Chapter 495 The meeting begins
When Lin Tianming and the others heard this, they also fell into silence and did not immediately reply to Chen Maohua.
However, when Chen Maohua saw that none of the three people expressed their stance, he thought that the Lin family had some scruples or had no intention of forming an alliance.
So, Chen Maohua looked sincere and quickly started to persuade.
"Three fellow Taoists, now that the Wei Kingdom is about to return to peace, our two major families are at a disadvantage. If Wan Yao Valley and Zhen Yang Sect have any intentions, we are no match for them if we fight alone!"
"What's more, a meeting will be held in a few days to allocate the basic interests of the major forces. Judging from the behavior of Zhou Yunxiao and Lu Xingfeng, it is very likely that they will join forces to suppress our two major families..."
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Chen Maohua said a lot in one breath, from the situation in Wei to the distribution of benefits left by the Golden Sword Sect, and comprehensively analyzed the challenges that the Chen family and the Lin family are about to face.
But in fact, even if he didn't say it, Lin Tianming and the others had already expected it and had some psychological preparations.
After a long time, Lin Shikang said slowly: "How does Chen Daoyou plan to cooperate with my Lin family?"
Seeing that Lin Shikang relented and seemed to be interested, Chen Maohua breathed a sigh of relief.
Immediately afterwards, he continued: "In the family business, the Lin family is good at refining weapons, and our Chen family is good at making talismans. We might as well purchase a certain amount of treasures from each other at the lowest price possible!"
< br>“In addition, various other materials for refining weapons and making talismans can be traded directly, allowing precious resources to be exchanged and stores to be opened in the cities under their respective jurisdictions.”
"Haha... Our Chen family has two major markets under its command, and the popularity is quite considerable. I can make the decision. Wuchang will give two shops to the nobles to help you quickly establish a foothold."
"I think it must be With the help of our Chen family, the noble business can quickly expand to other areas of Wei, and it is not impossible that the Lin family will be present in every city.”
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Chen Maohua kept talking, seemingly confident in the influence of the Chen family.
The three of them, Lin Tianming, listened for a long time and were thinking about it privately.
It has to be said that the conditions offered by Chen Maohua are indeed generous, and he comes with sincerity.
After all, the Lin family really wants to expand their business in the future. At the very least, all major cities in the Wei Kingdom's immortal world must be fully covered.
In order to support a large family with thousands of people in the future, and to keep the Lin family competitive, they had to take precautions and accumulate more treasure resources.
To achieve this goal, without a war like destroying the Golden Sword Sect, we can only slowly accumulate through formal means such as business.
Otherwise, you can only explore the treasures in the cave, or engage in sneaky things like killing people and stealing goods.
Collecting treasure resources like this is fast and has great benefits, but it is also dangerous. After all, it is not a serious way.
In addition, the Lin family is a righteous family and has always paid attention to family culture and reputation.
With such innate conditions, how could he do such crooked things under the premise of good form?
Knowing this, Lin Tianming and the other three communicated privately and asked each other for their opinions.
Soon, the three of them reached a consensus on forming an alliance with the Chen family to cooperate.
After confirming the matter, Lin Shikang looked at Chen Maohua, then raised his hands and smiled and asked: "Fellow Daoist Chen, to tell you the truth, our Lin family does need an ally. When necessary in the future, we can deal with the attacks from the other two Zong’s threat.”
Hearing this, Chen Maohua breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's great. After all, Zhenyang Sect and Wanyao Valley have a long history. On the surface, they are quite polite to our two clans, but if we really face huge interests, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not target us!"
"Besides this, Wei is currently in a virtual state. In the weak stage, in order to deal with Huang Yang's eagerness, he is willing to form an alliance with us!"
"If we want to get a share of the pie in peacetime, it will be extremely difficult."
< br>Chen Maohua sighed with a heavy face.
In fact, what he said was truly inspired, and it resonated with Lin Tianming and others.
Because the facts are before our eyes, and it is exactly what Chen Maohua said.
You must know that during peacetime, Wanyao Valley and Zhenyang Sect also severely exploited the Foundation Establishment family they protected.
Whenever there is a crisis, the family monks are forcibly recruited to serve them. Any dangerous tasks are given priority to the family monks.
In the end, these family monks paid the most but received pitifully little.
At the very least, the benefits are controlled by these top forces, and the various resources below are firmly in their hands.
Comparing what the two parties have paid and received, there is a huge difference.
It’s just that due to their strength, most of the family monks dare not speak out when they are angry, but they also dare not disobey orders.
It is precisely because of these conditions that the previous major Jindan sects in the Wei Kingdom, even the Zhenyang Sect with the shortest inheritance time, have been able to stand in the Wei Kingdom for seven or eight thousand years without falling.
And all of this is the importance of strength.
But speaking of it, the world of immortality has existed for hundreds of thousands of years, and the territory of Qingzhou has also been developed for more than a hundred thousand years.
For such a long period of time, the top forces in each major region were like this, thus forming an order over the long years.
Only with order, the world of immortality will not be disrupted.
In this way, if you look at it from the perspective of Zhenyang Sect and Wanyao Valley, such behavior is excusable.
However, if a force wants to rise, it cannot avoid collision with the top forces.
Even if you don’t mean to create conflicts, the reality is like this!
Even if you don't take the initiative to provoke others, you won't be able to prevent the eventual conflict from breaking out, and you will eventually become a competitor.
After all, resources are limited, but competition has not diminished at all.
It’s just that the current situation in Wei has undergone great changes and the situation is also very delicate.
With the destruction of a large force, a huge earthquake was caused.
It was in such a chaotic situation that the Lin family had a chance to gain a foothold.
In the days that followed, the world of immortality gradually returned to calm, and sooner or later the two major sects recovered.
But at that time, it is hard to say what changes will occur.
In this case, it is much better to have one more friend than one more enemy.
Knowing the importance of this point, Lin Tianming and the others were so decisive and willing to form an alliance and cooperate with Chen Maohua, who had the same purpose.
At this time, Lin Shikang said something.
"Fellow Daoist Chen, since our two races have become allies and have in-depth cooperation, whatever crisis arises in the future, we must advance and retreat together."
"Of course!"
Chen Maohua said categorically replied, and then continued: "The in-depth cooperation mentioned below means that if Wan If Yaogu and Zhenyang Sect take action against any of our clans, the other party must do its best to support it. At least one of the Golden Core Stage monks must be sent to support the other party.” Do you have any objections?”
“We, the Lin family, have no objections”
Lin Shikang was the first to express his position, and his tone did not mean to be muddled at all.
"Okay...great!"
Seeing Lin Shikang being so decisive, Chen Maohua looked excited. Immediately afterwards, he took out a special animal skin, and his spiritual consciousness quickly wrote a large number of words on the animal skin.
After a while, he handed the animal skin to Lin Shikang, and then said: "Comrade Lin, please take a look!"
Lin Shikang knotted the animal skin and quickly read the content on it.
Soon after reading it, he handed the animal skin to Lin Tianming, indicating to him to take a look at the conditions above.
Lin Tianming didn't waste any time and quickly picked up the animal skin and inspected it.
After some investigation, he found that what was written on the animal skin was the basic details of the cooperation just discussed, and there was nothing wrong with it.
So, Lin Tianming nodded towards Lin Shikang and said: "Grandpa Third, my grandson has no objection!"
After hearing this, Lin Shikang didn't waste any time, and immediately sprayed out a mouthful of blood and sprinkled it accurately and evenly on the animal skin.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Maohua on the side took the animal skin and did the same thing.
In an instant, a red light flashed on the animal skin, and the small words disappeared into the animal skin.
As soon as he took a breath, Lin Shikang felt that his soul was touched, and he quickly returned to normal.
Obviously, the inner demon oath has been completed, and the Lin family and the Chen family have changed from a verbal alliance to a real alliance.
It is precisely because of the inner demon's oath that the two major families want to go back on their word, and the two people who signed the contract will suffer backlash.
If you are lucky, you may still be able to survive, but there is no possibility of further advancement in your cultivation.
But there is a greater probability of dying directly from the backlash of the inner demon's oath.
At this time, Chen Maohua was also very excited. After all, his goal was successfully achieved this time.
With the current strength of the Lin family, even the Chen family has hidden golden elixir monks, who are obviously stronger than their family.
In this way, being able to form an alliance with the Lin family, which has unlimited potential, would not cause them to be too frightened when facing the pressure from the Ten Thousand Medicine Valley and the True Yang Sect.
With this excitement, Chen Maohua's face turned rosy and he couldn't help but say: "The three fellow Taoists are worthy of being kind-hearted people. Our Chen family will do our best to help the nobles."
"Well...I would like to thank you in advance on behalf of the Lin family!"
Lin Shikang replied with a smile, his tone also filled with excitement.
“Haha...it’s just mutual benefit and mutual help!”
Chen Maohua waved his hand and smiled. He was still in excitement and could not calm down for a long time.
Afterwards, several people sat together and chatted for a long time, during which they also exchanged a lot of cultivation experiences.
After fighting side by side before, and after some in-depth exchanges today, the two sides have formed allies again, and the relationship between the two sides has quickly heated up, like old friends.
It was not until evening that Chen Maohua said goodbye and left.
The three of Lin Tianming chatted for a while, and then they went back to practice in seclusion, waiting for the day of the Golden elixir gathering.
In the blink of an eye, a few days passed.
As the last few days came to an end, some monks poured into Qingshuifang City, making Qingshuifang City very lively today.
Today is also the day when the top leaders of the major golden elixir forces in Wei State gather together.
Early in the morning, the monks walked out of the cave one after another and went to a lively place to gather together.
Monks’ caves, streets, shops, squares in stall areas...
A large number of monks were talking about the current situation in their spare time.
This lively scene reached its peak today.
Thousands of monks gathered around the auction in the center of Fang City, including many who were in the foundation-building stage, and some who were in the later stage of foundation-building.
In addition to these foundation-building monks in the front row, among the crowd in the back, there was also a monk in the late stage of Qi refining.
Like ordinary monks in the early stages of Qi refining, there is no way they can come to this crowded place.
This scene of busy traffic continued.
Until noon, a figure shot out and passed over the heads of many monks.
The appearance of this person immediately attracted everyone's attention.
In an instant, a monk with a fiery expression was seen, pointing at the black shadow and shouting quickly.
“Look, it’s Senior Chen from the Chen family in Yingchuan!”
After hearing this, many monks reacted. There were even some monks in the Qi Refining Stage who saw the legendary golden elixir master appear. They suddenly looked respectful and breathed a little faster.
And the passing shadow was none other than Chen Maohua, who was the first to come.
Even if these monks paid homage, Chen Maohua didn’t pay much attention to them. He just waved his hand and disappeared.
Until he left, the atmosphere of the scene did not diminish at all. Some monks continued to wait, and discussed in words which family the next golden elixir monk would come from.
Soon, three more figures shot out and stopped in the square in front of the auction.
Seeing the appearance of these three people once again attracted everyone's attention, and the atmosphere of the scene became even more lively.
“Look, it’s the seniors of the Lin family who are here!”
“The Lin family actually dispatched such a huge lineup, these are three powerful people in the Golden Core stage!”
< br>"Senior Lin Tianming is also here. He is very powerful. He has killed all the monks in the middle stage of the Golden Core. One person can defeat several Golden Core monks."
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The monks below were so excited that they didn't care about anything. They were all whispering in private, and even communicated with familiar monks through sound transmission.
At this time, Lin Tianming and the other three also paused and waved their hands towards the monk below, taking it as a greeting.
Then, the three of them walked directly towards the interior of Fangshi Auction without any further delay.
After entering the auction, Zhenyang Sect disciples immediately came to receive them, and respectfully led the three of them into a huge secret room, where they were served with fine spiritual tea.
In this secret room, Chen Maohua came first. When he saw Lin Tianming and three people coming together, he quickly said hello.
"Three fellow Taoists, you are really here early!"
"Haha... Fellow Taoist Chen is one step ahead of me, that's why it's early."
Lin Shikang replied with a smile. He said something, and then looked at the secret room where the meeting was held.
Looking around, this secret room is quite large. There is a huge jade table in the middle, surrounded by more than a dozen chairs, which are obviously the seats of the Golden elixir monks.
Seeing this scene, Lin Shikang also took the two of them to choose an area to sit down in rows. Not far from him was Chen Maohua, who had arrived first.
The four of them chatted while drinking spiritual tea, while waiting for representatives from the other two sects to arrive.
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(End of this chapter)