Cultivation begins with the Shen family

Chapter 27
In a blink of an eye, the cold winter has come, and the goose feather-like snow has covered Biyun Mountain up and down, like a blanket of whiteness.

Biyun Mountain also became lively, and many clansmen who were traveling outside also returned to the mountain for a rare time, gathering with their clansmen and family members, enjoying this rare warm and happy time of the year.

At the same time, on a clearing in the back mountain, there was a figure moving there in the vast white snow.

I saw that Shen Zhirui was still shirtless, holding an extremely rough horizontal knife in his hand. This knife was more than one foot long, and the black blade of the whole body flashed bursts of frightening cold light.

Snowflakes fell from the sky all over the sky, and they were about to fall on him, but they began to melt a few inches away from his body.

Looking at it from a distance, no matter how big the snowflake is, it won't help, a vacuum area is formed around his body, and any ice and snow that enters this area will be melted by the heat emitted from his body.

"Boom."

With Shen Zhirui's knife slashing out, the huge snow-buried boulder in front of him exploded in an instant, and countless broken stones and snow flew in all directions.

After the gravel and snowflakes dissipated, the original boulder had disappeared, leaving only a hideous crack on the ground, spreading away from the bottom of his feet.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Shen Zhirui nodded involuntarily, as if he was very satisfied with the power of the knife.

Since he obtained his self-created sword technique from the Great Elder last time, he has started to study hard and practice hard, swinging the sword no less than a thousand times a day, leaving gravel and sawdust all over the ground deep in the back mountain.

Now this knife technique has finally achieved something.

Although there are only six simple ways in this sword technique, every move and style is just right. They are all summed up from the experience in actual combat and have very practical value.

Shen Zhirui believed that with this saber technique and the horizontal saber in his hand, coupled with his overall strength, he could rival a monk at the ninth level of qi training, and he might even win the battle.

. . . . . .

On the other side, in a room on the Yuxiu Terrace, the patriarch Shen Xiangchi and the third elder Shen Xiangchu also gathered together.

"I just got the news that the county government sent monks to ransack the homes of the Jiang family, the He family, and other nine families. All the floating wealth was confiscated. Even Lingshan and Lingtian will be sold."

"In addition, the monks and mortals of these nine families were all relocated to the vicinity of the county seat, and could only be reduced to tenants of the Xuanling Sect."

I saw that the third elder, Shen Xiangchi, spoke with a serious face, and there was still a trace of shock in his tone of voice, as if he hadn't slowed down yet.

And when Shen Xiangchi heard the news, he also fell silent, and a heavy look appeared on his originally indifferent face.

You must know that the Jiang family and the He family are also families that have been established for more than a hundred years. They can be regarded as upper-middle-class families in Shayu County. All the ancestral foundations were confiscated.

And after the monks of these families lost their family spirit mountain, they became homeless casual monks, and could no longer rely on planting spirit valleys to obtain stable cultivation resources.

In this way, it is good for them to maintain their current cultivation, and it is basically impossible to go further or cultivate family descendants.

Eventually, with the death of this generation of high-ranking monks, their families will also disappear completely.

Therefore, in order to preserve the family inheritance, these families had no choice but to choose to become tenants of Xuanlingmen.

Tenants, as the name suggests, do not have their own spiritual fields, and can only rent other people's spiritual fields to cultivate.

And Xuanlingmen is also extremely strict with its tenants, not only stipulates the total output that must be completed each year, but also collects [-]% of the annual harvest in annual rent.

Therefore, once becoming a tenant, a monk can only guarantee the most basic daily practice, and it is very difficult to accumulate some wealth.

But relatively speaking, it is better to become a tenant of Xuanling Sect than to become a casual cultivator. At the very least, you can use the spiritual veins of the county to practice, and you don't need to worry about safety.

"In recent years, the Xuanling Sect has really become more and more harsh on the exploitation of our vassal families. Not only has the tax been increased by three or four times, but now it has directly confiscated the families who failed to pay the taxes. .Is it true that you are not afraid of chilling people's hearts?"

Facing the tyranny of Xuanlingmen, Shen Xiangchu complained helplessly. Obviously, what happened to the Jiang family made him feel a faint crisis.

Although the current Shen family barely survived the current crisis, who knows if they will be the next to fall?

At the same time, Shen Xiangchi couldn't help sighing and said:
"Looks like this mess has already started"

First, the three foundation-building forces generally increased the taxes of the vassal families, and later, the Liu family took the risk of going to war with Xuanlingmen to snatch the money and food stored in the treasury of the Shayu County government.

Now the Xuanling Sect has directly started killing chickens and taking eggs. Even if it chills the hearts of the various vassal families under its command, they still have to rely on the method of ransacking their homes to collect money and food in a short period of time.

And besides these two forces, the Kuangsha faction in Huangkan County to the south seems to be desperately collecting money and grain, and is not hesitating to frantically squeeze the vassal families and forces under its rule.

These three foundation building forces desperately collected money and food at the same time, obviously they all knew some gossip and started to make preparations.

Facing the chaos that had already begun to emerge, Shen Xiangchi couldn't help feeling that time was running out, and the time left for him seemed to be running out.

"mess"

Shen Xiangchu murmured softly, his white eyebrows furrowed, obviously aware of the crisis hidden in the dark.

"This storage bag contains a batch of cultivation resources. You take part of it to repay the clansmen who donated money and food to help the family make up taxes. For the remaining resources, you secretly cultivate three acres of first-level low-grade spiritual fields and two acres of land. A first-class middle-grade medicine field”

On the other side, Shen Xiangchi took out a storage bag from his sleeve, and solemnly handed it to Shen Xiangchu's hand.

"This"

Faced with this sudden task, Shen Xiangchu felt a little surprised. After all, it would cost a lot of money to complete these two tasks.

But when he saw the contents of the storage bag clearly, he was no longer worried about money and food, but was shocked by where the patriarch got so many resources.

He first slowly raised his head to look at the patriarch Shen Xiangchi, and when the two looked at each other for a while, they both looked at each other and smiled.

The two old guys have been partners and partners for decades, so there is still a tacit understanding.

And judging from Shen Xiangchu's expression of immediate understanding, it seemed that this was not the first time they had done this kind of thing.

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"

Shen Xiangchi carefully put away the storage bag, and then said with a serious face.

I saw that Shen Xiangchi nodded slightly, and said in a deep voice:

"In addition, those clansmen who have already returned to the mountain should not go out again, and some trades in the family will be suspended first, and the defense facilities of the family should be strengthened as much as possible and the maintenance of the clan protection array must be guaranteed."

"Okay, I made a note of it."

Shen Xiangchu had no objection to the arrangement of the patriarch Shen Xiangchi, and immediately agreed.

But he thought of something again, and immediately asked:
"Then this year's family competition will still be held as scheduled?"

"As usual, it will be held after the ancestor worship, and this year's rewards can also be increased appropriately."

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(End of this chapter)