The Fourth Financial Crisis

At the port dock, Xu Tong, the lord of Yanbo Island, has been waiting for a long time.

Outlying islands are known as a country ruled by mortals, and Yang Lu is also curious about what kind of existence the lords of outlying islands are.

He originally thought that these outlying island lords should be similar to European feudal aristocrats or ancient Chinese landowners and squires. However, after meeting Xu Tong himself, Yang Lu suddenly discovered that the other party turned out to be a middle-aged man with a fierce face and a handsome appearance. There is also an obvious nouveau riche style.

Rather than saying that the other party is a noble lord, it is better to say that he is a pirate leader or a mountain king.

The lord of Yanbo Island did not put on any airs with the Haiya Chamber of Commerce. He was only followed by a few servants and personal guards. However, when he saw Lin Dong wearing the uniform of the Infinite Sword Sect, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes. color.

The residents of the outlying islands have an almost instinctive physiological reaction towards cultivators.

Even if Lin Dong is an ally who comes to help!

However, Han Fulai seemed to have met a long-lost old friend and greeted him warmly: "Island Master Xu, it's been so many years since we last met!"

"Manager Han, I remember you haven't led the fleet in person for a long time!" Xu Tong's tone was also a little surprised, obviously he didn't expect to meet Han Fulai, an old acquaintance.

With a warm smile on his face, Han Fulai said politely: "Reinforcement of the outlying islands is a major decision made by the Wuliang Sword Sect. City Lord Jiang also attaches great importance to it, so he asked me to lead the team personally to show respect for all the lords. I don't know what the latest situation is on the outlying islands. ?”

Speaking of the situation on the outlying island, Xu Tong's face flashed with a trace of visible gloom: "The situation on the outlying island is almost in ruins, but this is not the place to talk. I have prepared a banquet, and I also invite all friends from Haiya City to walk along. explain."

While following Xu Tong to the banquet location, Yang Lu was also observing the residents of the outlying islands he happened to meet along the way.

He soon discovered that the living conditions of the residents on the outlying islands were somewhat different from what he had imagined. After seeing the banquet hosted by Xu Tong, he became even more certain of his judgment.

Although the social class divisions in Kyushu's cultivation world are very cruel, because the major cultivation forces need to compete with each other economically to attract more mortals to settle down, the living conditions of the lower-class mortals are still barely there. At least compared to the lower-class workers in the middle of the Industrial Revolution, the mortals in the Kyushu cultivation world have an overwhelming advantage in terms of living conditions.

However, the lords of the outlying islands do not need to accumulate merit, and naturally they do not need to take care of the feelings of mortals.

Therefore, the living conditions of ordinary residents on the outlying islands are extremely worrying. Not only are they dressed in rags, but not far from Yanbo Port, Yang Lu also saw slum-style buildings all over the mountains and plains.

If Yang Lu hadn't known that he was in the world of cultivation, he would have thought that he had traveled to Mexico City or Rio de Janeiro.

In stark contrast to the slums, is the place where Huangdao Lord held a banquet. It was simply an imperial palace.

The decoration level of this palace-style building is no less than that of Haiya Pavilion, and the service is even better. Even the servants responsible for serving tea and water are all mortal beauties selected from a hundred.

Seeing Island Master Xu personally leading the three distinguished guests to the banquet hall, the beautiful servants along the way were just like Thai people when they see the king. They all knelt on the ground and saluted respectfully, except for the last step of crawling over and kissing everyone's toes.

When he just saw this battle, Yang Lu was a little surprised at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt relieved.

Riding on the heads of fellow humans to dominate has always been the eternal pursuit of human beings, even if we are all mortals. Since Island Master Xu is able to separate himself from one side, it is not surprising that he has an extravagant style similar to that of a warlord leader.

He just felt a little emotional. The islands and the earth are just worlds dominated by mortals. There is no difference in talent between individuals, but the strife between people has become so severe. Like the Jiuzhou cultivation world, high-level cultivation Those who control the world have power over the social order. If there is no restraint from heaven, it may have become a dystopian purgatory on earth.

Comrade Marx believes that capital can lead to alienation of human beings, and extraordinary individual power is obviously more powerful than capital. He does not know how other high-magic worlds without the existence of heaven can maintain the equilibrium of the game among social members.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, it is impossible for human beings to form a stable high-demon society...

Han Fulai and Xu Tong didn't think so much about foreigners like Yang Lu. They seemed to be accustomed to this.

Although Lin Dong has never seen such an emperor-like battle, his IQ is obviously not enough to allow him to think about profound issues such as "the impact of extraordinary power on the game equilibrium of social members."

After seeing many beauties kneeling at his feet, he wished he could pull them over to do something with them.

Although Lin Dong is also a well-established master within the Wuliang Sword Sect, he still has to pay attention to his image and demeanor when there are so many elders of the sect watching him. Who has ever seen the lord of Yanbo Island who is so indulgent and unscrupulous in his enjoyment? ?

After everyone sat down, a beautiful servant immediately poured out spiritual tea to the distinguished guests of Haiya City with a smile on her face.

The spiritual energy environment on the outlying islands is extremely thin, and it is extremely difficult to restore the spiritual energy through meditation. Although the spiritual tea used for entertaining is only the inferior tea, the effect of restoring spiritual energy is at least better than meditation. This is not because Xu Tong is reluctant to come up with better ones. Spiritual tea treats, but better spiritual tea contains too much spiritual energy and cannot be transported to the outlying islands covered by thousands of miles of smoke formation.

Not to mention that high-quality spiritual tea cannot be transported in. Even Yang Lu's Surge Sword cannot pass the formation restriction on the outlying island because of the high spiritual energy content inside it, so it can only be temporarily stored at the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

Therefore, the most powerful magic weapon in Yang Lu's hand is actually Li Qingning's Crescent Hairpin. He could already imagine what kind of social death scene it would be like for him to take out the crescent hairpin and fight against the enemy like Dongfang Bubai did...

It is said that since spiritual stones cannot be transported to outlying islands, in the early years trade on outlying islands was carried out in the form of barter. The lack of general equivalents also caused great difficulties in commercial activities on outlying islands. It was not until the issuance of spirit stone coupons and spirit stone coins that trade on outlying islands began. With a suitable trading medium, outlying island trade has ushered in a golden age.

Since Yang Lu and Lin Dong were not familiar with Island Master Xu, it was mainly Han Fu who came forward to negotiate with the other party, and Island Master Xu soon had a bitter relationship with the three of them.

According to Island Master Xu, the current situation on the outlying islands is indeed very pessimistic.

Faced with the rampant attack by the forces of Fire Cloud State, the major lords of the outlying islands formed a coalition to attack them very early under the guidance of the cultivation forces behind them.

Considering the large number of people on the outlying island coalition, the coalition decided to use the power of Mount Tai to quickly fight against the forces of Huoyun State.

Unexpectedly, Tian Beixi had the same idea!

Since the coaches of both sides were eager to fight, several large-scale head-on battles quickly broke out between the two sides. It was in these few battles that Tian Beixi showed incredible strength.

Although the number of the outlying island coalition forces was several times that of their opponents, and they took the initiative to challenge each other in wheel battles every day, the opponent still showed no signs of exhaustion of spiritual energy. Several large-scale battles ended in a disastrous defeat for the outlying island coalition forces.