From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 370 Yin Cotton Textile
The City of the Dead on the north bank of the River Styx.

The black fox Pengwei entangled with Yu Shuyang for a long time. After thinking about it, Yu Shuyang had to bring him here considering the Ruomu sacred tree and the power of reincarnation.

The City of the Dead has the same origin as the Twenty-Four Thunder Islands. It is the paradise of the ghost immortals in the depths of the desolate sea. The earth's energy is absorbed by the Five Thunder Gods and transformed into Thunder Islands to suppress the origin of the underworld.

The remains of the blessed land were taken by the Emperor of Dongyi, and the skeleton of the white bone city - Guyuan was used as the skeleton to refine it into a Shinto magic weapon.

The City of the Dead is right next to the Naihe Bridge, and from time to time there are ghosts of the dead who are attracted from the world of the living. All of these ghosts died in a horrible way, after all, they all died an unnatural death, either by suicide or being murdered.

Ever since Yu Shuyang placed the City of the Dead on the north bank of the River Styx, he had not paid any attention to it. This was his second time coming here.

"Xuanhu, this is a Shinto magic weapon. I think you can see that this treasure contains twenty-four blessed land spaces. Why don't we use it as a contract?" Yu Shuyang said with a smile.

The City of the Dead has become one with the Xuanming Underworld, so he is not afraid that it will be taken away by the Xuanhu after the sacrifice. To be honest, if he is not worried about exposing the authority of reincarnation, he would like to hand over the entire Xuanming Underworld to the Xuanhu for management.

Just like Jin Hu, the sisters Zhu Aihong, and Sha Yi on Hushan Island, they all worked together with him to run the business, which enabled them to produce abundant products and support the daily expenses of Yu's Noodle House.

Xuanhu Pengwei narrowed his eyes into slits. He could see that the refining techniques of the City of the Dead included many totem patterns of the Li ethnic group.

"Is this the work of Dongyi?" Xuanhu held a lantern in his hand, emitting black and white light, and looked at the City of the Dead carefully like his eyes.

Yu Shuyang smiled and nodded, saying, "The city is full of ghosts who died in vain. These souls all died in an untimely manner and carry a grudge in their souls, making it very easy for them to transform into ghost beasts.

Why not leave it to you, Xuanhu, to manage? The twenty-four spaces inside are more than enough for you to use and cultivate more spiritual food."

Ever since Xuan Hu Pengwei told him about the idea of the spiritual food from the underworld, Yu Shuyang had been thinking about it in his mind and found that it was actually very feasible.

The spiritual food in the Qingqiu Islands can only be harvested three times a year, while the spiritual food in the Xuanming underworld has always been harvested once a month, such as the Fengyou Ghost Rice.

Just as Xuanhu said, the vitality of the earth gathers in the underworld, which is very suitable for cultivating spiritual food. In the past, due to the separation between yin and yang, the spiritual food produced in the underworld could not be brought back to the world in large quantities.

Now, with the ability of the Black Fox to dig Yin wells, it is equivalent to opening a hole in the granary of the underworld.

"Little Taoist priest, aren't you afraid that I will embezzle this magical weapon?" Xuanhu Pengwei tested him intentionally or unintentionally.

Xuanhu Pengwei was in a mixed mood at this moment. On the one hand, he wanted to use the power of Xuanming Netherworld to help him enhance the authority of the God of the Underworld. On the other hand, he did not want to become Yu Shuyang's assistant god.

"If Xuanhu likes them, just take them. To me, these are just external things." Yu Shuyang said with a smile.

The blessed lands and caves opened up through cultivation, and even the magical instruments used for sacrifices, are mostly not taken away when one escapes the calamity and ascends to heaven. In other words, they are all external possessions.

Therefore, Yu Shuyang has never cared much about the Xuanming Underworld. As long as it can provide nutrients for cultivation, the rest are temporary tools and will be abandoned in the end.

Upon hearing this, Xuanhu Pengwei became angry. He was a divine being and no matter how high his cultivation level was, it was impossible for him to escape the calamity and ascend to heaven. Therefore, he needed long-term management and occupation.

"You are a cultivator, so I won't beat around the bush with you. I need a foundation in the underworld, so just state your conditions." Xuanhu pretended to be angry.

At this time, Xuanhu finally understood that the young Taoist priest in front of him was not a despicable person. The fact that he said "things outside the body" proved that his goal was to escape the catastrophe and ascend to heaven.

Seeing Xuanhu's words, Yu Shuyang stopped talking and said directly, "How about this? I'll leave the City of the Dead to you. I won't care about anything else, as long as you can provide spiritual food. Xuanhu, what do you think of this condition? Do we need to discuss it further?"

Yu Shuyang thought that the matter of the spiritual food from the underworld would be left to Li Zhen, since he was responsible for the trade route anyway.

Xuan Hu didn't expect Yu Shuyang to be so generous. For a moment, he also became cheerful and said, "I took advantage of you in this matter, and I can't let you suffer any loss. I will think about how to compensate you."

"Don't be polite, Xuanhu. Let's go to the City of the Dead and take a look." Yu Shuyang smiled and opened the City of the Dead.

This City of the Dead has the Lonely Garden as its skeleton. Once you enter it, you will see countless white bone skeleton trees. These skeleton trees are like thigh bones, inserted straight into the bloody soil.

Last time, Yu Shuyang came here to rescue Yao Zizhong's uncle and nephew. At that time, the skeleton tree was full of crows. Now, there is no living thing in the City of the Dead except the dead ghosts.

After all, the City of the Dead is a patchwork of remains from a paradise, and most of its earth energy has been lost. It has also been contaminated by the River Styx for so long, and everywhere you look, apart from the death energy, there is only turbid yin energy.

Xuanhu held the lantern of life and death fire, which emitted light from time to time, and looked around with interest. There were twenty-four spaces in the City of the Dead, and each one had different remaining marks.

Just like the white bone skeleton tree in the solitary garden, after the tree is cut down and sent to the world of the living, it will turn into a black jade tree similar to gold and stone.

Yu Shuyang accompanied Xuan Hu to look at seven or eight spaces in a row, and finally stopped at a space full of dark cotton.

Yin cotton is also called ghost willow cotton, which is simply willow catkins. The ghost willows in Taoliu Fudi also produce yin cotton. Yu Shuyang has been there several times and has seen ghost monkeys picking yin cotton.

Earlier, Yu Shuyang only thought about spiritual food, but now when he saw Yin Mian, he suddenly realized, what would happen if he brought Yin Mian back to the world of the living?
Silk, cotton and textiles have always been closely related. Currently, the Middle-earth mainly produces clothing from silk, and the inland areas of Kyushu rely on mulberry silk, which in turn suppresses maritime trade.

In order to compete with them, the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea took out the mermaid silk from the mermaids and developed a method to refine the evil silk. Unfortunately, the evil silk was not as fine as silk, and it was not conducive to casting spells when worn on the body.

Therefore, fish skin clothes and spider silk clothes were later developed, but in the end they were unable to compete with silk clothes and had to be suppressed by silk clothes.

Behind this is the relationship between the East China Sea Market and the Jiuzhou Sea Merchants. Every year, the sea merchants exploit the dragon clan through silk.

In the end, the Dragon Clan passed on this exploitation to the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance for their own benefit, and made up for it from the Yazhou and Dongyi people by relying on the price difference in the sea market.

Yu Shuyang was born in the Fuli world and witnessed the development of the textile industry. Silk clothing is expensive, time-consuming and will eventually be replaced by wool and cotton spinning.

Wool spinning refers to wool spinning, and cotton spinning refers to cotton spinning.

In the current Middle-earth, wool spinning is limited by craftsmanship and its status is not as good as silk. Cotton spinning does not exist at all, and its core cotton has not appeared.

Yu Shuyang was previously in Xiyu Blessed Land. Because of his lack of qualifications for cultivation, he was sent to Master Yu to learn the spiritual farming method. At that time, he found out that there was no cotton among either immortals or ordinary people.

Now, looking at the Yin cotton trees, he couldn't help but think again, if a large amount of Yin cotton entered the Yang world, could cotton spinning develop?
"Xuanhu, the spiritual food grown in the underworld is sent to the world of the living through the Yin Qi Well and can be eaten by ordinary people. What if this Yin cotton is sent to the world of the living?" Yu Shuyang asked casually.

　My head is about to explode. I wrote for a long time.. This is all I wrote.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)