Chapter 44

It was another small market, and Luo Chen arrived at the stall early.

This made Old Daoist Chen feel strange.

"Since you started refining that thing, didn't you come once a month?"

"I'm short of spirit stones recently, so I'll sell a batch first."

Luo Chen said lightly, placing the two kinds of elixirs on the stone slab.

Scanning his surroundings, he was a bit puzzled.

"Where is Wang Yuan?"

"No way, don't you know about that?" Old Daoist Chen's expression was exaggerated.

Luo Chen was stunned; should he know?

He wasn't a character who liked to listen to gossip.

Staying in the alchemy room every day, most of his news about the outside world came from Gu Caiyi and Bai Meiling, these two social people.

"They are going to fight."

"You mean the Poshan Gang and the Dajiang Gang! How annoying, two months ago, they tossed for half a day, and they're coming again?"

Old Daoist Chen shook his head, "No, this time is different from before."

Under Old Daoist Chen's explanation, Luo Chen roughly understood the ins and outs.

Or rather, as long as one has the heart to inquire, one will naturally know the current situation.

The truce two months ago wasn't a real truce.

It was just that the Yuding Sword Pavilion came forward and organized the two major Foundation Establishment cultivators, Mi Shuhua of the Poshan Gang and Wang Yang of the Dajiang Gang, to make peace.

After all, if they kept going like this, the outer city would be beaten to pieces sooner or later. Whether it was the outer city or the inner city, it was all land where the Yuding Sword Pavilion collected rent.

If everyone was beaten to death, who would they find to collect rent from?

But involving the channels in the mountains, the interests inside were really too huge.

The two major Foundation Establishment cultivators naturally wouldn't easily give up.

But they couldn't not give face to the Yuding Sword Pavilion, after all, it was the owner of the market and represented the Yuding Sword Sect behind it.

Therefore, they decided on a martial arts fighting method.

Both sides would send nine major experts to compete at the Yuding Sword Pavilion's Discussion Platform, regardless of life or death.

The realm of the participating personnel was limited to below Foundation Establishment.

If the Dajiang Gang loses, they will give up the business in the mountains, roll back to operate the Lancang River well, and also cede a waterway to the Poshan Gang.

If the Poshan Gang loses, it's even simpler: transfer five of the several safe channels they currently control to the Dajiang Gang.

The two months of truce before were for the two major gangs to gather experts.

"I said how come there are so many strange cultivators in the market recently; they are all experts invited by the two major gangs!"

Luo Chen suddenly realized.

His movements didn't stop, and he handed several jade bottles to a returning customer.

After taking back the spirit stones, he saw Chen Xiuping shake his head.

"The two gangs are important in our place, but put in the entire Yuding Region, they are not enough to look at."

"Uh..."

"It was the Yuding Sword Pavilion's cultivators who deliberately released the news, so it attracted many people from other places."

Luo Chen blinked; why would the Yuding Sword Pavilion do this?

Don't they mind these outsiders causing trouble and being hard to manage?

But soon, Old Daoist Chen answered his doubt.

"The six sects of the Far East all have their own strengths and business areas."

The Hehuan Sect does the business of men and women, which has been enduring for ages.

The Divine Talisman Pavilion does the business of talismans and is unique in the six regions in the way of talismans.

The Yaowang Sect does the business of elixirs and spirit herbs and can be said to have made a fortune.

The Wuxing Sect does the business of spirit plants and spells, also thriving.

The Tianfan City does the business of magic tools and arrays, and its subsidiary Myriad Treasures Tower can be said to be unique in the six regions.

Then what about the Yuding Sword Sect?

Let these rogue cultivators with little knowledge say, does the Yuding Sword Sect have any business worth praising?

The answer is, no!

The Yuding Sword Sect is famous for its combat power, and most of the sect members are sword cultivators.

Yes, sword cultivators are indeed very strong among the same level, but they don't engage in production!

Although the Sword Sect also has a decent sword-casting technique, compared to Tianfan City, it doesn't count for anything at all.

Especially the sword weapons cast by the Yuding Sword Sect are mostly sword pills, which require wholehearted nourishment.

General cultivators pursue the diversity of combat means, so who would be willing to roam the world with one sword.

In contrast, general flying sword magic tools are much more compatible.

As for alchemy, talisman, and array, although the Yuding Sword Sect also dabbles in them, compared to other sects, they are even less presentable.

"Then according to what you say, the Yuding Sword Sect cultivators all went to drink northwest wind?"

Luo Chen was still a bit unbelievable.

"That's not to that extent; at least this piece of territory belongs to them." Old Daoist Chen talked eloquently, as if he knew these gossips like the back of his hand. "Just like the Zhong Ding family, these discussion platforms are their business."

Restaurant? Gladiator arena?

Can this earn a few spirit stones?

"Our monthly rent and stall fees are also their sources of income."

"In addition, there is a big source of income, which is that the Yuding Region is closest to the Million Mountains, and most of the heavenly treasures produced in the mountains are also purchased by the Yuding Sword Sect first. Then, they sell these raw materials to other sects in the six regions."

Luo Chen grinned, "But it still sounds a bit shabby!"

He pointed to the few conspicuous buildings in the center of the city, "Since this is the case, why don't the Sword Sect people drive the industries of other sects out of the Yuding Region and then do these businesses themselves?"

No matter how trashy the Sword Sect's elixirs and talismans are refined, they must be better than those of immortal cultivation families and rogue cultivators.

Relying on the sword in their hands, if they want to sell, who would dare not buy?

"They wouldn't dare!" Old Daoist Chen said quietly, "At the beginning, the Yuding Region wasn't taken down by the Yuding Sword Sect alone; the other five major sects, including other large and small sects in the Yuding Region now, all contributed."

Understood, now I understand.

If the Yuding Region is compared to a company, the Yuding Sword Sect can be considered the largest shareholder and executive director.

Other sects have their own shares in it.

But the profits of this company are not distributed equally.

How much money one can get from it depends on one's ability.

The Sword Sect just has the convenience of being the host.

I have to say, after Old Daoist Chen explained it this way, Luo Chen fully understood the current situation.

The Discussion Platform itself is an important business of the Yuding Sword Sect.

Now that there is a gimmick of two gangs fighting, inviting eighteen experts to fight to the death, they must definitely use the value of this competition to the maximum.

Therefore, they spread the news, and by then, just by collecting tickets, they can make a fortune.

If they engage in other activities in the middle, such as auctions, they can make another profit.

"Sure enough, there are no stupid people among cultivators!"

Luo Chen sighed.

It seems to be a dispute between two gangs, but as the mediator, the Yuding Sword Sect earns the most.

And whether the Poshan Gang or the Dajiang Gang wins, the things they get from the mountains aren't they also purchased by the local Yuding Sword Pavilion first.

Meat is rotten in the pot, so it's better to blow the fragrance out and attract more wild dogs that can be slaughtered.

Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with Luo Chen, who is at the fourth level of Qi Refining.

No, it has a little to do with it.

His good big brother Wang Yuan is the number one expert sent by the Poshan Gang this time.

Well, the Poshan Gang's double-flower red stick is him!

"Should I go to support Wang Yuan when the time comes?"