Cultivation starts with taming beasts

As the name suggests, Longmen Gorge is a huge naturally formed strait, about 500 miles long, and a sea route that runs completely through the middle of Longmen Island.

If you don't pass through here, you can only go around thousands of miles from both sides to pass, because there are reef currents on both sides of Longmen Island, and it often takes more spirit stones to go upstream, so it's better to go around to save trouble.

Longmen Island relies on this natural waterway to earn a lot of tolls. A spirit ship like the Qi family has to pay thousands of spirit stones for a toll, and this is still a discount on the Qi family's signboard. Otherwise, the general foundation-building family would have to start with 3,000 spirit stones.

The force sitting here is the loose cultivator alliance, which has seven loose foundation-building cultivators who have become brothers and sisters. Over time, a huge coastal market has been formed along this waterway.

Qi Yunxian immediately cheered up and prepared to deal with any changes that happened next, and the others also tacitly kept their distance, as if they were guarding against something.

Several foundation-building elders who were supposed to be in the core of the spirit ship also came out of the cabin and looked at the Longmen Gorge in the distance.

"Elder Qi, in front of you is the most famous market in the vicinity, the Longmen Gorge Market. It is also the longest waterway on this route. The Loose Cultivator Alliance has made a lot of money over the years by relying on this waterway."

"Yes! It has only been a few decades to lay such a foundation. It is really enviable. If it were not for the support of the Black Water Gate, this second-level island would not have been occupied by these wild dogs."

There was some disdain in the words of several guest elders, but in fact, it was more of jealousy. As foundation-building cultivators who were also loose cultivators, they could only rely on the Qi family. Although the treatment was not bad, it was much better than when they were loose cultivators.

But relatively speaking, they also lost some freedom. For example, the task of escorting the spirit ship is generally done by guest elders, and rarely by the foundation-building cultivators of the Qi family.

In this way, they are not as free as the seven foundation-building cultivators who have established their own foundation.

"Be careful with your words. When you are out, it is better to say less. After all, the loose cultivator alliance is quite sensible. Our Qi family's spirit boat only charges more than a thousand spirit stones, and the small spirit boat is directly free, which is also a kind of goodwill to us."

Qi Tianming said lightly, but hatred flashed in his eyes, and none of the foundation-building cultivators present noticed it.

"Elder Qi, you are right. These guys are still very sensible. As long as they are stronger than them, they will give some discounts. Now their most profitable thing is not the toll of the waterway, but the Longmenxia market built on the waterway.

According to that fellow Daoist Jin, their market can earn hundreds of thousands of spirit stones a year. I don't know if it is true or not."

"Fellow Daoist Jin, is it that fellow Daoist Jin Yulan? The Xinghualou she opened is a well-known den of money! It is said that the female cultivators there are good at the art of dual cultivation, which makes many cultivators linger. It seems that Elder Li has a relationship with Jin Yulan. The system is not simple! Such news can be revealed to you. "

A guest elder said in surprise,

"Haha, fortunately, fortunately, I had a brief love affair with fellow Daoist Jin Yulan. If you are interested, I will make arrangements and ensure that you will feel at home. If fellow Daoist Qi goes in person, even fellow Daoist Jin Yulan will accompany him in person."

Elder Li said to everyone with a proud face,

Xinghualou is a place of fireworks in Longmenxia Market, and there are many female cultivators soliciting business here. The owner of the building is Jin Yulan, one of the seven foundation-building cultivators in the loose cultivator alliance.

This woman is extraordinary in beauty and is good at dual cultivation. She was originally just a concubine of a foundation-building cultivator. I don't know how she won the favor of that foundation-building cultivator and actually spent a lot of money to support this woman in foundation-building.

You should know that concubines are not Taoist companions in the eyes of cultivators. They are just toys of cultivators, a dispensable existence.

After this woman built her foundation, she actually colluded with outsiders to kill the cultivator who supported her foundation. Finally, by chance, she and six other people formed the Loose Cultivator Alliance.

"Forget it! I appreciate Elder Li's kindness, but Jin Yulan is a famous black widow nearby. Qi is not lucky enough to enjoy her."

Although Qi Tianming has never been to Longmen Gorge, he has heard about this woman's romantic affairs. This woman has a high status in the Loose Cultivator Alliance and is good at socializing.

There are many slightly larger forces around her who have her lovers, such as Elder Li of the Qi family. The relationship network is also complicated. Qi Tianming naturally does not want to have any intersection with such a female cultivator.

While the few people were talking, the spirit ship had arrived at the entrance of the Longmen Gorge channel.

The entrance of this section of the channel is very wide, with a width of three hundred feet, which is enough to handle various spirit boats and spirit ships entering Longmen from here.Gorge waterway.

The waterway was divided into two by the Loose Cultivator Alliance, with entry on the left and exit on the right.

With this division, the ships entering and leaving have no impact on each other. With the help of the formation and the undercurrent of the water veins, a distance of 500 miles can be completed in about an hour.

But there are also disadvantages. Once entering the Longmen Gorge waterway, under the blessing of the underground water veins and undercurrents, the spirit ship basically cannot turn around and can only sail forward along the water veins.

Elder Li took out the token on his body and aimed it at the entrance formation of the Longmen Gorge waterway. A golden light flashed, and the formation in front of the Longmen Gorge waterway opened a gap. After the spirit ship entered it, it returned to its original state.

This token is the key to entering and exiting the Longmen Gorge waterway. The entrance and exit of the entire Longmen Gorge waterway are guarded by the third-level formation Golden Light Wave Formation. Without this token distributed by the Loose Cultivator Alliance, no one can enter this section of the waterway.

The Loose Cultivator Alliance spent a huge amount of money to buy this formation from the Black Water Gate, and even mortgaged the tolls of the waterway for fifty years to build the third-level formation.

Otherwise, with only the face of the seven foundation-building period members of the Loose Cultivator Alliance, they could not suppress the surrounding major forces. At least in the sea area controlled by the Black Water Gate, there are at least ten forces stronger than the Loose Cultivator Alliance.

With the help of the formation, ordinary foundation-building families cannot break the formation at all, and can only pay money to enter.

Only the forces that pay money will get the golden light token issued by the Loose Cultivator Alliance, and the forces holding the golden light token can open the third-level formation, the golden light wind and wave formation.

The use of the token is limited to a certain number of times. After the number is exhausted, you must pay again to use it again.

Under such a virtuous cycle, the Loose Cultivator Alliance has risen to become a force that cannot be underestimated in the sea area under the command of the Black Water Gate in just a few decades.

If there were cultivators in the late foundation building period in the loose cultivator alliance, their ranking in the Black Water Gate Sea Area could move up a few places, and there would be only a handful of forces that could defeat them.

As the Qi family spirit ship completely entered the waterway, several elders in the foundation building period also noticed something was wrong.

"Why is the loose cultivator alliance so slack? There are no patrolling cultivators stationed at the entrance. They are really rotten fish and shrimps that are not up to par."

Elder Li joked with everyone.