Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 1112 The Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters
After dealing with these messy matters, Yang Zhengshan went to Hengshan Sect and Taoyuan Mountain to exchange ideas with Qihe Zhenjun and Zhongli Yue, mainly to discuss trade between the two sides.

Everything else can be stopped, but trade with these two major powers cannot be stopped. In fact, it must be expanded to earn even greater profits.

Over the years, the Yokoyama sect has come to value the goods provided by the Yang family more and more.

The war in the Southern Region continues and is showing signs of escalating. The Hengshan Sect has even sent its disciples to participate in the conflict. Moreover, the struggle for power has only just begun and has not yet reached its most intense and brutal stage. The Hengshan Sect will still need more resources in the future.

Although the supplies provided by the Yang family were not numerous, they were of excellent quality, which is why the Hengshan Sect increasingly valued its trade relations with the Yang family.

After Yang Zhengshan spoke with Qihe Zhenjun, Qihe Zhenjun offered the Yang family another order, this time for more categories and in larger quantities.

This order is enough to keep Lingyuan Land busy for more than a decade.

As for Taoyuan Mountain, the volume of trade has not increased, and may even have decreased.

Inside the teahouse on Mount Taoyuan.

Zhong Liyue poured Yang Zhengshan a cup of tea and said with a somewhat helpless expression, "The situation in the Wanhua Mountains and the Western Regions is becoming increasingly chaotic, making it more and more difficult for our Wanbaohang to do business."

"It's not that I'm unwilling to do business with Brother Yang, it's just that Wanbaohang can't sell so many goods right now!"

Wanbaohang has a total of seven merchant guilds in the Wanhua Mountains and the Western Regions, including Zhenyang Immortal City, Qinglin Immortal City, Qingli Immortal City, Jiujiang Immortal City, Cuihai Island, Yinhuai Mountain, and Taoyuan Mountain.

Zhenyang Immortal City has changed hands several times and is now in decline. Although the Sun Giant Mountain still holds a wealth of resources, few people are willing to stay in Zhenyang Immortal City to explore for them. Everyone is terrified by the Impermanent Ghost Sect and the Myriad Flower Demon Court.

The two major forces have been locked in a fierce struggle, resulting in countless innocent people being implicated. As a result, the Sun Giant Mountain has become sparsely populated, and the commerce of Zhenyang Immortal City has become increasingly depressed. Wanbaohang's business in Zhenyang Immortal City has also become more and more difficult.

The Azure Scale Immortal City is in a better position. It is located in the middle of the Wanhua Mountain Range and has always belonged to the Wanhua Demon Court. However, the Wanhua Demon Court has been in turmoil for the past few decades. Although the Azure Scale Immortal City has not been destroyed, its business environment has been greatly affected.

Wanbaohang in Qingli Immortal City was established just a few decades ago, when Baiyun Immortal City still existed. As the largest and most prosperous gathering place for immortal cultivators in the western part of the Yunxiao Mountains, it was only natural for Wanbaohang to set up a business in Qingli Immortal City.

However, due to the attack on the Cloud Mountain Range by the Impermanent Ghost Sect, Qingli Immortal City was also greatly affected. Even Yun Fan and Yun Bi defected to the Yang family, not to mention others.

Although the Impermanent Ghost Sect ultimately failed to conquer Qingli Immortal City, Wanbaohang's business there still suffered.

Jiujiang Immortal City is located in the southern part of the Wanhua Mountains. Its situation is similar to that of Zhenyang Immortal City. In just a few decades, it has changed hands several times, but Jiujiang Immortal City has become extremely desolate.

Emerald Island is located in the Dark Sea, which is the territory of the Dark Sea Mystic Palace. Yin Huai Mountain is in the Southern Frontier, which is near the Yellow Springs Palace. Both of these places are commercial centers established with the help of powerful forces.

Emerald Island is based on the Mysterious Palace of the Dark Sea, while Yinhuai Mountain is based on the former Palace of the Underworld.

Although both places are relatively peaceful at present, the poor economic climate has caused Wanbaohang's business to plummet.

Therefore, among the merchants currently under Zhongli Yue's jurisdiction, the best one is Wanbaohang located at the foot of Taoyuan Mountain.

With him personally overseeing the situation, no force from any side would bother to join in the fun. In addition, with unrest in various places, many cultivators regarded the settlement at the foot of Peach Abyss Mountain as a safe haven.

The settlement at the foot of Taoyuan Mountain is becoming more and more lively, and Wanbaohang's business here is getting better and better. However, Taoyuan Mountain alone cannot make up for the losses of the other six Wanbaohang businesses.

"Oh, that's alright. We'll sell as much as we can. Also, we need a lot of low-level resources. I hope Brother Zhongli can provide some!" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile.

“This is easy. Fellow Daoist Yang, just go down and purchase whatever you need,” Zhongli Yue said with a smile.

"By the way, if Brother Yang wants to sell more goods, you can go to Wanbao Immortal City. The business environment there is far superior to that of Taoyuan Mountain!" he reminded him.

Yang Zhengshan nodded, "I have long admired Wanbao Immortal City and recently I have been thinking of going there to take a look."

He had originally planned to go to Wanbao Immortal City after leaving Taoyuan Mountain, and Zhongli Yue's physique was a perfect fit for his itinerary.

“Hehe, it just so happens that Xia Yi is in Wanbao Immortal City. Brother Yang, you can meet Xia Yi there!” Zhongli Yue said.

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, "I will definitely visit Fellow Daoist Xiayi then!"

After chatting casually for a while, Yang Zhengshan took his leave.

After leaving Peach Abyss Mountain, he flew all the way to Myriad Treasures Immortal City.

There are no dynasties or kingdoms in the Central Region, only sects and aristocratic families. Of course, there are also ordinary people in the Central Region, all of whom belong to sects and aristocratic families.

Major sects, minor sects, immortal clans, aristocratic families, and ordinary families—these layers pressed down one after another, forming a densely packed ruling environment in the Wanhua Central Region.

In fact, the lives of ordinary people in the Central Region are quite secure. If they just want to be fed and clothed, they can easily achieve that.

Few immortal cultivators go back to oppress ordinary people, and very few immortal cultivators actively slaughter ordinary people.

However, in the Central Region, both the Immortal Path and the Martial Path are prevalent. Few people are willing to be ordinary people for their entire lives. Everyone wants to have great strength, and everyone envies the immortal cultivators who fly around. Since they do not have spiritual apertures and cannot become immortal cultivators, they choose to become martial artists.

The concentration of spiritual energy in the Central Region is relatively high, which makes it not difficult for ordinary people to become martial artists.

With a decent cultivation technique, almost everyone can reach the Innate Realm.

Therefore, the Central Region is a place where those born with innate abilities are as bad as dogs, and golden bodies are everywhere. This is actually very similar to the Spirit Source Land, where the concentration of spiritual energy is high and resources are abundant. This makes it much easier to become an innate martial artist and gives many people the opportunity to become a martial artist.

However, Divine Soul Realm warriors are still relatively rare. Although Divine Soul Realm warriors are not considered strong in the Central Region, they are still considered experts, and they can still bully Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Wanbao Immortal City is located in the western part of Wanhua Central Region, that is, in the east of Wanhua Mountain Range and in the north of Hengshan Mountain Range. This place is a vast plain.

Logically speaking, plains are areas with sparse earth veins and scarce spiritual veins, but the Wanshui Wilderness, where Wanbao Immortal City is located, is a vast blessed land.

Although the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters does not have high-grade spiritual veins, it has a large number of rivers, all of which originate from the Wanhua Mountain Range and the Hengshan Mountain Range. Every drop of water in these rivers contains spiritual energy.

Although these river waters cannot compare to the spiritual spring water gushing from the spiritual veins, every piece of land in the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters can be considered a spiritual field under the irrigation of these river waters.

Therefore, the concentration of spiritual energy in the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters is higher than that in the Wanhua Mountains and Hengshan Mountains.

In short, although the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters does not have many high-grade spiritual veins, its average spiritual energy concentration is very high.

This has resulted in the situation where the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters is filled with immortal cultivation forces, spiritual fields, and immortal cultivation families.

It can be said that you can grow spirit rice and spirit fruit trees by simply cultivating a piece of land here.

The entire Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters spans tens of thousands of miles, roughly the size of the Spirit Source Land, but boasts a population of one billion. The Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters is arguably the most densely populated, commercially prosperous, and cultivator-heavy region in the entire Wanhua Domain.

Moreover, the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters is a place where hidden talents reside, with many immortal cultivation families having been passed down for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

Many seemingly unremarkable immortal cultivation families may have had Golden Core ancestors in their ancestors, and many seemingly ordinary immortal cultivation families may have enshrined spiritual artifacts passed down from their ancestors.

Even many overlooked forces may be hiding a Golden Core cultivator.

Yang Zhengshan concealed his aura and slowly flew over towns and villages, encountering countless other cultivators also flying in the air.

This made him marvel at how many immortal cultivators there were in this place.

However, there are also many disputes here.

He had only been in the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters for a short time when he encountered a large-scale brawl.

Hundreds of cultivators and martial artists were engaged in a fierce battle above a river, including four Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Yang Zhengshan simply stopped and stood on the cloud, looking down at the battlefield below.

This appears to be a fight between two powerful families. One side has three Foundation Establishment cultivators, while the other side only has one. However, this one possesses the cultivation of a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator, though his lifespan is running out.

Three Foundation Establishment cultivators surrounded and attacked the old man who was at the peak of Foundation Establishment. The old man was very strong, but he was no match for the three Foundation Establishment cultivators. Instead, he was completely suppressed by the three Foundation Establishment cultivators.

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On the Nanshui River.

Pei Lun glared angrily at Shi Yuansheng in front of him, "You brat, are you really going to show no mercy at all!"

The feud between the Pei and Shi families has lasted for a thousand years. The Pei family was once a powerful force in this vast land, but in the last thousand years, the Pei family has been declining and has now fallen to the point where there is no one to carry on the family line.

A thousand years ago, there was no Shi family here. At that time, the ancestor of the Shi family was just a close follower of a member of the Pei family.

Later, with the support of the Pei family, the Shi family established its own clan, but at that time, the Shi family was merely an appendage of the Pei family.

Later, the Shi family grew stronger and stronger, while the Pei family declined more and more. Gradually, the two families became equal in status. However, due to the friendship left by their ancestors, the two families have always maintained a close relationship and can be considered an alliance.

More than two hundred years later, the Pei family's decline could no longer be stopped, which led the Shi family to have a different idea: to annex the Pei family and replace it.

Two families, one on the east bank of the river and the other on the west bank, truly exemplify the saying, "Thirty years on the east bank, thirty years on the west bank."

No, to be precise, it's a matter of the river flowing east and west for a thousand years.

For the past thousand years, this place belonged to the Pei family of Hedong. In the next thousand years, barring any unforeseen circumstances, this place will belong to the Shi family of Hexi.

Fate is truly unpredictable.

“Senior Pei, it’s not that I’m being unreasonable, but rather that you don’t know your place!” Shi Yuansheng said calmly.

"You—" Pei Lun was furious and about to say something when he was interrupted by Shi Yuansheng's attack.

"There are some things I don't want to say, but there are some things that you shouldn't ignore, senior! For so many years, your Pei family has been high and mighty. Do you still think that my Shi family is an appendage of your Pei family?" Shi Yuansheng's tone turned cold.

Arrogance stems from tradition. The Pei family's arrogance comes from its thousand-year history, especially when dealing with the Shi family. The Pei family displays this arrogance to the fullest extent because the Shi family's ancestor was once a follower of the Pei family.

In the past, the Shi family could tolerate the Pei family's arrogance, after all, the Shi family owed the Pei family a lot in the past. But now the Shi family no longer owes the Pei family anything, and most importantly, the Shi family has become stronger than the Pei family.

Does the Shi family still intend to respect the Pei family as their master?

Pei Lun looked at him coldly, "You frog in a well, do you think you can suppress my Pei family like this? Hmph, my Pei family has a thousand-year history, you are no match for us!"

Clearly, Shi Yuansheng's accusations were not fabricated, and Pei Lun harbored an unwarranted arrogance.

Yang Zhengshan listened to their conversation from the cloud, and also heard other curses and rebukes, so he roughly understood the origins of the two families.

He wouldn't judge who was right or wrong, or rather, this couldn't be measured by simple right or wrong.

The rise of the Shi family will inevitably threaten the Pei family, and the Pei family will inevitably suppress the Shi family in order to protect its family business.

The conflict between the two sides is not about right or wrong, but about strength and weakness.

On the battlefield, Pei Lun suddenly took out a blue bamboo staff. The staff was four feet long, with eight sections. The end was flat, and the handle at the head was carved with a dragon head. No, the entire staff was a dragon, but the dragon head was somewhat flat, making it look like it was carved separately.

At first, Yang Zhengshan didn't notice the bamboo cane, but when Pei Lun swung the bamboo cane at Shi Yuansheng, his eyes suddenly narrowed.

The bamboo staff unleashed a beam of green light, which seemed to contain some kind of Dao intent. When the Dao intent manifested and landed on Shi Yuansheng, Shi Yuansheng trembled all over and his face showed a look of fear. Immediately afterward, bamboo shoots suddenly sprouted from his body.

The bamboo shoots grew rapidly, crowding together in the blink of an eye, but they continued to grow. Soon, Shi Yuansheng was submerged by a clump of green bamboo, forming a green sphere more than three zhang long.

Upon seeing this scene, Yang Zhengshan's expression suddenly turned serious.

"what is this?"

"It's neither a magic weapon nor a spiritual artifact; it's more like some kind of supernatural power!"

"But how could a Foundation Establishment cultivator possess such a divine ability? No, Foundation Establishment cultivators can possess divine abilities, but they simply cannot unleash their full power."

"The person below definitely doesn't have any supernatural powers; he's just borrowing the power of that bamboo staff!"

"But how could a bamboo staff possess such power? Is it devouring life force?"

He stared blankly at the bamboo staff in Pei Lun's hand. At this moment, the bamboo staff was emitting a soft blue glow, as if it were full of vitality, and it did not look like a broken bamboo at all.

"It's not that life force is devoured, it's that life force is seized. It's just that that person didn't master such a divine power, so he couldn't get life force to repair himself! In fact, it seems that he even lost some life force!"

"Lost his vitality? No, he didn't lose his vitality, but rather shortened his lifespan!"

(End of this chapter)