Chapter 633

In the blink of an eye, it was the golden autumn season in the north, with grass growing and eagles flying; the Northern Liao tribe began its annual large-scale southward invasion again, and the military force pressed the northern countries until they couldn't breathe, and the border retreated significantly.

The location of the Northern Shanmen of the Grand Void Palace was now extremely prominent, almost becoming an isolated island, with only a small piece of land left bordering various countries.

However, compared to a year ago, the situation at the Northern Shanmen was dangerous but not critical. The defense lines everywhere were slowly shrinking; every time a piece of territory was abandoned, it would cause huge casualties to the Liao tribe, and the resilience of the defense was extremely strong, making the Liao tribe's command on the opposite side somewhat hesitant.

At this time, thousands of foundation-realm cultivators were added to the Dao soldiers of the Northern Shanmen of the Grand Void Palace, and the defense of the grassroots front was significantly improved.

These foundation-realm cultivators from Dao soldiers, even if they practiced template foundations, could always find suitable positions on the battlefield and kill the enemy without ambiguity. There was even a batch of people who practiced the most useless Bright Light foundation, who also used the foundation's ability to slightly increase temperature to either smelt military weapons or improve the battlefield environment, effectively improving the combat power of the surrounding soldiers.

With beacons of war connecting the sky, the Northern Shanmen of the Grand Void Palace resisted nearly half of the Liao tribe's army alone, but it did not collapse as expected by various countries for a long time.

In a few months, Azure Void trained two more periods of foundation realms. Wei Yuan invested a total of twenty-seven thousand Dao human luck, adding over five hundred foundation realms for the Cui family, the Bao family, and the Li family of Southern Qi; trained four thousand loose cultivators, and recruited over a hundred foundation realms.

Azure Void itself had fifteen thousand Body Forging perfection participants in training, adding one thousand two hundred foundation realms. These two times, because of Wei Yuan's intentional guidance, over four hundred cultivators practiced the three major foundations of water, wood, and earth created by True Person Chuhe, five hundred practiced the gold and fire template foundation of Yu Zhizhuo, and the remaining two hundred were combat foundations and self-selected foundations.

Sun Yu's medical hall now had sufficient disciples, so he raised the threshold for accepting disciples and apprentices, and only accepted a dozen people in these two periods.

Xu Henshui was as high and mighty as ever, and no one practiced the templates he provided; in the end, only three people chose them. But Xu Henshui soon discovered that even if the foundation disciples had mediocre talent, there were benefits to having a large number; charcoal burning, carrying, guarding the house, and protecting the courtyard all needed manpower. He regretted it endlessly, but it was too late to change.

After two periods of training, Azure Void finally had over eight thousand foundation-realm cultivators, of which over a thousand were combat cultivators, and the rest were template cultivators. Looking at the quantity alone, without considering the quality, Azure Void had already faintly seen the back of the Grand Void Palace's main mountain.

Although Wei Yuan felt pained for the invested luck, seeing over a thousand newly added foundation realms entering the ranks, he was still very gratified, having a feeling of an old father watching his children grow up.

Of course, the one million immortal silver earned from training foundation realms for various families was just icing on the cake for him. Wei Yuan didn't care about this little money; after all, conquering a Red Sand Oasis snatched five million, and now he really didn't look down on this little training fee earned through hard work.

In these few months, Wei Yuan ordered another batch of mulberry seedlings from the Building Wood Palace, enough to plant one million acres, and then distributed them to various counties. A large number of mulberry fields would be able to produce next year, causing the silk price to drop slightly.

But as soon as the silk price dropped in the producing area, major merchant teams increased their purchase volume and transported them all to Azure Void; after all, the purchase price given by Wei Yuan remained unchanged.

At this time, Azure Void stably produced five hundred thousand bolts of brocade per month, of which two hundred thousand bolts were sent to the Human Domain, and three hundred thousand bolts were sold to the Shaman tribe.

After conquering the Lei Ze tribe, the business route of the Xu family moving west was sealed off again, and all brocade could not be sold externally, only internally. In the end, the brocade price within the pass stabilized at seven taels. The silk price for each bolt of brocade was three taels, plus two taels of artisan fees and various miscellaneous expenses; the profit earned by each family for each bolt of brocade was less than half a tael.

The situation stabilized, and the entire brocade industry was in a state of neither starving to death nor being full; this was exactly the situation Wei Yuan expected to achieve at the current stage. Now, all forces and small and medium sects began to vigorously cultivate mulberry seedlings; Wei Yuan was waiting for more fields to be converted into mulberry fields; that would be the time to start the next action.

It was golden autumn, and the weather was sometimes cold and sometimes warm.

In the Yao family mansion, the family head sat in the main hall, flipping through account books while wiping sweat constantly.

Seven or eight clan elders were also sitting in the room, all with solemn expressions. After a full hour, the Yao family head finished reading all the account books, wiped his sweat again, and said: "At least over a hundred thousand bolts of brocade flow from Azure Void to various counties every month, and only more will be sold to the Shaman tribe. That is to say, Azure Void can perhaps produce three hundred thousand bolts of brocade per month now."

A clan elder was shocked and said: "How can there be so much? Our family's monthly production is only ninety thousand bolts. Could it be that Azure Void has suspended supply to the Shaman tribe and specifically sells it to the interior?"

The Yao family head said coldly: "Would you leave the price of fifteen taels and not sell it, and insist on selling it for five taels? That Wei Yuan is not a scatterer of wealth, so why would he like to do loss-making business?"

After the clan elder heard this, he did not speak. The Yao family head pondered for a long time, the fat on his face trembled for a while, and suddenly he slapped the armrest hard and said: "That's it! We will exchange all the brocade shops for mulberry fields!"

All the clan elders were shocked and expressed opposition one after another. The Yao family had finally built up this scale, and now exchanging it out would mean losing at least over a hundred thousand taels of immortal silver.

The Yao family head said in a deep voice: "This matter need not be discussed again! Looking at the scale of Wei Yuan's silk collection, Azure Void's brocade production will only increase in the future; brocade shops left in hand will not make money, so it is better to sell them all while they can still be sold at a price, and exchange them for mulberry fields and grain fields; this is the thousand-year foundation of the family!"

The clan elders looked at each other and stopped talking. The family head had seized the opportunity in the past few years to make the family grow several times larger, leaving old rivals far behind; now he had high prestige in the family, and these few clan elders were basically puppets, just giving some suggestions.

The family head pondered and suddenly said again: "I heard that the Tang girl of the third branch has grown up to be beautiful? Born with a peerless appearance? Call her over for me to see."

The servants were just about to pass the message, and the family head added: "Call over all the young descendants in the clan who haven't been engaged and look good. Oh, even if they have been engaged but haven't married yet, call them all over!"

A moment later, over a dozen young girls stood in the main hall, all with bright eyes and white teeth, and outstanding appearances.

The Yao family head got up from his seat, circled these girls several times, carefully selected, and finally chose the three with the most outstanding appearances, and also chose the one with the highest cultivation talent, only then was he satisfied, and said:

"Not bad, just enough to make up four seasons of wealth! You four go to Azure Void for me, first pay a visit to True Person Chuhe, and then ask him to introduce Lord Wei Yuan, Lord Wei. After seeing the Lord, you don't have to come back; whoever can stay by the Lord's side, I will reward her branch heavily!"

At this time, a clan elder hesitated and said: "Family head, the second young master of the Wang family proposed marriage to Shuitang a few days ago, and I have already agreed."

The family head's face sank and said: "What is the Wang family? Being a wife to the Wang family's young master is not as good as being a concubine for Lord Wei? Go and cancel this marriage; I expect his family doesn't dare to snatch a woman from Lord Wei."

At this time, another clan elder said: "I heard... that Lord Wei also has a nickname called 'Three Shots', and seems to have a hidden illness. Sending girls over, I'm afraid it's not very appropriate."

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The family head said impatiently: "What do you know! Three shots is also a shot, not 'no shots'. The Great Dao has constancy; fast speed must mean many times, just right for sharing the rain and dew!"

The clan elders dared not speak and had no way to refute. Since the Yao family became rich, the family head often slept with ten women at night and had quite a bit of insight into the Yin-Yang Great Dao. They knew clearly in their hearts that the Yao family was going to lean completely toward Azure Void.

At this time, in Azure Void, the first major harvest since the conquest of Lei Ze was placed in front of Wei Yuan.

Recorded on the jade paper was detailed information about the kingdom of Shuli in the Gloomy Cold Realm. The information confirmed that Shuli had suffered heavy damage not long ago, for unknown reasons; currently, there were only three incarnations guarding the kingdom, with strength equivalent to top-tier Blood Shamans. Compared to the nine incarnations during the peak period, Shuli's strength had now fallen to the bottom.

The information also mentioned that Shuli had activated all legions and surrounded a Dark Iron Mountain that suppressed nodes in the kingdom, waiting in full battle array. There was an incarnation guarding this place at all times.

Subsequently, the information listed the strength and adept spells of the three incarnations in detail, recorded the number and strength of the strange beasts in the legion clearly, and even had a deployment map outside the Dark Iron Mountain.

This information came from the Gloomy Shamans of the Lei Ze tribe. The Lei Ze tribe and Shuli both belonged to the Rain Kingdom, and the Gloomy Shamans were familiar with each other. There were also Shaman warriors of the Lei Ze tribe active in the Shuli kingdom.

Wei Yuan told Lei Dong that he wanted information on the Shuli kingdom; after waiting for several months, just when he was about to lose patience, he suddenly received this detailed information.

Lei Dong specifically explained that to obtain information from the Gloomy Cold Realm, Shaman warriors needed to be sent in to transmit messages, and after collecting the information, they had to come out of the Gloomy Cold Realm; one entry and one exit took a long time, which was why it took several months.

At this moment, all the immortal swords of Zhang Sheng suitable for the Gloomy Cold Realm had been refined to the earth rank, their strength greatly increased, and the digging speed had also significantly improved; it looked like the exit to the outside world was about to be opened. Getting this information at this time meant Shuli was in the light, and Wei Yuan was in the dark.

(End of chapter)