Gu Zuo didn't understand the talisman, and discussed it with the Lingyuan Daoist for a while, and finally said: "I don't want to pursue precision at all, as long as I can ensure the direction and ensure the distance of a hundred zhang, I can use it, in this way, the cost has also been reduced, fifty times a piece, it can almost be practical, but the power is a little weaker." ”

Lingyuan pondered, "Give me another time to ponder." ”

Gu Zuo said: "Let's not talk about this first, there is one thing, I'm afraid I need your help." ”

Lingyuan stared at the rune paper and said absentmindedly: "Say." ”

"Every year, we have to pay 87,000 spirit stones to the Chongxuan Administration, I have been settling accounts for the past two days, the more I calculate, the more I feel that something is wrong, we are so difficult to pay, what should other families do? I originally thought that everyone would go to the market to bid for spirit stones, and I also knew that the Chongxuan Department would put a large number of spirit stones out for the monks to bid for every year......"

Only then did the Lingyuan Daoist take his eyes off the rune paper, patted his head: "Wait a while, ......" Then he lifted the rune paper, and rubbed around a pile of waste paper for a long time, pulled out Zhang Gongwen, and said, "I just received it...... I haven't had time to say ......."

The official document said that the Chongxuan Department has put some spirit stones this year, because it has received many appeals from sects, and the remaining batch has not been put for the time being, and is ready to be distributed to eighteen families, please be sure to inform the general offices of the sects in each sect, calculate the demand, and the maximum limit is not more than 50,000, and feedback before September 10. Those who need it, at the price of three times per spirit stone, prepare cultivation materials of the same value, and exchange them at the Chongxuan Department before the end of the month. There is also a list of materials that can be exchanged for spirit stones, including various colors of demon pills, demon beast skin and bones, various colors of spirit ore, spirit grass and spirit flowers, spirit rice, spirit wine, dansha rune paper, and so on.

There were also a few strokes of dansha on the official document, which were smeared at random when Lingyuan Dao drew talismans.

Gu Zuo looked at it, and immediately became angry, the official document was signed on the first day of the ninth month, and today is the sixth day of the first month of September, where is this just received, even if it took three days to send it to Nanwu Prefecture, it was at least three days pressed on the table by the Lingyuan Dao Chief!

The Spirit Source Dao Leader also realized that he was confused, and defended: "These days, my mind has been focused on refining new talismans for you......

What else could Gu Zuo say, he couldn't say anything, he just said: "Understand, it's me who put too much pressure on you, there's no way, it's all for Nanwu Prefecture." ”

With this official document, Gu Zuo pondered, presumably the eighteen sects will apply for payment according to the maximum amount of 50,000, Wu Shanjing once said that the Chongxuan Department is going to put 1.5 million spirit stones this year, so minus these 900,000, there are only 600,000 that can be auctioned on the market, so how can those other sects live?

Although most of the eighteen sects could not raise various cultivation materials worth 150,000 guan completely on their own, they were bound to buy them from other sects and pay a large amount of spirit stones for them, they undoubtedly occupied the dominant position.

After this fierce medicine, maybe by the end of this year, there will be a large number of sect sects and Taoist halls that will not survive, how many of the three thousand sect Taoist halls mentioned by Li Mi will be closed down and dissolved or annexed?

Li Yu also said that there are nearly two million cultivators in the world, more than half of which belong to the indiscriminate number, and every year they get one or two spirit stones to hang, after such a toss, more than one million monks will really withdraw from the cultivation world and return to the lives of ordinary people, and it is almost impossible for them to obtain spirit stones anymore.

There is also a group of monks who may be able to rely on the previous accumulation, or the spirit rice, spirit wine and spirit pill to survive the New Year, but these things will inevitably increase in price, as long as the current situation is maintained for two or three years, this group of monks will also be eliminated soon, and the rest of the vast majority will be truly qualified to have capital to cultivate.

At that time, how many monks will be left? 500,000, 300,000, or 200,000 or even 100,000?

"Huaixian Pavilion according to the maximum limit, apply to exchange 50,000 spirit stones, everything is ready-made, I will immediately ask Kusi to count the goods for you, tomorrow you will take the goods to Zhongnan Mountain, and exchange the spirit stones back." The amount is too big, I will ask Elder Tu, Luo Jun and Qiu Dabo to accompany you, and we will count the three of them in Nanwu Prefecture as the most capable of fighting. ”

"Okay, I'll leave the day after tomorrow. "Lingyuan Daoist promised very easily, he wanted to make up for his mistakes.

With these 50,000 spirit stones, many things in Nanwu Prefecture will be able to turn around this year, but although the pressure is a little less, Gu Zuo's mood is getting heavier and heavier.

There are 8,000 naturalized monks in Nanwu Prefecture, and if you can raise 3,000 by yourself, what should we do if there are 5,000 left? What should we do with the thousands of monks in the four departments of Montenegro? What should we do with the other monks in the Black Mountain Edict? What should we do with the monks from Tonghai Zhao and the seven prefectures of Lingnan? According to a rough estimate, the total is not less than 50,000!

More than 50,000 monks, where will they get the spirit stones?

Gu Zuo quickly thought of several ways from a macro perspective:

First, most of the monks would definitely give up, focusing on the monks south of the Black Mountain Edict, the Tonghai Edict, the Yongchang Edict, and the Southern Wu Prefecture, and his heart expected that there would be 20,000 monks left.

Second, the purchase of spiritual rice agreed with the Dongting faction will see if it can continue to increase, and at the same time increase the planting area of local spiritual rice. It is strictly forbidden to make wine with lingmi, and the brewing of spirit fruit wine and elixir wine is encouraged.

Third, vigorously refine several elixirs that are conducive to cultivation. Encourage the breeding of carnivorous spirit animals.

It is hoped that the second and third articles can alleviate the consumption of spirit stones, and strive to replenish thirty or forty thousand spirit stones.

Southern Wu Prefecture immediately began to operate, a number of decrees were issued, and some sects began to be keenly aware of the great changes that were taking place.

Luo Xingwen, who had been cooperating with the law department of Nanwu Prefecture for several days, finally received an official notice from Liu Xuanji, asking him to return to Tianzhou to implement the new card ticket and cultivation certificate system according to the previous proposal, and as for his salary, it was sixteen spirit stones per month, which greatly exceeded his own expectations.

Luo Xingwen expressed his attitude to Liu Xuanji, saying that after returning to Tianzhou, he would work hard to get all the sect halls in Tianzhou to get tickets and all the monks to apply for cultivation certificates.

But before he finished his statement, he was stopped by Liu Xuan: "No need, especially the cultivation certificate." Not only is it not forced, but it is also necessary to check it well, and for those who have poor talent, low cultivation and no money to spare, they can consider temporarily not giving it out. In the future, if you want to apply for a cultivation certificate, you will not only have to pay money, but also take an assessment. ”

Luo Xingwen suddenly asked: "Liu joined the army because...... Aren't there enough spirit stones?"

Liu Xuanji didn't hide it from him: "There are reasons for this. ”

Luo Xingwen rushed back to Tianzhou, and Liu Xuanji began to deal with Yingzhou, Tangzhou and Wu'anzhou, and ordered someone to send an order to let the Sanzhou Law Division join the army and immediately rush to Nanwu Prefecture to meet.

The person who gave the order turned back before he went down Nanwu Mountain, and the object of his order had already been waiting at the foot of the mountain, in addition to Sanzhou, even Yongzhou and Longzhou, who were ready to deal with it next, had also arrived.

Looking at the five soldiers in front of him who respectfully greeted the "Shangguan" in unison, Liu Xuanji suddenly had a feeling of a small court in the southwest. The Lingnan prefectures, which were originally going to be slowly closed step by step, were so easily subdued, and what they were persuaded was not their reputation, scheming methods, and military might, but the rapidly growing price of spirit stones.

All the strategies and plans that Liu Xuanji had calculated and formulated had become waste paper, and there was no use in the slightest.

He couldn't help but smile bitterly, this is a damn trend!