Shi Lei was renowned for his battle strength at the peak of rank seven, ranking second only to Feng Jiu Ge. It was only natural that Gu Immortals with high battle strength would possess well-managed immortal apertures.
But Shi Lei had gone beyond merely good and reached an excellent level in managing his blessed land, even causing Fang Yuan to feel slightly surprised. Without at least wisdom path master attainment, it was extremely difficult to calculate the countless factors that would affect the surrounding environment and the interactions between resource points.
Shocking Rock land spirit explained everything by transmitting information to Fang Yuan.
In total, Shocking Rock blessed land had six regions. The central control region was located in the middle of the blessed land, where a huge and luxurious palace had been constructed. The palace was a mortal Gu House that Shi Lei had previously used for closed cultivation. But after his death, it now belonged to Fang Yuan.
There was an extremely large rockman tribe in the blessed land, to the point that Fang Yuan was slightly shocked by their numbers.
There were around a hundred rank five Gu Masters among them, along with countless lower-ranked Gu Masters. These rockmen were responsible for excavating the earth and gathering resources from underground, including the dried earth qi resource point.
Dried earth qi was a rank six earth path immortal material. It was produced when enormous amounts of earth qi gathered within a small area, causing the earth qi to condense into a solid form.
The central region was where dried earth qi was produced, and the rockman group was also located there.
North of the blessed land's center was something Fang Yuan looked forward to eagerly.
"Not long ago, Shi Lei began producing and selling stone monkey fur. This is an material that has been extinct for a long time, and in treasure yellow heaven, only Shi Lei sells it in large quantities. In short, this is a monopoly business just like guts Gu. I can set the price myself and no one can object." Fang Yuan thought about this and realized that the greatest gain in Shocking Rock blessed land was this.
The Gu world was relatively undeveloped in terms of commerce, unlike Earth, which was a commercial society where, as long as one had money, they could buy almost anything.
In the Gu world, the most common form of trade was barter, where the seller offered an immortal material in exchange for another material, a certain inheritance, or a Gu worm. In fact, transactions involving immortal essence stones made up the smaller proportion of trade in treasure yellow heaven, and only during times of peace were they regarded as a semi-official currency among Gu Immortals.
The most profitable form of business in the Gu world was monopoly.
Guts Gu was one example. Only Dang Hun Mountain produced guts Gu, and there was only one Dang Hun Mountain in the entire world. Whoever controlled Dang Hun Mountain controlled the guts Gu trade.
Thus, even if Fang Yuan sold guts Gu at a slightly higher price, some people might object and attempt to stir up trouble. But in the end, they would still submit and purchase it at the price Fang Yuan demanded.
And if Fang Yuan did not need immortal essence stones, he could demand immortal materials instead. The super forces or Gu Immortals would open their inventories to trade with him without any argument.
This was the power of monopoly!
Stone monkey fur had prospects comparable to the guts Gu business, and Fang Yuan intended to completely monopolize this market!
In the northern region, there were around four million stone monkeys. These monkeys were roughly half again as large as an ordinary human, standing about nine feet tall.
These monkeys had fur as hard as rock, and they could not even close their eyelids because of its extreme rigidity. The stone monkeys lived in large groups inside underground caves or on mountains.
There were no desolate beast stone monkeys, but there were two beast emperors.
In the eastern region, a lake had been created from a special type of water called stone eye water. Large quantities of yellow sap millstones had been placed around the lake like a wall outlining its curves.
Yellow sap millstones resembled the millstones mortals used to grind grain, except that yellow sap millstones contained nourishing sap that formed a symbiotic relationship with stone eye water. By using these two resources together, a nearly ideal environment could be created for producing and nurturing earth path Gu worms.
In the western region, there were two Ninth Stone Forests. They were medium-sized resource points that produced rock cactus nectar.
In the south, there was a muddy swamp where dozens of desolate beasts were raised, such as mud monsters and swamp crabs. There were even a small number of ancient desolate beasts.
And underground was an entire colony of rockmen. Some were sleeping while others gathered resources, Gu worms, and various ores for their immortal master.
Shi Lei's foundation was truly enormous. He had spent hundreds of years building it up, but now, all of it belonged to Fang Yuan.
"All these assets can be compared to Starry Sky grotto-heaven in terms of the immortal aperture's future potential. In addition to that, there are quite a few small and medium-sized resource points, such as Thousand Stalactite Cave and the Earth Bone Stone Mine. All these resource points add considerable weight to the blessed land's overall value."
Fang Yuan was pleased with this result. The blessed land was already very good in terms of productivity, but with Fang Yuan's methods, he could increase this production by at least one or two levels.
After all, Shi Lei did not possess Fang Yuan's formation path attainment, and his earth path attainment was most likely also lower than Fang Yuan's, let alone transformation path.
"In the future, I can also annex this blessed land to raise my cultivation level if necessary." Fang Yuan planned inwardly when a message reached him.
It was from Fairy Li Shan.