What happened in the Enchantment Mountains was something that many people didn't expect. Zhao Hai's rise was too fast, it was beyond everyone's expectations.
Starting from a small Kaoshan City, it was impossible for him to swallow the entire territory of Spirit Snake City and Green Wolf City in a short period of time. But then, he actually defeated the alliance of experts from all the other city-states. He even subdued those experts. Then, he easily controlled the entire Enchanted Mountain. This was something that no one had thought of.
The situation in the Enchantment Mountains was very special. They didn't have any concept of a new ruler. But when this person accomplished what their predecessors couldn't and unified the Enchantment Mountains, the people in the Enchantment Mountains were startled. But then they calmly accepted Zhao Hai's rule.
This was a terrible inertia. When the people of a region don't have any concept of a country, they don't care who ruled them. It can be said that the region has lost the qualifications to become a country.
After Zhao Hai unified the Enchantment Mountains, he immediately announced that all the cities in the Enchantment Mountains would form a Enchantment City-State.
Then came the appointment and dismissal of officials, the transmission of decrees, the reform of taxation, and the reorganization of the clans. After obtaining more than 200 Sky Dancing Experts, Zhao Hai finally had a group of loyal subordinates. He can now completely control the Enchantment Mountains.
As for having the people in the Enchantment Mountains recognize his rule, Zhao Hai wasn't in a hurry. In fact, ruling the Enchantment Mountains was very simple. The Enchantment Mountains had been in chaos for a long time. Now that the hearts of the people have settled down, Zhao Hai can slowly win over the hearts of the people in the Enchantment Mountains.
The changes in the Enchantment Mountains also attracted the attention of the surrounding forces. One must know that the reason why the Enchantment Mountains weren't completely unified before was because the cities here were too scattered. The cities here were built around the Enchantment Mountains. Therefore, there were a lot of cities that bordered the Enchantment Mountains.
Now that the city-states found out that the Soul Enchantment Mountain was unified, they were very surprised. At the same time, they felt threatened.
However, they didn't act rashly. After all, if they were to scatter, then they wouldn't be a threat to them. But if they were to unite, then they would be a big threat. Just the Sky Dance Realm experts were enough to give them a headache.
Then these people discovered that they had underestimated the Enchantment Mountain. Before the Enchantment Mountain was unified, the entire mountain was a mess. Nobody noticed how many experts there were in the Enchantment Mountain. Now that the Enchantment Mountain was unified, people discovered that there were a lot of experts in the mountain.
Zhao Hai didn't let his guard down. He didn't declare war on the outside world. He even took the initiative to send people to the nearby city-states to pay a visit and start diplomatic relations with them.
What Zhao Hai wanted was time. To be honest, because of the years of war, the economy of the Enchantment Mountain was on the verge of collapse. Moreover, the population here was a problem. There were too few young people here.
Because of this, Zhao Hai didn't only reduce taxes, he also encouraged the people here to farm, encourage them to have children. If you don't have enough money, then the wasteland that you open up will be yours. Every year, you only need to pay a small amount of taxes and the rest of the land's output will be yours.
If you open up a factory in the Enchantment Mountain, then you will be rewarded. At the same time, you can also reduce taxes. If you hire people in the city who have difficulties in life, then you can get even more rewards.
Besides these, Zhao Hai also did something else, and that was to restore the transmission formations of the various cities. This was a very remarkable thing. In the past, when the Heavenly Sword Empire was at its peak, even a small city would have a teleportation array. However, after the Heavenly Sword Empire was destroyed, most of those teleportation arrays had lost their function.
Teleportation formations were easy to use, but they had a fatal weakness, and that was the problem of consumption. The bigger the teleportation formation, the greater the consumption. Once the war came, all the energy stones that supported the teleportation formation became strategic resources. Nobody would put energy stones into the teleportation formation anymore.
Zhao Hai also saw the energy stones in the Spirit Weapon Realm. The energy stones here were actually low-grade crystals. In the past, Zhao Hai simply didn't use these crystals. This was because their grade was too low. Now that Zhao Hai was using Law Crystals, how could he take a fancy to these low-grade crystals?
However, in the Spirit Weapon Realm, there were only these crystals. Although Zhao Hai's Space could produce these crystals, it was too difficult to use them to activate the transmission formations. At the same time, the consumption was too high.
Zhao Hai's Space could produce these crystals, but it couldn't support the consumption. In the end, Zhao Hai thought of a method, which was to use traction crystals to power transmission formations.
Zhao Hai currently has a lot of traction crystals in the Space. One of them was the traction crystal that was as big as Zhao Hai's fist. Once this kind of traction crystal had enough energy, it could become the power source of a city's defensive formation. However, using this kind of crystal for transmission formations was too wasteful. It felt like a big horse pulling a small cart.
As for the traction crystal, it was much worse. It was the size of a finger. It was the traction crystal used in the Great Demon Blade. At this time, Zhao Hai had a lot of these traction crystals in the Space.
The reason why Zhao Hai had so many traction crystals was because he was afraid that he would need them one day. Preparing them when you're free and using them when you're busy, this was Zhao Hai's principle. Therefore, he prepared a lot of traction crystals.
Zhao Hai experimented with these traction crystals and found that they could be used as the power source of a large transmission formation for hundreds of people. In this way, the problem of restoring the transmission formations in the cities would be solved. With this problem solved, the transmission formations in the cities could be restored very quickly.
Regarding the restoration of the transmission formations, the people in the Lost Soul Mountains were very surprised. They didn't expect the transmission formations to be restored. One must know that the Spirit Weapon Realm had been in chaos for a long time. People in the Lost Soul Mountains had never used a transmission formation in their entire lives. This was because transmission formations could only be seen in big cities. Moreover, there were very few of them that were activated.
But now, the transmission formations in the cities were restored. Moreover, they were free for people to use. They could even transport goods. When the transmission formations were restored, people suddenly discovered that the entire Lost Soul Mountains had been connected by transmission formations.
Perhaps ordinary people didn't know what was going on, but the officials were very clear. Once the transmission formations were restored, the entire Lost Soul Mountains would be under Zhao Hai's control. Because of the transmission formations, Zhao Hai's army could arrive at any city in the Lost Soul Mountains in the shortest time possible. Even if the transmission formation was destroyed, Zhao Hai would immediately know that the city was under attack. Then he could immediately send experts to quell the chaos. With the transmission formations restored, Zhao Hai would be able to control the entire Lost Soul Mountains.
At the same time, there was another benefit to this. This made the people in the Lost Soul Mountains even more grateful to Zhao Hai. At the same time, it also made the transportation of goods in the Lost Soul Mountains faster. The prices of goods in the Lost Soul Mountains were unified in a short time. Moreover, the prices had fallen a lot.
With the prices falling, people's purchasing power increased. Because of the tax reduction and various incentives, the income of the people in the Lost Soul Mountains increased. Naturally, their purchasing power also increased.
With the increase in purchasing power, the taxes that Zhao Hai reduced before came back. It didn't take long before the officials discovered that the taxes they collected weren't any less than before. However, the living standards of the people had improved. The entire Lost Soul Mountains was thriving, this made the officials very surprised.
Moreover, with the restoration of the transmission formation, the connection between the Lost Soul Mountains and the outside world had also increased. Additionally, Zhao Hai was now attaching great importance to the security of the Lost Soul Mountains. Therefore, he gave preferential treatment to those who came here to do business. Because of this, the number of people who came to do business in the Lost Soul Mountains had increased. And because of this, more and more people came to do business in the Lost Soul Mountains. This increased the number of people who came here to do business.
Naturally, many people didn't believe it. This was because the Lost Soul Mountains had always been synonymous with chaos. Although there were still people who came here to do business, they still had to take a lot of risks. Now, someone suddenly said that the security in the Lost Soul Mountains was better than anywhere else. Moreover, all the cities had opened transmission formations, making it more convenient to travel. The taxes were also very low, and there were also all kinds of rewards. If this wasn't a lie, then what was? How could there be such a place in the world? Wasn't that a paradise? Many merchants didn't believe it. Naturally, there were also some who chose to believe it. They also wanted to take a risk in the Lost Soul Mountains. If the Lost Soul Mountains were really as good as the rumors said, then they could do business in the Lost Soul Mountains and make their businesses bigger.
Yu Feng was such a person. Yu Feng was a medicinal herb merchant. In the past, he had done business in the Lost Soul Mountains. However, five years ago, he withdrew from the Lost Soul Mountains. At that time, he lost a lot of money and almost went bankrupt. Although he had recovered, he still couldn't recover to his peak.
The reason why Yu Feng went bankrupt was because of a war between two city-states. The city-state that Yu Feng belonged to was defeated. Although the city-state that Yu Feng belonged to didn't impose heavy taxes, the city-state that Yu Feng belonged to started to deal with merchants like Yu Feng, who didn't have any background, after occupying the city for a short period of time, the city-state that Yu Feng belonged to was put into prison. Yu Feng's family members almost spent all their wealth in order to bail Yu Feng out of prison. After Yu Feng was released from prison, he immediately took his family members away from the Enchanted Mountain and went to another city-state that was relatively safe to do business.
Yu Feng used the connections that he had accumulated in the past to slowly recover his business. Although his business had recovered a bit, it still couldn't be compared to his peak.
Later on, Yu Feng heard that the Soul Enchantment Mountains had been unified. If you open a shop there, not only would the tax be very low, no one would make things difficult for you. Moreover, the tax wasn't collected on a monthly or yearly basis, but on the basis of your transaction. In other words, if you didn't sell anything, then you wouldn't have to pay tax. But after you sell something, you would have to pay tax. However, the tax wasn't high. If you hire some local people to work for you, then you can pay less tax. Such a tax policy was something that the entire Spirit Weapon World didn't have.
However, Yu Feng didn't believe this at first. This was because he had stayed in the Lost Soul Mountains before. He was very clear about what the Lost Soul Mountains looked like. He had no way to connect the Lost Soul Mountains with the one he had heard about. Because of this, he didn't believe it. However, he wanted to go to the Soul Captivating Mountains to take a look. This was because he had no choice but to go. Recently, the price of medicinal herbs in the continent had decreased a lot. This had a big impact on his business. Moreover, he had three sons who were about to grow up. If he continued to do this small business, then his sons would only be able to be small peddlers. They wouldn't be able to develop much in the future.
For the sake of his children's future, Yu Feng decided to go to the Lost Soul Mountains to take a look. This was because Yu Feng was very clear that even if the Lost Soul Mountains weren't as good as people said, doing business there would still make a lot of money. For the sake of his children, he decided to go all out.
The city-state that Yu Feng was in was called the Flowing Fire City-State. The reason it had such a name was because more than a thousand years ago, a fiery light flashed in the sky. That fiery light was even brighter than the sun in the Spirit Weapon World. Therefore, this city-state was called the Flowing Fire City-State from then on. Yu Feng's family's business wasn't very big. It was just a medium-sized pharmacy in the Flowing Fire City-State that produced some ready-made medicines. At the same time, there were two in-house doctors who could treat patients and prescribe medicine.
However, recently, Yu Feng's family's business had encountered a lot of trouble. This was because the price of the herbs had decreased, but the price of the herbs didn't decrease by much. After the price of the herbs had decreased, their profits had also decreased. This made the family's business even more difficult. It was precisely because of this that Yu Feng wanted to go to the Lost Soul Mountains to take a look. He was very clear that the prices of the herbs in the mountains weren't high. Because of this, Yu Feng wanted to go to the Lost Soul Mountains to take a look. Because of this, Yu Feng wanted to go to the Lost Soul Mountains to take a look. He was very clear that the prices of the herbs in the mountains weren't high. And with the recent rumors, Yu Feng wanted to go to the Lost Soul Mountains to take a look.
However, after Yu Feng told his family about this decision, he was met with opposition. This was because Yu Feng's family wouldn't forget how they left the Lost Soul Mountains. In the past, Yu Feng almost died in prison. Now that he wanted to go back to the Lost Soul Mountains, his family naturally wouldn't agree. Yu Feng's wife and three children were all against it. But in the end, Yu Feng decided to go and take a look. However, his family decided to have his eldest son go with him. After all, Yu Feng was now 40 years old, almost 50 years old.
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