The Fourth Financial Crisis

At the same time, in another corner of the battlefield outside the territory, Shenhuo Sect monk Xia Wu was also desperately looking for Li Qingning.

Xia Wu was born in an old cultivator family with a long history in Huoyun Prefecture. He was also an inner disciple of Lu Youde, the Supreme Elder of Shenhuo Sect. In order to surround and kill Li Qingning, Lu Youde's disciples sent out six inner disciples and one direct disciple. Xia Wu was one of them.

Although Xia Wu's combat effectiveness is slightly inferior to his senior brother Ai Wen, as a top-level wood spirit root monk, his strength is already considered the best among all the inner disciples of the Shenhuo Sect.

According to Xia Wu himself, if it weren't for the fact that Ai Wen, a senior brother with the best fire spirit root qualification, happened to be among his disciples in the Qi Refining Period, the title of the direct disciple of Elder Lu Youde should have belonged to him!

The difference between inner disciples and direct disciples of Shenhuo Sect seems to be only in name, but the treatment within the sect is completely different.

After all, the cultivation resources mastered by Yuanying stage monks are also limited, and most of the cultivation resources need to be invested in their own cultivation. The remaining resources that can be used to cultivate disciples are very limited.

From ancient times to the present, there have been very few people who have successfully ascended to immortality. Even if they are as amazing as Bo Nanke, they can only die in depression at the tenth level of Nascent Soul. Therefore, most monks in the Nascent Soul stage know that no matter how hard they try, In cultivation, the immortal realm is still out of reach, and one needs to prepare in time for what will happen after his death.

In order to ensure that the family's inheritance is still guaranteed after one's lifespan is exhausted, high-level cultivators must concentrate all available cultivation resources and focus on cultivating a few disciples with the best spiritual roots to inherit their mantles and continue to take care of them in the future. These disciples are the so-called direct disciples of the cultivation family from which he comes.

This is why, even though the spiritual qualifications are completely "Princes, Generals and Prime Ministers, I would rather have the seed", there are still intertwined cultivation family forces in the Kyushu cultivation world.

Without the care of Elder Pan's direct disciple Wen Hanqing, Pan's business would not be able to maintain the wealth of the richest man in Zhongzhou. Elder Wen's remaining seven or eight hundred years of life is enough to wait until the Pan family has another heir with acceptable spiritual qualifications.

If you are unlucky and the Pan's Trading Company never has a descendant with high enough cultivation qualifications, facing the dilemma that the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce faced in the past, it can only be "there is a time in life, you must have it, but there is no time in life, don't force it".

Precisely because the direct disciples are equivalent to the heirs trained by high-level monks themselves, the direct disciples of the Yuanying stage monks of the seven major sects have concentrated the massive resources of the Yuanying ancestors. Even if they practice to the golden elixir stage, they do not need to obtain spiritual training. Worrying about resources can be called a typical representative of people who have clothes to put out their hands and food to open their mouths.

Although the wages and benefits of the inner disciples of the seven major sects are quite good, the salary payment still falls within the scope of the financial allocation of the sect. The seven major sects face similar difficulties as the local sects. They also have the problem of poor temples and rich abbots, and their financial resources are spread to the top. After thousands of monks are killed, there is no way to compare with the personal wealth of the Nascent Soul stage boss.

Therefore, after the inner disciples have reached the foundation-building stage, they still have to find ways to raise their own cultivation resources. Compared with the direct disciples, it is the difference between cooking in a small stove and cooking in a big pot.

Faced with this situation, Xia Wu had no good solution. The Shenhuo Sect was best at fire-attributed techniques and killing moves. Even if they also had top-grade spiritual root qualifications, the training priority for fire spiritual root disciples would be higher than those with other attributes. Spiritual roots.

Tian Beixi's ability to become the direct disciple of the head of the Shenhuo Sect with her top-quality water spirit root qualifications was mainly due to her superb management ability.

Even in order to take advantage of Tian Beixi's spiritual roots, Tian Daxiao did not let her practice the Shenhuo Sect's own skills, but chose the Arctic Cold Palace Heart Method, which is famous for its water-attribute skills.

To allow his disciples to learn other sect's techniques to suppress the sect, it goes without saying that Tian Daxiao must have paid a huge political price for this. From this point, we can also see Tian Daxiao's preference for Tian Beixi, and this kind of VIP treatment is ordinary. The inner disciples couldn't even think about it.

But no matter what others think, Xia Wu absolutely disagrees with the idea that Tian Beixi relied on his own abilities to become his direct disciple.

In Xia Wu's opinion, Tian Beixi can become the direct disciple of Tian Daxiao, the head of the Shenhuo Sect, entirely because she has the full support of the Tian family, the strongest cultivator family in Fire Cloud State. Maybe Tian Beixi becomes the direct disciple of Tian Daxiao, who is Shenhuo. Tian Shangcheng, the former head of the clan, finally chose to support Tian Daxiao as one of the prices offered to take over as head.

The views held by Xia Wu are also quite popular within the Shenhuo Sect.

After all, Tian Daxiao is a serious worldly monk and a casual cultivator. He is also the registered disciple of Lu Yang, the president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank. Tian Shangcheng, the former head of the Shenhuo Sect, is a traditional worldly monk and comes from a family of cultivators in Huoyunzhou. He is also the mortal enemy of Governor Lu Yang.

These two people have no common interests at all.

Before Tian Shangcheng's death, he did not support his direct disciple Lu Youde as the leader of the Shenhuo Sect. Instead, he supported Tian Daxiao, who was not a relative but not an acquaintance, to become the leader of the Shenhuo Sect. It looked like there was insider trading behind this.

It is precisely because of the many rumors that Tian Beixi is so annoyed that she is so anxious to prove herself that she even goes to the outlying island to risk her own life. It is precisely because of this that Xia Wu has no feelings for Tian Beixi and Aiwen. The resentment of the direct disciples was very great.

In Xia Wu's opinion, if his surname was Tian, ​​how could it be Aiwen and Tian Beixi's turn to become the direct disciples of the Yuanying monks?

Fortunately, there is no unstoppable path. Since his strength is second only to Ai Wen among the younger generation of cultivators in the Qi Refining Period in Huoyun State, before the start of this extraterritorial battlefield, Taishang Elder Lu Youde specially summoned him and hinted to him. He said that if he could make a great contribution in the siege, he could be considered as his direct disciple.

Lu Youde had a blood feud with Li Qingyang and Lu Yang, which was no secret in the Shenhuo Sect.

Therefore, Xia Wu did not doubt Lu Youde's statement.

And even without the generous conditions offered by Lu Youde, Xia Wu still had sufficient motivation to kill Li Qingning.

In fact, the Xia family was originally a cultivation family living in Nanman State. However, during the third Lingshi financial crisis five hundred years ago, the Xia family chose to hold on to the wrong treasure because of the monetary policy reform led by Lu Yang. The spiritual stone coupons issued by the Kyushu Currency Alliance were exchanged for the new generation currency spiritual stone coins issued by the spiritual stone reserve bank, causing the family's thousand-year savings to be destroyed.

In order to retaliate against Lu Yang, Xia Yan, the heir to the head of the Xia family at that time, brazenly joined the so-called "Anti-Lu Yang Alliance" composed of victims of the currency reform, and went to foreign battlefields to surround and kill Lu Yang.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yang did not participate in the trial alone. The master of Wuliang Sword, Ma Tianyi, also arranged for him a bodyguard with outstanding strength, who later became the third ascended immortal Xiao Huang.

At that time, Xiao Huang was not well-known, and no one knew that his strength was so outrageous that he was not human. Faced with the siege of more than ten top masters of the same level from the seven major sects, he was not only able to kill Xia Yan in full view of everyone, And he also successfully led Lu Yang to break out of the siege.

The Xia family in Nanman Prefecture had originally destroyed the wealth accumulated by the family over hundreds of years because of the wrong treasure. Now, the heir to the top-grade spiritual root who had finally waited for it was unexpectedly killed by Xiao Huang. It was like losing his wife and losing money. Soldier, his vitality was seriously damaged from then on.