Chapter 85 - Chapter 85: Frontline Transport Ship (1)

Chapter 85: Frontline Transport Ship (1)

Translator: Daoist6fubtiW

He watched as the Zhou Clan cultivators moved boxes of spirit stones out of the Mo Clan’s treasury.

Chen Daoxuan’s eyes were calm.

Compared to the magical equipment market in the wandering cultivator market that his Chen family had obtained, the goods in front of him were not worth Chen Daoxuan’s attention even though they were quite a lot.

However, the Foundation Establishment Cultivators and Aura Refining Cultivators of the Zhou Clan were different.

Although they were disciples of the Zhou Clan, they had many cultivators and strict clan rules.

Generally speaking, other than the fixed annual salary they could get from working in the patrol team, they could only enjoy the various hidden benefits of the family.

In terms of cultivation resources, ordinary Zhou Clan disciples were not as generous as Chen Clan cultivators.

At the very least, ordinary cultivators of the Zhou Clan couldn’t provide a constant supply of pills and spiritual rice to aid their cultivation.

According to Zhou Mucheng.

The Qi Condensation cultivators in the patrol team only received an annual salary of five hundred spirit stones.

This sum of money was naturally a huge sum in the eyes of the itinerant cultivators, but to the Zhou Clan disciples, it was a drop in the bucket. It was not even enough to buy spirit pills that could assist in cultivation all year round.

Zhou Mucheng usually gave his son Zhou Siliang more pocket money than this.

The annual salary of a Foundation Establishment cultivator was much higher, but it was only twice as much as that of a late-stage Qi Refinement disciple, which was only 1,000 spirit stones.

Of course, the foundation establishment stage here referred to the early foundation establishment stage.

For someone like Zhou Mucheng, who was in the late Foundation Establishment stage and was in charge of a Spirit Void Battleship, his annual salary was much higher, usually more than five thousand spirit stones.

In other words.

The five Grade Two Spiritual Pearls that the Chen Family had bribed Zhou Mucheng previously were roughly equivalent to a year’s worth of his salary.

This was also the reason why Zhou Mucheng said Chen Xianhe was generous.

One could imagine.

The Zhou Clan cultivators were extremely excited when they saw the 30,000 spirit stones in the Mo Clan treasury.

According to the unspoken rules of the Infinite Star Sea, when a small clan like the Mo family was raided and exterminated, the higher-ups would usually only verify whether the Mo family had committed a crime or not after reporting it to the Qian Yuan Sword Sect.

The floating wealth obtained from the looting usually belonged to the Zhou Family patrol team, and the Qianyuan Sword Sect generally did not confiscate it.

This was also the reason why the Zhou Clan cultivators were so excited.

Based on their understanding of Zhou Mucheng’s temperament, each of them would be able to get a considerable amount of spirit stones.

Even the lowest level of Qi Condensation cultivators could get at least a hundred spirit stones, which was equivalent to their monthly salary. How could they not be happy?

He left behind a group of patrolling cultivators to deal with the Mo family’s mortals.

The rest, including Chen Daoxuan, returned to the Spirit Void Battleship.

Back to the Spirit Void Battleship.

Zhou Mucheng looked at Chen Daoxuan and asked, “”Nephew, are you going back to Shuanghu Island or Guang ‘an Prefecture?”

He pondered for a moment.

“Uncle Zhou, please send me to Guang ‘an Prefecture!” Chen Daoxuan cupped his hands.

“That’s not troublesome. We just happen to be going back for a bath.”

Before Zhou Mucheng could say anything, Zhou Siyuan smiled and said,” Brother Chen, let’s have a good drink when we get back.”

Chen Daoxuan looked at the two of them and nodded with a smile. “”Good! Let’s get drunk then!”

“Hahaha! Alright, let’s get drunk!”

Amidst the laughter of the crowd.

The Spirit Void Battleship sped toward Guang ‘an Prefecture.

The flying speed of the Spirit Void Battleship was extremely shocking.

It would take the Blue Dragon more than a month to cover the distance.

The Spirit Void Battleship only took a few hours to reach Guang ‘an Prefecture.

Just as everyone arrived at Guang ‘an Prefecture.

A voice came from the Spirit Void Battleship.

” Look, isn’t that a frontline transport ship?”

Hearing this, Zhou Mucheng’s expression changed. He was overjoyed and walked to the front of the deck to look in the direction pointed by the Aura Refining cultivator of the Zhou Clan.

Zhou Mucheng was a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, so his eyesight was much better than a Qi Condensation cultivator.

He saw a tiny black dot flying toward Guang ‘an Prefecture.

Looking at its speed, although it was not as fast as the Spirit Void Battleship, it was not much slower.

Zhou Mucheng, who had served in the Southern Mountain’s City, recognized it at a glance. It was a transport ship that had returned from the front lines.

Seeing this, Zhou Mucheng said happily,”” It’s really a double blessing today. We just made a fortune, and then we encountered the return of the frontline carrier.”

“Oh!”

Hearing this, everyone burst into cheers.

Chen Daoxuan looked at Zhou Siyuan and asked, “”Big Brother Zhou, do these front-line transport ships refer to the ships that transport supplies on the Yun Nation’s battlefield?”

“Yes!”

Zhou Siyuan nodded and said excitedly,” Every few years, the transport ships from the front line will come to the prefectures in Cangzhou to transport all kinds of materials seized from the front line.”

Hearing this.

Chen Daoxuan recalled that when he went to the slave market in Guang ‘an Prefecture to buy female slaves, the slave trader said that they would transport female slaves from the front line.

Presumably, it was transported by this kind of transport ship.

Zhou Mucheng sighed when he heard their conversation.

” If the Southern Mountain’s City was still around, there would be no need to transport resources every few years. Back then, Guang ‘an Prefecture would send a frontline transport ship every year. Unfortunately…”

Zhou Mucheng shook his head.

Hearing this.

Everyone’s excited mood gradually dimmed.

The loss of the Southern Mountain’s City was not as simple as the death of a million cultivators in the past. There were also incalculable losses.

In the Yun Nation, the Qianyuan Sword Sect had built seven huge immortal cities.

The Southern Mountain’s City was one of them.

The Qianyuan Sword Sect had built a complete defense system around these seven immortal cities.

Each immortal city would radiate across several states of the Yun Nation, and these territories were the base for the cultivators of the Infinite Star Sea to plunder the resources of the Yun Nation.

Cangzhou and the surrounding states in the Infinite Star Sea were supported by the resources of the states near the Immortal City of the Southern Mountain.

Usually.

Most of the resources would be transported to the rear of the Infinite Star Sea after they were selected by the cultivators in the front line.

It was precisely because of the strategy of nurturing war with war that the cultivators of the Infinite Star Sea could continue to grow in just 4.00 years.

Especially the itinerant cultivators in the Infinite Star Sea.

Four hundred years ago, when Perfected Shenjue wreaked havoc in the Infinite Star Sea.

There were almost no high-level cultivators among the itinerant cultivators. Golden Core cultivators like Daoist Master Shenjue were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns among itinerant cultivators.

Almost all the high-level cultivators were from the big families and the Qianyuan Sword Sect.

Thanks to the four-hundred-year war between the Infinite Star Sea and the Yun Nation, a large number of famous high-level cultivators were born among the itinerant cultivators.

Not to mention Golden Core cultivators, there were even many Nascent Soul cultivators.

In terms of momentum, it could even gradually contend with the cultivators of the clan.

Later on, the various immortal clans also realized that it was not a solution to continue like this. They all threw their disciples into the battlefield of the Yun Nation to gain experience and earn resources.

Otherwise, when the Infinite Star Sea attacked the Yun Nation, the disciples of the big families were unwilling to go to the battlefield of the Yun Nation.

This was because the big families did not lack cultivation resources. There was no need to send their clansmen to the battlefield to die.

However, when they saw the rise of the rogue cultivators, they all panicked and couldn’t wait to send their clansmen to the battlefield.

The Southern Mountain’s City was lost.

It was equivalent to Cang Prefecture and the surrounding provinces losing their foundation in the Yun Nation.

In this way.

If Cangzhou cultivators wanted to go to the Yun Nation battlefield, they would even have to serve in other states.

Let’s not talk about whether Cangzhou cultivators would be discriminated against and humiliated when they served in other provinces.

Just the fact that it was impossible for other provinces to share the resources that supported their own provinces with Cang Prefecture was unacceptable to countless cultivators in Cang Prefecture.

However, no matter how unacceptable it was, it was an indisputable fact that Cang Prefecture had lost the Southern Mountain’s City.

As a lost land state, Cangzhou had been reducing its resource supply for more than 50 years.

The Guang ‘an Prefecture’s frontline transport ships had also changed from once a year to once every few years..