Journey to the head

The four sects of Cangzhou were still arranging and calculating on the brand new Cangzhou map, when True Lord Heming spoke up: "Now that the exchange of territories has been completed, and all sects have no objection, from now on, we will follow the boundaries drawn today, each of us will return to our own mountain gate, guard one side, and no more trouble is allowed."

Everyone responded in agreement. Heming Zhenjun said, "After the territory is established, the wealth confiscated from the Sikong family will be distributed to each faction."

Here they come! The spoils were divided up one by one, and the four factions became more and more excited.

However, the wealth of a small Yuanying sect is nothing compared to the Taiyi Paradise. Heming Zhenjun was too lazy to read out the long receipt and directly passed it down for everyone to read.

"List of Sikong family's wealth."

"First, all the treasures accumulated since the founding of the clan."

The Sikong family has been a Yuanying family for 1,500 years, but in fact, the family was established long before that. In short, the four and a half counties of the Sikong family were searched thoroughly, and all the treasures that could be found were turned out.

Of course, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. The Sikong family may have secret treasures outside the territory. Any clues can naturally be found, and any that cannot be found will be forgotten in unknown corners.

Perhaps, many years later, some adventurous boy or girl will make an unexpected discovery, creating an opportunity and writing a bizarre story.

The total amount of these treasures gathered together is an astronomical figure. Even if a cultivator with strong spiritual awareness were to calculate the long list, it would take at least ten days or half a month to complete.

However, when the four factions looked at the most valuable part with great anticipation, they were all disappointed.

The most precious treasures in the world that everyone is most concerned about can be divided into four categories.

Innate spiritual treasures (including innate spiritual flowers, spiritual herbs, spiritual medicines, spiritual minerals, spiritual pills, etc., created by heaven and earth).

The rare treasures of the time (such as Creation Fire Pill, Cold Dew Star Condensing Grass, Purple Sky Wind Spirit Flower, Earth Core Fire Lily, Sky Blue Fluorescent Ore, etc., whose grade is only lower than the innate spiritual treasures, created by heaven and earth).

Treasures for overcoming tribulations (such as Che Xin Bi, Yu Hu Bing Xin Lotus Seed, Purifying Soul and Dang Po Spirit Essence, Tian Xing Ling Long Squid Sac Sheath, etc., which can directly assist in overcoming tribulations, ward off disasters, and help cultivators overcome obstacles. At critical moments, they are more important than innate spiritual treasures. They are derived from both the heaven and earth and the cultivators' refining.)
Special treasures (such as various true talismans, treasure talismans, Lingming Xizhaoxiang, Cuifeng Pozhen Cone and other treasures that can play an important role in specific environments, usually refined by monks).

But the number of treasures in these four categories was far lower than expected!

Treasures of other kinds are naturally innumerable and piled up like mountains, such as elixirs, talismans, array weapons, spiritual flowers, herbs, and medicines, animal bones, skins, and blood, all kinds of spiritual minerals and materials, various raw materials and semi-finished products, as well as mountains of spiritual stones and crystals.

There are high-quality and top-grade treasure embryos. Even though the monks of the Sikong family do not often use them, they still have a considerable number of them stored, as well as more than a dozen secret treasures.

But these things are not urgently needed even by the Yunshan Sect, which has the weakest foundation.

As a result, the treasury, which was enough to make other sects in Cangzhou dizzy, was much less attractive to them.

This is because within a few decades, the Sikong family has upgraded from an ordinary Nascent Soul family with only one Nascent Soul and a dozen Golden Cores to a terrifying existence with one Yuanshen, six Nascent Souls, and forty-eight Golden Cores. Such a rapid improvement is due to all kinds of treasures!

Whether it was the treasures from the Corpse Clan, the Dragon Clan, or the Sikong family itself, most of them had been consumed in the process, and some of them had been used in the war, so there were very few left now.

In this case, the four sects will only take away a small part of the treasury, and the majority of the rest will be used for secondary rewards to reward other sects and independent cultivators in Cangzhou who have made contributions in the war.

Only Lin Le's eyes lit up when he saw an item on the list. He didn't expect that it would be among the few treasures of the Sikong family!

It seems that I have to pay attention to the replacement and get it in my hands later.

"Second, all the markets and merchants controlled by the Sikong family, as well as the shares of large markets such as Plum Blossom Square and major businesses, as well as the trade routes, business projects and other resources accumulated by the Sikong family over generations."

After the Sikong family achieved Nascent Soul, they ruled the southeast for 1,500 years and built many towns and cities. They also invested in and distributed dividends, invested in chambers of commerce, and opened shops in many large and medium-sized towns and cities in Cangzhou and neighboring prefectures, including Meihuafang. These are all valuable fixed assets.

For example, the 20% stake in Meihuafang owned by the Sikong family has now become spoils to be distributed among the four factions.

In addition, the Sikong family itself has a large-scale industry, with businesses spread across several states.

The main external businesses include: the cultivation and preparation of spiritual medicines, and the refining of weapons and armor-type treasures.

That’s right, the Sikong family is a large-scale grower of spiritual herbs and forger of precious artifacts.

However, unlike the Yunshan School, which mainly relies on technological improvements to increase the output of spiritual medicines and lower prices, and also eats the technological heritage of "Dianjinmen" to upgrade magical instruments, spiritual instruments, and magic weapons to seize a part of the market, the Sikong family specializes in planting, preparing, and selling spiritual medicines for body tempering, physique improvement, and external injury healing, as well as specializing in the refining of weapons and armor-type treasures.

The Sikong family has been working hard on these two categories, and their products have won recognition from a large number of physical and martial arts practitioners, and are well-known in several states around.

This is the usual practice of most large sects - playing to their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses, monopolizing a piece of territory. It is also the next development direction of the Yunshan Sect. In the three business categories of spiritual medicine cultivation, spiritual pill refining, and treasure weapon forging, one must not be greedy for big and comprehensive, but must find one's own track.

Now, after the demise of the Sikong family, the customer groups of the Sikong family's products have been liberated. Whoever communicates first and supplies goods of sufficient quality first will take over the Sikong family's market.

In Lin Le's opinion, the industrial resources of the Sikong family are much more attractive than simple treasures, and the Yunshan School will strive for more in this regard.

"Three, secret manuals and techniques. All the secret manuals and techniques collected from the Sikong family, as well as all the classics on the hundred arts of cultivating immortals, and other miscellaneous collections of books, blueprints, etc."

This is the fundamental inheritance of the Sikong family as a great family of Yuanshen martial artists!

The Sikong martial arts are all contained in it. It can be said that with these, as long as there is sufficient supply of materials, it is possible to replicate a Sikong family!

Of course, in addition to martial arts techniques, there are other collected books, which are not inferior to Jichuan Xuanjun's collection in some aspects.

However, these martial arts manuals do not need to be distributed. Just copy them into four copies, with each of the four sects in Cangzhou getting one.

The time has come for the expansion, screening and optimization of "The Seven-Level Mysterious Scripture of Yunshan".

"Fourth, the rest of the spoils from the destruction of the remnants of Sikong."

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After reading the long receipt, the reward distribution officially began.

"As I just said, in order to compensate for the loss of Qinglian Zhenzong's relocation of the mountain gate territory, we will share more in this regard." Heming Zhenjun said, "So generally speaking, all the wealth will be distributed according to the standard of 30% each to Yunshan Zhenzong and Qinglian Zhenzong, and 20% each to Xuanwei Sect and Lingshou Sect. As for the details and subsequent secondary distribution, you can discuss it yourselves."

True Lord Heming set the tone, and the negotiations among the four factions went very smoothly.

Finally, the four sects unanimously agreed to take out most of the treasures and distribute them to the various sects and independent cultivators in Cangzhou who had made contributions to replenish Cangzhou's vitality. The four sects only took a very small number of treasures. As for commercial resources and martial arts manuals, the four sects were not so generous.

In the end, the wealth obtained by Yunshan Sect in this round of rewards included:
One top-grade spiritual treasure embryo, three top-grade magic weapon embryos, and two defensive secret treasures (Tiger Head Swallowing Power Armor and Mountain Shield).

And the special treasure that Lin Le always pays attention to - the Yin-Yang Hammer with Silver Edge and Golden Bone! The Yunshan Sect's weapon refining industry is inseparable from the legacy of the "Dianjinmen", and the Dianjinmen has three major inherited treasures.

The first is the method of refining weapons, "The Magic Method of Refining Gold". The second is "The True Mirror of Treasures" consisting of 108 treasure drawings. The third is this special treasure, the Yin-Yang Hammer with Silver Edges and Golden Bones.

This is a rare treasure that can significantly increase the success rate of refining equipment!
Jichuan Xuanjun had the first two classics in his collection, but the Yin-Yang Hammer was lost. He thought he would never see this hammer again, but he didn't expect it to be in Sikong's house!

The Sikong family is good at casting weapons and armor, and this precious hammer should have made a significant contribution.

Now that they have obtained the treasure hammer, the three major inheritances of the Dianjin Sect are all complete. With the Sikong family's weapon refining essentials, the Yunshan School's weapon refining business will surely continue to move forward. The Tao brothers and their weapon refining hall will be busy.

In addition, he received 6,000 spirit crystals and 20 spirit marrows.

It's not that the Sikong family has no money, but most of the money in the Sikong family is ordinary spirit stones. Spirit crystals are originally a scarce material with low production and extremely fast consumption. There are not many stocks, and they have to be shared by the four factions, so there are not many. Spiritual marrow is an even more precious strategic material.

Then, there are more than 15% of the shares of Meihuafang City, and half of the shops in Meihuafang that originally belonged to the Sikong family. In addition, there are half of the Sikong family's business routes, business projects and other market resources.

In order to obtain these, Lin Le gave up the other spoils in the second item.

In this way, Yunshan Sect owns 20% of the shares of Meihuafang, as well as many shops in the five districts and eleven cities of Meihuafang. In Lin Le's planning, Meihuafang will be incorporated into the overall operation and development of the Chongming Alliance market cluster, becoming another growth pole for operating income.

At the same time, Yunshan Sect will also go all out to take over the market opened up by the Sikong family. It's not that Lin Le doesn't want more, but with the current production scale of Yunshan Sect, it's hard to take up half of it, so he can only do his best.

Afterwards, the Yunshan Sect obtained a copy of the Sikong family's martial arts manual and gave up other spoils in exchange for two Chibao Thunder Boats!

In the final battle, the Sikong family dispatched five thunder boats, two of which were destroyed. The remaining three suffered varying degrees of damage and fled into Xiyi Mountain, and finally surrendered to Taiyi Paradise.

Xuanwei Sect and Qinglian Zhenzong both have their own champion-class airships, and Lingshou Sect has large combat spirit beasts. The Chibao Thunder Boat is of little use to them, so they were happy to give it to Yunshan.

The Yunshan School first obtained the blueprints of the command-class airship "Huaiyuan Kangji Fighting Ship" sent by the Xuanwei School, and now it has obtained the blueprints of the "Chibao Thunder Boat" from the classics, as well as other airship blueprints of the Sikong family, and these two actual Chibao Thunder Boats. The airship manufacturing technology is bound to make great progress.

Perhaps after a long period of digestion and disassembly, the Yunshan School will be able to design its own "Commander-class" or "Champion-class" airship.

Stimulated by the high emotions, the night passed quickly. Soon the bright moon sank and the morning light appeared in the sky.

The distribution of rewards in Taiyi Paradise was almost finished at this point. Everyone was quite satisfied, but Lin Le always felt something was strange.

Aren’t these the only rewards of Taiyi Paradise?

Indeed, it is logical for Taiyi Paradise to take out all the gains from the destruction of the Sikong family as rewards.

Because the final victory of this battle, whether it was the annihilation of the Sikong family, the killing of Ji Shu, Yue Yuanjun and Qiu Weng, was all achieved by Taiyi Paradise. Now all the spoils of war were actually mostly obtained by Taiyi Paradise. Taiyi Paradise took all of these out for reward, which was already a very generous reward.

However, it does not match Lin Le’s expectations for Taiyi Paradise!

You should know that the last time, Taiyi Paradise rewarded Lu Qian with one thousand spiritual marrows alone, and even a spiritual core, not to mention those innate spiritual pills and other treasures!
But this time, Taiyi Paradise did not pay any rewards on its own.

This... makes sense, but isn't it?

The Taiyi Paradise in the master's mind should be extremely generous!

At this moment, under the gaze of True Lord Heming and True Lord Wuzhuo, Lord Miaomiao Xuan turned around and nodded to Lin Le.

"Just now, the two True Lords represented Taiyi Paradise to reward the various sects. Now, it is also the turn of my Xuanwei Sect to thank the various sects for their efforts."

"Although I behaved inappropriately and lost the Immortal Scroll, this battle was originally convened by my faction to gather all the factions. When I conquered the Sikong family, I had already promised to reward them according to their merits after the war."

"Especially on the battlefield, your leader Lu Qian was the first to come to the rescue and gradually turned the tide of the battle. He also saved my life several times during that time. I should repay him greatly."

"I have drawn up a list. Take a look. Are you satisfied with it?"

Lin Le was stunned for a moment and took the list.

"Six mature innate spiritual herbs."

"Seedlings of the innate spiritual herb 'Dengxianteng', and methods of cultivation and division."

"Six drops of soul-cleansing and spirit-refreshing essence."

"Four Creation Fire Pills."

"A copy of the Nascent Soul-level unique elixir recipe (four kinds of elixirs)."

"Methods for refining two secret treasures."

"Ten thousand spirit crystals."

What a great gift!
Lin Le was surprised and delighted, and leaned over to thank him, but just as he was about to kneel down, he was supported by Miaomiao Xuanjun.

He forced a smile and said, "This is to repay Lu Qian for saving me. Why should I thank him? I have said many times before that Lu Qian is the pillar of Cangzhou. It is true... Now that Yunshan Sect is offering the Immortal Scroll, we should get closer to him in the future."

After a few more words, Heming Zhenjun suddenly said, "Okay, for the remaining matters, you can go back and discuss them among yourselves. Everyone, please leave. Lin Le, please stay for a while. I have something to tell you."

Then everyone bowed again to thank Taiyi Paradise for the reward and left the hall one by one.

Lin Le bowed respectfully: "I wonder what you want me to do?"

Heming Zhenjun smiled slightly and said, "I don't have any orders, but there is still one benefit."

He stretched out his hand and drew a line in the air, and a crack opened up.

The bright and precious light flowed out, and the spiritual inspiration spread throughout the hall.

Lin Le's eyes widened.

"The treasures of Ji Shu and the two evil dragons will all be given to your Yunshan Sect." (End of this chapter)