There are many high-rise buildings in Biancheng, and countless buildings are scattered on both sides of the street.

On Baizhang Street, the carnival team grew stronger and stronger, and the city guards who had returned victoriously gradually converged towards the city lord's mansion in the center.

The formation on the street is difficult to unravel, and the carriage and horses are prohibited, and in the next few days, this street will only belong to the people of Biancheng who are carnivaling.

After the city guards, the crowd on the street began to pour into the high-rise buildings on both sides of the street, and the high-rise buildings were full of green buildings and wine shops.

On the top floor of a building dozens of feet high, singing, dancing and drinking banquets have been going on for a long time.

"Young Sect Master, what do you think of the girl in this Pan Building?" said a man at the low table with a flattering face on his face.

The man put down the wine in his hand, glanced at it with a squint, and said without interest: "So-so!"

This man is Gao Sheng, the young master of the Tiangong Sect who was taught a lesson by Yun Ye on the city wall in the morning because of his covetousness of Yang Aster's beauty.

The Tiangong Sect and his party came to Biancheng for a routine business in previous years, and for the continuation of the sect, they came here to select ten school-age teenagers to return to the sect as new disciples of the Tiangong Sect.

Population resources seem to be the most ordinary, and even very cheap compared to the rest of the resources, but they are the cornerstone of the continuation and development of all forces.

In this area of cultivators, the current population is relatively scarce, and it is even so strict that it affects the existence of various forces. Speaking of which, this is also a cup of bitter wine brewed by the various forces themselves.

Since the drastic changes in heaven and earth, the aura has become increasingly scarce, in order to plunder the aura to the maximum, in addition to the continuous conquest of each other, the various forces have almost targeted ordinary people without spiritual roots!

All ordinary people were either driven to the edge, bitter cold places, or captured by various forces to do coolies, labor, or used as cannon fodder, driven to the front line of the battlefield.

The consequence of this is that it directly leads to the widespread death of ordinary people, and the population of ordinary people is drastically reduced in a short period of time.

At the beginning, the various forces didn't care in the slightest, but felt that if they died more ant-like mortals, they could save more spiritual energy resources, and there was no gain or loss, which was very good!

It's just that with the passage of time, the high-level cultivators have died one by one, the strength of the major forces has declined sharply, and what is even worse is that there are fewer and fewer people with spiritual roots, and they are far from being able to support the huge forces by relying on the few descendants of their own family.

The forces that had oppressed the common people the most were the first to taste the bitter fruits, and those forces that could hardly find ordinary people in their spheres of influence were the first to weaken and eventually be swallowed up by neighboring forces.

However, the population problem remains unresolved.

Later, more and more forces, even if they continued to provoke wars, eventually became weaker and weaker.

Only then did the clever guy realize where the root knot was!

Those ordinary people who are regarded by them as ants, who have been oppressed and enslaved are the foundation of their survival!

To these powerful cultivators, ordinary people who do not possess spiritual roots are indeed useless. However, among the ordinary people with a huge base, people with spiritual roots can continue to appear!

Although the probability of having a spiritual root among the descendants of a couple who are both cultivators is relatively large, the number of cultivators is already scarce, and with the war, with the continuous dilution of the spiritual root quality due to reproduction, the number of people with spiritual roots will only become less and less. The forces that drive out ordinary people are like wells without springs, and they are doomed to perish.

By this time, Biancheng, which was originally inconspicuous, had quietly become the most powerful force in this region!

Although the Biancheng City Lords of the past dynasties were all the people with the highest level of cultivation, the overall strength of a force is not determined by a single strong person in many cases. There are also people in other forces who are equivalent to the main cultivators of Biancheng City, and some even have more than one person, plus a huge middle-level master, the original Biancheng can only be regarded as having the ability to protect itself in this area, and it is difficult to dominate.

Ke Biancheng never oppressed or enslaved ordinary people, and even forcibly restricted cultivators, giving ordinary people the best living environment. This point was ridiculed and resisted by countless forces and countless cultivators back then, however, the Biancheng City Lord's Mansion relied on the city guards to forcibly implement this basic strategy!

When the population crisis broke out, the rest of the forces were amazed by the far-reaching and extraordinary insight of the first city lord of Biancheng, who established the basic order of Biancheng!

Although the population of Biancheng has always remained at the level of about 900,000, nearly 100 teenagers with spiritual roots can appear every year, and there are even more people with various abilities!

Basically, the cultivators, capable soldiers, and auxiliary soldiers who are killed in battle in the beast tide every year can be properly replenished. Therefore, although Biancheng has to experience a major battle every year, the strength of the city guards has not decreased at all, but because of the continuous war training, it has the most powerful military strength.

More than a thousand years ago, when the last few old monsters of the Transformation Stage were still there, the population crisis was becoming more and more serious, after all, it was too difficult for cultivators to change their habits of oppression and enslavement of ordinary people over the years!

Although the various forces have been forced to change their corresponding strategies, the living conditions of ordinary people have not changed much, and the growth of the population of ordinary people is still slow.

After all, even if they were the last incarnation period and had unparalleled power, they couldn't forcibly impose their thoughts on everyone, and the cultivators only had the Great Dao in their eyes, and they were naturally selfish, so how could it be possible for them to distribute the precious resources in their hands to ordinary people like ants?

Even if it is said that it is related to the life and death of the family and the sect, in the eyes of the cultivators who only have their own cultivation, the family and the sect are gone, and if they find another force to rely on, as long as they are strong enough, are they afraid that they will not be able to find the power that provides them with cultivation resources?

This is the group and the individual, the immediate and the long-term, these two pairs of eternal contradictions are extremely vividly embodied!

The countermeasures of the upper echelons always focus on the overall situation, but when it comes to individuals, it is extremely difficult to implement them!

Because of this, although a full millennium has passed since the first signs of the demographic crisis emerged, the current situation of ordinary people in other places has not changed much.

In desperation, the old monsters of the Transformation Stage more than a thousand years ago had no choice but to turn their eyes to Biancheng!

Several old monsters of the Transformation Stage gathered in Biancheng and made an agreement with the then Biancheng City Lord!

It is agreed that these forces they represent will have the right to select ten young people from Biancheng who have not been screened by the city guards every year in the future, and collect them from their respective sects as disciples and successors!

This agreement is obviously detrimental to the interests of Biancheng, but those old monsters of the Transformation Stage back then were originally coerced, and for these old guys who have no hope of advancing and have little time, their respective sects and families are the last shackles in their lives. If the city lord of Biancheng didn't agree, I was afraid that these old guys would have been ready to rob people!

Although there are city guards and Biancheng's protective array, if he wants to resist the combined attack of the digital god stage monsters, even if the Biancheng city lord is extraordinary, he doesn't have much chance of winning, not to mention the devastating blow that will be brought to Biancheng, which is no bigger than the loss of dozens of young people with spiritual roots every year.

Yes, the "unscreened by the city guards" mentioned in the agreement means that the teenagers will be selected in advance for the people of these forces before the martial arts hall is sent to participate in the city guard assessment every year.

However, the city lord of Biancheng did not let go, and added another one, "Only all forces are allowed to send Jindan period monks to select"!

It is said that a monk who practiced the void period 10,000 years ago and cultivated above can clearly distinguish the quality of the spiritual root when the spiritual root is not revealed.

But in the years after the drastic changes in heaven and earth, the cultivation period gradually became scarce, and the transformation period did not have this ability.

If you want to explore the quality of a person's spiritual root, you can only wait until the spiritual root first appears, and then the old monster of the Yuan Infant Stage casts a spell to investigate, but you also need to cast the spell face-to-face carefully to find out the subtle differences in the spiritual root of the individual, otherwise, a person with an ice attribute spirit root is likely to be mistaken for a miscellaneous spirit root.

After all, except for the spiritual root of a single attribute such as the Heavenly Spirit Root, the rest of the quality of the spiritual root are a collection of multiple attributes, even if it is a higher-quality alien spirit root, it is also a mutation caused by the mixing of two spiritual roots!

It stands to reason that the alien spirit root belongs to the category of earth spirit root, however, the alien spirit root mutated by the two attributes can produce a strong attraction to several rare attribute auras between heaven and earth, and these rare attribute auras are all stored in a single form, so the alien spirit root is the same as the heavenly spirit root.

At the same time, due to the powerful power of these mutated attributes, the monks of the Alien Spirit Root have combat power far beyond those of the same level. For this reason, the Alien Spirit Root will be ranked above the Heavenly Spirit Root and become the highest quality Spirit Root attribute!

However, a person with an alien spirit root, even if he comes to investigate in his infancy, if he is not careful, he is likely to mistake it for an earth spirit root that is a miscellaneous product. After all, only when the two attributes in the body reach a skillful balance can there be abnormal changes, and the specific amount of them will never be recognized without careful investigation and careful calculation!

Of course, if you just want to find out if you have a spiritual root, and you don't need to clearly distinguish its quality, then you only need a monk from the foundation building stage to come with a Yuan Infant refining magic weapon!

The city lord of Biancheng back then really wanted to overwhelm the cultivation of the people who came from various forces during the foundation building period, but those few old monsters in the god transformation period were not fuel-efficient lamps, how could they be fooled by this?

In the end, under some tug-of-war, the cultivation of future people was determined to reach the Jindan period.

Cultivators in the Jindan period can also roughly distinguish the quality of the spiritual root when they are holding a special magic weapon, but they can only rely on luck if they want to specifically distinguish the difference between the alien spirit root and the earth spirit root.

However, then again, how can the alien spirit root be so easy to encounter? Even the dual-attribute earth spirit root is the object of competition among various forces, right?R1058