C68 grain tax

While half of the Yuzhou was in a state of chaos due to the plague of locusts, the villagers of the Tuqiu Village were already busy with threshing, drying, and storing the spiritual valleys. As the entire Tuqiu Village was busy with farming, Yang Junshan and the Tigress once again returned to the spiritual springs on the western mountain.

With Yang Junshan's current age, logically speaking, he should also be involved in the family work to help the farmers, but this year's family affairs obviously didn't need Yang Junshan to worry about. Now that Yang Tian had just arrived in the Tuqiu Village, many villagers were willing to fight over the family's matters, and even Han Xiumei didn't need to do anything.

However, Yang Junshan wasn't cultivating in the Spirit Spring Cave at this time. Instead, he was examining the wound on his shoulder.

That day, after killing the locust in the pomegranate forest, at the last moment, the Tigress was attacked by the guards of the locust hiding in the tree. In order to protect the locust, Yang Junshan was cut by the locust's wings into an inch deep gash.

At that time, although Yang Junshan felt that the wound was not light, the bleeding on his shoulder wasn't serious, to the point that both Su Bao Zhang and Yang Tian Gang didn't think that the injury was serious, especially after coming down from the west mountain, the blood on his shoulder had already started to slowly scab. Yang Tian thought that it was just a cut on the skin, it wasn't that big of a deal.

However, only Yang Junshan himself knew that his shoulder had been cut an inch. If it was anyone else, they wouldn't dare to be careless. At least, he shouldn't have been the only one left with such a small amount of blood.

Ever since the appearance of the hidden aperture in Yang Junshan's body and the activation of his top-grade immortal marrow, Yang Junshan had been hoping that he would have a special talent like Xu Jing. However, ever since he had advanced to the Spirit Enlightenment Realm, he had never felt any change in his body.

It was only after Qu Wushan's trip that Yang Junshan realized that he could actually pass through the miasma without worrying about being poisoned. Although it was not truly impervious to poisons, his physical body had an unquestionable resistance to poisons, and this injury seemed to have strengthened his idea of using a special innate technique. It was just that this time was different.

Could it be that aside from the ability to resist poisons, his body also possessed the ability to quickly heal itself? What kind of strange technique was this? He had never heard of any other innate ability.

Shaking his head, the confused Yang Junshan could only focus on the practice of the Mountain Lord's Map and the Wutu Spiritual Art.

However, in terms of speed, she was slightly slower than the Tigress. The Tigress might not be able to communicate with Yang Junshan now, but Yang Junshan could tell from Tigress that she had probably already trained to the Howling Tiger Painting. Compared to Yang Junshan, the Eight Movements of Mountains Monarch Painting was more suitable for the Tigress to train with.

According to Yang Junshan's judgement, Hu Niu could be considered to be summoning celestial spirits. However, for a demonic cultivator like Hu Niu, she didn't need Yang Junshan to find immortal spirits for her, but instead started to form her own immortal spirit inside her body after bathing in demonic energy. This meant that if Hu Niu was stripped of her skin and bones, she might be able to obtain one or two high quality immortal spirits.

Yang Junshan knew that he was not only raising Tigress, but also that Yang Tian Gang and Han Xiumei also believed that he was raising her for his Immortal's Spirit. However, Yang Junshan knew that Tigress would definitely be extraordinary in the future, and according to the memories of his past life, all those monstrous cultivators had already awakened their spiritual wisdom to cultivate before the great change happened. With Tigress's current talent and her help, her future achievements might not be any worse than those demons from his previous life.

As for Yang Junshan, although his cultivation had already advanced into the Mortal Realm Stage 3, the Mortal Realm Stage 3 was a very important transition stage, and the cultivation world normally viewed the Mortal Realm Stage 3 as the middle level of the Mortal Realm. This was because during this stage, cultivators would spend a lot of time to accumulate and store their cultivation, and only then would they be able to turn their spiritual cavities into Immortal Roots, laying down the most basic source of their cultivation.

The reason was very simple. The quality of the immortal spirit that he used to open the spiritual cavities was too high, and it would allow him to expand his spiritual cavities beyond the limits of an ordinary person. It would be difficult for him to fill the spiritual cavities with spiritual energy, not to mention that Yang Junshan was originally cultivating a steady and stable technique, which was well-known for its slowness in cultivating the Heaven Shaking Sect.

As for cultivation experience, with the experience from my previous life, I am not lacking at the moment, but I need to find an opportunity to go out and travel. After I moved from Chenyu County to the Wasteland Town of Mengyu County, I did not leave the boundaries of Mengyu County, but because my cultivation was not strong enough before, I need to gather some good things now, so I can prepare for the future.

After staying in the Spirit Spring Cave for a few days, Yang Junshan brought Tigress home. As soon as he entered the house, he felt that the atmosphere in the house wasn't right today.

Yang Junshan looked at his second brother carefully pointing to the living room and asked, "Is your father back?"

Yang Junping took a glance at the living room and said, "I'm back. I'm throwing a tantrum with a fierce face!"

Yang Junshan asked curiously, "Why?"

Yang Junping said, "I wouldn't dare to ask. Go ask your mother. Oh right, Xu Sanniang and Zhang Huzi's father had just arrived as well!"

As Yang Junshan walked to the front of the house, he heard Zhang laoshi swearing, "What, the grain tax paid this year has only been reduced by a third? The entire Yu County has been affected by the locust plague. Everything else aside, just the fact that our Mengyu County's Ling Tian was able to preserve 30% of the harvest in the past years was already pretty good. The Heaven Shaking Sect's grain tax was only reduced by a third this year? Wasn't this digging out the last of the Spirit Valley used to maintain cultivation from the teeth? "You are still a righteous man, how can you not fight with the town for you?"

With a "pa" sound, Yang Tian slammed his palm on the table and said: "Do you think I didn't say, do you think that six or seven villages in Barren Town are all mute? But the order that came from the Heaven Shaking Sect was that the grain tax would be reduced by only one third, what can I do?! "

The more Yang Tian said, the angrier he became, "Now that I have arrived at the village and am guarding it, I can't help but say, 'Old Yang, your Earth Hill Village has been shown to be a model for the entire town, and the giant locust plague has only reduced the harvest by one third. The Heaven Shaking Sect's grain tax has also decreased by one third, if it isn't that the Heaven Shaking Sect is just following your village example to determine the grain tax'. 'Damn it, the Heaven Shaking Sect's grain tax has nothing to do with me!" If there really is a relationship, then your father will definitely give you a zero food tax, and everyone else will definitely pay 10%! "

Xu Sanniang's voice immediately rang out and said, "Calm down brothers, this is all due to the food tax. It has nothing to do with us. There's no need for us to pinch ourselves first!"

After a moment of silence, Xu Sanniang asked again, "Brother Yang, what did Lord Liu say?"

Yang Tian immediately said in a muffled voice, "Liu Zhen was hiding. He probably knows that it's not good to report this to the village. Qian Chunlai was the one who kept transmitting this information to the villages!"

Blacksmith Zhang's voice was still angry as he said, "It can't be that that bastard Qian Chun is up to no good, right?"

"He dares!" Yang Tian Gang said in a deep voice, "He's a bully to the weak and is afraid of the strong. Even Qian Chunli didn't have the guts to offend Liu Zhen, but this also shows that the Heaven Shaking Sect has no doubt about the payment of the grain tax."

"Aren't you afraid that the Heaven Shaking Sect will lose their hearts in Yu County?"

"The human heart?" Yang Tian Gang laughed coldly, "What do you mean by that? How many years has such a monstrosity been in Yuxian? Who can tell? As long as the Heaven Shaking Sect says that they want to recruit outer sect disciples, many cultivators in the entire Yu County will try their best to figure it out.

Xu Sanniang noticed the hidden meaning behind Yang Tian's words and smiled, "Brother Yang has made a great show this time for our village, and has even made a name for himself in the whole of Mengyu County. I presume that when the Heaven Shaking Sect accepts outer disciples this time, Brother Yang will definitely be on the top of the rankings?"

As he finished speaking, both Xu Sanniang and Blacksmith Zhang looked at Yang Tian with a hint of envy in their eyes. Unexpectedly, after Xu Sanniang's words, Yang Tian immediately became silent.

Seeing that Yang Tian had yet to speak, the two of them turned to look at Han Xiumei. Han Xiumei said harshly, "The Heaven Shaking Sect is unfair. No matter what, we won't be the ones in charge of the Sky Shaking Sect's recruitment!"

"Why?" Usually, the three families fought fiercely in the village, but at this time, the two people were asking about it with more astonishment than schadenfreude. It was because Yang Tian's performance in this locust plague was too outstanding, and they could not think of any reason to stop Yang Tian from becoming an outer disciple of the Heaven Shaking Sect.

"Sigh!" Han Xiumei also sighed, and her lips curled into a mocking smile, "This matter is quite simple. The criteria for the Heaven Shaking Sect to recruit outer disciples this time is to rely on the village's current efforts to collect the grain tax. The smaller the harvest, the better the village's performance is, and the more loyal we are to the Heaven Shaking Sect, and with our current prestige, the collection of grain tax is very easy. We don't even have a chance to express our loyalty to the Heaven Shaking Sect!"

Hearing this, Blacksmith Zhang couldn't help but laugh out of anger. "What kind of bullshit logic is this!"

Yang Tian Gang then said, "There are rumors in the town that the eldest son of the Wealthy Xiong Family is only one step away from becoming a true disciple of the Heaven Shaking Sect. The Xiong Family's Long Feng has assured the Heaven Shaking Sect that the grain taxes in Mengyu County will not be affected by the locust plague."

"What?" Why would the Xiong Family let the whole of Mengyu County clean up his son's butt? "

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