Chapter 443: Three Surprises, Four Vassal Towns Class Structure, First Lesson

Xia Hong took out a total of three small porcelain bottles from the bundle.

The first porcelain bottle contained a pill that looked like blood on the outside.

"Cleansing Meridian Pill, it can be considered an advanced version of the Blood Ginseng Pill. It doesn't need to be matched with cultivation techniques. Just taking it alone can play the role of flushing out impurities in the meridians and improving the efficiency of blood circulation!"

The Blood Ginseng Pill is a product of Muyin Town. It is not an ordinary cultivation pill, but a necessary auxiliary pill for practicing the non-transferable secret of the Murong clan, the Twelve Blood Scriptures.

As soon as the Hong Sect Banquet in the eighth year of Great Xia ended, Xia Hong went to Muyin Town and got this cultivation technique. At that time, he was still a bit puzzled. Even if Muyin had something to ask of Great Xia, Murong Chui wouldn't agree so readily and hand over his family's non-transferable secret directly.

Later, after learning that the cultivation technique must be matched

Of course, Muyin Town only earned this money for a year or so.

As Cheng Feng led the pharmacists to research the formula for Blood Ginseng Pills last year, Great Xia didn't continue to be this sucker.

Scouring meridians and impurities; improving the efficiency of blood and Qi circulation.

The former can purify and dredge meridians, release body potential, and thereby slightly improve strength; while the latter can directly improve cultivation speed.

Currently, the one that can best reflect the importance of the Twelve Blood Meridian Technique plus Blood Ginseng Pills should be Li Ying Xuan Ling's cultivation speed. If there were no such two things, Li Ying Xuan Ling would never have broken through to the Manifesting Yang level so quickly.

And at this moment, the Meridian-Cleansing Pill in his hand can directly replace these two.

"Not only replace, I have already tested it in the quiet room of the Treasure Pavilion. This Meridian-Cleansing Pill not only has mild medicinal properties and can automatically penetrate the meridians of the whole body, but its medicinal power is more than ten times that of the Blood Ginseng Pill. That is to say, I can also use it to cooperate with the cultivation of the Twelve Blood Meridian Technique, and the effect may be several times stronger than taking it alone......"

Xia Hong's expression was moved. Whether it was improving strength or improving cultivation speed, it was the thing he cared about most and was most urgent at the moment. This Meridian-Cleansing Pill could be considered the first big surprise brought to him by the Treasure Pavilion.

"Then there is, Bone-Burning Pill!"

Immediately after, Xia Hong opened the second porcelain bottle. This porcelain bottle only contained one pill. The inside of the pill was milky white, and the outer layer was densely covered with a circle of magma-like patterns, emitting a scorching high temperature.

"It can make the bones of the Manifesting Yang level improve their strength by another 50% under extreme conditions, and can maintain it for about three days. If you don't consider those two side effects...... no...... even if you consider the two side effects, it can be considered a proper divine pill!"

Improving strength by 50% under extreme conditions, not to mention defeating strong enemies, even the probability of escaping has increased a lot. This kind of pill that can be used by Manifesting Yang level experts to save their lives, calling it a divine pill is definitely not excessive.

The side effects of the Bone-Burning Pill are: first, it contains strong pill poison, and this pill poison acts on the bones, which cannot be cured by medicine and can only be metabolized through normal cultivation. The whole process is extremely long, basically more than ten years;

Second, after taking it, it will consume a large amount of bone marrow, and bone marrow is the core substance for the cultivation and improvement of the Manifesting Yang level, which leads to the fact that once taken, it will seriously affect subsequent cultivation speed, and the affected time is one time longer than the metabolism of pill poison, which will last about twenty years.

"Affecting cultivation speed, then it definitely cannot be used casually, it can only be used to save lives under some extreme circumstances. Bone-Burning Pill...... Bone-Burning, it is a bit of a coincidence......"

Thinking of the two side effects of the Bone-Burning Pill, Xia Hong pondered slightly, then put the pill back, continued to open the third porcelain bottle, and poured out a golden pill from it.

The pill emitted golden spiritual light all over its body, and nine black rock patterns circled on its surface. As soon as it was taken out, the temperature of the entire main hall rose rapidly.

"Exactly the same as I guessed at the beginning, there really is a nine-pattern one, but the name is different. Cai Qiu calls it Bone-Transforming Pill, low-grade three patterns, mid-grade six patterns, high-grade is nine patterns, a cultivation pill for the Manifesting Yang level!"

Xia Hong looked at the high-grade Bone-Transforming Pill in his hand, his eyes extremely fiery.

Great Xia currently only has two types of pills for Manifesting Yang level cultivation, namely Bone-Condensing Pill and Bone-Gathering Pill. The main material for the former is jade bone, which is the bone of high-level cold beasts; while the main material for the latter is silver bone, which is the bone of Beast King-level cold beasts.

When the Bone-Gathering Pill was refined at the beginning, he guessed that there might be nine patterns above it. This high-grade Bone-Transforming Pill can be considered to confirm his guess.

"The main material for refining is gold bone, which is also the bone of Beast King-level cold beasts. According to this inference, those Beast Kings can evolve through cultivation, allowing their bones to transform from silver to gold......"

Beast King-level bones not only have silver, but also higher-level gold.

Previously in the Jiuzhen territory, because the Beast Kings hunted were all silver bones, Xia Hong actually didn't know this point. It was during the four months in Changqing Valley earlier that he hunted five Beast Kings and found that the two strongest Beast Kings were both gold bones, so he really confirmed it.

After putting the Bone-Transforming Pill into the bundle, Xia Hong frowned slightly and sighed lightly:

"Getting the identity of a Great Qin prince to pull a tiger's skin, the benefits are many, but the disadvantages are also not few. You can't buy things casually, you have to hold on everywhere, for fear of being seen through. As for finding someone to inquire about the situation of Tribulation Body Realm and Venerable Phase Realm experts, that's even more out of the question......"

Xia Hong shook his head slightly. It wasn't that he regretted it. There are gains and losses. When he decided to fabricate a big background for himself in Changqing Valley, he had already thought of these. After all, no matter how important it is to inquire about intelligence, it is not as important as his own personal safety.

Although he couldn't inquire directly, through some things, such as the price of pills, he could roughly infer some of Cai Qiu's situation by looking at the leopard.

"Meridian-Cleansing Pill, bought 10 in total, the unit price is 250,000 taels; Bone-Burning Pill only bought 1, the unit price is 490,000 taels; high-grade Bone-Transforming Pill bought 20, the unit price is 200,000 taels. Just by inferring from the prices of these three pills, Cai Qiu's price level is highly likely on the same level as Great Xia, and the difference will not be too far. This is a bit interesting......"

Great Xia currently has a total territory of 23,000-plus square kilometers and a population of 2.8 million;

And according to the situation Xia Hong has inquired about so far, Cai Qiu has a total territory of 150,000 square kilometers, let's count it less, which is 6.5 times that of Great Xia; the population is 18 million-plus, which is just not far from 6.5 times.

If calculated this way, the price levels of the two families are equivalent, which seems to make sense.

But if you think about it carefully, it's not like that at all.

Xia Hong lived in Changqing Valley for more than four months. During this time, he not only hunted, but also took time to observe the situation of many village-level camps. It is no exaggeration to say that the conditions of Changqing Valley, if placed in the Jiuzhen, would definitely rank in the upper-middle level.

If you don't consider the quality of the population, Xia Hong even feels that, except for Great Xia, the conditions of the other eight towns are not as good as Changqing Valley.

And Changqing Valley is just one of the areas least favored by Cai Qiu.

From this, it can be inferred that Cai Qiu's resource endowment must be far above Great Xia, 6.5 times, definitely more than that.

Secondly, resource endowment is only one aspect. More importantly, it is actually the ability to obtain resources, and this ability is directly proportional to the population size.

The more people there are, the more resources they naturally obtain. At the same time, because the population base is large enough, more strong people are born, and more high-level or even top-level resources can be obtained, which is easy to understand.

So this gave birth to a key question: Cai Qiu Fanzhen, which has better resource endowment, larger population, and higher average cultivation, has an overall price level on the same level as Great Xia?

"This six-rank registry system should have a big problem. It is highly likely that the population ratio of the six ranks is extremely unbalanced, leading to unfair resource distribution, the promotion channel at the bottom is completely blocked, and a large amount of manpower and material resources are wasted,......"

Recalling what he saw and heard in Changqing Valley for four months, plus the situation he roughly saw after entering the city, Xia Hong immediately saw the crux of Cai Qiu's ills.

Not to mention anything else, Cold-Resisting level experts being human rickshaw pullers is simply unimaginable in the Jiuzhen territory.

That carriage that the little master Meng Ya rode in was actually equipped with 30 Cold-Resisting level laborers. Even if these 30 people were all ordinary Cold-Resisting level experts, that was an extremely terrifying waste of manpower.

Changqing Valley has 1.2 million-plus people, and there are less than six thousand normal people who can enter the civilian registry or above; judging from the situation mentioned by the Hu brothers, the remaining Cold-Resisting level experts are either base registry or slave registry, or they are people without registry, and they are not in Cai Qiu's statistical scope at all.

"Only those who have entered the registry are considered to be officially included in Cai Qiu's jurisdiction system. The problem is that the last two of these six ranks can only barely be considered human.

Civilian registry can hunt and gather everywhere at will, and all income only needs to be handed over by 30%, and the rest belongs to themselves, whether to sell or exchange depends on the individual; the military registry above that is even more comfortable, only needing to hand over 20%;

And those who enter the slave registry cannot hunt and gather alone, they must be with the master family, and all income belongs to the master family. However, according to normal unspoken rules, the master family will generally distribute 30%;

The base registry is even more miserable. Only when hired by others can they hunt and gather. Private hunting and gathering, if not discovered, is fine, but once discovered, it is a serious crime. Not only will the materials be confiscated, but there will also be imprisonment.

Even so, some people still choose to enter the base registry and slave registry, which proves that if you don't enter the registry, the oppression you suffer will only be more severe.

As for the core means of Cai Qiu's governance, there are two:

First is the high monetization of silver. Cai Qiu's silver trade is extremely developed. From large cultivation resources, to medium manpower employment, to small food, clothing, housing, and transportation, everything is priced in silver. It can be said that you can't move without silver, and the Fanzhen controls all silver mines in the territory. Any private theft and mining is a crime of extermination;

Second is the absolute control over cultivation resources. Any pills, spiritual wine, and all resources related to cultivation that can be used by Cold-Resisting level experts and above can only be bought in the Treasure Pavilion of each city, and the spiritual plants used to refine these pills are not even allowed to circulate in the market. Private refining, once caught, is also a crime of extermination, let alone selling them out......"