Chapter 438 Visiting Together
Thirty miles east of Haiya City is Haiya Island.
As a rare place for spiritual cultivation in the Haiya area, a commercial town in the southeastern part of Zhongzhou, the Haiya Sect headquarters located on Haiya Island is home to nearly a thousand Haiya Sect cultivators who practice in seclusion all year round.
Although the density of cultivators on this small island is extremely astonishing, it usually looks extremely deserted, and no one is seen for a long time. This is because cultivators from the Haiya Sect who come here often enter the cave for retreat immediately. Very few people would come out to hang out, and the cultivators who could come out to hang out would not come here from Haiya City to practice cultivation.
Therefore, this overseas island where thousands of cultivators gather is usually as quiet as a haunted house in an amusement park. Only the pulsing spiritual energy fluctuations generated when cultivators try to break through the bottleneck of cultivation prove that this place is not deserted. Death place.
The retreat place of Haiya Sect leader Jiang Hua'an is located in the most secluded place on the entire island.
But today, Haiya Island unexpectedly became lively.
As two powerful escaping lights shot out from the direction of Haiya City, this place of pure cultivation was like a stone stirring up a thousand waves. A large number of Haiya monks who were practicing in seclusion came out one after another and faced the two escaping lights. Welcoming.
The main reason why the retreating monks of the Haiya Sect can treat him so seriously is because of the special status of the visitor.
They are Su Yuanfeng, the president of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce who has just entered the early stage of Jindan, and Han Xinhe, the elder of the Haiya Sect's Law Enforcement Hall and a ninth-level monk who controls the inspection power of the Haiya Sect.
In Haiya City, not everyone is like Yang Lu, who can meet the senior leaders of Haiya Sect casually. Ordinary Haiya Sect monks actually rarely have the opportunity to meet the second and third leaders of their sect, and even some Haiya Sect monks. None of the disciples of Ya Sect had spoken seriously to these two people before they advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage, so everyone wanted to take this opportunity to get acquainted with the senior leaders of their sect.
Faced with a large number of monks who took the initiative to say hello, Han Xinhe and Su Yuanfeng just said a few casual polite words and waved to signal them to leave, because they came to Haiya Island specifically today, and they did not come specifically to say "comrade" to the retreating monks. Thank you for your hard work." Instead, we plan to jointly visit Jiang Hua'an, the leader of the Haiya Sect and the lord of Haiya City!
This should also be the first time in the past twenty years that the three giants of Haiya City have met privately.
As the saying goes, there is no need to speculate. Although the three of them have been in the same city all year round, the three major families have many conflicts with each other. Even if there is urgent matter that needs to be communicated, most of them will communicate it through their subordinates.
This time, the two of them came to Haiya Island specifically to meet with the leader, which showed that the pilot reform of Zhongzhou's social security system has made the entire Haiya department's senior management restless.
Jiang Hua'an obviously knew that these two people were going to visit him, so he ended his practice early.
In order to entertain the two of them, he specially ordered his disciples to clean the entire cave. The tables and chairs were all spotless. There was even a pot of unknown rare spiritual plants placed on the wooden table.
Seeing Su Yuanfeng and Han Xinhe push the door open, Jiang Hua'an greeted with a smile: "President Su, I didn't expect you to successfully advance to the Golden Core stage so quickly. Our Haiya Department also has a third Golden Core stage monk. It's really gratifying. Congratulations!"
Although there was only one Golden Core Stage cultivator in Haiya City before, Jiang Hua'an, there was nothing wrong with his words.
Because in addition to Jiang Hua'an and Su Yuanfeng, the Haiya Department also has another Jindan monk who has a relatively thin presence, and that is Xu Haihong, the person in charge of overseas trade of the Haiya Department and a second-level Jindan monk who is based in Huoyun Prefecture.
It's just that this person is based in Huoyun State, so everyone always subconsciously ignores the fact that there are actually four major families in the Haiya family.
As the leader of the Haiya Sect, Jiang Hua'an would definitely not make such a stupid mistake when speaking in formal occasions.
The three early Golden Core monks are insignificant little shrimps in front of the Wuliang Sword Sect, but if compared horizontally with other vassal sects in Zhongzhou, the strength of the Haiya Sect is definitely at the leading level.
You know, even the Yangming Sect of the southern Zhongzhou sect, which has a population nearly three times larger than that of the Haiya area, has only three Jindan monks in total. If we consider that it was once the same family as the Haiya sect, but Including the Shanying sect that later split off, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Haiya sect is the most powerful vassal sect in Zhongzhou.
The average strength of the Haiya Sect monks is far superior to that of their counterparts in Zhongzhou. This is of course not because the cultivators in the Haiya area have higher spiritual root qualifications on average, but because the Haiya Sect has powerful money-making abilities.
In particular, the leaders of the four major Haiya families have more than ten times the financial resources of monks of the same level. Even Han Xinhe, the elder of the Law Enforcement Hall with the lowest level of cultivation, has a very good chance of reaching the golden elixir stage in the future. If the Wuliang Sword Sect hadn't deliberately suppressed it, the potential of the Sea Cliff Sect would have been much stronger than it is now.
Seeing the Maitreya-like Jiang Hua'an taking the initiative to praise him, Su Yuanfeng, who had just sat down, couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly. With the tense relationship between Jiang Hua'an and him, it would be damning if the other party's praise was sincere!
He originally wanted to say something, but in the end he casually handed it over and said, "It's just a fluke! I originally estimated that it would take a year and a half, but I didn't expect that it would be completed on the first try."
Jiang Hua'an chuckled and said: "Time flies by like a fleeting moment. I remember when President Su attended the Immortal Ascension Conference, I was still the supervising Immortal Master of the Immortal Ascension Conference. I witnessed with my own eyes the scene where you detected the three immortal lights. I didn't expect that it would be more than a hundred years ago. In the past, President Su has also entered the realm of golden elixir. Looking back on the scene at that time, it seems like it happened yesterday!"
Everyone is a person of status, and even if they are unhappy with each other, they will not show it directly. However, although there is not an offensive word in Jiang Hua'an's words, it can make the listener extremely uncomfortable.
Such a speech that relies on one's elders is like a family elder saying, "I hugged you when you were a child." The higher the status of the person, the more uncomfortable he will feel after hearing this, not to mention that Su Yuanfeng is still a dignified Haiya. President of the Chamber of Commerce.
Su Yuanfeng would definitely not be annoyed by such a trivial matter. Instead, he replied in a nonchalant manner: "City Lord Jiang has entered the Golden Core realm for nearly three hundred years. Among the Golden Core monks in Zhongzhou, he is considered to be an out-and-out leader." You are an old senior, even Chen Ming from the Mountain Eagle Sect is a little younger than you. Even though I was lucky enough to achieve the Golden Elixir, in front of you, I am just a junior!"
Su Yuanfeng's words sounded equally polite, but they were no less offensive than Jiang Hua'an's speech just now.
After all, the lifespan of a monk in the early stage of the Golden Elixir is only five hundred years at most. Su Yuanfeng said that Jiang Hua'an has entered the realm of the Golden Elixir for nearly three hundred years, which is actually a metaphor for the fact that he has very little life left.
Chen Ming, the leader of the Mountain Eagle Sect, is a middle-stage Golden Elixir monk, and his longevity is decades longer than Jiang Hua'an. Su Yuanfeng pulled Chen Ming out for comparison, and said that Jiang Hua'an was older than Chen Ming, and would undoubtedly increase his age again. The ironic meaning is eliminated, and as for the polite words that follow, such as "younger generation", they are not important anymore.
As the saying goes, you don't slap someone in the face when you hit someone, and you don't curse someone when you curse.
Cultivators always attach great importance to their own longevity. Su Yuanfeng's pointed sarcasm was a critical blow. Even though Jiang Hua'an was a wealthy man, he couldn't help but feel a trace of anger flashing under his eyes.
Seeing that the two of them had just met, they had a round of secret confrontation. In the end, Han Xinhe pretended not to understand and smoothed things over: "Let's save the polite words for later. Now that Lin Jianxing and Liu Hanxing have taken action, we The most important thing within the Haiya system is unity, otherwise we might as well surrender!"