River Heart Island had gradually become lively in the past few months. Large tracts of land had been opened up, and ships had gathered at the port. There were all kinds of influences in Jiang City. Even in addition to Jiang City, there were influences from other places in Zhonghe Prefecture. These people all had their eyes on River Heart Island, so that the Broken Dragon Beach, where it was hard to see a merchant ship every ten days or half a month, was now full.
Since the Navy of Jiang City seized River Heart Island and the Broken Dragon Beach and announced that the waters of the Broken Dragon Beach were unconditionally open, there was an endless stream of merchant ships passing through here. However, these days, most of the merchant ships were blocked at the Broken Dragon Beach. Looking at the long line of ships in front of them, they could do nothing!
However, apart from being helpless, they had no other way and couldn't even find a target to vent their anger on. In the past, when ships couldn't sail here, they could scold the Navy for being incompetent. But now, it had nothing to do with the Navy. It was all because of the materials, manpower, and resources that were needed for so many goods yards being built on River Heart Island. In order to evacuate these ships, the Navy of River Heart Island even opened several temporary ports. However, it still couldn't alleviate the enthusiasm of all parties and the pressure of water transport. As a result, the entire Broken Dragon Beach extended to the water surface three miles away, and the number of ships was still increasing. It was like a long dragon, majestic and magnificent.
"It's really f * cking spectacular!" Junior Leopard sat on a high cliff on the edge of River Heart Island, looking at the long line of ships extending three miles away. He stroked Little Du's soft silver mane beside him and smiled, "Little Du, tell me, if I set fire now, will it be comparable to the legendary Red Cliff?"
"Woo, woo, woo, woo, kacha, kacha!" Little Du just buried its head in the bone in front of it and didn't respond to Junior Leopard's words.
"Commercialization, this is commercialization!" Junior Leopard narrowed his eyes and a strange thought flashed through his mind. This world was indeed a world where martial strength was respected. However, what really dominated this world was not martial arts, but power and money, just like in his previous life.
Martial power could make people feel fear, but super strong martial arts was only a deterrent. It could not be like power and money, which could control the whole world at will.
Therefore, many martial artists with great aptitude and talent had great achievements in martial arts at a young age, just like Junior Leopard. When he reached the Bone-Forging Realm at the age of 20, he could be regarded as a master in the martial arts world. In his own family or school, he also had a very high status. With power and money, he began to gradually lose himself and indulge in power and money. He no longer practiced as hard as he did before, so it was difficult for him to enter the Level Seven Realm for the rest of his life.
Now this kid's performance was the same as these people. However, such a choice could not be called a mistake. When one's cultivation entered the Bone-Forging Realm, there would be a very long bottleneck. Even if one broke through Level Four and entered Level Five or Level Six, he still had to face the huge threshold of Level Seven. To cross such a threshold, one could not only rely on aptitude and talent, but also a considerable amount of luck. Therefore, after entering the Bone-Forging Realm, some people asked themselves that they had no hope of entering Level Seven in this life, so they diverted their attention. It was not something that was difficult to accept.
Take Junior Leopard as an example. He was indeed young and powerful, but half of the people in the martial arts world would not believe that he could really enter Level Seven, because he was backed by the Wu Family. There was only one Level Seven expert in the whole Wu Family, and the next one who had the most hope to enter Level Seven was not Junior Leopard, but the Second Young Master of the Wu Family, Wu Yansheng. Because he was not only the Young Master of the Wu Family, but also the personal disciple of Wang She, a Level Nine expert. It was said that his cultivation and strength had now entered the Level Four Realm. He was the one with the most potential in this generation of the Wu Family. At least Junior Leopard was just a comet that appeared unintentionally. In the foreseeable future, Junior Leopard could indeed occupy a very important position in the Wu Family and obtain great power. However, considering his origin, the fact was that he would not be the object of the Wu Family's protection.
As for the relationship between him and Wang She, 19 Spiritual Stones of Fire Property were enough to compensate for his three days of guarding outside the underground fire vein. Of course, if Wang She really entered Level Nine from Level Eight in the underground fire vein, then it would be a different story.
Therefore, Junior Leopard was now just a stock with potential, and a small stock with potential, not a big blue chip. Although it was worth investing, it was not suitable to hold for a long time.
Junior Leopard naturally understood this point. Therefore, he completely showed all the value that a small stock with potential should have in order to obtain some benefits for himself.
Including opening grain stores in Zhonghe City and Jiang City, purchasing property, cooperating with water bandits to control the waterway of Jiang City, and managing his own influence. These were all huge wealth in the eyes of ordinary people, but in front of the real well-known families, it was nothing. The treatment that they could give to a Level Four expert was almost the same.
This was also the way for Junior Leopard to survive in this world for so many years.
Occasionally, he showed some outstanding points to make others pay attention to him, but not too outstanding to arouse others' suspicion and jealousy.
Just like now, there was an important reason why he chose to stay dormant in River Heart Island. Some time ago, his performance in Jiang City was too dazzling, and he also stirred up a lot of trouble. He needed to give others some time to completely digest the information and calm down. This was the best for him.
During the period when he stayed dormant in River Heart Island, the Jianghu was even more turbulent. The news came one after another, and the most sensational one was, of course, Wang She.
Kidnapping the bride in Qinlingjun City and entering Level Nine, these two things were the hot topic in Jianghu at any time!
Especially when a Level Nine expert was involved in a love dispute, with the operation of the gossip machine in Jianghu, the news was immediately like snowflakes flying all over the sky. No one knew where the source was, how long it would last, and how many kinds of snowflakes there were.
In this matter, the Mingyi School had suffered a great loss and lost face. Naturally, they would not let it go easily. Whether they really fell out with the Tian Long Taoism or just pretended to take action, they had to regain their face.
And this time, to regain their face, they could not just send a few Level Eight experts.
Fu Fengzi, a Level Nine expert of Mingyi School, came out of his closed-door training and directly challenged Lu Shaoyou to a duel. At the same time, Sword Sect, the real master of Golden Lights Cave and a Level Nine expert of Lu Shaoyou's sect, also suffered losses in this incident.
At this time, all the major casinos in Jianghu also placed bets at the same time. They were betting on whether the three Level Nine experts would fight. If they fought, who would Wang She choose to fight with, and what the result would be. For a moment, the business was like a tide. Even Junior Leopard could not help but bet 100 taels of silver.
There was no way they would fight. The two sects were just shouting fiercely.
Especially the Golden Lights Cave, which was famous for its martial prowess. However, it only had one Level Nine expert, and that was its master, the Sword Master. If he really chose to fight with Wang She and something happened to him, the Golden Lights Cave really could not find a person who could control the situation. Then, the efforts of the Sword Master for decades would all go to waste. Therefore, it was definitely unrealistic for the Sword Master to risk his life to fight with Wang She for his disciple.
In Jianghu, the Golden Lights Cave was a special school. It was not a traditional rich and powerful family, so it was not as strong as them. However, it was not an ordinary small school with some historical accumulation. However, its strength was far above these small and medium-sized schools and well-known families. It could even easily destroy a school and well-known family that had been established for hundreds of years, because it was a new school founded by a Level Nine expert.
The schools in Jianghu were like bubbles in the sea. There were new ones all the time, but at the same time, there were also schools that perished all the time. This was the general trend.
Among all kinds of new schools, the most eccentric and promising one was the school founded by a Level Nine expert like the Golden Lights Cave.
There were few Level Nine experts in the world, and those who founded their own schools were even rarer. They were the people at the top of the pyramid of power. No matter which country or school they joined, they would be highly valued. It could even be said that as long as you joined sincerely, you could almost immediately get the same status and power as the most powerful Elder in the school.
Most of these experts would also choose to join a country or a sect, accept the price of worship, and then choose a suitable successor far away to pass on all that they had learned.
However, some Level Nine experts had a different idea. They would found a school alone, recruit disciples, and open a new school in Jianghu. Although such a new school did not have the foundation of other schools in Jianghu, it could often attract more people to join it, because it had a Level Nine expert. There were no Level Nine experts in other places, except in the real big schools and sects.
With the reputation of a Level Nine expert, at the beginning, there would definitely be a lot of followers, and a great influence would be formed. However, this influence was relatively loose, and it was impossible for a Level Nine expert to accept all the people who joined the school as disciples. Generally, they would choose some people with excellent qualifications as their disciples, and then set up the framework of the school according to the basic structure of the school in Jianghu, with these disciples as the core.
Just like the current Golden Lights Cave.
In order to make the school they founded better and have a good development environment, these experts would also reach some compromises with the millennium-old families and big schools to mutually benefit. They would help these schools train some experts and disciples, and even let their own disciples join these schools in order to tie their hearts. It was just like how the White Blademaster Lu Shaoyou became the deacon of the Mingyi School. In this way, the two sides would form a relationship similar to an alliance, and both sides would benefit. With the support of these big schools, the development of the school would also be rapid.
However, how many people in this world could really become a Level Nine expert?
Therefore, most of these sects were short-lived in Jianghu. When their founders were alive, they were very popular and no one dared to compete with them. However, once the Level Nine expert who founded them passed away, the sects that operated well and had strong cohesiveness might continue to exist. Otherwise, the sects that operated poorly and offended too many people might even fall apart overnight.
Moreover, because the number of Level Nine experts was too small, such a school would generally not appear in one or two hundred years. Now in Jianghu, only the Golden Lights Cave had such a school. It was precisely because of the support of the Level Nine Sword Master and Lu Shaoyou, a Level Eight expert, that the reputation of the Golden Lights Cave in Jianghu was now like the sun at high noon.
But now, in the face of such a thing, the Golden Lights Cave had just lost a Level Eight expert, and it was impossible for their pillar to go against Wang She.
Junior Leopard had some understanding of Wang She. He knew that Wang She was a man who would not get up early without benefits. If he was not sure, he would never confront other Level Nine experts head-on. Even if he was willing, Tian Long Taoism would not.
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