This time, everyone was thinking about how to punish a fishing village for making such a big mistake? Before that, there were a few small shortcomings, and several people died in the process of being strict and really rigorous with them, and if it wasn't for everyone to discuss it together, their group would have exterminated Youyu Village a long time ago.

Although this was too ruthless, wasn't Youyu Village even more ruthless before, and even wanted to destroy the Qingshan Clan and Huahai Village, since this was the case, it was no wonder that others used the same means to deal with them. In the wilderness primitive tribes, everyone lives and works together, and the products are collected and distributed in a unified manner, so in their concept, everything that is done in the name of the entire tribe will of course be borne by the whole clan.

But there are also many clansmen who disagree, because Patriarch Qingshan has already said that killing so many people on the day of the alliance and cutting off all the most populous and wealthy tribes in the wilderness is not only a bad omen, but also a loss for the alliance. If they are gone, everyone will not be able to eat such delicious fish as they are today. But Yu Da Shell and several principals must die, even if it is to pay for the lives of the casualties of the Qingshan tribe and Huahai Village, they must not be let go anyway.

Everyone quarreled for a long time, but they still didn't reach a consensus, and in the end, they still had to ask the Qingshan patriarch to decide.

Patriarch Qingshan looked at the people of Youyu Village who were kneeling and begging in front of him, in addition to the hundred soldiers in the military array, there were more than 200 clansmen in the central valley today, their eyes were full of sadness and despair, looking forward to Patriarch Qingshan giving him a glimmer of life. The Qingshan Patriarch muttered: "I have heard the words of all the patriarchs, and the most important issue now is to attack and destroy the Qingshan clan and Huahai Village. Do most of the people in Yuyu Village know about it?

Everyone is right, welcoming the envoy and inviting all the tribes to agree on an alliance, including the previous drill of the military formation for three years, and the coercion of the military formation today, is a matter of raising the clan in Youyu Village, all the clansmen participated, and they should be punished, and the person in charge should be punished heavily. But the matter of collusion with the Yu people may not be known to everyone. It needs to be verified. ”

At this time, Xiling said again: "If the elder of the Qingshan clan can't bear to kill all the people in Youyu Village, there is another way. Identify and behead those who are in charge, and the rest of the ordinary people are worthy of these warriors to be enslaved today. ”

What is this? Most of the tribal chiefs had never heard of it, and they all asked curiously. Lord Xiling simply explained that the so-called slaves are those who work for people. Everyone was even more surprised. Everyone in the deep mountain tribe has to work, and if they don't work, they would have frozen to death and starved to death, what kind of punishment is this, and what is the difference between not punishing and not punishing? How can there be such a cheap thing!

Lord Xiling had to further explain that slaves worked for their masters, and that they had to do whatever their masters told them to do, and that the harvested goods did not belong to them, but that the masters decided how to distribute them and what kind of food and clothing they wanted. Even they don't belong to themselves. Rather, it is equivalent to the owner's personal belongings, such as being able to take them out and exchange them with others.

The patriarchs of all the tribes understood it now, and they all felt that Lord Xiling was too smart to come up with such a wonderful way to punish those people with fish, and they all praised it. Lord Xiling only felt angry and funny, what kind of cleverness is this, there has long been slavery in the five countries of Bayuan, but these wild people in the deep mountains have never seen it.

In fact, there are ancestors of the fish family. was Zhu Ming's slave back then, but after following Zhu Ming to settle in another place in the wilderness, his descendants are no longer in this capacity.

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Zhu Ming, who was on the Shude mound in the distance, secretly let out a long sigh, he had been guarding this place for more than a hundred years as a mountain god, and now he could only watch the tribes finally come to this point. After the extinction of the Ming clan, the turmoil and changes in the wilderness in this area were unprecedented for hundreds of years.

It may be because of the sudden collapse of the Ming clan. It left a vacuum of interests and authority, breaking the balance and tranquility that the tribes had maintained for a long time, causing all kinds of conflicts and contentions. People learn to fight because there is something in the world that can be fought for.

And the appearance of slaves. It comes from the losers in the competition, and it also means that people can create a richer variety of goods for others to enjoy. The development of production and the affluence of life are of course a kind of progress, but the desire for profit will also be accompanied by the breeding of interests, which is the test or process that people must go through when they gradually get out of the wilderness, and it is inevitable after all.

It's like when someone enters the initial realm and can cultivate, whether it's the reaction of the body or the state of mind, they must pass a certain threshold.

Zhu Ming thought about the "problem of the initial realm" that he had been thinking about for many years, why the more people lived in a naïve and simple state, the more likely they were to enter the initial realm and be able to cultivate under the same guidance? And among the rich and prosperous cities on the Ba Yuan, there were even fewer people who could enter the initial realm among the same number of people? The answer may be related to this.

The appearance of slaves, on the surface, is that some people become slaves of other people, but for Zhu Ming, who is sitting on the Shude Hill, he sees all the tribes in the deep mountains, which also means that people have become their own slaves, because of the desire for profit caused by profit.

In any case, the desire for profit cannot disappear, and it is also the basis for people's survival and reproduction. But due to the emergence of wisdom, there has been an irreversible form of evolution. The tribes will become richer and more prosperous, which is also a trend and progress, but it will also be accompanied by many other things that may not be what everyone wants. This is not the fault of prosperity and abundance itself, but from the change of people's mood caused by more desire for profit and scheming.

The proportion of those who can enter the initial realm and become cultivators will become smaller and smaller, but there will always be people who will succeed, and it is a kind of personal enlightenment and cultivation. It is also important to consider that prosperity and abundance will allow the tribes to multiply more people, and the proportion of those who can enter the initial state will become smaller and smaller, but the total number will not necessarily be much smaller in the larger population.

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Without mentioning what kind of emotion or perception Zhu Ming had, Xiling asked again: "Lord of the Great Wall of the Qingshan Clan, what do you think?"

The Qingshan patriarch muttered: "Isn't this too much?"

Xiling hurriedly interrupted him and said, "Is it too cheap for them? Then kill them all, why bother to discuss them for so long! Actually, I think that these fish people may not be so insidious and vicious, and it may be useful to keep them." "The envoy's expression deliberately looked a little displeased, as if to say--you are the one who doesn't want to kill them, and now that I have given another suggestion, why are you hesitating again?

Now that it was time for the Qingshan Patriarch to decide his life and death, some of the people of the Fish Clan couldn't help but shout one after another: "What the Envoy is right, we are still useful! I can fish! I can build ships! I can weave nets! I can farm! I will build farm tools! I will also fish out the fish fry and put them in the sea of flowers, and in the future, there will be fish in the sea of flowers, and I will fish for Huahai Village! I will make particularly delicious fish, and I will make fish for everyone in the future! We will dig salt wells and boil salt to make salt!"

The guard beside Lord Xiling scolded loudly: "You all stop talking, listen to how the Great Wall Lord of the Qingshan Clan decides!"

There were more than 300 people from the Youyu clan present, all of whom looked at the Qingshan Patriarch with blank eyes, and there were nearly 600 men, women, and children in Youyu Village, who were also waiting for the Qingshan Patriarch to decide their fate. The Qingshan Patriarch nodded towards Xiling with an expressionless face and said, "I haven't finished my words yet, there has never been a slave in the mountains in this area, if you punish them for being slaves forever, isn't it too harsh?"

What does this mean, the patriarchs asked Lord Xiling one after another, and only then did they get more explanations. It turns out that "slaves" are equivalent to the private property of their masters, and if they are slaves forever, then the children they give birth to will still be the slaves of their masters, and will be the same for generations; as for themselves, of course, they will never have any hope of getting out, and they will be slaves of their masters until they die.

Lord Xiling secretly said in his heart-I didn't say that I would be a slave forever! On the surface, he deliberately frowned and said: "This is already the lightest punishment, didn't the Qingshan Patriarch hear the words of your patriarch?" At the same time, he muttered in his heart, this Qingshan Patriarch asked him to be this wicked person, but he had done too much to be a good person, and he knew how to use grace and power together.

As soon as they heard this, the clan chiefs also shouted: "Patriarch Qingshan, you are too merciful! Leaving them alive is already a great gift, and of course they should be enslaved forever." ”

The Qingshan patriarch coughed, and everyone quieted down, only to see this "city lord" muttering: "I have already made a decision! But instead of giving me the Qingshan tribe and Huahai Village, these warriors as personal slaves, now that the tribes have formed an alliance, then they will be the slaves of the entire tribe.

The village of Yuyu today summoned all the tribes to discuss the formation of an alliance, with the purpose of building a city in the central valley and digging and expanding the road to Pakistan. This should have been discussed in advance by all the clansmen of Youyu Village, so it is up to you to bear this matter. When the castle is built and the mountain road is dug to be completed, the lord of the castle will give the fish clan the liberation of the slave body. ”

As soon as Patriarch Qingshan's words came out, it was equivalent to making a final decision. Youyu Village will raise the clan as a slave, not a personal slave of some people and become a slave of Shanshui City. The Great Wall Lord of the Qingshan Clan also gave these people a glimmer of hope, that is, after the city was completed and the mountain road was dug and expanded, they could no longer be slaves, and their descendants would not have to be slaves forever, and they would still be the people of the tribe.

As for the size of the city, when it will be completed, and to what extent this mountain road will be repaired, I don't know what year or month it will be, and it will be the Qingshan patriarch who will have the final say. But there is always good hope, and the people of Youyu Village who were present fell to the ground one after another, and thanked the Qingshan patriarch loudly, and many even cried with joy, and they were grateful to the Qingshan patriarch.

Xiling glanced at the Qingshan patriarch quietly, and couldn't help but secretly praise - talent! Xiling often runs errands for the monarch, and he knows almost all the city lords in the Xiangshu country, although they all have their outstanding points, but in comparison, I am afraid that they are not as good as this Qingshan patriarch. It is no wonder that the Qingshan Patriarch was able to gain the support and respect of all the tribes here, and finally became the lord of Shanshui City.

At this time, it was almost dusk, and the Qingshan patriarch made another decision, asking the patriarch of the Langri clan, Xiaobai, and the patriarch of the Shuzheng clan, Yue Niu'er, to accompany Lord Xiling back to Youyu Village and announce this matter to all the clansmen of Youyu Village. Zhong Zhuang followed Lord Xiling with a battle formation of 100 people, and Bo Zhuang still led the most elite Chinese army battle formation to garrison the central valley in case the situation changed. And the Aoyama Patriarch himself will interrogate the Fish Clan people here with the other clan chiefs - who else is the accomplice of the Fish Shell?

Lord Xiling lived in Youyu Village a while ago, and he still wants to spend the night in Youyu Village today, but the fate of Youyu has completely changed. The news has to be announced by Lord Xiling, anyway, it is the intention of letting him be a wicked man to the end, accompanied by the other two patriarchs, and the patriarch of Qingshan himself will not go.

Whatever the final outcome, we'll have to wait until the next day to deal with other things, and if all goes well, tomorrow at noon in the Central Valley will be the execution of Fish Big Shell and his accomplices. The alliance between the ministries was settled. Except for the fish village, all the other tribes were happy, and the ordinary people of the fish village were also glad that they could survive the catastrophe.

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When a series of thrilling events take place in the Central Valley, Baoyu sits in his cabin. His divine energy had been exhausted, and his body and spirit seemed to be in a deep dormant state, unable to move even if he wanted to, but he maintained the last trace of primordial clarity, allowing his primordial qi to operate on its own, and entering a strange deep state of silence.

He had forgotten where he was sitting, thinking nothing, as if the world around him no longer existed. They don't know anything about what's going on in the outside world. It's a state of ignorance and desirelessness.

Before dusk, Shui Gu rushed back to the village with Xiaotian, treated the injured clansmen urgently, and listened to the Huahai patriarch tell about what happened during the day. She was also shocked and puzzled. After sunset. The water girl walked into Baoyu's hut. Sensing Baoyu's state, he was taken aback.

Of course, this kind of deep silence is understood. It will only appear before the consummation of the three realms and the nine transformations and the four realms. I think she had this experience back then, and in her opinion, this was the biggest obstacle and trouble to enter the Four Realms. Now Baoyu's state must be the consummation of the three realms and nine turns. And it seems that he has encountered a problem, and he is being blocked from the four realms by this barrier.

Generally speaking, those who can enter the first realm and be able to cultivate, as long as they have the appropriate guidance of the secret method, and there are no accidents, and they continue to cultivate unremittingly, they can basically enter the second realm. It may be a little more difficult to enter the third realm from the second realm, it takes enough luck or even chance, and for most people, it also requires a long period of cultivation, but it is not unattainable.

In this wilderness, the patriarch of Huahai Village, the patriarch of Huahai Village, is the Three Realms, the patriarch of Youyu Village, Yu Dahu, is the Three Realms, and the patriarch of the Langri Clan, Xiaobai, and the patriarch of the Shuzheng Clan, Yue Niu'er, are also monks of the Three Realms. Possessing supernatural means and having strong personal cultivation are also important reasons why they were elected as patriarchs, and the patriarchs themselves assume the duties of priests or witches.

Xiaobai is not yet thirty years old this year, and he has already broken through the Three Realms, and he has just become the patriarch of the Shuzheng Clan. Although he was not as good as the Qingshan Patriarch back then, in today's wilderness, he should be the youngest Three Realms cultivator known. But Shui Gu only knew today that the youngest monk of the Three Realms in this area was definitely not Xiaobai.

At the age of twelve, Baoyu had already completed the consummation of the three realms and nine transformations, and there were such incredible things in the world, and no one knew when he would break through the three realms.

However, breaking through from the Three Realms to the Four Realms is a lifelong insurmountable barrier for most people, and it cannot be broken through through the long years of diligent cultivation and hard work, not only does it require great luck and chance, but there are also many indescribable mysteries in it. Even if a monk has broken through to the Four Realms, he may not be able to make a clear summary when he looks back.

After the consummation of the Three Realms and Nine Transformations, continuing to cultivate may fall into a state of deep silence, and some people may even have various accidents. They are either encountering poisonous insects and beasts in the wilderness, or they are sitting in a stable position, but they will be inexplicably injured. Its injuries are in the original spirit, and the form is injured by the gods, and some people have faded because of this, and more serious people will have a great change in their hearts and even go crazy, and some people will die because of this.

Although the number of people who have gone mad or died is a minority, the vast majority of people who have suffered this experience will be greatly troubled, and their cultivation will be worried about retreating. Even if they can be freed from their troubles, it is often difficult for many people to continue to break through, and no matter how strong the magical power of hard work and cultivation is, the realm will always stop there.

After the consummation of the three realms and nine transformations, Shuigu also spent a long time in this "predicament", and was fortunate to break through the four realms with the guidance of the mountain god. For the monks, this is almost a line of demarcation. And the patriarch of the Yu Nation, Chang Mao, was also fortunate enough to break through the Four Realms, which is really a rare outlier among the demon clan.

Da Mao does have the ability, and he is far luckier and smarter than other Yu people, and his scheming methods are very incomparable. But the appearance of such an outlier should have been the blessing of the feather nation, but in the end he became the person who ruined the feather nation.

Shui Gu sighed and worried about Baoyu at the same time, is this child also caught in the final predicament of the Three Realms and Nine Transformations? Can he have a thrilling liberation, and can he break through the Four Realms in the future after liberation? This is the question that Shui Gu is most concerned about, as for why Baoyu can have the cultivation he has now, he can only answer it after he wakes up.

Shui Gu was aware of Baoyu's state, but also knew that she couldn't disturb him, so she ordered the Huahai patriarch to continue to guard here, and she took Xiaotian into the mountains overnight to chase and kill Da Mao, who escaped with injuries.

Da Mao's wings were pierced by a bow and arrow, and he could no longer fly, so he had to flee on foot in the mountains. It was a long and barbaric time, and it was impossible for him to go very far, let alone walk back to the territory of the Yu people like this, so he could only find a place to hide and heal. Xiao Tian is already a psychic dog demon, in addition to roaring supernatural powers, his sense of smell is also extremely keen, and even has become a kind of sensing supernatural power.

Even if the injured Da Mao pays attention not to leave traces, he will leave a breath, and Xiao Tian took Shui Gu to find him. In a very hidden place deep in the mountains behind Lu Village, Da Mao drove away a nest of beasts and hid in the cave where they lived, but he was still pulled out and killed on the spot by Shui Gu.

After Shui Gu returned to the village with Xiaotian, before dusk that day, Zhong Zhuang also returned to Lu Village with an army of 100 people. At this time, the Huahai patriarch had led people to rebuild the two wooden bridges, and the warriors returned home. The central valley has been decided, and there is no need to keep so many people, and these strong laborers have also been temporarily assembled and rushed to the valley, and it is impossible for all of them to leave the village for a long time.

Shui Gu has been staying in Baoyu's hut all this day, but Baoyu, who is sitting down, has never woken up. She pondered for a long time, and then walked out of the hut when it was dark, and ordered Xiaotian to remain at the door, and ordered all the people not to disturb her. In fact, the Huahai Patriarch had already given the same order, and no one even dared to approach here in the past two days.

Immediately after that, Shui Gu made two more decisions. First of all, the clansmen who have returned to Lu Village and Huahai Village, before the Qingshan Patriarch returns to the village, they are not allowed to go out, and the news of this place is not allowed to spread, especially the matter of Baoyu's great might. But this matter will inevitably be asked about in the future, and people are very curious to know the specific process of the Yu people's attack on Huahai Village and Lu Village.

Shui Gu instructed that if someone asked in the future, he would say that fortunately, the Qingshan patriarch had been prepared, and ordered the Huahai patriarch to lead the soldiers with strong bows to guard the village, and the Yu people who were attacking the enemy were in ambush. As for Baoyu's matter, it's not that he is not allowed to mention a word, let's just say that Baoyu, a child in Lu Village, has been good at flying stones since he was a child, and he smashed down many Yu people with stones in battle.

Then Shui Gu asked the Huahai Patriarch to rush to the Central Valley and tell the Qingshan Patriarch what happened here alone. If the Qingshan Patriarch can get out of the way, he will quickly return to the village, and let the Huahai Patriarch handle the rest of the chores on behalf of the Qingshan Patriarch.

Shui Gu thought it very carefully, Baoyu, this kid didn't know why he had such cultivation, this was definitely not taught by her or the Qingshan patriarch, there must be another master to guide her. Baoyu has been living under everyone's noses all these years, and she and the Qingshan patriarch are unaware of it. That master's methods are really amazing, and he probably doesn't want others to know about it.

In this case, it is not necessary to disclose too much information to the outside world before the situation is clear, so as not to arouse suspicion. Baoyu's identity is too sensitive, and the murderer who slaughtered the Daming clan back then has no clues, and he has to guard against it. A few days ago, the patriarch of Qingshan debated the law of the country with the big shell of the fish in the central valley, and only claimed that he was the descendant of Lu Wuding, but did not tell the identity of Baoyu, which is also a kind of protection.

Moreover, Baoyu actually had three realms and nine transformations of perfect cultivation at a young age, but now she has encountered a dilemma in cultivation, and she needs to be bothered less. The alliance of the various tribes has been decided, and the Qingshan patriarch has become the lord of Shanshui City, and he is also the patriarch of the Shanshui clan after the alliance. So who should be the next city lord and patriarch, the more Shui Gu thought about it, the more she felt that Baoyu was the most suitable - she thought about it quite long-term.

The patriarch of Qingshan led 100 people back to the village, and Yu Dake, who was killed in public, was not difficult to review some of the brains of the fishing village, the people here are very simple, everyone can't even lie, and a few more people are very easy to figure out the reasons inside, so things are going very smoothly.