The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Xie Yi raised his glass.

"Come, let's toast to a better and stronger future for our Loose Cultivator Alliance!"

Everyone was naturally excited and toasted to celebrate.

Xie Yi glanced at Xiao Han and decided not to talk about the rest for the time being. He was afraid that this woman would lose her composure.

"As for other matters, we can discuss them in detail after the banquet is over. Now let's enjoy the food and drinks first."

After Xie Yi finished his announcement, everyone started eating and drinking.

They toasted each other and chatted with each other without much restraint. After all, it wasn't the first time Xie Yi had eaten and drunk with them, and everyone knew that the leader was very approachable.

As a newly promoted Jindan elder, Xiao Han naturally had many people toasting him. This time, Xiao Han didn't dare drink freely like he did last time with Lu Xinyu.

Fortunately, everyone knew that there were still important things to discuss after the banquet, so no one dared to force each other to drink.

Xie Yi thought about it and decided to reveal some information to Xiao Han in advance, so that she would not be caught off guard and lose her composure.

So, while Xiao Han was toasting him, he transmitted a message: "As your cultivation improves, your character must also improve. You must learn to remain calm and collected, and not just giggle with joy when encountering a little thing."

Xiao Han thought he was saying that he was too excited because of the congratulations, but when he looked at the crowd, everyone's faces were also full of joy.

He secretly complained that Xie Yi was suppressing him.

Forget it, the first rule for workers is never to argue with your boss.

As a result, the Jindan elders present gradually discovered that the newly promoted Elder Xiao seemed to be full of worries and was forcing himself to smile when entertaining others.

Today's banquet was held to celebrate Elder Xiao's successful Core Formation, so why was the person involved unhappy? Did something go wrong?

Then, the festive atmosphere at the banquet strangely cooled down slowly, and people stopped toasting to each other.

After the banquet, Xie Yi asked the restaurant staff to clear away the remaining food, and then everyone officially began to discuss business.

The first thing to discuss is the issue of sending monks to guard the mines.

This mine was exactly the one Xiao Han had mentioned before, a black mine that was secretly mined by capturing low-level cultivators from Crescent Moon City.

This mine produces a low-level refining material. Although its value is not high, it is in high demand.

After Xiao Han provided the information, Xie Yi sent people to investigate and then took everyone to arrest them.

The person behind this black mine is a Jindan cultivator who has a group of foundation-building cultivators as thugs and enslaves Qi-training cultivators to work as slaves in the mines.

As the leader of the Loose Cultivator Alliance, Xie Yi naturally could not tolerate the existence of such a group of people.

After clearing out all the ore, they discovered that although the mineral vein here had been mined for many years, it had always been mined covertly and on a small scale, so there were still a lot of remaining mineral deposits.

What we are going to discuss today is the subsequent taking over of mining.

The ore in this mine is not very valuable, but it still needs foundation-building monks to be stationed there and Qi-cultivating monks to mine.

The Foundation Establishment cultivators were easy to deal with; a few could be sent to guard the area. However, the low-level cultivators who were mining had to be mobilized from other immortal cities.

After all, there is a spirit stone vein in the Monster Forest. For the independent cultivators in Crescent City who want to mine, the first choice is definitely the spirit stone vein.

Mobilizing independent cultivators from other immortal cities involved another issue, which was Xiao Han's proposal to open a route between the two immortal cities without a teleportation array.

As long as the air routes are opened, the independent cultivators in other immortal cities can come and go freely, and they will be willing to work as miners to earn some spirit stones in exchange for cultivation resources.

More than a year ago, after Xiao Han proposed the idea of opening a new route, Xie Yi discussed it with Mi Rui at the headquarters and another female Jindan elder, and then notified all the Jindan elders of the idea.

This suggestion has already been implemented in some places, such as the route from Xingyao City to Xinyue City.

After only one year of trial operation, while it was a huge success, the city lords of these immortal cities began to feel dissatisfied.

Immortal cities with teleportation arrays found that although airship passenger transport was slower, it was cheaper. This naturally became the preferred method of transportation for independent cultivators who struggled to make money.

This naturally affected the transmission business of those immortal cities and robbed them of their business.

The convenience of transportation has also led to population migration, which has also made some city lords dissatisfied.

They did not dare to oppose it openly, so they began to act secretly, robbing and killing the flying boats, causing panic among the people and making low-level cultivators dare not travel on these spacecraft at will.

What Xie Yi asked everyone to discuss today was how to crack down on the forces of the City Lord's Mansion that were secretly plotting.

At the same time, it is necessary to build navigation routes from the mine to other major immortal cities to facilitate the transportation of low-level cultivators who are mining.

The final result of the discussion on this matter was to order the Jindan Elder to secretly escort the monks and publicly execute them in the Immortal City after they were caught and killed.

It was also widely publicized that Xie Yi, the leader of the Loose Cultivator Alliance, had personally spoken. Any individual or force that dared to oppose the Loose Cultivator Alliance, wantonly rob and kill loose cultivators, or destroy the Loose Cultivator Alliance's manned routes would be attacked by the Loose Cultivator Alliance in full force and would not hesitate to go to war.

In fact, it was just to catch a typical example, and then kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, to spread the message to the entire cultivation world, not to easily cause trouble and oppose the Loose Cultivator Alliance. Otherwise, the Loose Cultivator Alliance would not mind going to war with it.

The development of the Loose Cultivator Alliance has already affected the interests of various forces.

However, these interests cannot be negotiated openly for the time being, so they can only be dealt with in secret.

What the Loose Cultivator Alliance needs to do is to fight back strongly and not leave the impression of being weak and vulnerable, otherwise future development will become more difficult.

After discussing the mines and shipping routes, the next thing to discuss is naturally the site selection for building the city.

Xie Yi waved his hand, and a spiritual power display screen appeared in front of everyone.

Then he began to draw a map on the monitor.

In fact, the location chosen by Xie Yi for building the city was a place further northwest of the Misty Forest.

Because of the obstruction of the misty forest and everyone's attention is focused on the monster forest, few cultivators set foot here.

Xie Yi found that the concentration of spiritual energy there was quite good, completely consistent with the concentration of spiritual energy in a large immortal city.

However, enclosing land and building a city is indeed a huge project that requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and it needs to be done step by step.

Therefore, in addition to arranging personnel for mining, we also need to arrange low-level independent cultivators to build the city.

The Loose Cultivator Alliance was on the right track and started to make profits only a few years ago, so its financial resources were very limited. Xie Yi's idea was to first arrange manpower, build the city wall, and mark out the territory.

He looked at Xiao Han and said slowly, "Surveying the terrain, recruiting people, building the city wall, and the subsequent city planning require someone to take charge. Let Elder Xiao handle this."

Xie Yi suddenly decided that he should wait until Xiao Han made some achievements in building the city before he could propose that Xiao Han take the position of deputy leader.

Otherwise, if we bring it up now, it may be difficult to convince the public.