Chapter 407 - 407: Hot (2)
“What’s wrong?”
Luo Li looked at Chen Daoxuan.
” Nothing much.” Chen Daoxuan shook his head and smiled.” I just found something interesting.””
Nie Zhong was one of the earliest batch of itinerant cultivators in the Seaview Immortal City.
Back when the Guang ‘an Prefecture’s Western Coalition Army had yet to disband, he had been a member of the cultivator army.
Later on, with the destruction of the corpse tide, the various large families in Gang Prefecture naturally would not maintain a large number of allied forces. After all, every day the allied forces existed, the various expenses of the army were astronomical.
As time passed, no one could bear it.
As such, the Cangzhou Coalition Army began to disband. The Guang ‘an Prefecture West Coalition Army was also a part of the Cangzhou Coalition Army, so it was naturally disbanded by the Chen family.
As a member of the Western Alliance Army, Nie Zhong retired and became a rogue cultivator again.
To be honest, when Nie Zhong had just retired, he was not unhappy at all. Instead, he was very happy.
Because compared to other loose cultivators, Nie Zhong is a ling plant farmer with quite a bit of experience.
Although his level of ling plant cultivation wasn’t high enough to plant precious spirit herbs, it wasn’t difficult for Nie Zhong to plant level one spirit rice, Jade Crystal Rice.
Adding on the fact that the spirit islands near Guanhai immortal city were absorbing ling plant farmers, Nie Zhong went with the flow and stayed in Guanhai immortal city.
In less than a year.
Nie Zhong relied on his spiritual plant planting techniques to achieve a surplus of spirit stone coins.
In a year, Nie Zhong had earned 297 Spiritual Stones from the 100 Mu of spiritual land he was responsible for.
This level of income was already quite high.
One had to know that the average member of the Zhou Clan’s patrol team only had an annual salary of five hundred spirit stones.
The income of the members of the Zhou Clan patrol team was definitely considered high among the Zhou Clan cultivators of the same rank. From this, it could be seen how exaggerated Nie Zhong’s income was.
After cultivating the ling fields for several years, Nie Zhong’s cultivation improved rapidly with the help of a large number of spirit stones. Soon, he reached the ninth level of the qi layer.
Now that he had reached the ninth layer of the Qi Refinement Realm, the next thing he needed to consider was the matter of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Once one became a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, not only would one’s status in the Immortal Cultivation World advance, but more importantly, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator would have a lifespan of 200 years.
Longevity was the greatest motivation for cultivators to cultivate.
Building a foundation was naturally something worth celebrating. However, building a foundation wasn’t that simple for itinerant cultivators. The first big problem placed in front of itinerant cultivators was the Foundation Building Pill.
The Foundation Establishment Pill was something that required a lot of restrictions, from the spirit herbs used to concoct it to the method of concocting it, to the qualified alchemist. It was destined that rogue cultivators could only obtain this kind of spirit pill by purchasing it.
Wanting to refine it by themselves was too difficult for itinerant cultivators.
Of course, things like the Foundation Building Pill were naturally something that the Chen family, a newly advanced large family, had the ability to refine.
In fact, the current Chen family could not only refine a second-grade spirit pill like the foundation establishment pill, but they could even refine it on a large scale.
In Cangzhou, more than 80% of the market for Foundation Establishment Pills was eaten by the Chen family. They almost monopolized the market for Foundation Establishment Pills.
The Chen family’s monopoly on the medicinal pill market in Cang Prefecture was not only reflected in the Foundation Establishment Pill. Most of the Rank-1 and Rank-2 spiritual pills were now monopolized by the Chen family.
The Chen family had not been involved in the production of pills of the third rank and above.
However, even though the price of grade-3 spirit pills was high, in terms of market size, it might not be comparable to grade-1 and grade-2 spirit pills.
This was because the users of level one and level two spirit pills were Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment cultivators. These two types of cultivators accounted for the largest proportion of the group of cultivators, more than 99%.
As a result, the market size of Grade 1 and Grade 2 spiritual pills was naturally not inferior to that of high-grade spiritual pills.
After the Chen family entered the foundation establishment pill market, the price of the foundation establishment pill in Cang Prefecture had dropped by more than half. From the previous 50,000 spirit stones, it could be bought for 20,000 spirit stones now.
However, for a rogue cultivator like Nie Zhong, 20,000 spiritual stones was still an astronomical price.
Based on Nie Zhong’s annual income of 300 Spiritual Stones, even if he saved all his Spiritual Stones and did not spend a single cent, it would still take him 66.6 years to save up this huge sum of money.
However, Nie Zhong had been cultivating for nearly 4.0 years. If he couldn’t pass the Foundation Establishment Pill within 20 years, it would mean that he had no fate with the Foundation Establishment realm in this life.
Nie Zhong couldn’t afford to wait for more than sixty years.
Even an itinerant cultivator like Nie Zhong, who had a skill, could not afford the Foundation Building Pill, let alone an ordinary itinerant cultivator.
Faced with the sky-high price of the Foundation Establishment Pill, they could only feel even more despair.
In the past few days, a few places similar to primary schools had appeared in the Vast Ocean Immortal City and were recruiting students.
Sectless cultivators were not unfamiliar with learning from a small family. This was because they had learned from a small family when they were mortals.
However, these itinerant cultivators had never seen a school run by an immortal cultivator before, especially when the conditions offered by the other party were so excellent.
“Senior, what do you mean by the graduation bag distribution?”
Nie Zhong looked at the 20-year-old Foundation Building cultivator in front of him with confusion.
If Nie Zhong hadn’t recognized that this person was a Foundation Building cultivator of the Chen family from his uniform, he wouldn’t have believed his nonsense.
What did the other party say just now?
After going through the system, the monthly salary of the students who graduated would be at least 100 spirit stones?
They could even help students take out interest-free loans to purchase Foundation Establishment Pills!
Especially the second one. Nie Zhong felt that the other party was crazy.
Even though the Changping Central Bank of Guanhai Immortal City had launched a loan service, Nie Zhong was very clear that the loan department of Changping Bank was not a charity.
They lent money to outsiders because they looked down on others. They had to ensure that the rogue cultivators had enough collateral and the ability to repay before they lent money to them.
Because Nie Zhong had good ling plant planting techniques, his income was relatively stable. He was lucky enough to get a loan from Changping Central Bank.
However, the loan limit was only two hundred spirit stones. It was the starting capital for him to rent the spirit fields and purchase the spirit seeds.
Of course, he repaid the loan in less than a year.
From then on, Nie Zhong never borrowed money from the Changping Central Bank again.
Because he didn’t need a small loan. As for the loan to buy the Foundation Building Pill, Nie Zhong didn’t have the qualifications at all.
20,000 spirit stones. Even if Nie Zhong was sold, it wouldn’t be worth this price.
Chen Fu Zhou looked at the ninth qi layer rogue cultivator in front of him and explained with a smile,”Fellow Daoist Nie, the so-called graduation bag distribution means that after you study in our school for a year, you can get a job with a monthly income of no less than 100 spirit stones.”
“A year?”
Nie Zhong couldn’t believe it. The learning time was too short.
Moreover, in the cultivation world, any valuable knowledge was firmly controlled by the sects and families. No family was willing to take the initiative to leak it.
The Chen family…Was this crazy?
“Yes, one year!”
Chen Fuzhou nodded.” Of course, if you progress quickly, you might be able to graduate in a few months and be qualified for this job.”
“Gulp!”
Nie Zhong swallowed hard. In just a few months, he could get a job that was several times more profitable than before. More importantly, he could even buy a Foundation Building Pill with an interest-free loan.
After Nie Zhong asked all these questions, he nodded his head furiously.’Tm willing to sign up!”
Seeing this, Chen Fuzhou smiled and nodded.”Alright.”
In the past two days, too many rogue cultivators like Nie Zhong had come to Chen Fuzhou’s enrollment registration office.
Compared to Nie Zhong, who was hesitant because he had a special skill, the other rogue cultivators went crazy when they heard that he could earn more than a thousand spirit stones a year.
After all, the person who said this was not an ordinary rogue cultivator, but a cultivator from the Chen Clan.
The Seaview Immortal City, including all the major spiritual islands within a radius of ten thousand miles, were all properties of the Chen family.
It was impossible for a big family like this to deceive wandering cultivators who had nothing.
After all, what was there to deceive a penniless rogue cultivator?
With the good reputation that the Chen family had built up, the enrollment offices of various schools were extremely popular, and there was an endless stream of itinerant cultivators coming and going.
As this wave rose, gradually, the Spirit Day City, which was closest to the Sea-viewing Immortal City, began to spread this news.
“Have you heard? The Seaview Immortal City was actually recruiting itinerant cultivators, and their annual income was more than a thousand spirit stones!”
” 1,000 spirit stones? Is that true?
“That’s right, Brother Wang. These big families are all ruthless. Why would the Chen family be so kind?”
“I don’t know about that, but I won’t lose out if I go and take a look.”
“Brother Wang is right. Whether it’s true or not, let’s go and take a look.”