Chapter 251 - Phoenix Sun City
Chapter 251: Phoenix Sun City
“If we had to build this stronghold from scratch, it would take at least five years.”
“As expected of Alliance Leader Jiang. He had great foresight and prepared this transit point to the Eastern Region so early.”
“Eh? When did the Alliance Leader prepare this stronghold? How did you do it in such a short time?”
As they looked at the orderly buildings below, the higher-ups of the Great Mountain Alliance suddenly recalled that Jiang Li had only been appointed for a few days.
Moreover, they were the first batch to come out. How could they not know if he had mobilized resources to build a stronghold?
So where did this place come from?
The flying ship descended. The magnificence of the buildings surprised these higher-ups.
There were no signs of hurried construction. From the selection of materials to the completion of the work, they were all high standards.
At the foot of the mountain, there was even a mortal city specially set up to provide low-level labor for this base.
Could it be that their Alliance Leader Jiang had snatched the base of some great family?
Their guess was already very close to the truth.
“This is all thanks to the help of the Green Mountain Residence. Let’s go down.”
The flying ship slowly lowered its altitude. There was actually a professional flying ship spaceport here that could dock more than twenty large merchant ships.
“Green Mountain Residence? Could it be that Green Mountain Residence in Nightless City?”
“I remember that they did join the Great Mountain Alliance, but shouldn’t that be a business organization established by a Golden Core cultivator? I didn’t expect that there would be such an organization in the Eastern Region.”
The top-notch spiritual qi living environment of the Green Mountain Residence in Nightless City was famous. Most of the disciples of the many high-level cultivation sects present had basically stayed there for a period of time.
They had heard of Green Mountain Ascetic, who was so generous that he did not treat high-grade spirit stones as a rare commodity.
“That Green Mountain Ascetic is not from our Great Mountain Region, but he can provide such a base for our Great Mountain Alliance. It seems that he has a deep relationship with Alliance Leader Jiang.”
Five flying ships full of supplies stopped.
“Alliance Leader Jiang, Elders, our Green Mountain Residence has accomplished the mission.”
The Great Mountain Alliance’s flying ship landed at the spaceport and stopped steadily. Below, Green Mountain Ascetic stood there with six Golden Core cultivators who were also wearing masks.
“Alliance Leader Jiang, everyone from the Great Mountain Alliance, we have been waiting for a long time.”
After consuming a large number of pills from the Hundred Tempering Mountain, Jiang Li’s strength advanced by leaps and bounds.
Even without the enhancement of the Nine Nether clone, he already had a powerful strength that surpassed ordinary Golden Core cultivators.
Therefore, he released the Nine Nether clone and brought the cultivators who had been subdued from the Hundred Tempering Mountain here.
With Situ Etong and the others’ secret tokens, they successfully took over all the businesses here.
Then, Jiang Li discovered that the Hundred Tempering Mountain’s backup plan was really very stable.
The cultivators guarding the base here were originally pure and innocent orphans. In their growth, they had never come into contact with the words ‘Hundred Tempering Mountain’.
They did not know who their boss was at all. They only took care of everything here according to instructions and waited for the owner with the token to come at any time.
It was also because this encampment’s foundation was sufficiently clean that Jiang Li handed it to the Great Mountain Alliance in the name of Green Mountain Residence.
On the one hand, the Great Mountain Alliance had just stepped out of the Great Mountain Region and indeed needed such a place to settle down.
On the other hand, Jiang Li also needed to plant a force that completely belonged to him in the Great Mountain Alliance. He could only be at ease when doing certain things.
“Elders, follow the people from Green Mountain Residence to find a suitable residence.”
“Green Mountain Ascetic still has a few shops in Phoenix Sun City. That is our first step out of the Great Mountain Region. In the future, everyone must quickly open up the shipping route to this place.”
“Along the way, we’ve encountered thirteen large-scale demon beast territories. In the future, it’s impossible for us to follow the ship personally, so we’ll try to communicate with those demons if possible. Otherwise, we’ll directly eliminate them. Thank you for your hard work, everyone.”
“Uncle-Master Guangling, stay behind. The others can go and rest first.”
Jiang Li gave a few simple instructions. This was actually something that he had discussed at the Great Mountain Conference.
After letting the others go do their own work, Jiang Li asked Dongfang Guangling to stay.
As a Runic Array Master, Dongfang Guangling naturally had to be the first to arrive at a new place in the Great Mountain Alliance. Therefore, even Elder He did not come this time, he had to come.
“Alliance Leader Jiang, I see that everyone from top to bottom of Green Mountain Residence is wearing masks. Their origins and identities are unknown, and they have never shown their true faces to others. Can they be trusted?”
No one else said this, but their thoughts were similar.
Green Mountain Residence had not appeared for long, and its way of doing things was too generous, so generous that people could not help but doubt it. Coupled with the mask of everyone dying without leaving their bodies, it was indeed not very reassuring.
However, Jiang Li was helpless.
In the Mother River, during the battle with the huge Nine Nether Wood, Jiang Li had obtained a lot of spiritual root seeds and had already turned all the captives of the Hundred Tempering Mountain into his own people.
Currently, there were 6 Golden Core cultivators, 33 Core Formation cultivators, 517 Foundation Establishment cultivators, and 1241 Qi Refinement cultivators.
This was a huge force. They basically all had the useless skill of refining pills. They were excellent subordinates who could be used in battles and development.
However, the only problem was that these cultivators from the Hundred Tempering Mountain were all wanted criminals of the Great Mountain Region and could not show their true faces.
Before Jiang Li had the ability to change their appearances, they could only wear a mask.
“Uncle-Master Guangling, you should call me Jiang Li. Otherwise, it’ll be rude of me.”
“As for the people from Green Mountain Residence, from the looks of it, they are trustworthy.”
“It was my suggestion for them to wear a mask. If our Great Mountain Alliance wants to develop well, we have to discard sectarian bias internally.”
“I know that the factional division in the alliance is actually very serious now. If this continues, it will definitely become a violent conflict.”
“Therefore, I plan to form another army in the alliance and let the elite disciples of the various sects join. After wearing the mask, there will be no name, no sect, and only a code. Doing this will eliminate sectarian bias and allow the Great Mountain Alliance to reach greater unity.”
“I’ll mention this in the subsequent Great Mountain Conference. I hope Uncle-Master Guangling can help me as well.”
With Jiang Li’s current strength, this was the best he could do. When he proposed a proposal, he had to canvass for votes in advance.
“Your thoughts are indeed reasonable… This is naturally not a problem.”
“However, Jiang Li, you asked me to stay. There should be something else, right?”
After all, Dongfang Guangling was Jiang Li’s Uncle-Master. Jiang Li’s decision could not harm the Scripture Storage Valley.
Therefore, the higher-ups of the Scripture Storage Valley basically did not disagree with his suggestion.
However, he was also a shrewd person and had long seen that Jiang Li had other requests.
Jiang Li chuckled as he took out a storage bag.
This storage bag was the one belonging to the Second Elder of the Hundred Tempering Mountain, Situ Tingxin.
Jiang Li had been worried that fortune would move people’s hearts and had not opened it.
However, he was already a leader now. Although his authority was not absolute, it was not a problem to protect his own interests.
Moreover, the person he found was his Uncle-Master, Dongfang Guangling. He believed that there was no problem.
“Uncle-Master Guangling, please help me remove the restriction on this storage bag.”
Dongfang Guangling received the storage bag and looked at it with a professional gaze for a long time.
“The quality of this storage bag isn’t low. Forget it, you’re the Alliance Leader. Leave it to me.”
He raised his hand and formed two seals, drawing another blank restriction at the mouth of the bag.
“Come, leave your mark.”
Jiang Li followed his instructions.
He placed the mark of the Nine Nether spiritual qi and the Liquor Fire spiritual qi on it.
Then, the restriction shrunk and sealed the bag tightly.
This was the professional ethics of a Runic Master.
Due to the complicated process of cracking the storage bag, it often took several days.
It was impossible for the client to keep watching from the side. Therefore, before cracking it, he had to add another restriction. This kind of restriction would completely dissipate after opening it once to ensure that the Runic Master did not secretly open it.
No one could imitate Jiang Li’s mark. However, once it was opened, no one had the ability to replicate another restriction.
After the two of them separated, Jiang Li found Yan Hong.
After Jiang Li’s strength and status rose all the way, the reputation of the small cultivation store, Prosperous Jiang Hong, shot to fame.
In Nightless City, everyone knew that because someone caused trouble in the Prosperous Jiang Hong, the Hundred Tempering Mountain, one of the four major sects of the original Great Mountain Region, was directly destroyed!
With this, coupled with the fact that the Alliance Leader of the Great Mountain Alliance was the boss of this store, it would be strange if Jiang Hong’s business was not good.
The surrounding small forces were even rushing to give them money.
The branch of the Prosperous Jiang Hong Inn even opened all over the Great Mountain Region. It became the center of the million demons. Every day, it could obtain a large number of souls from the mortal worlds of the Great Mountain Region.
This time, he arranged the business over at the Great Mountain Region. The Foundation Establishment and Qi Refinement cultivators of Green Mountain Residence were stationed at various popular points.
Yan Hong himself followed Jiang Li here.
“Hurry up and move! Don’t be lazy!”
“All of you, be careful! If you damage the thing inside, you won’t be able to pay for it even if you sell yourself!”
When he found Yan Hong, this agile fatty was supervising the workers moving the goods.
Although these were only the lowest-level porters, they were actually internal martial artists with high status in the mortal countries.
However, in front of cultivators, it was nothing.
“Jiang Li, why are you here? Don’t you have to deal with other things?”
Yan Hong had to take care of everything in Prosperous Jiang Hong, but his body size seemed to have frozen. He could not lose weight no matter what.
He felt that Jiang Li should be a hundred times busier than him. However, in fact, Jiang Li did not have to do anything.
“I’m the Alliance Leader, not a nanny. I don’t need to do these things.”
“How about it? Accompany me to Phoenix Sun City to take a look?”
“I can’t ask for more.”
He called for others to continue moving and checking the goods. Jiang Li did not use the ostentatious wooden dragon.
He only used the Nine Nether spiritual qi to make two wooden swords. After the two of them stepped on the wooden swords, they flew towards Phoenix Sun City 500 miles away.
Not long after they left, the two Nascent Soul elders turned into streaks of light and entered the sky, following Jiang Li from afar.
This Phoenix Sun City was one of the eight main cities that provided supplies for the Divine Judgment Hall.
It was grand and vast, truly astonishing.
In broad daylight, one could see the spiritual light of the array formation in the city rushing into the clouds.
When the two of them landed, they paid six low-grade spirit stones for the city entrance tax alone.
Yan Hong, a Qi Refinement small fish, had to pay a spirit stone. Because Jiang Li was at the Foundation Establishment realm, he had to pay five spirit stones.
This price was a little absurd. One could imagine that if he went to the Divine Judgment Hall to take a look, wouldn’t it cost spirit stones to even breathe?
“Young Masters, is this your first time in Phoenix Sun City?”
Jiang Li, who had seen those exaggerated buildings in the Asura World, did not feel much about everything here.
However, Yan Hong appeared to be inexperienced. He even squatted down and looked at the craftsmanship of the tiles under his feet, clicking his tongue in wonder.
Seeing their appearance, others could immediately make many connections and deduce their origins.
A man in plain clothes immediately stepped forward and bowed to the two of them.
“May I ask if you need anyone to lead the way? My price is the cheapest. Everyone in this area knows that I am honest.”
“In addition, my home is in Phoenix Sun City. Every inch of this place has my footprints. No matter what you want to find, you can ask me.”
The way this person spoke was very similar to the taxi scams at the entrance of the airport.
Whenever they saw a target, they would rush up and hit on them enthusiastically. Foreign cultivators from other places were their favorite.
“How many spirit stones?”
Yan Hong used his instincts as a businessman to immediately start bargaining with the other party. In the end, he still set the price at four low-grade spirit stones.
As soon as they entered, they spent ten spirit stones without doing anything.
“Let’s go to the market area of Phoenix Sun City and take a look. Bring us to a few medicinal pill and spiritual material shops. I want them to be of reasonable price and of high quality.”
Jiang Li raised his request. One of the reasons they came this time was to do market research. How should the production of the Medicine Garden Mystic Realm be sold here?
“If you want to buy medicinal pills, the few large-scale pill-concocting shops of the Myriad Sun Building are recognized as the best.”
“The Myriad Sun Building is controlled by a few large factions behind Phoenix Sun City. They have to strictly regulate the merchants inside. Medicinal pills are also checked regularly.”
“Although the price will be slightly higher, there’s no problem with the quality.”
This kid did not have the intention to bring Jiang Li and Yan Hong into a corner and ambush them for robbery.
Or rather, the security in Phoenix Sun City was quite good. There was basically no violence.
“Alright, let’s go there first.”
Jiang Li nodded, and the other party started to lead the way.
Phoenix Sun City was clearly much larger than Nightless City.
The shops were arranged in a very standard manner. There was no sense of disorder.
This Myriad Sun Building was an extremely huge building in the center of Phoenix Sun City.
This scale had already far surpassed the skyscrapers in his previous life.
What was awkward was that one had to pay spirit stones to enter the Myriad Sun Building…