Chapter 535: Chapter 86: Peace Reigns, But it is Not a Golden Age_2
Jiang Fugui did not continue to make a move, because he was a complete fraud. For so many years, his studies in fighting were a ss, and Qi Cultivation Golden Core was already his limit.
He had brute strength but nowhere to use it.
He always believed that fists couldn’t solve problems.
“Do you all want to stay and have so tea before leaving?”
Seeing this, the others ca to their senses, cupped their hands to apologize, and quickly fled.
Jiang Fugui stood with his hands behind his back, and his great-grandchildren, who were hiding in the house, stretched their necks, their eyes filled with admiration.
“Ancestor is mighty!”
A chubby-faced child ran out, followed by others filing out in succession.
Jiang Fugui remained calm as if everything was within his expectations.
A quarter of an hour later, another old cultivator with a bulbous nose ca to the door, a Returning Void True Monarch.
He held a jug of Spiritual Wine and said, “Taoist Friend Jiang, this old man just ca out of seclusion, heard you were in trouble, and ca imdiately.”
True Monarch Canzhi, a rogue Taoist without any sect affiliation, only had Nascent Soul cultivation earlier years, but with the Jiang family’s influence, he entered the Pill Alliance. Gaining a foothold there, he used various pills to break through to True Monarch.
Now, he was also the big boss of Jiang Fugui’s pill refining room. Though he was previously hard to et, now he ca of his own accord.
‘Indeed, cultivation is the root of everything.’
Jiang Fugui feigned enthusiasm, inviting him into the house, closing the door, and blocking outside sounds and peeping.
True Monarch Canzhi imdiately spoke, “Taoist Friend Jiang is now a True Monarch, the various Pill Sects won’t trouble you, but your descendants might not be so lucky.”
“Is it the Daoist Sect checking accounts?”
“It is said the matter has reached Qingcang Immortal’s ears.”
“This…”
Jiang Fugui, although prepared, couldn’t help but feel a slight shiver.
After all, he was a follower of the Daoist Sect ruling the world and had experienced nurous purges.
True Monarch Canzhi said, “You can avoid this calamity for the Jiang family; you must have so people in the Daoist Sect, but don’t take it lightly with Immortals involved. You’d better leave Danqing State now, find a place to lay low, lest you get taken by the Pill Sects as a scapegoat.”
He flipped his hand, and a bronze token appeared.
“I have a light boat here, it can travel ten thousand miles a day.”
“Thank you, Taoist Friend.”
Jiang Fugui felt a warmth in his heart, albeit the other looked at the situation before acting, but never adding insult to injury. He was worth befriending deeply.
He shook his head and said, “But I don’t plan to leave Danqing State, I still have three great-grandchildren in the City Lord Mansion.”
True Monarch Canzhi furrowed his brow slightly, saying, “They are probably already in Danding City now, Taoist Friend, as a True Monarch, you should cut off mortal concerns…”
Halfway through his speech, he stopped, feeling it was out of line, and changed his tone, “I hope Taoist Friend Jiang acts within his capabilities. We still have many years ahead, this old man looks forward to sharing a drink with you again.”
“For sure.”
The two exchanged bows and said their farewells.
True Monarch Canzhi left straightforwardly, clearly not wanting to court trouble but rembering old ties.
Jiang Fugui waited until no one was around; sweat instantly appeared on his forehead, his calm deanor vanished. He quickly took out an envelope and first wrote four big words.
[Mr. Wen, save !]
The next mont, the world spun, and he found himself in a farmland.
Qingyi Taoist stood three steps away, in a dicine field, accompanied by a white-robed nun and an old mortal farr, with smoke curling from village chimneys in the distance.
Gu Wen bent down to pluck an herb without turning around and said, “Fugui, people can’t always control their fate; you want to live peacefully, but trouble always ungraciously cos to find you.”
He turned around; his brows were serene, his expression gentle.
“You should learn more Daoist Skills. Today you get tied up and struggle free, tomorrow you’re chopped and manage to endure a blow. Can you keep bluffing others all the ti?”
“It’s my foolishness, troubling you again, sir.”
Jiang Fugui bowed his head to admit his fault, but he heard Gu Wen say lightly, “Next ti, just call directly. Squashing a few ants for you isn’t sothing I’d be stingy about.”
In the distant sky do, a golden star fell, shaking heaven and earth.
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Rumble!
The ground of Danding City had a slight tremor.
The City Lord of Danding City, once again outside Yuan Cheng’s house, looked back in confusion. The commotion ca quickly and went quickly, he couldn’t sense a thing.
And he couldn’t care less, now he himself is like a clay Bodhisattva crossing a river, just get rid of this jinx first.
He pushed the door open and entered, Yuan Cheng was still flipping through the account books, recording as he read.
“Immortal Envoy, there is new evidence, another suspect from the Jiang family has confessed.”
Yuan Cheng stopped his actions, lifted his head and asked in confusion: “Hadn’t all the suspects from the Jiang family been interrogated already?”
Last year’s matter, the people have already been beheaded, how could there still be a case?
The City Lord of Danding City knew there was a loophole, but kept a straight face and said: “True Martial Palace also has flaws.”
Yuan Cheng had no choice but to take the docunt, his Divine Thought briefly scanned it, heart slightly moved.
Danding City wanted to pin all the problems on the Jiang family.
He closed the docunt and said firmly: “This is against the rules, and it cannot be the reason to justify the paynt in Spirit Stones to the port workers nor the high wages.”
“I’m almost done auditing these accounts, if you can’t provide a reasonable explanation, please follow the procedure to Three Pure Mountain instead of trying to escape and losing your life.”
The City Lord of Danding City, having anticipated this, smirked without smiling and said: “This poor Taoist naturally wouldn’t, at most would just go ditate for a hundred years, moreover, the Immortals say that in cases of doubt, one should be deed innocent.”
The two parted in discord once again, the City Lord of Danding City never intended to solve the problem with this re evidence.
The most important thing was to follow the procedure, once True Martial Palace convicts, he could absolve himself.
Yuan Cheng buried himself again in the vast account books, his face as calm as water, but his heart was filled with stormy waves.
Comparing the total taxes collected over the years provided by the Daoist Sect, could the Daoist Sect have collected even thirty percent?
‘No wonder this ti both Yuqing Heavenly Venerate and Chi Venerable ca along.’
Yuan Cheng couldn’t help but feel secretly relieved, if it were a normal ti, he would never have such confidence.
After thirty minutes, a Thousand Mile Paper Crane flew over, carrying his master’s aura.
The head of a branch lineage of Yuqing Sect, cultivation at Mahayana Realm.
Yuan Cheng had a bad premonition, opened the letter and sighed silently.
His master instructed him not to get too involved in the affairs of Danqing State.
“But Master, you don’t know that the Immortal Sect has sent two Venerables this ti.”
Burning the letter, Yuan Cheng pretended not to have seen it, now he only sought self-preservation.
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Outside Danding City, in the rural Wutong Village.
Gu Wen visited a farr’s house, delving into the grassroots to understand rural life in the cultivation world, touching the roots beneath eight centuries of Daoist Sect’s prosperity.
Immortals and sects govern the world, cultivators and mortals share peace.
It’s peace, but not a golden age.
In spare monts, solving Jiang Fugui’s troubles.
Gu Wen observed the dicinal field while saying: “Your physical body now is equivalent to the Mahayana Realm, yet your combat ability is only at True Monarch level, it’s really a waste of talent.”
Jiang Fugui scratched his head and said: “Uh… I am foolish, good at managing, but poor at Qi Cultivation. All I have today is thanks to Mr. Wen. Instead of cultivation, I’d rather make more money to honor you, elder.”
Gu Wen laughed: “You old thing, your age is far greater than mine.”
“It’s different, you live forever.”
Jiang Fugui’s flattery skills were not weaker than back in the day, Gu Wen shook his head with a smile, and said: “We’ll discuss your matter later, don’t delay the old gentleman from going ho for dinner.”
The nearby old farr, flattered and surprised, shook his head repeatedly said: “In front of an Immortal, I dare not call myself a gentleman.”
This man was a dicinal farr in the rural Danqing State, out of eight million people in the state, seven million generations upon generations planted dicinal fields, providing the whole Human Race cultivators with the needed pills for cultivation.
From various Pill Refining rooms and ports in Danding City, it is known that pills, like grains, are typically sold in three categories: Powder, Pill, Elixir.
Qi Cultivation uses Qi Nourishing Powder, Foundation Establishnt uses Peiyuan Pills, Golden Core uses Six Yang Pills.
Qi Nourishing Powder is dicinal dregs, Peiyuan Pill is dicine stones, Six Yang Pill is dicinal essence.
A pound of dicinal dregs produces an ounce of dicine stones, a hundred pounds of dicinal dregs produce an ounce of dicinal essence.
From the old farr’s mouth, it is known that one acre of land produces a hundred pounds of herbs in a year, a family of five needs ten acres to fill their stomachs. If they want to send their children to study cultivation, less than thirty acres wouldn’t suffice.
“…Sotis the city lord would increase taxes, and then we might starve. Damn him, they don’t allow planting grains, yet planting dicinal herbs can’t be sold privately.”
Hearing the old farr’s complaints, Jiang Fugui was already sweating profusely.
Because he substituted himself as ‘the lord from the city’, aning the cultivator.
More importantly, the person the old farr was accusing was Gu Wen, this was a direct complaint to the higher authority!
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