Chapter 358 Key Figures (1)
Hellfire City is thousands of miles away in the southeast, and is separated from the territories of about ten dynasties as vast as the Yan Dynasty.
In the middle of a huge freshwater lake as vast as the ocean, there is a large circular island with a diameter of over ten thousand miles. The lake water is light green, and the island is covered with dense green plants, like a huge emerald bead sunk in a bowl. The scenery is truly beautiful.
This island is where Qingluo Fairy City, the capital of the ancient Yunluo Kingdom, is located. Half of the land on the island is occupied by the royal gardens of the ancient Yunluo Kingdom, and the courtyards and pavilions of other dignitaries occupy the remaining half of the land.
In the Fairy City of Qingluo, there are hundreds of millions of people, but they only own about a quarter of the land in the corners.
Even so, because the land is fertile and the power of the earth veins is extremely rich, hundreds of millions of people in these corners have enough food and clothing compared to the worst quarter of the disciples. The most ordinary people live a very comfortable life, and their living standards are comparable to those of small and medium-sized landlords in the vassal states of the ancient Yunluo Kingdom.
This is truly a paradise.
The royal family of the ancient Yunluo country practiced the "Way of Water and Cloud", and their personalities also carried the "floating, natural, and free and easy" charm of "Water and Cloud". They governed the country and mostly followed the "non-action" policy.
In other words, except for a few rare exceptions, most of the royal family of the ancient Yunluo Kingdom are a bit lazy.
The royal family and even the dignitaries were all lazy, so the lives of the common people naturally became better and better. The huge Qingluo Fairy City had not seen any fighting or war for a million years.
In the northwest corner of Qingluo Fairy City, mist was rising from a soft mountain range, and large tracts of black pine forests with dragon scales were densely spread across the mountaintops and valleys. In these black pine forests, countless wine cup spider plants shaped like glass wine glasses grew. It was the flowering season, and countless spider plants were in full bloom, filling the mountains with a rich fragrance.
Under a huge ancient pine tree that is almost as thick as twenty people can hug, there is a flat bluestone plain with a chessboard and several stone benches carved out of natural strange stones.
The current ruler of the Yunluo Ancient Country, Yun Wusi, has reached the Golden Lotus Perfection Stage of cultivation. He is a handsome man who looks to be only in his early thirties.
He sat next to the chessboard with two beautiful palace maids standing behind him. Yun Wusi seemed to have no bones, his body leaning crookedly on the palace maids' long legs, staring blankly at the handsome middle-aged scholar across the chessboard.
The middle-aged scholar was quite handsome and elegant, with an air of "a well-learned scholar with great talent" in his bones.
But what he was wearing was a wide, golden robe.
Not only was the color of the robe tacky, but the patterns on the robe were also incompatible with his appearance and temperament - this golden robe with a strong sense of nouveau riche was actually embroidered with patterns of gold ingots, silver ingots, copper coins, and three-legged golden toads offering treasures.
The unique aura of a nouveau riche was perfectly integrated into the aura of this middle-aged man, which was really eye-catching.
"Brother Yun, why do you look so listless?" The middle-aged man held the chess piece in his hand, thinking for a long time, but still couldn't make a move. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, looked at Yun Wusi and smiled: "Brother Yun's chess skills are getting more and more ethereal, it's really..."
"It's useless to flatter me. If you want to flatter me, you have to pay the bet first." There was a hint of gloom in Yun Wusi's empty eyes. He twisted his soft waist, moved his body with difficulty, and leaned on the legs of another palace maid.
"Oh, these days are hard." Yun Wusi sighed deeply.
The middle-aged man smiled and grabbed a handful of chess pieces and threw them on the chessboard, which was considered a complete admission of defeat. He took a cup of emerald green tea from the maid standing beside him and swallowed the tea leaves in two gulps.
"Well, as for the bet, I'll owe it to you first. I've been spending a lot lately and my pockets are empty. I'm out of money... I was hoping to win some money from you, but who would have thought I'd lose again?"
Sighing, the middle-aged man pointed to the empty teacup in his hand and said, "Your Qingluo leaves are becoming more and more delicious. Hey, when I leave later, pack me ten kilograms!"
Yun Wusi's eyes suddenly widened: "It's just two taels, take it or leave it! What do you think this is? Radish tops from the field? These green radish leaves, how many debt collectors are watching them? They can only be picked once every twelve years, I cheated and spent countless efforts to hide them secretly..."
Yun Wusi suddenly shut his mouth.
"Well, how much did you hide?" The middle-aged man stretched his neck suddenly and stared at him with sharp eyes.
"Oh, how can I hide so much? Anyway, it's only two taels, take it or leave it." Yun Wusi waved his hand nonchalantly, "The landlord doesn't have any surplus food... You are the head of Baoguang Pavilion, but you always ask for money from me. Don't you feel ashamed?"
The middle-aged man, the chief treasurer of the Baoguang Pavilion of Yuanlingtian's top sect stationed in Yunluo Ancient Country, and also a direct descendant of the master of Baoguang Pavilion, Jin Can chuckled a few times: "Shabby? Not shabby... The entire Yunluo Ancient Country, hundreds of vassal dynasties, are all yours. Although I am the chief treasurer of Baoguang Pavilion here, in the final analysis, I am just a poor worker!"
Yun Wusi snorted coldly: "Your last name is Jin!"
Jin Can sighed heavily: "It's useless to have the surname Jin... Although my surname is Jin, I am just the grandson of the surname Jin... When I become an ancestor, I don't have to come to you to make trouble."
Shaking his head, Jin Can sorted out the chess pieces that were mixed together on the chessboard one by one: "One more hand, one more hand, the stakes remain the same... Ten thousand pills of the best quality Blood-Lining Pills, ten thousand pills!"
Yun Wusi gritted his teeth, looked at Jin Can and said coldly: "Another round? You now owe me a total of 12,980,000 top-grade blood-clearing pills... If your last name wasn't Jin, I, as your creditor, would have cut your tendons to collect the debt."
Jin Can waved his hand nonchalantly: "What's it worth? What's it worth? It's just over 10 million pills of top-grade blood-clearing pills. For me personally, it's a big number, but for a wealthy landlord like you, the resources you use to train the royal guards in a month are many times more than this?"
Sighing heavily, Jin Can looked up at the sky and said quietly, "If it weren't for the old immortals in the Supervisory Department keeping a close eye on me, I would have wanted to embezzle a lot of money... I'm really poor!"
Yun Wusi blinked his eyes and was too lazy to pay attention to this guy.
Jin Can shook his head and asked the palace maid to refill his cup of Qingluo Ye Ling Tea. He drank it in small sips while making moves.
After he and Yun Wusi quickly placed more than a dozen chess pieces, he said quietly, "Have you sent out orders to those vassal dynasties? This tribute is related to the cabinet's plan to conquer Jishengtian... If things go wrong, we might end up fighting with Canghai Tower in Jishengtian, and these are all the supplies needed for future battles."
Putting his hand on his neck, Jin Can said seriously, "Don't be careless. If you can't get all the rare items, tell me immediately and I'll find a way to get some for you... Otherwise, if those old guys in the Supervisory Department catch you, you'll be dead or dead!"
Yun Wusi snorted coldly: "It has been distributed. I have increased the weight of each tribute by 50%. I think no one dares to play tricks on me. They will definitely be able to collect the tribute."
Jin Can immediately started to shout in surprise: "Look, look, what are you talking about? Tsk tsk, landlords are really extraordinary... Hey, it's good to have so many vassal dynasties... You actually increased the levy by 50%? You made a fortune with this sum!"
Yun Wusi dropped a chess piece on the chessboard in a bad mood: "Stop yelling, stop yelling, don't I, Yunluo Ancient Country, also work for Baoguang Pavilion? Hey... you said, this time the deacon meeting in the pavilion is held once every ten thousand years, can you get a deacon status ?"
Jin Can narrowed his eyes: "What do you want to do?"
Yun Wusi blinked his eyes and said, "A place to practice in the 'Ten Thousand Treasure Pool' of the Baoguang Pavilion. The seven deacons of the pavilion meet once every ten thousand years and there are three recommended places for the Ten Thousand Treasure Pool. Give me one."
Jin Can asked him very straightforwardly: "Then, what benefit can I get?"
Without waiting for Yun Wusi to speak, Jin Can said bluntly: "The debt of more than 10 million top-grade blood-clearing pills is not worth a place in the Wanbao Pool."
Yun Wusi chuckled a few times: "Simple, wait until I condense the Dao Fruit, and let Zaitian take over, how about that? He is your nephew!"
Jin Can narrowed his eyes, picked up a chess piece with his fingers, and tapped it lightly and quickly on the chessboard.
Yun Wusi looked at Jin Can calmly.
Baoguang Pavilion is the top sect in Yuanlingtian, with strong strength and amazing foundation.
Even so, there are only three major immortal kingdoms under the Baoguang Pavilion, such as the vassal power of Yunluo Ancient Kingdom. In other words, apart from the direct lineage of the Baoguang Pavilion, Yunluo Ancient Kingdom accounts for more than 30% of the overall power of the Baoguang Pavilion.
Jin Can's biological sister, married to Yun Wusi, and is now one of Yun Wusi's three queens.
If Jin Can's nephew Yun Zaitian could become the next emperor of Yunluo Ancient Country, it would be a great benefit to Jin Can. His status, power, and voice in Baoguang Pavilion would definitely be greatly improved, and he might even become a strong candidate for the next Pavilion Master.
Jin Can began to think about the balance of interests between a place to practice in the Wanbao Pool and the throne of the emperor of the ancient country of Yunluo.
At this moment, an old man in a light blue robe flashed in the white mist like a ghost and came silently to the bluestone plain.
He first bowed to Jin Can, then looked at Yun Wusi.
"What's the matter?" Yun Wusi looked at the eunuch chief steward who had been following and taking care of him since he was born. This was his absolute confidant who had followed him for more than a thousand years, the person he trusted the most, or in other words, the only person he truly trusted.
"The two guardians around His Majesty the Third Prince have died."
"The Third Prince... was captured alive by a demon monk in the Hellfire City of the Yan Dynasty... According to the news sent back from the Yan Dynasty, the demon monk said that if our dynasty cannot pay enough ransom, he will shave the Third Prince's head and convert him to Buddhism."
The old eunuch's expression was extremely mysterious.
The ancient country of Yunluo was blackmailed.
This kind of thing...has there ever been such a thing in the hundreds or even tens of millions of years since the founding of the ancient Yunluo Kingdom?
