Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1038: Chapter 719: Land of Calamity (Part 3)

”Family Head, I’ve bought the map!” Saying this, he placed a map in front of Yang Zhenshan.

Dazhao’s currency is also gold, silver, and Copper Coin, but these are just common people’s currency. Transactions among Martial Artists are conducted using Spirit Crystal Coins and Spirit Stones.

Spirit Crystal Coins are made by pressing the slag from mined Spirit Stones, which contain Spiritual Energy. The Spiritual Energy content is about one percent of a Spirit Stone, so one Spirit Stone can be exchanged for a hundred Spirit Crystal Coins.

And one Spirit Crystal Coin can be exchanged for a hundred taels of gold, and a thousand taels of silver.

If calculated this way, then one Spirit Stone is equivalent to a hundred thousand taels of silver.

Da’an Dynasty’s annual fiscal revenue is thirty million taels of silver, which can be exchanged for three hundred Spirit Stones if fully converted.

However, this is just theoretical. It’s easy to use Spirit Crystals to exchange for gold and silver, but difficult to use gold and silver to exchange for Spirit Crystals.

For ordinary people, Spirit Crystals are useless and far less practical compared to gold, silver, and Copper Coins. For Innate Martial Artists, gold, silver, and Copper Coins are merely worldly items, easy to earn, but acquiring Spirit Crystals and Spirit Stones is challenging.

Thus, these two types of currency are not interchangeable; they cannot be equated.

Buying a map naturally doesn’t require Spirit Crystals; just a few taels of Silver will suffice.

And this map is quite rough, merely marking the positions and influence boundaries of Three Sects and Twelve Families, not very detailed.

The Three Sects: Xuanqing Sect is located on the northern shore of the Sea of Spirit, roughly occupying a third of the northern shore, with a relatively small influence area extending only around three hundred miles northward.

Illusion Moon Sect is on the southern shore of the Sea of Spirit, near East Splendor County, less than a hundred miles from East Splendor County.

The last one is Wuxiang Sect, situated on the eastern shore of the Sea of Spirit.

Then the Twelve Families survive in the gaps between the Three Sects; additionally, there are many small powers on the outskirts of the Twelve Families.

Yang Zhenshan searched on the map for a long time, suddenly looked up at Tian Hu, and asked, ”Is Ancient County now the territory of the Lu family?”

Tian Hu was startled, ”It should be!”

”The Sun family is to the north; why don’t they seize the territory of Ancient County?” Yang Zhenshan asked.

The region surrounding the Sea of Spirit is not an ordinary area; why are so many forces gathering here, scrambling to occupy even a small portion of the Sea of Spirit’s shore?

Because the area around the Sea of Spirit is Blessed Land.

Indeed, it’s Blessed Land where Spirit Fruits can be planted and Spiritual Medicine cultivated.

They turn Blessed Land into Spirit Land, cultivate spirit fields, and plant various Spiritual Objects.

They call Spirit Fruits Spirit Roots, Spiritual Medicinal materials containing Spiritual Energy Spiritual Medicine, and plants containing Spiritual Energy Spirit Plants, while animals with special abilities are called Mutant Beasts.

Spirit Roots and Spiritual Medicine can both be called Spirit Plants, but Spirit Plants include more than just Spirit Roots and Spiritual Medicine; they also contain many other crops, like spiritual grain, spirit rice, etc.

They eat Spirit Rice, use Spirit Pills, and breed silkworms that are spiritual insects, and the silk spun is called spirit silk.

Spirit silk can be woven into fabric, then cut into garments with Rune patterns that have special effects, known as Vestment robes.

The foundation of all this is Spirit Land and spirit fields.

That’s why they are willing to go to great lengths to squeeze into the regions around the Sea of Spirit.

What they seek is to cultivate a wealth of resources using Spirit Land and spirit fields.

”This~~” Tian Hu also couldn’t figure it out.

Yang Zhenshan smiled, ”Why else? Because the Sun family doesn’t dare to fight. Why doesn’t the Sun family dare to fight? Because the Lu family of Ancient has the support of the Three Sects, and the sect supporting the Lu family of Ancient is likely the Illusion Moon Sect!”

Yang Zhenshan pointed at the Illusion Moon Sect near East Splendor County, even suspecting that the decline of Dazhao Dynasty’s current situation might be the Illusion Moon Sect’s doing behind the scenes.

There is conflict among the Three Sects, and the Twelve Families might need to consider faction alignments. Many small families and small powers are eagerly waiting for opportunities.

This is not any Sea of Spirit land but clearly a chaotic region.

However, Yang Zhenshan is not afraid of chaos in the Sea of Spirit right now; the more chaotic it is, the more he has a chance to fish in troubled waters.