Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 201: Foundation Building Level , the Decline of Yunshang Secret Island

Two months later, autumn came.

The storms and tsunamis that roared for three months receded on time, making it hard not to suspect that the four seasons in the Ocean of Storms are actually controlled by some existence.

However, the Ocean of Storms is vast, and it would be impossible to control the climate of such a large area at the same time.

The Ichthyosaur Islands quickly calculated the specific losses and gains:

The loss is not great;
Only a few small shelters were not able to be rescued in time and were breached by the small beast tide, resulting in the loss of some Qi-refining monks and mortals.

All these shelters need to be rebuilt with better building materials, stronger protective formations, and be more solid and durable. The shelters that have not been breached also need to be adjusted and optimized because there will be another beast tide next year. The goal is to reduce the losses year by year.

The benefits are huge.

During the three months of the Storm Season, there were more than six beast tides. Almost all the monks in the shelters, big and small, actively participated in or assisted in the battle, relying on the formation to fight back and counterattack, and reaped great rewards.

Once the unorganized and undisciplined first and second level monsters enter the big net of the Ichthyosaur Islands, it is difficult for them to get out. A large amount of materials are piled up in the warehouses of various shelters waiting for further processing, even exceeding the digestion limit of the islands.

These demon corpses will be dismantled in an orderly manner in the autumn.

Among them, the materials that can be preserved for a long time and have a certain value will be pulled into the Lin family warehouse for long-term storage, and will be sold when the market rebounds in the future.
Although many forces would do this, the larger/more capital-rich forces are more likely to hold on. Everyone understands this principle, but the specific situations within different forces are different, and there will always be people who cannot withstand it.

The flesh and blood materials that cannot be preserved for a long time and have lower value are directly distributed to the residents of the islands and even the wealthy ordinary people at super low prices or even almost for free, to help them improve their lives and increase their production enthusiasm and happiness.

The rest flowed into the islands' fairy arts industrial system for preliminary processing, and then were transported to Chaochun City via the White Whale to be sold. Unfortunately, the proportion of people in the Yulong Islands who were proficient in fairy arts was still too small, and when there were too many raw materials, they could not be fully digested.

Not only is the production end full, even the transportation end is a bit behind schedule. Now, the White Whale alone cannot undertake such a large transportation/escort mission. Not only does the Lin family have to receive their own goods, but they also need to help the Zhang family deal with their prey. Because the Shield Mountain Ship dare not leave Yundu Island at all, it needs to guard the headquarters at all times.
In the entire Western Regions, there are still many inferior/newly-emerged Jindan forces that do not have any third-order ships available at home, and they cannot send idle Jindan monks to do business alone. They do not have the ability to sell their goods to Chaochun City and can only accept the prices that are pushed to the extreme by Qianxing City.

Yes, it’s an extremely low price!

The recycling price of many ordinary first-level monsters in the Thousand Star City is now less than 30% of the average price in previous years, and some categories even have a downward trend.

"It would be great if the Lin family had another Tier 3 ship!"

The Lin family currently has a large number of Jindan and Jiadan cultivators, and they will increase noticeably in the future. However, the White Whale's operating model has long been mature, and it also takes the main route between the two fourth-level immortal cities. Two Jiadan cultivators are enough to handle it, so the White Whale does not need additional manpower.
Instead, we should add a third-tier ship!
Unfortunately, combat ships are important combat units on the defense line, and functional ships are important production tools for each company. These ships will not be sold easily.
As for the major treasure houses in the Thousand Star City, their custom orders for third-tier ships are all scheduled for decades later. One can only hope to find a second-hand one, which depends on luck.

It is worth mentioning that as soon as the storm stopped, first- and second-level forces wanted to move to the Yulong Islands one after another. They came from various Jindan forces in the surrounding areas, but they were all worried and felt insecure during this storm season and urgently needed to change their lives.

The Yulong Islands welcome all visitors to the Qi Refining Realm, whether they are individual cultivators or small forces, and continuously fill every corner of the islands with them.
However, most of the foundation-building forces were rejected. The more than 20 foundation-building forces that were recruited last time still need some adjustment and digestion. Unless the top power of the Lin family continues to be strengthened, they can continue to recruit people.

Lin Qianfan controlled his curiosity during this period.
I have never tried the two active functions of the Vast Sea Spirit Guidance. At most, I use its passive function, the Sea World Reflection, to look at the distribution of mineral deposits inside the Fish Dragon Islands when hunting monsters. I must always be on guard against Jindan or even Yuanying cultivators who may be investigating in secret.

In order to make his future behavior highly rational, Lin Qianfan used his fragmented free time to study geomancy. It didn't require a deep understanding, but a comprehensive understanding and supplement, so that he wouldn't be unable to explain why he discovered mineral deposits in the future.

You don't know until you check. After a careful check, you actually found some unexpected gains. There are indeed some undiscovered mineral deposits in the Ichthyosaur Islands.

It has been thousands of years since the Ichthyosaur Islands were first developed, and the local mineral resources in the islands have basically been developed.

Most of the mineral deposits that have not been fully developed are special mineral deposits that are difficult to mine, but some small and medium-sized hidden treasures have still been found on Haihuan Yingyu, and some are even high-value surprises.

Some of them are very secret and have never been found, while others are new mineral deposits that have been spawned by the recent millennium waves.

However, Lin Qianfan did not bring up this matter on his own initiative. He needed to wait for the right time and bring it up in a reasonable way so as not to appear abrupt.

Autumn is supposed to be the season of harvest.
However, due to the continuous invasion of beast tides, many industries have come to a complete halt. For example, a large number of people who were originally engaged in aquaculture have been forced to flow into the archipelago infrastructure and offshore hunting industries.

The infrastructure of the archipelago continues the previous large-scale infrastructure and continues to reclaim land to create more usable land. This requires a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, and needs to be implemented step by step over a long period of time. It can only be done when you are rich, and it will benefit the present and future generations.

In addition, there is the need to rebuild destroyed shelters, repair defective shelters and build new shelters due to the continuous increase in the number of new immigrants to the archipelago.

In addition, the original four major markets in the east, south, west and north of Central also need to be expanded as needed, and the entire infrastructure construction atmosphere is in full swing.

The forces and individuals with stronger personal strength and owning various first-level spirit ships joined the offshore hunting team.

Although there are no beast tides now, the density of sea monsters is still quite high. As long as you are brave and not afraid of death, it is easy to hunt them.

Although the current price of fresh fish has dropped significantly, you can still get cash when you catch them. These are hard currencies that circulate quickly and give you a sense of security.

……

Wave Spirit/As long as the disaster continues, the beast tide will not stop.
In the northern part of the Storm Ocean, there were constant waves of beasts that were forced to the human defense line for various reasons and were taken over by the Demon Kings. In this rhythm of attack and defense switching, mutual sharpening, and constant shuffling,
Time flies, and it is four years later.

Yanglongwan Wharf Area,

Toot~
"Let's set sail~" As soon as autumn came, the second-level monsters that were originally common near the Ichthyosaur Islands all hid themselves. A few years had made them realize that this was a black hole for first- and second-level monsters, and they would disappear once they entered.

Therefore, by autumn, there will be no need for the monster hunting ships to guard the headquarters of the Yanglongwan Monster Hunting Group. A total of twelve monster hunting ships, led by the Hunter, will go to the Yunshang Secret Island to earn the high bounty of Yunyan Fairy City.

Toot~
Jiu Ye, who has reached the sixth level of foundation building and has finally been established by the family as the new golden elixir seed, is driving the Hunter and taking the lead. Although Jiu Ye does not know any immortal arts, he is a replica of the ancestor Lin Dayan. He is focused enough in his work and may be able to replicate the ancestor's path in the future.

The four years have not passed in vain. The diligent and hardworking Lin Qianfan has also reached the third level of foundation building. The time for him to advance from the second level to the third level is even one year earlier than expected. Now he has been at the third level of foundation building for a full year.

Having experienced enough battles and having a solid foundation, one can naturally digest more second-level fine pills without any side effects.
According to the previous production of pills, it is definitely not enough to supply them, but as Lin Qianling started to mass-produce ordinary second-level pills, it can help the Fifth Elder share a lot of tedious pressure.

The fifth elder was able to free up his hands to supply elixirs for cultivation to the Lin family, and as a golden elixir seed, Lin Qianfan had the right to subscribe to high-quality elixirs first, so Lin Qianfan was able to speed up his cultivation progress a little bit.

During these four years, no major events occurred in the Ichthyosaur Islands. It was just that the islands had been steadily improving their foundation by eating up small beasts, absorbing foreign populations, and optimizing their own basic base through the four seasons, thus consolidating the "foundation of the Ichthyosaur Islands."

As for these twelve monster-hunting ships, due to the increase in production capacity of Yanglongwan Shipyard and Xiancheng Shipyard, as well as the multiple imports of monster-hunting ships from Yundu Island, the domestic demand of the archipelago has been fully met.

Among the twelve ships in the fleet, five are the Hunter, Wind Rider, and Sea Hunter of Yanglong Bay, the new Heng'an after the replacement of the Myna, and the new ship Chuanliu of the newly promoted foundation-building monk Lin Liniu of Yanglong Bay.
Among them, Chuanliu is a new small monster-hunting ship in Yanglong Bay. Its captain, Lin Linniu, has steadily and successfully established his foundation at the age of over 50, which is a good example for the majority of boatmen.

The remaining seven ships were all demon-hunting ships belonging to the foundation-building forces under the Lin family. The Lin family did not have only these seven ships, but only these seven chose to follow the Hunter to Yunshang Secret Island.

There are many other ships that followed the Fairy City Lin Family Monster Hunting Group to other hunting grounds. In fact, there are more than 20 monster hunting ships under their command, which can be regarded as a relatively mature economic industry.

As the Yanglongwan Monster Hunting Group gradually approaches the Yunshang Secret Island,

There was no ship from outside the area on the way, which was in stark contrast to the lively scene that everyone used to come here.

"Who would have thought that just a few years after the Yunshang Alliance moved away, Yunshang Secret Island has already declined to such an extent."

"Yes, the New Merchant Alliance has quite a few Jindan cultivators, twelve in total. But they've played a good hand badly. Now it's going to be difficult for them to return to their former glory."

"I originally thought that the millennium tide would only make the strong stronger and the weak weaker, but the rules are obviously not like that. Look at the Zhang family, they can just eat meat with us, and now they have a hint of prosperity, while the newly formed New Business Alliance is already in decline."

"This also fully demonstrates that having a dictatorial leader in an alliance is not necessarily a bad thing. This new business alliance cannot achieve a high degree of internal unity, and sooner or later it will be eliminated!"

"Shh! Keep your voice down!"

"Let's just talk behind closed doors. I understand you outside!"

The Yanglongwan Monster Hunting Group came to Yunshang Secret Island not to catch red giant scales. According to the current situation, it is hard to say whether the red giant scale species will still exist after the beast tide is completely over.

This time, the New Business Alliance issued a task to assist them in clearing out the second-level monster tribe in the "near-sea zone around Yunshang Secret Island". The price was very high, and an invitation letter was sent to the Lin family separately, which attracted the Yanglongwan Monster Hunting Group to come from such a long distance.

As for why they had to pay someone to do this job, it was of course because their own second-level strength was already seriously stretched.

Yunshang Secret Island was too big, and the New Merchant Alliance was not well prepared at the beginning of the Beast Tide. They were even unwilling to invest heavily to make up for the loss. At the critical moment, they were unable to unite internally, resulting in the serious damage to Yunshang Secret Island.
The mortal population of Yunchang Secret Island has suffered huge losses, and the total population has dropped rapidly. This has dealt a devastating blow to the pyramid structure of Yunchang Secret Island. It may not be visible now, but in a few years, the extreme shrinkage of the number of newly enlightened monks will reflect it.

The first-tier forces and independent cultivators of Yunshang Secret Island also suffered heavy losses. Their proud identity as Yunshang Secret Islanders did not provide any special benefits when facing natural disasters and beast disasters. When monsters devour people, they will not look at your identity documents or birthplace.
Extremely disappointed with the new business alliance/The five major immortal cities are overcrowded, forcing a large number of independent cultivators from Yunchang Secret Island to evacuate with their families and seek refuge with the surrounding Jindan forces with better reputations.

In addition to population loss, family deaths were also serious.

Inevitably, there would be casualties in battle, and the continuous beast tide would inevitably consume the manpower of the New Merchant Alliance, including their own manpower. However, it often takes decades to train a mature cultivator, so the seven major families are all in decline to varying degrees.

As a result, they are now unable to even independently and orderly eliminate the second-level monster tribes that have taken root in the near-sea area around Yunshang Secret Island.

That's right, they've taken root. For these second-level beasts, the area around Yunshang Secret Island is too safe.

There is no threat from the third-level demon king here, and the new business alliance can't do anything to them. As long as they occupy the second-level spiritual vein, they can continuously strengthen their own tribe by absorbing the beast tide.

Yunshang River, Haikou Market,

Compared to the huge crowds of demon-hunting monks and demon-hunting ships of various sizes a few years ago, this place has declined a lot. It is even completely closed during the storm season to avoid the invasion of demon beasts.

Some unpleasant things had happened here before, so the fleet passed by without stopping.

Going upstream along the Yunshang River,

Some fortifications were built outside the human settlements along the coast, but they were too simple compared to the high-quality shelters that the Lin family was willing to spend a lot of money to build, and many of them were breached.

"Can these crude, almost obsolete formations really hold back the tide of small beasts? Even without a second-level demon beast to command, a chaotic onslaught would easily crush them, right? Do we have to rely entirely on human flesh to hold them off?"

"So what if we can't stop them? You have to understand that not every Jindan power will treat the lower-level cultivators as their own people.
On the contrary, in the eyes of some people, independent cultivators are just animals, slaves, and low-level resources that can be dominated at will.
This idea is correct to a certain extent, but only to a certain extent, and it may soon backfire."

(End of this chapter)