The nameless small desert island where Su Chen is in retreat, tens of thousands of miles away, Chisha Island.

This island is in the multi-mountain spirit island group, the island is seven or eight hundred miles in circumference, the red sandstone is as red as fire, and the strange rocks are abrupt. The island is full of fire, and apart from a small amount of fire-type spirit grass, there is almost no ordinary grass and trees growing.

This island is one of the few islands in the East China Sea that can produce fire-based spirit ore.

On this island, there are only a thousand low-level fire cultivators living here, absorbing fire aura to cultivate, forming a monk settlement. Because the fire aura is too heavy, it is difficult for mortals to live for a long time, and there is no mortal city.

However, there are more than a dozen large fire ore farms on the island, which produce fire ore and are the main income of Chisha Island.

A splendid fire rock hall on the top of the island is the palace of Cao Dedao, the lord of Jindan Island.

The main palace.

A middle-aged monk with a grim face sat on the throne in the hall with a calm face, looking at the monks in the hall.

On both sides of His Royal Highness, there were more than a dozen foundation-building monks, standing with their hands down, uneasy.

They are all cronies and subordinates of the island owner Cao Dedao, and are responsible for the production of more than a dozen mines on Chisha Island.

At this time of year, they report the income of each mine to the owner.

"Owner, this is the income and expenditure account book of the red refining stone on the island this year. This year's spirit ore grade has decreased slightly, resulting in a decrease in income. However, the main reason is that there is a shortage of miners, so that some of the mines are suspended. This year's total income is nearly 30% less. ”

A Zhuji monk held a thick account book in his hand and cautiously looked at Cao Dedao's face, as if he was afraid that this bad news would attract the monstrous anger of the island owner.

"Reduced by 30%?"

Cao Dedao looked at the account books of this year's income and expenditure handed in by his subordinates, and frowned deeply.

In the mines of Chisha Island, the income of the fire mine in recent years has not decreased year by year. But this year's decline is particularly severe, not only the grade of the spirit ore has decreased, but the output has also decreased significantly.

At the root of the problem, this red sand island is an old mine that has been dug for thousands of years after all, and the rich ore has long been exhausted, and only some barren mines can continue to excavate the residual ore, which is extremely difficult to mine.

He even had to let his younger brother Cao Dechang go to Middle-earth and traffic some mortals to come to Chisha Island as mining slaves to save the cost of digging spiritual mines.

But mortals who live on this island with a strong fire aura will be poisoned by fire and die in a few years, so that every few years they have to bring a new batch of mine slaves over.

If it's just a decrease in income on the island, it's nothing, it's just a big deal to have a little money and save a little money.

But Cao Dedao has another headache, that is, the cost of Chisha Island is very large.

In addition to the cultivation expenses of the thousands of monks on the island, he also had to pay a huge amount of taxes to the Spirit Island Alliance every year.

Spirit Island Alliance!

This is the first powerful force established by the immortal cultivators of the Middle-earth Race in the East China Sea.

Although the East China Sea is large and boundless, the number of spirit islands occupied by immortal cultivators is actually very limited. There are still a very large number of wild islands, occupied by powerful demon monks and the local barbarian natives of the East China Sea.

It took thousands of years for Terran monks to come across the sea from Middle-earth to gradually occupy these islands in the East China Sea. With the Jindan monk as the owner of the island, the sea area is under the control of the human race.

The Terran Immortal Cultivators of the East China Sea were all from the Middle Earth Immortal Cultivation Realm, and most of them were Jindan elders from the Five Great Immortal Sects and dozens of Minor Immortal Sects.

In the early days, the spirit islands in the hands of the human race were very limited, fighting with each other, and the internal friction was very serious.

Later, in order to prevent the immortal cultivators from splitting into different forces because of the different origins of the Immortal Sect. In this distant East China Sea, the Jindan monks no longer act as the great and small immortal sects of Middle-earth, but form the Spirit Island Alliance together, and wage war against the islands where the natives and demon cultivators are entrenched in the depths of the East China Sea in order to compete for more Spirit Islands.

All the Jindan Island owners in the alliance have to pay an expensive fee every year to support the expansion of the Spirit Island Alliance, and this money must not be missing.

If you don't pay, you will be deprived of the identity of the owner of Lingdao Island, and you can only become a Jindan cultivator without a fixed territory, and you will no longer be protected by the alliance.

Chisha Island's income has now plummeted by three percent, which makes Cao Dedao quite a headache.

But he would never dare to offend the Spirit Island Alliance.

Cao Dedao was quite helpless, and after a moment of silence, he could only say to the monks in the palace: "All the monks on the island will be cut by 30% to tide over the difficulties! Next year, the income of the mine will increase, and then the income will be raised. ”

Most of the foundation building monks and qi refining monks in Chisha Island, including the island's guards, refining masters and apprentices in refining workshops, miners, etc., are all subordinates and subordinates who work for Cao Dedao. They worked for the owner of Chisha Island, and they naturally had to be the most important. Otherwise, who wants to serve him in vain.

In the hall, all the foundation building monks looked at each other.

Such a drastic reduction of 30% will definitely cause a lot of complaints among the low-level monks.

However, the income of Chisha Island has plummeted, and such measures can only be taken.

Suddenly, a guard hurriedly came to report, saying that Cao Dechang had returned to Chisha Island with more than a dozen Qi refining cultivators and was heading to the Treasure Hall.

After a while, Cao Dechang came to the treasure hall to see Cao Dedao.

"Second brother, it's back! This time I went to Middle Earth to trade slaves, and those thousands of mine slaves can be sent to the mines?!"

Cao Dedao's cold and heavy face finally showed a slight smile. But he found that Cao Dechang's expression was a little wrong, and he looked depressed.

"Big brother, you have to be the master for your brother!"

Cao Dechang pouted, knelt on the ground, and wailed.

"What's wrong?... Could it be that there is something wrong with the miners?"

Cao Dedao's expression changed slightly.

"It's not just mine slaves, big brother, I bought a large shipload of thousands of mine slaves from Middle-earth and came back, but on the way I met a foundation building monk from Middle-earth. I kindly let him take the boat and treat him with good food and drink, but the man was so domineering that he not only took away my ship, but even I myself was forced by him to sign a 50-year deed of sale, so that I could serve him for 50 years before I could leave. I ran back when he didn't have time to be distracted. ”

Cao Dechang cried.

"Oh, he doesn't know that you are my Cao Dedao's younger brother?"

"Yes, but he doesn't care!"

"A mere foundation building monk, dare to be so bold?!"

When Cao Dedao heard this, he couldn't help but snort coldly.

He is upset by the sharp drop in income on Chisha Island, and is waiting for his second brother to come back from the mining slave trafficking to come back for emergencies.

Unexpectedly, this incident happened again and robbed all the mine slaves.

He couldn't help but feel angry in his heart.

The two brothers are half-siblings, and they are almost the same age, but their qualifications for cultivating immortals are much worse. It has been decades since he broke through the Jindan realm, but this younger brother is still in the early stage of foundation building.

He knew that his younger brother didn't have much strength in the early stage of foundation building, and his ability to cause trouble was not small.

I can't believe all these words. Most likely Cao Dechang offended someone at sea and had a dispute with others, wanting him to save face.

However, even if Cao Dechang is a waste, it is also his second brother Cao Dedao. didn't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, robbed a slave ship, and forced his younger brother to sell himself as a slave. What a rampant person this is, to dare to provoke Monk Jindan like this!

"Big brother, this person's surname is Su, and he has only only cultivated in the late stage of foundation building, and he is near the Emerald Isle! My deed of sale is still on him, and I ask my eldest brother to ask him for it back. Otherwise, I won't have the face to see anyone in the East China Sea!"

Cao Dechang hurriedly said.

"Hmph, let's go, find him!"

Cao Dedao's face was gloomy, and he immediately took more than a dozen foundation building monks in the main hall, and together with his second brother Cao Dechang, rushed to the Emerald Island to find the whereabouts of the monk.

Half a month later.

Cao Dedao and Cao Dechang rushed to the Emerald Island and found that the slave trading giant ship was still anchored in the harbor, and the sailors and crew were still resting on the Emerald Island, but they did not find Su Chen's whereabouts.

Cao Dedao sent all the monks to search in all directions, and after searching for several months on many spiritual islands suitable for living and cultivating, they did not find the whereabouts of this person.

It seemed that Su Chen had suddenly disappeared from the Multiple Mountain Spirit Island Group, and no one knew his whereabouts.

Could it be that he left this area and went to the deep sea?

Cao Dechang wondered.

They were searching in the sea, but they accidentally found that near a deserted island on the edge of the Spirit Island Group, a cloud of the Jindan period was born.

This huge Heavenly Thunder Tribulation Cloud covered hundreds of miles, and the terrifying aura spread thousands of miles away, and the scope of influence reached tens of thousands of miles.

Is there a Jindan monk in the crossing?

This is a strange thing!

For at least a hundred years, there have been no Jindan monks who have survived in the area of the multiple mountain spirit islands.

Cao Dedao was taken aback, and immediately went over with Cao Dechang and a group of foundation-building monks to see the situation.

In this area, there are only more than a dozen Jindan Island owners.

Since a new Jindan monk has been born, of course I have to pay a visit and make friends.

At this time, dozens of miles of the nameless desert island, thousands of foundation building and qi refining cultivators had already gathered, pointing and talking excitedly about this grand occasion.

Although Cao Dedao was the owner of Jindan Island, he didn't dare to get too close to the inside of the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation Cloud, and he just looked at it from dozens of miles away.