Lonely Immortal

In fact, even without the threat of this steward, Zhang Zhiwen knew that the Immortal Dynasty would definitely not let anyone evade military service. He knew this since he came to Wanxian Island, and he had never thought about evading military service, but he still didn't understand. Could it be that the Su Mansion was unwilling to cheat in secret? There would be no harm in spending money to bribe the Su Mansion, right?

Is there any point in letting people guard the wasteland? Or is there something fishy about it? Zhang Zhiwen still hasn't figured out what's going on. He feels that there is something fishy about it, but he hasn't found a place to start yet.

Of course, Zhang Zhiwen left here temporarily, and he went to the Lixian Book Pavilion of the Su Mansion. He wanted to see if he could enter the Lixian Book Pavilion. He had the method of the Heavenly Dao Fish. If he could enter the Lixian Book Pavilion, he could get the recipe of the Fahun Pill, and he wouldn't have to be a chores.

But soon, Zhang Zhiwen found that the Lixian Book Pavilion was suppressed by the Dharma, which prevented him from entering. However, Zhang Zhiwen was not too disappointed. He had long guessed that the elders and the clan leader of the Chen County Office were all Yuanying masters, so they would definitely arrange the Dharma array to suppress important locations in various places.

It seems that he can only go back honestly now. It’s not that Zhang Zhiwen is unwilling to bribe the steward with money, or bribe the housekeeper with money, but the other party didn’t give him a chance at all. He said that he wanted so much money, but in fact it was not the case at all. Others didn’t intend to exchange it for spiritual fields for him.

To get spiritual fields or something, you need some connections and background. At the beginning, the housekeeper actually planned to give Zhao Mingyin and others some opportunities, but Zhao Mingyin and others didn’t grasp it, which made Zhang Zhiwen lose the opportunity, but Zhang Zhiwen wouldn’t blame Zhao Mingyin and others. This kind of thing is not something worth showing off, let alone something that should be done. Since you have cultivated immortals, you should have some character and integrity.

Besides, Zhao Mingyin and the others have no money, and the housekeeper doesn't know how much money he will ask for. Therefore, it's better not to mention the things here. In short, Zhang Zhiwen can't farm now, unless the Su Mansion allows him to cheat and use the Immortal Mansion to cultivate.

In this case, Zhang Zhiwen will do so for the time being and see the situation of this competition first. Therefore, Zhang Zhiwen simply stays in the mansion beside the wasteland, meditating and practicing every day, which is a bit leisurely.

After a few days of leisure, Zhang Zhiwen feels that this kind of life is not bad. If a person does not have too many desires, then there will not be so much pain. Now he doesn't seem to have too many desires. Let those people pursue what desires. He has now reached the level of Jindan cultivation and his life span is as high as hundreds of years. Such a long life span is enough.

His Yuanshen is not dead either. At most, he will be reincarnated again. So what? Anyway, everyone will die. Wasn't it the same before he practiced immortality? Why, after cultivating immortality, I feel depressed every day. What's the point of cultivating immortality?

Therefore, after a few days of meditation, Zhang Zhiwen became more clear-headed. After all, he is already a man in his 40s. If he were in the secular world, he should have married and had children, or even become a grandfather.

But now he is still alone. He is used to living freely by himself. Now he stays next to the wasteland, enjoying the beautiful scenery and being free and happy!

In this way, Zhang Zhiwen feels that there is nothing to worry about. He goes out and walks around when he is free. As for the things that the Su Mansion wants him to hand over, that is easy. He just goes to the Immortal Mansion to cultivate a few magic soul grasses. It should be enough for one year to pass quickly.

Zhang Zhiwen was in a good mood. He was not like the old man who had too deep desires and eventually went crazy. That was not worth it, because most people in this world live a mediocre life, but Zhang Zhiwen's life was wonderful enough so far.

But Zhang Zhiwen was not annoyed, but others were not so easy to talk to. The competition started, and the deacon in charge of the competition naturally summoned everyone to watch. Zhang Zhiwen had to participate. As the saying goes, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, and they have to go. It's just that this kind of thing is extremely boring.

"Hey, Senior Brother Li's spiritual field is well maintained. Look, this Soul Law Grass is growing very lush!"

"That's right. He is Captain Su's relative. He got the best farmland, so he can grow the best Soul Law Grass!"

"Don't talk nonsense. This is because Senior Brother Li has superb planting skills. Otherwise, it would be difficult for ordinary people to grow such quality Soul Law Grass!"

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Everyone stood in front of a piece of top-quality farmland, looking at this top-quality Soul Law Grass, and there were all kinds of arguments. Anyway, Zhang Zhiwen didn't feel anything when he heard these words. Senior Brother Li was Captain Su's relative, so he naturally got the best farmland with this relationship.

With this best farmland, it is certain that good Soul Law Grass can be grown. It's just that this Soul Law Grass looks okay, but it can't be compared with the one grown in the Immortal Palace. Seriously speaking, this Soul Law Grass is only slightly better than the middle-grade level, and it barely reaches the level of top-grade, let alone the level of top-grade.

But it didn't stop everyone from flattering him. Even the deacons had to look at Brother Li's face, and they all looked flattering. Captain Su's relative was naturally very proud, as if he had grown the best soul grass in the world, and his head was almost raised to the sky.

After a round of flattery, everyone pretended to be reluctant to leave this place, and then there was another piece of fertile land. This fertile land was also planted by a relative of Captain Su. Although the relationship was not as good as Brother Li's, Brother Chen's spiritual field was also very fertile, so naturally he could grow good soul grass.

That round of flattery was naturally inevitable, and Brother Chen and Brother Li were obviously familiar with each other, but the relationship between them seemed to be a competitive relationship. Obviously, Captain Su had many relatives, and the relatives also had delegations. These two were probably the representatives of Captain Su's relatives. The two sides must compete for favor and strive to get more care from Captain Su.

Therefore, Brother Chen naturally had some yin and yang with Brother Li, and Brother Li also yin and yang with Brother Chen in turn.

But in Zhang Zhiwen's opinion, Brother Chen still has some planting skills, because his spiritual field is not as fertile as Brother Li's, but the magic soul grass grown is still good. Although it is not of the highest quality, it is of similar quality to that grown by Brother Li.

In this way, Brother Chen is quite proficient in planting, but the two are obviously in a competitive relationship, so naturally they don't get along.

But this has nothing to do with Zhang Zhiwen. Then it is the next spiritual field, and this spiritual field belongs to the relative of the housekeeper. Needless to say, this spiritual field is also fertile.

Zhang Zhiwen is too lazy to listen to the flattery of these people over there. Anyway, this kind of thing is nothing strange. After everyone boasted and flattered, they continued to fly to the next spiritual field.

These spiritual fields are either the relatives of Captain Su, the relatives of the housekeeper, or the relatives of the deacons, or they all have some relationship backgrounds. In short, there are about dozens of such relationship households, and the spiritual fields they get are determined according to the closeness of their relationship with the Su Mansion.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhiwen had nothing to say. Even if Zhao Mingyin and others had bribed the housekeeper, it was at most a relationship with a friend of the housekeeper. The spiritual fields they were allocated were actually average, and they could only grow some low-grade or medium-grade Fahun grass, which was almost enough.

But where did the medium-grade and high-grade Fahun grass come from?

This was also something that needed to be done later, so Zhang Zhiwen's speculation was correct. What cheating or not, in fact, everyone would cheat, especially in the later stage, it would be impossible to grow high-grade Fahun grass without cheating.

So, what if the Su Mansion gave Zhang Zhiwen a piece of wasteland? What if he couldn't grow Fahun grass? These people couldn't grow high-grade Fahun grass either, and according to the rules of the Immortal Dynasty, they had to grow high-grade Fahun grass. What if they couldn't? Then they could only purchase it!

Since it is a purchase, it means that money has to be spent. However, the Su Mansion is stuck at the joint point of low-grade and medium-grade soul grass, which is to make the low-level cultivators unable to make progress for a lifetime, stay in his Su Mansion for a lifetime, and then squeeze the low-level cultivators every year, that's about it.

Sure enough, the spiritual fields allocated to the cultivators in the future were much worse. Many spiritual fields did not have much spiritual energy, and the soul grass planted was sparse and of poor quality. Some could only barely reach the level of low-grade.

"Junior Brother Zhao, I'm not saying anything bad about you, what's wrong with you? The things you planted are like this? Do you still want to advance?"

The deacon stood at the head of the field, and taught a junior brother below with a condescending attitude. The junior brother couldn't even raise his head. The cultivators around him looked at him with almost mocking eyes. Of course, some cultivators sympathized with him because they were also low-level cultivators, just like Junior Brother Zhao.

"Hmph, you will never be able to advance in your life! You are such a waste!"

After the deacon finished his lecture, he left with a wave of his sleeves, and Junior Brother Zhao had no choice but to follow behind.

In this way, the spiritual fields became worse and worse, and the deacon's words became more and more unpleasant. Of course, the people who were assigned to these poor spiritual fields were all unrelated people, but these people actually bribed the deacon. Therefore, they were humiliated by the deacon, so they dared not speak out and were angry.

"Hmph, you all plant well for me, otherwise don't expect me to pass you!"

This deacon was responsible for the affairs of spiritual field planting, and he had great power. Of course, with great power, he became arrogant and greedy. This guy said this just to make these cultivators pay more money, otherwise he would not let them pass.

These cultivators had no choice but to respond quickly.

"Hey, you're still thinking about being an official, so funny!"

"That's right, don't you see what they grow? Some of the Soul of the Law Grass are so ugly that they can't even be seen by people, they are not even of the lower grade!"

"Haha, forget it, they don't have any ability, but they want to be Lixian, but everyone can be Lixian?"

"That's right, look at Captain Su, this is a powerful Lixian, he has his own government, many monks under him, and a group of Taoist companions, this is the role model we should learn from!"

"That's natural, the ultimate goal of cultivating immortals must be to serve the Immortal Dynasty, otherwise what's the point of cultivating immortals? It's better to farm here all your life!"

"Haha, you know what, there are really people who have been farming all their lives, but they can't grow anything!"

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The related households are all mocking and proud. They have the hope of becoming Lixian, so of course they look down on the lower-level monks. These lower-level monks can only farm here for the rest of their lives, or after being lucky enough to pass this level, they have to work in refining ores. The field stays for a lifetime.

This is like being a cow and a horse for a lifetime, while the officials and immortals are aloof, isn't it just as they say? You need resources, you need subordinates, you need Taoist companions, and there are even many female cultivators who can’t even get the status of a Taoist monk, so they work for Li Xian as maids for nothing. There are so many such female cultivators, this gang People also speak out and don't care what these low-level monks think after hearing this.

Because under the huge system of the Immortal Dynasty, it is useless no matter how many these low-level monks are. Just a few outer church elders are enough to wipe out these low-level monks, not to mention that there are Nascent Soul masters like the Great Elder and Sect Master sitting in charge. There are Fu Yamen and Zhou Yamen above, layer by layer, like an airtight iron tower, directly suppressing all the monks at the bottom firmly at the bottom.

Soon, everyone came to the last piece of spiritual field. No, this should be the last piece of wasteland, which is Zhang Zhiwen's field.

Everyone fell silent when they saw Zhang Zhiwen's Huangtian. Of course, the reasons for their silence must be different. The deacon was too lazy to talk nonsense, the connections just didn't bother to talk, and the low-level monks didn't expect that there were people worse off than them. Then this one was even worse. The person is naturally Zhang Zhiwen.

He was the last one to come, and there might be monks who would join him later, but others might have bribed the deacon, but he didn't, so he would naturally get the worst of the wasteland.

"There's nothing interesting to see. That's the end of today's competition. I'll announce the final result..."

The deacon was talking, but soon, he seemed to receive some news. He took out the Su Mansion Deacon Token. After receiving the news, his expression changed slightly.

"Sir, what's wrong?"

Senior Brother Li stood next to him and couldn't help but wonder.

"The county government is going to hold an impromptu planting competition between the captains of the various divisions, which means that the various prefectures are going to compete. Didn't this start three years later? Why is it brought forward this time?"

There was some confusion on the deacon's face, but everyone was surprised when they heard this, and Zhang Zhiwen was even more surprised. He didn't expect that this kind of planting competition would actually include a competition between the captains of the county government.

In fact, the so-called competition between the captains is nothing more than a planting competition held by the monks under each government.

This kind of competition is usually called the rural examination, which means that all the monks in each captain's office under the county government gather together for the competition. Below the county government is the township level. The rural examination is divided into four competitions: planting, mineral refining, elixir refining and weapon refining.

"Then we have to start making preparations!" Senior Brother Li was also a little surprised and couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, sir, it seems we have to make preparations immediately, otherwise the other village members will definitely make large purchases..."

Halfway through what Senior Brother Chen was saying, the deacon couldn't help but glare at him. Only then did he realize that he had spoken too quickly and slipped away.