The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 308 Sea Cliff Island

The highest administrative body of Haiya City is the Lord's Mansion of Haiya City, including Haiya Chamber of Commerce and Haiya Bank and other important institutions of the Haiya family. The headquarters are also located inside Haiya City. But it is not located in Sea Cliff City, but on a large granite island about thirty miles east of Sea Cliff Port.

This is the famous Sea Cliff Island.

This island is like a reef protruding from the depths of the seabed, surrounded by steep black cliffs. The word sea cliff is named after the topography of this island.

Haiya Island is far away from all the main waterways of Haiya Port. It has high winds and rough waves all year round, and densely covered with hidden reefs. Usually, there will be no ordinary ocean-going merchant ships approaching. It is indeed a rare place for cleaning in the Haiya area. In fact, Jiang Hua'an, head of the Haiya faction, and Han Xinhe, the head of law enforcement, have been practicing in seclusion on this island all year round.

Yang Lu can be regarded as the leading figure in Haiya City now, but he has never been on Haiya Island, and even Jiang Hua'an and Han Xinhe, the two big men of the Haiya family, he has only met once or twice respectively.This is not because the two big bosses don't want to see him, but because the two big bosses are usually in retreat and practice, and they don't have time to receive guests at all.

Yang Lu met Su Yuanfeng relatively more times, mainly because Su Yuanfeng has been trying his best to train the younger generation of the family Su Cheng in the past two years, so he deliberately got stuck in the Foundation Establishment Dzogchen and did not advance.

It is much more difficult to break through the threshold of Jindan period than in the middle period of Qi refining. If the breakthrough fails, the cultivation level of the cultivator will even fall back to the ninth floor of foundation building. The reason why Su Yuanfeng did not try to break through is because the time required for breakthrough is not long enough. There is too much certainty. If you are unlucky, you may not be able to hold this retreat for seven or eight years, which will inevitably delay many important things.

In fact, seven or eight years of seclusion is not bad, and some monks of the Nascent Soul stage of the Transcendence School even retreat for hundreds of years.

According to the practice experience accumulated by the cultivator for countless years, after the time of continuous retreat and chanting becomes longer, the cultivator will gain a certain degree of cultivation speed bonus. If the time is long enough, this bonus will become very considerable over time.

Yang Lu had also tried to speed up his practice through continuous retreats, but his "Infinite Heart Sutra - From Beginning to Mastery" seems to be different from the mind of ordinary cultivators, and he cannot enjoy the speed of cultivation brought about by retreats. Bonus, at least according to the quantitative panel in his dream, his cultivation speed did not increase with the extension of the retreat time.

This discovery once made him suspect that "consecutive retreats increase the speed of cultivation" is actually a false concept of cultivation.

However, whether it is Xu Yannan, Li Qingning, or even the works of the Wuliang Sword Sect Nascent Soul boss, they all vowed to tell him that continuous retreat can indeed increase the speed of cultivation, so Yang Lu can only attribute this difference to his own kung fu. The book written by Lu Yang, the Immortal Ascendant and time traveler, is not in the same system as ordinary cultivators.

But in any case, the rule that the longer the retreat, the faster the speed of cultivation is indeed encouraging practitioners to retreat to death, so it is not very rare for high-level monks to retreat for N years in a row, even according to the world records of the cultivation world According to records, in history there was a very macho senior in the Nascent Soul Stage who had been in seclusion for 300 consecutive years before breaking through.

This is simply the comprehension version of the volume king and the master of the question!
The world is impermanent, and a hundred years is enough for people on earth to evolve from using flintlock guns as their main weapons to dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and from not knowing how to build airplanes to landing on the moon.

It is said that during the third Lingshi financial crisis, the ancestors of the Jindan period who had retreated for decades broke out, only to find that all the wealth (spirit coupons) he held back then had become waste paper. Those who have started to switch to Lingshi coins for transactions.

As a result, the ancestor couldn't accept this kind of stimulation, and he died after yelling "Luyang dog thief" three times.

Except for this very outrageous extreme case, such as the case of retreating for decades, only to find that the chamber of commerce under his name has already gone bankrupt due to poor management. Juniors, when necessary, can interrupt their retreat.

However, the practice speed buff effect brought by the retreat will also quickly fade as the time the retreat is interrupted increases. If the retreat is interrupted for more than three days, the buff effect will basically disappear completely, so unless you encounter special It is a big matter, otherwise no one will interrupt the big brother's retreat casually, which is definitely a very offensive thing.

It's okay for the world-oriented monks who don't rely too much on retreat.

If it is a monk of the Transcendence School who is interrupted casually, he must find someone to settle the score.

It is precisely because most of the cultivators are obsessed with seclusion that Wuliangjian Party's rule of Zhongzhou appears so loose.

Although the Nascent Soul cultivators are very strong, they can neither massacre low-level cultivators casually, or they will go mad and die. It is impossible to reach the grassroots level of society, and only very extensive management methods can be used to rule.

Although the Wuliang Sword Sect currently has six great monks in the Nascent Soul stage, only Lin Jianxing, Cheng Shuying, and Mo Yunlan have not practiced in seclusion. Unless they don't want to improve their cultivation, it will be sooner or later to re-enter the state of seclusion. matter.

According to the news from Luside News, Cheng Shuying, who has completely lost the leading position in the reform of Zhongzhou's social security system, has already released rumors that he will start retreating. Although Lin Jianxing has no official announcement, he has not retreated for seven or eight consecutive years in order to manage the school. Wait until Zhongzhou Social Security After the system reform pilot starts, there is a high probability that he will also enter a closed state.

As the saying goes, the county magistrate is not as good as the current one.

The boss of one's own faction enters a state of retreat, which will definitely cause a major blow to one's own faction.

Not to mention the Wuliang Sword School, if Su Yuanfeng's breakthrough of the Golden Core bottleneck does not go well this time, and it takes four or five years, the negative impact on the Su family in Haiya City should not be underestimated.

Han Xinhe, the boss of the Han family in Haiya City, has already entered a state of retreat after returning from the Wuliangjian Sect. If Su Yuanfeng also enters a state of retreat, it will undoubtedly not be a good thing for the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, which is an ally of Su and Han.

But this kind of thing is not something that Yang Lu can influence.

As Su Cheng's plan to join the Wuliang Sword Sect went bankrupt, Su Yuanfeng, who had nothing to worry about anymore, decisively announced his retreat to hit the bottleneck of the Jindan Stage.

Relying on Su Yuanfeng's money-making ability, which is incomparable to the enemy, if there is no accident, there will be a second Golden Core Stage monk in the Haiya Department soon, but the specific breakthrough time depends on how many times Su Yuanfeng needs to try to break through before he can succeed.

As the head of the Haiya Sect and the owner of the Haiya City, Jiang Hua'an naturally needs to practice in retreat, otherwise he would not be able to cultivate to the second floor of the Golden Core with the aptitude of the middle-grade spiritual root. As for the location of his retreat, it is located in the headquarters of the Haiya Sect A hidden cave.

For Jindan stage monks like Jiang Hua'an, the retreat cycle is calculated in years, so before retreating, he had deliberately requested that if there were no major events, his quiet practice should not be disturbed.

The only people who are qualified to knock on the door to interrupt his retreat in the entire Haiya Sect are only a few trusted disciples he named in advance, and at most senior sect leaders like Su Yuanfeng and Han Xinhe, if others dare to interrupt his practice at will, they will definitely He was severely punished by the Haiya sect's rules.

(End of this chapter)