Protect Our Clan Leader

Chapter 1692: Chapter 123 Wang Lixian’s Amazingly Bad Performance

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On the west coast of the Muzhen Continent, with its majestic, perilous, and extraordinary features, the winding coastline stretches like a natural protective barrier.

One of the main reasons for this coastline is that the Muzhen Continent has a narrow landscape with a long north-south axis, lacking east-west rivers that carry large amounts of sediment to form alluvial plains.

Over time, the coastline, continuously washed by tides and hurricanes, formed rugged and bizarre cliff shapes. Naturally, there are also many pristine and beautiful sandy beaches scattered among them.

Unfortunately, in the world of Profound Martial, these beaches are worthless, with no one having the leisure to sunbathe in bikinis on them.

However, the human race is known for its adaptability.

Even in such harsh environments, there are human villages and prominent families stationed, surviving by risking their lives to harvest jade claw snails, black jade spirit abalones from the ocean cliffs, and during flood seasons, speedboat hunting of spirit sword sailfish with fish guns for survival or cultivation resources.

These precious ingredients are acquired by dedicated merchant fleets and then transported to the county town or national capital for the wealthy to enjoy.

It’s now the flood season of ocean currents, and villages and prominent families relying on the sea have become busy.

The number of fishing boats on the wavy vast sea has noticeably increased, and fishermen head out to sea much more frequently, seen from a distance with the wind carrying their white sails.

For a Rank 9 prominent family, capturing a Level Three spirit sword sailfish is a huge bounty, enough to cover the family’s expenses for an entire year with a surplus.

However, the Level Three spirit sword sailfish are fierce, making hunting risky, thus some in-law families choose to combine forces to hunt, dividing the rewards according to contribution after the hunt.

Compared to previous years, these prominent families are exceptionally excited this year.

In the past half a year, the prices for jade claw snails, black jade spirit abalones, and even crimson shells have been rising, with purchase prices doubling from previous years.

The merchant fleets publicly announced they provide cold crystal boxes, and once the spirit sword sailfish are captured, they are immediately bled, partitioned, and placed in cold crystal boxes, priced at least twice as high as before!

Upon confirming the news as true, the eyes of the prominent families in these remote areas reddened with excitement.

This is a lucrative opportunity; with effort, the year’s harvest can equal two ordinary years, providing extra Zhou Gold to buy more Little Pei Yuan Dan for children with good bloodline talent.

People debated with a hint of puzzlement.

How did the prices of these exquisite marine products surge to such heights?

After communicating with the merchant fleets, they learned that Da Zhou opened trade routes with a nation called Dongqian, facilitating mutual exchanges.

These products have a brisk market in Dongqian, often selling out right after arriving.

Upon hearing the news, people were shocked.

Are the Dongqian people really that wealthy?

Lately, there indeed seems to be significant changes in commodity prices; besides seafood specialties rising, many consumer goods prices have plummeted. For instance, an iron pot that used to cost three to four Zhou Golds now costs less than two Zhou Golds.

Other items like bowls, ladles, hoes, sickles, knives, and porcelain have seen a significant price drop, and the price of Spirit Rice continues to fall.

That’s not all; unbelievably even some basic Dan medicine have become cheaper.

Little Pei Yuan Dan has dropped to below seven Zhou Golds, and the price for the Grade Four Spirit Pill, Heavenly Spirit Pill, that every low-grade prominent family dreams of acquiring has dropped to twenty-three thousand Zhou Golds.

For low-grade prominent families or ordinary citizens, this is incredibly beneficial!

With income soaring and expenses dropping, such good fortune was once unimaginable. With both factors combined, they’ve found their lives drastically more enjoyable, with much of their financial stress seemingly disappearing overnight.

Of course, these effects are merely the tip of the iceberg of the subsequent impact brought by Beizhou’s trade with Dongqian, yet the changes are tangible.

These days, people from the low-grade prominent families appear more relaxed and joyful, even occasionally improving their meals.

Amidst the fishermen’s busyness.

Above the sea.

A cloud manta flying boat gracefully soared over the coastline toward the national capital, Muxian City.

In the sunlight, its light blue surface shimmered brilliantly.

The giant manta wings cut through the clouds like a blade slicing through the fabric, instantly tearing the cloud layer into numerous fragments, churning the skies into a spectacle of swirling clouds.

This mere glimpse ignited the hearts of the local prominent families and common folk, lingering for a long time.

Ordinary people didn’t even know what it was; only those somewhat knowledgeable Spirit Platform Realm Old Ancestors had heard of the legendary cloud manta flying boat.

Yet, these remote prominent families’ Spirit Platform Realm Old Ancestors remain in one location their whole lives, let alone ride the cloud manta flying boat; many never even get the chance to see it.

Some well-developed families, with talented young descendants in the lower-class Grade A category, have already begun plotting.

The family should seize the opportunity from these prosperous times to work harder, invest more resources in their children, and hopefully bring up a Little Sky Pride Celestial Genius child to explore prospects in the county town for development opportunities.

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