Five-Year Review Meeting

The five-year summary meeting was held in the Azure Cloud Great Hall.

This summary meeting was attended by the same people who participated in the previous five-year plan, including the Demon Lord Gudoer.

However, this time there was an extra person providing the service, and that was Chunxiao.

Who told her to be the youngest in her generation!

The debriefing meeting was hosted by Zhang Yang. After everyone arrived, Zhang Yang took out the fish soup that had been sealed away last time, poured a bowl for everyone, and then said with a smile, "Everyone has worked hard over the past five years. Today is a summary of our hard work over the past five years, and at the same time, it is the beginning of planning for the next five years."

Come on, everyone, have a bowl of fish soup first!

Chunxiao, go and make everyone some more tea. Today's meeting is going to be a bit long, let's take it slow!

"Yes, Master Uncle!" Chunxiao went to make tea.

Everyone drank the fish soup, even the Demon Lord had a bowl.

In fact, Zhang Yang didn't even know if fish soup would be effective against the Demon Lord.

However, since we've already attended the conference, we can't show favoritism to one participant over another.

After everyone finished the fish soup, Chunxiao's spiritual tea was also brewed, made from authentic Sacred Spirit Continent spiritual leaves and steeped in Snow Region cold spring water.

Given the current situation, it's likely that only the Azure Cloud Sect in the entire world could offer this cup of tea.

"First of all, we must congratulate Master on breaking through to the Mid Tribulation Realm," Zhang Yang said with a smile. "This signifies that our Azure Cloud Sect, apart from our Devil Race Clan predecessors, now truly possesses top-tier combat power that we can be proud of."

Meanwhile, apart from the Sixth Uncle who have not yet emerged from seclusion, the other martial uncles have also broken through to the Dao Integration Realm, achieving the goal we set five years ago.

Junior Sister and Qingxu have also broken through their cultivation levels; congratulations!

Zhang Yang paused for a moment, then said meaningfully, "Sixth Uncle and Seventh Uncles went into seclusion several years late because they had to preach to everyone, so it's understandable that they didn't break through. But some people haven't broken through even after five whole years; they need to seriously reflect on that!"

All eyes turned to the Cang Song.

Cang Song's face flushed red, and he said irritably, "You might as well just mention my name... Why don't you say that the fish soup you're drinking was made by me!"

With so many younger people present, all staring intently at him, he felt incredibly embarrassed.

Judging by age, he should be the oldest among those present, aside from the Demon Lord.

But the thing is, he just didn't make a breakthrough!

If he weren't so thick-skinned, he would have been embarrassed.

Zhang Yang ignored Cang Song's words and continued, "The goals of the elders have been achieved. Have the goals of the others been achieved as well?"

Next, everyone stepped forward and reported on the areas they were responsible for.

Junior sister, you go first!

Situ Mingyue stood up, took out a booklet she had prepared beforehand, and began to report on the area under her responsibility, "According to the goals of the First Five-Year Plan, the Azure Moon Merchant Association should cover the entire Azure Cloud Continent."

Currently, in addition to the headquarters in Azure Cloud City, branches have been established in the Cloud Mountain Empire, Cloud Soaring Empire, and Northern Sect Alliance, and the established goals have been achieved.

Because of the special nature of the headquarters, a large number of the Chamber of Commerce's goods are sold by the headquarters.

The three branches are responsible for training personnel, supplying goods to headquarters, and distributing materials, respectively.

There are too many details to list here, so I'll just give you a total figure.

Currently, the Cloud Mountain branch spends approximately 1.5 billion Spirit Stone and earns around 700 million; the Cloud Soaring branch also spends roughly 1.5 billion Spirit Stone and earns between 1.2 billion; the Sect Alliance branch spends approximately 17 billion Spirit Stone and earns around 10 billion.

Upon hearing this, everyone's eyelids twitched.

How could we have lost so much money?

Azure Cloud Master and the others were especially terrified; were they about to become poor again?

What should we do?

Situ Mingyue turned a page in the booklet and continued, "The reason why the three branches suffered losses was entirely due to the expenses for training talents, the loans provided to various sects and the Great Emperor Realm, and the purchase of various raw materials."

The real profit-making place is at the Azure Cloud City headquarters.

The headquarters in Azure Cloud City is where the real connections are made with all the sects and countless Rogue Cultivators, and it's also where the real profits are made.

Over the past five years, the Azure Moon Merchant Association headquarters has sold a total of over 73 billion worth of various goods, with expenditures of around 52 billion, and a total profit of over 20 billion Spirit Stone!

After deducting the losses of the subsidized division, the entire Azure Moon Merchant Association ultimately made a profit of approximately 15 billion.

Azure Cloud Master and the others looked at each other, speechless with astonishment.

Although the Azure Cloud Sect has a fortune of tens of billions, it was all earned through blood and fire.

And now, the Azure Moon Merchant Association has made over 10 billion yuan in just five years simply by making money?

There's a lot more content in Situ Mingyue's booklet.

She glanced at Zhang Yang and didn't continue her report.

Because the following content was not discussed at this conference.

That document contains data on the circulation of goods across various continents. This data was specially requested by Zhang Yang.

Therefore, she could only report to Zhang Yang privately.

Zhang Yang gestured for Situ Mingyue to sit down, then said with a smile, "Did you hear that? We're not short of money!"

Azure Cloud Master and the others nodded excitedly.

They were poor before, but now they're so wealthy, they're happy!

Zhang Yang looked at Jiang Zhiqiu and instructed, "Junior Brother Jiang, now it's your turn to report!"

Jiang Zhiqiu also took out the prepared booklet, stood up and began to report, "After five years of construction, Azure Cloud City has now been built."

Including the former Azure Cloud Town, which was later converted into Azure Cloud District, Azure Cloud City has a total of six districts.

The overall area has increased by about seven times compared to before.

However, Azure Cloud City is still under construction, and apart from Azure Cloud District, the other districts have not yet been fully completed.

Regarding the population of Azure Cloud City, five years ago, the population of Azure Cloud Town was the same as before, approximately fifty to sixty thousand people.

Currently, Azure Cloud City has a population of approximately 570,000.

Of these, approximately 200,000 are ordinary people, who have moved from nearby villages or come from other cities in search of opportunities.

The cultivator population has now reached over 375,000. Among them, there are 13 at the Primordial Spirit Realm, 307 at the Nascent Soul Realm, 1,570 at the Golden Core Realm, and the rest are all at the Foundation Establishment Realm!

Overall, Azure Cloud City has achieved its established goals.

Upon hearing this data, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

There are so many cultivators in Azure Cloud City?

This number far exceeds the number of disciples of the Azure Cloud Sect!

Furthermore, how many people are at the Golden Core Realm or Nascent Soul Realm?

With that number of people, they could probably sweep aside countless second-rate sects across the land, right?

It's just that these Rogue Cultivators' Cultivation Method and Law Treasure were a bit lacking; otherwise, this would be terrifying!

There's a question many of you here have in mind, "Won't there be any major problems with so many people staying in Azure Cloud City?"