My teacher is a bit strong

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"I don't know what you're talking about, Miss Qing." Mo Yan looked blank at first, then shook his head, "But the city lord is indeed not here."

"I asked." Qingyu said, "No one in the entire border town has seen the so-called City Lord Shi, and even the name of the City Lord Shi was passed down from the City Lord's Mansion. Before that, I was still wondering why this Shi What is the city lord worried about... But now I understand that you are worried that someone will see through your real identity. So what you wanted to say just now, 'the city lord is not here' is indeed true, because he is really gone, It’s just that this ‘absence’ does not mean the same thing as ‘absence’ in other people’s ears.”

Mo Yan's expression remained the same, he just shook his head as before: "It's a very good inference, but I can only say that you guessed wrong."

"Well, I was just cheating on you." Qingyu smiled, "You can tell the city lord for me, if he doesn't want the news of the ruins here to spread, then he'd better agree to my request, otherwise... I But I can’t guarantee how lively you will be here.”

Mo Yan could no longer maintain the calm expression on his face this time, and his pupils shrank instantly: "Why do you..."

"How would I know?" Qingyu tilted her head, and then smiled, "Because I know... any city lord can't stand still, so they will choose to open up trade and attract as many people as possible. To promote the development of the city, so as to ensure the prosperity of a city. But your approach is completely different from other people, because compared with improving the living standard of the city, you care more about absolute control right."

"And this kind of control, apart from allowing you to have extremely high control over the entire city and know all the affairs in the entire city, it does not promote the prosperity of the city very well, because no businessman would like to do so. A city with so many rules that you even have to apply to do business.”

"So according to the normal situation, such a city cannot be strong for a long time after all... But what I saw just now is not like this. In just one city lord's mansion, there are hundreds of monks who have cultivated powerful battle formations. Although their individual strength is not counted Strong, but everyone's cultivation level is very balanced, and the resources that need to be consumed are beyond the affordability of ordinary people."

"In particular, the lord and general of your Baihua Kingdom are only at the third and fifth realms of the Shangxian, but you have the strength close to the first realm of the Shangxian. With your strength, as a The master of the city is more than enough, but you just said that you are not the master of a city, but you are willing to obey the orders of this city master Shi who never shows up, so the strength of this city master Shi must not be inferior to yours."

"In this way, combined with the strength of the soldiers of the city lord's mansion and your strength, the city lord Shi doesn't care about the development of this city but cares more about absolute control, then the answer is very obvious." Qingyu shrugged, "And, it should be There is also another faction who also knows that there are ruins here, but the other party has not found the entrance for a while, so it has been staring at you... Then you say, what will happen if we join forces with the other party? "

"not so good."

A deep voice came from outside the door.

Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged man stepped in.

Compared with Mo Yan, this middle-aged man actually has a long-standing aura of superiority.

Of course, this person's strength is not weak.

In terms of the strength standard of Tianyuan Secret Realm, he has the strength of the third realm of Shangxian, which is comparable to the ruler of Baihua Kingdom.

It's just that his aura is not stable yet, obviously he just broke through.

From the point of view of the mysterious world, this is a cultivator in the earth fairyland who is fusing the second or third law of the five elements.

"It is impossible for me to promise you a license to operate a store." The middle-aged man said in a deep voice, "Because you know my secret, you should also know that if you are here to sell elixir and buy lingzhi , monsters and ferocious beast materials, what impact will it have on this... So let alone me, even my opponent will not be happy to see it happen."

Qingyu was still smiling and didn't answer.

"But..." Seeing what he said, he didn't shake the mind of the stunning woman in front of him, and the city master Shi didn't continue to play tricks, "But I can allow you to build your own transfer station here...you can put The acquired spiritual plants will be transported here for collection, and then transported away through other channels, we will not interfere in any way, and taxation and other matters can also be exempted, I only have one request."

"You said."

"The office you set up here must have no more than five people stationed there, no more than thirty caravans, and no more strength than the second realm of Shangxian." City Lord Shi said in a deep voice, "The Hundred Flowers Kingdom is just a small country. The people here are generally not strong, and being escorted by someone from the second realm of the Ascension Immortal is enough to eliminate the source of all troubles."

"A very reasonable request." Qingyu nodded, "But I'm also quite interested in the battle formation of the soldiers under your command."

"I'll send someone to your inn later." City Lord Shi narrowed his eyes slightly, but opened them again soon, "As my housekeeper's apology for offending you."

"Happy cooperation." Qingyu smiled, then got up, and left with Su Anran and others.

The City Lord Shi stared at the backs of Qingyu and the others with gloomy eyes, but he still didn't say anything after all.

"City Lord." Mo Yan sighed softly, "The subordinates are not effective."

"It has nothing to do with you, that is a terrible woman." City Lord Shi shook his head, "You can ask someone to change a housekeeper later, he has been sitting in this position for so long that he has lost his sense of awe. The person who came here dared to speak up without knowing the details."

Mo Yan nodded and did not continue speaking.

But he knew that the butler's fate would not be so good.

After all, he not only made the City Lord's Mansion lose face today, but also made City Lord Shi have to compromise many things.

And these things may form a variable that no one can predict in the future.

"The subordinates will find out the origin of the West Mo Taiyi Sect as soon as possible."

"No need." City Lord Shi shook his head, "The transaction between Ximo and Beiling has always been firmly controlled by the Qianyuan Dynasty, without exception, and the Qianyuan Dynasty never passed by us. The reason why they have been stable here for many years... But now that the Taiyi Sect dares to cross the border and reach out, it is enough to prove that the Qianyuan Dynasty can't suppress them, so we should change the way of some things."

"What do you mean, City Master..."

"The Hundred Flowers Kingdom can't suppress this powerful dragon. Their next stop should be Wushui Kingdom?" City Lord Shi sneered, "The Northern Tang Dynasty is a vassal of the Thirteenth Armies, and they will definitely have something to do with this powerful dragon." If there is a conflict, we can only use this opportunity to solve the group of people who coveted the ruins."

Chapter 057

Hundred Flowers Kingdom is indeed a very small country.

Although Su Anran and others don't know how this small country is divided into specific administrative units, there are only less than [-] cities in the whole country. Excluding the seven big cities under the control of the royal family, the remaining ten cities are all Divided by different families.

A family is a city.

Therefore, the Hundred Flowers Kingdom is quite a chaotic small country whose ruler has almost no ruling power and influence.

But these have nothing to do with Su Anran.

The more this small country presents a chaotic self-government model, the more convenient it is for Su Anran.

So after leaving the small border town, the group of four continued to go north, and in just ten days they had crossed the other three small towns in the entire Hundred Flowers Kingdom and entered another border.

In these ten days, it was because Su Anran and the others had to set up trade base stations here every time they passed through a city, otherwise, they would be able to cross the Hundred Flowers Country faster.

However, these base stations have not yet been activated yet, and they just bought a shop here.

To be honest, Su Anran and the others, who are rich and powerful, are not afraid that the other party's asking price is too high, and they are willing to spend a little more to solve some unnecessary troubles in order to save trouble.After all, these cities are not like the Shi family, because they want to keep the ruins secret, so they refuse all trade.

In Xuanjie, because of the existence of Wanshilou, many trade transactions between sects can be completed through Wanshilou for a small fee, no matter how large the transaction is. After all, Wanshilou has many transportation types of spirit boats.

But Tianyuan Continent is different.

This world does not seem to have such a special vehicle magic weapon as the spirit boat, so the transactions of various forces still rely on the very ancient land transportation method of ox horses and carts.

If you only bring a small amount of goods, it is not difficult to have a storage bag or a storage ring.

But if, like Su Anran, the demand for all kinds of spiritual plants, monsters and beasts is dozens or even hundreds of kilograms, then it must be transported by a special person-in Tianyuan Secret Realm, there is no sect. The sect specializes in transportation, so any sect that wants to obtain a large amount of resources can only establish a transportation route by itself, and because of this, whether it can establish a transnational or even transregional trade route is to measure a The standard of whether the sect is strong enough.

Before the arrival of Su Anran and others, only the Qianyuan Dynasty and his family had established a cross-domain trade route in the entire Western Desert.

To a certain extent, the Qianyuan Dynasty, which was able to achieve a complete monopoly over the entire Western Desert, is truly well-deserved to be called the overlord of the Western Desert.

Therefore, many people expressed their curiosity about the sudden emergence of the Supreme Unity Sect.

Su Anran and the others didn't know that their act of opening up a new trade route had already been spread by the monks in the Hundred Flowers Kingdom.

At this moment, Su Anran and others are in a city called Karasuma.

Karasuma is a big city on the border between Wushui Kingdom and Baihua Kingdom.

Compared with the Baihua Kingdom, which is only a tiny place, the territory of Wushui Kingdom is much wider.

According to the intelligence records of Linglong Pavilion, Wushui Kingdom is one of the thirteen most powerful countries among the many vassal states subordinate to the Northern Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, these thirteen vassal states are also collectively referred to as the "Thirteen vassals of the Northern Tang Dynasty".

Wushui Kingdom ranked fifth in the Thirteenth Division.

The overall strength is not particularly strong, but it is not weak either.

Of course, this is for other countries in the thirteenth class. In the eyes of Su Anran and others, it can be summed up in a simple sentence: no force without land gods is worthy of standing in front of me.

There were three land gods on the surface of the Northern Tang Dynasty, but no one knows how many there are, but Linglong Pavilion can be sure that there are at least five or more.

Because they have fought against the Kunlun faction.

According to the records of Linglong Pavilion, the Kunlun School is famous for its swordsmanship and Taoism. The foundation of its sect is the Taoist mentality.The school’s way of recruiting disciples is not the usual way of visiting and studying in Yuanjie today, but traveling and passing on—that is, only the elders of the Kunlun School will accept them as disciples when they travel down the mountain and meet suitable people. The main reason is that the world doesn't know where the Kunlun School's mountain gate is.

No one knows the location of its mountain gate, so naturally no one knows the specific situation of this sect.

Therefore, the information about the Kunlun faction that Linglong Pavilion can collect is also the accumulation of bits and pieces over thousands of years: they can basically confirm that the Kunlun faction has at least five land gods, two of whom are famous for their superb swordsmanship, and one who calls himself Daoist Shenlei, one is good at talismans and seal characters, and the other is known as the Taoist of Shenhuo.

The Northern Tang Dynasty and the Kunlun School had a battle, no one knew the result, but the Northern Tang Dynasty still did not lose control of the North Ridge, and the disciples of the Kunlun School were still active in the world, so the outside world speculated that the battle between the two sides It is a mutual victory and defeat, which ends in a tie.

Therefore, Linglong Pavilion guessed that the Northern Tang Dynasty had at least five land gods.

As one of the thirteen vassals of the Northern Tang Dynasty, Wushui Kingdom has always followed the lead of the Northern Tang Dynasty, so although there are no monks at the level of land gods sitting in the town, if there is really something that cannot be solved by the strength of Wushui Kingdom, Then the Northern Tang Dynasty will definitely send land gods to help solve the problem, which is also the privilege of the "Thirteen Jia Kingdoms".

"According to the information given by Linglong Pavilion, although Beiling is rich in spiritual plants, three of them can be said to control more than [-]% of the output of the entire Beiling." Su Anran said, "These three places are Shennongzong. , Baicao Pavilion and..."

"Wushui Kingdom!" Qingyu hurriedly answered.

Su Anran nodded: "Shen Nongzong and Baicao Pavilion each account for [-]%, but Wushui Kingdom accounts for [-]%. This is also the reason why Wushui Kingdom can enter the thirteenth class."

Regardless of whether it is Xuanjie or Tianyuan Secret Realm, whichever family can have more spiritual pills, then the development speed of this family must be faster than other forces.

In the cultivation world, talent is of course very important, but resources are also indispensable.

After many sects accepted a talented disciple, they suffered from not having enough resources to cultivate him into a talent, which eventually led to his annihilation of all people - so the reason why the nine dynasties were able to surpass many countries and sects in the Tianyuan Secret Realm was that It is because their background is quite sufficient.

However, compared to the fact that almost all the resources in the mysterious world are controlled by the sect family, there is no living soil for casual cultivators, at least there is room for casual cultivators in the Tianyuan Secret Realm.

"So Wushui Kingdom will definitely not allow us to purchase a lot of resources so easily." Qingyu said, "The Northern Tang Dynasty will definitely ask Wushui Kingdom to hand over a large amount of offerings, and Wushui Kingdom must also seek development, so we can There must not be many resources available for trading.”

"I didn't expect to open the channel only here in Wushui Kingdom." Su Anran said, "Continue to go north according to our plan, passing through Shennongzong in the middle, and then when we come back, we will take a short detour and go to Baicao Pavilion , We can talk about how much is left... With the elder sister here, we will not be too short of the panacea resources of the Supreme Unity Sect, so the real problem is how to open up the rhythm of this cycle, so as not to run out of water."

Qingyu shrugged her shoulders: "The Lingzhi that the elder sister really wants has already given me a list. I took a look and it basically has the output of Wushui Kingdom, but because the demand is a bit large, the other party may not be willing. Give it to us."

"Let's talk about it first, we can't talk about it until we return from the Land of Souls." Su Anran sighed.

When he was not in charge of the family, he really didn't know that it was such a troublesome thing to be the head of a sect.

Now that a sect has really been established, he realizes that there are so many things to worry about.

It's not that he hasn't thought about doing business directly with the Northern Tang Dynasty, but the Northern Tang Dynasty has always been trading with the Qianyuan Dynasty, and both parties are said to be very happy with the cooperation, so if he wants to step in under this situation, It is definitely not easy, and if one fails, it may cause the Qianyuan Dynasty and the Northern Tang Dynasty to jointly target.

"Let's get in touch with the Zhao family first."

In the end, Su Anran made a final decision.

Apart from the royal Wu family, there are three top families in Wushui Kingdom, namely Zhou Zhaolei.

Among them, the Zhao family mainly deals in various raw materials - Wushui Kingdom provided the Northern Tang Dynasty with [-]% of the spiritual plant resources in the entire North Ridge, and nearly [-]% of this was provided by the Wushui Zhao family, and the rest [-]% of it is produced in the royal territory of Wushui Kingdom.

The Zhou family deals in all kinds of finished magic weapons, while the Lei family builds their family on martial arts.

The resources for spirit pills are mainly produced by the royal family of Wushui Kingdom, but they are only relatively common low-level spirit pills. High-level spirit pills have always been bestowed by the Northern Tang Dynasty, because Wushui Kingdom lacks high-level spirit pills. Dan Fang.In addition, the Lei family in Wushui also produced a small part of it. After all, a family that can build a family with martial arts must have channels or methods that can stably produce elixir resources.

Su Anran has already inquired that the owner of Wushui City is a descendant of the Zhao family, and he is the second uncle of the current head of the Zhao family in Wushui—the Wushui Zhao family has a total of seven cities under their jurisdiction. Each house is divided into two cities, and the house that is the head of the house can control one more city.But now, the patriarch of the Zhao family in Wushui was born in the third room, and this second uncle is the head of the second room of the Zhao family in Wushui.

Linglong Pavilion's evaluation of this person is that there is not enough development, but more than success.

Because of the investigation and understanding in advance, when Su Anran and others came to visit, they did not appear in the border town of Baihua Kingdom.

They were quickly received.

Consistent with the information recorded in the Linglong Pavilion, this Zhao Zhongcheng is older and has no determination to forge ahead, so he has a kind of old spirit.But looking at his appearance like a rare old man, it's not that Su Anran and others can't understand his mentality.

In the cultivation realm of Tianyuan Secret Realm, although the first realm of the Immortal is called "Longevity", it means that it can live for tens of thousands of years, but in fact, not every monk who has a long life of the Immortal can live for 1 years of.Because they have accumulated all kinds of hidden wounds during the cultivation process, as well as flaws in their mental state, erosion of inner demons, problems left over from crossing the catastrophe, etc., most of the monks in the Longevity Realm can only live for a short time. Three, 4000 years.

If one wanted to truly live for tens of thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years, one had to reach the Eighth Realm of Immortal Changing Fate.

Zhao Zhongcheng was only at the third realm of the Ascension Immortal, but his whole body was already dead. Su Anran believed that the other party should have been severely injured during the thunder tribulation when he was promoted to the third realm, which damaged his own foundation. , leading to problems such as loss of mood, so there is no belief in forging ahead.

The communication between the two sides was quite harmonious, and no unpleasant things happened.

But when it came to the more important things, the progress was a bit rough.

"To tell you the truth." Zhao Zhongcheng did not agree with Qingyu's request to establish a long-term transaction, "Although I am the head of the second household of the Zhao family in Wushui, I am not the head of the Zhao family in Wushui, so I have no right to do so." Take charge of this matter... And, I can tell you the truth, it is impossible for our Zhao family to agree to your request."

"Because of the Northern Tang Dynasty?" Qingyu asked.

"Because of the suzerain country." Zhao Zhongcheng nodded.

"Then, I wonder if Mr. Zhao can introduce the Patriarch of your Zhao family in Wushui?" Qingyu thought for a while, and then said.

"This is what should be done." Regarding Qingyu's request, Zhao Zhongcheng did not refute this time, "Although our Zhao family can't supply the spiritual plants and monster materials you want in full, but through the accumulation of years The inventory can still provide more than half of the demand. This is a big business, and my second room alone can't take it, so of course I have to inform the owner and let him make the deployment."

"Then I wonder when Mr. Zhao will arrange it?"

"Ha, it's a coincidence that you guys came here." Hearing Qingyu's words, Zhao Zhongcheng suddenly laughed, "Last month, an envoy from the Suzerain Kingdom came to our Wushui Kingdom as a guest. A while ago, the envoy proposed to come and see the spiritual fields of our Wushui Zhao family, so he patrolled the territory of our Wushui Zhao family these days. According to the itinerary plan, our Patriarch should arrive in two days. I'll introduce you again sometime."

"That's enough work." Qingyu nodded with a smile.

But as soon as the words fell, Qingyu took advantage of the situation and said: "By the way, Mr. Zhao, do you know why this envoy of the Northern Tang Dynasty came to inspect the Lingtian of your Zhao family in Wushui? His identity may represent Got the Beitang imperial family?"

"Little girl, I know what you mean, but I'm afraid your idea will come to nothing."

Seeing that her thoughts had been seen through, Qingyu didn't show any embarrassment, instead she smiled.

"It is said that there is a spiritual famine in the northern part of Beiling." Zhao Zhongcheng said, "Shen Nongzong and Baicao Pavilion have lost a lot, so the supply of spiritual plants in the entire Beiling this year depends entirely on our Wushui Kingdom. It just so happens that the once-in-ten-year big trading day between the Suzerain and the Qianyuan Dynasty is also this year, so in order to make up for the transaction share, the Suzerain must treat it with caution. After all, if there is a problem with our Wushui Kingdom, Then there will be big problems.”

"And this is why I said that our Zhao family can't supply the full amount of your list. After all, I estimate that the owner of the family must use part of the inventory resources to turn it in, so it's not bad to be able to provide you with half of it. The most likely possibility is only [-]% to [-]%." Zhao Zhongcheng shook his head, "And this is also the reason why I introduced the Patriarch to you. Whether you can talk about enough shares depends on you."

Although the other party's words were tantamount to pushing back and forth, picking up her own involvement, but Qingyu had to accept the other party's favor.

So, she also expressed her gratitude very simply, and sent a bottle of the best soul-raising pill refined by Fang Qianwen as a thank-you gift.

This kind of panacea is of course meaningless to a cultivator like Zhao Zhongcheng in the Upper Immortal Realm.