In the Tianyuan World, a poisonous insect can even parasitize and control a mountain beast whose size is billions of tis its own.
However, parasitizing flesh and blood is not the sa as trying to parasitize space, especially the space of the Tao River; the difficulty is on a completely different scale. Yet, this is also a thod to beco a Ten-Turn Golden Gu.
"In the future, could I possibly refine two Ten-Turn Golden Gu and beco the number one insect breeder?"
Looking at the annual ring worm and the thousand-hand centipede, Su Jie’s heart surged with excitent at the thought of this possibility.
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Having determined the path he would take in the future, Su Jie exited the secluded chamber where he had been in closed-door cultivation for three days.
Just as he stepped out, Zhang Junwei and a few others received the news and ca over, obviously having sothing to report.
But it didn’t seem to be anything major; if it were, they wouldn’t have waited until Su Jie finished his seclusion.
"Sect Master, there is news from the Da Li Royal Family."
Zhang Junwei held a holy decree, his expression peculiar.
Beside him, Qin Yushang’s expression was a little unusual.
Because this news was delivered by the Heavenly Patrol Departnt on behalf of the Da Li Royal Family. Finally, the holy decree was sent to her hands, and she was to pass it on to Ghost Ridge Palace. However, due to Su Jie’s seclusion, she couldn’t deliver it in person.
"Oh, a royal decree. Let see."
Su Jie was sowhat puzzled and casually took it and unfolded it.
After glancing at the content, Su Jie’s originally calm expression suddenly turned sowhat amused.
"Haha, what is this Emperor of Da Li thinking? He actually bestowed upon the title of Prince Qing and designated our Ghost Ridge Palace as the Southern Garrison Mansion. It’s simply nonsense."
Su Jie couldn’t help but laugh at the content of the decree, but after reconsidering, he roughly understood the Da Li Royal Family’s reason for doing this.
This was an attempt to appease Ghost Ridge Palace, at least to stabilize it for a while.
Qin Yushang lowered her head, feeling sowhat ashad.
The Da Li Royal Family was so arrogant at first, even wishing for Su Jie’s death, and now that Ghost Ridge Palace had beco a sect with three supremacies, they imdiately granted Su Jie a princely title without a second thought.
"Tsk tsk, the royalty has played a good hand."
Su Jie shook his head. If he didn’t need to focus on preparing for his advancent to the Purple Mansion Celestial Palace, he would have wanted to take a trip to Da Li City himself.
"But since they grant the title of Prince Qing, I recall that a princely title cos with the separate rights to tax, recruit soldiers, and appoint officials, right."
Su Jie stroked his chin and suddenly smiled, "As Prince Qing, overseeing the Southern Garrison Mansion, I should implent benevolent governance."
Su Jie was currently short on money, a large sum, so it was just convenient to use this as a pretext to amass wealth.
Quickly, Su Jie looked at Liu Yingying, who was standing in front of him, and said to her, "Yingying, I rember there are many noble families with industries in the Three States area. Our Ghost Ridge Palace needs to construct wonders, and it’s ti for them to contribute to Ghost Ridge Palace. Go collect a Miracle Tax from them, and for other thods, use your discretion."
"Construct wonders, collect tax?"
Zhang Junwei and a few other Ghost Ridge Palace high-level mbers looked at each other, not knowing why Su Jie suddenly wanted to build wonders.
Liu Yingying blinked her eyes; when it ca to economic plans, she was much more adept than these Demon Cultivators of Ghost Ridge Palace. From Su Jie’s words, she imdiately understood that Su Jie was preparing to act against those noble families.
"Su Jie, most of those noble families are cultivation families. You want to move against them?"
Qin Yushang also heard Su Jie’s words and couldn’t help but widen her beautiful eyes.
In the Tianyuan World’s noble families, they were not just about land annexation and monopolizing local political power. More often, they were individual cultivation families.
In the Tianyuan World, there is a saying: "Dynasties flow like water, but noble families are ironclad."
This shows the fearso nature of the noble families, which are essentially cultivation families bound by bloodlines.
So noble families existed before the founding of the Da Li Dynasty.
If the sects are the visible local separatist forces in the Da Li Dynasty, then the noble families are the undercurrents surging in the shadows.
Noble families often control local political power, cultural power, economic power, societal power, and even monopolize cultivation resources.
Apart from the sects’ power and affiliated territories, noble families also occupy various spiritual ore veins, spirit fields, and spiritual material production areas, large and small.
More importantly, many sect disciples actually belong to these family mbers.
Every year, due to limited resources, noble families’ resources often only supply the most outstanding younger generation. Those with lesser aptitude must either engage in other family businesses or venture out on their own, with many joining the sects.
This is especially true for the righteous sects, where many noble families have countless ties with various great sects.
Though sects are strong, they are composed of people, and with the large number of noble family mbers, soone will naturally rise to a high position and participate in sect decision-making in various aspects.
At the sa ti, through holding the reins of power, noble families, by monopolizing culture, can achieve a monopoly on politics as well.
Commoners find it difficult to read and acquire knowledge, whereas noble families can obtain prominent official positions with ease simply due to their heritage. Combined with the foundation noble families have in terms of cultivators, they also represent a force needed by the Da Li Dynasty.
Over the years, major noble families continuously send their offspring to the central governnt, with nearly all officials in the Da Li Dynasty having the backing of a thousand-year noble family’s influence behind them.
Even the Da Li Royal Family sotis needs to seek cooperation with the thousand-year noble families.
This point is especially evident in the current turbulent tis, with the imperial authority of Da Li weakening and the power of the noble families strengthening, making it particularly apparent.
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