nyslfriends Chapter 922 5 Line Coins
Chapter 922 5 Line Coins
Chapter 922 Five Elements Coin
"Daoyou, do you need a carpool?"
After Xiao Yuli stepped out of the teleportation array of Beiyuan City, she met a kind-faced cultivator who asked her.
What is carpooling?
Xiao Yuli looked confused. Seeing her expression, the monk immediately pointed to the bulletin board next to her.
[The ferry to the main city runs once every hour, and one ticket costs ten Five Elements coins.]
"The last round of ferry boats has just been dispatched. If you are in a hurry to go to the main city, you can consider our ox carts. They have a large space and are fast. There are only three vacancies. We will dispatch as soon as everyone is present..."
After listening to the long speech of the monk next to him, Xiao Yuli finally understood what carpooling was.
With her status as a Jindan cultivator, she should have flown directly over, but in an unfamiliar environment, and also because she came here mainly to inquire about an encounter with Emperor Chen Qing, so she nodded.
"If I want to hire a car, what's the price?"
But Xiao Yuli had no intention of following the other casual cultivators to squeeze into the ox cart. Her question also made the cultivator who was soliciting customers look happy, and he wondered which immortal family this was a big customer from.
"My name is Niu Jingfa. Our oxcart has twelve seats in total. The price is the same as the official ferry boat, but it delivers you to your door. If you want to charter a car, I will give you a discount and just round up the price to a hundred Five Elements coins."
Niu Jingfa spoke with a generous look on his face. Their Niu family was a recently rising immortal cultivation family. They made their fortune when the East Wild Plateau was being developed. They specialized in herding cattle and sheep for the Five Elements Sect and accumulated the first batch of spirit stones.
The ancestor of the Niu family discovered a business opportunity while riding on a teleportation array and waiting for a ferry boat. After establishing connections with the Five Elements Sect, he filled the gaps between the ferry boats and led the family members to make a lot of money.
"What is the Five Elements Coin?" Xiao Yuli asked with confusion after hearing this.
"Daoyou are from the outside world, right? This Five Elements Coin is a kind of currency issued by the Five Elements Sect in the major immortal cities in the Eastern Wilderness. Every 100 Five Elements Coins can be exchanged for a low-grade spirit stone at the Five Elements Sect's Spirit Stone Shop. Since we are a small business, we basically use Five Elements Coins to settle accounts. If Daoyou doesn't have it, just give me a low-grade spirit stone."
As soon as Niu Jingfa heard Xiao Yuli's question, he knew that she was not a cultivator from the Eastern Wilderness. While speaking, he took out a coin with a round outer surface and a square inner surface from his storage bag. The coin was engraved with an intricate five-element pattern. The edge was smooth and hard, yet it was also gleaming with a layer of spiritual light.
"Exchange me one hundred coins."
Xiao Yuli took out two low-grade spirit stones, one for the cost of chartering a car, and the other for exchange.
Niu Jingfa immediately said "OK", then took out a string of Five Elements coins tied with a rope and handed it directly to Xiao Yuli: "Please wait a moment, sir. The parking fee here is quite expensive. I will dispatch your special car right away."
After Niu Jingfa finished speaking, he was about to leave, and Xiao Yuli instinctively wanted to stop him.
After all, according to the customs of the Tianhe Realm, anyone who says this is basically a liar, and he will definitely take the spirit stones and run away.
But when I thought that they were just two low-grade spirit stones, I didn't care.
However, to her surprise, a moment later, Niu Jingfa really came back with an empty six-wheeled ox cart, but the person riding the ox was a girl who looked about thirteen or fourteen years old with two pigtails.
"Guest, this is my daughter Niu Manfeng. She was admitted to the Changsheng Academy last year. It's summer vacation now, so she came here to earn some tuition..."
After Niu Jingfa’s introduction, Xiao Yuli nodded and got on the ox cart.
As Niu Manfeng waved the whip in her hand, the ox cart began to move towards the main urban area.
Guan Xiaolong, who was in charge of the teleportation array, saw Xiao Yuli leaving and immediately picked up his Tongtianyi to report the news.
Although Xiao Yuli was hiding her identity, when riding on the teleportation array, cultivators at different levels required different numbers of spirit stones, so as soon as she appeared, Guan Xiaolong knew that she was a Jindan cultivator.
Although the Five Elements Sect adheres to the principle that everyone who comes is a guest and will not detain anyone for questioning, it still pays attention to high-level cultivators.
After all, if a Jindan cultivator goes crazy, he can cause huge damage in Beiyuan City.
After Song Huangda, who was in charge of the China Unicom project, received the news from Guan Xiaolong, he immediately reported it to E Yun.
"See where this fellow Taoist lives, and then send him a visiting card and tell him about the rules in the Eastern Wasteland."
Facing an unfamiliar Jindan cultivator, E Yun was definitely on high alert, and he planned to meet him in person.
"Yes."
After receiving the instructions, Song Huangda left to handle this matter.
Xiao Yuli, who was still on the ox cart, naturally didn't know that she had been targeted by the Five Elements Sect before she even reached the main city.
She sat by the window with the best view, observing the independent small courtyards along the way and more tall buildings rising from the ground, while playing with the Five Elements Coin in her palm.
There are sects in the Tianhe Realm that have thought of coming up with a payment unit that is smaller than the lower-grade spirit stones. For example, during the period of the Eastern Land Imperial Court, there was a complete set of Human Emperor Coins, which even relied on power to directly replace spirit stones.
At that time, even the major holy places were forced to use the Human Emperor Coin.
However, where there are people, there is corruption. The Eastern Land Imperial Court took advantage of the authority of the Human Emperor and massively over-issued Human Emperor coins to make money, resulting in that in the later period of the Imperial Court, cultivators from top to bottom would rather barter than use Human Emperor coins for settlement.
After the Imperial Court disappeared, some holy places also issued similar currencies in their own territories. However, because spiritual stones can be used directly by cultivators, they do have value, but these issued currencies need to be based on the authority of the holy places.
Moreover, even when the Emperor of the Eastern Land was in power, there were people who were not afraid of death and minted coins privately, let alone the Holy Land.
Everything is vulnerable to those who are interested. Even if the currency is engraved with the holy land's exclusive anti-counterfeiting restrictions, under the temptation of huge profits, there will be people in the holy land who will sell these restrictions, or even have them cracked and studied by formation masters, refiners, etc. In this way, counterfeit currency will spread on a large scale.
The Holy Land must maintain its own currency, and even these counterfeit coins must be exchanged.
Even though they killed one person after another, the independent cultivators and robber cultivators were people who lived without paying attention to their belts, and soon a new group of people would start to mint coins privately.
Moreover, many of them would simply run away from the holy land after making a fortune.
After many times, the Holy Land also found that without the power of the Eastern Land Imperial Court to suppress the entire East Continent, it would be more costly to develop this kind of currency, so it quickly gave up on it.
Xiao Yuli, the Holy Maiden of Yiyuan Taoist Palace, heard these words from the Great Elder Wuming.
So when she saw that the Five Elements Sect dared to issue new currency, she felt a little unbelievable.
The Five Elements Sect is indeed a country sect. It must have been something the higher-ups came up with on the spur of the moment. After a while, it will be overwhelmed by the overwhelming amount of counterfeit money.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yuli picked up a Five Elements Coin. As a disciple of Yiyuan Taoist Palace, her weapon refining skills were also top-notch, and she soon discovered the extraordinary nature of this Five Elements Coin.
It is made of several different mineral metals, and even contains broken spirit stones.
She tried to absorb the Five Elements Coin like a spirit stone, and soon, a wisp of spiritual energy overflowed and was taken into her body for refining.
After the spiritual energy in the Five Elements Coin was absorbed, the spiritual light on the surface disappeared and cracks appeared.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Yuli was shocked.
Because she discovered that the unsolvable problems of the holy lands of all generations seemed to have been solved by the Five Elements Sect.
The amount of spiritual energy contained in this Five Elements Coin is exactly equivalent to one percent of a low-grade spirit stone.
Is this a coincidence, or does every Five Elements Coin contain so much spiritual energy?
With doubts, Xiao Yuli picked up the ten Five Elements Coins again and absorbed them all. As expected, he found that the amount of spiritual energy in each Five Elements Coin was exactly the same, without any difference.
How is it achieved with such precision?
Xiao Yuli was puzzled. She knew that the Five Elements Coins were mixed with broken spirit stones. When these broken spirit stones were dug out from the spirit stone mine, the spiritual energy inside would soon dissipate because the surface seal had been broken. Although this process could be prevented by sealing, only a Foundation Establishment cultivator could do this.
To divide these broken spirit stones so evenly, perfectly and accurately and integrate them into the minted Five Elements Coins, at least a third-rank weapon refiner would be needed.
According to Xiao Yuli's understanding, the difficulty of refining a small Five Elements Coin is equivalent to that of a third-level magic weapon.
With such effort and time, one can directly refine a third-level magic weapon. Even the cost of doing so would be worth tens of thousands of spirit stones.
Why waste your skills like this!
Xiao Yuli was confused and threw the Five Elements Coins in her hand, which had lost their spiritual energy and cracked, out of the car window.
"If you collect 100 Five Elements Residual Coins, you can go to the Five Elements Sect's Spirit Stone Shop and exchange them for one Five Elements Coin."
Niu Manfeng, who was driving the ox cart in front, saw her wasteful behavior and couldn't help but remind her.
"I see. This is my first time in Beiyuan City, so I don't know."
After listening to this, Xiao Yuli nodded slightly, and then asked why the Five Elements Sect collected the discarded Five Elements coins.
"The materials of these Five Elements coins are all special alloys researched by Chen Xianzun. After the Five Elements Sect takes them back, they can be melted and cast into new coins. All they need to do is to re-integrate the Broken Spirit Stones into them."
After listening to Niu Manfeng's explanation, Xiao Yuli was even more puzzled: "Is it easy to cast this Five Elements Coin?"
"I don't know about this, but I heard from my teacher that in the Huozhen Immortal City in the southern part of the East Wilderness, there is a factory that specializes in casting Five Elements Coins. Only Five Elements Sect refiners with clean backgrounds can enter the factory. There are many super-large equipment and magic tools refined by Chen Xianzun, which are specially used for casting Five Elements Coins."
Under Chen Mobai's policy, students from various universities in the Eastern Wilderness hold a formation master competition every year, so communication is very frequent. It is also for this reason that Niu Manfeng was able to know the situation in Huozhen Immortal City.
At the Huozhen Academy, since the person in charge is Tan Rong, a disciple of Sheng Zhaoxi, they are the most outstanding in the training of weapon refiners.
After Chen Mobai developed the Five Elements Coin, he visited various university palaces. Considering that she had the most weapon refiners there, he built a coin-making factory there.
Of course, coin minting is a big deal after all, so he sent his trusted Yu Lian to supervise the factory.
For the Tianhe Realm, the coin-minting technology requires the level of a third-rank weapon refiner, but for the Immortal Gate, it is just a matter of an assembly line and equipment and machines.
However, the Five Elements Coin is still a bit special, especially the feature that requires the fusion of broken spirit stones and metal coins, so the equipment needs to be customized according to this requirement.
If it were in the past, Chen Mobai would naturally have some concerns, but now his identity is different.
He directly called Zhou Tiangong of Tiangong Equipment Factory. The latter did not ask the reason, but showed him the design drawings the next day. After Chen Mobai revised several versions and finalized them, the batch of equipment was delivered in half a month.
Chen Mobai was very grateful for this, and then he used the quota of the Wuqi Taoist Academy to help Zhou Tiangong reserve a pill of the Golden Liquid Jade Pill from this batch of the Xianwu Palace.
After the mint is established in Huozhenxian City, if the machinery and equipment are running at full capacity, hundreds of millions of Five Elements Coins will be minted in a month.
However, considering the market acceptance, Chen Mobai only issued 1 billion Five Elements Coins for the time being. They were first distributed as monthly payments to the sect disciples, and then they set an example in consumption in the major immortal cities, and gradually promoted it to the entire Eastern Wilderness in recent years.
With the endorsement of the Five Elements Sect, and the fact that these Five Elements coins also possess spiritual energy and can be used for cultivation, these Five Elements coins were easily accepted by the cultivators in the Eastern Wilderness.
It’s not that no one wants to mint counterfeit coins, but the advanced coin-minting technology directly blocks their ideas.
For a weapon refiner of this level, he can just take any order and have enough resources to practice for years. Why would he risk offending the Five Elements Sect by doing this?
The emergence of the Five Elements Coin directly stimulated the commercial development of the entire Eastern Wilderness.
In the past, many things were limited by the payment method and could only be traded in bulk. If a casual cultivator wanted to go to a pharmacy to buy some elixirs, he could only buy enough for one spiritual stone. This was too unfriendly for cultivators with low cultivation and who could only earn a few spiritual stones a year. Because many shops did not accept gold.
And now the emergence of the Five Elements Coin gives them more choices.
Originally, some shops were worried that the Five Elements Coin would cause their large-scale transactions to disappear, and the scattered transactions of independent cultivators would not be able to support their high store rents in the Immortal City.
But soon, they discovered that with the Five Elements Coin, the market burst into surprisingly vibrant vitality.
The shops that were previously deserted now have hundreds of times more customers. Although the profits are smaller, they earn more after selling more products at a lower profit margin. Moreover, with more customers using their products, some shops with good reputations gradually surpass unscrupulous merchants and stand out. The inventory that was a headache before was also sold out.
When the lower-level market economy becomes active, it also drives the upper level. After the goods are sold, they naturally need to be replenished. The forces behind these stores will then purchase more raw materials in large quantities. Some smart families and sects even use the teleportation array to go directly to the territories outside the Eastern Wilderness to compare prices and purchase cheaper resources.
Xiao Yuli sat on the ox cart, looking at the people coming and going on both sides of the street and the major shops crowded with people shopping, and her heart was deeply touched.
In the more than two years since she left the Five Emperors Mountain, she has traveled all over the East, but even in the most prosperous Taixu Fairy City, she could not see such a lively scene.
"Senior, we are about to enter the main city. If you are a cultivator from another region, you need to report to the Five Elements Sect and get a visa for foreigners before you can shop at the major stores and check in."
Niu Manfeng's words reached Xiao Yuli's ears, but she didn't understand this new term. Only after the former's explanation did she realize that the so-called visa form was equivalent to a temporary Beiyuan City resident registration.
Without this, she would be considered an illegal resident and regular stores would not dare to sell anything to her.
It doesn’t matter if it’s street goods, the stall owners won’t pay attention to that.
"But this visa form cannot be used in the lottery..."
What is lottery?
Xiao Yuli felt like a country boy coming to the city. Beiyuan City was full of new and strange things that she didn't understand.
"The lottery is for the qualification to purchase the three foundation-building treasures of Danxia Pavilion. My father just got a loan and bought a house in the suburbs you teleported from, just for the lottery. He said he would buy me a set of three foundation-building treasures as a guarantee. But I will definitely join the genius of the Five Elements Sect in the future. When the time comes, as long as I perform well, the sect will give me a set..."
Niu Manfeng answered every question and drove the ox cart directly to the place where the certificate was issued while talking.
Xiao Yuli hesitated for a moment, but decided to follow the local customs.
It just so happened that she came here this time to find Chen Qingdi, so she might as well introduce herself here.
Song Huangda looked at Xiao Yuli who walked in with a smile on his face.
Originally, it was not the responsibility of a Foundation Establishment cultivator like him to issue certificates to cultivators from other regions. However, the man in front of him was a Core Formation cultivator, and he had also informed Niu Manfeng in advance, so he asked her to bring the person here.
Song Huangda: "Where are you from, fellow Taoist?"
Xiao Yuli: "Eastern Land!"
Song Huangda: "Can you be more specific?"
After Xiao Yuli was silent for a moment, he said three words: "Five Emperors Mountain!"
Song Huang Da's right hand trembled slightly when he was about to pick up the pen to write. He looked up at the female cultivator in front of him in shock. After filling in the form, he swallowed, pointed to the next column, "Sect/Family", and spoke again to confirm.
Xiao Yuli frowned and glanced at the seemingly honest Song Huangda, thinking that this man was really ignorant. There was only one sect on the Five Emperors Mountain, and he still had to ask this question.
"Yiyuan Taoist Palace." But she thought that this was Chen Qingdi's territory, so she said it anyway.
Hearing this, Song Huangda thought to himself that it was just as he expected, while Niu Manfeng, who followed in, had her mouth wide open with a look of disbelief on her face.
She had heard about the name of the Holy Land of the East from her teachers during her first year at the Changsheng Academy.
At the same time, there are rumors that Chen Xianzun of their Five Elements Sect is the Taoist disciple raised in the Eastern Wilderness by the One Yuan Taoist Palace.
Song Huangda: "What is your name, senior?"
After hearing about Yiyuan Dao Palace, Song Huangda stopped pretending and became respectful directly, calling him "senior".
After filling in all the information, General Song Huang handed the stamped visa form to Xiao Yuli with both hands.
"Senior, do you have a place to live? Do you need our Five Elements Sect to arrange it?"
"can."
Xiao Yuli came here this time just to meet Chen Qingdi. Since he has introduced himself, he must be in contact with the Five Elements Sect.
Song Huangda immediately got up and took her to the top of Beiyuan Mountain.
There were some vacant fourth-level caves there. After he greeted E Yun with the Tongtian Instrument, he arranged for Xiao Yuli to stay in one of them.
"Senior, the highest part is the headmaster's villa. Occasionally he and his wife would come and live there for a while. It is also one of the core areas of the formation. There are many restrictions there and it is quite dangerous..."
Song Huangda pointed to the yard under the fourth-level immortal tree not far away and instructed Xiao Yuli not to trespass.
The small positive and negative Xumi Nine Palaces Formation in Beiyuan City has been transformed in recent years. It was arranged by Song Huangda himself, but the Earth Network Formation and the fifth-level spiritual veins are still being promoted. After Yi Shaoqing failed to form a pill, he led the elite of the Five Elements Sect's formation department to be responsible for this.
Xiao Yuli naturally also noticed the criss-crossing and densely packed restrictions under the Longevity Tree. She felt that this was a very powerful formation. Even if she was trapped in it, she would not be able to fight back.
At this moment, she felt a little regretful for coming directly to Beiyuan City.
If Chen Qingdi had a bad impression of Yiyuan Dao Palace, wouldn't she be walking into a trap?
Rumble!
Just as Xiao Yuli was about to enter her cave, a muffled thunder suddenly sounded in the sky.
Soon after, dark clouds began to gather from all directions, accompanied by bursts of exploding spiritual energy from heaven and earth, forming a scene that made all the cultivators in the Tianhe Realm fearful as a tiger.
Heavenly Tribulation!
Xiao Yuli frowned and looked at the center of the calamity cloud, which was actually a fourth-level cave right next to the center of the Longevity Tree.
Who is going through the tribulation?
Just as she was wondering, a middle-aged monk in a red and black robe flew out of the cave. Pieces of green crystal-like scales were flying all over his body, forming a defense. There was also a flying sword like a hairpin on his head, shining brightly.
But what caught Xiao Yuli's attention was the flying sword that was shining with water and wood spiritual light surrounding the middle-aged cultivator.
With her level of weapon refiner, she could naturally tell that this flying sword was actually the middle-aged cultivator's natal magic weapon.
But it is obvious that only Jindan cultivators can refine their own life sword. How come this fellow who hasn't passed the tribulation yet has one, and he has already practiced it to the point of being a round and Ruyi sword? It is obvious that he didn't steal it from someone else.
"Master!"
At this time, Song Huang, who was beside Xiao Yuli, exclaimed and looked nervously at Liu Wenbai, who was flying in the air and facing the heavenly calamity.
"He is your master?"
Xiao Yuli asked politely, and Song Huang nodded. Before he could say a few words, two rays of light flew up. They were the two Jindan masters of the Five Elements Sect stationed in Beiyuan City.
E Yun and Luo Yixuan.
"Greetings to this Taoist friend, my name is E Yun, the present headmaster of the Five Elements Sect."
After the two flew up, Luo Yixuan went to guard Liu Wenbai who was undergoing the tribulation, while E Yun came to Xiao Yuli and saluted her politely.
"Hello, Fellow Daoist E."
After hearing this, Xiao Yuli calmly returned the gift.
Not far away, the heavenly calamity had already been triggered.
Red lightning flashed and flickered, continuously striking Liu Wenbai.
Under the stimulation of Liu Wenbai's Jindan-level spiritual power, the Green Scale Armguard, a magical weapon, burst out with 120% of its power. After blocking six Binghuo Heavenly Thunders in succession, all the green scales on the top of the head were shattered.
When the seventh heavenly thunder fell, Liu Wenbai raised his hand and touched the Fei Que hairpin on his head, but after hesitating for a moment, he did not use it.
He activated his innate Qinglian sword, which he had upgraded to the third level. The sword blade was like flowing water, but it also carried the clear and pure divine light of heavenly wood. He used the sword techniques from the Eternal Life Sutra to defeat the fire-attributed thunders.
However, soon, Liu Wenbai also felt bursts of wailing coming from the Qinglian Sword, indicating that this inferior third-grade flying sword could no longer withstand the heavenly calamity.
He sighed and took out a piece of soap-colored cloth from his storage bag.
As the eldest disciple was going through the tribulation, Chen Mobai naturally helped him arrange the fragments of Qingnv's Xuanguan Soap Carved Flag.
However, Liu Wenbo was a kind person. He thought that the tribulation might damage the vitality of his master's magic weapon, so he used his own magic weapon to replace it. As the symbol of the eldest disciple of Xiaonanshan, he was reluctant to use the Feique hairpin.
After the soap-colored cloth was brought out, Luo Yixuan, who had been frowning, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
She knew that she had secured the tribulation.
You know, even her powerful tribulation at that time couldn't shake this soap-colored cloth, not to mention Liu Wenbai's tribulation which was about to end.
Soon, after the soap-colored cloth blocked the last two waves of thunder, the dark clouds in the sky dissipated.
Liu Wenbai showed a relieved expression on his face.
He is exactly one hundred and twenty years old this year.
His spiritual roots were detected at the age of five, he started practicing Qi at the age of eight, he joined the Shenmu Sect at the age of twenty-five, and he became a disciple of Chen Mobai at the age of thirty. He became the eldest disciple of the Xiaonanshan lineage and has been practicing diligently and cautiously ever since then.
Looking back on his life, when he first embarked on the path of cultivation, he was still a young boy, and his dream was only to become a foundation-building cultivator like his family ancestor Liu Jingxian.
As for forming a pill, that was something he only dared to think about when he was dreaming. And as he got older, Liu Wenbo understood more and more that with his talent, being able to build a foundation would require a huge opportunity.
And now, under Chen Mobai's careful guidance, after eighty-five years of hard practice, he finally succeeded in forming a pill and realized his dream.
At this moment, Liu Wenbai feels that all the hard work is the most delicious memory.
"Congratulations, senior brother!"
At this time, Luo Yixuan flew over and congratulated Liu Wenbai with a smile.
"Thank you, Junior Sister Luo, for protecting me."
When Liu Wenbai saw her, he also raised his hand to thank her.
The senior and junior brothers and sisters have been together for decades. Although their relationship is not very deep, they are the most trustworthy people to each other.
Before the two of them could say a few words, they saw a familiar colorful cloud rising from the direction of the teleportation array in the distance and soon it was nearby.
"Hahaha……"
Before anyone arrived, Chen Mobai's hearty laughter had already reached the ears of everyone on the top of the mountain.
(End of this chapter)