Mysterious mirror hanging high

"Is there such a good thing?"

Yan Jiuming asked doubtfully, "If we could directly exchange raw materials for finished spiritual resources, that would be a good thing... But are those merchants making any money? Have you carefully investigated their backgrounds?"

The Jindan cultivator said, "I've checked. It seems to be a chamber of commerce from the East China Sea... Their origins are clean, and the spiritual resources they sell are also fine. The quality is good, and the output is quite stable."

Yan Jiuming laughed and said, "Great, God is really helping me... With these spiritual resources, the battle line will surely advance more smoothly. The [Wood Forest Territory] is already in the pocket of my Heavenly Court!"

Just when Yan Jiuming was feeling proud, the Taixu beside him shook slightly, and a Nascent Soul Dharma Image wearing a simple Taoist robe and with a stern expression walked out of it.

"I am the envoy of Heaven [Wei Wudao], and Yan Jiuming receives the order." The Yuanying that left the body said lightly.

"Tsk."

Yan Jiuming's eyes were somewhat gloomy, and he thought to himself, "What's so impressive about a person who betrays his master for fame?"

The Nascent Soul in front of him was none other than Wei Wudao, the Taoist disciple of Liangyi Temple in Penglai. He was once a true prodigy of the righteous path, but now he has changed his allegiance and joined Xiao Guanying. He formed his Nascent Soul some time ago and was highly regarded by Xiao Guanying. Now he holds an important position in the Heavenly Court.

Wei Wudao's expression was cold: "Yan Jiuming, His Majesty has issued an order requiring all major domains in the Heavenly Court to prohibit the sale of spiritual herbs, ores and other raw materials, and to stockpile spiritual stones. There must be no mistakes!"

"What?!" Yan Jiuming suddenly looked up, shocked: "Why?"

Wei Wudao's Nascent Soul Dharma Image threw out a jade slip and said calmly, "Read it for yourself."

Yan Jiuming picked up the jade slip and probed it with his spiritual sense. After a moment, his face turned pale and there was a hint of confusion in his eyes:

"The advent of the Skilled Puppet..."

"The Penglai Righteous Path has been secretly refining finished spiritual resources for a year?"

"Raw material prices across Xianzhou have skyrocketed by more than three times, and demand is outstripping supply..."

"The prices of finished low-level elixirs, magical instruments, talismans, and formations have plummeted..."

The Jindan cultivator beside him had already crawled on the ground, trembling.

Every time Yan Jiuming read out a piece of shocking news, his face turned a little paler... He thought to himself:

"Bitter!"

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As the puppets of various sects were exposed to the world, the relatively simple Qi-training and foundation-building puppets were quickly dismantled and replicated by other forces in the world. For a time, the prices of spiritual herbs, ores and other raw materials in the entire Xianzhou world soared.

Meanwhile, a full year had passed since the Tianming Tower's techniques were released to the public. Not only in large domains like Zhongzhou, but even in remote areas where information was scarce, these techniques had gradually become available...

Tianxiang Fairyland, Tanjiabao

A mountain range with little spiritual energy is the home of a foundation-building family, [Tan Family Fort].

On this day, near the Tan family's territory, two groups of people were confronting each other. One side had both old and young people, and was more numerous and powerful. Most of them had livid faces and stared at the other group angrily.

The other side was much smaller, with only a dozen or so people, all of whom were young and strong.

"Tan Yuan! You incited your clansmen to rebel against the family and attempted to split up the Tan Family Fort. What crime should you be punished for?" An old man with a white beard leaned on a cane and said angrily:

"Follow me now and return to the clan to be punished in the torture hall. You can still avoid death..."

Leading the front of the group was a burly man over nine feet tall. He was the Tan Yuan the old man had mentioned. He sneered and said,

"Clan leader, the descendants of our branch have made great contributions to the Tan Family Fort. Whenever there was a fight for mineral deposits or the hunting of monsters, it was always us, the side branches, who were at the forefront, risking our lives for the family."

"But the cultivators of your main lineage have seized upon the clan's core cultivation techniques, cherishing them for themselves... leaving us, the branch disciples, with no choice but to cultivate only the more common cultivation techniques available on the market... Our paths have been cut off one after another."

"Now that each of us has a miraculous skill that leads directly to the Golden Elixir, how can you still control us?"

"Today, I, Tan Yuan, swear hereby to leave the Tan family and never return to my ancestral home!"

The dozen or so young monks behind Tan Yuan roared, "From now on, we will leave the Tan family and never return!"

The old patriarch of the Tan family trembled, his face pale with anger. "This is treasonous, this is treasonous... You actually betrayed our family... You are such ungrateful wolves..."

Tan Yuan sneered, "Clan leader, open your eyes and take a look at the world today. Open-source Jindan-level techniques are everywhere, and some of them are as amazing as the secret techniques of the ten-thousand-year-old Daoist sects... The days when the numerous Foundation Establishment and Jindan families controlled their family traditions and hindered our pursuit of the Dao are gone forever!"

"Golden Core and Foundation Establishment families no longer have any need to exist... Clan leader should make preparations early."

After that, he turned around and left.

"Wait!"

The old patriarch of the Tan family slammed his cane and said, "Don't even think about leaving today. Don't blame me for keeping you here!"

"Humph!"

Tan Yuan suddenly emanated an extremely strong and pure spiritual pressure, and the dozen or so young descendants of the side branches behind him also exuded their aura, which for a moment shocked the old patriarch of the Tan family and made him take several steps back.

"Middle stage of foundation building!"

The head of the Tan family was horrified: "When did you..."

Tan Yuan said calmly, "If I wasn't absolutely sure, how could I dare to leave the family so openly? As early as half a year ago, I achieved the miraculous power of the Golden Elixir, dispersed the true energy in my body and re-cultivated it, rebuilding my foundation and consolidating my foundation... and even advanced to the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment."

"Clan leader, although our clan still has the upper hand in terms of combat power, if they were to capture a dozen of us, I wonder how many cultivators would be lost? Can the Tan Family Fort withstand such a loss?"

Tan Yuan bared his sharp white teeth and said, "I hope the clan leader will think twice before acting."

"You...you..." The head of the Tan family turned pale, but was unable to refute.

Tan Yuan laughed a few times and left Tanjiabao with the rest of the descendants from the side branches.

At this moment, the descendants of the Tan family's side branches were sitting together in a tattered spirit boat, sailing towards an unknown distance.

A young-looking Qigong cultivator approached and said respectfully, "Brother Yuan, now that we've escaped from the Tan Family Fort and have acquired the cultivation techniques, shouldn't we find a place to start anew and rebuild the Tan Family?"

Tan Yuan knocked on the young monk's head and scolded him with a smile, "What kind of family are you building?"

"Don't you understand the current situation in the world?"

"With the opening of open-source techniques and the emergence of puppets, the Immortal Continent is now experiencing a once-in-a-millennium era of cultivation. Outdated institutions like the family will sooner or later be swept into the dustbin of history... We'll find a large immortal city and rent a few puppets. By then, we'll have both techniques and spiritual resources... Anywhere in the world will be within our reach!"

"Even if you rely on a more advanced sect or a loose cultivator alliance, you can still seek the Golden Core and condense the Nascent Soul! You can become a great cultivator who roams freely in the world!"