Chapter 548: Cloud Whale Beast
If you want to ask where the most prosperous place in the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm is, all the monks in the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm will say that it is Liuyun Immortal City.
In fact, the development of Liuyun Immortal City to this day is not just as simple as an immortal city, but a super force relying on Liuyun Immortal City as the core.
This big force is not as vast as the "Heavenly Dao Alliance" and "Xuanqing Dao Alliance", it is a commercial alliance with Liuyun Immortal City as the core, composed of twenty-eight immortal cities and more than 100 Fang cities, and is called "Liuyun Business Alliance" by the outside world
It may not be the most powerful superpower, but it is definitely the richest superpower.
Here, as long as you have spirit stones, you can buy most of the spiritual objects below the sixth order, including many unique treasures from other immortal cultivation realms.
Even in Liuyun Immortal City, there are specialty stores opened by some super forces in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, specializing in selling some treasures that are not available in the Immortal Cultivation Realm in Liuyun Continent.
Zhou Yang has heard the name of Liuyun Immortal City for a long time, but unfortunately due to various reasons, he has never come to open his eyes.
This time, taking the opportunity to meet Daoist Xiao Ying, he finally had the opportunity to taste what he wanted.
Before arriving at the real Liuyun Immortal City, Zhou Yang had already fully felt the prosperity here.
In the entire "Liuyun Business Alliance" area, the number of spiritual mountain blessed lands of various grades is highly dense, a mountain peak, a lake, and a river beach grassland all have spiritual veins.
Moreover, in these places where spiritual veins exist, the utilization rate of spiritual veins has reached an amazing level.
There are usually large orchards and medicine gardens on the Ling Mountain, and there are many low-level monks Ling Zhifu who work hard in the orchards and medicine gardens every day to tending to those spiritual fruits and elixirs.
In the lake, there are a large number of aquatic spirit animals, and the lake is planted with lotus, water chestnut and other aquatic spirit plants on a large scale.
The fertile and flat place of the riverbank grassland is planted in large quantities with some first-order spirit grasses with weak spiritual energy, and various herbivorous spirit animals such as cattle, sheep, deer, and horses are stocked on a large scale.
The animal meat, spirit fruit and other spiritual objects produced in these places will be received by special caravans every once in a while, and they will be transported to the nearby Fang Market and Immortal City for processing and sale.
From breeding and planting, processing and transportation, and putting it on the shelves for sale, a complete industrial chain of cultivating immortals is clearly displayed in Zhou Yang's sight.
This kind of industrial chain, the Zhou family has also been doing, but compared with the industrial chain established by the "Liuyun Business Alliance", the industrial chain of the Zhou family is simply not worth mentioning.
From the number of types of raw materials, the number of processed varieties, the number of customer groups sold and the number of shipments, the industrial chain of the Zhou family is so pitiful.
According to Zhou Yang's understanding, after countless years of development, the "Liuyun Business Alliance" has even established a part of the high-end treasure industry chain.
For example, the fourth-order elixir, the fifth-order elixir, the fourth-order spirit rune, and the fifth-order spirit rune, these things can be refined from high-level elixir spirit grass in large quantities from the medicine garden and spirit field.
In Liuyun Immortal City, there is a huge elixir garden covering an area of more than 100,000 acres, which can produce a large number of high-grade elixirs every year, and at the same time, for tens of thousands of years, the "Liuyun Business Alliance" has established a number of high-level elixir gardens on some high-level elixir mountains in the territory, and every year these high-level elixir gardens can provide a large number of high-grade elixirs for alchemy.
While monks in other places had to go to the wilderness to find spiritual herbs and elixirs in order to make talismans, the "Liuyun Business Alliance" had already completed the high-end industrial chain of self-production and self-sale.
Of course, this alone could not afford the needs of a business alliance, so in all parts of the Immortal Cultivation Realm of Liuyun Continent, and even in other immortal cultivation realms, there were merchants of the "Liuyun Merchant Alliance" who purchased all kinds of high-grade raw materials everywhere and then transported them back to Liuyun Immortal City for processing.
Zhou Yang, who has the memory of his previous life, knows very well the horror of this complete high-end industrial chain.
He knew that a great sect with a long heritage, such as the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, even if he did not have the subjective consciousness to establish such a high-end industrial chain, through the vast territory occupied by the sect, he could produce high-level elixirs and spirit runes on a large scale to a certain extent for the sect monks to use.
But they definitely can't produce such a long-term stable and large number of products as the "Liuyun Business Alliance", which can be known from the fact that Zhou Yang has been in and out of Xuanyang Pavilion many times, but he has not found how many fifth-order elixirs and magic weapons are sold there.
As far as he knew, these things in Liuyun Immortal City could be bought with spirit stones, and of course, the price would be very expensive.
Based on this alone, it is absolutely correct to say that Liuyun Immortal City is the most prosperous place in the Immortal Cultivation Realm of Liuyun Continent.
When Zhou Yang got closer and closer to Liuyun Immortal City, he felt this even more deeply.
He is not a monk who has never seen the world, although the time of the Dan is less than a hundred years, but he has already traveled through the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm and the Extreme West Land Immortal Cultivation Realm, the two major immortal cultivation realms, and the immortal cities he has visited are not one hundred but eighty, and he has a very simple method of judging how to judge whether an immortal city is prosperous.
That is to observe the monks and caravans coming and going outside the fairy city, those prosperous fairy cities, even if they are hundreds of thousands of miles away, no matter which direction you pass by, you can see many monks and caravans entering and leaving the fairy city on the road.
Don't think that immortal cultivators have storage bags and storage rings, just think that caravans don't exist.
First of all, how much can a storage bag hold?
And if a monk carries too many storage bags on his body, can he not attract the prying eyes of people with ulterior motives?
Secondly, storage bags basically have little protection, and once they encounter a fight, they can be easily damaged, while once the storage bag is damaged, most of the contents will be destroyed.
This makes people afraid to put all the goods of great value in a small storage bag.
As for the storage ring, not to mention the monks who can use this kind of storage magic weapon, at least they must have the cultivation of the Purple Mansion Period, let's just say that it is not cost-effective to let a Purple Mansion Period monk take this kind of magic weapon to be a porter and carry the basic spiritual objects such as low-level ores and spirit valleys.
Therefore, the caravan not only exists in the immortal cultivation world, but is also extremely active.
Zhou Yang didn't know much about Liuyun Immortal City, so he couldn't say much, but he had some understanding of the situation in Xianyang City.
A large immortal city like Xianyang City, where the number of monks exceeds 100,000, consumes as much as millions of catties of spiritual rice every month, which is only needed to calculate the consumption of immortal cultivators.
But in fact, many monks with conditions will let some mortal juniors in their families also eat spiritual rice to strengthen their bodies and prolong their lifespan.
Ninety percent of these consumed spiritual rice were purchased and transported by caravans from all over the Daoxuan Kingdom, and the same materials also included all kinds of spiritual meat, spiritual fruits, spiritual wine and other daily necessities.
Since these caravans did not agree to arrive together, almost every day on the flat avenues outside Xianyang City, caravans composed of dozens or even hundreds of camel beasts could be seen.
At this moment, Zhou Yang was still two or three thousand miles away from Liuyun Immortal City, but if he looked down from the air, every few dozen or ten miles, he could see one or more caravans under different banners.
Among some large caravans, Zhou Yang even saw the figure of an escort monk with a Purple Mansion period cultivation.
At the same time, on the way, Zhou Yang also saw the figures of monks who rushed to Liuyun Immortal City by various means, and there were even some Jindan monks like him.
All of these confirm from the side that the prosperity of Liuyun Immortal City is illustrated.
In addition, there is another thing that makes Zhou Yang Dachang insightful, in order to facilitate the communication between the various immortal cities and fang cities in the territory, the "Liuyun Business Alliance" specially domesticates a fourth-order demon beast "Cloud Whale Beast" as a passenger camel beast, which is controlled by the monks of the Purple Mansion period to travel to and from all directions to transport those monks in need in various immortal cities and Fang cities in the territory.
Although this "cloud whale beast" is only a fourth-order demon beast, it is more than 100 zhang long, with a back width of dozens of zhang, and it looks like a whale in the sea, but it has wide membranous wings on both sides, and it is born with the ability to control the air flow and fly, and can enter and exit the sea of clouds, even if it flies for several days and nights without resting.
What's even better is that this "cloud whale beast" has a gentle personality, as long as it is not attacked, it will not take the initiative to hurt people, and the domesticated "cloud whale beast", even if a weak mortal stands on its back, will not show dissatisfaction, it is a very good camel beast choice.
A "Cloud Whale Beast" can put thousands of seats on its back, and every time it goes to the immortal city or Fang City of the "Flowing Cloud Business Alliance", it will land down to pick up the monks who need to take it.
Since the "Cloud Whale Beast" flew faster than the foundation building monks, and the flight was smooth, even the foundation building period monks were mostly willing to spend a few or a dozen spirit stones to take the "Cloud Whale Beast" on the way.
The "Liuyun Business Alliance" can easily earn back the spirit stones spent on the purchase of the "Cloud Whale Beast" just by collecting these travel fees.
Yes, these "Cloud Whale Beasts" were all purchased by the "Liuyun Business Alliance".
According to Zhou Yang's inquiry, the origin of the "Cloud Whale Beast" is the overseas immortal cultivation world, and the number of wild "Cloud Whale Beasts" is extremely rare, and most of the "Cloud Whale Beasts" in the immortal cultivation world are from the animal parks of several overseas powers.
Those overseas powers domesticated the "cloud whale beast", and only sold males to the outside world, and even if females were occasionally sold, they were the kind of females who lost their fertility.
Even so, not everyone can buy the "Cloud Whale Beast", a spirit beast of great strategic value.
In the entire Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm, only the "Liuyun Business Alliance" spent a lot of money to purchase some "Cloud Whale Beasts" from the overseas Immortal Cultivation Realm to use as passenger camel beasts.
The rest of the super forces may also be able to buy it, but there is no need for that, because the "Cloud Whale Beast" that leaves the sea is very expensive to maintain, and they do not have the condition of "Liuyun Business Alliance", and they can earn back these spirit stones just by collecting travel fees.
Following such a "Cloud Whale Beast", Zhou Yang finally rushed to the outside of Liuyun Immortal City at sunset one day.
Under the afterglow of the setting sun, Zhou Yang overlooked Liuyun Immortal City in the sky, and was greatly shocked in his heart.
This immortal city is built around a peak that reaches the sky, and the center of the city is the "Liuyun Immortal Mountain", which is known as the first spiritual mountain in the world of cultivating immortals in Liuyun Continent.
Liuyun Immortal Mountain is as high as 8,800 zhang, towering into the clouds and straight into the sky, which is higher than the main peak of the Broken Cloud Mountain Range.
This immortal mountain is in an area of more than three thousand zhang, and it is covered and covered by formations all the year round, and only the high-level monks of the "Flowing Cloud Business Alliance" are qualified to enter the area above to cultivate.
The area below 3,000 zhang is the core and most prosperous commercial area of Liuyun Immortal City, where the average number of spirit stones traded every day is said to reach 10 million!
The commercial area is only used for trading, that is, there are cave residences, and they are also used by the owners of the shops.
Therefore, the real residential and industrial areas of Liuyun Xiancheng are still in the vast urban area outside the core business district.
That's a huge city!
The entire Liuyun Immortal City, surrounding the Liuyun Immortal Mountain in the central area, is an irregular circle, and the depth of the urban area on either side is more than a thousand miles, if you count the area occupied by the Liuyun Immortal Mountain, the width of the urban area must be close to three thousand miles!
According to incomplete statistics, the number of immortal cultivators in Liuyun Immortal City has remained above 200,000 all year round, of which about thirty percent are low-level monks who work and serve the "Liuyun Merchant Alliance", forty percent are monks who have traveled here, and thirty percent are monks who have settled here to practice.
In addition, in this vast urban area, there are still hundreds of thousands of mortals, most of whom are mortals who have some relationship with the various families within the "Liuyun Business Alliance", and they can live in the urban area and do the dirty work that immortal cultivators are not willing to do.
Even so, the vast urban area still seems extremely empty, like the kind of traffic and crowding in ordinary cities, which will definitely not appear in this kind of immortal city, even in the most prosperous core business district.
Immortal cultivators all attach great importance to private space, even if everyone knows that the immortal city is very safe, but when walking on the street, two strange immortal cultivators will deliberately keep a distance of more than one zhang.
This is also one of the main reasons why each immortal city still builds such a big immortal city when the number of permanent residents is obviously not large.
One thing that is very different from other immortal cities is that Liuyun Immortal City does not prohibit emptying, does not charge entry fees and detention fees, and does not even need to register the identity of a monk entering the city, even if it is symbolic.
In other words, any monk could enter and exit Liuyun Immortal City at will.
But it's not that such a Liuyun Immortal City has poor public security.
On the contrary, as a fairy city with very strong commercial attributes, Liuyun Immortal City attaches more importance to the security of the city than any other fairy city.
In Liuyun Immortal City, monitoring arrays and magic weapons are arranged everywhere, and there are stubborn city guard soldiers patrolling everywhere.
Any monk who dared to hurt people in the city was captured and severely punished, even killed on the spot.
For thousands of years, the monks who were able to escape safely after hurting people in Liuyun Immortal City could count them on one hand.
There was once a direct descendant of the infant monk of the Gate Sect who used his identity to hurt people in the city, and resisted arrest, and finally was killed on the spot.
And in the end, the Yuan Infant Monk didn't dare to have the slightest idea of revenge, and swallowed this breath stiffly.
It can be seen from this how good the security of Liuyun Immortal City is.
After Zhou Yang arrived outside the city, he did not rush into the city, but took out the "Spirit Rhino Jade Pendant" from the storage ring to stimulate it, and sent a message to the Taoist Xiao Ying.
Not long after this passed, a turquoise sword light flew out from the immortal city and fell straight in front of Zhou Yang, revealing Xiao Ying's pretty face full of joy.
Half an hour later, Xiao Ying, whose tears had not dried on her face, took Zhou Yang into her cave in Liuyun Immortal City.
This cave mansion is located on a fourth-order upper spirit mountain, in a place like Liuyun Immortal City, where every inch of land is valuable, the rent of such a cave mansion alone exceeds five thousand lower grade spirit stones every year.
"Since Qingyang's predecessors told the truth about the concubine, the concubine took Xue Wei and them to this Liuyun Immortal City, because I don't know when you will be able to come back, husband, the concubine body is waiting for news, and at the same time, she uses alchemy to earn spirit stones here to supply daily needs. ”
"Now this cave mansion is originally owned by the Liu family's Danfang who cooperated with the concubine, because the concubine has mainly helped them to refine the Danfang over the years, and earned a large number of spirit stones for them, so they lent it to the concubine for free as a place to stay. ”
"The concubine body generally lives in the cave mansion for a long time, and Xue Wei often takes Tongxuan and several of their juniors to practice outside, a few years ago, this girl also followed the caravan to hundreds of thousands of miles away without the concubine's body, it is really becoming more and more unreasonable, and afterwards the concubine punished her for thinking about it for half a year, so that she could be a little more restrained!"
"Husband, the news of your return, the concubine has not told her yet, wait a few days and then call them over to see you. ”
On the jade bed in the cave, Xiao Ying leaned on Zhou Yang's arms, and whispered Zhou Yang's own experience in these years, and slowly told him.
After listening to the Taoist couple's account, Zhou Yang suddenly whispered with an apologetic face: "You have worked hard all these years, everything is the fault of the husband, it is the husband who deceived you, and the husband is sorry for you......"
"When I first heard Qingyang's predecessors tell the truth of the matter, the concubine was indeed full of resentment towards your husband, but afterwards, the concubine calmed down, and she also understood your worries, and understood that you were afraid that the concubine was worried and chose to deceive and conceal it, so naturally there was no hatred. ”
Xiao Ying whispered, looking up at the man's face full of apology, the jade hand was raised, gently caressing the man's handsome face as smooth as jade, and muttered in the mist in her beautiful eyes: "It's just that husband, you and I are one, there is nothing to say, the concubine would rather worry every day, pray for your husband every day, and don't want your husband to deceive the concubine, and I don't want you to know why you have an accident if something happens!"
"No! I swear to my husband that I will never deceive Ying'er again in the future!"
Zhou Yang stretched out his hand and hugged the body of the Taoist couple tightly, so that the two hearts of the Taoist couple were tightly together, and said in a firm and powerful voice: "No matter what happens in the future, the husband will face it with you, and he will never leave you alone!"
Xiao Ying said that he was worried about him, and in the past few decades in the "Sky Fairyland", he was often worried about the other party.
At that time, he was worried that Xiao Ying would not be able to leave Xianyang City in time, and would be hurt by the "Heaven Splitting True Demon" who frantically retaliated against the Xuanyang Immortal Sect.
I was afraid that when Xiao Ying followed his arrangement and returned to the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm, something would happen in the Broken Cloud Mountain Range.
This kind of fear made him feel tormented in his heart, so he also reflected on whether his decision to choose to conceal and deceive was really appropriate.
Now that he is finally reunited with Xiao Ying, listening to Xiao Ying's sincere words, he knows that he is indeed wrong.
The little couple swore an oath, and soon some of the depression in their hearts melted, and Zhou Yang also took the opportunity to bring up the issue of Xiao Ying's marriage.
When he went to the "Heavenly Immortal Realm", Xiao Ying was already a ninth-level cultivator in the Purple Mansion, and now forty-five years have passed, and the matter of knotting Dan is already urgent, and it can't be delayed any longer.
"When the senior Qingyang returned your storage ring to your husband, he said that he was in accordance with the agreement with your husband, and at the same time handed over a copy of [Jade Liquid Golden Pill] to the concubine, but firstly, this thing is precious, and it is better not to use it lightly if you are not sure, and secondly, the concubine has been worried about your husband all these years, and she has no intention of retreating to the Dan. ”
Xiao Ying said as she took out two storage rings from her jade hand and handed them to Zhou Yang, so that they could be returned to their original owners.
"Liuyun Immortal City is a good place, Ying'er, it's safer for you to marry Dan here than anywhere. ”
"As for those spiritual objects that are knotted, you don't have to worry, your husband will help you prepare them, we have spirit stones now, and we are not afraid that we can't afford these things!"
Zhou Yang took the storage ring and put it on, patted a few storage rings on his hand with a generous face, and took over the matter of helping the Taoist couple to marry the Dan with a bold face.
"What the husband said is that as long as there are spirit stones in Liuyun Immortal City, anything can be bought, and it just so happens that the concubine has a good relationship with the Liu family Danfang, so you might as well ask them to help buy these things, they are the head snakes, and it is definitely much more convenient to buy these things than to buy them ourselves. ”
Xiao Ying pursed her lips and smiled, she was also very heartwarming to the man's arrogant behavior of spending a lot of money for himself, and couldn't help but smile and express her opinion.
The Liu Family Danfang in her mouth, Zhou Yang already knew from her previous account that it was an official member of the "Liuyun Business Alliance" and the property of the Liu family in Hongliuhe.
This Liu family has only joined the "Liuyun Business Alliance" for more than a thousand years, and their qualifications are not very old, and there is now a Jindan stage monk and five Zifu stage monks in their clan, and they control a large scale of Fang City "Luo Yanfang" outside, mainly dealing in all kinds of elixirs and elixir business.
Liu's Danfang is the most important industry of the Liu family in Liuyun Immortal City, originally only the Liu family had a fourth-order middle-grade alchemist in charge, in a place like Liuyun Immortal City, the small Liu's Danfang can barely survive, but it may not be how profitable it is.
However, after Xiao Ying, who had been promoted to a fourth-order high-grade alchemist, joined, the elixir produced by the Liu Clan's Danfang finally gained some fame in Liuyun Immortal City, and won a certain reputation in some circles of Purple Mansion monks.
Because of this, the Liu family is willing to lend this fourth-order Shangpin Cave Mansion to Xiao Ying to live in, so as to win her over to work for the Liu family Danfang for a long time.
Xiao Ying really wanted to buy things to assist in the Dan, and asked the Liu family to come forward to help buy it, it was indeed a good move, at least the Liu family definitely hoped that she could form a golden pill in one fell swoop, and then help the Liu family Danfang earn more spirit stones.
However, the most gratifying thing for Zhou Yang is that Xiao Ying has finally experienced it, knows how to make the best use of things, and rationalizes the use of the network resources in her hands.
You must know that this kind of thing, if it was Xiao Ying, who had just gone to the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Realm with him before, she would definitely not be able to do it.
He bowed his head lightly with a look of relief on his face:
"It's okay, since Ying'er you trust the Liu family, let them do it, the identity of the husband is sensitive, although there is a mask to hide the identity, it is not good to get too close to you, so as not to let people guess the true identity of the husband through you. ”
"Next, Weifu will rent a fifth-order cave mansion in Liuyun Immortal City as a temporary cultivation place, and by the way, buy some useful spiritual objects, if you can buy a few copies of [Purple Heart Chalcedony], it will be even better!"