Chapter 69: Heavy Rain
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"Because the Xiong family is the number one strong in Mengyu County, it is only one step away from becoming a new famous family in Yu County!"
Yang Tiangang said quietly: "As long as his Xiong family can become a famous family in Yu County, it will be one of the first-class forces below the entire Yu County Heaven Shaking Sect!
The strong Xiong family was like a mountain that overwhelmed the four Martial Arts Realm monks in the hall, and there was silence for a moment, and then Blacksmith Zhang said: "What about the other two powerful people in this county, what do the people of the Ning family and the Yu family say?"
This time, there was no need for Yang Tiangang to answer, Xu Sanniang on the side guessed: "I'm afraid that the people of the Ning family and the Yu family will not be embarrassed by the Xiong family at this time!"
Blacksmith Zhang was puzzled: "Why, aren't you afraid that the Xiong family will turn around and press them after becoming a famous family in Yu County?" Besides, the production of the county's Linggu has been reduced, and what the Xiong family has done, will the Ning and Yu families have no losses?"
Xu Sanniang said with a wry smile: "It is precisely because the Xiong family is on the verge of being promoted to a famous family, whoever wants to embarrass them at this time, the Xiong family will definitely play with their lives, so the other two families are jealous, and the Ning and Yu families are both strong in a county with real human realm monks sitting in the town, and the losses caused by the giant locust plague to them will be reduced by three or four percent at best, and the Xiong family will only see one-third of the grain tax, I am afraid it is also to take care of the feelings of these two families!"
Yang Junshan listened to the words of several Martial Realm cultivators in the hall, and unlike what they thought, why did the Heaven Shaking Sect agree to the Xiong family's approach so lightly?
Naturally, the Heaven Shaking Sect will not fail to see the truth of exhausting and fishing, but the Heaven Shaking Sect still acquiesced to the Xiong family's doing, at most, it only let the Xiong family charge forward and carry the black pot for the Heaven Shaking Sect, it can be seen that the fundamental reason is not that the greed for this Spirit Valley in Mengyu County, but because the Heaven Shaking Sect really has an extremely urgent need for this Spirit Valley!
From the Red Rust Rough Stone Incident to the current grain tax incident, Yang Junshan seems to see a behemoth standing on the edge of the cliff, trying to grab every straw to save his life, and he will not estimate whether the slender straw can bear its huge weight.
Yang Tian has just come forward, and the grain tax collection in Tuqiu Village has been completed quickly, which was originally expected by everyone, but it is not the same in other villages, which was originally reduced by two-thirds due to the giant locust plague, but the grain tax amount of the Shaking Heaven Sect was promulgated, and the villages of the entire Mengyu County can be said to be full of complaints.
However, after all, the Heaven Shaking Sect has accumulated a lot of prestige in the entire Yu County, although the spirit cultivators are reluctant, but they do not have the courage to challenge the authority of the Heaven Shaking Sect, and finally gritted their teeth and paid the grain tax, not to mention that in the process of collecting the grain tax, there are also the upper monks of the Heaven Shaking Sect who continue to come down to urge the review, especially the people of the Xiong family because this matter is related to the fate of the family, so they patrol the villages and towns in Mengyu County under the banner of the Heaven Shaking Sect, but all the spirit cultivators who have a feeling of resistance are mostly reprimanded, abused, threatened, and even beaten by these people!
And in Wasteland Town, it was Tuyuan Village that paid the grain tax immediately after Tuqiu Village, and the predecessor of Tuyuan Village was Qian Chunlai, after this person went to the town guard to take up his post, the village of Tuyuan Village fell on his brother Qian Yinglai.
Although Qian Chunlai squeezed out his biggest competitor Yang Tiangang this time, if he wanted to get the recommendation of the outer disciples of the Heaven-Shaking Sect from Liu Zhenshou, this time the collection of grain taxes was undoubtedly his best opportunity.
It is said that this Qian Chunlai made a lot of anger in Tuyuan Village, and it is rumored that an old spiritual farmer in Tuyuan Village was forced to death by Qian Chunlai's brothers because he was unwilling to pay grain taxes, and even within the Qian family, there was a lot of criticism because of what Qian Chunlai did.
However, it was a matter of whether he could become an outer disciple of the Heaven Shaking Sect, Qian Chunlai obviously didn't care about the negative impact of this grain levy on him, and under the suppression of the Qian brothers, the voice of criticism within the Qian family was finally suppressed, and only on the second day of the complete grain tax collection in Tuqiu Village, the grain tax in Tuyuan Village was also paid in full.
This time, Qian Chunlai finally became a popular candidate for the outer disciple of the Heaven-Shaking Sect in Wasteland Town, and it is said that he also had the support of a descendant of the Xiong family, and that Xiong family's disciple was also an outer disciple of the Heaven-Shaking Sect.
The cultivation world is generally in a state of scarcity of cultivation resources, but cultivation itself is a process of retreating if you don't advance, so whether it is spiritual valley, spiritual wheat, or spiritual rice and other crops that can be large-scale, high-yield, and short-term, have become the most commonly used things used by the vast majority of low-level cultivators to assist in cultivation and improve cultivation.
After the spiritual cultivators have cultivated to a certain level, the cultivation of the spiritual valley itself is not for food and clothing, but at least to be able to maintain their own cultivation will not decline in the case of limited cultivation resources, so almost all spiritual cultivators will be so persistent in having their own piece of spiritual field.
Take a stone spirit valley as an example, it is just the value of a few jade coins, but using a few jade coins to cultivate will only take a few days at most to exhaust the spiritual power contained in it, and the monk's cultivation may even be improved because of this in these days, but what about after using jade coins? Because the spiritual power cannot be replenished for a long time, the monk's cultivation will begin to decline, and even decline all the way to the point that it is not as good as the original cultivation.
But if these jade coins are exchanged for a stone of Spirit Valley, maybe the monk's cultivation will not be significantly improved by eating the Spirit Valley, but at least for two or three months before the Spirit Valley is consumed, this monk can keep his cultivation from declining!
This is the reason why ordinary monks often attach importance to Linggu and are still on top of jade coins!
As for the old spirit cultivator in Tuyuan Village who was forced to die, after passing the peak of his prime, not only had his cultivation lost the possibility of further progress, but because his physical body began to decline, if he wanted to keep his cultivation from declining, then the amount of spiritual valley that he needed to replenish might be more than that of an adult.
And the Qian Chunlai brothers forcibly took away the only remaining Linggu in his hands, which would only make his physical body age faster, his cultivation would decline faster, and the time for death would naturally be greatly shortened, so he would finally find a short-sightedness.
A few days after the grain tax was paid, Yang Tiangang's mood still did not improve, and his face was gloomy all day long, which scared Yang Junping and Yang Junxin, the two brothers and sisters, to hide from their father.
Yang Junshan found Han Xiumei and asked, "Mother, is my father still worried about the affairs of the outer disciples of the Heaven Shaking Sect?"
In Yang Junshan's view, it is a good thing that Yang Tiangang did not become an outer disciple of the Shaking Heaven Sect, although the Shaking Heaven Sect is powerful, but it is just a giant ship that is about to sink on the sea, and now he has not become an outer disciple but has dissociated himself from the Shaking Heaven Sect, and in the future, he may be able to escape the catastrophe.
Han Xiumei sighed and said, "Some words are just for outsiders, with your father's original merits, there is no need to use things like collecting food taxes to consider at all, the real reason why your father can't become an inner disciple is because of your uncle!"
"Your uncle was accepted as an inner disciple by the Shaking Heaven Sect because of the contribution of reporting the Red Rust Rough Stone, since the Yang family has already produced an inner disciple this time, so whether it is the Shaking Heaven Sect itself, or the various forces in Yu County that are striving to become a disciple of the Shaking Heaven Sect, they don't want the Yang family to occupy another place as an outer disciple, and I am afraid that there are also opposing voices within the Yang family!"
When Yang Junshan saw his father, Yang Tiangang was half-lying on a rattan chair smoking and reading a book, Yang Junshan walked over and took a look, and now Yang Tiangang was looking at a book about low-level spirit grass, which not only drew extremely realistic patterns, but also remarked a more detailed description next to it.
Yang Junshan thought for a while and said, "Dad, our family's Zhongpin Lingtian hasn't decided what to plant?"
Yang Tiangang sighed "hmm" and said: "I have already obtained the seeds of golden saffron, which is enough to plant a spiritual field; your uncle also promised to help get a batch of seeds of red flame grass, and you can almost plant a spiritual field; now there is only the last spiritual field left, and I don't know what to plant, it just so happens that the lower grade fairy elm heart you brought back from Baique Mountain, and the three lower grade fairy spirits that you got from hunting the giant locust king this time have been exchanged for a sum of jade coins, and I am wondering whether to use jade coins to buy a batch of spirit grass seeds, but I haven't thought about what seeds to buy." ”
Yang Junshan flipped through the spirit sketch atlas on the table, found a map, and said, "How about planting this?"
Yang Tiangang glanced down and said suspiciously: "Strange Fruit? This kind of seed is not difficult to find, but what's the use of planting this thing? Although this thing can be regarded as a low-grade spiritual grass of the Law Rank, the fruit that can be picked up is rarely used, and only some partial pills will be used when refining, and it can't be sold for a lot of money when it is planted!"
Yang Junshan said with a smile: "Maybe it will suddenly be useful in the future!"
Seeing Yang Tiangang's suspicious eyes, Yang Junshan casually told a lie and said, "I saw the monks of the Heavenly Wolf Sect in Quwu Mountain before, and they were wantonly collecting this kind of spiritual grass, it seems that they need a large number of strange fruits because of refining some new elixir, and I heard that the Heavenly Wolf Sect has already purchased it at a high price in Zhang County!"
Yang Tiangang waved his hand and said, "That's not good, it's the Heavenly Wolf Sect that is buying this kind of thing, and it's not the Heaven Shaking Sect that wants this thing, who am I planting it to sell it to?"
"Isn't there a secret passage in Quwu Mountain, Dad, you can take a look and go to Zhang County, it's not too far anyway, it's not easy to enter and exit Zhang County with your martial arts realm!"
Yang Tiangang waved his hand impatiently and said, "I'll talk about it later, anyway, it's not in a hurry now!"
Yang Junshan seemed to think of something at this time, and said: "By the way, Dad, speaking of Quwushan children, I remembered another thing, do you remember the valley where I mentioned to you that I met the locust swarm? There seems to be a source of evil qi in that valley!"
"What?" Yang Tiangang suddenly jumped up from the rattan chair, the rattan chair couldn't stand his strength and suddenly fell apart, but Yang Tiangang didn't even look at it, stared at Yang Junshan and said, "What do you say, the source of evil qi?
Yang Junshan smiled "hehe", and described the scene of the locust swarm competing for food when the source of evil qi appeared in the valley at that time, and also guessed that the source of evil qi seemed to be intermittent, and he didn't know if the source of evil qi had already appeared when the locust swarm in the valley was monitored by the Heavenly Wolf Gate.
Yang Tiangang was already overjoyed, where could he still sit still, and said as he walked: "Lao Tzu is going to Quwu Mountain, if it is really like what you said, Lao Tzu will definitely be rewarded when he comes back!"
Yang Junshan hurriedly followed and said, "Dad, in fact, there is something I didn't tell you!"
Seven days after Yang Tian rushed to Quwu Mountain, the sky of the entire Wasteland Town was overcast, and then the downpour poured down, and then it was another five or six days, and several streams in the western mountain had become sloping channels for mountain torrents, and the water had also skyrocketed, almost to the edge of the overflowing embankment.
Yang Junshan looked at the rain outside the house worriedly, if it goes on like this, this giant locust plague will be followed by another flood immediately!
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This chapter is used to make up for the original three watches on Monday.