Chapter 69 - Storm Rain

"Because Xiong Family is the strongest person in the entire Mengyu County, he is just a step away from becoming a new rising star in the Yuxian!"

Yang Tiangang calmly said: "As long as his Xiong Family can become one of the famous sects in the Yuxian, he will be one of the top powers beneath the Heaven-Shaken Sect! What does the life and death of Mengyu County have to do with them!? "

The tyrannical Xiong Family pressed down on the four Martial Realm Cultivator s in the room like a mountain, making them unable to breathe. After a moment of silence, Blacksmith Zhang said: "Then what about the other two tyrants in this county? What do the Ning and Yu Families say?"

This time, even without Yang Tiangang's answer, Xu Sanniang had already guessed: Even the Ning and Yu Families wouldn't make things difficult for Xiong Family at this time!

The Blacksmith Zhang was puzzled: "Why, are you not afraid of the Xiong Family suppressing them after becoming a famous clan of the Yuxian? Furthermore, the entire county's spiritual valley s have reduced production, and the actions of the Xiong Family, have the Ning and Yu Families not suffered any losses? "

Xu Sanniang laughed bitterly: "It's precisely because Xiong Family is on the verge of being promoted to a famous sect, whoever wants to make things difficult for them, Xiong Family will definitely fight for his life, so the other two families avoid doing anything, furthermore, the Ning and Yu Families both have Adept Realm Cultivator as their leader, and the damage done to them by the giant locust will at most be reduced by thirty to forty percent, the Xiong Family's taxes only went up by a third, probably also to take care of these two families' emotions!"

Yang Junshan heard the words of the Martial Realm Cultivator s in the room. What was different from what they thought was, why did Heaven-Shaken Sect agree to this method so easily?

The Heaven-Shaken Sect would naturally be able to see the logic behind this, but the Heaven-Shaken Sect still silently allowed the Xiong Family to do so, and at most only made the Xiong Family charge in and take the blame for the Heaven-Shaken Sect. It could be seen that the main reason was not because the Heaven-Shaken Sect was greedy for this little bit of spiritual valley, but because the Heaven-Shaken Sect truly needed this much from the spiritual valley!

From the red-rusted ore incident to the current food tax incident, Yang Junshan seemed to see a gigantic monster standing at the edge of the cliff, trying to grab onto every straw to save its life.

With Yang Tiangang coming forward, the collection of food taxes on the Tuqiu Village was completed very quickly, and this was already within everyone's expectations, but in the other villages, it was not the same. Because of the giant locust disaster, their production had been reduced by two-thirds, but after the Heaven-Shaken Sect's food taxes were promulgated, the entire village could be said to be filled with complaints.

Furthermore, during the process of collecting the taxes, there were even cultivators of the upper echelons of the Heaven-Shaken Sect who came down to urge them to go over it. Especially since this matter was related to the fate of the clan, the people of the Xiong Family, in the name of the Heaven-Shaken Sect, were touring the small villages and towns of the Mengyu County. Any Spiritual Farmers who were resistant to the emotions would be scolded, insulted, threatened, or even beaten up by these people!

In the Wasteland Town, the one who paid the taxes closely after the Tuqiu Village was actually the Earth Origin Village, and the previous Village Head of the Earth Origin Village was Qian Chunlai. After this person took up his position in the Guardian Office, the Earth Origin Village's Village Head descended onto his brother Qian Yingli.

Although Qian Chunlai had managed to squeeze out his biggest competitor, Yang Tiangang, to get the recommendation of the Heaven-Shaken Sect's outer sect disciples from Liu Zhen was undoubtedly his best opportunity.

It was said that Qian Chunlai had caused a ruckus in the Earth Origin Village. It was rumored that an old Spiritual Farmers in the Earth Origin Village had been forced to death by the Qian Chunlai brothers because he was unwilling to pay the food tax.

However, regarding the matter of whether or not he could become an outer disciple of the Heaven-Shaken Sect, it was obvious that Qian Chunlai did not care about the negative impact of the food collection on him. Under the suppression of the Qian brothers, the internal strife of the Qian Family was finally suppressed.

This time, Qian Chunlai had finally becomopular candidate for the outer sect disciples of Wasteland Town. It was said that he had obtained the support of a direct descendant from the Xiong Family, and that disciple of Xiong Family was also an outer sect disciple of Heaven-Shaken Sect.

However, cultivation itself warocess where one would retreat if one did not advance. Thus, whether it was spiritual valley, Spirit Wheat, Spirit Rice or other crops that could produce large amounts of high yield and short periods of time, they were all commonly used by the majority of low level cultivators as support to increase one's cultivation.

When Spiritual Farmers cultivates to a certain level, it is not to keep them warm and full, but to at least ensure that their cultivation will not decline even when resources are scarce. That's why almost all Spiritual Farmers are so stubborn about owning their own Ling Tian.

Take the spiritual valley Stone for example, it was merely the value of a few Jade Coins, but using a few Jade Coins to cultivate would at most exhaust the spirit energy contained within a few days, and in these few days the cultivator's cultivation might even increase aesult, but what about after the Jade Coins s? Because they were unable to replenish enough spiritual energy for a long period of time, their cultivation would begin to decline.

However, if they used these Jade Coino exchange for a stone of the spiritual valley, then perhaps the cultivator's cultivation would not increase so much just because of consuming the spiritual valley, but at least for the two to three months before the spiritual valley finished eating, the cultivator would be able to maintain his cultivation level from decreasing!

This was why ordinary cultivators attached more importance to the spiritual valley than to the Jade Coins!

But for the old Spiritual Farmers who had been forced to death in the Earth Origin Village, after going through the peak of his prime, not only had his cultivation lost all possibility of advancing, his fleshly body had also started to decline. If he wanted to maintain his cultivation, then the amount of spiritual valley he had to replenish might even surpass that of an adult.

If the Qian Chunlai brothers forcibly took away the remaining spiritual valley in his hands, it would only cause his body's aging speed to increase and his cultivation to decline even more quickly. The time of his death would naturally be much shorter, which was why he made such a short decision in the end.

A few days after paying the taxes, Yang Tiangang's mood did not improve at all. He still had a gloomy face all day, scaring Yang Junping and Yang Junxin so much that they hid and left when they saw their father.

Yang Junshan found Han Xiumei and asked: "Mother, Father is still brooding over the matters regarding the Heaven-Shaken Sect's outer sect disciples?"

In Yang Junshan's opinion, it was a good thing that Yang Tiangang had not become an outer disciple of the Heaven-Shaken Sect. Although the Heaven-Shaken Sect was strong, it was only a huge boat that was about to sink into the ocean.

Han Xiumei sighed, and said: "Some things can only be said for outsiders to hear, with your father's original achievements, there is no need to use things like the collection of food tax to consider, the real reason why your father can't become an inner disciple is because of your uncle!"

"Your uncle was accepted as an inner disciple by the Heaven-Shaken Sect because he had reported the contribution of the Rust Stone. Since an inner disciple has already come out of the Yang family, no matter whether it is the Heaven-Shaken Sect itself or the forces of Yuxian, all of them want to become the inner disciples of the Heaven-Shaken Sect, they do not wish for the Yang family to occupy another outer disciple spot.

When Yang Junshan saw his father, Yang Tiangang was lying on a rattan chair, smoking and reading a book. When Yang Junshan walked over to take a look, he discovered that Yang Tiangang was reading a book about low level spirit herbs.

Yang Junshan thought for a while, then said: "Father, we have not determined what our middle ranked Ling Tian will plant."

Yang Tiangang said, "Well, I have already gotten enough seeds for the Golden Red Flower, enough to plant a few Ling Tian s; your uncle also agreed to help me get a batch of Scarlet Flame Grass seeds, which would about be enough to plant a few Ling Tian s; now, there is only a bit of Ling Tian left, I don't know what to plant, and coincidentally, the low rank Celestial Elm Heart that you brought back from Banyan Mountain, as well as the three low rank Celestial Spirits that you got from killing the giant locust King, are currently considering whether to use the Jade Coins to acquire a batch of Spirit Grass Seeds, but still haven't thought of buying any seeds."

Yang Junshan flipped through the Spirit Grass Map on the table, found a map, and said: "How about growing this?"

Yang Tiangang lowered his head to take a look, and asked doubtfully: "Strange fruit? This seed wasn't hard to find, but what was the use of planting it? Although this item can be considered a low-grade magic herb, the fruits that are picked up are rarely used by anyone. Only some unorthodox pills can be used during the refining process, so even if it's grown, it can't be sold foigh price! "

Yang Junshan "hehe" laughed: "Maybe it will suddenly become useful in the future!"

Seeing that Yang Tiangang was looking at him suspiciously, Yang Junshan casually made a lie and said: "Previously, I saw the cultivators of Sirius Gate gathering and refining this Spirit Grass without restraint. It seems that it is because of some new pill and requires a large amount of strange fruits, I heard that Sirius Gate has already purchased it aigh price in Zhang County!"

Yang Tiangang waved his hand, and said: "That won't do, Sirius Gate is the one who is buying this thing, it's not like Heaven-Shaken Sect is asking for this thing, who am I going to grow it and sell it to?"

Father, you can take a look and makrip to Zhang County. It's not too far anyways, with your cultivation in the martial arts realm, entering and exiting Zhang County is not easy!

Yang Tiangang impatiently waved his hand, and said: "We'll talk about it in the future. There's no rush anyway!"

At this time, Yang Junshan seemed to have thought of something, and said: "That's right, Father, speaking of Tuo Wu Shan, I remembered something. Do you remember the valley where we met a swarm of locusts? There seems to be a source of killing intent within the valley! "

"What?" Yang Tiangang suddenly jumped up from the rattan chair, and the rattan chair that could not take his strength immediately broke down, but Yang Tiangang did not even look as he stared at Yang Junshan: "What did you say, source of Evil Qi? What the f * * k do you know about the source of infernal energy!? "

Yang Junshan "Hehe" laughed, and described the scene at the time where the horde of locusts fought over the source of killing intent appeared in the valley. At the same time, he guessed that the source of the killing intent was intermittent, and wondered if the had already discovered the source of the killing intent when he was monitoring the locusts in the valley.

Yang Tiangang was already overjoyed, there was no way he could sit still. As he walked, he said: "I'm going to the Tuo Wu Shan, if it's really like you said, I'll definitely reward you handsomely when I return!"

Yang Junshan immediately followed and said: "Father, there is actually something I haven't told you yet!"

Seven days after Yang Tiangang rushed to the Tuo Wu Shan, the entire sky above the Wasteland Town darkened, followed by a torrential downpour. In an instant, another five to six days had passed, and the small streams in the western mountains had already turned into an inclined channel for the flood. The Qinshui was also soaring all the way to the edge of the overflowing embankment.

Yang Junshan watched the rain outside worriedly. If this goes on, after the giant locust disaster, there will be another flood!