Chapter 133 Farmer Hunter, Waste Utilization(2/4)
For foundation-building monks, as long as they don't consume a lot of souls and don't rest for ten days and a half, they can still be in high spirits.
Even if you feel sleepy occasionally, just cross your legs and adjust your breathing for a while, and you will feel better.
This annual event, especially this year, is of particularly great significance and is closely related to each of them. Of course, they must follow up on the whole process.
But for Meng Zhou, it was simply a crime to waste time like this.
So, he stood up and said: "Fellow Taoists, I'm sorry to be with you. I happen to have some things that I need to purchase, so I won't be accompanying you."
A monk laughed and joked: "Then you go home and continue your hard work, right?"
Meng Zhou didn't answer, just smiled.
…
Returning to the street, Meng Zhou continued shopping.
He said he had something to purchase, which was not an excuse.
There are quite a few things he wants to purchase this time.
However, before making the formal purchase, he first walked around all the areas, and gradually gained some clarity in his mind.
Since last year, with the successive measures taken by Qingxuan Sect, the number of foundation-building monks has increased explosively, and the Qi-training monks who are easier to cultivate have not been left behind either.
As their cultivation level increases, especially after advancing from Qi training to foundation building, monks also need higher quality resources.
Throughout the Qingxuan Territory, the demand for various resources has suddenly expanded a lot.
The existing resources that were stored in large amounts in the cellars and storage spaces of various forces' warehouses were quickly consumed.
They were either turned into pieces of magical weapons and equipped on different monks, or turned into individual pills to be taken, individual talismans to be consumed, or arrays, flags, arrays, etc. needed to set up formations.
The shortage of various materials and resources is a problem faced by the entire Qingxuan Territory.
Meng Zhou discovered an interesting point. In such a large market, there is almost no gold spiritual material, earth spiritual material, fire spiritual material, water spiritual material or other spiritual materials. It is almost invisible.
Occasionally, one or two items appear, and they are quickly snapped up before they are ready.
There are only two most common material resources. One is various types of wood spiritual materials, vines, roots, trunks, stems, branches, leaves, fruits, including spiritual rice, spiritual tea, spiritual herbs, elixirs, etc., and the resulting refined materials.
elixirs, magic weapons, etc.
One category is all kinds of monster materials, animal bones, animal tendons, animal skins, animal teeth, animal claws, animal blood, poison sacs, stomach bags, eyeballs and other resources that can be collected and utilized, as well as processed and refined.
Various elixirs, magical weapons, etc.
In addition, there is also the largest amount of monster meat of various categories.
The reason why these two types of materials are the most abundant is that except for the special situation of Sanchuanyuan and Bixueyuan, the largest output is these two types. There is also a more important reason, that is, compared with gold spiritual materials and earth spiritual materials, these two types of resources are
Resources such as spiritual materials can be quickly regenerated.
The former only needs to open up more spiritual fields to plant more.
The latter only needs to hunt more monsters to harvest more.
"So, compared to the unreliable direction of exploring more spiritual mines, either farming or hunting, this is the easiest way to produce results, and it is also the most reliable development path for individual monks and small forces."
Qingxuan Sect has never stipulated what someone should do after breaking through, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that there are only two paths in front of most monks.
Either be a "farmer" or a "hunter", and the industrial chain has developed around these two fundamentals.
Meng Zhou couldn't help but guess the intention behind Qingxuanzong's plan.
"Is this an attempt to more fully develop all the spiritual veins in the Qingxuan Domain?"
Meng Zhou has also experienced a lot of spiritual veins, first-order spiritual veins, and second-order spiritual veins. From his current perspective, both Nuanyun Valley and Hongsong Ridge are very poorly developed.
Taking Nuanyun Valley, which he feels most profoundly, as an example, the reason why its development level is very low is not that everyone is unaware of this. On the contrary, it is the tacit understanding of the top forces who monopolize various fields in Nuanyun Valley.
For them, is the most important thing to develop Nuanyun Valley more fully?
of course not.
Ensuring that no one can challenge or shake your position is the most important thing!
Its nature is the same as that of Dai Shouli and others who resolutely prevented the cooperation between Bixueyuan and Sanchuan Society.
But now, with Qingxuan Sect opening up unlimited resources such as Foundation Establishment Pills, and with the surge in the number and quality of monks in a short period of time, this state is maintained by the tacit understanding of the "sitting tigers" of each spiritual lineage.
It will be quickly shaken to its core.
President Pan dared to ignore Dai Shouli and others at this time, leave them alone, and resume cooperation with Jixueyuan without their consent at all. His courage did not come out of thin air, because the number had already far exceeded
Dai Shouli and other foreign landowners of Ji Zhuang Village will give it to them!
Although this was due to his decisiveness, it was also due to the general trend.
At this moment, Meng Zhou's thoughts had gone beyond the Sanchuan Plain and spread to a wider area.
The changes that occurred in the Sanchuan Plain will not stop at the Sanchuan Plain, but will spread throughout the Qingxuan Territory.
All spiritual veins and spiritual lands, whether first or second level, whether Nuanyun Valley, Red Pine Ridge or Jade Lake, are within the scope of the impact.
——Well, the version of Cuiyu Lake has gone a step further with the special efforts of Qingxuanzong.
"Beyond that, we will conduct a more thorough cleanup of the demonic beasts within the Qingxuan Domain."
Meng Zhou didn't know if Qingxuan Sect had any deeper plans, but even if it was just these two points, if it could be implemented, the future Qingxuan Domain would be able to leave other domains far behind, right?
Through the gathering initiated by Kan Yue, Meng Zhou already had a good understanding of the situation in the foreign lands.
Therefore, this judgment is not conjecture, but well-founded.
but……
Meng Zhou thought of Lu Quan from the Alchemy Sect.
"It's definitely not that simple."
The Qingxuan Sect, the Alchemy Sect, the Hehuan Sect, the Jinding Sect, and the Yuling Sect, all of which were born at the same time from the remains of the Xingxiu Palace, are like crabs in the same basket.
No matter which one tries to climb out, it will be pulled back collectively by the other crabs in the basket.
Thinking of this, Meng Zhou shook his head hard and did not continue to think more deeply.
"What are you thinking? What does this have to do with me?"
This had nothing to do with him now, but Meng Zhou could vaguely glimpse a huge whirlpool.
That whirlpool encompassed not only the Qingxuan Domain, but also all areas of the world he currently knew.
The only way to avoid being involved and to firmly control your own life and safety is to work hard to grow and make yourself stronger.
…
In the market, although there are many types of wood-type materials and monster-type materials, Meng Zhou found out after careful investigation that the quantity of the former was less than that of the latter.
And the price increase of the former far exceeds that of the latter.
Although the prices of various monster-type materials have increased compared to last year, they are not too large.
The price growth of various wood-based materials has been very obvious.
The reason for this is also obvious. Monsters are available in a timely manner. As long as you dare to take risks and go deep into the evil veins, you can hunt more monsters.
And as the number and quality of monks increases, the number of hunters also increases, and the competition becomes more intense.
You are fighting over each other, you are pulling against each other, and the price cannot rise even if it wants to.
But various types of wood materials are different, even if they are all grown in the spiritual field, it still takes a cycle.
These materials now were sown a long time ago.
Meng Zhou is considered to be the first group to come to Qingxuan Territory to farm after the change. If he wants to produce a large number of results, it may take as little as three to five years, as long as eighty-nine years or even more than ten years. He has to wait.
During this period, wood resources will still be in short supply, and they will enjoy the same price increases as other spiritual materials.
The first resource that Meng Zhou wanted to purchase in large quantities was the raw materials for the second-level low-grade spiritual elixir.
Last year, he used eighty mid-grade spiritual stones to buy ten of them at Qinglinfang. It was still Qinglinfang, and the price was naturally more expensive than in a resource-producing area like Sanchuan Plateau.
But now, in this resource-producing area, the same ten quantities of raw materials require 120 medium-grade spiritual stones.
"If this is in Qinglinfang, wouldn't it have to rise to more than 145?"
At that time, the price at which Meng Zhou purchased these materials had already risen a bit.
Compared with last year, the prices of these raw materials have more than doubled.
Although the price of the finished product has also increased, it is far less exaggerated than the increase in raw materials.
Who is injured?
Of course it's the entire group of alchemists.
In other words, the entire professional group was regarded by Qingxuan Sect as the key buffer between a hard landing and a soft landing because of their too thick blood volume.
Anyway, you guys have a lot of blood, so you can still be alive and kicking after two more cuts.
However, Meng Zhou soon lost his mind to consider the price factor.
"If I buy more, are there any discounts?" Meng Zhou asked the shopkeeper.
To be continued...