When the Jiuqu Alliance was still there, the barbarians from outside the territory occupied the Yuantu Prairie.
Although the Jiuqu Alliance tried its best to suppress the barbarians outside the region, they had many fierce wars with them. However, there are still many cultivation forces that secretly conduct various transactions with barbarians outside the territory.
As it developed later, the smuggling trade with barbarians outside the territory actually became a major industry of the Jiuqu Alliance.
Except for a few sects such as the Jade Sword Sect that insist not to participate, any sect or family that has the conditions can get involved.
Many sects and families have benefited greatly from it, attracting more and more cultivators to join them.
This kind of behavior is actually tantamount to slandering the enemy, but few people care.
When the Jiuqu League became the Jiuqu Province of the Dali Dynasty, the Dali Dynasty officially ordered a ban on trade with foreign invaders.
These Yuanshen sects have great careers and some have other ways to make money, so they gave up this way.
Everyone has heard of the strict laws of the Dali Dynasty. As a newcomer, there is no need to take risks.
But now that he is being forced into a corner and his income is greatly lost, the old matter of True Lord You Hongzhi is brought up again, and everyone cannot help but feel moved.
Trading with these foreign invaders is not an open rebellion against the Dali Dynasty, it is just an ordinary transaction, so there should be no big problem.
Moreover, the so-called law does not punish everyone. With so many cultivation forces involved, even if the matter is exposed.
The court of the Dali Dynasty should have some concerns before handling it.
Some people even suggested that those big merchants from the mainland of the Dali Dynasty were also not honest people. They should have done a lot of such taboo things.
After some discussion, everyone reached a consensus.
On the one hand, the major sects and families in the small group should unite and cooperate as one.
On weekdays, everyone can exchange what they have, increase business contacts with each other, promote the flow of materials within small groups, and form an internal market.
On the other hand, everyone organized a caravan together and secretly went to Yunwu Daze and Yuantu Prairie for trade.
In the beginning, the size of the caravan can be smaller. If everything goes well and the profits are considerable, then slowly expand the size of the transaction.
All transactions must be kept strictly confidential and must not be leaked easily. All participants should try to be trustworthy core members of each force.
There is a consensus within the small group, but many details still need to be communicated slowly and implemented seriously.
You can’t rush this kind of thing, it needs to be done step by step.
Next, various cultivation forces within the small group began to act secretly.
Because Meng Zhang was practicing in seclusion, he didn’t pay much attention to the progress of True Lord You Hongzhi and the others.
Xu Mengying was still very conscious of confidentiality and did not tell Meng Zhang about this matter during routine contact.
She did not intend to keep Meng Zhang a secret, but for the sake of safety, she decided to tell Meng Zhang the matter in person, and did not want to use indirect means to relay it.
It’s just that Meng Zhang has been in retreat, and she is also very busy, so the two have no chance to communicate for the time being.
After careful preparations, the caravan organized by Zhenjun You Hongzhi himself secretly headed to Yunwu Daze and Yuantu Prairie to start trading.
Although there were some twists and turns and many incidents, the transaction went smoothly in the end.
Whether it is the Yuantu Prairie or the Yunwu Daze, they all show a strong interest in various items from the world of human cultivation.
The demon clan is a little better. The demon clan also has the heritage of alchemy and weapon refining.
Although the technique is a bit rough and the loss in the middle process is a bit large, it can at least solve the problem of whether or not.
The extraterritorial barbarians and spirit tribes have great deficiencies in these aspects.
Especially the low-level tribesmen of the three major races, the Demon Tribe, the Spirit Tribe, and the Barbarian Tribe, are in greatest need of supplies such as elixirs.
The elixirs refined by humans are mainly aimed at humans. After being taken by foreigners, they may not be able to exert the best effect of the medicine, and there may be some bad sequelae.
But something is better than nothing.
These materials from human cultivators are of great use to the three major races.
The three major races are also willing to buy at high prices, and are more willing to work hard to keep such trade channels open.
After tasting the initial sweetness, the scale of transactions continued to expand, and caravans heading to Yuantu Prairie and Yunwu Daze became more and more frequent.
With the blood recovery from transactions in these two places, the income of these cultivation forces has greatly increased.
Although it is far from its heyday, it can still be maintained. The operations of the sect and family have also returned to normal.
In the blink of an eye, Jiuqu League became Jiuqu Province. Nearly thirty years have passed.
Meng Zhang, who had broken through the bottleneck from the early stage to the middle stage of Yuanshen in seclusion, did not practice well.
Since Meng Zhang embarked on the path of spiritual practice, he has never encountered any problems with his extraordinary talent and unremitting efforts.
Those so-called bottlenecks and so-called checkpoints cannot stop him at all.
As long as he spends a little effort, he can successfully break through.
But after the cultivation level enters the Yuan Shen stage, the excellent spiritual root quality plays an increasingly smaller and smaller role, almost negligible.
To break through the bottleneck of cultivation in the Yuan Shen stage, more and more emphasis is placed on the practitioner’s understanding and accumulation.
Meng Zhang is still a little behind in this aspect.
Not long after he started to retreat, he discovered that although he had reached the perfection of the early stage of Yuan Shen, he had insufficient accumulation and the possibility of a successful breakthrough was low.
Meng Zhang did not force anything, nor was he in a hurry.
On the one hand, he continued to lay a solid foundation and strengthen his accumulation. On the other hand, I started to do other things.
The situation around Jiuqu Province is now stable, and there is no tendency for a war to break out for the time being.
Meng Zhang also has more time and can boldly enter the Nine Heavens.
With the guidance of his spiritual sense, his gains have always been good.
The essence of the Nine Heavens, as well as many precious spiritual objects of heaven and earth, were all collected by him.
The last time he destroyed the space channel in the void, he gained a lot of military merit.
After some thought, he exchanged some heaven and earth spiritual objects with the officials of the Dali Dynasty.
After many exchanges and years of collecting, Meng Zhang finally managed to collect the materials for cultivating Yuanshen-stage Taoist soldiers.
Meng Zhang put these materials into the Yin-Yang Spiritual Gourd one by one and carefully cultivated them. It took him nearly twenty years to finally cultivate a Taoist soldier in the early stage of Yuanshen.
For the current Taiyi Sect, there is no shortage of combat effectiveness in the Golden Core stage, and it is of little significance to cultivate Taoist soldiers in the Golden Core stage.
Only Tao soldiers with the strength of the Yuan Shen stage can greatly enhance the top combat power of the sect.
Just cultivating this Taoist soldier with the initial strength of Yuan Shen has exhausted the Taiyi Sect’s years of accumulation and also used up Meng Zhang’s hard-earned military merit.
Although he could continue to cultivate a Taoist soldier with the initial strength of Yuanshen, Meng Zhang could not obtain enough resources.