Chapter 254: Trading City (3)
As the trading city became more and more prosperous, the rental prices of those shops and stalls became higher and higher, and the land in the city can be said to be at a premium.
Even if the entire city occupies a hundred billion miles of land, it is not enough.
Most of the shops and stalls will not be sold, and the founders of the Eight Great Masters still plan to collect rent from these shops and stalls, even if these rents are extremely high, which discourages many law realm masters, but there are still many law monarchs, peak law realm masters competing for bids.
Even other common law emperors saw that business in the trading city was so hot, and they had to spend a lot of money to buy a piece of land in the city to do business.
This is what they promised to give them when they personally went to see the eight ancient emperors, as for giving it to them, don't even think about it, for them, each of the eight ancient emperors is far stronger than their existence, whether it is age or strength, they are not comparable.
Although the Eight Ancient Emperors would not look down on those junior Law Emperors, they would not surrender their identities to show favor to them.
When it comes to the realm of the Law Emperor, the gap between the origin of each point of the Law is twice the difference in strength, and the difference in strength between the small realms is even three or four times, plus those antique-level ancient emperors have many means, and there are really a lot of secret techniques to greatly improve their combat power, even the junior Law Emperor is also a Law Emperor, and he will not be their opponent in the later stage, unless it is a demon-level figure like Pangu.
The thirty-three ordinary law emperors all bought a piece of land in the trading city, the large ones were thousands of miles, and the small ones were hundreds of miles, which was not worth mentioning compared to the total area of the trading city, but the eight ancient emperors were just unwilling to sell more, and these junior law emperors were helpless.
And they had to promise to abide by the rules of the Exchange City, otherwise the eight founders would not sell to them.
In order to buy these sites, each of them paid a lot of money, almost half of their net worth, of course, the annual income also made them very satisfied, and felt that the price was not unjustly spent.
However, no matter how much the price of land in the city grows and how expensive the rent becomes, the entry tax remains the original price, which ensures the prosperity of the trading city.
The rules prohibiting hands-on activities in the trading city provide a good shelter for other law realm lords, law monarchs, those law realm masters who are hiding from their enemies, law monarchs often choose to hide in the trading city, as long as they hide inside, they are all enemies who can't help them.
As this happens, the eight antiques soon discover a new business opportunity, and they decide that they can't afford to give them shelter in vain, so they come up with a passtoken.
Everyone who pays the entrance tax can stay in the city for a full year, and after that time, they will continue to pay the entry tax, and each entry tax paid will allow them to stay for an additional year.
Except, of course, those who have rented shops and stalls in the city, and those who have settled in the city.
Although the entry tax is not much, but if you pay it once a year, even the law monarch will feel pain, and then those ancient emperors will make out the inn and the cultivation secret room, as long as you pay the money, you can live in it, you don't need to pay more city tax, as long as you have enough money, you can live for as long as you want.
In order to prevent the Lord of the Law Realm, the Law Monarch from hiding in his own Law Realm and evading taxes, those old antiques also joined forces to set a ban in the entire trading city, and after entering the city, the Law Realm Lord, although the Law Monarch can access things from the Law Realm, but he cannot enter and exit the Law Realm.
It is equivalent to that in the trading city, the Law Realm is just a storage magic weapon compared to the Law Realm Lord and the Law Monarch.
Because the Law Realm is the most important thing for the Chaos Strong, it should be completely controlled by the master, and the Eight Ancient Emperors forcibly restricted the ability of the Chaos Powerhouse to enter and exit the Law Realm, which could not be done with the strength of any of them, and they could only join forces to make those Chaos powerhouses unable to enter and exit the Law Realm in the Trading City.
Of course, there is no problem in summoning the Law Realm to descend, after all, although these eight old antiques are powerful, it is impossible to cut off the connection between the Chaos powerhouses and the Law Realm.
Even so, there are still many people who take refuge in the trading city, and in order not to be killed by strong enemies, they even gradually transform into professional merchants, because the wealth spent hiding in the trading city is too large, even if they are worth a lot of money, they can't afford to sit on the empty side, and they try their best to make money in order to survive.
Of course, the money here is not ordinary gold and silver treasures, but refers to cultivation resources.
Although these chaos powerhouses don't know how to do business at all, it is not difficult for them, and the skills that mortals can learn in a few years are naturally not difficult in the eyes of these powerhouses whose learning ability far exceeds that of mortals and whose longevity is infinite.
For hundreds of millions of years, each of them has reached the point of perfection in the skills of doing business in the trading city, and the ability to make money is enough to ensure that they stay in the trading city for a long time, what buy one get one free, what lottery activities, what vomiting blood sales, what hunger marketing, what discounts and price reductions and a series of sales methods are inexhaustible, after all, for these chaos powerhouses, these little cleverness still exists, and at that time, if their enemies do not have enough patience, they can only retreat.
Or they can choose to settle on the Central Continent and open up a cave.
After all, compared to the trading city, which was every inch of land, the Chaos Central Continent opened up by the Eight Ancient Emperors was free and open to all Chaos powerhouses.
Whether it is the Law Realm Master, the Law Monarch, or the Law Emperor, or even the Origin Divine Servant, mixed element-level beings, they can all live on it, as long as you are bold enough and strong enough.
The Law Emperor will generally open up the Imperial Realm around the Central Continent, and naturally he doesn't look down on the Central Continent, and the other Law Realm Lords, the Law Monarch has many cave mansion spaces or secret realm spaces in the Central Continent.
But because this chaotic central continent is free to open prescriptions and is in a state of no one to manage, the chaos above is certain, and things like killing people and grabbing treasures happen from time to time, and fighting there can be said to be commonplace.
The infinitely vast Central Continent, except for those cities, is in a state of disorder, a hell for the weak, and a paradise for the strong.
As long as you are strong enough, you can live on it like a fish in water, those law realm masters who can't stand it, law monarchs can only take refuge in those law emperors in order to live a stable life, if those law emperors accept them, they can live in the imperial realm of those law emperors, get a relatively stable cultivation environment, and share a certain amount of resources to serve the law emperor, and occasionally get the guidance of the law emperor in cultivation.
Of course, the price comes the loss of freedom.
Or the Elementary Law Realm Lords and Intermediate Law Realm Lords whose strength is too weak, they may choose to leave the Chaos Central Region and wait until their strength is strong enough to come back.
Different people choose differently, in short, the Central Continent is extremely chaotic, and it is very dangerous for the weak, there are many large and small forces on it, and there are law monarchs in each force, because only law monarchs are qualified to establish forces.
There are even half-step law emperor level terrifying powerhouses among the big forces, that is, those people under the law emperor dare not provoke easily, as for the top forces, super forces, they are not on the central continent, but those law emperors, the forces under the command of the ancient emperors, are all located in the emperor realm.
Only their forces are qualified to be called top forces, super forces.
Because only the Law Emperor can open up the Imperial Realm and have the conditions to become a top-level power.
The Eight Ancient Emperors controlled a lot of wealth and resources, and gained a lot of benefits from the Trading City, and even the benefits of the Eight Great Kings City were much better, although the other law emperors had their own cities and had certain benefits, but they could not be compared with the benefits obtained by the Eight Great Founders.
That little income simply can't meet the consumption of them and their respective forces.
You must know that these law emperors in the central region of chaos have basically established their own forces, except for a few elementary law emperors who are attached to the founders, and those emperor-level disciples under the founders.
Although these Law Emperors have established a huge force and have their own cities and resource sources, the consumption of the forces under their command is also a terrifying number.
Don't think that building a force is an easy thing, even if the Law Emperor wants to establish a force, it is not easy to establish a force, there are not enough resources, not rich enough, the power established by the poor Law Emperor cannot attract any strong people at all, and those who are willing to follow them are those who plan to do bad things under their banner, or hope to get their protection.
These people are not of much use to the Law Emperor at all, only the subordinates who can bring benefits to them are what they want. And to meet this requirement, you must be a strong man at the monarch level, and the Lord of the Law Realm is only worthy of doing some physical work, taking on the role of a guard and a soldier.
However, if you want to attract the Law Monarch to them, give up your freedom to serve them, you can't get enough price for which Law Monarch is willing.
As for using the strong, forcibly subjugating the Law Monarch and enslaving them, although it can also be successful, but that is only for the Law Monarch who is weaker, for the strong above the middle monarch, it is not easy to control them and reduce them to slavery.
Don't forget to condense the law of the monarch's scepter, but the monarch is a strong man who has escaped the control of the Great Dao, and the emperor-level powerhouse wants to enslave them, and he doesn't even think about it without strong strength and terrifying secret arts.
Moreover, once such a thing spreads, it is easy to cause attacks from other law emperors, although other law emperors are reluctant to take the initiative to provoke powerhouses of the same level, but those law monarchs who don't feel safe will definitely not mind putting together a certain treasure and asking a few law emperors to take action.
This is equivalent to opening a company, the Law Emperor is the boss, and the forces under his command include those Law Monarchs and Law Realm Masters who work for them, they do things for the Law Emperor, and the Law Emperor pays them cultivation resources, that is, wages.
Once the boss is out of pay, will they still be willing to work for the boss?
Of course not, only slaves do not need wages, but it is impossible to support a large power with slaves, because no one comes to them, and they cannot recruit anyone, because they understand that this boss needs slaves and not employees, and will only let them be cattle and horses and will not pay them.
It was the thirty-three ordinary emperors who had established their power who had received less income and felt that they were about to lose their salaries, so they went to buy a piece of land in the trading city from the eight ancient emperors and begged the eight old-timers to give them food.
Otherwise, when the time comes, they will not be able to support the forces under their command, and they will be forced to disperse, which will be a shame and a big loss.
Although the Law Emperor is indeed stronger than the Law Monarch, they can't be too harsh on their subordinates, especially the subordinates at the monarch level, if they force people away and turn to other Law Emperors, it will be a shame, once the reputation is broken, they won't be able to recruit any strong people, and without the strong power, the power will naturally be weak.
A law emperor alone can't support a top force, after all, other top forces also have law emperors, and you can't compete with them alone.
In the same way, as the eight ancient emperors who opened up a huge imperial realm of eight trillion miles and established a super force that was more powerful than the top forces of the thirty-three ordinary law emperors, they had the existence of the title of founder, and their forces consumed only a lot more resources than those top forces.
Although the number of strong people under the command of the Eight Great Emperors is much less than the number of strong people under the command of other ordinary law emperors, the strong people under the command of the Eight Great Founders are all elites among the elites, at least they are all at the peak of the law realm master level, although the number is less than that of the strong people under the command of other law emperors, but the quality is much higher.
In terms of cultivation, the resources consumed by a strong person with a high realm cultivation level are naturally much more than those with a low realm cultivation, and the resources consumed by a law monarch are dozens or even hundreds of times that of a law realm master.
The elixir they used to heal their injuries after being injured, the chaotic spiritual fluid needed for cultivation, the various materials needed for cultivating secret magical powers, and so on, all required a lot of resources.
Of course, because the wealth obtained by the eight ancient emperors was much more than that of the other law emperors, even if the forces under their command consumed a lot of resources, there was still a lot of surplus, and the accumulated wealth was still a heavenly number for the ordinary law emperors.
It is rumored that the wealth possessed by any one of the founders has reached the level of hundreds of millions of top-grade Origin Spirit Treasures.
This does not mean that the eight ancient emperors really have so many top-grade Origin Spiritual Treasures in their hands, and it is even possible that the High-grade Origin Spiritual Treasures in their hands are not even one-ten-thousandth of this number, they only have all kinds of materials that can represent wealth, Origin Spiritual Roots, and rare treasures.
Even so, for the founders of the Eight Greats, they could never be short of money.