Chapter 48
He~tui!
When he stepped out of the main hall gate, Wang Dust spat on the ground.
With a fixed amount of two thousand five hundred pounds of field rent, he had actually paid at least two thousand six hundred pounds.
More than a hundred pounds had been stripped away by the Spirit Plant Hall!
It didn’t sound like much.
But one must know that this hundred pounds of spirit grain was all extracted from his mouth.
Without any return!
And with the current soaring food prices, the value of more than a hundred pounds of spirit grain is at least twice as much as last year.
Wang Dust could see through it.
For the huge Yunyang Sect, the 100,000 cultivators of the outer gate are all leeks in the field.
They are objects that can be harvested at will.
In this world where greatness is vested in oneself, a Jindan real person is enough to suppress thousands of lower level cultivators.
That’s why the middle and upper levels of the sect didn’t care about the deaths of the following.
Anyway, no matter how many died, there were plenty of loose cultivators in the outer domain who wanted to come in.
Wang Chen knew that he was weak and couldn’t do much at all.
But he no longer has a trace of identification with the Yunyang Sect.
Now hibernate and slowly accumulate strength, wait until the future have the ability to protect themselves, and then go to find a new world.
The Mountain and Sea Realm was so vast.
Wang Chen didn’t believe that there wasn’t a place that truly suited him!
He thought in his heart and walked forward along the long street.
Suddenly a fierce clamor and noise interrupted Wang Chen’s thoughts.
He saw a large group of people gathered in front of a store on the street with a signboard that read “Dahong Rice Shop”.
Most of them were Spirit Planters like Wang Chuan.
“Yesterday, the price of aged rice was only six broken spirits, why did it go up to eight broken spirits today?”
“White corn is ten broken spirits a catty, why don’t you guys go and grab it?”
“Traitor!”
“How can people’s hearts be so bad?”
“The price at the grain store in front of us is the same, you’re all colluding to screw us!”
“Where’s the shopkeeper? Come out!”
Everyone was filled with righteous indignation, surrounding the shopkeeper standing in front of the price board and yelling loudly, all of them red in the face.
Their anger was completely justified.
In previous years, the purchase price of Spirit Grain from the city’s rice houses and grain stores was only two broken spirits per catty.
It was only a little bit more expensive if they bought it back.
Now that it had risen three or four times, it was simply outrageous!
The other party is clearly taking advantage of the fact that this year’s farmers have been hit by a disaster and are unable to pay their rent in full, or need rations.
Hoarding a great deal of money!
However, in the face of a group of qi cultivation three, four, five, six layers of cultivators, just only the shopkeeper of the mortification cultivation is not afraid, hands on the waist with their necks and dislike each other.
“Do you understand? I’m telling you, if you don’t buy today, it’ll go up tomorrow!”
“If you don’t buy it, there are plenty of people willing to buy it.”
“Buy what you want, or get out!”
“Traitor? Please say that again, do you know which family our proprietor is?”
“Hundred Arts Pavilion Fan Shangren understand!”
“Get lost, don’t get in the way of our business.”
“If you don’t get lost, I’ll call out the patrol!”
One person disliking dozens of cultivators, the shopkeeper of the Dahong Rice Shop roused himself and choked a group of spirit planters speechless.
The combativeness index exploded!
Although any cultivator could hold down this arrogant fellow with an outstretched finger.
But who dared to use force in the city?
Not to mention the fact that behind the other party, there was an Inner Sect Upper!
In fact, other than the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion and the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, there were no simple characters who set up store and did business in Yunshan City.
Either directly belonging to the upper man family or dependent on the upper man family.
There were very few exceptions.
Everyone is clear about this, just a moment of anger and hot blood before surrounding the store to denounce.
Now being choked to calm down, reason reoccupied the height of thinking.
Unable to help but shrink.
“Bah!”
Watching the Spirit Planters hang their heads in shame and scatter in all directions, the shopkeeper proudly spat on the ground.
A female cultivator walked over, holding a child.
She stopped in front of the rice store and frowned at the price list on the wall.
“The price of white corn has gone up again.”
The female cultivator sighed and said to her child with a lowered head, “Little Tiger, white corn is too expensive now, is it okay if we buy some tribute rice and go home to make you rice balls to eat?”
“No!”
The four or five year old bear child shook his head like a rattle drum, “Mother, I want to eat white corn, tribute rice is not good!”
White corn was spirit rice.
Tribute rice, on the other hand, was pearl rice from the mundane realm.
In fact, the taste of pearl rice wasn’t bad, there was no problem filling up the stomach.
However, it didn’t have the slightest bit of spiritual qi, so the price was cheap.
Many loose cultivators relied on tribute rice to keep from starving to death in the outer realms.
However, if cultivators often ate tribute rice, not only did it affect their daily cultivation, but there was also the trouble of the five grains reincarnating.
Even a small child would know the goodness of spirit rice!
In order to strengthen his persuasive power, this bear child shook off his own old mother’s hand and rolled on the ground.
“Spirit rice, I want to eat spirit rice, ah ah ah~”
The cries and howls shook the sky.
The female cultivator was very embarrassed and couldn’t argue with her own bear child.
So she gritted her teeth and took out spirit stones from her storage bag and purchased the overpriced white corn.
Just after she left with her child, another group of Spirit Cultivators ran over to look at the price of rice.
All of them were also jaw-dropped!
“Good news!”
It was at this time that a cultivator rushed over and yelled, “The Outer Sect General Hall has just posted an announcement for the formation of ten opening camps, and any disciple who meets the requirements can join.”
“Those who join the battalion will be immediately exempted from this year’s ten acres of field tax, or rationed with an equal amount of spirit grain!”
“Places are limited, this is a rare opportunity!”
He shouted as he ran, and the people on the long street all heard him clearly.
Everyone was in an uproar!
Previously, the main hall had sent a letter to Crane to recruit the three halls’ reserve disciples, and now they were actually going to form ten open-wilderness battalions.
The so-called open land battalion refers to a team of cultivators who open up the territory to the outside world.
The purpose of opening up the land is mainly to capture new hunting grounds, search for new mineral veins, and scavenge resources of spiritual medicines and herbs, and so on.
Because they had to face countless demons and evil spirits in the outer regions, opening up the land was a rather dangerous job.
The last time Yunyang Sect had a large-scale open land was thirty years ago!
Normally, the sect would encourage its disciples to go out and explore and collect resources in the form of missions.
The formation of the Wilderness Battalion was to do it on a large scale.
A camp of three hundred cultivators, ten is three thousand cultivators.
And according to past practice, each camp is led by two or three Purple Mansion Superiors.
This is going crazy!
Many cultivators’ hearts were pounding.
Now the price of rice is skyrocketing.
The exemption of ten mu of field tax or an equal amount of spirit grain ration was already quite enticing.
Moreover, the treatment of the Open Land Camp was also very good, with rations of gongfu, pills, talismans, magic weapons, and so on.
Once a successful opening was achieved, the reward of Hoon Points was even more generous!
Some cultivators couldn’t hold back and immediately rushed to the main hall to find out what was going on.
But these people did not include Wang Chen.
He was not excited.
Instead, he was chilled!
After thinking about it, Wang Dust decisively ran away and went home.
Regardless of what other people thought, anyway, whether it was the Three Halls Preparation or the Open Land Camp, he didn’t join any of them.