Chapter 34 Longmen Gorge Channel
As the name suggests, Longmen Gorge is a huge naturally formed strait with a length of about five hundred miles. It is a sea channel that completely runs through the middle of Longmen Island.
If you don't pass through here, you can only go around thousands of miles from both sides. Because there are reef currents on both sides of Longmen Island, you often need to spend more spiritual stones to go against the current. It is better to go around and save trouble.
Longmen Island relies on this natural channel to earn a lot of tolls. A toll for a spiritual ship like the Qijia costs thousands of spiritual stones. This is because of the discount on the Qijia's signboard, otherwise An average foundation-building family would start with three thousand spirit stones.
The force sitting here is the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, which includes seven foundation-building casual cultivators who are brothers and sisters. Over time, a huge coastal city has been formed along this waterway.
Qi Yunxian immediately cheered up and prepared to deal with any changes that happened next, while the other people also distanced themselves tacitly, as if they were guarding against something.
Several foundation-building elders who were supposed to be sitting at the core of the spirit ship also came out of the cabin and looked at the Longmen Gorge in the distance.
"In front of Elder Qi is the most famous city around here, Longmenxiafang City. It is also the longest waterway on this route. The casual cultivator alliance has made a lot of money over the years with this waterway."
"Yes! It has only been a few decades to build such a foundation. It is really enviable. If it were not for the support of Heishuimen behind it, this second-level island would not be occupied by these wild dogs."
There was some disdain in the words of several guest elders, but in fact, they were more jealous. They were both foundation-building monks who were also casual cultivators. They could only rely on the Qi family. Although the treatment was not bad, it was better than when they were casual cultivators. Quite a few.
But relatively speaking, some freedoms have been lost. For example, the task of escorting the spirit ship is usually done by the elders of the guest, and it is rarely the turn of the foundation-building monks of the Qi family.
Looking at it this way, it is not as free as the seven foundation-building monks who established their own foundation.
"Be careful, it's better to say less when you go out. After all, this casual cultivator alliance is quite sensible. Our Qi family's spiritual boat collects more than a thousand spiritual stones, and the small spiritual boat is free of charge, which is considered a favor to us. A gesture of goodwill."
Qi Tianming said in an understatement, but the hatred in his eyes flashed past, and no one present was aware of it.
"Elder Qi, what you said is true. These guys are very sensible. As long as they are stronger than them, they will give some discounts. Now their most profitable thing is not the tolls of the waterway, but the gantry built by the waterway. Xiafang City.
According to fellow Taoist Jin, their market can earn hundreds of thousands of spiritual stones a year, but I don’t know if it’s true or not. "
"Fellow Taoist Jin, could it be that fellow Taoist Jin Yulan? The Xinghua Tower she opened is a famous gold-selling cave! It is said that the female cultivators in it are good at the art of double cultivation, which makes many monks linger. Elder Li seems to The relationship with Jin Yulan is not simple! I can reveal this kind of news to you."
One of the guest elders said in surprise,
"Haha, okay, okay, I had a romantic relationship with fellow Taoist Jin Yulan. If you elders are interested, I will arrange it and make sure you feel at home. If fellow Taoist Qi goes there in person, even fellow Taoist Jin Yulan will Accompany me personally.”
Elder Li said to everyone with a proud look on his face,
Xinghua Tower is a place for fireworks in Longmen Xiafang City, and many female cultivators are here to solicit business. The owner of the building is Jin Yulan, one of the seven foundation-building cultivators in the Loose Cultivator Alliance.
This woman is extraordinarily beautiful and is good at the art of dual cultivation. She was originally just the concubine of a foundation-building monk. I don’t know how she managed to win the favor of the foundation-building monk and actually spent a lot of money to support this female foundation-building monk.
You must know that in the eyes of monks, concubines are not considered Taoist companions, they are just playthings of monks, a dispensable existence.
After this woman established the foundation, she actually colluded with outsiders to kill the monks who supported her in establishing the foundation. Finally, by chance, she and six other people formed an alliance of casual cultivators.
"Forget it! I appreciate Elder Li's kindness. Jin Yulan is a famous black widow nearby, and Qi is not lucky enough to accept it."
Although Qi Tianming has never been to Longmen Gorge, he has heard about this woman's romantic affair. This woman has a high status in the casual cultivator alliance and is good at sociability.
Among the slightly larger forces around her, there are many guests who have joined her. For example, Elder Li of the Qi family is one of them. The network of relationships is also complicated. Qi Tianming naturally does not want to have anything to do with such a female cultivator.
While several people were talking, the spirit boat had arrived at the entrance of the Longmen Gorge channel.
The entrance of this section of the channel is extremely wide, with a width of 300 feet, which is enough to handle various spiritual boats and spirit ships entering the Longmen Gorge channel from here.
The channel is divided into two parts by the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, with entry on the left and exit on the right.
Under this division, ships entering and exiting have no influence on each other. With the support of formations and undercurrents of water veins, the distance of 500 miles can be covered in about an hour.
But there are also disadvantages. As long as it enters the waterway of Longmen Gorge, under the blessing of underground water veins and undercurrents, the spirit ship is basically unable to turn around and can only sail forward along the water veins.
Elder Li took out the token on his body and pointed it at the entrance formation of the Longmen Gorge Channel. A golden light flashed, and the formation in front of the Longmen Gorge Channel opened a gap. After the spirit ship entered it, it returned to its original state.
This token is the key to entering and exiting the Longmen Gorge waterway. The entrance and exit of the entire Longmen Gorge waterway are guarded by the third-level array, the Golden Light Wave Array. Without this token distributed by the Loose Cultivator Alliance, no one can enter this waterway.
This array was purchased from the Black Water Gate by the Loose Cultivator Alliance at a huge cost, and even mortgaged the toll of the waterway for fifty years to build the third-level array.
Otherwise, with only the face of the seven foundation-building period of the Loose Cultivator Alliance, it would not be able to suppress the surrounding major forces. At least in the sea area controlled by the Black Water Gate, there are at least ten forces stronger than the Loose Cultivator Alliance.
With the help of the array, ordinary foundation-building families cannot break the array at all, and can only pay money to enter.
Only the forces that pay money will get the golden light token issued by the Loose Cultivator Alliance, and the forces holding the golden light token can open the third-level array, the Golden Light Wind and Wave Array.
The use of the token is limited to a certain number of times. After the number is exhausted, you must pay again to use it again.
Under this virtuous cycle, the Loose Cultivator Alliance has risen to become a force that cannot be underestimated in the sea area under the command of the Black Water Gate in just a few decades.
If there are cultivators in the late stage of foundation building in the Loose Cultivator Alliance, the ranking in the Black Water Gate sea area can be improved by a few places, and there are only a handful of forces that can beat them.
As the Qi family spirit ship completely entered the channel, several elders in the foundation building stage also noticed something wrong.
"Why is the Loose Cultivator Alliance so slack? There is no patrol cultivator stationed at the entrance. It is really a rotten fish and shrimp that cannot be put on the table."
Elder Li joked with everyone.