Chapter 459: The Development of the Underworld(1/2)
"It seems that our Dead Soul City has been doing well over the years. Let's go Rongrong, let's go in."
Gan Jue smiled and muttered, then pulled Ning Rongrong toward the stronghold of the Nether Clan.
Unlike the Tang Sect, the stronghold of the Ming Clan in Xingluo City is a huge mansion, or more specifically, it should be called a warehouse. It is located in a corner of Xingluo City. It covers a huge area and is surrounded by a high wall, making it impossible to see what it looks like inside, and it looks very secretive.
"Hey hey, the person who comes to the scene is stopped. This is the warehouse of the Nether Clan, and the idle people are not allowed to enter. Let's take a walk and leave quickly!"
As soon as Gan Jue and Ning Rongrong approached, a guard saw them. The other party hurriedly ran to stop them.
"I have something to ask your person in charge, so I'll call you for me."
Gan Jue said this without saying nonsense, and after saying this expressionlessly, Conra's momentum was slightly released.
What is Gan Jue's strength? Even if it is just a little momentum, the blocking guard face is like Fu Tu and his body is like sieve. Even his martial soul is uninvolved. Two yellow century-old soul rings under his feet are rotating palely.
"Please...please wait here."
After a while, the guards reacted, and then responded tremblingly, then turned around and ran away.
After all, it was his own power, so Gan Jue didn't want to make any tricks, so he didn't do too many moves, so he took Ning Rongrong quietly to wait quietly. After a while, a middle-aged man in management clothes walked over quickly under the guidance of the guard. The moment he saw Gan Jue, he turned his head to look at the guard with a strange expression. Some people of his age would be the powerful soul master that the guard said.
But Gan Jue didn't talk nonsense to him. He threw a thing out with a swing and was caught by the manager.
"Take me to the living room and call your top managers here to see me."
Gan Jue said, then took Ning Rongrong to walk into the mansion with big strides. The manager frowned and spread his palms open. In just a moment, he immediately clenched again.
His strength is not weak, and he is at the level of a soul king, so just by just one glance, he recognized what was in his hand, which was the Dead Soul Ring of their Dead Soul City.
As the manager of Xingluo City stronghold and the senior management of the Nether Clan, this middle-aged man is naturally a person from the Dead Soul City. However, the senior management of the Nether Clan can only be considered a middle-level member when he was the young city lord. Gan Jue gave it to the blue Dead Soul Ring given by Su Jiuer when he was the young city lord. Although this middle-aged man could not recognize what the Dead Soul Ring represents, he knew one thing that the larger the Dead Soul Stone inlaid on the Dead Soul Ring, the higher the identity in the Dead Soul City. The Dead Soul Stone on this blue Dead Soul Ring is as big as the size of a pigeon egg, almost ten times that of his. He has only seen this level of Dead Soul Ring in his hands in the hands of Bai Ko, the leader of the Nether Clan. The identity of this young man...
Thinking of this, the manager did not dare to hesitate anymore, and immediately quickly caught up with Gan Jue and Ning Rongrong:
"Two sirs, please. I am the general manager of the Nether Clan's stronghold in Xingluo City. Lu Kong, what should I call you? Also, what do the two sirs have to build a top manager?"
"No more, hurry up and put the top manager here...uh, are you the head manager of this base, not the top manager?"
Gan Jue was a little confused. Since the middle-aged man said that he was the head of the Xingluo City stronghold, why didn't he respond when he said he wanted to meet the best manager?
"Often the subordinates are naturally the highest managers here, but three days ago, Lord Bai came here with the caravan and wanted to take some goods traded with the Xingluo Empire to the Hui tribe. So now, she is the highest manager here."
Because Gan Jue came from the Dead Soul City, Lu Kong did not call Bai Ko the clan leader, but called Bai Palace Master.
"Palace Master Bai? Aunt Bai is here?"
Gan Jue was a little surprised, and turned to look at the manager with some excitement.
"Yes, my subordinates have asked someone to inform her just now."
"Haha, OK! Let Aunt Bai come to see me quickly!"
Gan Jue said this and couldn't help but patted Ning Rongrong's hand excitedly.
"Rong Rong, Aunt Bai is one of the three hall masters of our Dead Soul City. She is named Douluo in the Mingong Department. I will introduce you to you later."
“Okay~”
Ning Rongrong nodded obediently. After Lu Kong beside him heard Gan Jue's words, his heart was also beating in his heart. Good, who is this master? Even the Lord Bai is called Aunt Bai, and he has to see him. Could it be... the prince of the Lord of Dead Soul City...?
Gan Jue was taken to the reception room of the stronghold, and tea, snacks, etc. were quickly presented by Lu Kong, and the hospitality was meticulous.
However, Gan Jue and Ning Rongrong didn't have much time to eat, because after waiting for two minutes, Bai Kou's figure quickly broke in.
"Xiaojue, are you back?!!"
"Yes, Aunt Bai, I'm back."
Looking at the inspiring Bai Kou, Gan Jue also stood up with a smile and went up to meet him.
"Haha, you are finally back. Tsk tsk, I haven't seen you for a few years, I've become more and more handsome, and there's a rune on my forehead. How about it, how have you made progress in the past few years?"
"Runes..."
Gan Jue touched his eyebrows and spoke with a smile:
"This is the representative of strength. As for the entry, Aunt Bai, you may not be my opponent now~"
"It's true! I don't believe it. Let's find an opportunity to discuss it when we wait!"
“No problem~”
....
After Gan Jue and Bai Kou reminisced for a while, they thought of Ning Rongrong beside him, and quickly pulled her up and introduced her to Bai Kou:
"Aunt Bai, this is Rongrong, the daughter of Ning Fengzhi, the leader of the Seven Treasures Glazed Glazed Sect. The 83rd level auxiliary control system is also my girlfriend. Rongrong is called Aunt Bai."
"Aunt Bai..."
Ning Rongrong shouted obediently to Aunt Bai.
"Hey..., but... Rongrong's soul power is actually level 83? Isn't the Seven Treasure Glazed Tower martial soul that cannot break through to Contra? And I think she seems to be smaller than Xiaojue, right?! In this way, Rongrong's talent is actually better than you?!!"
Bai Kou looked at Ning Rongrong in surprise.
"Aunt Bai, how could my talent be better than Brother Jue? I can have the current soul power. The reward for the Sea God God exam is almost ten. But Brother Jue's death God exam does not reward soul power. All soul power is cultivated by himself, so in terms of talent, Brother Jue must be more powerful. And Aunt Bai, don't underestimate Brother Jue. His soul power has reached level 86, and he is definitely not worse than me!"
"Level 86? Xiaojue, your soul power is already so high. You have only been away for more than four years. How did you practice..."
Bai Kou was shocked again. After a while, he nodded suddenly:
"No wonder, no wonder you dare to challenge me. Then don't wait, let's go out to have a discussion now, let me see how strong your kid can be now!"
"..., forget it, Aunt Bai, we really want to fight. I don't know how big the scope of the destruction is. This stronghold cannot bear it. I'd better find another opportunity next time. By the way, Aunt Bai, how has our Dead Soul City developed in the past few years?"
"Um..."
Bai Kou heard Gan Jue's words and also extinguished the core of the competition. He pondered for a moment, and turned his head to look at Ning Rongrong in Gan Jue's gaze. She knew that it was time for her to report to Gan Jue, the city lord of the Dead Soul City. But Ning Rongrong was a member of the Seven Treasures Glazed Li Sect after all, and his identity still made him a little worried.
"It's okay, Aunt Bai, just say it. Rongrong is my lover. Even if I'm a big devil who kills without blinking, she won't betray me. What's more, Dead Soul City shouldn't have done anything bad now, right?"
"..., I won't betray you, I will die with you!"
Hearing Gan Jue's words, Ning Rongrong choked with Gan Jue angrily. Bai Kou looked at Gan Jue and Ning Rongrong's bickering and nodded with some amusement.
"Yes, now we have no demand, so naturally we will not do anything bad. In fact, in recent years, the development of our Dead Soul City has far exceeded the past. The population alone has increased by nearly 10,000. Although they are all newborns, the earliest group of children, the awakening of martial souls began soon. I believe we will have a good harvest. Also, now our Dead Soul City has gradually begun to walk out of the mountain city, and begin to march into the wilderness, and build other towns with the Dead Soul City. However, because I have been running outside and I don't know much about these things, so I'll wait for you to return to the underworld in the future, and report to you by Zangmu and Uncle Su. Now I will mainly tell you about the development of our Dead Sect in recent years and the various transactions made with the Xingluo Empire."
"good!"
Gan Jue clicked and signaled Bai Kou to continue talking.
"Because the other six major families in the Soul Fighting Arena are unwilling to participate in the war between the two empires, the Nether Clan has now withdrawn from the union of the seven major families. The cooperation between the previous two empires was naturally gone. Moreover, since all the Soul Fighting Arenas were closed during the war between the two empires, we have not recorded the accounts in the Soul Fighting Arena in the past few years, and we have suffered heavy losses.
However, now our Nether Clan and the Xingluo Empire have carried out in-depth cooperation. In addition to direct transactions with them, the various preferential policies given to us by the Xingluo Empire have also increased our accounts on the trade side many times. For details, Xiaojue, you can check out this general account."
Bai Kou said, and with a wrist, he took out an account book from the storage soul guide and handed it to Gan Jue.
Gan Jue opened and looked at it. It should be the general ledger, but the date, amount, expense and profit of each receipt and shipment are densely packed. Although he didn't make much profit at one time, only a few thousand to tens of thousands of gold soul coins, the amount with more amounts naturally makes the total amount naturally more considerable. Gan Jue roughly looked through it, but with so many quantities, he didn't have the time to check them one by one. It would be better to ask Bai Ko directly.
"Aunt Bai, what are the things produced in our Dead Soul City? What are the things that are usually produced in? What are the things that are earned?"
"Although the underworld is deserted, there are many things that the Xingluo Empire needs, such as various special metal minerals, raw stones, and even wild beasts."
"Ha? The wild beasts are also exporting?"
"What is a wild beast?"
Ning Rongrong, who was beside him, had not heard this word yet, and interrupted and asked.
"The wild beast is a special and only soul beast in our underworld. It has strong strength and fast reproduction, and has always threatened the people of our Dead Soul City. But I didn't expect that this wild beast can be exported, what are the people of the empire doing and eat it?"
"Of course, we eat it. The meat is also good. You should have eaten it in the canteen before. However, the meat of the wild beast contains the energy of the yin attribute. Ordinary people in the Dead Soul City take a bite, which is no less than ten days without the protection of the Dead Soul Stone. Therefore, only the middle and high-level officials who have the Dead Soul Ring can eat it."
"Will there be no trouble for the imperial people outside to eat?"
Gan Jue was a little worried.
"No. You can see the sun every day on the outside world. The yin energy contained in the meat of wild beasts is not too much. As long as you don't consume a lot of intake in a short period of time and have more sunbathing, there will be no problem at all. Even this negative effect can play a very positive role for the imperial military. As long as you give soldiers a little bit of meat from wild beasts every day, you no longer have to worry about the soldiers' heatstroke or something during training, and even the training volume can be slightly increased. Now the imperial military is already the largest importer of our wild beasts."
"There is such a thing...Aunt Bai, why didn't your Death Soul City export this kind of meat before?"
Ning Rongrong asked again curiously.
"Silly girl, if we were exporting it in the past, how could we explain the source of this kind of meat?,,,"
Bai Kou gave Ning Rongrong a sentence with some amusingness.
“It’s too…”
Ning Rongrong scratched his head stupidly.
"Okay, in the past, we were thankless to drive away the wild beasts. Now, there is probably a special wild beast hunting team in the city."
"That's right, there is motivation if there is profit. Hunting wild beasts is now a very important activity in our Dead Soul City."
"Okay, then this can be regarded as a disguised removal of a major problem for our Dead Soul City. Maybe in the future, we will be troubled by the insufficient number of wild beasts. Then Aunt Bai, what are the imported things from our Dead Soul City?"
"All kinds of food, vegetables, daily necessities, etc. are purchased in large quantities as you told me when you left. Now the reserves of these items are enough for all the people of our Dead Soul City to not worry about for ten years."
"good..."
Gan Jue nodded with satisfaction. This was decided before he went to Dead Soul City, just to prevent Bibidong and Qian Renxue from becoming gods first. At that time, they can still hide in the underworld and not come out, which is a way out.
"Ten years of reserves are enough, and it will be difficult to store them any more. So you can change the imported goods in moderation. Aunt Bai, you can do it yourself."
To be continued...