Chapter 62: 056: False Core Great Cultivator, First Block of Thousands of Miles Frontier (Big Chapter Request Subscription)_1 Chapter 62: 056: False Core Great Cultivator, First Block of Thousands of Miles Frontier (Big Chapter Request Subscription)_1 According to the map of the Southern Region in Jiang Qiang’s possession, the Luo Family, Zhu Family, including the entire settlement, and even the Jingxiu Workshop two thousand miles away, all these within thousands of miles, are merely located in the remote northwestern corner of the Southern Region.
The local resources are sparse and spirit veins are very rare.
However, due to the vast forests, demonic beasts are rampant, making it a desolate land in the Cultivation World of the Southern Region.
Even so, as there are comparatively more resources in the Southern Region, although being infertile, its resources are still ample compared to the northeast regions.
The Luo and Zhu families live in a remote corner, not that they don’t want to move to more resource-rich areas, but because they couldn’t compete with those major families or cultivating sects, hence they had to simply defend the frontier.
Apart from the Luo and Zhu families, within the radius of thousands of miles, there are several other Cultivation Families and the Yin Ghost Sect that fell into decline and had to seal the mountain gate.
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However, these Cultivation Families are far apart from each other and their spheres of influence are well defined.
Without a real necessity, they do not interfere with each other.
Ever since the Yin Ghost Sect provoked the Strange Object Sect and suffered massive damage to their Primordial Qi forcing them to seal off the mountain, Jingxiu Workshop replaced Ghost Creatures Workshop, becoming the largest marketplace within a radius of thousands of miles, earning the epithet of the best among all across the Thousands of Miles Frontier.
This marketplace belongs to the Lin Family of the Cultivation Families and is established on the outskirts of the Bright Cloud Mountain Range where the Southern and Northern Region adjoins.
The Bright Cloud Mountain Range is vast and boundless, like a cyan dragon, from south to north, leading directly to the distant frontier and beyond, all the way to many mortal kingdoms and the world of cultivators in the Northern Region.
Therefore, many commoners and even Innates in the Southern Region are actually immigrants from the Northern Region.
The Northern Region is a year-round icy world where cultivation resources are extremely scarce, and survival is incredibly tough for mortals.
Even knowing that crossing the Bright Cloud Mountain Range might risk being food for demonic beasts, every year a number of Northern Region commoners take risks.
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“Brother Chen, you may not know, but the Luo and Zhu families seem domineering, right?
But when they stepped on the Lin family’s territory, they wouldn’t dare to act recklessly.
Once, the Lin family had a Great Cultivator with a False Core seated in town.
Although that great cultivator might be dead now, there’s another Foundation Establishment Complete Patriarch in the Lin family.”
Two days later, en route to the Brocade Mill, Jiang Qiang began to draw a power map with a tree branch at a small roadside grove, explaining as he drew.
“So the Lin family can monopolize Bright Snow Mountain, Bright Stream Mountain, Bright Bull Mountain, effectively controlling the strategic artery that leads from the Bright Cloud Mountain Range to the Northern Region.
Nearby cultivators and mortals all have to drop by at Brocade Mill when they pass by.
Wow, the profit…”
Chen Dengming nodded slightly, and shook his head, “So by the looks of it, that False Core Elder of the Lin Family should still be alive.
Otherwise, just a Foundation Establishment Complete Patriarch won’t be able to hold things down…
After all, within these thousands of miles, there are not only the Zhu and Luo families but also the Bear and Hu families…”
Jingxiu Workshop is dubbed as the best in the Thousands of Miles Frontier, and besides, the Lin family directly controls the three largest mountains in Bright Cloud Mountain Range, the most suitable place to live and also the richest in resources.
The profits must be astounding, simply dwarfing the trivial gains of the settlement.
If it was just a Foundation Establishment Complete Patriarch defending it, Jingxiu Workshop would have changed hands long ago.
Jiang Qiang shook his head, indicating ignorance of this matter, only knowing that the news of the supposed death of the False Core Great Cultivator was widely circulated among cultivators.
Chen Dengming sneered at this.
This so-called circle of intelligence is probably deliberately spread by the Bear, Hu, Zhu, Luo families.
Just let a group of Loose Cultivators rattle on and stimulate or probe the Lin family.
In the end, when the Lin family gets furious and catches them to vent their anger, the sacrifice will only be a few Loose Cultivators who have been making the most noise.
“Brother Chen, our survival in Brocade Mill might not be much better.
That place is not much friendlier to Loose Cultivators, everything requires money.
I think we should scrounge in that place for some Spirit Stones, and then scuttle back to the mountains.
The place there is too expensive to afford…”
At the end, Jiang Qiang kept rambling, giving a detailed account of the general situation of Jingxiu Workshop to Chen Dengming.
After listening, Chen Dengming almost shed tears.
Although he appears to be young, he is already getting on in years.
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Being so upset, he was on the verge of tears.
He never thought that cultivation would be such a struggle.
It is difficult enough to survive in the settlement.
Now it seems that it’s even harder in Jingxiu Workshop.
No wonder, when the war in the settlement ended, so many cultivators and commoners chose to return.
At least the settlement accepts all who come: both cultivators and commoners can stay there.
Except for the city center area, which is restricted to cultivators, other areas are open to commoners as long as they earn Spiritual Grains through labor to rent a house.
If they don’t have Spiritual Grains, it doesn’t matter, they can sleep on streets or in the grass.
As long as they stay out of the cultivators’ path, no one cares about them.
Jingxiu Workshop, on the other hand, is different.
Ordinary people can only enter if they have Innate abilities, and it costs ten Spiritual Grains as an entry fee, and they cannot stay overnight.
Cultivators can stay overnight, but they have to pay, and even if they sleep outdoors, they have to pay for overnight stay.
Thirty Spiritual Grains for one night, claiming the money is worth it as at least, they don’t have to endure the harassment of demonic beasts.
To stay in an inn or hotel, you probably wouldn’t get a room without a piece of lower grade Spirit Stone.
Which Loose Cultivator can afford such costs?
In simple terms, comparing Jingxiu Workshop to the settlement is like comparing a super metropolis to a no-name small city.
The consumption concepts are completely different.
If you want to live there permanently, you have to check whether your wallet allows it.
However, just as Jingxiu Workshop has a high consumption threshold, its order is certainly much more stable than the settlement.
It is close to the first-class spirit vein of the Lin Family and holds a richer concentration of Spiritual Energy, surpassing the settlement.
These are also good resources.
To enjoy these better resources naturally, one needs to shell out more Spirit Stones.