The Fourth Financial Crisis

After recognizing the circle at the Lingshi Reserve Bank headquarters, Yang Lu and Li Qingning returned to Haiya City together.

At this time, it happened that Qu Jing, the Jindan elder of the Hanguang Sword Sect who was responsible for external affairs, visited Haiya City again. He must have just finished talking about business and was about to take the Flying Spirit Boat back to the Arctic State. So Yang Lu said hello to Su Yuanfeng, They were going to take this spiritual boat belonging to the Hanguang Sword Sect to the Arctic State together.

Nowadays, Yang Lu is already a famous figure in the world of cultivation in Kyushu. The Hanguang Sword Sect also intends to make friends with Yang Lu, an upstart in Haiya City, so of course they will not refuse his request to ride together.

Originally, Miss Li was planning to go to the Arctic State with him, but the Qingning Chamber of Commerce had a lot of affairs, especially the large number of overseas chambers of commerce that came to Haiya City to discuss trade cooperation with outlying islands. Some of them were even at the same level as the Haiya Chamber of Commerce. business giant, so the Qingning Chamber of Commerce also needs a prominent person to come forward to receive it.

Although He Mingyuan is powerful, he is just an ordinary mortal after all. If he represents the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, he will undoubtedly appear very neglectful. Although Butler Zhou has a high enough cultivation level, he has never done the work of welcoming people and sending them off.

Lin Musen, who has just advanced to the foundation building stage, is quite qualified and has strong ability to do things. However, Lin Musen also has a hidden identity as the most wanted criminal in Borneo, although Yang Lu has already used connections to forge a reasonable identity for him. His background is a cover, but as the saying goes, if you often walk by the river, your shoes will not get wet. If one day someone from the top of the Haiya Department really has a whim and wants to find out Lin Musen's identity, Yang Lu has no confidence in hiding it from these local snakes. .

Therefore, Yang Lu usually kept him reclusive and acted as the personal bodyguard of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, trying to reduce his presence as much as possible and avoid being exposed everywhere.

In the final analysis, the foundation of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce is still too shallow.

In addition to the Lin Musen brothers and housekeeper Zhou, as well as the two registered disciples of the Golden Sword Sect who were specially sent to help by Xu Yannan, even if He Mingyuan's daughter of inferior spiritual roots who had just introduced Qi into her body was added, there were also Li Qingning's former disciples. Pan's Trading Company spent a huge sum of 300,000 spirit stone coins to buy the female secretary Ji Yuling (with Li Qingning watching, Yang Lu would never accept this girl as a furnace). There are only eight people in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce. The name is a cultivator.

This "three foundation building + five qi refining" lineup of cultivators would be considered luxurious in any ordinary cultivator chamber of commerce. However, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce is no longer a white glove chamber of commerce run by ordinary cultivators. With the existence of "the fourth largest force in Haiya City", this staffing seems a bit shabby.

There was nothing Yang Lu could do about this situation.

He did not want to recruit Haiya disciples with unknown origins to join the Chamber of Commerce, because he could not tell whether the Haiya disciples who applied for jobs were undercover agents of the Jiang, Su, and Han families. However, except for Xu Yannan, no one can provide the Qingning Chamber of Commerce with trustworthy Wok-sect monks as senior executives, especially those who are proficient in management. They are a rare commodity and are a hot commodity in any cultivation force. It's not the Qingning Chamber of Commerce's turn to recruit.

This is not to say that the Qingning Chamber of Commerce cannot offer high enough wages. There is also an issue of trust involved.

Even the two mortal stewards, He Mingyuan and Ji Sihan, were entrusted with important tasks after many tests by Yang Lu. Even if other strange cultivators dared to apply, Yang Lu did not dare to apply.

And Xu Yannan's support for him is not small.

Yang Lu, the Enlightenment Immortal Master, is not too old (a monk in the Foundation Establishment Stage who is less than fifty years old is indeed considered a young talent) and has no direct disciples under his name. There are only seven or eight named disciples in total, excluding Chen Ping. It is already very difficult for him to provide two capable disciples of the Golden Blade Sect to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce. If he wants to provide more talents to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yannan's Lingshi Reserve Bank branch may not be able to operate normally. .

At present, the two Qi Refining Stage disciples sent by Xu Yannan were sent by Yang Lu to Yangjiang Port thousands of miles away to take charge of the work. If they want to recruit new people, they can only ask Wang Ziwei to help find a way.

However, Wang Ziwei has been working as a secretary all year round and has never taken any disciples. In addition, he also has the status of a spiritual tribe who practices magic skills and does not allow others to pry into his privacy. Therefore, he cannot recommend any trustworthy talents for a while.

Faced with this situation, Li Qingning had no choice but to stay in Haiya City to look after the house.

Since Li Qingning chose to stay in Haiya City to look after the family, Butler Zhou, who was in the foundation-building Dzogchen realm, naturally had to stay with her to protect her, so Yang Lu could only ask Lin Musen to act as his bodyguard and go to the Arctic State with him. .

Speaking of which, Lin Musen's advancement process is also inseparable from the strong support of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

Unlike Li Qingning, who has top-grade spiritual root qualifications and has practiced quasi-heaven-level techniques, and has a success rate of over 70% to break through the bottleneck in the foundation-building period, Lin Musen only has mid-grade spiritual root qualifications and practices mysterious-level techniques. The probability of a successful breakthrough is even less than 30%, and it all depends on the Qingning Chamber of Commerce's large amount of Foundation Building Pills.

With the unlimited supply of foundation-building pills, Lin Musen tried four times before he succeeded in breaking through. One of the failed breakthroughs caused severe internal injuries, which required him to rest for nearly three months.

Because of this, although Lin Musen has been trying to break through almost day and night in the past year, his time to advance to foundation building is almost different from that of Li Qingning, who is too busy.

However, Lin Musen's poor qualifications did not mean that his fighting ability was incompetent. With the extremely sharp Monte Carlo flying sword, Lin Musen was even able to kill Zhang Gan, a master of the same realm of holy spiritual roots.

Although Lin Musen also pointed out that his Monte Carlo Flying Sword collected too little foundation-building battle data, so in the foundation-building battle, the effect of machine learning may not be as strong as during the Qi-refining phase, but Yang Lu However, he knew that this guy clearly had the character of pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger. Considering Lin Musen's status as a genius cultivation programmer, he could also work wonders on many special occasions, and he was more than enough to serve as his bodyguard.

After all, Yang Lu is still only at the fifth level of Qi refining!

After getting along with each other for this period of time, Lin Musen also saw that Yang Lu was a boss who knew how to measure his limits. As long as both parties had common interests, he would never care about the privacy of the two brothers. Not only that, Yang Lu also provided them with good treatment. It can be called a luxury, even though both of them know that this kind of treatment is not necessary. Therefore, Lin Musen was also willing to maintain the relationship with Yang Lu, so he readily agreed to Yang Lu's proposal to ask him to be a bodyguard.

After simply packing their belongings, the two boarded the Light Sword Sect Feitian Spirit Boat anchored outside Haiya City.

Unlike during the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference, Elder Qu Jing of the Hanguang Sword Sect only brought his direct disciple Ling Yang during the Qi Refining Period to Haiya City to help with his martial arts. Qu Jing's visit to Haiya City this time should be for official business. He not only brought He brought in several monks from the Hanguang Sword Sect who were in the Qi Refining Stage and Foundation Establishment Stage, and even brought many mortal clerks who served the Hanguang Sword Sect.

If it hadn't been for bringing along so many entourage with insufficient cultivation, the Hanguang Sword Sect would not have been able to specially dispatch a flying spirit boat.

This was a benefit to Yang Lu and Lin Musen.

Although they can also control light-escape flight, the Arctic State is a hundred thousand miles away from Zhongzhou. With Yang Lu's light-escape speed at the fifth level of Qi Refining, it would probably take half a month to fly without eating, drinking or sleeping. Now with the help of the spirit boat controlled by the Golden Core Stage monks, it only takes less than five days to reach the destination.