The Jiuqu River Valley, as its name suggests, is formed by a large river as wide as 100 zhang through the mountains, because it has nine big bends, so the river is called the Jiuqu River, and the two banks of the Jiuqu River are called the Jiuqu River Valley. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Xuantian Sect is located in the territory of Shanhai Country, it has its own exclusive sphere of influence, and the Jiuqu River is a clear boundary river, the west side of the river belongs to Xuantian Sect, and the east side of the river is Quzhou, one of the 39 states of Shanhai Country.

The land of the Jiuqu River Valley is full of aura, but because the mountains on both sides are high and dense, and there are many demon beasts, it is not suitable as a base for a force, so there are no ordinary mortals and monks to settle down and reproduce here.

Until the discovery of spiritual stone mines and valuable planktonic wood here.

The importance of the spirit stones in the immortal cultivation realm is self-evident, and all forces are extremely interested in every spirit stone mine in the territory, not to mention that this is also a medium and large spirit stone mine with an annual output of nearly one million high-grade spirit stones.

In addition, when exploring and developing the spirit stone mine, the monks of the Xuantian Sect found a huge amount of floating wood between the dense forests and mountain streams.

Floating wood is a rare wood, more than a thousand years of floating wood will be hugged thick, this wood is as heavy as iron and stone after felling, but after being dissolved into a plank to dry, it is as light as a feather, and has extraordinary hardness and buoyancy, so it becomes the best wood for building palaces and building vehicles and ships.

There is an endless open sea on the east side of the Shanhai Continent, which is rich in resources, and large and small immortal cultivation forces need a large amount of wood to build ships and find resources in the open sea, so the demand for hard and light floating wood is naturally extremely high, and it has also created the great value of floating wood.

A thousand-year-old floating wood is worth nearly 100 high-grade spirit stones, and for this alone, the floating wood is like a spiritual stone mine on the ground, and Xuantian Sect will naturally develop it with all its might.

Therefore, after discovering the spirit stone mine and floating wood successively, Xuantian Sect immediately invested a lot of manpower and material resources to develop the land of the Jiuqu River, clear out demon beasts, build towns, relocate mortals, and send monks...... After four or five hundred years of development, a medium-sized Jiuqu city with more than 200,000 mortals has been formed on the west side of the Jiuqu River Valley.

On the east side of the Jiuqu River Valley, after Xuantianzong discovered the spirit stone mine and floating wood, Shanhai Country also sent monks to explore and develop, and also found a spirit stone mine and floating wood of a similar scale, so he naturally went all out to develop it, and also built a town of similar scale, also called Jiuqu City.

A river valley and two cities, which are respectively called Jiuqu West City and Jiuqu East City, belong to two completely different forces from the rivers and lakes and temples.

The difference in the dominant forces also created a difference in the management and operation of the two cities.

The vast majority of the people in the Jiuqu West City are mortals relocated from the Xuantian Sect, they are mainly families, several large families control the Jiuqu West City, and make a living by mining spirit stone mines and cutting down floating wood, and most of the residents in the city are free people, and ordinary people generally rise and set at sunset.

The main task of the Xuantian Sect is to send monks to guard here and protect the safety of their working environment in order to obtain immortal cultivation resources.

Jiuqu Dongcheng is also dominated by mortals, but half of the mortals are free people, and the other half are slaves.

Here, except for a battalion of soldiers sent by the Shanhai State to guard the town, the rest of the managers are all officials sent by the Shanhai State.

But no matter what kind of management, there is only one ultimate goal, the monk protects the mortals, and the mortals serve the immortals with the fruits of their labor.

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Riding the flying mount, after five days, under the leadership of Le Chi and Zhao Jia, the fourteen people of the Xuantian Sect Shengquan Peak appeared in the sky above Jiuqu City, and the fourteen monks of Zizhu Peak arrived almost at the same time as them.

The land of the Jiuqu River Valley is rich in resources and has an important location, and each time the town guard is rotated, the people of the two peaks will cooperate to complete it, so that it can not only increase the familiarity of the same sect but also supervise each other.

The monks led by Zizhu Peak were Sima Wu and Gu Lianying, two deacons of Jiedan, and the fourteen disciples led by him were the same as Chang Feng and others, all of whom were personal disciples.

Among the disciples of Zizhu Peak, Chang Feng saw Miao Yeyu, the object of Wei Xiaoyan's pursuit, and also saw Luan Qingzhi, whom he was familiar with.

The twelve peaks of Xuantian Sect were compared at the same time, and Zizhu Peak also had a small competition when Shengquan Peak was small, and Luan Qingzhi also participated, but he did not win the championship like Chang Feng, but his results were also good and ranked third, and he was praised by his division commander Gu Lianying.

These things have Wei Xiaoyan, a person who often runs to Zizhu Peak, and Chang Feng is naturally clear.

Seeing the arrival of the disciples of Zizhu Peak at this time, especially seeing Miao Yeyu, Wei Xiaoyan's face blossomed, and he squeezed his eyebrows at Chang Feng again and again, if it weren't for the fact that both of them were riding their respective flying spirit beasts, it is estimated that they would have been holding Chang Feng and shouting at the sky to let him get a year to get along with the people he admires.

The two sides gathered, Sima Wu and Le Chi bowed to each other, each exchanged pleasantries, and the people of the two peaks joined together, and then urged the flying spirit beast to fly towards the Jiuqu West City.

In the city of Jiuqu City, there is a city lord's mansion within a radius of several miles, one inside and one outside.

The outer city is the city lord management body jointly elected by several major families in Jiuqu City, responsible for managing all the affairs of Jiuqu City, and is the maintainer of the daily operation of Jiuqu City.

Just like Hewan Town, where Chang Feng once been, there are many surname families in Jiuqu City, but the largest families are the Ye family, the Bai family and the Zhou family, and the old city lord was elected from these three families.

This term of the city lord of Jiuqu City is Ye Xingde, a monk of the Ye family, and the two deputy city lords are Bai Ping, a monk of the Bai family, and Zhou Youde, a monk of the Zhou family.

The inner city is the place where Xuantian Sect sent the town guards to live, they represent Xuantian Sect, and are mainly responsible for guarding Jiuqu City, inspecting and supervising the spirit stone mine and floating wood production area, and of course, there is also a task to take away the resources of the Jiuqu River Valley in the previous year and return them to the sect at the time of handover.

Under the witness of the three city lords, Le Chi and Sima Wu completed the handover of the town guard with the people of Feilong Peak and Lihe Peak who were guarding here last year.

The leaders of both sides are people who are familiar with each other among the deacons of each peak branch, and Jiuqu City has been built for hundreds of years, and has a set of special rules and systems, so the handover process is extremely smooth, after the completion of the handover, the people of Feilong Peak and Lihe Peak left with a year's production of spirit stones and floating wood in the Jiuqu River Valley in a flying spirit beast.

From this moment on, within the next year, the safety and supervision of Jiuqu City and Lingshi Floating Wood Production Area will be handed over to the people of Shengquan Peak and Zizhu Peak led by Le Chi and Sima Wu.