The Ghoul Sect successfully occupied Yun Peak, which had a fifth-order spirit vein, and after that, the entire eastern border of the Chaoyang Continent seemed to have calmed down, and there were no more major battles.

Mangshanfang City, a small city that was only established decades ago, has become a new gathering place for scattered cultivators during this time due to the relocation of the Ghoul Sect.

With monks, there will be strife, and less than a month after Li Xuangang came to Mangshanfang City, he had already seen five corpses of loose cultivators on the streets of Mangshanfang City.

It's getting winter, and there is no snow to see because of the warm breeze blowing from the East China Sea in Mangshanfang City.

Li Xuangang did not practice or alchemy this day, but stood quietly in the backyard of the Alchemy Pavilion.

In front of him was a monk who came to visit, this person's name was Yu Dongying, a ninth-level Qi refining cultivator, who was responsible for maintaining order in Mangshanfang City on weekdays.

And his master is one of the three major foundation building period scattered cultivation in Mangshanfang City, named Zhao Fengshan.

"Li Daoyou, please be there tomorrow, I have reserved the place for you. ”

Li Xuangang had a gilded invitation in his hand, he looked at the handwriting on it, and said:

"Then Li is respectful, it is better to obey his fate. ”

Seeing that Li Xuangang agreed, Yu Dongying smiled and said:

"It is my honor to invite the Taoist friends of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain to be present, as long as Li Daoyou does not dislike it at that time. ”

After saying that, the two smiled perfunctorily at each other.

There was no topic, Yu Dongying said goodbye:

"Li Daoyou, there is still something to do next, and I will see you tomorrow. ”

Li Xuangang put the invitation card in his hand on the stone table, made a gesture of congratulations with one hand, and said:

"In this way, it will not delay the work of Daoyou, and Li will definitely go to the appointment tomorrow. ”

"Yuxian, send it to Daoyou. ”

Li Yuxian, who was greeting the guests, heard Uncle Nine calling him, so he hurriedly came in from the lobby and sent Dongying out.

When he returned to the backyard, Li Xuangang was sitting on the stone bench, watching the invitation in his hand, and there was no expression on his face.

So Li Yuxian couldn't guess whether Uncle Nine wanted to go or not.

Beckoning Li Yuxian to come and sit down, Li Xuangang asked:

"Yuxian, what do you think of Mangshanfang City?"

It was the first time for Li Yuxian to discuss the problem with Uncle Nine so solemnly, so he didn't dare to answer randomly, and after some serious thinking, he replied thoughtfully:

"The Ghoul Sect does not have enough manpower, and the surrounding ore veins will take at least hundreds of years to be mined, if nothing else, Mangshanfang City will have a leap forward in the future. ”

Li Xuangang nodded and continued to ask:

"Then who do you think is the biggest beneficiary of the expansion of Mangshanfang City?"

Li Yuxian was stunned by the question, wasn't his first reaction the three foundation building period cultivators in charge of Mangshanfang City? But he knew that since Uncle Nine asked him this, the answer he wanted would definitely not be so simple.

Seeing that Li Yuxian didn't speak for a long time, Li Xuangang secretly commented on him in his heart.

is far less intelligent than Li Yuheng, who ranks first in the jade generation, but fortunately, he is calm and down-to-earth, and is suitable for performing family tasks, but he is not suitable for participating in the family's decision-making.

"Yuxian, you have to know that in the past, Mangshanfang City was small in scale, and the major forces didn't take this interest in their eyes, but now even you can see that Mangshanfang City will expand in scale, so won't the rest of the forces see it?"

Speaking of which, Li Yuxian understood.

"What does Uncle Nine mean is that the three people of Mangshan who are scattered during the foundation building period can't hold this treasure land?"

Revealing a hint of understanding, Li Yuxian continued:

"Who can profit from it? Ghoul Sect or other forces that want to get involved?"

Li Xuangang glanced at Li Yuxian with a smile, then slowly stood up, and said as he walked towards the cave:

"Why can't it be our Taiqiu Li family?"

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Before closing the ban in the cave mansion, Li Xuangang said:

"Summons the situation here back to Taiqiu Mountain, and besides, go out with me tomorrow night. ”

Li Yuxian arched his hand and replied:

Yuxian immediately went to contact the family's caravan. ”

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Returning to the cave mansion and sitting in front of an alchemy furnace, Li Xuangang thought about the news that came from Taiqiu Mountain a month ago: Patriarch Li Changqing has left the customs and has successfully entered the peak realm of foundation building.

When Li Xuangang saw the corpses on the streets of Mangshanfang City, he knew that Mangshanfang City would have five years at most, and it would definitely change hands within five years.

Taiqiu Mountain is so close to Mangshanfang City, including the fifth uncle Li Changqing, the family already has a total of six monks in the foundation building period, and the patriarch is still at the peak of the foundation building period.

Li Xuangang knew that now was the perfect time for the family to seize the interests of Mangshanfang City.

The reason why he thinks that Li Yuxian is not suitable to participate in the family's decision-making is because he does not have a strong sense of competing for resources.

And when a qualified family leader encounters all the things that have interests, the first reaction in his mind should be: Can the family profit from it? How can he snatch his share of the benefits from the many forces?

It's like when Li Xuangang told his seventh uncle Li Changzhi about the Jade Luo Bee, the latter's first reaction was how to get this group of Jade Luo Bees back to Taiqiu Mountain.

......

The alchemy furnace in front of him was not Li Xuangang's Tianqianhuan Earth Furnace, but another one specially purchased by the family for the Alchemy Pavilion in Mangshanfang City, and the grade was a little lower than the Tianqianhuan Earth Furnace, only reaching the middle grade of the first order.

However, it was enough to support this alchemy pavilion.

Since there are not many monks in the late stage of Qi refining in Mangshanfang City, seventy percent of the pills sold in the Alchemy Pavilion are Yanggu Dan, and only thirty percent are Chunlu Dan.

Skillfully opening the alchemy furnace, Li Xuangang began to refine this month's elixir.

On the second day, when the sky was about to get dark, Li Xuanshan from the family grain store next to him came.

Yesterday, Yu Dongying also sent him an invitation.

Li Xuangang, Li Xuanshan, and Li Yuxian's uncle and nephew walked on the streets of Mangshanfang City, chatting and walking towards the place recorded on the invitation.

"Brother Jiu, what do you mean by them, are you trying to hold an auction?"

"What, do you have anything to sell, or something to buy?" replied Li Xuangang.

Li Xuanshan scratched his head with a hint of a smile.

"Didn't I see that the invitation said that if we had something that we couldn't identify, they could do it for us?"

"In addition, maybe there will be some interesting things this time, and it will be better if you can't afford to buy a long insight. ”

Li Xuangang can't deny, he has nothing to sell, and nothing to buy. I went to participate in this so-called "auction" this time, just to know the purpose of holding such an event in Mangshanfang City at this time.

The "Auction Pavilion" was not far from the family's shop, and after walking for a short time, the three of them arrived at their destination.

As he approached, a taller building appeared in front of him, and the doorway was already crowded with low-level cultivators.

Li Yuxian took two invitations from Li Xuangang and Li Xuanshan, and then handed them to the monks who were present to maintain order.

When the latter saw these two invitations, he respectfully greeted Li Xuangang and the three of them through the other side door.

It wasn't until he was sent to the hall inside that he gave up his hand and said:

"Fellow Daoists of the Li family, please, there is a special place for the three on the second floor, and you can find it when you go up. ”

"Thank you!"

With that, the monk turned and left, and Li Xuangang and the three of them also walked up the stairs on one side.

As soon as I went up to the second floor, sure enough, a note saying that the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain was posted in a separate space, and there were four chairs in it, and there was some tea on the table.

The three of them sat down, Li Yuxian looked around curiously, it was the first time he had come to this kind of occasion.

In fact, if he hadn't been practicing alchemy with Li Xuangang now, he would still be performing some simple family tasks in Taiqiu Mountain now.

As soon as he sat down, Li Xuanshan picked up a cup of tea and poured it in, looked at the surrounding arrangements, and said to Li Xuangang:

"Brother Jiu, it seems that they really want to build an auction pavilion. ”

Li Xuangang didn't speak, and glanced at the hall below, where there was a vacant platform on it, which was supposed to be used for auction.

"Xuanshan, you have followed the caravan for many years, you should know how many spirit stones are needed to maintain the normal operation of an auction pavilion, I think the three foundation building period scattered cultivators in this Mangshanfang City do not have such a large financial resources. ”

Li Xuanshan smiled and said:

"Aren't I joking, Brother Jiu, don't take it seriously. ”

Li Xuanshan knew that maintaining an auction pavilion required very strong financial resources.

Tianhefang City, where the family accounts for one percent, is much larger than Mangshanfang City, but there has been no auction pavilion so far.

Because the existence of the auction pavilion is used to sell some relatively high-level scarce resources, if there is no large number of spirit stones used to purchase high-level resources, then auctioning some ordinary resources on weekdays will not attract people at all.

Because these ordinary resources are everywhere in ordinary shops outside.

According to the operation standard of the auction pavilion in Binhaifang City, there are two kinds of high-level resources used for auction, one is held by the Ghoul Sect itself, and there are about ninety percent. The other is provided by the rest of the monks and commissioned to auction them, about 10%.

If you can't control a large number of high-level resources by yourself, the high-level resources provided by the sporadic foreign monks alone are simply not enough to support the holding of an auction.

If you maintain the auction pavilion that doesn't have a lot of resources, you won't be able to earn any spirit stones at all, so it's better to change it to another store as soon as possible, so that at least you won't lose too much.