Immortal Mansion Royal Beast

At the Zhou family's sacred land, Fang Qingyuan met ancestor Zhou again. This time, Fang Qingyuan wanted ancestor Zhou to fulfill his previous promise and work hard for him to take over the Hu family's land on the Qiyun Shuwu Peak.

Of course, Fang Qingyuan did not completely put the success or failure of this matter on Patriarch Zhou. At present, Zhu Xinye and Yi Tianguan, the two permanent deacons of Guanghui Pavilion, are running around for this matter, and the two Yuanying stage of the Hu family are the protagonists. Even if Patriarch Zhou is not serious about it, this matter will not fail easily.

When he saw Patriarch Zhou again, Fang Qingyuan could not figure out the expression of this old fox.

However, Fang Qingyuan guessed that Patriarch Zhou should be disappointed, because he was able to avoid the mess of the Luo family's spiritual land and did not have to confront the Luo family in real battle.

Now the Hu family is charging ahead, while I am reaping the benefits from the back. Because of what happened to Zhou Chaoxian back then, the Zhou family must be resentful towards me.

But things have come to this point. With Patriarch Zhou's shrewdness, he obviously won't trip me up again. It's my own ability that I was able to jump out. Since the plan has failed, Patriarch Zhou will admit it.

So Zhou Laozu chuckled and said:

"Qingyuan, I will bring this up at the general affairs meeting. You want to marry the daughter of the Hu family, which is a good thing, but the fourth-level spiritual land is too big to be involved. If someone jumps out to oppose it, there will be nothing we can do."

"I believe in your prestige, Mr. Zhou. If you speak up, who will take the initiative to jump out and oppose you?"

Fang Qingyuan praised Old Ancestor Zhou calmly, which made Old Ancestor Zhou feel quite pleased and a look of appreciation appeared on his face.

But Fang Qingyuan had no idea whether this look of appreciation was what Grandmaster Zhou really thought.

"Qingyuan, are you interested in participating in the next 'Xuantian Waterfall World Dragon Fish Meeting'? If you are willing, I will reserve a spot for you."

Xuantian Waterfall Realm Dragon Fish Association?

What kind of activity is this? Seeing Fang Qingyuan's puzzled look, Zhou Laozu continued:

"This 'Xuantian Waterfall Realm' is one of the three medium-sized worlds controlled by our Qi Yun. Every sixty years, at the largest Xuantian Waterfall in this 'Xuantian Waterfall Realm', all the spirits in the river will swim upstream and jump over the Xuantian Gate. This is also a good opportunity."

Following the narration of Grandmaster Zhou, Fang Qingyuan finally understood how the 'Xuantian Waterfall Realm Dragon Fish Club' operated.

The 'Xuantian Waterfall Realm' is a medium-sized world that was taken over by the Qiyun Sect only in the last few thousand years. The creatures in it are mainly water-based.

There is an extremely vast river in the Xuantian Waterfall Realm. Every sixty years, a Xuantian Gate will appear at the source of the river. As long as you jump over it, the cultivation level, physical fitness and intelligence of these water creatures will see a substantial increase.

And these spiritual objects after transformation are extremely precious spiritual materials. Some species can also produce good spiritual effects on Nascent Soul cultivators.

This kind of quota allocation must be in the hands of Patriarch Zhou, and the fact that he is taking one out now is also an attempt to win over Qingyuan.

Fang Qingyuan was of course willing to participate in something like this that had no risks and was purely beneficial. Even if he couldn't find spiritual materials suitable for his own use in the 'Xuantian Waterfall Realm', he could still find some for his fellow disciples.

Seeing Fang Qingyuan agreed, Patriarch Zhou was all smiles. This is how relationships are built, with little bits of help and favors slowly accumulating, and quantitative changes turn into qualitative changes.

He is helping Fang Qingyuan now, and when he needs Fang Qingyuan in the future, Fang Qingyuan will repay him.

From the initial feud between the two families to the current friendly conversations, Patriarch Zhou has been more thoughtful.

After leaving Zhou's house, Fang Qingyuan went to the workshop in Qiyun City. With the help of Taoist Qingxu and Lord Longmen's additional manpower and material resources, Master Chen finally developed a magical weapon that he believed could meet Fang Qingyuan's requirements after more than half a year.

When we arrived at the workshop, we saw that it was no longer the same as the original four or five houses.

During the time when Fang Qingyuan was away, Master Chen reported to Huo Yaoer that he used the 10,000 high-quality spirit stones invested by Taoist Qingxu and Lord Longmen to buy three nearby workshops, connected them together, and formed a large regional workshop.

Seeing Fang Qingyuan coming, Master Chen came to greet him with many third-level artifact masters.

Looking at the no less than a dozen third-level masters in various fields, all of them were standing behind Master Chen and bowing to him.

Fang Qingyuan felt genuinely pleased with himself. If any of these third-level masters were placed in the Baishan area, they would be guests of honor in all the major sects. But now, they were all being used by him.

There were three people transferred by Tian Jin, four people transferred from Wan Tianluo's own workshop, two people hired by Zhu Xinye, and finally one from Qingxu Daode Sect and one from Longxiang Sect.

Such talented people gathered in this small workshop just to develop the magical instrument conceived by Fang Qingyuan himself. If it were any other Nascent Soul cultivator, do you think he could have managed this?

A third-rank artifact master is not an easy target. His status is slightly higher than that of an ordinary Jindan cultivator. A Yuanying cultivator can recruit two or three to work for him. If you gather more than a dozen of them at once, without a background to back you up, how will these artifact masters pay attention to you?

At the beginning, Fang Qingyuan only had three third-level artifact masters available. It was only with the joining of Wan Tianluo from Wanbao Pavilion and Zhu Xinye from Guanghui Pavilion that he was able to gather so many third-level artifact masters.

As for the later Qingxu Daode Sect and Longxiang Sect, they were all incidental benefits.

Master Chen was not good at speaking, and the one who reported to Fang Qingyuan was another third-level weapon refiner. He only heard this person say:

"Master Fang, according to your last instructions, we have made some improvements. Please check it."

In front of Fang Qingyuan was a huge spiritual energy tower. It was only ten feet high compared to the previous one. Now the spiritual energy transmission tower has evolved to a height of ten feet.

In addition, on the land in front of this transmission tower, there is an extremely complex-looking formation that is kept open.

"Based on the shortcomings of the last time, we have made specific improvements. The first is the coverage of the spiritual power transmission tower. This time we directly expanded the original transmission tower tenfold, which also increased the range of the information it transmits.

But it is different from what we imagined before. The transmission tower has been expanded tenfold, but the radiation range has only increased four to five times. We tried to expand the transmission tower further, but the coverage area can be increased less and less. Now this size of transmission tower is the most reasonable size after more than a dozen improvements. "

Marginal effect?

This word flashed through Fang Qingyuan's mind, but he didn't say it out loud. He acted like he knew nothing about technology. This was his disguise, and it also showed that he didn't want to focus his energy on the research and development of these technologies.

This industry only serves myself. The main purpose is to make my power bigger and earn more spirit stones. The ultimate goal is to improve my cultivation and make myself stronger.

Therefore, Fang Qingyuan was willing to spend spirit stones to hire a professional artifact master to serve him, rather than wasting time to develop the artifact himself.

Perhaps Fang Qingyuan, with his Nascent Soul realm and his own avenue of deduction, is more suitable for developing this path, but Fang Qingyuan does not want to use himself as a tool.

Anyway, since he has a long lifespan, it is only a matter of a few years earlier or later for Master Chen and other masters of instruments to develop according to his own ideas. There is no need for him to do it himself.

Fang Qingyuan is initially satisfied with the results of this research and development. The coverage range of the spiritual power transmission tower is about four to five hundred miles, which can almost cover the entire Qiyun Fairy City.

"What about the mechanism for breaking the ban?"

"We don't actually have a better solution for the protective formations of the various families in the city, because this involves the issue of protective laws."

In Qiyun Fairy City, each household has set up their own protective magic circle. Under normal circumstances, no one else can break it without permission. Only the City Lord's Mansion has this right.

Apart from this kind of protective decree, the capabilities of the spiritual power transmitting tower are not enough to support this level of breaking the ban. Some simple first- and second-order protective formations are okay, but how can those third- and fourth-order protective formations be broken and information be transmitted into them by relying solely on the spiritual power transmitting tower?

Unless these protective magic arrays leave a backdoor for the spiritual power transmitting tower, it will be able to receive spiritual power signals without being blocked by the protective magic array.

After this explanation, Fang Qingyuan also understood the shortcomings of spiritual tools. They were not comparable to those in his previous life, because most places in his previous life would not shield signals, while in this world of cultivation, the protective formations were too powerful.

It can not only protect against signals, but also protect against invisible and intangible ghosts and evil thoughts. This level of protection is outrageous.

However, the people who can use this kind of protective formation are all wealthy and powerful families, which is inconsistent with Fang Qingyuan’s initial target users, but it doesn’t matter for now.

"What about the cost?"

"The main spiritual power transmission tower costs 1,300 high-quality spiritual stones. The main cost is the star iron needed for the tower body. Although there is a cost-price ore supply from the Dragon Elephant Gate, the price still cannot be reduced."

The material of star iron is different from ordinary spiritual iron. The refining process is very complicated, but its unique function was finally determined by Master Chen and his team after screening hundreds of materials.

"It's okay if it's a little expensive, but the material of the token that receives the spiritual power signal cannot be made of this first generation of production. Otherwise, what price should I sell it for?"

Fang Qingyuan's words made everyone feel relieved. After about three years of continuous research and development, they had been repeatedly rejected, and they were also tense.

Finally, Fang Qingyuan chose a spiritual power signal receiving token made of the most basic spiritual iron as the first mass-produced model.

This token can be purchased with only thirty low-grade spirit stones. For the lowest-level cultivators living in Qiyun City, it is just more than a month's surplus.

Even those wealthy mortals could earn this amount of spirit stones by saving for a year or two.

Of course, based on the spirit iron token, Fang Qingyuan also developed several grades of spirit power tokens, which were made of different materials and their prices ranged from one hundred to ten thousand low-grade spirit stones.

In the world of cultivation, the wealth gap is even greater, and most resources are monopolized by the upper class, with the wealth ratio being more than nine to one.

At present, Fang Qingyuan cannot make money from the rich and powerful, so he has to change from the bottom. Only by influencing generations can Fang Qingyuan truly gain a foothold in Qiyun.

The production task was set, and the first batch of shipments was set at 300,000 units.

Fang Qingyuan handed all these matters over to the third-level artifact masters in these workshops. When it comes to production, Fang Qingyuan is a complete layman, so he consciously did not interfere.

He just set the goal and let his men complete it. If they encountered any difficulties that they could not solve, they would come to him to deal with it. But right now, Fang Qingyuan didn't know if there was anything worthy of his personal attention.

The ten thousand high-quality spirit stones paid by Taoist Qingxu and the leader of the Dragon Elephant Sect are enough to deal with everything in the early stage. When these spirit stones are insufficient, the next wave of forces that are optimistic about this industry will come to the door with spirit stones.

After leaving the workshop, Fang Qingyuan went to the headquarters of Qiyun Daily, which he had not visited for a long time.

Today, Qiyun Daily is already the largest newspaper in Qiyun City. Because its stance is strictly limited by Fang Qingyuan, Qiyun Daily is different from other newspapers supported by aristocratic families.

Fairness is the first vitality of a newspaper. Just relying on this point, Qiyun Daily has been losing money and Fang Qingyuan has been bleeding to fund it.

Now, Qiyun Daily has developed into a large newspaper with hundreds of investigative reporters and a total of more than 300 people. It reports on various events in Qiyun City every day and is deeply loved by the mortals of Qiyun City and many low-level cultivators.

This is their main channel to learn about what is happening in the city every day. Compared with the past when they could only listen to trivial matters around them, spending a few spirit crystals can buy a day's happiness, and they can also have a lot more topics to chat with others.

More importantly, through newspapers, many people's horizons have been broadened, and the opportunity to change their destiny is hidden therein.

For example, there is one now. The next day, Qiyun Daily published a recruitment information, recruiting all kinds of people who are eloquent and good at telling stories to go to Qiyun Daily for screening.

When this news came out, many people were confused, but since it was information published in the Qiyun Daily, many mortals and cultivators who were confident in themselves were eager to try it out.

The Qiyun faction, the headquarters of general affairs, convenes the general affairs council every other month as scheduled at the end of the month.

There were more than twenty Nascent Soul cultivators present this time, many of whom were the patriarchs of various families. Among them, Hu Wanshan, Zhu Xinye, Yi Tianguan, and Wantianluo were all sitting peacefully among them.

The one presiding over the council this time was Patriarch Zhou. He threw out matters one by one according to the meeting procedure, and then the Nascent Soul cultivators who were specifically responsible gave reports. Voting was also required on key issues.

Finally, at the end of the meeting, Hu Wanshan stood up and said:

"I want to apply to the General Affairs Peak Council to use my Hu family's sacred land as my daughter's dowry, and have it accepted by Qiyun City's Tian Patriarch Xia Qingyuan."

As soon as these words were spoken, many Nascent Soul cultivators showed anger on their faces, only the heads of the aristocratic families remained calm.

"I object. The Hu family's spiritual land should be circulated within the sect and then distributed according to seniority. How can it be granted privately? The Hu family received it from the sect back then, and now it should be returned to the sect."

"Old Hu, if you can marry your daughter, why can you give her a fourth-level spiritual land? In this case, I am willing to pay 300,000 high-quality spiritual stones and marry your daughter as well."

"Fang Qingyuan? He is from the Tian Chang lineage, so how can he be considered a member of our Qiyun General Affairs Peak? The candidate for the spiritual land should also be chosen from among us Nascent Soul cultivators who don't have a spiritual land."

For a moment, voices of opposition were heard. Seeing this, Elder Zhou raised his hand to suppress them:

"If there are any objections, we will hold a vote now. Fellow disciples who support Hu Wanshan, please light up the spirit tokens in front of you."

After these words were spoken, Zhu Xinye, Yi Tianguan and Wantianluo were the first to light up.

Then some Nascent Soul cultivators in Wanbao Pavilion and Guanghui Pavilion also lit up.

At that moment, one third of the energy tokens in front of the Nascent Soul cultivators present lit up.

After a few breaths, Patriarch Zhou looked around, stretched out his hand and pressed, and the energy token in front of him instantly lit up.

"Mr. Zhou?"

Before these Nascent Soul cultivators could figure it out, the Nascent Soul cultivators following the Zhou family also followed Patriarch Zhou's actions.

Upon seeing this scene, the other heads of the noble families also made their own choices, and then nodded and smiled at Zhou Laozu, Zhu Xinye and others.

"Eighteen votes to seven. I declare that Hu Wanshan's application is valid!"

After Patriarch Zhou announced the result indifferently, the seven Nascent Soul cultivators looked gloomy, but looking at their fellow disciples who agreed with them, they consciously shut their mouths.