At this time, almost four years have passed since Taiyi Sect relocated many cultivation forces and opened up the Yuantu Prairie.

In the past four years, the vassal forces of the Shangguan family, those whose homes were occupied by foreign invaders, and various cultivators who were enfeoffed by the Taiyi Sect, have all settled here.

One after another, the spiritual veins ushered in new owners.

On top of the spiritual veins, patches of spiritual fields have been opened up, and there are even rare elixir gardens.

Although the spiritual grain produced here is far from meeting the needs of local cultivators, it has greatly reduced the amount of spiritual grain purchased from outside.

Mining of various scales began one after another in the veins.

The various spiritual materials produced can be used not only for personal use, but also for export.

Taiyi Sect's development on the Yuantu Prairie has just begun, and it still requires continuous investment.

No matter how short-sighted someone is, they will not kill the goose that lays the goose to lay eggs at this time.

Therefore, Taiyi Sect not only did not collect offerings from the cultivation forces here, but instead provided them with various conveniences.

Some cultivation forces formed by casual cultivators do not have enough financial resources to develop their territories.

Taiyi Sect will provide them with low-interest or even interest-free loans, allowing them to purchase various materials from Taiyi Sect for territory development.

Taiyi Sect was originally suppressed by large foreign merchants and its commercial power was severely shrunk. It began to expand wildly on the Yuantu Prairie.

After years of development, Taiyimen has a strong production capacity and can manufacture most of the commonly used items by itself.

Among the three allies of Taiyi Sect, Changchun Temple is good at refining elixirs, Huolieshan is good at refining magic weapons, and Jiqiao Sect is good at making machine puppets.

These products were shipped to the Yuantu Prairie, which was undergoing large-scale development, and were very popular.

Taiyi Sect transferred part of its interests to these three sects and allowed their products to enter the Yuantu Prairie for sale.

These three sects are becoming more and more dependent on Taiyi Sect, and their relationship with Taiyi Sect is getting closer and closer.

The small alliance established by Meng Zhang now only has five factions.

Taiyimen is the well-deserved core and has become the true leader.

Meng Zhang's next plan is to formally merge all four other sects into the Hanhai Dao Alliance.

Meng Zhang only did not take action because he was worried about arousing the fear of Governor Zhang Weineng.

In fact, Taiyi Sect, Huanglian Sect, Jiqiao Sect, Changchun Temple and Huolieshan have formed a very close alliance, and they advance and retreat together on many major issues.

This alliance has fewer members than before, but its internal cohesion has been greatly improved.

In the north of the Jiuqu League, this is already a force with the ability to determine the overall situation.

Ever since the Shangguan family was destroyed, Wurift Valley has taken the initiative to cut off all ties with the alliance.

Although not stated explicitly, Riftless has been effectively excluded from this alliance.

The headquarters of the alliance has been moved from Huanglian Holy Mountain, the main altar of Huanglian Sect, to Xiongshi Ridge above the territory of Taiyimen.

Meng Zhang officially assumed the position of leader and began to legitimately lead the entire alliance.

The current Northern Jiuqu Alliance maintains its independent status except for Wurift Valley. All cultivation forces must act based on the wishes of this alliance.

Last time, Meng Zhang led a coalition of monks into the Yuantu Prairie and defeated the barbarians outside the territory. The other sects were worried about the situation in the Jiuqu Alliance and did not retain their strength in the Yuantu Prairie.

In this way, the Yuantu Prairie became the exclusive property of the Taiyi Sect.

Now, even if they are allies, Meng Zhang will not give up the territory and interests on the Yuantu Prairie to them in vain.

If they want to enter the Yuantu Prairie for development, they must also obtain the consent of the Taiyi Sect.

Generally speaking, it is necessary to exchange interests with Taiyi Sect.

In fact, in the entire Jiuqu Province, there are many people who are jealous of Yuantu Prairie.

Governor Zhang Wei couldn't take action personally, he just mixed sand and buried nails secretly.

Datong Merchant Alliance and other large merchants also began to fall into trouble after the destruction of Jiuqu City and the loss of access to the mainland of the Dali Dynasty.

These large merchants have a lot of power left in Jiuqu Province and can still maintain a minimum business operation.

But they had no convenient way to transport various goods from the mainland of the Dali Dynasty. And the production system they established in Jiuqu Province was far from perfect.

Without a large number of high-quality and low-price products, they have lost their biggest advantage.

They had to change their previous business methods and start to adopt the traditional business methods.

To maintain the operation of their own systems and to feed so many members, the operating pressure of these large businesses has increased greatly.

The treasure land of Yuantu Prairie fell into the eyes of these big businessmen.

This treasure land, which has been ruined by foreign barbarians for many years, has a good foundation. As long as it is managed well, the harvest will be good.

As a result, large merchants led by the Datong Merchant Alliance began to try to enter the Yuantu Prairie.

Taiyi Sect has had many fierce conflicts with these big merchants, and even killed people.

Meng Zhang spent a lot of effort to drive these big merchants out of the Taiyi Sect's sphere of influence.

Now that these big businessmen are trying to get involved in the Yuantu Prairie, Meng Zhang must do his best to stop them.

Every sect in the alliance has suffered from these large foreign merchants.

On this issue, they stood on the side of Taiyi Sect and tried their best to prevent these big businessmen from getting involved in the Yuantu Prairie.

Governor Zhang Wei could not directly intervene in the Yuantu Prairie and secretly gave some support to the actions of these big merchants.

Meng Zhang knew that these big foreign businessmen were all greedy people. As long as he showed any weakness, they would immediately pounce on him and wipe out all the benefits.

So, Meng Zhang united his allies, and everyone mobilized their respective sects to form a coalition of monks.

This coalition of monks launched a large-scale exercise.

The first item of the drill is a large-scale marching drill.

The flying boat team carrying this coalition of monks sailed from the north of Jiuqu Province to the south.

During the march, the flying boat team, which covered the sky and the sun, showed off its power and fully demonstrated its power.

The True Lords of Yuanshen, headed by Meng Zhang, even used the name of practicing spells. Together they cast spells in the sky, triggering various changes in celestial phenomena.

The Taiyi Sect and other sects reacted fiercely, ready to start a war if they disagreed, which made Zhang Weineng retreat.

He knew that the Taiyi Sect and other sects were just posing as threats and had no intention of starting a war.

But don't be afraid of ten thousand in everything, just be afraid of the unexpected.

If any of the many monks had a hothead, acted impulsively, or accidentally misfired a gun, it could lead to a war.

Now is not the time for infighting.

Everyone is a cultivator force under the Dali Dynasty. Even if they can't help each other, they can't fight each other.

The peaceful situation in Jiuqu Province has been maintained for several years, but the threat from the Purple Sun Sect has never gone away.

A few years is just a short moment for high-level cultivators.

No one can tell when the Purple Sun Sect will take action against Jiuqu Province again.

The forces within the Dali Dynasty were fighting each other, and the Ziyang Holy Sect simply couldn't ask for it.

Zhang Weineng, in the name of the provincial governor, made a promise that he would resolve the dispute between them fairly.

Zhang Weineng temporarily stopped supporting these big businesses and even stopped their actions.

Unfortunately, once some holes are opened, they are difficult to stop.

These big businessmen have made good verbal promises, saying that they will definitely take the overall situation into consideration and will not fight among themselves at this time.

They have indeed ceased their activities and have no tendency to continue to expand to the Yuantu Prairie.

But their plan against Taiyi Sect has already begun secretly.

The overall situation is of course important, but compared with interests, it is nothing.

Why do they take care of the overall situation instead of asking Taiyi Sect to take care of the overall situation?

If Meng Zhang is willing to open the Yuantu Prairie to them and let everyone share this vast treasure land, then the contradiction will naturally disappear.

At this time, after the group of extraterritorial invaders occupied the territory that Zhang Wei could voluntarily give up, they had to make further progress and continue to expand into the surrounding areas.

As the supreme ruler of Jiuqu Province, Zhang Weineng will never indulge their actions, but will do his best to stop them.

Despite the threat from the Purple Sun Sect, Zhang Weineng has already begun to make various preparations to take action against these extraterritorial invaders.

He hoped that through a small-scale and short-lasting battle, he could repel the group of extraterritorial invaders, teach them a lesson, and quickly solve this problem.

Under such circumstances, he didn't care much about other things.

Meng Zhang was not afraid of the big foreign merchants. Seeing that Zhang Wei could come forward to restrain them, he stopped fighting.

Taking advantage of the rare period of peace, the top priority is to accelerate the development of Yuantu Prairie and strengthen the sect's foundation and strength.

Under the leadership of Meng Zhang, the monks' coalition successfully returned home as a victor.

Meng Zhang didn't know the secret plots of those big foreign merchants, so he put his main energy back on his own cultivation.

In the past few years, some fourth-level spiritual objects were obtained from the Shangguan family, and many of them were sent to the Heavenly Palace, or sold in exchange for Yuqing spiritual devices, or simply bartered directly, in exchange for many items that Taiyi Sect needed.
To be continued...