Brother, Stop Doing It, You Are A Villain!

Dongzhou, Qingdi City.

Qingdi City, one of the largest cities in Dongzhou, is located at the junction of Lishui and Taijiang River, with intensive shipping and developed trade. With this unique geographical location, Qingdi City has gradually grown from a small village to become the leading big city in Dongzhou.

Miao Feng, the lord of Qingdi City, is also a well-known powerful cultivator. It is said that the Realm has reached the Taiqing Realm, and it is only one step away from the Transcending Tribulation Realm. He also has many powerful cultivators under his command. Relying on his strong Cultivation Base and the background of Qingdi City, Miao Feng secured his position as the City Lord of Qingdi City, and also deterred the Quartet from easily offending.

As long as there are strong people sitting in every big city, this is already the subtle consensus of the entire upper domain. This is not out of awe of the strong, but a compromise that has to be made in order to survive. In the eyes of powerful cultivators, mortals are just ants, and their life and death are insignificant, so there are often powerful cultivators who destroy a city at every turn, and this is true for both righteous and evil.

It's okay to be righteous, but at least he has to come up with an excuse for destroying the whole city, so as not to tarnish his family's reputation. However, Devil Dao acts according to his own likes and dislikes. In many cases, they will even destroy the city just because the name of the city violates the taboo of owning.

In the face of a powerful cultivator, mortals without the ability to practice can only resign themselves to fate. After all, they have no strength to resist, and no one can stand up for them. The only thing they can do is to seek a strong backing as much as possible in order to achieve overnight stability. Because of this, many cities with powerful cultivators have become the first choice for mortals to live in.

However, it is not so easy to live in a big city. Big cities mean heavy taxes. Especially in a big city like Qingdi City with a population of one million, almost every household in the city has to spend two-thirds of their annual income as taxes. However, although the taxes are heavy, Life has basic guarantees. It will not freeze to death from starvation, nor will it be killed at will.

What's more, cultivator cultivation requires a lot of resources and money, and the taxes they provide can also meet the needs of cultivator cultivation to shelter them, which can be regarded as a symbiotic relationship where each takes what he needs.

This is the unique social model of this world.

This world does not have the concept of a country, but a scattered city alliance formed with the city as the basic structure. The relationship between these city alliances is based on interests, usually relying on in-laws and resource exchanges as connections between cities. But there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. Therefore, these city alliances are actually quite fragile, and sometimes they even part ways just because of some small conflicts of interest.

The reason why no country has been established in this world is not that no one has thought of doing so, but the characteristics of this world doomed the birth of a country to be extremely difficult.

Due to the existence of cultivation, the gap between individual strengths is infinitely widened, which also makes it impossible to establish an army basically composed of mortals. After all, a cultivator in the Transcend Tribulation period can wipe out millions of troops with a single palm strike.

As for the establishment of an army composed of cultivators, this matter is also somewhat unrealistic. Because the cultivation of cultivator needs to absorb Spiritual Qi, and Spiritual Qi is mostly conceived in the mountains. If the Spirit Stones are used to support the army, the consumption is too huge, which leads to the military guarantee of each city, usually only a small group of cultivators, and it is difficult to build a real army.

As for the cultivator of the team, the scope of its force protection is limited to the surrounding area, and it is difficult to radiate in a large area. Even if the cultivator army is formed with the background of the city alliance, it can only achieve more than self-preservation, not enough aggressiveness, let alone guarantee the security of a country.

If the army cannot be established, the country will naturally be difficult to form. Without the existence of a country, it is difficult for ordinary people to have basic survival guarantees. Therefore, mortals in this world are really like ants, who can only live in the cracks of various forces. It's good to be able to find a big city as a backer, but mortals who don't even have a backer, how many of them will be slaughtered by the cultivator like cattle and sheep every day.

Maybe someone will ask at this time, isn't there some particularly lucky mortals who have gained powerful power through cultivation, and in turn protect their own group?

The reality is that there are such people, but very few.

Many mortals, who started from humble beginnings, made great wishes when they first embarked on the path of self-cultivation, wanting to protect the ethnic group with their own strength. Indeed, many of them got the opportunity of heaven-defying, and finally achieved great achievements. However, after reaching the top, most of these people have forgotten the original intention of owning, and instead, like other cultivators, they regard ordinary people as ants. Because in the process of their growth, countless realities told them that in this world, the strong are respected.

As long as you are strong enough, you can do whatever you want.

As long as you are strong enough, you can disdain all living beings.

As long as you are strong enough, you can ask anything from anyone.

As long as you are strong enough, you can ignore all justice in this world.

So their goal is to become stronger and stronger. In order to become stronger, they even dare to trample on the dignity and life and death of all mortals.

And mortals, facing a powerful cultivator, the only thing they can do is to live.

Because they do not deserve to have dignity in front of the cultivator.

This situation has been going on for thousands of Ten Thousand Years, maybe it will continue like this, and it will never change.

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Let us turn our attention back to Qingdi City.

As the largest city within a thousand miles of Fang Yuan, Qingdi City has tens of thousands of people entering it every day, and many of them are cultivators. And today, a cultivator team with a total of fifteen people entered this city.

These fifteen people are the disciples of the second branch and Lu Qingyuan who left Taiwei Mountain.

Regarding Lu Qingyuan's joining, the disciples of the second branch were not only surprised, but also welcomed it very much. After all, in the entire Taiwei Sect, among the disciples of their generation, the one with the highest cultivation base is Feng Shao, followed by Ye Chen and Lu Qingyuan. After Lu Qingyuan broke through and Feng Shao left, Lu Qingyuan has become the leader of this generation of disciples.

Can they not be happy to have such a person join them?

Lu Qingyuan soon learned that after the two disciples left Sect, they also planned to find Feng Shao. However, in the huge territory of Dongzhou, how easy is it to find someone? So after some discussion, they decided to go to Qingdi City to inquire about news. After all, as one of the largest cities in Dongzhou, its sources of news are also very extensive.

Since they were all cultivators, the city gate guards, who always liked to blackmail blackmail from people who entered the city, consciously ignored them.

After entering the city, everyone first found an inn to temporarily settle down, and then began to discuss where to go for news.

Their first option was the Linglong Pavilion in Qingdi City.

As the big city of Dongzhou, Qingdi City has attracted many large chambers of commerce, and the same is true for Linglong Pavilion. Moreover, the scale of Linglong Pavilion here is much larger than that of Liyang City, and even the shopkeeper is in the realm of Divine Transformation, which is a whole Realm higher than the shopkeeper of Liyang City. In this way, the treasurer of Realm will naturally not have a low status in Yunjian Pavilion.

But after Lu Qingyuan and the others inquired, they were very disappointed, because there was no news of Feng Shao even in the Yunjian Pavilion.

However, after learning that they came down from Mount Taiwei, the treasurer of Linglong Pavilion warmly entertained them and gave them some suggestions, such as issuing missing person notices through Linglong Pavilion, or seeking information from other chambers of commerce. All large chambers of commerce have several branches, so intelligence is also one of the goods they sell. As for the release of missing person notices, it is also one of the channels for large chambers of commerce to make money.

But after inquiring about the price of publishing the missing person notice, everyone couldn't help but be speechless. They can afford this price, but after paying, they basically have no money on them.

Moreover, posting missing person notices does not guarantee that people will be found.

In desperation, they had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and decided to try their luck with other chambers of commerce first.

Next, everyone disbanded at the entrance of Linglong Pavilion and went to the large chamber of commerce in the city. As Lu Qingyuan is the strongest, she acts alone.

Lu Qingyuan went straight to the Tianbao Pavilion located in the south of the city. As soon as she entered the door, she went straight to the topic and conducted an intelligence consultation.

It's just a pity that although the Taiwei Sect is well-known within hundreds of miles around Taiwei Mountain, it basically has no influence outside this range. As for Feng Shao, the holy son of the Taiwei Sect, many people only heard of his name but never saw him, so they didn't pay attention to Feng Shao's whereabouts, and naturally they didn't have any relevant information.

Lu Qingyuan was very disappointed with this result. But she didn't intend to give up, and decided that she couldn't do it first, so she went directly to the headquarters of Yunjian Pavilion, presumably Yunjian Pavilion would always pay some attention to Feng Shao's whereabouts.

But when she was contemplating, she didn't realize that in Tianbao Pavilion, there was a luxuriously dressed young man looking at her with a playful smile on his mouth.

When Lu Qingyuan was about to leave, the young man suddenly stepped forward and said to Lu Qingyuan with a smile: "Girl, you said you are looking for Feng Shao, the holy son of Taiwei Sect?"

Lu Qingyuan was startled, and couldn't help asking: "Young master, do you know the whereabouts of my senior brother Feng?"

The young man took out a folding fan out of nowhere, waved his hand, opened it, and while fanning the fan pretending to be coquettish, he said with a smile: "I am not talented, but I have had some friendship with Feng Shao Shengzi. And it just so happens that Feng Shao is currently visiting at your residence, I don't know if the girl is..."

Lu Qingyuan didn't expect to hear the news of Feng Shao here, she couldn't help being overjoyed, and said quickly: "I am senior brother Feng Shao's senior sister, and I also come from Taiwei Mountain. If you can bring the little girl to meet senior Feng Shao, little girl Grateful!"

The young man smiled and said, "It's easy to talk about, it's easy to do."

Lu Qingyuan, who was overjoyed, didn't realize that in the young man's eyes, there was a faint hint of a smile of success.

Sure enough, this kind of ignorant little girl had better be fooled!