Chapter 33: The Merits of the Chamber of Commerce

  Now Shi Zhong has been lecturing for nearly a thousand years, looking at the cultivators below, among whom he saw several who were originally at the peak of Jinxian cultivation and had advanced to the level of Daluo Jinxian through his lectures over the past thousand years.

  In fact, compared to the cultivators of the Desolate Continent, overseas cultivators still have a huge gap. Firstly, there are no powerful beings that often preach the Dao in foreign lands, so generally speaking, overseas cultivators do not have any cultivation techniques. Therefore, it is rare to see a Mahayana Golden Immortal above the Eastern Sea.

  Of course, some powers are different from others, and some still have very good skills. Just like the Dragon Clan, the Scattered Immortals Union is like this, and being able to cultivate to the Golden Immortal realm without any help is also a great courage and perseverance.

  Shi Zhong has been talking about the Tao for this thousand years, most of which are the Tao of Golden Immortals and Mahayana Golden Immortals. After all, those who come to listen to the Tao here are at least Heavenly Immortals in their cultivation. What is most important for these scattered cultivators is how to advance to the next realm. Moreover, Shi Zhong also talked about some Tao of the Realm of Laws. Although it's not a lot, they are some of the main ones, and if there are cultivators with extremely strong heavenly talents who can comprehend them, breaking through the Realm of Laws is no problem at all.

  Finally, after listening to the Dao for a long time and waking up, Shi Zhong began to speak out about what would happen next. After all, this Dao was not spoken in vain, and Shi Zhong still had to establish his own power here! Originally, Shi Zhong didn't have any plans, but after seeing Tian Huo's Tian Guang, he got an idea.

  "Tian Huo, I have a task for you to complete. It's extremely important and will be of great help to you. The treasure in your hands is the key to this matter," Shi Zhong said directly to Tian Huo. In fact, what Shi Zhong wanted to do was establish the first Chamber of Commerce in Hongyuan, to facilitate trade and exchange of goods in Hongyuan.

  At this time, the various scattered immortals below were still extremely shocked after hearing Shi Zhong's words. Why were they so shocked?

  This matter also starts from Tianhuo and Tianguang. After leaving the Jade Capital Mountain, they first refined a part of the spiritual treasure given by Shi Zhong, and then began to travel in the Desolate World. With their cultivation level, there was no one who didn't open their eyes in the Desolate World, but of course, there were still some who didn't. However, after the two simply released the aura on their bodies, all troubles were resolved.

  Two people walked and stopped, and in this vast wilderness, they really got to know many cultivators. Due to the two people's powerful artifact-refining techniques, they were very popular in the wilderness. After all, there are still few people who have congenital spiritual treasures in the wilderness world, and most of them use fairy treasure-level artifacts. Spiritual treasure-level artifacts are not something that ordinary people can refine. Generally speaking, a postnatal spiritual treasure holder like Daluo Jinxian can challenge two or three Daluo Jinxian cultivators without spiritual treasures. Moreover, the two of them possess top-grade spiritual treasures and have high cultivation levels, so even some powerful forces dare not provoke them!

  The two finally arrived at the eastern sea, and because of their high cultivation, they didn't have any airs about them. In the land of the eastern sea, many scattered immortals would use some heavenly materials to ask Tianhuo for help in refining treasures. Of course, this refinement of spiritual treasures also required some expenses. Over the years, Tianhuo and his companion had only relied on helping others refine spiritual treasures to collect a large amount of spiritual materials, including some like refined instrument materials, or even thousand-year-old ginseng, immortal medicine, spirit fruits, and so on.

  It's also because of this that some forces in the Eastern Sea had wanted to test Tian Huo and his attention, but after a war, everyone understood that these two gentle people were actually an old ancestor of the law boundary. Afterwards, due to their kindness towards outsiders, the scattered cultivators in the Eastern Sea respected them greatly. It's worth knowing that such powerful law practitioners who can speak gently with these Golden Immortal cultivators are truly rare, at least among the scattered immortals in the Eastern Sea, no one has seen Yang Mei Old Ancestor, Zu Long and Zhuo Long, those powerful law practitioners being so gentle.

  However, when they heard that these two Law Enforcers still had a Master, the scattered cultivators present couldn't help but feel some disbelief. They looked at Tian Huo and his companion, seemingly wanting to confirm whether this was true or not.

  At this time, Tianhuo's mind was filled with joy. Moreover, although he had traveled for many years and his cultivation had made some progress, he always felt that something was lacking. Today, when he met his master here, and heard his master say that his opportunity had come, it must be an extraordinary one.

  Tian Huo turned to Shi Zhong and said, "Master, I don't know what kind of opportunity this is, but I will definitely work hard to do it." Tian Huo also knew that the fallen treasure was the first coin in the world, with great merits to be gained, but he didn't know how to proceed.

  "Don't be impatient, let me make you understand how to obtain this opportunity." As soon as Shi Zhong finished speaking, a ray of spiritual light shot towards Tian Huo and Tian Guang. Only after comprehending the information transmitted by Shi Zhong did Tian Huo realize that this merit was indeed profound. What Tian Huo gained from this information was the principle of exchanging money for goods.

  "Thank you, Master, for pointing it out." Tian Huo and the two others knelt down to thank Shi Zhong.

  "Get up, there's no need for this between master and disciple, as long as you respect in your heart." Shi Zhong said with some displeasure, seeing Tian Huo and the others still kneeling. Shi Zhong still had some notions from his past life, and he was very much against kneeling and bowing.

  Tian Huo and Tian Guang, the two of you are my disciples. Today, I want to establish a union with both of you as my disciples. Whoever is willing or unwilling to join, it's up to each of you. However, if you do join, there will naturally be a shared destiny for everyone.

  "Tian Huo, Tian Guang, you two can also choose some disciples from here. It will be helpful for your future and won't require you to do everything personally." Tian Huo and Tian Guang listened to Shi Zhong's words and thought it made sense. After all, the Merchant Guild needed to negotiate over a large area, and just the two of them wouldn't be enough. Moreover, they weren't very interested in this themselves, if not for the sake of their contributions. It was better to focus on their own cultivation instead.

  "Today, I and my junior brother are looking for disciples. Those who have fate can come to worship under the gate of Yujing Mountain." Although Tianhuo and his junior brother want to recruit disciples, they don't just accept anyone who wants to worship as a master. They also need to go through some tests.

  Only Tianhuo and Tianguang each set up a Heart Refining Array on one side, to know that people like Tianhuo and Tianguang are masters of alchemy, and in the way of arrays, they are also masters of the Hongyuan level. Of course, they can't compare with Tongtian and Shizhong. So it's still easy to set up a special array to test one's mind and willpower.

  Many scattered cultivators knew about the cultivation of Tianhuo's two people, that was truly a strong law, if they could worship under a strong person in the realm of a law, then their future cultivation path would be much smoother. So everyone went to the two arrays separately, wanting to pass this test and enter the gate of Yu Jing Shan.

  It's been two months. The cultivators who were trapped in the formation have finally come out, and they're not all extremely powerful; some are even at the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm.

  The last day of the fire, four disciples were taken down. The four disciples are Dadi Yunzi, who is a cloud created by Pangu's last breath when he died. He has extraordinary merits and virtues. Shi Zhong remembered that this was probably the Cloud Middle Son in mythological history! It is worth noting that the Cloud Middle Son was born with some of the merits of opening up the sky because it was transformed from Pangu's breath, becoming one of the few lucky immortals in the vast wilderness. In the end, it was also for this reason that during the War of the Gods, only Yunzi could remain unscathed.

  The second disciple, Earth Spirit, is a manifestation of the Dao of a mouse that gnaws at spirits. He is not much different from the previous disciple, Treasure Mouse, who can communicate with Heaven. The third disciple, Earth Deity, has a name that sounds somewhat arrogant, but it suits him well. This Earth Deity is a manifestation of the Dao of a pre-heavenly spirit, and although he cannot compare to the Town Calming Child, who was also transformed from the Earth Spirit, he still possesses the qualifications of a mid-ranking pre-heavenly demon god. His divine abilities in the earth are quite impressive. The fourth disciple, Earth Yao, is a manifestation of the Dao of a green snake.

  Among these four disciples, only Di Lingzi is a Mahayana Golden Immortal, while the other three are also some Golden Immortals with middle to late stage cultivation.

  To say that the disciples collected by Tian Guangzi were only three people, these three people were a monkey, Zhong Wei Xiantian Demon God, but now they are only in the initial stage of Tianxian. They were born with the title of the four great apes, Liu Er Mi Hou, and when Liu Er Shentong was cultivated to its strongest state, it could hear all living beings in the three realms and six paths. Tian Guangzi named him Di Yuanzi.

  The other two disciples were also Golden Immortal cultivators, one was a Pre-Heavenly Ling Bamboo and the other was a Pre-Heavenly Plum Tree that had attained enlightenment. To avoid trouble, Tian Guangzi directly named them Di Zhu Zi and Di Mei Zi.

  Shi Zhong, in order to leave a good impression on his juniors, also gave each of them two symbolic gifts of congenital spiritual treasures. However, they were only some middle-grade congenital spiritual treasures, as this was the responsibility of being a master. If Shi Zhong hadn't been here today, he wouldn't have given any spiritual treasures to his three generations of disciples.

  After understanding everything, Tian Huo and Tian Yan announced to Tian Dao on the spot: "Tian Dao is supreme, now my master and I feel that the exchange of goods in the world is inconvenient, so we establish a business association, exchange goods all over the world, and use this gold as currency." As Tian Huo spoke, he threw the falling treasure money into the sky.

  Just as the two finished speaking, wind and clouds gathered in the sky, and a stream of golden light shot towards Tian Huo. This was indeed the heavens responding to their oath, and thus bestowed virtue upon them. The virtue bestowed this time was no different from the first time Shang Shi Zhong lectured. As the golden light descended, it split into three parts: one with four layers, and the other two with three layers each. The four-layered virtue fell towards Tian Huo, while the other two three-layered virtues went to Tian Guang and Luo Bao Jin Qian respectively. Upon seeing the virtue descend, Tian Huo did not absorb it but instead took out their own refined heavenly treasure to absorb the virtue, believing that they could create a heavenly treasure that could suppress the aura of fortune.

  And the Luobao Golden Money also leveled up after gaining merit, becoming an extreme product of Xiantian Lingbao. There is no longer any restriction that can only be dropped three times on Luobao. It can also use Xiantian Lingqi to make spiritual coins, which are made by Xiantian Lingqi through Luobao Golden Money and cannot be forged by others. These spiritual coins have a strong and more easily absorbed Xiantian Lingqi, of course, some spiritual coins with Hou Tian Ling Qi can also be made. But in the current Hongyuan world, who would go to absorb Hou Tian Ling Qi for cultivation?