Chapter 324: Promotion
Meng Zhang looked at Li Xuan below with a speechless expression. Since he was given the task of developing and expanding Singing Sand City, Li Xuan, the Hall Master of the Foreign Affairs Hall, had indeed worked hard and never slacked off.
He tried every means to attract merchants from all walks of life and used all sorts of methods to attract customers. In addition to conventional means, he also used quite a few unorthodox methods.
Firewell Market was the closest market to Singing Sand City. In any aspect, Firewell Market was superior to Singing Sand City.
Since the development of Singing Sand City was not very smooth, Li Xuan started to have ideas about Firewell Market.
If something happened to Firewell Market and the Shang Family went bankrupt, the market would be in a slump. The original Shang Family and customers would most likely move to Singing Sand City.
Some time ago, Li Xuan sent people to spread rumors. They said that Roaring Blaze Daoist Master had fallen, Earthfire Sect had lost its backing, and was about to be suppressed by Flying Swan Sect.
It was no wonder that these rumors had actually had some effect, causing Earthfire Sect a lot of trouble and causing Firewell Market to suffer a lot of losses.
In order to make up for the losses, Earthfire Sect took the initiative to refute the rumors and restore the market's reputation. At the same time, they specially organized a grand auction to attract customers.
This time, Li Xuan was acting first and reporting later. He did all this before reporting to Meng Zhang.
After Earthfire Sect reacted, they took a series of measures that made Li Xuan's previous actions useless.
In Meng Zhang's opinion, Li Xuan's starting point was good, but his methods were very inappropriate.
It didn't matter if he offended Earthfire Sect, but the rumors involved Flying Swan Sect, which was not good.
Earthfire Sect and Taiyi Sect had a long history of trading relations. Even though their relationship had become less friendly and the scale of their transactions had become smaller, Earthfire Sect was still a major customer of Taiyi Sect.
When Taiyi Sect and Qiaoshou Sect were exterminating Forest Spring Watch, Earthfire Sect sent a team to support them. However, they arrived too late and missed the opportunity, so they could only return without success. Because of this, the two sides did not formally engage in battle, and they did not tear each other apart and completely break off relations.
Since then, the relationship between Taiyi Sect and Earthfire Sect has become more and more cold, and their mutual vigilance has deepened.Although the two sides were barely maintaining a superficial peace, no one would find it strange if they fought one day.
Li Xuan's secret spread of rumors against Earthfire Sect may not have been without this factor.
However, the rumors involved the whereabouts of Roaring Blaze Daoist Master and Flying Swan Sect's attack on Earthfire Sect. If Flying Swan Sect knew about this, who knows how they would react.
The relationship between Taiyi Sect and Flying Swan Sect was also very delicate.
As the overlord of the Endless Sea of Sand, all the cultivation forces in the Endless Sea of Sand, except for the Northern Desert Qi Family, should be the subjects of Flying Swan Sect.
However, Forest Spring Watch, because of Guang Zhi Daoist Master's core, gained a status equal to that of Flying Swan Sect.
Taiyi Sect was originally a vassal of Forest Spring Watch. According to Flying Swan Sect's plan to exterminate Forest Spring Watch, Taiyi Sect was only nominally respectful of Flying Swan Sect as the overlord of the Endless Sea of Sand, but in fact had no obligations to Flying Swan Sect.
Taiyi Sect did not pay tribute to Flying Swan Sect, nor did it have to obey Flying Swan Sect's conscription.
Taiyi Sect was able to have such a special status because of the price Fei Hongzi, the Sect Master of Flying Swan Sect, offered when he persuaded Meng Zhang to betray Forest Spring Watch.
Fei Hongzi swore an oath to ensure that he kept his word.
However, Taiyi Sect was only a Foundation Establishment Sect after all, and always felt inferior when facing Flying Swan Sect.
Fei Hongzi guaranteed Taiyi Sect's position, but never said that if Taiyi Sect took the initiative to provoke Flying Swan Sect, Flying Swan Sect would ignore it.
Now, Taiyi Sect needs to carefully deal with its relationship with Flying Swan Sect, and absolutely cannot offend Flying Swan Sect in the slightest, and cannot let Flying Swan Sect think that Taiyi Sect would be a threat.
Meng Zhang scolded Li Xuan a few times, and warned him that in the future, no matter what he did, he must not drag Flying Swan Sect into it.
After the conversation, Meng Zhang waved his hand and let Li Xuan, who was scared out of his wits, leave, and he was left alone.
It was almost three years since Forest Spring Watch was destroyed.
In these three years, Meng Zhang had to expel the pill toxin and treat his injuries, and his cultivation base had been delayed a little.
When he was unable to cultivate, Meng Zhang had more time to read all kinds of scriptures.
Meng Zhang was really a genius with extraordinary talent and amazing insight.
After years of continuous recitation and meditation, he seemed to have made some progress.
When he meditated in his daily life, his heart became more peaceful and pure.Some problems in cultivation, he can see more far-reaching.
Especially in the field of Tianji, he felt that his attainments had improved a lot.
Some time ago, Yang Xueyi mobilized Taiyi Sect's forces to inquire about Azure Bamboo's whereabouts, but there was no result.
After Meng Zhang heard about this, he decided to help Yang Xueyi, so that she could avenge her family's blood feud and get rid of the hatred of her family's annihilation that she had been thinking about for many years.
Nearly three years, Meng Zhang accumulated thousands of calculation tally.
Meng Zhang chose a good day to use Grand Evolving Fortune to calculate Azure Bamboo's whereabouts.
If Azure Bamboo had already fled the Endless Sea of Sand, even if Meng Zhang had calculated his whereabouts, Yang Xueyi would find it difficult to leave everything in Taiyi Sect and go to kill him.
But if Azure Bamboo was still in the Endless Sea of Sand, no matter how well he hid, Meng Zhang was confident that he would be able to obtain clues about his whereabouts through Grand Evolving Fortune.
Azure Bamboo was also a Foundation Establishment period cultivator, and Meng Zhang had a hard time calculating his whereabouts.
Meng Zhang spent more than 800 calculation tally to get one piece of information.
Meng Zhang told Yang Xueyi the information, but did not explain how he got it.
Yang Xueyi had personally witnessed Meng Zhang's magic, and the last time she followed Meng Zhang, she had made a great harvest.
She did not ask any questions, and followed Meng Zhang's instructions, leaving Taiyi Sect and heading for her destination.
The facts proved that Meng Zhang's advice was really useful, and Yang Xueyi ran into Azure Bamboo and got her revenge.
Not long after, Yang Xueyi successfully returned.
After returning to Taiyi Sect, Yang Xueyi borrowed a lot of large-capacity storage magic tools from Meng Zhang.
After going out for a while, she brought back a lot of cultivation supplies.
Yang Xueyi was very honest and did not monopolize these supplies. She thought that she was able to find Azure Bamboo and obtain these supplies according to Meng Zhang's instructions.
The bulk of these supplies should belong to Meng Zhang.
Meng Zhang and her repeatedly pushed and shoved, and seeing her firm attitude, she did not continue to refuse.
Meng Zhang did not take all the cultivation supplies Yang Xueyi offered him for himself, but put them in the sect's treasury and exchanged them for his and Yang Xueyi's sect's merit.
In addition, Yang Xueyi also seized the spiritual pearl that was hundreds of years old from Bamboo Sword. She did not hide it either, and put it in the sect's treasury.
After all, it was Shocking Thunder Spirit General who paid the price of his own serious injuries to kill Bamboo Sword. Yang Xueyi was not the kind of person who would take credit for herself.
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