Chapter 610: Great Increase of Water Spiritual Roots (8800 Monthly Tickets Plus Additional Chapters)
[Gold 23, Wood 45, Water 21, Fire 84, Earth 20]
After Chen Mobai finished drinking the fish soup cooked by Zhuo Ming, he used the spirit measuring instrument to check his current spirit roots and nodded slightly.
The water spirit roots increased by 5 points, which came from the monster ingredients in Yunmengze.
He has been in Fengyu for a month. Since killing the two third-level monsters, the monsters from the Yellow Dragon Cave Mansion, although no longer attacking Fengyu on a large scale, still wreaked havoc in the island markets in other parts of Yunmengze.
Faced with this situation, the three Jindan cultivators had no good solution and could only send their foundation-building cultivators to support the major markets under their own sect.
Chen Mobai thought about it and let all the people he brought with him go out, except for keeping Zhuo Ming by his side, to guard the island markets opened up by Shenmu Sect in Yunmengze over the years.
But even so, there were still not enough people.
Thanks to the wars in the south and the north over the years, Shenmu Sect has established its position as the overlord of the East Wilderness, and has also taken control of the markets on the top of Hanshan Mountain and Liujia Mountain in Yunmengze, and the territory it controls has increased dramatically.
Now in Yunmengze, there are 38 markets belonging to Shenmu Sect.
It occupies almost half of the core area.
These markets rent out spiritual caves every year, and the shops sell sect elixirs, magic tools, spiritual rice, etc., as well as purchase and sell monster materials. The net profit ranges from 50,000 to 60,000 spirit stones, and as much as 100,000, which is a huge income.
In addition to the ones directly controlled, there are nearly 20 island markets near the coast opened up by the foundation-building families under the command of Shenmu Sect. These garrisons of various countries basically participated in the shares, which can be regarded as mutual assistance in development.
For example, the Tieqing Market, although Shenmu Sect does not take a commission, relying on the teleportation arrays of these markets, it has built a complete trade channel in Yunmengze, which greatly facilitates the transportation of goods from various sects.
Therefore, these island markets cannot be allowed to be breached by monsters, and people need to be sent to assist if conditions permit.
Shenmu Sect usually has ten foundation-building monks stationed in Yunmengze. With the addition of the monks brought by Chen Mobai, the sect's market cannot be guarded by one foundation-building monk.
But facing the monsters wandering in Yunmengze, who are unknown which island market they will attack, foundation-building monks are essential.
In this way, even if they encounter monsters attacking the island, they can still deploy the power of the island protection formation to support the monks in other nearby markets.
After listening to Zheng Deming, a foundation-building monk who has been stationed in Yunmengze for almost his entire life, Chen Mobai made a prompt decision to let the Rain Country, Cloud Country, Thunder Country, and Xiao Country, who were originally setting up defenses on the shore, leave one foundation-building monk behind, and let the rest choose a nearby market to guard.
The four countries guarding the market naturally obeyed the order, and all led their teams into Yunmengze in person!
Especially Zhou Wangshen was the most active, and his Xiao Country's vanguard was already in Tieqing Market.
After receiving the order from the head of the sect, he immediately led people to the market of Sufeng Island, which was closest to Fengyuwu, and even came to pay a special visit to Chen Mobai.
Chen Mobai asked him to stay for a meal. Zhuo Ming personally cooked and opened a jar of spiritual wine.
After mobilizing the foundation-building monks of the four countries, the 28 market-towns of Shenmu Sect barely stabilized the situation.
During the period, three market-towns were indeed attacked by large-scale monster groups. Thanks to the rapid spread of news, the nearby market-towns supported each other. After experiencing fierce fighting and defense, they were all able to survive.
However, there were also smart people on the monster side. After three attacks on the island, they also found that the market-towns of Shenmu Sect helped each other.
During another attack on the island, using the strategy of luring the tiger away from the mountain, when the foundation-building monks of Jingbo Island took people to support and leave, they suddenly emerged from the bottom of the water. Under the leadership of five second-level monsters, they directly shook the spiritual veins of the island and broke through the formation.
Although Chen Mobai tracked the monsters near Jingbo Island after he got the news, he only found a group led by two second-level monsters. Even if he exterminated them, he could not recover the loss of the entire island market being flattened.
Time passed quickly and a year passed.
Chen Mobai almost ate all the monsters in Yunmengze, and his water spirit root was also improved to 35 points.
Even in the immortal gate, this is a good value.
The only regret is that the situation in Yunmengze is quite tense, and as a Jindan cultivator, he has a heavy responsibility and dare not leave.
So he did not go to the God Tree Secret Realm to touch the talent tree.
But for him, this is very easy to make up for. After all, the Tianhe Realm is vast and rich, and there must be a lot of natural treasures that can improve spirit roots. He himself is also practicing the Pure Yang Dharma Body, and there will always be a chance to take out the remaining 24 great techniques in the future.
"Junior brother, Senior Brother Mo is here!"
At this time, Fu Zongjue's voice transmission sounded in Chen Mobai's ears, and he immediately put down the turtle shell soup that Zhuo Ming had just cooked.
When Chen Mobai came out, Nujiang and Fu Zongjue were already waiting outside the teleportation array.
Sheng Zhaoxi had fought two third-level monsters before, not only using secret techniques, but also taking secret medicine. Although he saved his life, he was seriously injured. After Fu Zongjue led the people of Shenmu Sect to arrive, he returned to his own Yan Kingdom Huozhen Palace to heal his wounds.
After Sheng Zhaoxi left, Chen Mobai invited Yan Shaoyin from Huitian Valley and Kong Lingling from Chuixue Palace to Fengyuwu to help, using the excuse that the monsters were powerful and the Five Elements and Shenmu sects were not strong enough.
It was a pity that the two were even more cowardly than he had imagined. They would rather let the dozen or so markets that they had spent so much effort to open up in Yunmengze be besieged by monsters than come here.
However, the two were not completely shameless. At least the two sects that had stayed in Yunmengze did not issue an order to recall.
In other words, they were unwilling to give up their interests in Yunmengze.
He Jintong of Huitian Valley was also a capable person. Seeing that the monsters in Yunmengze were rampant, the two major sects of Shenmu Five Elements could only protect themselves and could not be relied on. He immediately gave up the seven marginal islands and led six foundation-building brothers and sisters to guard the three most core markets and three islands planted with precious spiritual medicines.
Moreover, before giving up the island markets, they took away all the valuables, and burned those that could not be taken away, leaving nothing for the monsters.
In the end, the six islands guarded by He Jintong were not far away, so although they were attacked by monsters twice, they relied on the disciples of Huitian Valley and the recruitment of casual cultivators to survive.
Compared with Huitian Valley, Chuixue Palace was in a much worse situation.
Kong Lingling had only sent four foundation-building monks before.
In the midst of the monster frenzy, the late-stage foundation-building monk who led the group was indecisive and did not want to give up all the towns and cities. In the end, because the monks' power was dispersed, they were defeated by the monsters one after another.
By the time she reacted and wanted to shrink her power, two foundation-building monks had already been outnumbered while defending the island and died under the siege of several second-level monsters.
Even she herself had to desperately use all her trump cards to escape.
In the end, only the core town was left of the nine towns and cities in Chuixue Palace.
It was also constantly attacked by monsters, and the protective formation was shaky.
"Xue Ting, this is the last stronghold of the sect, and it must not be lost."
The late-stage foundation-building monk was named Qi Cuizhen. Her right arm was swallowed by a strange fish, and her face was pale.
After putting all the precious things such as spiritual stones on the island into the storage bag, she took the teleportation array to leave first, leaving the responsibility of protecting the island to Xue Ting, the last foundation-building cultivator.
After guarding for half a year, Xue Ting finally couldn't hold on.
Seeing that the island protection array began to break, she could only grit her teeth and lead the remaining dozens of disciples of Chuixue Palace to drive the escape light into the teleportation array, and transfer spiritual power to escape.
But after waiting for a while, the teleportation array did not respond at all.
Xue Ting widened her eyes and tried twice again in disbelief.
Still the same!
She finally reacted, the opposite side of the teleportation array was destroyed!
Who did it?
Qi Cuizhen?
Or the sect?
Xue Ting felt desperate. They were in Yunmengze, fighting for the sect with their last bit of strength to protect this last stronghold.
Unexpectedly, what they got in return was betrayal!
"Uncle, does the sect not want us?"
A girl with baby fat cheeks saw that the teleportation array could not be activated for a long time, and naturally understood what it meant.
Her eyes were filled with incredible grief and anger.
"We..."
Boom!
Xue Ting was about to say a few words of comfort, but the icy light covering the island was finally completely broken under the siege of thousands of monsters.
"My fellow apprentices, please flee for your lives. As many as you can escape!"
Xue Ting could only say this last sentence, and then she flew into the air with her white flying sword and headed east.
Their island was not too far from the shore of the Cloud Country and Thunder Country, which was why this teleportation array could be directly teleported to the shore.
According to Xue Ting's speed as a foundation-building cultivator, as long as she could hold on for three days, she could go ashore.
But she fought with monsters one after another, and her spiritual power was less than 60%, so she knew that she could not hold on for so long.
And there would definitely be monsters chasing her.
So the direction she chose was the nearest Shenmu Sect Market.
It was a rebuilt island called Qingguang!
She had been there twice before.
As long as she can hold on till there...
With this belief, Xue Ting's flying sword moved faster, but a turquoise gust of wind rushed from the air to intercept her.
This was a second-level black plague bird, and there was also a strange fish breaking through the waves on the water surface.
Two powerful demonic auras locked onto Xue Ting, obviously not wanting to let her go.
Wind blades and water arrows intersected and burst out from the sky and water surface, forcing Xue Ting to change speed and direction to avoid them.
Under this circumstance, she was soon caught up by two second-level monsters.
Xue Ting gritted her teeth and took a pill that overdrew her essence, restoring her spiritual power to its peak. Then she used her flying sword to fight the two monsters while struggling to fly towards Qingguang Island.
Finally, after half a day, she saw the outline of Qingguang Island.
The foundation-building cultivator sitting on the island also noticed it, and immediately a divine consciousness surged out to find out the truth.
"Who is coming?"
Xue Ting immediately introduced herself in a quick tone, saying that she was a disciple of Chuixue Palace. The market was breached, and she hoped that the senior brother of Shenmu Sect could rescue her.
"Sorry, during the war, no unknown foundation-building cultivator can be allowed to enter the island."
But the foundation-building cultivator of Shenmu Sect who was in charge of Qingguang Island directly refused, and then withdrew his consciousness.
At this time, Xue Ting was completely desperate!