Talisman Reincarnation - All My Clones Are Dao Ancestors-Chapter 176: Thunder Pools

Leaving the lake was easier once he entered the surface area.

It was light and he could swim through the water easily, the thunder element not as pronounced here as it was in the lake or even in the shark’s territory.

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"This is the thunder lake on a large map – it’s huge, right?

Although we call it lake, it’s more proper to say that 95% of our whole kingdom is a lake, and the rest are border regions.

This is the map of our capital, and in the eastern district, we usually have various alchemy conferences.

Conferences discuss the current state of things and work together to progress to higher stages.

The eastern district was chosen because there are many thunder pools – little pools branching from the lake on various islands.

You wanted to observe that, right? Let me take you there."

The tour guide led Ye Long, Gui Zen and Mingling around the capital. They were currently in the central area, looking at a stone table on which the capital was presented in small model stone pieces.

"The city is quite beautiful and atmospheric," Ye Long nodded, seeing a different city properly for the first time.

Previously, they would always skip around and teleport from one place to another, not staying long in either of them. Even the Tingle Kingdom was basically skipped. They spent less time in the kingdom than in other places where they remained for a week, which was quite disappointing.

He didn’t say anything because his master had already warned him that it would be like this.

Now his master told him to look around properly...

In addition, this Leihe Kingdom was quite interesting compared to the other kingdoms.

They walked along the diagonal main street to the east, observing the places around.

Lightening flowed through the stones, people were outside and enjoyed the blue sky, drinking tea and chatting.

Here, lightening wasn’t the strong destructive power, instead, it was a free-living spirit in the sky.

Walking further, they soon arrived in the eastern part.

The guide became quieter and told them to lower their voice, for the area teemed with strong people.

Gui Zen smiled and shook his head, not commenting. Obviously the guide thought he was at the third stage because he couldn’t feel his cultivation aura.

The difference was simply too large, so he could only guess that the cultivator was a stage beyond himself. He couldn’t possibly fathom the might behind the old hunched man.

In the eastern part, there were various open halls with blue symbols, cultivators and alchemists entering it alike.

"These are thunder pools for rent. They are quite expensive and it’s unsuitable for us to buy a ticket them just to see them."

He left the main street and instead walked along a side street.

Left and right various similar halls could be seen, but they were smaller than the previous one.

"This is the area of old and resting thunder pools.

Because thunder pools are connected to the lake, they form small water veins to pull water and form a spiritual spring.

This spring can then be used for alchemy.

But because it’s a vein, naturally there will be highs and lows.

To ensure the stability and strength of each hall, the royal family has established a four-seasons rotation.

They split the eastern part into for sections and dictated that each section can only be used for thirty years. Afterward, the section will be deactivated to recover and the next section will be used.

In the centre of the east, there is one Royal Alchemy Hall opened at all times. The price is quite high, but if you need to do alchemy that requires a longer cycle than 30 years, then you will be forced to rent that hall."

Hearing this, Ye Long, under the influence of Fu Xian, began to analyse.

’So, the royal family established a law and then filled the hole, profiting quite a lot!’ 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

One might think that not renting three sections would be detrimental to the business... but in fact, business is always best in the centre.

This means those in the centre had high prices, while those in the peripheral area were a lot cheaper.

But with the rotation, there is no cheap and expensive. There is only the central Royal Alchemy Hall and the rotating ones.

The price won’t drop because of location, ensuring each and every of these were at a high price at all times.

’On average, the income will be the same for the outer area, while the income from the central area will be an extra income since they created a situation where people would be forced to do this.’

A question popped up in his mind, so he asked, "What about those islands besides the capital one, do they have similar mechanisms?"

"Well, the sect islands do indeed follow this. Only those singular islands controlled by smaller forces have their own individual behaviour.

Generally there are always those that offer active water veins to alchemists...

But only young and inexperienced alchemists take such an offer.

If you own the water vein yourself, then you will know the highs and lows of the vein best, and know how to regulate it.

At least the use of the water vein will only depend on a single person rather than many customers.

When many people use a water vein, then it becomes exhausted in quite a short time.

So if you rent a water vein from a random person, without knowing how many people used it, without knowing the regulation of the vein... then the vein will be very risky.

If you’re lucky, nothing might happen.

But the chance that the vein suddenly stops giving out spiritual power is quite high.

Which proper alchemist would intentionally lower their success rate?

So in the end, most people simply rent in the larger islands or rent an island for themselves once they have the financial means.

Even those individual alchemists like renting larger veins for smaller high quantity projects."