of the surrounding environment that forms this 'wall' that people can only deal with things that they are used to, and they have strong experience in this area. But when something beyond their experience is about to disrupt the environment and some kind of balance on which they live, there will be a strong sense of crisis. ”
Yang Ze faced everyone, "It's like what you are looking for." Most of the villages here may have recorded the spirit beast of the Lizard Beast, but almost none of them have any experience in dealing with a second-order top-level spirit beast such as the Lizard Beast, and they have no experience in being an enemy of it. ”
"The sudden appearance of this evil spirit animal has in fact shattered the perception that the people around them have accumulated for generations, and their sense of security comes from the hunting experience left by their predecessors, like fish surrounded by water. But the appearance of this spirit beast, which has never dealt with it, has made the tide of the 'water' around them recede, and each side feels like a fish stranded on the shore, with a long mouth and a futile breath, but the lungs are said to be viscous, said to be hypoxic, and difficult to live in peace. They will feel a complete crisis, and they will feel that they will be eliminated from the world of Earthsea. ”
These may be long words, but there is truth in every single one, and I don't know if you can understand it. Yang Ze said with a headache.
Many of the surrounding Guyun Village elders and steward-level figures gathered on the top of the mountain, as if they could see the various rules and situations of the earth and sea that they had been familiar with for generations, and the deep-rooted mentality and relationship of the power of all parties. is being deconstructed by the man in front of him at an unimaginable speed.
An elder looked at him and nodded after a while, "You mean, the reason why our previous exhibition, which looked like a child's house, was so successful was because everyone was short of water!?"
Yang Ze thought to himself that although the cultivation civilization of these villages in Dihai was not developed, most of them were not stupid people, and there was no shortage of characters who had been cultivated by the years.
Nodding, "The lion beast is the cause of everyone's lack of water. Because of the presence of this extremely rare second-order top-level evil spirit beast in the vicinity, it had already made everyone feel unsafe. Because of the unique composition of the laws of the Earth Sea World, it is so that people can find the hunting experience they have always relied on for a living useless, and they may have fought against the vicious spirit beasts, but they have never fought against the beast tide. They had never fought against an evil spirit beast like the Lion Lizard Beast, which was extremely intelligent and powerful, and they couldn't find a way to defeat the beast tide, so they felt terrified. So at this time, apart from our Guyun Village, is there any other place nearby where they can hunt and kill lizard beasts, and who else can repel the beast tide? Who else can teach them experience?"
"Initially they didn't trust us, and that's as it should be. Everyone is wary of each other. ”
An elder muttered, "That's why you created the second beast tide and asked us to go around to help repel some fierce beasts that crossed the border, just to eliminate this vigilance, and then open Guyun Village to teach the village the experience of surviving the beast tide, and it is logical to charge more."
The elder of the other village, who was in charge of the external replacement of crystal nuclei, looked at his eyes and said in a hoarse voice, "As of now, the fee for receiving outsiders in the village is estimated to be about 10,000 gold pounds, and there is no need to hunt a large number of spirit beasts, and there is no need to pay huge casualties. But because of this, we have obtained the gold that we need to hunt for a year or two before we can get it."
"But the exhibit is just a skin, and people come here just to learn how to hunt lizards in the village, but experience is dead, but people are alive. What if the forces of the nearby villages followed suit and taught the skills and experience they had gained from us to the neighborhood at a lower price?" said Village Chief Hua Shuo with a bitter face.
"If the homogeneous competition is serious, you might as well reduce the price, anyway, we have already made the first gold, and now we just need to maintain the advantage We always have a physical exhibition here, and it is the same entry price, which naturally has more advantages than them. ”
Yang Ze said lightly, his gaze became distant, "Later, if the experience of hunting lion and lizard beasts is no longer a so-called strategic secret, the credibility we have accumulated from helping around before can come in handy at this time." You might as well pull the admission price to the lowest, even if many people don't have this kind of demand, but if they choose to go to Jingyun City to spend a lot of wine, or spend less than half of the gold to come to absorb some life-saving experience? Presumably a smart person will choose the latter. ”
"I believe this, and I also believe that all the people of the earth and the sea are smart people, because those who are not smart have long since died. ”
"But the second beast tide was created by us!" an elder said as he rolled his eyes.
Yang Ze stretched, and the moment he turned to leave, he winked at the elder, "This is our secret." To make a fortune, you always need some risk. Now that Guyun Village has reconstruction funds, it can go to Jingyun City to buy a lot of materials, buy high-level exercises, buy better weapons, buy spirit talismans, and strengthen the village's defenses and materials. Strive to become the strongest force in the vicinity in the shortest possible time, and absorb some cloud wanderer groups to join in, so that they can become more and more powerful, can control the nearby crystal nuclei and ore veins, and can not be controlled by Jingyun City. Otherwise, the means of survival are too simple, if the Cloud Court Realm Realm Lord refuses to buy all the crystal nuclei from tomorrow, and drags on like this for a few months, won't the entire village be dragged down? We also need some bargaining capital and ability. To be taken seriously, you have to show your abilities. ”
After leaving this seat and making many people feel enlightened, Yang Ze didn't care about these Guyun Village elders who were sighing and smacking in place, and walked back to his residence.
Back in the living room, Yang Ze pulled out the sword of Gu Mao with his backhand, although it was completely planned these days, at first glance the whole plan came naturally. However, only he, the person involved and those who were personally involved in Guyun Village, knew that the process was not simple.
Not to mention that building the remains of spirit animals such as lion beasts is a technical job. The next most critical link, by attacking everywhere to create a panic equivalent to the beast tide, almost made Yang Ze tired half of his life.
For this reason, the village had to spend a huge amount of money to purchase a batch of horses from Jingyun City, which were used as the leg strength of their more than 20 riders to alternate night and night. In fact, horses are the lowest means of transportation, and there are some tamed spirit beasts that can be ridden by people, regardless of endurance and speed, they are far above ordinary mortal horses, but they are almost all high prices. It's not that Guyun Village's financial resources can afford it at present.
Yang Ze stroked the Gu Mao Sword in his hand, feeling the mystery of the inside of the black sword body being closed like a black box that could not let the true qi penetrate and could not enter, but at the same time, he could feel the resonance and vibration of his true qi on the surface of the sword body, which was an indescribable sense of resonance, which was extremely beautiful.
The reason why he was able to be invincible these days was that the Gu Hao Black Sword in Yang Ze's hand played a great role. His spiritual veins have not been repaired now, and the true qi in his body is relatively weak compared to people in the same realm. But with the Gu Hao Black Sword, even if he is now cultivating the six grades of Intention, his strength will be upgraded by two ranks in a row, and he can almost compete with the cultivators of the Intention Three Grades of cultivation.
Before the old man fell into a deep sleep, he said that Yang Ze had reached 26 Qi Sea Spiral Arms in his body, and before he entered the Five Grades of Cunyi, he could wake him up, repair the formation of the "Water Spirit Vein" in his body, and learn new exercises to improve his strength.
And during this time, in the process of chasing the tide of hunting beasts. Yang Ze's body qi sea storage has expanded again. Originally, there were a total of 20 spiral arms in the two large seas, but in this month, [***] was actually raised to 24.
There are only 2 pieces left of the target of 26 spiral arms!
After many experiences in Daye, Yang Ze found himself becoming more and more integrated into this world. It's like the previous one, because he had the memory fragments of the great grandmaster, as well as the life experience of his previous life, he decided that everything could be controlled by him. As long as he is positive, nothing can stop him from moving forward.
But since he met Ji Ling'er in Daye, he knew the existence of the Xituo Temple. From the time he embraced Ji Ling'er in front of the public, was sent to the sea again, and at the same time encountered Shinto Zhai Lei Donglai, and saw the Red Mansion boat sink into the Far East Sea Realm, Yu Xiaoxiao and Master Hanzang, who once made him think that he was his master, stood up for him.
Yang Zecai completely put away his frivolous heart and began to face this world of the weak and the strong with awe.
He saw that many villages in the sea were like fish swimming in invisible waters. He is not in the "invisible water". Once in Daye Country, he was still in a kind of "water" sheltered by his family and his own identity. So he can be unscrupulous, he can ignore religious etiquette, and continue his frivolous and arrogant attitude, arrogantly believing that he can reverse his fate and change the world with his ideas.
But living in the sea of earth, facing the world of being stripped of the naked to protect the weak and the strong, he jumped out of the previous "invisible water" and survived the most difficult period of suffocation, grievance, and panic.
Truly face up to your own life.
He is not omnipotent. Even if he is a primordial god with a great grandmaster, he can still only be a small individual in this colossal world.
Like the bones of the ancient vines in the Earth Sea World that still have clothes left, they are more like those insignificant ants in the face of absolute power. It's like a fish swimming in a deep-sea storm that can't help itself and doesn't know where it will go in the future. He didn't know if he would be swept into a stinky pool of water in the next storm, unable to struggle. Will it be crushed and crushed by a huge storm outside? Become a nameless white bone buried in this great era?
Until this moment, Yang Ze finally understood his ridiculousness.
The funny thing is that in his previous life, he was too smooth and had never experienced the difficulties of life, just in front of him, as if he had torn the wounds with blood scabs one by one, and showed them cruelly in front of him.
In this world that advocates strength cultivation, seniority, and strict hierarchy. As a soul who once lived in a different time and space, his defiance of authority could only bring him disaster. His heart yearning for freedom can only bring him pride and prejudice.
even knocked him from a heavenly place like the Great Ye Kingdom to a hellish place like the Earth Sea World.
A paranoid soul has experienced the reality of the world and the cruelty of nature in such a foreign place. Is it a kind of naked irony? Or is it some kind of punishment for his soul that was once smooth sailing. Could this be the Shura hell where the ancient Buddha often clouds?
If time can pass again, let him return to Daye Country and meet Ji Ling'er again in that peach blossom season.
Will he still hug that woman at the time of the time under the court, embark on such a life with no future in sight, or suppress the surging mood at that time, let her stay away, and never intersect in this huge world again.
He will continue his life in the Daye Kingdom, and maybe he may marry a woman who is a good family in the future, like Dong Xuan, or anyone else.
And can you turn back time again, obviously impossible, at least not now, so you can't regret it.
For the situation in front of him, Yang Ze knew that he still had no regrets. At least for the moment, despite his suffering, he is still alive and living to the fullest, and he can feel pain, he can feel deep joy and sorrow, and he no longer has the emptiness and nothingness of his previous life. Sometimes, he even thinks that the experience of his previous life, like a big dream, is not real, but what makes him more and more integrated into the clear world in front of him is his real life. It's so mysterious.
Every day when he wakes up, Yang Ze will be grateful that he is still living so authentically.
What followed was as expected. After the storm set off by this wave of beasts passed the most heat, people gradually returned to calm.
"Now the number of people who come from afar to enter the village is gradually decreasing every day, and it is said that the nearby Xueya Village, Maofeng Village, Qingteng Village, etc. are painting gourds in the same way, and according to our model, they charge twenty gold pounds to teach hunting skills and some special tools to prevent spirit animals. And openly in the name of teaching from our Guyun Village, "In the council room, some people were indignantly worried about the current situation, as if they had been cut off a piece of flesh.
"Some of the other Cloud Wanderers are even more powerful, and they can even openly pull people in the vicinity, saying that they only need five gold pounds to teach the authentic Guyun Village beast hunting skills in their entirety."
"It's too much"
"Intellectual property protection can be seen to be extremely important" Yang Ze took a sip of the best Gujing tea in the village, there was still a mellow fragrance between his lips and teeth, and shook his head, "Then let the surname be lowered to ten gold pounds to enter the village." It is also announced to the outside world that most of the plans for the reconstruction of Guyun Village have been recovered, and now you can give back to everyone with this. ”
An elder who had been in charge of this matter recently couldn't wait to say, "Ten gold pounds, Yang Ze Xiaoyou, I don't doubt this decision, it's just that our village has worked hard to make a mold from the remains of spirit beasts." Initially, it was said that one hundred gold pounds would enter, and it would be halved to fifty. It's just that it's only been a few days, and we've cut ten pieces so much, isn't this really a waste of our previous material and manpower?"
Before the words fell, the village chief Hua Shuo stretched out a finger and scolded, "Zhang Yi, don't forget, when Yang Ze's little brother proposed the establishment of molding, who refuted it the most. When you ask for an entrance fee, you're the first to jump out and be suspicious. And now it's you who come out again. Have you forgotten that I have told the clan that all affairs are decided by Little Brother Yang!"
The elder knew that he was at a loss, but he still shouted, "After calculating these days, we have earned more than 40,000 gold pounds, and after the detailed accounting, we will still give half to Brother Yang." I'm not just thinking about the village, I'm also thinking about Brother Yang."
Yang Ze smiled dumbly, drank all the tea in the cup after a while, and said to everyone, "It's not that I don't want to make this money, I believe that no one in this world can refuse this gold." But as I said, this is only enough to make such a profit, and we only need to make this kind of money. In the end, all kinds of information about the second-order fierce spirit beast are just things that everyone knows about the rotten street. Rather than reaching that level, it is better to take the initiative to lower the threshold, so that while the boom has not faded, it is also a large amount of income. ”
One of the Seven Realms of the Earth Sea, the largest city in the Cloud Ting Realm is the Jingyun City in the central area. It is also the location of the realm lord Ling Ruohai. There are a few other towns besides, but neither in terms of size nor prosperity, they are not as large as Jingyun City.
Part of the gold collected by Guyun Village these days was brought out by the village's most elite warrior team and sent to Jingyun City to be exchanged for crystal nuclei that could be used for portable storage. Guyun Village exchanged nearly 46,000 gold pounds for forty-six second-order green crystal nuclei. This is an agreed exchange law that is recognized by the entire continent. It's just that the crystal nuclei used for exchange have been strictly screened, and basically all have prescribed types. It is the least valuable of the second-order crystal nuclei. It is generally used as a large amount of tokens.
Each of these green crystals is worth almost a thousand gold pounds, and although it may fluctuate slightly, the exchange market is basically stable. Everywhere you go, it's a convention.
Lying on the grass, Yang Ze carried a spar and placed it in the sun, watching the sunlight refract beautiful colors inside the spar through one eye. The thought that one of these hedrons was a thousand gold pounds, and that he now had twenty-three of them in his pocket, made him feel extremely happy. This feeling of spaciousness seems to be very good in any era.
An Jie, Yun Na and others next to him were still talking about what they saw and heard on the road to Jingyun City this time, which also opened Yang Ze's eyes.
For example, they passed by several well-known wanderer forces in the Earthsea along the way, such as "Northern Safari", "Yanbo Valley", "Blue Sea Eagle Eye", "Colorful Phoenix and Green Pine", etc., all of which are extremely famous wanderer forces in the local area of Earthsea.
In particular, a few female warriors who went with them were still eating and laughing, "This time, I passed by the activity range of the 'Northern Safari' and saw three white antelope hairs on the side of the hood, and their young master Bai Lanhai. It's really as good as it seems. At that time, we passed by their ground, and he also took the initiative to greet our Guyun Village, I have to say, it is really too tasteful, not that kind of white and tender little life, but very manly, no wonder even some of the red people around the realm masters in Jingyun City dare not provoke them 'Northern Safari'"
"It is said that the 'Blue Sea Eagle Eye' forces have also been on the rise recently, their second leader has just obtained a Lingyue spear, and his strength has increased greatly, and he has directly stabbed to death the infamous 'lone wolf' leader who provoked them in the Lingshan Realm!"
"I've also heard that the 'Night Snow Wolf' has also been moving recently, and it seems that it has recently become a lackey of Kashima Shintosai."
The people around fell silent for a while, but Yang Ze heard the sensitive words "Kashima Shinto Zhai" because of the tip of his ears. And the surrounding Yun Na, Bi Gong, An Jie and others heard the name "Night Snow Wolf", which cast a shadow on everyone's hearts.
Yun Na pursed her lips and said disdainfully, "Hmph, although the 'Night Snow Wolf' is powerful, whoever hears them not sneer, everyone knows that they don't even care about the realm lord in such a posture, and it's not because they have the backstage of Kashima Shinto Sai." Who of them, the pirates and robbers who are wreaking havoc in the western seas of the Earth, dare to say that they are clean!?"
It's not easy to be famous on Earthsea, but it's not easy to be so famous. Yang Ze thought to himself that Kashima Shinto Zhai is not only hated in Daye Country. It seems that the world of Earthsea can hear their notoriety!
Some people also nodded, "Don't say that these boring people probably don't know, this time we went to Jingyun City, and we heard a news that has been widely circulated."
Before this person could continue, a woman next to him couldn't help but say, "Do you know why the seven realms of the earth and the sea have not been calm recently?"
An Jie smiled at this girl and said, "Dong Jiali, everyone is in one place, where did you know so clearly about the things in the Seven Great Realms before." It's not just that I heard the rumors of everyone in the inns and restaurants in Jingyun City. Don't sell it, if there's any big news, just smash it hard, we can bear it!"
The woman named Tong Jiali pursed her lips, but then said with great interest, "In addition to those countries in the east that are at war, and what are the movements of a few big people in the north?" The news this time is absolutely exciting, I don't know why many forces have been in contact with the Seven Great Realms recently, and people have come to the Earth Sea one after another, this is not for the spirit crystal and some mineral veins, or some rare treasures in the black market. But for the sake of the people, you know, the Situo Temple in the Eastern Continent, when it passed through a small kingdom, it led to a great diplomatic incident. It is said to be related to the Holy Maiden, as if it was a person from that kingdom who annoyed the Holy Maiden of Sito. As a result, that person was exiled to our earth, and Shinto Sai and many other national forces came here, and it is said that they were discussing how to deal with this person. I really want to see it, which unlucky bastard is so bold to provoke the holy daughter of the Xituo Temple!"
Yang Ze listened to this scene in a daze, and wanted to say that he was embarrassed, if there was no accident, I would be the unlucky egg in your mouth.
At the same time, he immediately understood that many forces had come to the Seven Great Realms of the Earth Sea, not to discuss how to deal with themselves, but to find him before this!
What is the purpose of this, it goes without saying!
(To be continued)