Chapter 269.
After drinking a few cups of the spirit wine brought by Wang Dust, Chen Qi’s conversation box opened up.
From his mouth, Wang Dust learned the fundamental reason why Dongwu Walled City had become what it was now.
It turned out that the Guiyuan Sect and the Five Peaks Mountain, who had divided up the Yunyang homeland, had recently been making a lot of moves against the scattered cultivator city fortresses in the area under their jurisdiction.
The two sects demanded that these fortresses pay grain and taxes, and forcibly recruited a large number of casual cultivators to serve in mines and hunting grounds.
In the past, when the Yunyang Sect was in charge, it basically had a laissez-faire attitude towards the outer domain city fortresses, relying on the sect’s resource advantage to harvest the scattered cultivators at most.
Although the days of the scattered cultivators were far inferior to the disciples of the sect, they had no problem surviving.
When there were times when the spiritual fields failed, Yunyang Sect would also requisition food from Daqian and supply it to the market at a relatively low price, so that the scattered cultivators could also have a full meal.
Now that the Guiyuan Sect and the Five Peaks Mountain have changed, their methods are far more vicious than the Yunyang Sect’s. Some towns and villages can’t stand the oppression.
Some towns and villages couldn’t stand the oppression, so they rose up in revolt.
As a result, they were harshly suppressed!
Under such circumstances, many casual cultivators fled their villages with their families.
They ran to Dongwu Walled City to take refuge.
It was thought that the lord of Dongwu Walled City was a Purple Mansion, so the two sects would more or less give some face.
In addition, the high price of food has also created a large number of displaced people, have run to Dongwu Village to survive.
Together with some other reasons, Dongwu Walled City was bursting at the seams!
The worst thing is, Xin Han has been closed, all the power in the hands of his concubines and the Golden Snake.
And the two of them opened the door of convenience, without any restrictions on foreign cultivators.
Dongwu Walled City was now in such a mess, and this pair of siblings could not take credit for it!
“Fellow Daoist Wang, you must be careful.”
Chen Qi lowered his voice and said, “That Golden Snake Langjun has sent people to look for you a few times, they won’t let up.”
“I heard that quite a few fellow Daoists were conscripted into the City Lord’s Mansion and then never came out again!”
In the eyes of many cultivators, the current City Lord’s Mansion was on the verge of turning into a dragon’s lair, and the conscripts were like life-suppressing vagaries!
He laughed bitterly, “If I didn’t really have no place to go, I would have wanted to leave.”
This was the sadness of the casual cultivator.
Survival in the outer regions was not easy, and with the city fortress as their shelter, no one would want to leave easily unless they had no choice.
Chen Qi had brought his family with him, so he was even more afraid to take risks.
And living in a different place might not be better, it might be even worse!
“Uh-huh.”
Wang Dust nodded to indicate that he knew.
Of the thousands of cultivators in Dongwu Walled City, the only one he was afraid of was City Lord Xin Han.
As for any Acacia Sect female cultivator or Golden Snake Lang Jun, Wang Chen didn’t put it on his mind.
With his current strength, there was no enemy under the Purple Mansion!
For Wang Chen, the current top priority was to cultivate to Qi Practicing Perfection to prepare for his promotion to Purple Mansion.
The second was to collect the resources needed to break the orifices and open the Mansion.
And once he was promoted to Purple Mansion, Dongwu Walled City would not be able to keep him!
“Fellow Daoist Wang ……”
Chen Qi was obviously a bit drunk and suddenly changed the topic, “I see that you have never had anyone around to take care of you, you should also find a dao mate or concubine.”
“Niangzi, you introduce it to Daoyou Wang!”
As a result, his head was slapped by Niangzi Chen sitting next to him, “You’re drunk!”
Chen Niangzi was much more astute than Chen Qi, and had long since seen that Wang Chen was focused on cultivation with no intention of love, and was very different from those casual cultivators who got by and were only interested in immediate pleasures.
Such a character, where is the need for her to introduce a Taoist couple ah!
Wang Chuan cried and laughed, “Thanks Brother Chen, I appreciate your kindness, come on, come on, let’s drink two more cups.”
This New Year’s Eve dinner, the food and drinks were ordinary, but Wang Dust was still quite happy to eat.
At least it wasn’t spent alone.
The Spring Festival passed quietly, and in the following days, Wang Dust lived in deep seclusion, and basically never left his home except for the occasional trip to the marketplace to exchange things.
Hiding in the underground chamber, he practiced diligently.
The experience of the Five Elements Technique grew day by day, and it was close to consummation.
However, the beginning of the new year did not make the situation in Dongwu Walled City stable and peaceful, but instead became even more chaotic.
This scattered cultivator’s fortress, which originally only housed ten thousand people, now had a combined number of at least thirty to forty thousand permanent and temporary residents.
With so many people eating, drinking and sleeping, coupled with the extremely tight food supply, it would be a strange thing if something didn’t go wrong!
Wang Dust didn’t go out easily, and also had the meaning of not seeing and not being bothered.
However, things in the world are not always what they seem.
Bang!
The first month is not even halfway through, Wang dust home has just been replaced not long ago courtyard door was once again knocked open, the door plate broken pieces of wood splattered across the fly!
“Wang Xiu!”
A team of fierce and vicious cultivators barged in and launched a search without saying a word.
It was lunchtime, and Wang Chen wasn’t practicing in the underground chamber, hearing the commotion he immediately walked out.
“Ha!”
The cultivator who led the team saw Wang Dust and immediately let out a sardonic laugh, “Wang Xiu, you’ve been conscripted by the City Lord’s Mansion, come with us!”
With that, he probed his hand and grabbed towards Wang Chen.
His fingers gripped into claws with power embedded within, using what was clearly the move of the Tendon Splitting Hand, but with the power of a spell added on.
He said conscription in his mouth, but in reality, his action was no different from grabbing a pig or a sheep!
It carried a strong meaning of insult.
Wang Chen’s face was as calm as water, not avoiding or dodging, he suddenly blasted his fist at the claw that was reaching towards him.
Ka-ching!
This fist condensed ninety percent of Wang Chuan’s power, Grand Perfection level of adamantine fist is so strong, fist claw collision moment, the other party’s five fingers along with the palm as well as the wrist, instantly burst into a mass of flesh and blood finely chopped!
Wang Chuan’s fist momentum then rose, staggering the opponent’s arm that was completely destroyed, hitting the opponent’s chest.
Snap!
It was crisp and clean to the extreme.
This cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Practicing didn’t even have time to let out a scream as Wang Chuan’s fist blasted into his chest.
Wang Chuan’s long-prepared fist was so strong that the other party had no defense at all, and the whole person immediately flew backwards a dozen meters like a kite with broken strings.
He landed on the ground and lost his life.
This can be the other scattered cultivators present to scare the hell out of them.
They had followed the leading brother to force Wang Dust, and their most important purpose was to get some benefits.
Never did they expect that groping for fish would actually result in a big shark!
Several loose cultivators turned their heads and ran.
As a result, just as their footsteps moved, a powerful sword awn came after them, mercilessly slicing off a head!
In just a few breaths of effort, a group of loose cultivators who were called elites were killed cleanly by Wang Dust.
One of the loose cultivators died right on the threshold stone, with the upper half of his body lying outside and the back half of his body missing, in a miserable state of death.
Wang Dust used the Harnessing Art to gather the corpse over, taking off the items including those within the storage bag.
The last one burned and sent, two talismans of the past life and four talismans of the evil spirits were taken care of!
After burning and counting the loot, Wang Chuan realized that he had made another fortune!