Longzang

Chapter 846 Get to work quickly
The immortal makes a move, leaving no trace.

Wei Yuan only needed a moment to think it through before he understood. The young man from the Xu family played a crucial role in Qingming's establishment, and the battle against Yue Jinshan's iron cavalry completely shattered the Western Jin's confidence in annihilating Qingming.

The Eternal Sword has repeatedly helped Wei Yuan overcome difficulties, but its sword intent is somewhat incompatible with Wei Yuan's, so he doesn't use it often.

Moreover, the karma of the Eternal Sword is too great. The birth of Xu Shiba alone could take away the true meaning of the Four Barbarians from Xu Wangu's hands. Wei Yuan doubted whether the several true meanings he had already obtained were just being kept by someone else.

However, the Xu family youths had always worked diligently for Qingming and had almost no needs. Xu Shiba's sudden return with Wei Ying to undergo tribulation also enabled most of the Xu family youths to establish their Dao foundation, giving Wei Yuan an absurdly powerful Dao soldier army.

If he had indeed been used, then the person behind it had already paid him. Once he understood this, Wei Yuan felt at peace.

Wei Ying's Dao Foundation is also a giant sword, but it doesn't contain the true meaning of the Eternal Sword. Instead, it possesses a strange sword intent, extremely strong yet distinctly feminine, as if advancing ten times and retreating one. Wei Yuan's eyesight is now extraordinary, and upon closer inspection, he understands that this is a new Dao Foundation formed by combining the sword intent of the Eternal Sword with the Taiyin Moon Essence Myriad Phenomena Chapter.

Theoretically, the interplay of Yin and Yang, leading to the principle of hardness giving rise to softness, represents a higher level of understanding. However, theory is just theory. The Eternal Sword, though extremely powerful and domineering, cannot be compared to the simple interplay of Yin and Yang.

Both girls' greatswords were clearly imbued with aura, indicating that they were undergoing tribulations under the watchful eyes of the crowd and that they were also helping the Xu family youths improve their cultivation levels. They were also receiving a response, being blessed with aura.

Wei Yuan returned the giant sword to Wei Ying and Xu Shiba, and then asked them about their future plans.

Xu Shiba blurted out, "Of course we have to fight the Witch Clan!"

Wei Ying, on the other hand, looked obedient and said, "I will do whatever Daddy says."

Wei Yuan felt a headache coming on. He scolded Wei Ying and then said, "This battle is extraordinary. The immortals on the other side will directly intervene. Although it will only be an indirect attack, it will still be difficult to resist. You must obey the arrangements, otherwise I will not be able to protect you."

Wei Ying was born with a sweet and obedient appearance, her big eyes naturally carrying a look of bewilderment and innocence, making people want to bully her. She nodded and said, "I understand. Daddy has many aunties to take care of and can't look after his daughter. I will be very good and take care of myself."

Wei Yuan's face darkened, and he had to remind her, "You know those young aunties, you know their personalities. Calling them 'aunties' is like asking if your heart isn't broken fast enough?"

Xu Shiba blurted out, "I understand! We're all cultivating the Invincible Heart, even a dog passing by will get bitten..."

Wei Yuan covered his face and sighed, "You... you should go travel around. We don't need you here."

Xu Shiba stuck out his tongue and whispered, "I also want to cultivate the Invincible Heart."

“...You dare!” Wei Yuan immediately stopped him.

In the end, Wei Yuan arranged a courtyard in the Immortal City for the two little girls to live in. Afterwards, Wei Yuan made it clear to Xu Shiba that he had indeed received some favors from her father in the past, but now the karma had been settled, and he told her to take care of herself.

Xu Shiba nodded, but it was unclear whether he understood.

Wei Yuan was then able to handle the follow-up matters. This round of Dao Foundation Ceremony was unprecedentedly successful. Everyone was very curious about the city of Qingming with its towering buildings, and they were even more shocked after learning about Qingming's resources.

The development of Qingming can be said to be completely contrary to the traditional concepts of various aristocratic families. Each family strives to develop spiritual and immortal objects, the higher the rank, the better. There are even cases where an entire spiritual mountain is used to cultivate only a single ancient immortal plant. In all the herb gardens, the more abundant the spiritual energy, the higher the rank of the spiritual herbs planted, but the fewer in number.

The same principle applies to weapon crafting and alchemy. For example, the Qi-Nourishing Pill used for body forging is not something that each family cares about much. They only need enough for their own disciples, and it is basically something that apprentices make for practice.

However, Qingming's main products are almost all ordinary items: forged armor, canned food, minor health-preserving pills, machine-made brocade, machine-woven fabrics, as well as firearms, ammunition, and so on.

These ordinary items are necessities for each family, so the elders of the Xu family, the Li family of Nanqi, and the Cui family of Qinghe were quite interested. These elders may seem to have mediocre cultivation, but in fact they all hold great power or have missions to fulfill, otherwise they would not have taken on such an important task as leading the team to Qingming.

They then contacted Xu Henshui, Cui Yu, and others to try and purchase some supplies to take back with them.

Wei Yuan naturally made things easy for them. Then the elders from various families discovered that, due to the sheer quantity, the cost of purchasing these ordinary supplies was actually greater than, and by a significant amount, than that of spiritual or immortal items. At this point, some astute individuals began to understand why Wei Yuan was procuring these mundane goods.

The most convenient way to purchase from Qingming is to borrow a sum of Qingyuan and then repay it gradually through trade. Although Xu Henshui, Cui Yu, and others are important figures in Qingming, their individual strength is limited, and they cannot guarantee such a large amount of Qingyuan. The elders of each family are all reasonable people and naturally know that their own geniuses are not worth tens of millions. Fortunately, Qingming Bank also provides a collateral option, which is easy to understand and is not much different from a pawnshop.

So the elders from each family pooled together several powerful spiritual items and treasures, which they mortgaged to Qingming Bank. With Xu Henshui and others acting as guarantors, that was about enough. In the end, they all lent out about ten million Qingyuan.

The Li family of Southern Qi was somewhat slow to realize the situation, but they acted swiftly. Finding the collateral insufficient, the Li family elders actually pledged ten of their clan's most beautiful and talented young women, leaving the money exchange managers speechless. They dared not delay, reporting the matter up the chain of command, eventually alarming Wei Yuan.

After personally inspecting the collateral, Wei Yuan decided that each person could be valued at 500,000 taels of immortal silver. Based on this price, the girls' innate talent and foundation were roughly worth 10,000 taels, and their faces worth 490,000 taels. However, the managers knew the exact amount but remained silent.

With the three major families taking the lead, other smaller forces and sects followed suit, pledging goods and people, and borrowing a lot of Qingyuan to varying degrees, forcing Wei Yuan to open a printing press again.

What puzzled everyone was that Qingming Money House actually accepted the method of borrowing Qingyuan to repay immortal silver, and accepted that everyone deposit immortal silver in advance as collateral. Then, when the loan matured, the collateral immortal silver could be used directly to offset the loan, and no repayment procedures were required.

You have to understand that the current market price is that one Qingyuan can be exchanged for one tael and three qian of immortal silver, which is practically a blatant loss. If it weren't for the stipulated time limit for Qingyuan loans, everyone could simply borrow Qingyuan and repay it with immortal silver, reselling it back and forth, and instantly become incredibly wealthy.

The major families generally thought Wei Yuan was honest and wouldn't make money off of him. The smaller factions all thought Wei Yuan was foolish for not realizing this loophole. Regardless of whether it was a major family or a small faction, no one reminded Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan didn't care. These people probably hadn't experienced the outer world and didn't know about calamities like inflation.

……

Inside the city lord's mansion in Yong'an City, Xiao Yu was enveloped in a hazy blue light. Looking at the more than five hundred orbs of light in front of her, she handled them with ease, as if observing candlelight in the dark. She hardly needed to think; the answers appeared naturally.

In contrast, just over ten days ago, when Xiaoyu was handling 128 tasks, she was exhausted to the point of near death, and she was already feeling unwell before the night was even over.

Currently, Wei Yuan is wealthy and powerful. He has already built arrays in various city lords' mansions, immortal cities, medical clinics, alchemy halls, weapon forging workshops, and other important locations. These arrays can be used to access the functions of human life, allowing the cultivators of Taichu Palace to use them without needing to enter a dream.

Looking at the numerous orbs of light before her, far exceeding her original capacity, Xiao Yu sighed softly, a hint of melancholy in her eyes, and said, "So this is what it feels like to be blessed with good fortune. I never imagined I could be one today..."

The Lesser Yang Star Lord interrupted him, "Stop being so pretentious and get to work! Wei Yuan was blessed with good fortune years ago, and you're only realizing how powerful he is now? You still have time to be pretentious? I think you're just not doing enough work. If you're bored, I'll give you another sixty-four!"

Faced with the ball of light hurtling towards her, Xiaoyu was momentarily flustered, but then, seeing Shaoyang Xingjun's unusually serious expression, she asked curiously, "What are you doing now?"

Without looking up, the Lesser Yang Star Lord said, “Yin and Yang are mutually generative, and everyone in the Star Palace is quite familiar with each other. Although I am in charge of Lesser Yang, I am also quite knowledgeable about the Way of Taiyin. Even if I cannot compare to the Taiyin Star Lord, I know more than ordinary immortals.”

"If a remnant fire sword, born from the Great Sun, can possess such fortune, I plan to create another immortal sword template based on the Yin principle; its fortune will surely be considerable as well."

Xiao Yu was taken aback: "That's possible? But we have so much luck now, we can't possibly use it all..."

"Shut up!" Shaoyang Xingjun rarely lost his temper, scolding, "You unambitious thing, you call this little bit of luck a lot? Luck is something that you can never have enough of, you can use up as much as you have!"
The path to immortality is arduous, and the struggle is fraught with peril!
Don't forget, the Moon Goddess also has incarnations scattered throughout this world. What if one of her incarnations is also in Qingming? Right now, I need to take advantage of the fact that her incarnation hasn't awakened yet and quickly create the Moon Sword template. Even if she can create a better one in the future, we've already obtained a portion of the fortune.”

Xiao Yu asked in surprise, "Isn't that Taiyin Xingjun an illusion created by Bao Yun? How could you take it seriously?"

“Illusions arise from the mind. She said that because of me. The more I thought about it, the more something seemed wrong. Maybe her incarnation is related to us, otherwise she wouldn’t have mentioned it in the illusion. Speaking of which, Bao Yun’s Dharma form is not in the ordinary path, but it is too powerful. Even I was able to fall for it. I have to be more careful when dealing with her in the future.”

Xiaoyu still felt something was off: "Aren't we stealing the luck of the Moon Goddess? Don't you two get along?"

Shaoyang Xingjun said expressionlessly, "What do you mean by stealing? I didn't know she had an incarnation in this world. Besides, fortune has no owner; only the virtuous can possess it."

"Didn't you just say that her incarnation might be nearby...?"

"That's an illusion, it doesn't count. You think eighth place is a high ranking? If not, shut your beak and get to work!"

(End of this chapter)