Chapter 865: The Cult of Abundance

The Abundant Sect, located in Yanqizhou, is also very old. Although there are no powerful scattered immortals to support the scene, there are many senior and old-fashioned gods, and the foundation is very deep... Moreover, the Abundant Sect is the only way to do business from west to east, and Yanqizhou has many large chambers of commerce with a long history.

They use this large state that can communicate between the east and the west, across the inland sea, to engage in various trades. The business here is extremely developed, even more prosperous than the city of Mashbass, which is adjacent to the sea.

Many western and northern countries transport wool fabrics, silk products, pottery, porcelain and other things by sea and land, in exchange for a lot of gold, rare treasures, and also through Yanqizhou, in exchange for food, slaves, and spices from the south of the continent.

Yanqizhou, controlled by the Abundant Sect, often produces tycoons and wealthy merchants. Their business is not only spread across the states of the western continent, but also engaged in the sale of "silver bank". Silver bank is the banking industry, and one of the important businesses is lending.

Since ancient times, loan sharking has been the most profitable business in the world, more profitable than some uncapitalized business and flesh trade.

In fact, the doctrine of the Wanling Sect allows trading, but prohibits interest, that is, both loan sharking and normal loan interest are not allowed, that is, "all gains without work and gains by taking shortcuts" are sins.

The Holy City of Apocalypse also advocates this law and prohibits all loan and interest collection behaviors.

However, loan and loan sharking are not so easy to prohibit, and in the confrontation with the Su Luo Sect, the sects in various places also borrowed a lot of money from the richest sect at that time in order to support the Holy City to raise troops.

Later, the Holy City of Apocalypse had to make an exception for this move and agreed that it was not illegal to engage in loan business only within the territory of Yanqizhou.

This also made the silver bank industry in Yanqizhou very prosperous. Many large silver banks, these "silver merchants" who mainly engaged in lending and lending, had complex compositions, and many large sects invested and secretly controlled. This kind of profitable business, everyone wanted to get involved.

Among the many powerful banks, the Fengrao Bank operated by the Fengrao Sect is known as the most important silver merchant in the entire Western Continent.

Although many city-states have their own silver merchants, Fengrao Bank is richer and more powerful than these silver merchants. Even the previous popes tried to borrow money from Fengrao Bank.

As a result, all of this has created a strong financial position for the Fengrao Sect and a dominant position.

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In the Yanqizhou area, a banquet is being held in the "Horn of Plenty" temple located in the largest city.

Among the most prominent figures in the Fengrao Sect today, in addition to the many elders who are in seclusion, the actual people in power are the Holy Son Li Chihai and his junior brother, the general manager Tuo Longjia who is in charge of Fengrao Bank.

These two people are both gifted and highly qualified. It is unknown where the elders of the Fengrao Sect found these two geniuses. After being extradited to the main altar of the Horn of Plenty, they received the master's initiation, cleansed their marrow and changed their tendons, cut their bones and forged their muscles, and their cultivation immediately increased greatly.

Li Chihai directly became the Great Saint of the Fengrao Sect, and his good junior brother Tuo Longjia later became the general manager of the world's largest silver bank. Both of them can be said to be "under one person and above ten thousand people", with lofty status and prominent power.

On this day, the saints Li Chihai and Tuo Longjia were entertaining the supervisors of the Fengrao Silver Bank in various places, as well as many big merchants in the city.

This is also the practice of the Fengrao Sect. At a specific time of year, a dividend distribution ceremony will be held. Most of the people invited are "shareholders" of the silver bank, and they have invested in the silver bank.

To invest in the Fengrao Silver Bank, you need great financial resources. Of course, the returns are also quite generous.

Many powerful forces in the Western Continent, and even the Holy City of Apocalypse, have shares in the Fengrao Silver Bank, which is an important reason why the Fengrao Sect has been able to stand firm for a long time.

Originally, the Holy City of Apocalypse required the heroes of various sects to participate in the selection meeting held in the Holy City of Apocalypse.

However, the two young masters of the Fengrao Sect, the Holy Sons Li Chihai and Tuo Longjia, had no intention of participating.

Of course, the sect could not disobey the requirements of the Holy City of Apocalypse, and even the Fengrao Church only picked a young man from the sect and sent him to the Holy City.

In the reception room of the Great Temple of the Corner of Plenty, on the throne in the center, there sat a middle-aged man in silk clothes.

He had a dignified appearance and was sitting on the throne. The middle-aged man had a simple and square face, which was extremely majestic. He was the Great Holy Son of the Fengrao Sect, Li Chihai.

Behind this Holy Son, there was a row of Fengrao warriors who were all wearing heavy armor and were as mighty as iron.

These rich warriors are masters trained by Li Chihai himself, and their path is to combine magic and martial arts.

Every warrior present is wearing a strange armor made of coral gold, which is called the Bear Spirit Diamond Armor. The armor uses secret techniques to seal the demon soul of the giant beast Bear Spirit, similar to the Tiger Soul Howling Armor of the Great You Official.

These warriors can communicate with the demon soul in the armor with their thoughts, and they can transform into a half-bear, half-human, metal-cast Bear Spirit incarnation, which is powerful and can rival the masters of the Tao level.

There are many guests in this hall. All the major chambers of commerce in Yanqizhou sent people to participate in the feast. In the center is a rectangular table, which is thirty feet long. All kinds of delicacies are placed on the table... lambs cut out from the belly of ewes, camel humps cooked with spices, and various rare delicacies, and all kinds of fruits.

Gold dinner plates, silver knives and forks, and barrels of expensive wine were also placed beside them, and were brought up by the beautiful dancer.

"We at the Abundance Sect are very happy to welcome you all to come today."

Li Chihai raised his wine glass and saluted the many guests present. His attitude was very kind, and there was no hint of the posture of a powerful person at the peak of Taoism.

"The Great Saint is so polite."

Among them, Saint Delia from the Holy Dance Sect also stood up and raised her glass.

"This feast is a tradition of the Abundance Sect. I didn't expect that this time even our Holy Dance Sect and several other sects would be invited to participate in this grand event."

Delire gave several sect names.

However, these major sects were all neutral sects when You Wanxu occupied the Holy City, and there were even a few outsiders.

So far, the reputation of these sects has been affected to some extent, because they did not actively come forward in the You Wanxu incident.

The situation of the Holy Dance Sect is no less favorable, because the Eternal Tribulation Sect is now gaining momentum, and the female Sanxian of the Eternal Tribulation lineage has come forward to fight against You Wanxu. If the Apocalypse Holy City favors this sect on the issue of Yunhai State, Then the situation is very unfavorable for the Holy Dance Sect.

Delir's appearance this time was also to find beneficial allies. In addition to having contact with Fu Ziting of the Doomsday Sect, she also secretly colluded with people from several major sects.

However, she was deeply worried that Longbach had become the "appointed" seed player of the Apocalypse Holy City and could participate in the exploration of Duluo Immortal Palace in the future.

Delia was very worried about what achievements Longbach would achieve to further enhance the reputation of the Eternal Tribulation Sect. Then, let alone fighting against the sect, even retaking the city of Mashbath would become a problem.

For this reason, she took the initiative to come here, intending to cooperate with Li Chihai, the Holy Son of the Plenty Sect.

"Saint Delia is joking. The Holy Dance sect has a long history. I have also heard about the dispute between your sect and Longbach, who is of the eternal calamity lineage."

Li Chihai smiled slightly: "Regarding this matter, our Church of Abundance has always stood on the side of our allies."

"We are inviting guests to the banquet, so can you please invite me as well?"

At this moment, a faint voice came from the void.

In an instant, the layers of emptiness in the hall dispersed, and a seemingly illusory figure suddenly appeared here.