The Fourth Financial Crisis

"We, we are just making reasonable protests..."

Before the protesting monk could finish his words tremblingly, the gatekeeper interrupted sharply: "We set the rules of Yunlai City. If you don't want to abide by the rules of Yunlai City, get out of here immediately! "

Soon these low-level monks couldn't bear the pressure and ran away by rolling and crawling.

After settling the troublemaker, the gatekeeper turned around and respectfully reported to Pan Yue: "The recent extraterritorial battlefield trial is about to begin. There are too many foreign cultivators in Yunlai City who don't understand the rules. Please forgive me for the distinguished guests!"

Pan Yue ignored him and led Yang Lu and Li Qingning into the city gate in a grand manner. Faced with Master Pan's arrogant performance, the gatekeeper didn't even dare to say anything.

After the figures of several people disappeared completely, a subordinate quietly asked the leading city gate guard: "Boss, the three distinguished guests who just entered the city look a bit strange. Who are they?"

"The person who took the lead just now is Pan Yue, the direct descendant of Pan's Trading Company. This person has been destined to be accepted by Elder Wen of the Wuliang Sword Sect. He may even have the opportunity to become a Taoist companion with Elder Wen's direct female disciple. The future is uncertain. There's a limit!" The leading guard waited for Yang Lu and the others to walk away, then he took a long breath and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

As the saying goes, no one asks about business matters, but gossip spreads thousands of miles.

As the closest cultivation city to the headquarters of the Wuliang Sword Sect, even the low-level cultivators who come to Yun City to see the gate are more informed than the cultivation bosses in Haiya City who are thousands of miles away.

Pan Yue cheated at the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference and joined the Wuliang Sword Sect through his connections. This is not a big secret, but Pan Yue is about to become a Taoist companion with a direct female disciple of a great monk in the Nascent Soul Stage. This kind of gossip even makes Yang Lu I had never heard of it before, otherwise I would have just said a few polite words. I didn’t expect that the guard guarding the door of Yunlai City would know such nonsense about the high-ranking officials of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

And judging from the way this person spoke with certainty, it was obvious that he was quite confident in the information he had.

Suddenly hearing this kind of gossip from the top officials of the Wuliang Sword Sect, the rest of the lower-status Qi Refining Stage guards also started whispering.

Seeing that his subordinates were so enthusiastic about eating melons that they even dared to chew the tongue of Pan's Trading Company, the leading guard also regretted his lax tone just now, and said in a sharp voice: "That's enough, don't discuss this matter anymore. Come on! We just need to guard the city gate, have you forgotten the rules of Pan's Trading Company?"

When the other people heard the words "Rules of Pan's Trading Company", they all trembled, hurriedly shut their mouths, and stood at their posts again, no longer daring to discuss in depth.

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At the same time, Yang Lu and three others had entered Yunlai City.

Yunlai City is one of the youngest cities in the Kyushu cultivation world, with a history of just over two hundred years.

During the Third Lingshi Financial Crisis, these cultivation institutions within Yunlai City were not in their current location. For example, the Wuliang Sword Sect Stock Exchange was originally located in the center of the Wuliang Sword Sect Mountain Range, and "Cultivation Financial Weekly" The Zhongzhou Editorial Department and the Wuliang Sword Sect Magic Weapon Self-operated Mall were originally a large market located outside the mountain gate of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

However, more than two hundred years ago, a war broke out between Jiuzhou cultivators and the Spiritual Clan, which resulted in the creation of Yunlai City today.

Back then, in order to use thunder to suppress the descendants of the Spirit Tribe who were intent on rioting, the Kyushu cultivators relied on the power of the Wuliang Sword Sect's headquarters, the Great Forest Luo Wanxiang Sword Formation, to turn everything within a hundred miles around the Wuliang Mountains into scorched earth, and even the largest river in Zhongzhou was reduced to scorched earth. The original flow direction of the Qinglan River was changed because of this unprecedented battle. The large Xiuzhenfang City that was originally located not far from the mountain gate of Wuliang Sword Sect was also razed to the ground because of this devastating war.

The Qinglan River originally flowed out from the front of the mountain gate of Wuliang Sword Sect. After the war, due to the drastic change of the route of the Qinglan River, if you still choose to re-establish a stronghold in Wuliang Sword Sect's original Xiuzhenfang City location, you will no longer be able to take advantage of the convenience of water transport on the Qinglan River. . Therefore, after careful consideration, the senior officials of the Wuliang Sword Sect decided to re-establish the current Yunlai City on the upper reaches of the new channel of the Qinglan River, thirty miles away, as a new logistics base for the headquarters of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

The reason why the Wuliang Sword Sect Stock Exchange, which was originally located in the core area of ​​the Wuliang Sword Sect headquarters, was relocated to Yunlai City is a completely different story.

This is mainly because stock trading is too lively, and stock trading is as addictive as gambling, which has led to many monks of the Infinite Sword Sect being addicted to stock trading and having no intention of meditating and practicing, seriously delaying their own cultivation progress.

In order to restore the original scenery of the Immortal Family Blessed Land in the Wuliang Mountains and prevent stock trading from corroding the sect's disciples' Taoism, the senior officials of the Wuliang Sword Sect moved the Wuliang Sword Sect's stock exchange into Yunlai City and strictly ordered that no disciples below the foundation-building stage be allowed to do so. Participate in stock trading.

And Pan's Trading Company, which relies on Wuliang Jianpai Exchange to carry out business, also moved into Yunlai City along with the stock exchange.

In this way, as several major economic entities of the Wuliang Sword Sect have settled in, the headquarters effect of Yunlai City has also been greatly exerted. This young city has developed very rapidly. In just over two hundred years, it has already It has developed into the most prosperous city in Zhongzhou, and the proportion of cultivators in the population is also the highest in the mainland.

It is precisely because this city does not have any historical baggage. Although the layout of the mortal gathering area outside the city walls of Yunlai City seems a bit messy, the planning of the cultivator gathering area inside the city can be called good news to all patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder in Zhongzhou.

The main streets of Yunlai City are completely distributed along the longitude and latitude lines. The roads are wide, horizontal and vertical, and the buildings on both sides are also very regular. The height of the buildings gradually increases from the surroundings to the center, giving people a majestic feeling. However, with the battlefield outside the territory, About to start, a large number of cultivators flooded into the entire city in a short period of time, which made the city seem a bit noisy and incompatible with the city's rigorous planning.

Yang Lu and the other three walked several hundred meters along the wide streets of Yunlaicheng, and found that there were many flea market-like stalls set up on both sides of the street. Many foreign monks directly set up a sign and began to sell what they wanted. For the magic treasures to be sold, some monks cast illusion spells similar to total projection above their heads, listing in detail what treasures they wanted to acquire and what treasures they had for sale.

These stalls were randomly set up as roadside stalls. A large number of cultivators gathered in Zaiyunlai City, which obviously created a prosperous private trading market in Yunlai City.

Since the people who buy and sell treasures here are not mortals, and the total number of people is very large, Yunlai City officials just let them go. Many monks from outside the city who had just entered the city were attracted by the dazzling array of goods and stayed in front of these stalls. They either picked up an item on the stall and examined it carefully, or were haggling directly with the stall owner to look for something.

Yang Lu used his spiritual consciousness to scan these stalls and found that although the items displayed in these stalls were extremely rich in categories, most of them were not of high grade. The prices were around a few hundred yuan of spiritual stone coins and were worth thousands of spiritual stone coins. It is very rare. Not to mention Li Qingning, who is at the peak of his strength in the Qi refining stage, it is not particularly useful to Yang Lu himself.