Chapter 297: Folk legends

"Recently, why has the price of spirit stones suddenly fallen so severely?"

"Yeah, it's started to fall by half. It's truly unexpected. If I had known, I wouldn't have hoarded them before."

After the New Year, the bustle suddenly dissipated, the lantern street was dismantled, and the East and West markets resumed business.

And in these quiet days, the ice and snow in Shengjing began to melt, and the city was muddy everywhere in the past few days.

On the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, which was still burning with ground fire, the idle children of the capital gathered here, sitting opposite the invited guests and chatting idly.

Last year, due to the rare heavy snow, the Snow Region Demon Stone transport stopped, and because the inventory in Yunzhou and Zhongzhou was small, plus the inability to mine in winter, the spirit stones of the Qingyun world almost ran out of supply.

Who knew that not long after the New Year passed, the spirit stone shops reopened, and a large batch of spirit stones began to flow into the market.

The price of spirit stones, which had risen before the New Year, fell by more than half, and the trend didn't stop, with a price every day.

Zhao Yunyue drank tea and couldn't help but speak: "After the ice and snow thawed, the spirit stone chamber of commerce in Yunzhou immediately resumed work, mining a large number of spirit stones in a short period of time, wanting to take over the high price of the Snow Region Demon Stone."

"A large number of Zhongzhou stones flowed into the market, how can this take over the high price?"

"The spirit stone chamber of commerce in Yunzhou is not that stupid. They have been controlling the speed of spirit stones flowing into the market, and even stopped selling for a few days to suppress the price drop."

"Then how could the price of spirit stones be greatly discounted?"

"Not long after the Yunzhou spirit stones appeared in the market, the Snow Region Demon Stones began to pour in all at once, pressing the price back. The quality of Yunzhou stones is not as good as the Snow Region Demon Stones, so the price naturally fell sharply."

Princess Changle turned the teacup in her hand and said faintly: "The Yunzhou Spirit Stone Chamber of Commerce saw that the situation was bad and immediately sold off their inventory, so that the spirit stones are constantly falling now."

A noble family disciple pursed his lips after hearing this: "Aren't the Lu family sisters closely related to Seeing Ji You, why..."

"Seeing Ji You does things without scruples, this is not strange."

"Then why did so many Snow Region Demon Stones appear?"

"This is not hard to understand. It just shows that the Snow Region Demon Stones had already been transported in, but were hoarded by people with intentions."

A noble family disciple who was watching the singing girl twist her waist turned his head: "What did I say? The Snow Region Demon Stones that appeared from time to time before the New Year definitely had problems. Now it seems that Seeing Ji You was fishing for wealth. I also heard that he bought spirit seedlings from Liangzhou to plant in Fengzhou."

The capital disciple who spoke earlier raised his eyebrows in surprise: "There is such a thing?"

"Absolutely true."

"He wants to cultivate spirit seedlings in Fengzhou?"

"Naturally."

"This Seeing Ji You has already stood firm in the Immortal Sect, but his actions are like those of a villager. Back and forth, covered in mud, but I haven't seen when he has spent effort on cultivation."

"Maybe his bloodline is really different from ours. Mortal descendants are mortal after all. Their Dao heart may not be that firm, and they are easily disturbed by worldly affairs."

The speaker was a young man wearing a treasure-blue gentleman's robe, looking very young indeed.

He was a newly admitted disciple of the Heavenly Academy and one of the arrogant younger generation of the Elder Pavilion. After arriving in Shengjing last autumn, he was pulled into their circle by these capital disciples to drink and make merry.

This kind of treatment was just like that of Chu He, Fang Jincheng, Peng Yu, and others back then.

They hadn't been in the academy for long, but they had heard many things about Seeing Ji You. Although they hadn't seen him, they weren't strangers.

For these immortal family disciples who had been entrusted with high hopes by their families since childhood, seeking immortality and asking about the Dao was the only thing to do. But this Seeing Ji You only cared about collecting wealth and farming, which made it easy for people to associate it with his identity.

In order to prohibit commoners from cultivating immortality, the Great Xia began to consciously preach the theory of bloodline hundreds of years ago.

To put it simply, it was to constantly solidify the idea that the descendants of immortals are immortals, and the descendants of mortals can only be mortals, cutting off the appearance of private cultivation from cognition.

This kind of means is actually not clever. Not to mention smart people, even those with some brains can clearly see the purpose.

However, time is also a very terrible technique. This kind of simple ideological indoctrination has not only become unbreakable in the spread of hundreds of years, but also has traces to follow.

Thus, not only do mortals believe that cultivating immortality is something that the descendants of the immortal clan can do, but even the cultivators themselves think so.

However, what they discussed here is not false.

After the New Year, the spirit stone chamber of commerce in Zhongzhou began to order resumption of work, and major spirit mines began to urge miners to step up mining.

But the time they resumed work was deep in snow and ice, and the risk was huge. But the miners facing high pressure were helpless and could only obey orders.

Who knew that not long after, the Snow Region Demon Stones began to enter the Nine Provinces on a large scale, disrupting the rhythm of the spirit stone chamber of commerce.

This was the result of Seeing Ji You's discussion with the Immortal Supervision Bureau.

As winter passed, controlling the sales of spirit stones no longer made much sense, and it was likely to cause indirect oppression to the miners in Yunzhou and Zhongzhou, so he handed over the transport rights to the Immortal Supervision Bureau.

Spirit stones are very important to cultivators, otherwise the spirit stone chamber of commerce would not have been able to make it their own century-old foundation, but Seeing Ji You had no interest in this.

He was just fishing for some money while taking advantage of the right time, place, and people, and by the way, transferring part of the suffering caused by the snow disaster to those high and mighty cultivators.

As for Lu Qingqing, the Yunzhou Chamber of Commerce did ask her to come forward, wanting her to blow some "pillow wind."

But the eldest daughter of the Lu family didn't do as they entrusted, discussing with Seeing Ji You to control the quantity and raise the price together, but just asked to what extent the price would fall back.

Because she knew in her heart that Seeing Ji You's ambition was not here.

Whether it was establishing a noble family, making an envoy to the Snow Region, or cutting off the supply of spirit stones, he was acting according to his heart, not planning for private establishment, nor was he wanting to establish a noble family that dominated one side.

And facing Lu Qingqing's inquiry, Seeing Ji You's answer was the original price.

Spirit stones are extremely important to the cultivators of the Qingyun world, and too expensive or too cheap will cause disputes.

Ji the Bandit hoped for stability, which was a subconscious behavior, because for an orphan who had been drifting, stability had always been important.

As for the cultivation of spirit seedlings, Fengzhou was indeed making preparations.

Replacing crops with higher prices and greater demand could also be considered a kind of industrial upgrading.

The most critical thing was that spirit seedlings could earn back the tax from the hands of the immortals...

In the following days, the snow in Shengjing melted quickly, and the price of spirit stones gradually fell to a stable stage.

Gradually, no one worried about this matter anymore.

And the spring plowing in Fengzhou began one after another during this period.

Last autumn, a batch of magic tools customized by Seeing Ji You at the Qionghua Pavilion was delivered on time and transported back to Fengzhou by the carriages of the Wulu Trading Firm.

Those were all plows and rakes driven by spirit stones, which could assist farmers in their work, so there were many scenes of overflowing spiritual energy in the farmland of Fengzhou, which left the passing cultivators speechless.

However, in this vast Qingyun, things worth paying attention to did not only happen to Seeing Ji You.

Following the announcement by the Mountain and Sea Pavilion that the personal disciple Holy Son Huo Xingzhong would take over the sacred artifact, the Asking Dao Sect also sent news that Shang Senior Xi Yao would take over the sacred artifact, causing heated discussions.

Counting the little Inspector of Lingjian Mountain and the Pill Sect personal disciple Yuanchen, four immortal sects in this world were about to welcome a change of dynasty.

There was another thing, which they heard from the disciples of the Immortal Sect.

It is said that many elders who had been avoiding the world for many years came out of seclusion around the New Year, and they heard many names recorded only in books during their idle chatter...

Spring thunder exploded, and the light rain was misty.

The Qingyun world began to have some spring, and the biting cold began to fade away.

Seeing Ji You was sitting in a teahouse in Zhongzhou at this time, reading two letters in his hand.

After visiting several immortal manors in Fengzhou last year, everyone was obviously much more harmonious. This year's spring plowing invited many cultivators to participate without much effort.

Seeing Ji You just went to see the situation of the spirit seedling field and left, without paying too much attention or intervening.

The development of Fengzhou was the business of the people of Fengzhou. He hoped that life could become better and that things he couldn't stand could be fewer, but he didn't really hope to be the master of Fengzhou who controlled all sides.

Because with his personality, he couldn't do exploitation, and if he really became the so-called master of Fengzhou, he might be exhausted to death.

At this time, Yuan Caiwei's beautiful handwriting and Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi's knife-like brushwork appeared in the letter Seeing Ji You unfolded.

Since the two of them left Shengjing together, it had been a month.

A few days ago, the two sent him a letter, which was sent to Shengjing, and then transferred by the Wulu Trading Firm from Shengjing.

The letter from the daughter of the Pill Sect talked about Yuanchen's control of the sacred artifact after returning to the mountain, and said that her father didn't know why, but had become more severe.

But between the lines, Seeing Ji You saw two words—didn't get pregnant.

As for Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi, she drew a female little person holding a long sword stabbing a male little person to death to show dignity.

However, this painting was different from the previous ones. The difference was that the male little person who was pierced through the heart by a sword was kneeling on the ground.

It seems that the little Inspector of Lingjian Mountain still had some resentment about the chaos of that night...

Just at this moment, a waiter walked out of the teahouse, carrying a teapot to his table.

"Guest, do you want to refill the water?" ===== CHAPTER 298 =====