Chapter 389: The Great Development of Hululing Island
Ten days later, Hululing Island held a huge and grand ceremony to welcome the two foundation-building monks to officially join, and officially announced their positions as deputy island owner and transfer elder respectively.
So far, Hulu Lingdao has three foundation-building monks stationed there. Both its security and stability have been greatly improved. In addition, two cormorants and a flower snake are comparable to the monks in the early foundation-building stage. They are on the same level of Lingdao.
The strength above can be regarded as an upper-middle level. As long as there is no too serious crisis, it must be as stable as Mount Tai.
With the official joining of the two monks, many shops that had not entered because there was only one foundation-building monk, Zhao Shoushou, chose to enter Hululing Island after dispelling their last doubts.
After the expansion, the slightly empty Fangshi quickly filled up, and the flow of people it brought also increased a lot. Correspondingly, the income of Hululing Island has skyrocketed.
Every year, the rent of shops in Fangshi has reached 3,000 yuan of medium-grade spiritual stones. This is already a large amount, enough to support the consumption of a small family.
Of course, for a monk like Zhao Shoushou, who is a spendthrift and needs to consume a lot of resources for almost every step forward, it is still a bit lacking.
In addition to the rental income, the amount of spiritual stones earned from a shop dedicated to selling various basic cultivation resources, which is affiliated to the island master's mansion and is located in the center of the square, has also increased significantly.
Also because of the increase in the number of monks, the demand for all kinds of exotic products is difficult to regulate, and all stores are increasing their reserves in unison.
Some relatively unpopular treasures are gradually appearing in the market. Second-level treasures suitable for the foundation period were rarely seen in the first place, and they are popping up like bamboo shoots after a rain.
This change, in turn, is attracting more monks, and the two are mutually reinforcing, pushing the development of Hululing Island into a virtuous cycle.
Faced with this situation, the most gratifying ones are the deputy island owner Zhao Baihua, who is recovering from his injuries step by step with the help of red fish ginseng, and the elder Water Sleeve Fairy Fu Yuehua, whose cultivation has not improved for many years.
The former can more smoothly purchase some effective healing elixirs at a relatively low price, which is indispensable for the recovery of injuries.
As for Fu Yuehua, with the sufficient supply of Water Elemental Essence Pills, he had been cultivating for many years without moving, and finally took a step forward not long ago and touched the threshold of the second floor of the foundation building.
Although her Five Spiritual Root qualifications are poor, this does not mean that her cultivation cannot be improved. It is just that the process is relatively difficult and consumes more resources.
After tasting their respective benefits, the two foundation-building monks became more attentive to the development of Spirit Island. They would take turns patrolling every day and deal with various emergencies.
And after getting Zhao Shoushou's approval and authorization, the deputy island owner Zhao Baihua came forward to recruit a large number of innocent casual cultivators to form a patrol team of 100 people, mainly composed of middle and late Qi training cultivators.
Fu Yuehua, who serves as the elder who teaches the skills, is also not to be outdone. He personally goes to some of the more than 100,000 mortals living on some affiliated islands to search for some children with spiritual roots, and prepares to bring them back to the spiritual island for conditioning.
In fact, this is also the responsibility of the elders who teach the power. Whether it is the Jing family or the patrol team recruited, these monks are willing to come here for different purposes.
Once you encounter danger, your first choice is to save your life and wait for an opportunity to escape. No matter how loyal you are on the surface, this cannot be changed.
Only monks who have been trained little by little since childhood can be regarded as truly trustworthy direct line forces, even if the time, energy, and resources required in this process are expended several times, they are not hesitant.
This is also something that every spiritual island must do. Unfortunately, this long-term effort is destined to be half the result with twice the effort.
Water Sleeve Fairy Fu Yuehua was a monk in the early stages of foundation building. After spending a whole month examining children of appropriate age one by one, it was found that only six children had spiritual roots.
Only one of them has the four spiritual roots of water, wood, earth, and metal, and the remaining four all have pseudo-spiritual roots with complete five elements. Without a great opportunity, future achievements will be quite limited.
However, Fu Yuehua was still very determined to gather these lucky little guys in a side hall of the island owner's mansion and patiently began the road to training.
Everyone is happy to see the development of Lingdao, and perhaps the only one affected is the Jing family, which was once at its peak.
At present, in addition to some tasks on the spiritual island that are specifically responsible for taking care of the spiritual fields, spiritual medicine gardens, and spiritual gourd gardens, most of them are assigned to operate six affiliated micro spiritual islands.
No matter how much resentment there is in his heart, he can only choose to obey under the strong strength. For this, Jing Yanfang, who is aware of current affairs, has done a qualified job.
After all, after the last Baihua Snake left behind by the elders of the Chi family passed down the power, they decisively chose to fall into the arms of the island owner, and they had completely lost the qualifications to negotiate.
Compared with the two active and competent deputy island owners and the elder Chuan Gong, the island owner of Hululing Island seems to be even more incompetent. Since the end of the auction, his figure has completely disappeared from everyone's eyes.
In fact, when Zhao Baihua and Fu Yuehua, the two foundation-building monks, started to get busy and gradually take control of the entire spiritual island and could handle various affairs easily, he had already chosen to enter deep seclusion.
In this auction, two second-order low-grade spiritual weapons were successfully exchanged for ten Fuli elixirs, plus some second-order mid-grade elixirs collected at high prices previously.
The purpose of Zhao Shoushou's retreat this time is to improve his cultivation to the peak of the sixth level of foundation building. If there is an opportunity, he will try to break the bottleneck and advance to the later stage of foundation building.
After constant attempts in the past period of time, he finally understood that the genius treasure that condensed the golden elixir could only be searched for after he advanced to the late stage of foundation building.
The most obvious example is the treasure mist that appeared not long ago. If you win three games in a row with a cultivation level in the late stage of foundation building, you have a high chance of obtaining treasures that are helpful for condensing golden elixirs.
Although there is a certain element of luck in this, it mostly comes from the strength of the sea beasts that are hunted, which is obviously important and directly proportional.
Therefore, for the current Zhao Shoushou, it is most important to advance to the late stage of foundation building as soon as possible. By then, whether it is fighting for treasures or venturing into some secret realms, he will be truly confident.
As for the development of Hululing Island, it can only be put in the back of the mind at this time. As long as the cultivation level can be promoted smoothly and there is a strong island owner, everything will naturally be solved.
Even if he fell into a small predicament in a short period of time, there would be no problem, not to mention that the situation on Calabash Island at this time was enough for him to retreat in peace.
The two monks, Zhao Baihua and Fu Yuehua, were also happy to see the success of his retreat. It doesn't take too many examples for one person to achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven.
If there is a golden elixir stage island owner sitting in charge, they will naturally be able to obtain many seemingly unreachable treasures more easily than they can now.