Chapter 279 Snowstorm Overwhelms the Five Continents
The orphanage received help from kind-hearted people and had its doors and windows repaired.
The cotton-padded clothes and quilts in Xishi were in hot demand and were in short supply.
The dignitaries in the capital began to ask craftsmen to inspect the ground dragons and test the fire channels.
There are also a lot of winter wines brewed with spiritual seedlings, which are sent to various states along the official roads, as if the whole state is preparing for winter.
But no one expected that the first heavy snowfall this winter would be so heavy that it instantly covered the five northern states of Youzhou, Yunzhou, Fengzhou, Zhongzhou and Qingzhou, and lasted for several days and nights.
Because of the grand snow, the children of the noble families in Shengjing held many snow-viewing parties, so that on the snowy streets of Shengjing, the cultivators were toasting each other, and the atmosphere was harmonious and casual.
There were also some wealthy families from the south who came to Shengjing specifically to rent a few courtyards to enjoy the snow.
Because watching the changes of the four seasons is also a way to understand the way of heaven, and it is also beneficial for spiritual practice.
Upon seeing this, King Chong immediately rented the Winter Garden in Shengjing and took advantage of the situation to organize a fairy-viewing party, displaying the collected magical treasures and instruments in the garden with unique landscape.
Mount Ni is located in Shengjing, and as the saying goes, one who is close to the water sees the moon first. Naturally, the disciples of Tianshu Academy were the first to see that batch of exquisite treasures.
The dazzling robes, the weapons that could cut through iron like mud, the mysterious magical instruments, and the expensive spiritual treasures were all dazzling.
However, the most eye-catching thing is a set of sword techniques displayed in Dongyuan, which are said to be passed down by ancient sword masters.
In addition to this set of sword techniques, there is also a set of body-building exercises, which also originated from ancient times.
Seeing these two books of secret techniques, the disciples of Tianshuyuan had strange expressions on their faces.
Because they feel that these two things have clear directions, as if they are specially designed to attract a certain person.
The most crucial thing is that Prince Chong almost emptied his family fortune to host this Immortal Appreciation Meeting not for the purpose of making money, but to enhance his own advantage in the court and suppress the Sixian Supervisor.
In other words, these things are basically given away for free.
And this direction is clearer than any sword or body-refining secret technique.
Ji You did receive the invitation from King Chong and was very excited.
It has to be said that these calculating people really know how to capture people's hearts, and almost every punch they throw can hit people's hearts.
However, what was surprising was that Ji You, who was moved by this, did not show up at the fairy appreciation party.
On the morning of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, he walked down the sacred path from the Tianshu Temple on Mount Ni, wrapped in a black cloak, and stood in the cold weather waiting for a long time.
The sky was not yet fully bright at this time, and it still looked gray from a distance.
Because of the various banquets, the air was filled with a strong aroma of wine.
Soon, three carriages from the Sixianjian came along the road from where the aroma of wine came from, and slowly stopped in front of Ji You.
This carriage is different from the ones used in the post station. It is inlaid with spiritual stones on the top and bottom. When it is moving, it is supported by spiritual energy and moves very fast.
At this time, the curtain of the first carriage was lifted, and Kuang Cheng, Supervisor Mu Jing of the Supervisory Office, and Peng Dongyang, the deputy supervisor of the Sixian Supervisor, stuck their heads out, breathing out cold air.
"Mr. Ji, long time no see."
"Where to go first?"
"Luyang County in Yunzhou."
"Let's go without further ado."
Ji You jumped onto the carriage, got into the compartment, and sat next to Kuang Cheng.
Peng Dongyang and Mu Jing looked at him and couldn't help but look at each other.
Although the Immortal Supervisor is not in the Immortal Gate, because his job is to deal with the Immortal Gate families, he is very clear about what happened before.
The female cultivator from Fengzhou entered the inner courtyard, but the children of the Elders' Pavilion unexpectedly failed.
Some people went to cause trouble and pointed the finger at Ji You, but one of them quit the hospital and the other hid in the back mountain under the pretext of seclusion.
It is understandable that others do not understand why this happens, but Si Xian Jian knows it very well.
Because just this summer, when the evil species appeared, Mu Jing saw with her own eyes that he chopped a mountain into pieces with one sword.
His cultivation is definitely not as simple as everyone has seen. Although he is still a student in Tianshu Academy, the attitude of the top leaders of Tianshu Academy towards him is completely different.
King Chong should have realized this, and some time ago he spent a huge sum of money to buy a sword technique and a body-building technique from Qionghua Pavilion in order to lure him.
But probably no one expected that Ji You ignored them and followed them out of the city.
Then the carriage started slowly, and under the support of the magic weapon, it sped out of the city and headed northwest.
After flying for a long time, the group left the city and saw the wilderness was completely white without any grass.
Because the road we are traveling is a government road, we can see some scattered villages along the way.
The atmosphere in the carriage was good at first, with lots of small talk. Peng Dongyang even mentioned Xiang Fu's entry into the inner courtyard, as if testing her.
However, when they saw the villages along the road, the people in the car fell silent instantly, and their expressions gradually became solemn.
Because most of the houses visible to the naked eye were buried by heavy snow, and countless houses collapsed.
Near these collapsed villages, human figures buried under the snow and wind can be vaguely seen.
The snow this year was too heavy and lasted too long. What was once a marvelous sight to the immortal disciples in Shengjing has now become a disaster.
After watching for a while, everyone suddenly felt a wave of air surging from the carriage.
The next moment, they saw Ji You rushing out. His fast figure carried a fierce aura, leaving a deep snow mark in the snow, and snow waves surged wherever he passed.
Soon, Ji You landed outside the wall of a collapsed hut.
He slowly squatted down and looked at the small figure curled up under the collapsed house.
It was a little girl, her whole body was frozen. Ji You stretched out his hand without saying a word, gathered the spiritual energy at his fingertips, touched the center of her eyebrows, and slowly transferred the spiritual energy into her body.
After a long time, the girl seemed to be thawed, and then collapsed to the ground.
But Ji You's spiritual energy was still continuously flowing out, even though all that spiritual energy rushed out from the little girl's qi orifices and dispersed between heaven and earth without stopping.
After a long time, Ji You exhausted all the spiritual energy in his body. He squatted on the ground in silence for a long time before slowly standing up.
Really, there is no point in being an immortal. You can’t do what you should not do.
The carriage of the Sixianjian changed its route and headed in the direction where Ji You was. Finally, the carriage slowly stopped. Kuang Cheng and others got off and watched this scene.
He came down in a hurry, wearing nothing, and his thin figure shivered in the cold weather: "Brother Ji."
"Why did you come down?"
"I thought I found a living person."
Ji You was silent for a moment and then put his cloak on him: "The situation is more serious than we thought. We must first consider food and refugee resettlement. The resettlement depends on the specific situation. Let's transport the food from Fengzhou."
Kuang Cheng, wrapped in the black cloak, glanced at the little girl on the ground, and looked at him hesitantly as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing.
So the carriage continued to move forward, and at the same time, a handwritten letter from Ji You was delivered to Fengzhou at full speed by an accompanying inspector.
After so many joint harvesting, joint farming and joint reclamation, the efficiency of communicating information in Fengzhou has become extremely high.
After receiving the letter, someone immediately opened the warehouse door and called for a carriage to start loading food.
“…”
"Ji You still hasn't gone to King Chong?"
"No, he left. A few days ago, someone heard that he left Shengjing in the morning."
"This is strange. I heard that a Yongzhou genius fell in love with a knife in the hands of King Chong and rushed here from afar. Why is Ji You not interested at all?"
"Maybe he doesn't like it...?"
"Nonsense! I heard someone say that he was so greedy that he would pick up a few free stones on the roadside."
Several days later, the winter snow continued to fall, and snow-viewing festivals continued one after another in Shengjing City.
The winter garden rented by Prince Chong's Mansion also welcomed batches of guests, and some important figures could not help but come here to stroll around.
But as time went by, these immortal cultivators gradually frowned while having fun.
Because the price of the spirit stones they discovered suddenly began to increase dramatically, which made people's scalps tingle.
In fact, it is well known that the price of Lingshi increases every winter. Because it is difficult to transport in winter, the cost will naturally increase.
But slowly, some people began to realize that something was wrong.
Because the price of spirit stones has risen so much this year, many cultivators who were planning to break through the realm at this time have to stop.
"A small stone that only sold for a few taels of silver in the middle of the year is now selling for more than ten taels?"
"They are just trying to make more money by claiming that transportation costs are high, but they will definitely come down later."
"But I'm still waiting to break through."
"Don't worry, believe me, come back in a few days and it will definitely fall. By then, you can buy more than ten times as much with your current money."
As people were toasting each other, some people were dissatisfied with the skyrocketing price of spirit stones because they were anxious to break through.
However, there are still some people who are not in a hurry to break through and remain optimistic, thinking that the price of spirit stones will increase every year, but most of the time the price rises and then falls back quickly.
But in fact, there is no sign of stopping the increase in the value of this spirit stone, let alone waiting for it to fall.
Many immortal cultivators saw that the price of spirit stones changed every day, so they began to secretly buy them, causing the price to rise even further, and the supply was even cut off at one point.
But none of these people knew why the price of this spirit stone was so abnormal.
Liu Junchi from Lingjian Mountain also came to Shengjing at this time. At the invitation of King Chong, he came to the East Courtyard to participate in the Immortal Appreciation Meeting.
After watching the singing and dancing in the courtyard, he asked Zhao Yunyue to walk with him, and there was a hint of emotion on his face as they walked.
Two years ago, in order to obtain Danzong's spare elixir, Liu Junchi went to Shengjing once. At that time, King Chong took a liking to him and wanted to marry Zhao Yunyue to him. At that time, he met Dou Yuankong through Zhao Yunyue.
As a result, not long after, he heard that Dou Yuankong had gotten into trouble.
So after arriving in Shengjing yesterday, he took the time to visit Dou Yuankong. Seeing that he was crazy and stupid, he sighed several times that the world is unpredictable.
Zhao Yunyue didn't seem to hear his words to heart. She walked to the west courtyard with her head down, looking at the sword techniques and body-building exercises displayed in the courtyard. Her expression suddenly became complicated.
At this moment, his fellow apprentice Peng Peng, who came with him, came here and panted and said, "Brother, I have looked in several shops, but I can't buy it."
“Can’t buy it?”
"We still have some in stock, but they are too expensive. The price is not much different from that in Lingzhou. The silver we brought is not enough."
"?"
Liu Junchi was slightly stunned, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
He came to Shengjing not just to see Zhao Yunyue, but mainly to buy spirit stones.
Because the prices of Lingshi in Lingzhou, Yuzhou and Yongzhou were rising rapidly, he thought that Shengjing, which was closer to the Lingshi production area, would be better, but he didn't expect it to be like this.
What happened? Have all the spiritual mines in Qingyun Tianxia been mined out?
Liu Junchi couldn't help but look at Zhao Yunyue: "Yunyue, do you know why the price of spirit stones has been rising?"
Zhao Yunyue came back to her senses and looked up at him: "The Snow Region Demon Stone has stopped shipping, so the price of the inventory will naturally increase."
“Stop operating?!”
"This year's heavy snow has not stopped, causing disasters. The north has been severely affected. It is said that someone issued an order some time ago that the official roads in Fengzhou must give way to disaster relief grain throughout the winter."
If new spirit stones cannot be transported in, the spirit stone shops with a keen sense of smell will raise the prices of their inventory. This is normal business logic.
A trace of confusion flashed in Liu Junchi's eyes: "The price of Snow Region Monster Stone has increased because it is a rare commodity, so why are the prices of Yunzhou Stone and Zhongzhou Stone also rising so sharply?"
"In the past two years, Yunzhou Stone and Zhongzhou Stone have been hit by the Snow Demon Stone and have not been selling well, so they started to reduce production a year ago. There is not much inventory at all. Now it is freezing cold and cannot be mined."
"If you say so, does that mean there will be no spirit stones available for the entire winter?"
“It depends on the severity of the disaster.”
Peng Peng suddenly noticed a problem: "What is the relationship between the disaster and the spirit stones? Who gave the order to let us immortals transport disaster relief grain without spirit stones?"
Liu Junchi also reacted, his eyes instantly became serious: "Could it be the emperor of your Great Xia?"
"Ji You has the right to use the official road in Fengzhou, and he is the only one who has the right to order the suspension of operation."
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Zhao Yunyue has been absent-minded since early this morning, actually because he heard about this matter from his father.
Ji You did not come to the Immortal Appreciation Meeting, nor did he think about any sword techniques or body-building exercises. He left Shengjing very early and went out to provide disaster relief.
This news was actually not a secret. Except for some people who had just arrived in Shengjing, everyone else had basically heard about it.
It’s just that newcomers like Liu Junchi don’t know about it because they are not well-informed.
In fact, as the news spread, the lively atmosphere in Shengjing City had begun to fade, and even the number of people drinking until late at night had decreased.
It was not that they began to pity the suffering, because if that were the case, Qingyun Tianxia would never have become such a horrible state.
However, after learning about this incident, many people thought of the singing and dancing scenes a few days ago and felt that they looked like some kind of monsters, and they always felt uncomfortable.
In the past, people always said that Ji You was extremely cunning and could endure for many years while practicing privately in the temple.
Later, Dou Yuankong self-righteously used spirit stones as bait, and with the cooperation of others, lured him to the Snow Region to die, and was laughed at as the most worthless cultivator.
Some people also said that if one wanted to assassinate Ji You, there was no need to make any sophisticated plans, one could just throw silver along the way to lure him away.
But later, he suddenly disappeared at the Tiandao Conference and went home to lead people to harvest wheat.
He didn't want to get any free sword skills or body-building techniques, he just went out of the city to save the people.
He was pretending. What he cared about was not money, nor the path to immortality, let alone ascension.
Many people laughed at him at first, saying that he entered the inner courtyard but could not enter the Immortal Palace, which was equivalent to not entering. But until now, the disciples of Tianshu Academy have begun to believe that he really doesn't care.
In fact, they really felt that Ji You totally looked down upon the Immortal Sect and had never thought of entering the Heavenly Academy.
So today, in order to ensure food supply for the people, he cut off the spiritual stones from the cultivators.
Liu Junchi's eyes widened after hearing this: "This Tongxuan realm, is he looking for death?!"
Peng Peng also opened his eyes wide: "At this juncture where we can't mine, we've run out of spiritual stones. It's over. This Ji You is finished."
Zhao Yunyue frowned upon hearing this: "Why is it so serious at this moment?"
"The end of the year is when the most people have broken through because they can use the power of the elixir."
"Danzong's elixir?"
"Yes, it is said that the Dan Sect's quota of elixirs for this year has been allocated and is about to be transported down the mountain. Many people are waiting to stock up on spirit stones to transform elixirs and break through realms. How can he survive if he runs out of spirit stones at this time?"
After hearing this, Zhao Yunyue realized that he had indeed overlooked the time when Danzong would distribute the elixirs.
That’s right, Danzong distributes elixirs in winter, and many cultivators will hoard spirit stones and wait for the elixir to be granted, so as to use the power of the elixir to break through the realm.
If Ji You cuts off the supply of spirit stones at this time, it will really drive many people crazy.
However, Zhao Yunyue suddenly remembered the strange silence in Tianshuyuan some time ago, and thought that if the rumors were true, no one would be able to do anything to him.
In fact, cutting off the supply of spirit stones to the entire world, causing them to gradually run out of stock, had a huge impact.
Not long after the news spread, some people went to Fengzhou to investigate.
As expected, the children of noble families who rushed to Fengzhou saw that many grain carts had already left Fengzhou Prefecture. After being counted, checked, dispatched and stored, they embarked on the long snowy journey westward.
All the Snow Demon Stones were blocked outside the northern border, and even the demon tribe's transport teams were detained at the checkpoint by Fengzhou. Although they were treated well with good food and drink, it was basically equivalent to being detained.
In Qingyun, the world is ruled by immortals. The common people work so hard to support them. How can the immortals accept such a thing?
At this time, Ji You had just arrived in Luyang County, which was the worst hit.
Before he had time to rest after getting off the car, the inspector who was going to Fengzhou to deliver a letter handed a message to Peng Dongyang.
Peng Dongyang unfolded the letter and found that it was an order from several immortal clans in Qingyun World, requiring them to immediately transport the Snow Demon Stone into the city.
So he thought about it again and again, and handed it to Ji You with a complicated expression.
Although the Sixianjian is in charge of the transportation of spiritual stones, it is still an office of the mortal dynasty and has no way to disobey the orders of the immortals.
Ji You was standing in the pale snow and ice. After reading the letter, he immediately thought of the little girl curled up in the corner, and tore it up with a grim face.
What the fuck, monsters and ghosts.
(End of this chapter)
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