In the 6430th year of the Xia calendar,

Lin Jiang of Haigang City announced that he would be in seclusion, and then he cut off contact with the outside world and went into seclusion for real.

Lin Jiang wanted to try to break through the Hedao. His cultivation had entered the late stage of returning to the void more than a hundred years ago. In the past hundred years, he had been taking pills and had reached the peak of returning to the void.

This time, Lin Jiang did not expect to break through to the Hedao directly. According to Lin Jiang's prediction, he needed to attack the Hedao more than five times. After attacking again and again, he would gain experience and finally succeed.

So this time was just an attempt to accumulate some experience for the future.

At the same time, a large number of cultivators in the Chinese upper echelons also entered the seclusion stage. The new generation of cultivators headed by Ning Li and Lin Liyan became more and more famous, and many mundane affairs were taken over by them.

This was also a habit in the era of cultivating immortals. Even in large sects, cultivators at the level of Huashen rarely formally took care of those ordinary things. They were all in name only, and the ones who really handled the affairs were those cultivators at the level of Yuanying or so.

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Yingzhou, Li Qing is leading people to clean up the monsters in the seas around Yingzhou. Since the last defeat, the Demon God Temple has been silent for many years, and the Demon God Temple has also relaxed its control over the monsters in the sea.

This has caused the strength of the monsters in the sea to surge. The fourth and fifth level monster kings seem to appear in batches, and the sixth level monster kings are also common.

Now that Li Qing has taken action personally, these monsters have been in bad luck. Except for a few who are smart and run fast, they have been almost wiped out.

"Master, the bodies of the monster kings have been retrieved, and no one has escaped."

Standing on the sea, more than a dozen figures flew over. They were the elders of the Wangxian Sect who brought the new generation of immortal cultivators. Those new generation of immortal cultivators had a lot of evil spirits on them, and it was obvious that they had been fully broken.

"Once the sixth-level giant shark demon king dies, the road from Yingzhou to the west of Shenzhou will be open. In the future, ships can sail unimpeded, which is of great benefit to Yingzhou."

Li Qing nodded. China has cleared the sea area from the east of Shenzhou to Yingzhou and created several safe routes. They can exchange what they have with each other, and the price of sea transportation is much lower than other methods. The money saved is real money.

However, the sea area from Yingzhou to the west of Shenzhou has not been cleared, and Yingzhou's ships are not as strong as Shenzhou's new ships. Yingzhou tried several times, but was sunk by the sea monsters, suffering heavy losses, so Li Qing was forced to do it himself.

"Once the sea route is unblocked, the products of Yingzhou can be sold directly to the countries in the west of Shenzhou. No matter what they are, they are very easy to sell. The countries in the west of Shenzhou are basically the sphere of influence of Huaxia, Qingyun, and Zhou Liao, and are their economic colonies. The freight of sea transportation is one-third of that of land transportation. Unless Huaxia builds a large number of teleportation arrays in the west of Shenzhou, otherwise, the price will not be able to compete with us. Master, we have to compete with Huaxia for the market."

An elder said again. They opened up the sea route for the market in the west of Shenzhou. There are dozens of small countries there, with a population of several billion, and the market is extremely huge.

The three allied countries all have railways leading to the west of Shenzhou, but the railway freight method is not as good as sea transportation, and the price of sea transportation will be lower.

Unless they are willing to build more teleportation arrays, the price and maintenance of the teleportation arrays are also extremely high, even Huaxia did not do so.

"If we do this, which country do you think is most likely to be hit?"

"It must be Qingyun. Qingyun is a landlocked country. It cannot compare to Zhou Liao and Hua Xia. They don't have much benefits from our northern Yingzhou and Penglai. They all rely on the western Shenzhou for their old capital. Perhaps we can completely squeeze Qingyun out and make it worse than Zhou Liao."

"The development of the world is inseparable from exploitation, so let's go after Qingyun. Organize a caravan to explore the western Shenzhou as soon as possible. Start a price war and squeeze Qingyun out first."

"Master, the western Shenzhou has been troubled by the monsters for many years, and there are a lot of casualties every year. We in Yingzhou have to send masters to support it."

"Okay, the new generation of immortal cultivators now have no major battles to fight, and they are sent out in turn to gain experience. It's a good time to practice with their monsters,"

said Li Qing. The new generation of immortal cultivators are the reserve army of the major forces, and everyone attaches great importance to it. In this regard, Yingzhou is much stronger than Qingyun and Zhou Liao. They can send a large number of immortal cultivators at the Jindan and Yuanying levels.

As long as the situation in the western part of Shenzhou is stabilized, the market of billions of people will be the hope for the rise of Yingzhou. All kinds of new technologies need to be paved by the market. Without the benefits provided by the market, there is no motivation to develop new technologies.

"Yes, Master."

All the immortal cultivators were immediately excited. They were already fantasizing about the billions of people in the western part of Shenzhou. Such a huge market is enough to give Yingzhou a new life, make Yingzhou stronger, and make Yingzhou able to compete with China. When they thought of this, they were excited.

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Penglaizhou, Wanghai City

Lu Xuan's power has skyrocketed in recent years because he has annexed many forces of the natives of Penglaizhou. In the past few years, the voices of these natives for independence have become louder and louder, and even the slogan of Penglai people dominating Penglaizhou has been put forward. Under this idea, the natives of Penglaizhou and the immigrants have had a fierce conflict.

They also used various political correctness to make the countries speechless. After all, legally speaking, they are indeed the masters of Penglaizhou.

But Penglaizhou is related to the interests of various countries, how could it be handed over? So with the tacit consent of various countries, Lu Xuan took the first step, and he did not play any shady tricks. In an open business war, he directly destroyed the companies of the indigenous forces with low prices.

Those companies are similar to Lu Xuan, all of which are mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. After all, there is a tacit understanding on the Shenzhou side that Penglaizhou is not allowed to develop heavy industry, at most some supporting light industry.

With China as a backer, Lu Xuan easily dealt with them. Then several high-level indigenous people went bankrupt and committed suicide, and the rest were a group of rabble.

At this time in Wanghai City, in Lu Xuan's villa, the mountains of spiritual stones were being extracted by the spirit gathering array, causing the concentration of spiritual energy in his villa to explode, and there was so much spiritual energy that it filled everywhere in the form of mist.

In this environment, Lu Xuan didn't need to meditate at all. He just took off his clothes and lay on the bed. The cells in his body were extremely active. He was like a vacuum cleaner, sucking the spiritual energy into his body continuously.

"I'm in the late stage of the transformation of the spirit. At most fifty years, I will be able to break through to the return to the void. After returning to the void, should I continue to pretend to be a grandson or show my cards?"

Lu Xuan was thinking about his own plan in his mind. He had already reached the late stage of the transformation of the spirit, and the speed of improvement was not slow at all. He thought that at most fifty years, he could break through to the return to the void, which was much faster than those top talents in China.

He was still in contact with Lin Liyan and others, and often discussed some things about cultivation. He knew that after Lin Liyan and others entered the transformation of the spirit, their speed slowed down. The spiritual energy required for the transformation of the spirit was too huge. It took a lot of time and energy to refine the spiritual energy every day.

Lu Xuan's personality was obviously not to be a grandson for life. Back then in Yingzhou, he was a grandson enough, so he planned a series of things. At present, he just felt that he was dormant.

Returning to the Void is considered powerful in this world. According to the information he has found out, there are only dozens of people in China, a few in Yingzhou, and none in other places. If he breaks through, it can be guaranteed that his strength is in the top 100 of the human race.

It is normal to obtain corresponding benefits when one is strong.

"Not enough, not enough, my strength is not enough, and my power is not enough. It is not enough to fight alone without the strength of the world's number one. Then it is necessary to become the world's number one."

Lu Xuan finally shook his head and gave up the idea of ​​exposing his ambition as soon as he returned to the Void. He still needs to lie dormant and need stronger strength until he is the world's number one.

To become the world's number one, you need a shortcut, just like his research back then. If there is no shortcut, he would have become a dry skeleton long ago, let alone any status.

The words "evil way" automatically emerged in Lu Xuan's mind. The evil way was banned by all countries in China, but it was banned repeatedly in private. Lu Xuan also got some and studied them secretly, but he didn't care before, because the speed of practice brought by these evil ways could not compare with his.

But now, Lu Xuan is a little interested. If the evil technique is combined with his own special characteristics, it seems that there is a lot of potential.

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Fangzhangzhou, the Demon Queen of the Demon God Temple

has not appeared for decades. The major events of the Demon God Temple are all decided by the Fire Scale Demon Emperor and the Divine Martial Demon Emperor. The Demon Queen also told them before her retreat that the Demon Queen's retreat this time is aimed at breaking through the Tribulation Period, and the Tribulation Period is the only chance for their demon clan to turn defeat into victory.

Therefore, the two Demon Emperors are still very loyal to the Demon Queen, and they are conscientiously guarding the group of demons in the Demon God Temple for the Demon Queen.

For more than a hundred years, Fangzhangzhou has not fought a big war. This is an opportunity for both sides to recuperate, so the demon clan has slowly recovered its vitality over the past hundred years, and the fifth and sixth level demons have continued to appear.

"Shenwu, the formations around the Demon Temple have been set up."

"It's almost there. The demon patterns are similar to those of humans. I have studied human formations over the years. Layers of formations have been set up all around to isolate everything,"

said the Shenwu Demon King. The demon race has been learning from humans, and there is nothing wrong with that. The reason they have to set up formations is to prevent humans from spying on the demon race again.

"That's good. Whether a new Demon Emperor appears or the Demon Queen becomes the Demon Emperor, we need to keep it secret."

"Yes, we suffered a great loss last time. If humans didn't know the news, perhaps we wouldn't have lost."

"Let's not mention the past. Now we should think about the future. Humans are strong and have the power to completely destroy us. If we don't take this opportunity to break through, you and I may become humans' pets."

"Humph, the Xuanwu clan is a natural beast. How can they be humans' pets?"

"I'm afraid it won't be up to us by then."

"Huolin, don't be so pessimistic. Believe in the Demon Queen and our demon clan. Now we have six sixth-level peak demon kings in our demon clan who are on the verge of breaking through. If they break through, we are not without the strength to fight again,"

said the Shenwu Demon Emperor. The demon clan is making progress. Not only the Demon Queen, but other demon clans are also working hard to strengthen themselves, including the two of them.