Qeng Ho Mage

Chapter 142
Fang Dushu received a notice from Qi Jianting.

Within a few days, he followed Qi Jianting to leave Zhenwen School and went to various places in Longzhou to collect tributes.

He was able to meet Fu Yuqing and Liang Shengyin in Wuyuan City back then, and established a friendly relationship with them, which was also due to the collection of tribute. Liang Shengyin has been serving as the tribute envoy of Jiuyin Peak all year round.

However, since Patriarch Zhiwei led his disciples to Shangzong, Jiuyin Peak no longer exists, and all the cities under the jurisdiction of this peak have been handed over to Yitian Peak.

"Our master formed alchemy late. When Yitianmai was established, we didn't have jurisdiction over the city, and we couldn't receive tribute."

On the way to the mortal world of Longzhou, Qi Jianting told Fang Dushu about the situation of Zhenwen Bamai's tribute collection: "After Zhiruo Wenshi left the sect, Jiuyin Peak disbanded, and the faction handed over the five cities under their jurisdiction to Relying on the Tianmai, we now have a source of tribute."

The entire Longzhou belongs to the territory of the Zhenwen faction.

Originally, there were a total of 36 cities in Longzhou, which were divided equally by the eight lines of Zhenwen, and each line could collect tribute from four or five cities.

Fang Dushu once heard Liang Shengyin and Fu Yuqing mention that all the cities under their control were concentrated in the west of Longzhou, including Wuyuan City, Xuanjia City, Chunsi City, Jiqing City, and Xiling City.

Fang Dushu asked Qi Jianting to confirm whether the tribute territory of Yitianmai was the five cities?

Qi Jianting replied: "Originally there were only these five cities, but didn't the faction expand its territory a while ago, and included Cangsangze, Green Miasma Forest, and parts of Lizhou in one fell swoop, adding a full twenty City, we have divided into two by relying on Tianmai, and the total territory has reached seven cities!"

After the demon disaster broke out a few years ago, the common people in the two borders of Dayong Kingdom moved southward, and built four cities in Cangsangze and Qingzhaolin respectively.

But Fang Dushu got a chance to reward for assisting Master Xia Qi in destroying demons, so he proposed to Master Xia Qi to expand the territory of the Fang family in the Green Miasma Forest.

Master Xia Qi kept his promise and made a strong coordination among the eight towns of Wen, and finally reduced the four cities of Qinglinlin to two cities, and the Fang family occupied one of them.

In this way, there are six new cities in Cangsangze and Green Miasma Forest, and fourteen cities are carved up from Lizhou, adding up to twenty cities.

Lizhou was originally the territory of Guifumen, with a total of more than [-] cities, but now it is divided up by the Zhenwen School, Feixia School and Kurongzong.

Since then, Lizhou has also been abolished. From now on, Li State is no longer a land of eight states, but only seven states.

"Eldest brother, where are the cities we added by Yitianmai located?" Fang Dushu asked.

"It's all in Cangsangze! Pai Li allocated Cangsang border city and Lingwei border city adjacent to Liangjie Mountain to us!" Qi Jianting glanced at him and asked with a smile, "Do you think the land is too desolate?"

"Not at all." Fang Dushu said: "I just recalled a past event. When I came back from Shituo Gorge, I passed Cangsang Border City and met Yuan Dian, the patriarch of this city. I never imagined that I would go to collect tribute from his house now. Quite a bit of fate.”

"Ha, I heard that the second junior brother formed a deep friendship with the former Jiuyinmai in Wuyuan City. Isn't the fate even greater?" Qi Jianting joked.

Suddenly thinking of the Shangfang City of the Fang family, he said one more thing: "Originally, the three factions of Zhenwen, Feixia, and Kurong were divided into Lizhou equally. I want to win over Shangfang City, but Shangfang City's territory is too large, and other lines are fighting for it, and the master is among the scribes, and belongs to the younger generation, so it is inconvenient to compete with other scribes."

In fact, Sanfeng Wenshi didn't have enough right to speak.

He has only formed alchemy for about 20 years. Compared with the middle-stage or late-stage golden elixir scribes in the school, he does not have the confidence to compete for the territory.

Master Xia Qi wanted to help, but Master Xia Qi had already owed favors to other writers in order to compress the four cities of Qinglin Forest into two cities. As for which branch of Shangfang City belonged, she had no room to lobby.

Fang Dushu listened to the situation and said: "Anyway, it's the same sect, and it's the same for any sect to go to Shangfang City to collect tribute."

There is no rush for this matter, when Fang Dushu will form a great alchemy, when will he be qualified to fight for his own city.

He finally inquired: "Eldest senior brother, when the tribute is returned, will it all be distributed by our Yitian Peak?"

Qi Jianting slowly shook his head: "Half of the tribute from Zhenwen Bamai must be handed over to the Patriarch Dojo! Under normal circumstances, the remaining half will be distributed by Zhenwen Bamai independently!"

"What if something unusual happens?"

"Irregularities often mean unexpected changes, so all tributes must be handed over to the Patriarch Dojo."

The tribute is the most expensive cultivation resource of the Zhenwen Sect, and the right to distribute it is in the hands of the patriarch Qi Daoming. He will monopolize half of the tribute collected each year, and then he will consider whether he wants the remaining half according to the annual cultivation situation.

Of course, the patriarch sometimes took all the tributes, not necessarily for his own use.

For example, when Zhiruo Wenshi realized Taoism and conceived a baby, she lacked some tribute, so she asked the patriarch's door, and the patriarch immediately ordered to deprive Zhenwen Bamai of all the tribute shares for several consecutive years, and allocated all of them to Zhiruo Wenshi.

Anyway, every few years, Zhenwen Bamai will encounter a situation where all the tributes are taken away by the patriarch.

If the patriarch has no additional needs, then the Zhenwen Bamai can enjoy half of the tributes every year. These tributes will be handed over to the scribes first, and then the scribes will distribute them to the true disciples.

In the Zhenwen sect, only true disciples who have established a foundation are eligible to receive tribute.

From now on, Qi Jianting and Fang Dushu will receive tributes, but Xiang Xinxiu and Gu Zunchan will not. Their cultivation is still in the stage of Qi training, and they can only get some spiritual stones on a daily basis.

Since Cangsang Border Town and Lingwei Border Town entered the ranks of the Zhenwen Sect's tribute for the first time, and this year was the first time to hand in tribute, Qi Jianting was going to convey the sect's rules and requirements, so he led Fang Dushu to this place first.

After staying for half a month, the two left Cangsangze and went to the five cities of Xiling one after another.

Their last stop was Wuyuan City, where Fang Dushu also visited all the seven cities under Yitianmai's jurisdiction, and waited until next year to collect tribute, so Fang Dushu could come alone.

Qi Jianting knew that Fang Dushu had an old relationship with Wuyuan City, so he asked him to stay in Wuyuan City for a while longer, and Qi Jianting returned to Yitianmai first with the tribute.

This time Fang Dushu revisited his old place, because he has successfully established the foundation, and he is also the envoy of the Zhenwen School to receive tribute, and he has been warmly entertained by the Fu family.

When the patriarch Fu Guanzong entertained Fang Dushu, he didn't have much emotion. When Fang Dushu assisted Fu Yuqing in building the foundation, he realized that Fang Dushu was not a thing in the pool.

Hearing that Fang Dushu was looking for relatives, Fu Guanzong personally came forward to find two guides Yin Jue and Du Yuanniang for Fang Dushu, and tried his best to provide help.

It's just that time has passed, and since Fang Dushu joined the Zhenwen School, there has been no news for several years, which made Fu Guanzong mutter, did Fang Dushu intend to distance himself from the Fu family?
No wonder Fu Guanzong thinks this way, most of the disciples of aristocratic families who worship in the sect tend to be dedicated to Taoism, and they are not willing to intervene in ordinary affairs, let alone use their own way to shelter the family from wind and rain, implicate to what disaster.

Fang Dushu's surname is not Fu, and he only has friendship with the Fu family. Even if Fang Dushu completely cuts off contact with the Fu family, he is proficient and normal.

However, Fang Dushu always believes that everything is caused by cause and effect. Asking about longevity does not necessarily have to be unfeeling, and being contaminated with mortal fireworks does not necessarily hinder practice.

"Back then, the patriarch introduced Yin Jue and Du Yuan to me." When Fang Dushu and Fu Guanzong recounted the past, he first mentioned this incident: "Now they have become relatives of the Fang family, thanks to the patriarch Zhou Quan."

(End of this chapter)