Qeng Ho Mage

Chapter 130 Reinforcement and Territory
"The storage pouch? Why hasn't it been destroyed?" Fang Dushu actually wanted to ask what kind of treasure was in the pouch.

Seeing how happy Mr. Xia Qiwen is, he looks decades younger all of a sudden.

Fang Dushu couldn't help muttering, could it be that he packed a large sum of tribute?

Master Xia Qi caressed the storage pouch, appearing to be extremely cherished.

She told Fang Dushu: "This spider demon comes from the Jiuquan Snowfield. There are many remains of ancient monsters buried under the snowfield. This spider demon was lucky enough to find the real skeleton of the ancient monster, but it has no eyesight to see gold inlaid with jade. It is a waste of money to use it as storage instead of offering sacrifices to refining magic treasures."

Demon cultivators specialize in body refining, their bodies are magic weapons, and most of them are not keen on refining weapons.

Fang Dushu said with a smile: "It's fortunate that it made the real body dusty, otherwise today's hard work would be in vain."

"That's true."

Master Xia Qiwen was happier than him, looked up at him, and admired him more and more, thinking of him as his lucky star: "Boy, you have made great achievements this time, no matter what reward you want, you can give it to me .”

After a pause, she emphasized again: "Just mention it, even if it's a complete oracle bone, the old man will find a way and try his best to help you realize your wish."

If Fang Dushu hadn't discussed the source of the tribute with Fang Xianfu in Shangfang City, he would have chosen the oracle bone without hesitation, after all, the oracle bone scripture can improve one's cultivation.

But the role of tribute seems to be greater than that of Oracle Bone Scripture, because tribute is related to Fang Dushu's future alchemy.

He first asked for advice: "Uncle Xia, I heard that in ancient times, those demon cultivators with profound mana were able to drive demon soldiers to sacrifice tribute. Is this true?"

"true."

When Master Xia Qiwen said this, Qin Hongyao had already returned to the valley and looked for him: "Master, are you okay?"

"It's okay to be a teacher, but you are seriously injured!"

Master Xia Qiwen wanted to check Qin Hongyao's injuries, and signaled Fang Dushu to wait aside.

After she finished treating Qin Hongyao's wound, she gave Qin Hongyao a elixir to take, and summoned a treasure of cicada wings, which turned into a wing about ten feet long, carrying Fang Dushu and Qin Hongyao on it. Fly out of the valley.

At this time, the army of insect swarms outside the valley was still fighting, and those golden holy spirit insects were all raised by Master Xia Qiwen.

After leaving the valley, Master Xia Qiwen used her wings to fly close to the ground. She hung a treasure bag high and put all the holy spirit worms into the bag.

As soon as the holy spirit worm left, the group of monsters in the mountain also lost their attack target and started running around.

Fang Dushu asked casually: "There are still many survivors of these insect monsters, will they swarm south to the Green Miasma Forest?"

"Those leaders who have opened up their spiritual wisdom have been killed. The remaining little demons may use Mount Heitou as their habitat, or they may flee to the outside of the mountain, but they are no longer fearful."

Master Xia Qiwen took a look at Fang Dushu: "Do they have anything to do with you if they go south to the Green Miasma Forest?"

"The members of the disciple's family built a city in the green miasma forest."

Fang Dushu said frankly: "The more they rush into the forest, the more serious the loss to the disciple's family."

"Your family actually made their home in the green miasma forest? Didn't the city in the green miasma forest move here from Dayong?"

Master Xia Qiwen is a monk of the Jindan stage, so he doesn't know the situation of ordinary cities in the world. Qin Hongyao's family is one of the aristocratic families in Longzhou. She has more information about the aristocratic families, but she doesn't know the details of Shangfang City. .

Fang Dushu wanted to introduce the situation of Fang's family to the two. At this time, Fei Chi happened to pass by the hill where Fang Xiande and Yin Jue stayed.

He reported the identities of the four to Master Xia Qiwen.

Master Xia Qiwen immediately stopped the wings and shouted: "All fly up, I will take you all!"

Her mana is too strong, Fang Xiande and Yin Jue can't see through her cultivation, but they all know that this is an encounter with a great master.

After boarding the wings, I heard Fang Dushu's introduction: "This is Master Xia Wen from the Holy Spirit Peak of the Zhenwen School, and also my uncle. Come and see me!"

Literary teacher?

The four of them all thought to themselves, the old Jindanqi senior of the Zhenwen School has come out of the mountain?But how could she show up on Mount Heitou in Lizhou?

Regardless of the fact that the four of them have successfully established the foundation, but have never dealt with high-ranking monks, now that they see Senior Jindanqi right in front of them, they will bow to each other on the spot.

However, Master Xia Qiwen stopped him: "Since you are Xiaofang's relatives and friends, the customary etiquette is waived, and you all sit down, and the old man will drive Du Fengyi to continue on the road."

The writer had already spoken, and the four of them didn't dare to say a word. They just took a look at Fang Dushu from the corner of their eyes, especially Gao Fei and Gao Li's brothers and sisters, so that they envied Fang Dushu's status in the Zhenwen School.

"Xiao Fang, where is your city located?"

Master Xia Qiwen confessed: "The troops I sent as reinforcements will soon arrive at the Green Miasma Forest. We need a foothold, so choose near your house!"

"Uncle Xia, my family can vacate the city for my fellow disciples to rest."

Fang Dushu didn't mind entertaining the disciples of the Zhenwen Sect, and there would be some writers visiting together, and they would definitely reward the Fang family with some treasures.

"There is no need to work hard!"

Master Xia Qiwen said: "Every time the disciples travel, they always carry with them the things they need to live in. Let them find a way to establish a residence."

As he spoke, Flying Wings had sailed out of Mount Heitou and arrived at the sky above the camp on the border of the Green Miasma Forest.

Fang Xiande and Yin Jue jumped off their wings and bid farewell here. They need to guard here to prevent the swarm from going south.

"The leader of the big monster in the swarm has been wiped out by Master Xia, and the rest of the little monsters are not large enough. You can stay here with peace of mind, and don't have to worry about the outbreak of the worm nest disaster."

Before leaving, Fang Dushu left such encouraging words.

Waiting for Fang Dushu to fly far away, Gao Fei wondered: "Since the insect plague has been suppressed, why does the Zhenwen faction send reinforcements to the Green Miasma Forest?"

He clasped his fists at Fang Xiande and Yin Jue again: "Are the two fellow Taoists clear?"

Fang Xiande and Yin Jueqi said: "We also don't know anything. When the reinforcements arrive at the front line, we will know everything!"

The two of them have nothing to worry about. No matter what the reinforcements of the Zhenwen faction do, the Fang family will definitely not suffer any losses when they set up camp in Shangfang City this time. On the contrary, it is still unknown if they can use this opportunity to expand their territory?

On the other side, Fang Dushu was sitting on the wing, guiding Master Xia Qi in the direction.

"Xiao Fang, didn't you ask the old man before, if the monster clan can sacrifice tribute?" Master Xia Qi began to answer him:
"In comparison, the monster clan is more suitable for refining tribute than the human cultivator. The monster clan is more efficient and does not need to take care of many mundane affairs like human cultivators. Just let them guard the bell and give orders. I only do this one thing every day.”

It is impossible for Renxiu to tie himself to the bell and tripod. Tribute refining is a hard job. He only pays hard work, but there is no return. No one will let himself become a puppet for refining tribute.

The Yaozu did not have such restraints, and driving the Yaozu to pay tribute may be in line with their ease of mind.

"However, it is not easy to let the monster race be used by me." Master Xia Qiwen said: "In our world of cultivating immortals, it is very common to tame the monster race as servants of mounts, but every cultivator, the monster that has been raised all his life The number of slaves is quite limited, and raising three or five is enough, and if this number is used to make tribute, it is a drop in the bucket, and it will not be of much use."

Fang Dushu has a deep understanding of the hard work of raising the monster clan.

He raised a fire silkworm, so far he has never been advanced, and his demon power is pitifully low. Although he will obey the arrangement unconditionally, but with the fire silkworm's superficial cultivation, he does not yet have the conditions to practice tribute.

The fire silkworm has not opened its spiritual wisdom, and guards the bell but does not know the method of refining tribute. Even if it is taught reluctantly, it is ineffective at all. If the fire silkworm is refined for several months, the results are not as good as those of people who practice qi at the first level. Days.

Fang Dushu wants the fire silkworm to serve as a tribute boy in the future, he must first train the fire silkworm, not only to teach the fire silkworm to understand human affairs, but also to enhance the fire silkworm's demon power, so that it can be competent for this job.

It takes decades or even hundreds of years of hard work for the fire silkworm to be well-trained.

Fang Dushu also suppressed an ice silkworm, whose monster power was stronger than that of a fire silkworm, but he refused to be disciplined, and it was more difficult to cultivate than a fire silkworm.

Having said that, raising a single monster mount or servant is not up to the task of making tribute, so is it feasible to start directly from the gregarious insect monster?
Master Xia Qiwen specifically confirmed this method: "Because of family traditions, I have been exposed to insect breeding since I was a child, and I am determined to study a method so that insect demons can replace human cultivation and become the main force of tribute. However, I have been raising insects for 100 years. Although tens of thousands of holy spirit worms have been raised, they still cannot replace human cultivation."

"What's the problem?"

"First of all, it is more difficult to activate the spiritual wisdom of insects than other monsters. I can't tame the holy spirit insects to be proficient in making tribute. Secondly, their demon power is low, and the speed of making tribute is extremely slow."

"But when the quantity reaches a certain level, it can make up for the lack of speed when superimposed."

"That's right! The old man has done a drill, let dozens of holy spirit worms work together, and the efficiency of tribute refining is barely equal to that of a person who cultivates Qi at the first and second levels!"

"I think this kind of efficiency is pretty good! Uncle Xia, you have tens of thousands of holy spirit worms, which is equivalent to hundreds of people practicing tribute at the same time. When the power of the holy spirit worms increases in the future, the efficiency will definitely continue to improve!"

"This is just an ideal state, how can it be so smooth to operate in reality!"

Master Xia Qiwen shook his head with a smile. The holy spirit worms looked silly and were willing to work hard, but they were living beings, not puppets.

Teacher Xia Qi told Fang Dushu the biggest difficulty: "During the tribute refining period, the holy spirit insects will constantly overdraw their demon power just like human cultivators. Once the demon power is exhausted, they must be fed, otherwise the demon body will be damaged, and then they will be killed." Abandoned, there are tens of thousands of holy spirit worms, and the daily consumption is astronomical, and as a golden core stage monk, I can't afford their food expenses."

Normally, she would keep tens of thousands of holy spirit worms in a specific spirit pool, relying on the restraint of the spirit pool to temper the demon body of the holy spirit worms, not only consumes less energy, but also helps them practice kung fu.

But once the swarm is put into tribute refining, the consumption will soar exponentially, and the increase of the swarm's monster power will completely stagnate.

After repeated verifications, Master Xia Qiwen finally gave up the idea of ​​letting the swarm replace human cultivation. She calculated the cost, and it was not worthwhile to use the swarm.

Of course, if Master Xia Qiwen can raise tens of thousands of Holy Spirit worms to the Golden Core stage or Nascent Soul stage in one go, and all the worms are full of spiritual wisdom and demon power, then it can also replace human cultivation, but this is not a few dozen. A feat that can be accomplished in hundreds of years requires at least a thousand years of feeding.

Can master Xia Qiwen live that long?Her current lifespan is only 500 years, and before she can improve the cultivation of the swarm, she has to sit down first.

After Fang Dushu heard the situation, he asked: "According to what you said, Uncle Xia, this method is not feasible?"

"Anyway, it won't work here!"

Master Xia Qiwen didn't say anything dead: "In the past, there was a kingdom of demons standing on the Nine Springs Snowfield. Tens of thousands of them came to court and could command hundreds of thousands of demon soldiers. It was easy for them to make tribute. At that time, tributes were not scarce. They might have Method."

Fang Dushu sighed softly: "But the demon country has been destroyed, even if there is a way, it may have been lost."

"It's not necessarily a bad thing to be lost. When the demon kingdom was at its peak in the past, it almost replaced our human cultivator's dominant position. It should be destroyed!"

Teacher Xia Qi didn't have any good feelings for the demon kingdom in the past: "The tribute method we have established now is still an excellent way to collect tribute. Although the scale is not as large as that of the demon kingdom, it is still enough to meet our cultivation needs."

In the previous world of cultivating immortals, all major sects were hidden in the mountains and never had contact with the mortal world. In order to collect tribute, they began to support mortal families and cultivate and recruit as many monks as possible in the mortal world.

Over time, the current relationship between the sect and the mortal world has been formed.

"Okay, Xiao Fang, the situation of the insect swarm and the tribute, I have already explained to you clearly!"

Master Xia Qi brought up the issue of rewards again. Fang Dushu helped her destroy the demons in Heitou Mountain, and he made great contributions. She wanted to reward her according to her merits: "You can tell me what reward you want."

Her flying wings were quite fast, and she had already arrived at Qinghu Lake, and she also looked at Shangfang City, so she said: "I will stay at your house for a while, and I will not return to the mountain gate in a short time. You can take your time." Think about it, and after you think it over, it won't be too late to come to the old man to receive the reward."

Fang Dushu said: "Disciple obeys."

Now that Master Xia Qi is going to stay, he really doesn't have the time to think about other things.

Master Xia Qi is a person who likes to be clean. After rushing to Shangfang City, he lived directly on the Qinghu Lingfeng arranged by Fang Xianfu for Fang Dushu, and then led Qin Hongyao behind closed doors.

Although they couldn't see her face, the whole Fang family felt at ease. There was an old Jindan Qi sitting in the city in person, so what was there to be afraid of?There is no need to go back to the Snake Pan Realm, and it is completely possible to live in the city swaggeringly, and there is no problem even scurrying back and forth in the Green Miasma Forest.

"Ah Qi, what's going on? Why did the scribes of the Zhenwen Sect suddenly come to the Green Miasma Forest?"

Both Fang Xianfu and Fang Qiongying were at a loss.

"Not only Master Xia is coming, but also monks from the Zhenwen sect will arrive soon!"

Fang Dushu told the two of them: "Ghost Ax Gate seems to have been robbed, and the territory of Lizhou has to be re-divided. If the Zhenwen faction can gain a piece of territory in the Lizhou circle this time, then the Green Miasma Forest will no longer be a boundary!"

Fang Xianfu suddenly became excited when he heard the words, it really was a sunny day after the clouds and mists were cleared.

He was still anxious about the future of Shangfang City before, but unexpectedly, the prospect suddenly became extremely bright: "The miasma forest is not the border, then our Shangfang City will become the inner abdomen of Longzhou, and we will not encounter many wars in the future!"

Fang Qiongying even cried with joy: "Our family can now rest and recuperate in peace!"

What Fang Dushu wants is not just to recuperate, he will try his best to lobby for the Zhenwen faction to designate the green miasma forest as the territory of the Fang family.

(End of this chapter)