Chapter 1 The Rich and the Rich
In winter, Jibei City is covered with a white expanse of snow everywhere, and the cold wind blows slowly, but the pedestrians walk unhurriedly. Jibei City is the largest city in Luzhou, with a population of more than one billion, even if Luzhou is located in a small place on the border of the human race, it can definitely be regarded as a medium-sized city in the entire spiritual world.
Jibei City is famous for its commerce, with convenient transportation, and is a hub and throat connecting several nearby state capitals, and it is not far from the border of the alien bone clan. Among them, the largest Jibei Commercial Bank is almost a monopoly on all business transactions in Luzhou, and the Xue family in Luzhou has become the largest family in Luzhou, for no other reason, the Xue family is the owner of Jibei Commercial Bank.
The Xue family's mansion is located in the very center of Jibei City, with a very large scale, and there are more than 40 houses. There are four gates, open day and night, and there are two huge bronze statues of Pixiu on both sides of each gate, all of which symbolize the great wealth of the Xue family to the world. Every time someone passes by in front of the door, they can't help but glance into the door a few times, which seems to have become a habit for the residents of Jibei City. But on this day, a group of strange people in black cloaks entered the gate of the Xue family with a cart of things.
In a quiet courtyard in Xue Mansion, a man in a purple brocade robe looked at the strange man who walked in from the gate of the courtyard, couldn't help but smile, and hurriedly greeted him. "Brother Xi, you've finally arrived. The man said to the strange man with a smile.
"I met a group of little thieves on the way, so I delayed it for two days, and I hope Brother Xue doesn't mind. The strange man replied with a smile, and as he spoke, he took off his black cloak. If there were ordinary residents of Jibei City here, they would definitely be shocked, because this strange man had no flesh and blood in his body, only a pair of thin bones remained.
"Brother Xi is polite, but this group of little thieves is really not long-eyed, and they actually hit Brother Xi's idea, it is really impossible to steal chickens and rice, I really don't know what if they know that Brother Xue is a master of the Heavenly Dao in the bone clan, and his martial arts are mysterious?"
"Brother Xue, don't slap my ass, I won't give you the goods just because I was praised twice. The strange man waved his hand and said to the man in the purple robe.
"Hehe, since Brother Xi said this, let's start, I wonder if Brother Xi has collected all the goods I want?"
"Hey, it's really hard to find the things that Brother Xue wants this time, especially the two herbs of Tian Vanilla and Pink Bone Flower, but it took me a lot of effort, but I still barely collected them all. The strange man said helplessly.
"Although it is difficult to find, why have I ever treated Brother Xi badly? Since it has cost Brother Xi so much effort, the price is not a problem, although Brother Xi has made a good offer. The man said with a smile.
The strange man and the man immediately began to trade, and in another courtyard of the Xue Mansion, an eleven or twelve-year-old boy was pinching a snow ball, and in front of the boy was a row of maids holding plates slowly walking by, only to hear a "whoosh", the snow ball hit one of the maids.
The maids hurriedly looked in the direction where the snow ball was flying, and when they saw the boy throwing the snow ball, they couldn't help but have a trace of helplessness on their faces. The leading maid walked over slowly, deliberately made a straight face, and said to the young man: "Second young master, why are you messing around again, shouldn't you be studying with your father and your eldest brother at this time?"
"Sister Ying, just now a guy in a black cloak came over, saying that a guy named Xilong is here, and he wants to talk to his father, so his father went out first, and the eldest brother is still studying inside, I think reading is too boring, so I sneaked out. The boy grimaced as he spoke.
"Xilong?The number one master of the Bone Dragon Chamber of Commerce of the Bone Clan, how could he come?Second Young Master, do you know?" The maid surnamed Ying heard Xilong's name and her face changed slightly, and she hurriedly asked the young man.
"How do I know, number one? Sister Ying, what is the Bone Clan?" asked the young man with his black and white eyes open to the maid surnamed Ying.
"Second young master, the old man's Jibei Commercial Bank has almost monopolized all the commerce in Luzhou, you should know that even among the 72 states of the entire Terran Race, the Jibei Commercial Bank is enough to rank in the top ten among the Terran Commercial Firms. Second Young Master, you must know that the spirit world is very big, no, very big, and the bone clan is one of the many races in the spirit world, the size, although it is not as good as the human race, but it is not much worse, and the demon clan and the water spirit clan are all allies of the human race. And the Bone Dragon Chamber of Commerce is the third largest Chamber of Commerce of the Bone Clan, which is not inferior to our Jibei Commercial Bank, or even better, and Xilong, as the first master, has cultivated the top alchemy and has the great magical power of the Bone Dragon Divine Palm. I heard that it is enough to rival the immortal cultivators in the late stage of the Yudan. The maid replied.
"It's so powerful, but Sister Ying, immortal cultivator, I know, isn't Uncle Zhou, the guest secretary of our family, just right? I once saw that he could put a small fireball with his hands, but what is the Dan Period?" The young man's eyes lit up first, and then his face immediately showed a confused look, and he asked the maid surnamed Ying.
"Xilong is much more powerful than your Uncle Zhou, your Uncle Zhou is just in the early stage of foundation building, okay, these will naturally be known when you grow up. I still have something to do, Second Young Master, hurry up and go back to studying. The maid surnamed Ying touched the young man's head and left with the rest of the maids.
"Second brother, you're lazy again, and your father will scold you again when he comes back. A seventeen or eighteen-year-old man in a white brocade robe ran over and said to the boy.
"Big brother, you just need to study hard, you will take care of the family business in the future, I don't want to study, it's so boring, how boring." The boy pouted to the young man.
"Xue Yun, go back to study with me!" The young man dragged the young man away, and the young man saw that the eldest brother was angry, so he had to follow the eldest brother and leave.
The young man's name is Xue Yun, the young man is his eldest brother Xue Yu, and it is the boss of Jibei Commercial Bank, Xue Tao, who talks business with Xilong. The eldest brother Xue Yu has been an obedient child since he was a child, he does whatever his father says, and has shown great interest in business since he was a child. And Xue Yun is different, he doesn't like to read, he doesn't like to do business, and he doesn't like to listen to his father's words, but what is delicious he likes to eat, and he can play whatever is fun, Xue Tao is also very helpless about his son.
Although the family is very helpless about Xue Yun, Xue Yun can be said to be famous in this Jibei City. Because when he was born, Zeng was born with a vision, the sky was filled with seven-colored glow, and Xue Yun was born with a jade pendant tightly in his hand, this jade pendant was crystal clear, and a blue small tripod was depicted on the front, lifelike. On the back, there are three three, four small and seven quaint characters. This jade pendant is very magical, it is said that when Xue Yun was seven years old, he went out to play with his eldest brother Xue Yu, and accidentally lost the jade pendant, but the next day Xue Yun woke up, and the jade pendant appeared in his hand again. Since then, the matter of Xue Yun and his jade pendant is well known in Jibei City, and even people in Mianzhou, which is close to Luzhou, have heard of it.
Because the strange event of the jade pendant spread very widely, there were also many immortal cultivators nearby who heard about it, thinking that this was a strange treasure, two years ago, there were even high-level immortal cultivators in the god stage who came to the Xue family and checked this jade pendant, but because they couldn't detect the slightest fluctuation of aura, they left in disappointment, but they also checked Xue Yun Xue Yu's spiritual root attribute before leaving, Xue Tao didn't have much hope for this matter, the Xue family, as the first family in Jibei City, has been inherited for thousands of years, in order to protect the normal operation of the business, naturally there are many low-level immortal cultivators and body cultivators, and naturally let the immortal cultivators check the spiritual roots of the Xue family's children, but it is disappointing that for thousands of years, No one in the Xue family has ever had a spiritual root, so Xue Tao just had the attitude of trying it out, but this time he was pleasantly surprised that his youngest son, Xue Yun, actually had a spiritual root, and according to this immortal cultivator, it was still a good dual-attribute spiritual root.