The Cloud Wave Boat went all the way to the northwest, flying toward the Cloud Region. This flying boat soared high in the sky and could travel tens of thousands of miles a day. Even with the vastness of the Nine Regions, it only needed one or two days to fly out of the Blue River Region and enter the neighboring Cloud Region. Regarding this, Liu Li was full of amazement and embarrassment. Because before she went down the mountain, her Master had seriously warned her that on this experiential learning trip to the Cloud Region, she must observe and remember a lot along the way. The last experiential learning trip had completely turned into a gourmet trip, so this time, she must not mess around like that. With their speed, it would take them at least ten days to reach the Cloud Region, and along the way, they must carefully observe and think...
However, looking at the white clouds outside the flying boat, as well as the clear sky, Liu Li's simple mind couldn't help but doubt. If they flew like this, they would arrive at the Cloud Region in less than two days, so should they remember these things along the way? However … since her Master had requested it, she could only remember it.
Although Liu Li was naive and ignorant of worldly affairs, her memory was excellent. She stood at the edge of the hall, looking at the waterfall-like receding clouds outside the window. Her mind had already memorized all the scene in front of her. She even automatically imagined the tumbling clouds into their respective images. For example, some were like oval-shaped barbecue, some were like square barbecue, some were like dripping oil barbecue, and … the girl earnestly memorized them. She was ready to go back and seriously tell her Master about the result of her memory. She believed that the old man would certainly be happy.
As for Wang Lu and Ye Chuchen, at this time, they were sitting around a tea table in the hall, listening to Ye Chuchen's report on the work of the past few years.
In the past few years when Wang Lu was cultivating on the mountain, the summary of the Wisdom Sect's work would be sent to the Non-Phase Peak every ten days. Therefore, he had a general understanding of the situation. However, some of the important details needed to be supplemented by Ye Chuchen verbally.
In general, the development of the Wisdom Sect had entered a good upward track. Even without Wang Lu's hands-on support, the Wisdom Sect still had a foundation for its own development. Currently, the number of Wisdom Sect's followers, broadly counted, had exceeded tens of millions of people, and the Great Ming Country, as the foundation of the Wisdom Sect, was managed like an iron bucket. Ye Chuchen, Li Nana, and Daoist Ming Yun, these three giants, in the Great Ming Country, their prestige was not inferior to the Prime Minister. The sect's mobilization and organization ability could be said to be against the heaven.
With the combined power of tens of thousands of people, plus the huge investment from Wang Lu five years ago, the Wisdom Sect's infrastructure has achieved great achievements. The output of low-grade spirit objects and spirit plants was so large that even the Mysterious Sky Mansion paid attention to it. Before the end of the year, they signed an agreement to establish a long-term cooperative relationship. However, just by relying on these basic constructions, the annual income that the Wisdom Sect could obtain had already made people who knew the inside story dumbfounded.
If it was simply to amass money, at this time, the Wisdom Sect had already entered the harvesting period. Wang Lu's amazing investment in the past would, at most, return it in ten years. And if they carried out some simple capital operations, the earnings would be even more amazing.
However, Wang Lu's ambition was not limited to this. Because spirit stones gradually lost their value when they reached the top. Tens of thousands of spirit stones might be able to buy a Daoist Master of King Pill as a thug, but even with one million spirit stones, it was still difficult to invite a Daoist Master of Yuanying Stage to come forward. In the Mysterious Sky Mansion, they could show their VIP status and buy an eighth rank spiritual treasure with hundreds of thousands of spirit stones. However, higher rank spiritual treasures were priceless.
And Wang Lu's solution was very simple: to upgrade the industry, and in the future, to be self-sufficient. To achieve this grand blueprint, the biggest problem was the lack of talent. Currently, the Wisdom Sect had tens of millions of followers, but the several Vice Sect Leaders were only Xudan Stage cultivators. Moreover, among Xudan Stage cultivators, they were not considered strong. Although they spent money to hire several King Pill level thugs, overall, they were still far from a mature sect.
What to do? Very simple, throw money. Right now, the Wisdom Sect was lacking in everything, but not in money. Although it was very difficult to attract those famous people with genuine talent by relying on spirit stones alone, if those famous people didn't come, a few broken cultivators who couldn't stay in the big sects would still be better than a loose cultivator like Ye Chuchen.
Wang Lu asked the Wisdom Sect to spend a lot of money to attract talented people and provide them with extremely luxurious welfare. This strategy had been implemented for more than half a year, and it had really attracted a lot of people from the big sects who, although they were not in their eyes, were incomparably precious to the Wisdom Sect, which played a great role in promoting the Wisdom Sect. And as the leader of the Wisdom Sect, Wang Lu naturally enjoyed the due leadership treatment. In fact, if the leader didn't take the lead, it would instead make the onlookers doubt your strength. And Wang Lu wanted to use this Lingyun 2000 to show the world: Wisdom Sect is rich and overbearing, full of confidence! Recruiting talented people, welcome to join!
After handing over the sect's work to Ye Chuchen, only half a day had passed, but this Xudan Stage Vice Sect Leader already felt physically and mentally exhausted.
Reporting work and listening to instructions in front of Wang Lu was indeed a bit stressful. Although the young man in front of him was a stage lower than him, Ye Chuchen was very clear about the gap in strength between the two of them. Eight years ago, when Wang Lu was still in the Qi Cultivating Stage, he was already able to use his Non-Phase Sword to contend against the Seven Stars Sword Art that he was so proud of. But now, after eight years, he was afraid that he didn't even have the qualification to make a move against him … With that stupid mottled dog, he was not his opponent. Moreover, although Wang Lu's tone was calm, his words were always accurate. Ye Chuchen's mistakes in the past few years were easily picked out by him. Although he didn't criticize him, it still made him break out in cold sweat.
Fortunately, the unbearable time was finally over. Ye Chuchen sighed in relief, smiled, and introduced the local conditions and customs of the Cloud Region to Wang Lu.
The Cloud Region was located in the northwest of the Blue River Region. As an important part of the Nine Regions, it had a vast territory, rich resources, and so on. Needless to say, its biggest characteristic was: chaos.
Unlike the Blue River Region and the other regions that were suppressed by the Five Unique of the Wanxian League, the Cloud Region never had a particularly powerful deterrent force, not even the Wanxiang Sect or the Flowing Cloud Sect. The land of the region was divided by dozens of third and fourth rank sects, such as the White Dragon Temple and Merciful Cloud Mountain. To put it nicely, it was like a hundred flowers blooming, but to put it bluntly, it was like a warlord separatist rule.
However, this situation also had its advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was that the situation was chaotic, which was beneficial for sects like the Wisdom Sect to fish in troubled waters. The disadvantage was that if they were not careful, they would capsize. The strength of the Wisdom Sect was still not comparable to those third and fourth rank sects.
Therefore, several days ago, Wang Lu sent a letter to Ye Chuchen, asking him to prepare the Cloud Wave Boat and go to the Cloud Region together. This made Ye Chuchen very curious, what exactly did the Director want to do in the Cloud Region this time?
"It's nothing much. I'm just delivering a letter for Master," Wang Lu said lightly.
Ye Chuchen was a little surprised and annoyed, "Can't you just leave the messy task of delivering the letter to the people of SF Express? Why do you need the Ministry of Labor to come here?"
Wang Lu chuckled. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do. At the foot of the mountain, I am the leader of the Wisdom Sect, the Sect Leader. I'm just the chief disciple on the mountain, I don't have the right to put on airs. Besides, apart from delivering the letter, I also have my own things to do … Old Ye, is there anything fun in the Grand Cloud Mountain's surrounding area recently? "
Ye Chuchen had done his homework. After thinking for a while, he said, "Grand Cloud Mountain is in the Grand Cloud Empire. There are White Dragon Temple, Merciful Cloud Mountain, and other high-rank cultivation sects above it. Below it is the imperial power of the Grand Cloud Empire suppressing it, so it's relatively stable. However, recently, sects from other states established branches near Grand Cloud Mountain. Their attitudes are rude and unreasonable, so there's a lot of conflict."
Hearing this, Wang Lu's heart skipped a beat. He guessed that the matter his master had entrusted to him was likely related to this matter. Thus, he perked up and said, "Oh? Tell me the details. "
Ye Chuchen gawked and couldn't help but wryly smile. He only knew the general information about the Grand Cloud Mountain, so how could he know the details? Nevertheless, Ye Chuchen still recounted the outline of the matter to her.
The one who stirred up the trouble was the third-rank sect Beast Master School in the Southern Heaven Region. More than a year ago, many Elders of the Beast Master School, along with hundreds of disciples, traveled thousands of miles from the Southern Heaven Region to the Cloud Region and established a branch near the Grand Cloud Mountain. Regarding this, the host, the Grand Cloud Empire, did not stop them. On the contrary, the imperial family and the court were happy to see this happen. Being able to have a not-so-strong nor not-so-weak foreign cultivation sect settle in their territory was beneficial for them to play the balancing act among the other Immortal Cultivation Sects.
As for the local sects in the Grand Cloud Empire, they didn't oppose it. First, three years ago, the cultivation base of the Beast Master School's Sect Leader had advanced, reaching the peak Yuanying Stage. The Beast Master School was already considered powerful among the third-rank sects, much stronger than the fourth-rank sects like White Dragon Temple. Second, there were no valuable resources in the vicinity of the Grand Cloud Mountain, so they could take advantage of the situation to sell a favor, so why not?
However, only a year later, the harmonious atmosphere couldn't be maintained. The Beast Master School had a conflict with the local government. Several cultivators injured nearby civilians, and after the government sent people to interrogate them, they also injured the officers and insulted the officials. This kind of thing was actually not a big deal. After all, cultivators were aloof and lawless. However, when the cultivators of White Dragon Temple were entrusted to go to the Beast Master School's branch to demand an explanation, they were humiliated and abused. Later, it escalated into a violent conflict, and the contradiction began to intensify.
"Fortunately, later, under the mediation of the Wanxian League, the situation didn't further escalate. The Beast Master School's branch leader came forward to apologize, and White Dragon Temple and the Grand Cloud Empire reluctantly accepted it... But the root problem is not solved, I think this peace won't last long."
"The root problem?"
Ye Chuchen shook his head and said with a disgusted face, "The Beast Master School who came here to establish a branch is a relatively radical and extreme sect. Their three views are completely different from ordinary people, but they are also self-righteous and extreme, never allowing any opposition."
"What do you mean specifically?"
Ye Chuchen said, "Mr. Director, you also know that the cultivators of the Beast Master School often associate with spirit birds and spirit beasts and form a deep relationship with them, so..."
Wang Lu's mind turned, and he roughly guessed the cause of the matter. He couldn't help but sneer.
"Interesting, this time, the opponent is a small animal rights organization?"
Speaking to this, Wang Lu turned his head, looked at the mottled dog on the ground, and then looked at Liu Li, who was standing by the window looking at the clouds.
"Damn, you guys actually met your family..."
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