Chapter 490: Meeting
Three days later, the banquet ended and several Cangxing world cultivators convened in a secret room.
These cultivators included Yu Nianzhen, Jiang Yue, Wei Ge, Meng Zihua, Zhu Bing, Lin Huang, Li Futian, Bing Mei, Xuan Dong, and Di Shan.
"Before we start, I would like to activate the heart-revealing formation." Jiang Yue stated and several people turned to look at him.
"I disagree." Bing Mei immediately disagreed.
"I also disagree." Zhu Bing said and Jiang Yue nodded.
However, he didn’t plan to back down.
After working hard for more than one hundred years, he and Yu Nianzhen couldn’t allow everyone’s hard work to go to waste.
"Fellow Daoists don’t need to worry about revealing irrelevant secrets. Please take a look at this formation disk." Jiang Yue said and removed an array disk from his storage ring.
The formation engraved on the array disk was a modified version of the heart-revealing formation.
When activated, it would only touch on matters related to the Cangxing world and mountain.
However, the formation was not enough to reassure the gathered cultivators.
After all, they were not formation masters.
If Jiang Yue tricked them and they accidentally revealed all their secrets, wouldn’t the loss outweigh the gain?
Thinking of this, everyone was reluctant.
Seeing this, Yu Nianzhen stood up.
"I will go first." He said and looked at Jiang Yue.
"Okay." Jiang Yue nodded and activated the modified heart-revealing formation disk.
A moment later, Yu Nianzhen was enclosed in a transparent barrier.
Simultaneously, white smoke filled the barrier and Yu Nianzhen could be seen roaming in the smoke.
"Deputy mountain master, how does this work?" Di Shan asked.
"If mountain master Yu is detrimental to the Cangxing mountain, the smoke will turn a different colour. Am I right?" Meng Zihua said and looked at Jiang Yue.
"Fellow Daoist Meng is quite knowledgeable." Jiang Yue said and smiled at the young man.
"If the mountain master is detrimental to the Cangxing mountain, the smoke will turn red."
"What counts as detrimental?" Lin Huang asked.
"If the mountain master has thoughts of betrayal, the smoke will turn red. Betrayal includes passing along information that is unfavourable to our Cangxing world, tricking the resources we earned, and defecting to other worlds among other things."
Hearing this, several people heaved a sigh of relief.
After Yu Nianzhen, Meng Zihua, Li Futian, and the others took the test.
Fortunately, everyone passed and Jiang Yue couldn’t help but be relieved.
’It seems that everyone is still loyal to the Cangxing world.’ He thought but he wasn’t complacent.
Although the few of them passed the test, it was unknown how many ordinary cultivators would fail.
Most importantly, it was less than five hundred years since they arrived in the Reincarnation world.
Over time, the Cangxing world cultivators would more instinctively feel the power difference between the Cangxing mountain and other world mountains.
When that happened, it was unknown how many would choose to betray the Cangxing world and how many would remain loyal.
’Our Cangxing world is in a tough situation.’ Jiang Yue thought and subconsciously frowned.
[One step at a time.] A voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
[I know.] Jiang Yue said and smiled at his husband.
"Our first priority is aggregation and allocation of resources." Yu Nianzhen started and everyone turned solemn.
"Mountain master, all the reincarnation stones from shop rents, commissions, arena entry fees, and other revenues have been collected." Meng Zihua immediately said.
"What about contribution points?"
"Contribution points have also been allocated." Meng Zihua said and looked at Wei Ge.
"Fellow Daoist Meng is correct. All contribution points have also been awarded." Wei Ge assured.
"Mountain master, the only remaining matters are related to the martial stages." Jiang Yue said.
According to the agreement they made before the event, the martial stages belonged to the Cangxing world and participants would need to pay an annual cost.
However, the payment of martial stage costs was deferred until the end of the event.
"I have totalled the arrears for each martial stage." Meng Zihua said and several jade slips flew towards the gathered people.
"If I had known the repair costs would be so high, I would have fought more cautiously." Someone grumbled and several people burst into laughter.
However, no one was dissatisfied.
Even after deducting the martial stage costs and other charges, each of them earned enough from their one hundred years of accepting challenges.
"Mountain master, my people will collect all the arrears in the next few days." Meng Zihua said.
"Good." Yu Nianzhen nodded and continued.
"The dues can be paid using reincarnation stones or contribution points."
"I understand." Meng Zihua nodded.
However, only stupid people would use their contribution points to pay the martial stage costs.
More than one hundred years ago, one reincarnation stone could be exchanged for one contribution point.
However, the Cangxing Mountain had collected a lot of reincarnation stones and their value declined.
At the moment, one reincarnation stone was worth half a point.
Considering that, it was more cost-effective to pay the martial stage costs using reincarnation stones and save contribution points for purchasing treasures and library access.
After settling the matter of martial stage costs and other expenses, Yu Nianzhen shifted the topic to resources.
"Over the years, each of us has collected a lot of treasures. Some are suitable for our own cultivation and some are not. I would like to propose two methods of trade." Yu Nianzhen said and continued after he gained everyone’s attention.
"The first method is selling the treasures to the mountain in exchange for contribution points."
"What about the second method?" Lin Huang asked.
"The second method is consignment." Yu Nianzhen said and several people immediately perked up.
Like everything else, treasures had grades.
Some were more valuable than others and couldn’t be bought even with reincarnation stones or contribution points.
For such treasures, it was a pity to casually sell them.
Rather than sell them, it was better to exchange them for suitable treasures of equal value.
"If someone has a valuable treasure, they can consign it to the mountain with clear instructions for exchange. Correspondingly, the mountain can earn a commission from the exchange." Yu Nianzhen expounded.
"This method is good." Meng Zihua agreed.
As the young leader of the BlueStar Treasure Pavilion, this kind of business was common to her.
If the Cangxing Mountain facilitated a treasure exchange between two cultivators, there would be less danger for both parties.
As a result, Cangxing world cultivators would be more at ease in exchanging cultivation resources.
"If we are in agreement, let’s announce the matter to the mountain." Jiang Yue said and everyone agreed.
After one hundred years, almost everyone had stabilised their strength.
Since they now had enough resources, they planned to retreat and directly cultivate to the peak of the first level.
"There is another thing." Wei Ge spoke and everyone turned to him.
"Please speak fellow Daoist Wei." Yu Nianzhen said.
"For the time being, it’s okay for everyone to retreat to improve their strength. However, we all have to face the first tribulation in the next few hundred years. How will everyone leave the mountain?" Wei Ge asked.
Hearing this, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen looked at each other and smiled.
"Fellow Daoist Wei, we have already taken care of this matter." Jiang Yue said.
"Can the deputy mountain master tell us?" Bing Mei asked.
"As early as one hundred years ago, the mountain master and I prepared teleportation points in the boundless mountain. When the time comes, anyone who wants to leave the mountain can directly teleport to the boundless mountain range. However..."
At this point, Jiang Yue stopped and frowned.
"However?" Xuan Dong asked.
"The teleportation is one way. Once you leave the mountain, you can only depend on yourself to survive." Yu Nianzhen said.
Unlike the distance between the Cangxing Mountain and the previous arena, the distance between the Boundless Mountain range and the Cangxing Mountain was not short.
Because of this, they could only arrange a one-way teleportation formation.
Once someone left the mountain, they could only use their ingenuity to return.
"One way is enough." Wei Ge said in an unusually tough tone.
Since they arrived in the Reincarnation world, Yu Nianzhen, Jiang Yue, and several of them worked hard for the public.
As a result, most of the Cangxing cultivators only had to sit in the mountain and wait for benefits.
However, this was not a long-term solution.
If the mountain master and several of them continued to arrange everything for the Cangxing world cultivators, those cultivators would be raised into useless people.
Hearing that the teleportation was only one way, Wei Ge was satisfied.
In this way, Cangxing world cultivators would not lose the edge they gained during the Death Flower Ascension Front war.
"Our Cangxing mountain will not raise useless people." Yu Nianzhen agreed with Wei Ge.
Although he was the mountain master, he didn’t want to be taken for granted.
