Lijiazhuang is a huge village. Outside the village, a huge defensive formation covers the entire village. There are many houses in the village, and there are spiritual fields in the west and west outside the village, like soldiers standing in line.
Guo Huai was placed in a separate courtyard, and two young female monks took care of him. Both of these female monks were only in the Qi refining stage.
All people in the fairy world have spiritual roots when they are born, but there are also very many useless spiritual roots such as five spiritual roots and west spiritual roots.
As far as Guo Huai knows, this ratio is even greater than that of Yunlan's Immortal Realm. Female cultivators with this level of cultivation can only do some work of serving others, while male cultivators can only farm and plant crops in the spiritual fields outside the village. These fairy rice are the least technical tasks.
For monks with poor spiritual roots, no one wants to marry women or men. In the end, they have to marry themselves. It is difficult for the children born in the end to have middle-to-upper spiritual roots.
This is also eugenics and nurturing in the fairy world. Like Guo Huai's family, Guo Huai and Shi Yun both have top-grade spiritual roots, so their sons and daughters also have extremely talented heavenly spiritual roots.
Ling Wei also has top-quality spiritual roots, and the spiritual roots of her children with Guo Pu will not be too bad in the future, so sometimes destiny is determined by birth.
The chance of changing one's fate against the odds is extremely slim.
Take Yuqingzong Zhao Yun as an example. He has five elements of useless spiritual roots, but he has a heaven-defying artifact, the Treasure Vase.
Not only can all items be copied, but also time and space can be reversed, and the flow of time can be changed. But how many people can have such good luck?
Before Guo Huai ascended to the upper world, Zhao Yun suddenly died during an expedition. I wonder if it was related to the treasure he was carrying. Although Guo Huai went to check afterwards, he still found nothing.
It can be seen that even if a time traveler possesses a heaven-defying artifact, something will still happen to him.
Zhao Yun's death also made Guo Huai feel a sense of regret.
This is even more true in the fairy world. As long as your cultivation level is low, you will be like cattle and sheep being slaughtered by others, without any room for resistance.
"Brother Guo, are you used to living here?"
Li Ling'er hurried over at night.
"My monks travel all over the country and can rest in the wind, snow, and the Corpse Mound. The environment here is very good, there is nothing I am not used to."
Guo Huai just replied deliberately.
Li Ling'er's eyes were shining, and her longing for the outside world was all written on her face.
"Do you know? I have never left Lijiazhuang since I was born. I am either practicing at home or going hunting with the hunting team in Luoxia Mountain. I really envy you for being able to make a living in the outside world."
Guo Huai looked at the innocent Li Ling'er and smiled helplessly: "The outside world is not a pure land. There are intrigues, murders and treasures, and all kinds of dangerous fighting. Sometimes it won't stop for a moment. If you want to have such a peaceful life, Life is a luxury.”
"I'm not afraid. I've gone through enough of this dull, passionless life. When you get better, can you take me out to see the outside world."
Li Ling'er's eyes were full of longing. Seeing that Guo Huai was silent, he shyly whispered: "I am very obedient. I can do whatever you ask me to do."
Guo Huai didn't know what to say in his heart. No one could stop Li Linger's heart that had wings.
This also reminded him of the time when he traveled across the continent and had the same mentality of wanting to go out and explore the world. Some people are born unwilling to stay in a small place. They long for the outside world.
"Is your annual festival over?"
Li Ling'er nodded and complained: "It just ended. I really don't know why I spend all my energy on this annual festival every year? It's meaningless to waste people and money. In the end, it's just eating, drinking, and flattering."
Guo Huai smiled, but it was difficult to say anything. For a small family village, age is also a bond that unites people and strengthens the centripetal force.
The two talked for a while, and then Li Ling'er reluctantly left. If Guo Huai said a word, she would probably be willing to go to bed with Li Ling'er.
After a few days, Guo Huai's body recovered his basic mobility. Although his strength has not yet returned to its peak, it only takes some time to recover and he will be able to fully recover.
On this day, urgent bells suddenly sounded in the village.
“Dong dong dong!!!”
With each sound becoming more urgent than the other, Guo Huai's spiritual consciousness swept away and saw countless villagers holding magic weapons and running towards the entrance of the village.
"Are you in trouble?"
Guo Huai was a little confused. He swayed and flew into the air. He had a panoramic view of everything around the village.
I saw the sound of pegasus screaming outside the village, and dozens of monks in red robes riding horses stood at the entrance of the village.
"The Tiger Gang collects taxes every three years. We paid them last year. Why are they here again this year?"
"Yeah, what's going on?"
"In previous years, as long as we paid taxes on time, the Tiger Gang would basically not come."
The head of the Li family stepped forward through the defensive formation, bowed his hands to the Earthly Immortal monks headed by the Tiger Gang, and said in salute: "I wonder why you are here today?"
The leader of the Tiger Gang was a monk who was in the early stage of Earth Immortal. He was followed by monks who were in the Tribulation Stage and Mahayana Stage. Although there were not many in number, they were far more powerful than Lijiacun.
"In the future, the annual tax will be collected once every three years instead of once a year. This is the latest decision of Gang Leader Hong."
The leader of the Earth Immortals said expressionlessly: "The old rule is one Immortal Crystal per year."
"Sir, we can't afford to pay such an annual tax even if it kills us."
Patriarch Li begged: "Can you give me a handover every two years? It will at least give us a breather."
"Uh-huh!"
The leader of the Earth Immortal took out a long knife, and the cold light of the knife hit his face, and the evil aura was overwhelming. The leader's body was shrouded in fairy light, making him look majestic and unrivaled.
"Why do you force me to take action? Massacre your village?"
Patriarch Li was so frightened that he quickly knelt down on the ground, took out an immortal crystal and gave it away, and said helplessly: "We will hand it over."
The leader of the Earth Immortal took the immortal crystal and took everyone away on Pegasus.
After the Tiger Gang left, everyone in the Li family wailed.
"This is how to do?"
"One fairy crystal a year, isn't this going to force us to death?"
"You can't even get a single fairy crystal by skinning us and selling our flesh. Is God going to destroy our Lijiazhuang?"
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The wails that filled the sky and the earth made the head of the Li family turn pale. He returned to the ancestral hall without looking back and began to call everyone for a meeting.
The Li family ancestral hall is filled with incense. The words "Heaven and Earth" are written in the front, and dozens of tablets are placed below. These are the spiritual tablets of past clan leaders and people with outstanding military exploits.
The head of the Li family saw that all the monks above the divine transformation stage had arrived. He cleared his throat and said, "Everyone has seen that the Tiger Gang has changed the annual tax from every three years to once a year. This one will be paid every year." Immortal crystal, our Lijiazhuang really can’t get it.”
"If we can't get it out, with the ruthlessness of the Tiger Gang, we will definitely massacre everyone in our clan."
"Our strength is low and we can't fight even if we try hard."
Chief Li stood up suddenly and said sadly: "I have decided to go to Luoxia Mountain to hunt the green wolf beast in three days."
Everyone was shocked. This green wolf beast was a monster at the peak of Mahayana strength, and it had a large group. If they went there, they would probably have a narrow escape.
