Chapter 505: The experienced Ling Pengqiu (additional update, please subscribe)
Three days later.
On the top of Yunxiao Peak where Fangshi is located, there are more than twenty people gathered in a reception hall, all with a trace of panic on their faces, wearing different clothes, and all showing the coercion of the foundation building period. The casual cultivator.
These casual cultivators in the foundation building period are the group of people who made an agreement with the Ling family in the early years to manage the peace of the Lingxiaoling territory.
After they came to Fangshi from various bases this time, they heard that three days ago, outside Fangshi, a foundation-building period cultivator chased and killed a Qi-training monk in public. Something outside the city.
After thinking about it, they could probably guess the reason why Ling Pengqiu, the owner of Lingxiaofang City, suddenly summoned them here.
“Fellow Daoist Li, do you think that Master Ling will cancel the batch of dividends that I have received from the related village market later?”
A man dressed like a Taoist priest, wearing a mysterious suit A middle-aged monk in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment with a colorful robe and a middle-aged appearance walked up to an old monk with gray hair and wrinkles on his face who exuded the most powerful aura and had reached the eighth level of Foundation Establishment. He whispered to He asked.
The other twenty or so foundation-building monks in the swamp all heard this. They all looked at the old eighth-level foundation-building monk surnamed "Li" and spoke in line with the inquiry. In one sentence, he looked like he was headed by the eighth-level monk surnamed Li.
“The Ling family does not have many foundation-building monks now, only a few, not even half of our number.”
"If the Ling family cancels our dividends and we don't have our help patrolling the boundaries of Lingxiaoling, then we will see if the Ling family should have a headache, or if we should be regretful for missing a spiritual stone."
"Don't worry, everyone. It is absolutely impossible for the Ling Family to cancel the dividends from our market. You must know that if we had not fought with the Ling Family in the past, the Ling Family also had some trust in us. Otherwise, the Ling Family would not have inspected the city. Leave the matter of Lingxiao Ridge to us."
"Except for us, there are no other foundation-building cultivators in Lingxiao Ridge. As for the foundation-building cultivators from other forces, I am afraid that even the Ling family would not dare to use them. ”
After the white-haired monk surnamed Li heard this, he also had some murmurs in his heart. However, when he saw that there were more than twenty casual cultivators building foundations here, he felt at ease and said proudly. .
This gray-haired old monk at the eighth level of the Foundation is named "Li Danian". He used to be a casual cultivator in Baiyunfang City outside the Baiyun Mountains, who made a living by killing monsters. .
In his early years, Li Danian was short of money and could not afford to buy foundation-building spiritual objects. He also wanted to break through to a higher realm. In desperation, he had no choice but to try to break through the foundation-building alone. By chance, he succeeded in breaking through.
It is precisely because of this that he, relying on the powerful spiritual power and tough meridians brought by breaking through the foundation building alone, broke through to the eighth level of the foundation building with the body of a casual cultivator.
This level of cultivation can be regarded as first-rate even among the monks in the entire Yan Kingdom.
This also makes him extremely famous, and all the major Qi training forces want to establish a relationship with him so that they can have a backer.
These families couldn't afford the wealth, so they had no choice but to send beautiful cultivators from each family to be Li Danian's concubines.
Li Danian already likes love between men and women, and he doesn't refuse anyone who comes.
Although it was difficult for the monk to get pregnant, he could not resist Li Daye's singing, and he had many heirs as a result.
Because both of their parents are monks, those heirs have a higher probability of being born with spiritual roots.
After years of accumulation, Li Danian also had eight heirs with spiritual roots.
There is even a child among them who has good qualifications and has reached the three spiritual roots.
Li Danian was also very fond of that child, because he himself was a casual cultivator, and he also knew the difficulty of pursuing the path of cultivation alone. In order to pave the way for this child, he joined the Ling family to attack the monsters in the muddy swamp world. among the team.
With his good strength, he also gained a lot of military exploits by helping the Ling family kill monsters, and then rented a second-level spiritual vein as a permanent residence in the Lingxiaoling realm.
After hearing what "Li Danian" said, the panic on the faces of the rest of the Foundation Establishment cultivators around them dissipated a lot.
After a while, Ling Pengqiu, the owner of Lingxiaofang City, slowly walked into the reception hall from the outside.
Li Danian and other foundation-building casual cultivators also greeted Ling Pengqiu enthusiastically.
When Ling Pengqiu, who had been suppressing his anger, saw this, he felt even more contemptuous of these people who took the spirit stones and did nothing.
He snorted coldly, sat on the main seat in the hall, looked coldly at the casual cultivators present, and asked.
“You are taking the dividends from the market opened by my Ling family, but you are not doing anything. So far, you have not caught a single cultivator, which has caused numerous cultivators in Lingxiao Ridge... You are really brave. Big!”
“You are planning to go against the past. You made an agreement with the ancestor of our clan, the Golden Pill, to play tricks on me, the Ling clan?"
When the more than 20 foundation-building cultivators present heard this, they all trembled, and panic appeared on their faces. Meaning, their eyes also looked at Li Danian, who had the highest level of cultivation.
Ling Pengqiu, who was sitting on the main seat, saw this and turned his eyes to Li Danian.
As the master of Fangshi, Ling Pengqiu also knows a thing or two about Li Danian.
"Fellow Daoist Li, I remember when the dividends were distributed in the market every month, you got the most benefits because of your higher cultivation level. What's going on, are you planning to be a white-eyed wolf?"
Ling Pengqiu looked at Li Danian, with a hint of murderous intent in his voice.
“Master Lingfang, this is such a huge injustice.”
"Ever since I promised the nobles to manage the Lingxiao Ridge territory, I have been patrolling the Lingxiao Ridge territory with my sons every day. It's really those cultivators who have come and gone. The Lingxiao Ridge territory is so large that I am short of manpower. This has led to I haven’t caught a single bit of Xiu so far.”
Hearing this, the expression on Li Danian’s face changed drastically, and he quickly shouted injustice.
"Short of manpower? Can you give me such an excuse?"
"Since you, Li Danian, are short of manpower, why did I recently hear that you, Li Danian, relied on your own cultivation to build eight levels of foundations? , so I threatened you to hire me, Ling, around your residence. Several first-level Qi-training casual cultivators can only use the spiritual energy above the spiritual veins to practice, occupying the spiritual fields above the spiritual veins where those Qi-training casual cultivators are located."
"And dispatched. The heirs are in those spiritual veins and manage those spiritual fields?”
Ling Pengqiu looked at Li Danian and said coldly.
Seeing that Ling Pengqiu knew all about this, Li Danian felt a chill down his back, and some cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
He has indeed done what Ling Pengqiu just said. He has many heirs with spiritual roots under his command, and he is already old, so he naturally wants to accumulate some wealth for his heir with three spiritual roots.
And if this matter had not been known to Ling Pengqiu, Li Danian really was not that afraid of Ling Pengqiu.
After all, he can be regarded as the leader of the thousands of casual cultivators in Lingxiaoling.
Once Ling Pengqiu touches him indiscriminately in public, the impact will be huge, causing bad rumors such as Ling Pengqiu to kill his allies and tarnishing the reputation of the Ling family.
As for Ling Pengqiu looking for him in the dark for no reason, the probability of fighting him is even smaller.
After all, like Ling Pengqiu, he is also an eighth-level foundation-building monk. He has not provoked Ling Pengqiu very much, so he is naturally not afraid.
But now that Ling Pengqiu had caught him, it was hard to tell.
The place where he is now is Lingxiaofang City, and there is a second-level high-grade formation in this city.
Ling Pengqiu, the master of the workshop, is not inferior to him in cultivation. Like him, his cultivation has reached the eighth level of foundation building. Moreover, he has also seen Ling Pengqiu's strength, which is three points stronger than him.
Although he couldn't defeat Ling Pengqiu in a single fight, he was still confident of escaping.
However, if Ling Pengqiu relied on the formation here, he would not be able to escape even if he wanted to.
Under such circumstances, Li Danian rarely panicked, and he quickly explained.
"Master Lingfang, this fact is false. I spent spiritual stones to rent from those young friends in the Qi training stage those who live in the spiritual fields above their spiritual veins."
"Those little friends are all ascetic cultivators, no He is willing to take care of the spiritual field, so he hired me."
"If fellow Taoists don't believe it, we can find those Qi practitioners and confront them."
Ling Pengqiu naturally didn't believe it, and his expression became even colder.
However, this matter is indeed not easy to pursue, and it is not a big mistake.
Therefore, it is not a good reason to want to destroy Li Danian's thorn in the side.
Afterwards, he snorted coldly, stopped talking about the matter, and changed the subject.
“Since Fellow Daoist Li is so confident, it seems that the rumors are also false, but if this matter is really discovered by me, Ling, I will not take it lightly.”
“This Let’s not talk about it for now. In the future, the 30% of the spirit stones that will be allocated to you will be distributed based on the ability to work harder.”
“Whoever kills the most cultivators will get the benefits. There will be more.”
"But there must be images to prove that the person killed is a Jie Cultivator before it will count."
"If you are unwilling, just say so directly. This will give more to the other Foundation Establishment casual cultivators." Some spirit stones.”
The faces of the foundation-building monks present varied when they heard this.
The fear in the hearts of those casual cultivators who were only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment because they were afraid that the Ling Family would cancel the spirit stones they had received immediately dissipated and turned into joy.
In the past, Lingxiaofang City distributed monthly dividends to these foundation-building casual cultivators based on their cultivation level.
Because of their low cultivation level, they received fewer spiritual stones. Most of them were obtained by monks like Li Danian who were in the middle and late stages of foundation building.
Now, the dividend benefit reform also gives them the opportunity to share more spiritual stones in the market.
After all, Jie Xiu may appear anywhere, as long as he finds it and kills it.
As for Jie Cultivators, they generally practice Qi training. Monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage are less likely to act as Jie Cultivators. Their cultivation level can completely cope with it.
In the past, the reason why we didn’t catch Jiexiu was because we were too lazy to look for it, which was a thankless task. Anyway, the 30% of the city’s tax revenue that Ling took out was divided according to cultivation level, so we wouldn’t kill them because they were too many. Jie Xiu, give them more spiritual stones.
But one side is happy and the other side is sad.
After the system changes, it will be difficult for monks like Li Danian in the middle and late stages of foundation building who used to get 30% of the profits from the city.
But Li Danian and other monks in the middle and later stages of foundation building did not dare to directly express their opposition to this matter.
Once it is revealed, it will offend not only Ling Pengqiu, the person who promoted the reform, but also those early-stage foundation-building monks who are also casual cultivators.
Among the more than twenty foundation-building casual cultivators here, there are eighteen early-stage foundation-building monks, accounting for the majority of the foundation-building cultivators.
Once their interests are violated, although these foundation-building monks who are casual cultivators dare not do anything openly, they will definitely take action secretly.
Li Danian and other loose cultivators in the middle and later stages of foundation building all had some heirs.
This made them have to guard against it.
With no choice but to do so, Li Danian and other casual cultivators in the middle and later stages of foundation building had no choice but to agree to the dividend system changed by Ling Pengqiu.
Ling Pengqiu did not even bother to see this group of scum, so he directly called them back.
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