42: Chapter 42 The Development of Yunwu Mountain

After dismissing Li Xinyi.

Fang Yuan took out a sound-transmitting conch and left a message inside: "Junior Sister Li, I am Fang Yuan. I would like to conduct a transaction. I need a batch of Formation Materials, as well as some Formation manuals—the older the original manuals, the better. Additionally, I need a batch of Spirit Medicine and Spirit Medicine seeds. I hope you can help bring a batch as well. I can trade for them using top-grade Medicinal Pill."

He waited for a moment.

The voice of Li Mengyao came from the sound-transmitting conch: "Senior Brother Fang, I have received your request. I will arrange for someone to contact you. There are quite a few original Formation manuals in the royal Family, and I can fetch some for you! The person handling the handover will hold my token as proof of identity. How about the transaction location being at your Cloud Mist Mountain? Let's set the time for three days later."

"That works." Fang Yuan sent a final message.

After confirming the transaction details, he took out another communication token.

This was a special item given to him by Yu Jin for contact purposes. The communication token could only transmit text, had a limited number of uses, and its range was limited to within the Hongmeng Dynasty.

Fang Yuan sent a message: "Brother Yu, I can conduct a transaction with your Family. Please bring resources such as herbs, Spirit Materials, and Spirit Stone to Cloud Mist Mountain to trade for top-grade Medicinal Pill. The time is set for three days later."

The message was sent out.

After a while.

A line of text appeared on the token.

"Received! Brother Fang, please wait for my Family's people. They will carry my token as proof and will definitely arrive in three days!"

The message was sent, and another deal was concluded.

Originally, seeking only Li Mengyao would have been enough to satisfy his needs, but limiting channels to one person was clearly an unreasonable choice.

Therefore, he added Yu Jin's Yu Family.

With two channels competing against each other, he could also demand a better price.

Subsequently, he took out the cultivation notes for the "Xiao Yan One-Nine True Art" and "Cloud Qi Art" that he had exchanged from the Scripture Pavilion and began to decompose and absorb them.

These were the Cultivation Technique he had exchanged before leaving, hoping to find higher-level insights into the proficiency of both techniques.

A moment later, he successfully gained Perfection-level insights into the "Xiao Yan One-Nine True Art," which allowed him to Cultivate his Spiritual Sense to Qi Refining Perfection, condense nine Divine Sense in advance, and even use one mind for nine tasks simultaneously.

He also gained new insights into the "Cloud Qi Art," reaching the level of Foundation Establishment Perfection, but he still hadn't obtained the Golden Core Realm version of the "Cloud Qi Art," which made Fang Yuan quite regretful.

After organizing his insights, he began to practice Alchemy.

Lacking Earth Fire, he did not worry about the issue of flames because he possessed the innate ability [Fire Breath], which had reached the First-Rank top-grade. It also had miraculous effects in Alchemy, making it even more handy for controlling the heat. The speed and effect of refining Medicinal Pill were actually even stronger than Earth Fire.

In his hands, herbs worth thirty thousand Spirit Stone were continuously refined into top-grade Medicinal Pill one by one.

On the other side.

After returning, Li Xinyi immediately called upon the idle Disciples to head to the area designated by Fang Yuan to establish a marketplace.

A total of sixty Disciples were gathered by her, and they walked towards an area on the mountainside.

When she arrived at the designated location, she immediately felt that the Spiritual Qi in this area was extremely dense.

"The Mountain Master is clearly on the mountaintop, so how did he know there would be an area with such dense Spiritual Qi here?"

She looked towards the mountaintop with great confusion. It was ten miles away; it was impossible for Spiritual Sense at the Qi Refining Realm to detect that far.

She was extremely curious about Fang Yuan's methods in her heart, but she knew her boundaries and had no intention of prying.

Instead, she immediately directed the Disciples to start clearing the area.

Cutting down the obstructive trees, leveling the ground, building houses, erecting fences, and so on.

Cultivators had abundant physical strength and, with the help of Spell, the construction speed of sixty people was not slow.

During the construction, the Disciples began to talk to each other.

"Have you heard? A marketplace is going to be built here!"

"What? A marketplace? Is that for real?"

"Yeah, why else would we be here?"

"I heard that after the marketplace is built, we can all work here. Our salary in Spirit Stone will definitely increase in the future!"

"That's truly something to look forward to!"

The Disciples understood very well what a marketplace meant: it was a continuous source of Spirit Stone!

Therefore, they were very enthusiastic about the work.

Trees fell one after another, the view gradually opened up, and the foundations of houses were gradually being laid.

Li Xinyi designed a layout with one vertical main street and three horizontal side streets, separating the trading area from the residential area, as well as the Spirit Field area and the Immortal Cave area where the Spirit Eye was located.

She had been to many marketplaces and had some experience in establishing them.

Watching a marketplace gradually take shape, Li Xinyi felt a sense of accomplishment.

"However, this is just a shell; the important thing is that the Formation has not been laid out yet." Li Xinyi looked towards the direction of the mountaintop again. "I don't know how the Mountain Master will solve the issue of the Formation."

The scene shifted to the dense forest of Cloud Mist Mountain.

The Red-Leaf Monkey was swinging continuously between the trees. Its nose twitched slightly, and it smelled the scent of its own kind.

After swinging for another moment, it saw a Red-Leaf Monkey gnawing on a fruit in a tree.

When Little Red appeared, that Red-Leaf Monkey immediately stopped its actions and looked at it vigilantly.

When it saw Little Red's figure, it was stunned for a moment.

"Squeak?"

Little Red looked at the Red-Leaf Monkey, which was only at the early First-Rank Realm, and roared loudly: "Awoo!"

That Red-Leaf Monkey was so scared on the spot that it fell from the tree.

Then it quickly climbed up and walked towards the depths of the forest.

Little Red followed and chased after it.

Soon, it heard a chorus of squeaks.

A stronger Red-Leaf Monkey, leading dozens of Red-Leaf Monkeys, came to meet them.

When this group of monkeys approached, they had no intention of attacking; instead, they surrounded Little Red and the stronger Red-Leaf Monkey.

Little Red provocatively let out awooo cries towards that strong Red-Leaf Monkey.

The two sides only exchanged a glance before charging at each other.

Bang!

Little Red slapped that Red-Leaf Monkey down with one paw.

Then Little Red issued its declaration of becoming king to all the Red-Leaf Monkeys: "Awoo!" (I am the Monkey King)

All the Red-Leaf Monkeys cheered to celebrate the birth of the new king.

The defeated old king also submitted and became a subordinate of Little Red.

Some female monkeys gathered towards Little Red, casting flirtatious glances and posing seductively.

Little Red held its head high and roared at the crowd of monkeys: "Awoo! (Follow me out to conquer territory)!"

Under Little Red's leadership, the group of monkeys headed towards a nearby monkey tribe.

Little Red, at First-Rank Medium Grade, could be considered a true king in this Cloud Mist Mountain; wherever it went, all bowed down.

The number of monkeys it gathered was increasing. Not only Red-Leaf Monkeys, but other types of monkeys also gathered under its command, becoming its subordinates.

Other tribes in this area were driven out by Little Red and chased to other areas.

At the same time, similar situations were occurring in other parts of Cloud Mist Mountain.

Fang Yuan's twelve Spirit Beast each occupied a large area, gathering a large number of the same kind of Yao Beast, while driving different Yao Beast to the territories of other Spirit Beast.

In this way, all kinds of similar Yao Beast throughout Cloud Mist Mountain quickly gathered together.

The twelve Spirit Beast each had their own tribal territory, and apart from the twelve types of Yao Beast, other types of Yao Beast became objects of prey, surviving by hiding in the areas between the various Spirit Beast territories.

The Yao Beast ecology of Cloud Mist Mountain changed drastically in an instant.