The Fourth Financial Crisis

After worrying about the reception and delivery, Yang Lu still couldn't rest because he and Miss Li still had a very important mission.

According to Li Qingyang's promise to Yang Lu during his lifetime, as long as he could ensure that Li Qingning returned alive from the battlefield outside the territory, Li Qingyang was willing to tell him his method of deceiving Tiandao as a reward for protecting Li Qingning.

Therefore, after the two returned from the battlefield outside the territory, they immediately followed Li Qingyang's instructions before his death and found Xu Yannan, hoping to inherit Xingzhang Li's legacy.

However, they were told that Li Qingning must advance to the foundation building stage before he can pass the prohibition certification left by President Li. Considering that Li Qingning has the highest spiritual root qualifications, as long as he passes the extraterritorial battlefield trial, it is only a matter of time before he can advance to the foundation building stage. Therefore, this statement is not unacceptable.

However, due to the busy schedule of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce these days, the matter could only be put on hold for the time being. After Li Qingning took a break from the busy schedule to break through the foundation building period, the two of them came to Xu Yannan's office again as soon as possible.

This time Xu Yannan did not make any excuses and took them directly to the Xu family ancestral hall in the outer suburbs of Haiya City.

Different from the impression of most Haiya residents, the Xu family is not actually native to Haiya City.

It is said that five hundred years ago, the ancestor of the Xu family, Xu Xihong, was only the lowest servant of Wuliang Sword Sect, not even an outer disciple. However, this person's situation was similar to that of Li Qingyang. When he was in despair, he happened to meet him. He met Lu Yang, the founder of Lingshi Reserve Bank who had not yet emerged at the time. From then on, he turned into a dragon when encountering difficulties.

It's a pity that Xu Xihong was already old when he met Mr. Lu, and his spiritual qualifications were not as good as those of Li Qingyang, so he was unable to break through the foundation building bottleneck. However, in the last ten years of his life, Xu Xihong accumulated astronomical wealth for the Xu family, and with his With a mere cultivation in the late stage of Qi refining, one can be considered brothers and sisters with a large number of big guys in the Golden Core stage and Nascent Soul stage.

Even the super bosses such as Tian Daxiao, Li Qingyang, and Xiao Nan who would be famous in the Kyushu cultivation world in the future would all respectfully call this person Brother Xu back then.

When talking about the history of Xu Xihong's fortune, it is inseparable from the third Lingshi financial crisis.

At that time, the Lingshi coins issued by the Lingshi Reserve Bank replaced the Lingshi coupons issued by the Kyushu Currency Union. The whole process did not happen overnight. Severe friction broke out between the supporters of the two currencies. Therefore, during that period, both currencies existed. During the transition period, the black market exchange prices of the two currencies fluctuated like a roller coaster.

Under the framework of the Kyushu Monetary Union, random cross-border exchange of spirit stone coupons is prohibited (for details, see Volume 3 of the "Galaxy Colonization Manual" "The Third Spirit Stone Financial Crisis"). Therefore, Haiya City, as the most important external window in southeastern Zhongzhou, naturally became the center of currency smuggling and black market transactions at that time. Black market merchants resold spirit stone coins and spirit stone coupons in Haiya City, as well as smuggled spirit stones overseas. A desperate smuggler of coupons, the scale of the transaction is extremely large.

The powerful local Chen family and Zhu family in Haiya City made their fortune through black market exchange transactions. Xu Xihong, as an insider of Lingshi Reserve Bank, has inside information that outsiders do not have. Naturally, he can easily kill people in Haiya City. Quartet.

After the third Lingshi financial crisis ended, he chose to settle in Haiya City to spend his remaining years.

It’s just that five hundred years have passed. Except for those unscrupulous Jindan and Nascent Soul stage bosses, not many people can remember the history of the Xu family. Everyone thinks that the Xu family should be the same as the Chen family and the Zhu family. Similar to the nouveau riche, it was just that they had better luck. A junior like Xu Yannan, who had both middle-grade spiritual roots and a talent for cultivation economics, was chosen by President Li Qingyang and accepted as his direct disciple. Only then did he start from Haiya. He stood out among several fringe families in the city.

Even the special relationship between the ancestor of the Xu family and President Lu Yang has been submerged in the long river of history for a long time. If Li Qingyang hadn't proactively informed him, Yang Lu still wouldn't have known that Xu Yannan had such a background.

As the hidden rich people of Haiya City, the Xu family's ancestral hall is not located in Haiya City. Instead, it is placed low-key at the foot of the remaining mountains of Tianshu Mountains on the west side of Haiya Plain. The location is quite remote.

Although the Xu family ancestral hall is located in a remote location, its main building is magnificent. The main hall of the ancestral hall in the center is comparable in size to the meeting hall of the Wuliang Sword Sect. In the square outside the hall, there is also a magnificent sculpture.

In the center of the sculpture is a high-spirited young man, who seems to be pointing towards the Tianshu Mountains, and behind the young man is an old man who is nodding slightly like a follower or old servant, as if he recognizes this young man very much. people's speech.

Places like the ancestral hall have always been forbidden places for various cultivator families because they store important treasures and inheritances. Even though Li Qingning and Yang Lu have lived in Haiya City for a long time, they have never had the opportunity to visit the Xu family's ancestral hall. Therefore, seeing Seeing such a majestic and spectacular building complex, I can't help but marvel.

Li Qingning pointed to the conspicuous sculpture in the center of the square and asked: "This young man with a very arrogant expression should be the ancestor of your Xu family, right?"

Xu Yannan looked in the direction of Li Qingning's finger, and a hint of embarrassment suddenly flashed on his face: "Ahem... That young man is actually Lu Yang, the president of Lingshi Reserve Bank. Our Xu family's Xihong ancestor is The old man following Mr. Lu."

Hearing this, Li Qingning couldn't help but sneer and said: "Uh... this... why is the statue of President Lu placed in the middle of your Xu family's ancestral hall?"

Although Li Qingning's question was very tactful, Xu Yannan knew that Li Qingning's subtext was actually, if you didn't say it, I would have thought that the ancestor of your family was a slave!

Considering that not many people remember the glorious history of the Xu family, Xu Yannan couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Our Xu family thrives on President Lu's legacy, so we naturally have to drink water and remember its origins. We placed the statue of President Lu in the center of the family ancestral hall. To show our respect, and you may not know that Lu Xingchang always resented others erecting a statue of him during his lifetime, so being able to erect a statue of him in the family ancestral hall is a great opportunity that all the major cultivation families in Kyushu could not ask for!"

After hearing what Xu Yannan said, Yang Lu also discovered it.

He has never seen the statue of this legendary immortal in the Kyushu cultivation world. The Wuliang Sword Sect and the Lingshi Reserve Bank have not left the image of Governor Lu. Even the "second generation immortal" like Li Qingning does not know the true identity of Governor Lu. Appearance.

It seems that the statue in Xu Yannan's home must have been erected with the special approval of Governor Lu himself. No wonder they put this statue in the most conspicuous position as if it were a treasure!

Xu Yannan's next words also confirmed Yang Lu's guess: "...after the death of my ancestor, President Lu personally came to express his condolences secretly, and in accordance with his last wish before his death, he agreed to his request to erect a statue of himself. This is also It should be the only regular statue of President Lu in the Kyushu cultivation world, and there are even rumors in our family..."

When Xu Yannan said this, he was obviously hesitant to speak.

So Yang Lu immediately asked: "What are the rumors? I don't know if it's convenient to tell you?"

Xu Yannan also said with a somewhat uncertain tone: "It is said that President Lu should have left some treasure here, but I can't tell the details. You should know it by yourself when the time comes."

After speaking, Xu Yannan did not explain much, but brought Yang Lu and Li Qingning to the main hall of the ancestral hall.

Surprisingly, there are no ancestor tablets enshrined inside this ancestral hall. In the center of the hall, there is a black cube-shaped iron lump, and this iron lump with a smooth surface and about a foot square looks like Like some kind of holy object, it was carefully enshrined on a base that looked like a shrine. Not only that, a mysterious magic barrier was erected around the shrine, blocking outsiders from prying into the black iron lump.