The gourd-shaped valley has a walled wall at the exit that is a mixture of civil and wood.
Three zhang high, half a mile long, there are four arrow towers on the wall of the wall more than one zhang thick, there should be archers on duty on weekdays, and there are several strong bows and large piles of arrows piled up inside.
The rain was pouring down, but there was no one in the arrow tower on the wall.
A portal was opened in the middle of the wall, and the gate was not wide, one on the left and one on the right, and there were more than a dozen strong men wearing metal armor and a faint circle of spiritual light lingering behind their heads."
These big men obviously practiced the same exercises, and a fierce tiger could be seen dancing wildly in the air in the aura behind their heads.
The rain was raging, but the raindrops were still more than a foot away from these big men, and they were shaken into mist by the invisible qi and drifted away with the wind.
On the left and right of the walled gate, there were several men standing tremblingly.
They wore rudimentary garments made of burlap, or simply had a piece of animal skin wrapped around them.
They looked at these men in armor in awe, their thick waists staggered, and their simple, honest faces were full of complexity, as if the little beast had seen the vigilance and horror of a natural enemy.
At the end of the valley is a huge cave with altars, bonfires, tables and chairs made of logs.
A middle-aged man who was born round and fat, with shrewd eyes shining brightly, dressed in gorgeous clothes, sat quietly on the big chair at the entrance of the cave, took a sip of a bowl of fragrant tea, and slowly put the tea bowl on the tea tray of the maid next to him.
Several old men in linen clothes stood trembling aside, letting the wind and rain blow on them.
Their wrinkled faces were numb and dull.
One by one, they looked at the large group of villagers in front of the cave with expressionless faces.
Thousands of men and women crowded in the square in front of the cave, and the rain was pouring down, making their bodies crackle.
These raindrops will cause continuous damage to the talisman magic weapon from the nether realm, these men and women have only cultivated some crude martial arts, but they were born in the Void Spirit Realm, and their bodies are born with the Dao Yun aura of the Void Spirit Realm, these raindrops hit them, just making them unable to open their eyes, and it will not cause damage to their bodies like the talisman on Yin Xue Ge's body.
More than 100 children who could not yet walk were abandoned in front of the crowd.
Let the wind and rain blow.
Hundreds of children under the age of 10 stood tremblingly.
They looked at the strong men in armor standing on both sides of the cave.
Several well-maintained middle-aged men in long robes, with strange smiles, held bizarre long needles and gently pricked them in the fingers of those young children who could not walk, and various colors of light flashed on the surface of the long needles.
Suddenly.
There was a dazzling flash of fire on a long needle, and it was one foot and two inches high.
There was a faint trace of dragon-like lines flickering in the firelight.
The middle-aged man holding a long needle was suddenly startled.
Then he laughed and saluted the fat man sitting at the entrance of the cave.
"Adult, this child is actually the best innate fire spirit body.
Moreover, it seems that there is still a trace of dragon blood essence in the bloodline" The fat man squinted his eyes and snorted softly at the old men standing at the entrance of the cave.
An old man who looked to be the oldest, at least 90 years old, fell to his knees and kowtowed to the fat man.
"This is the doll of the dog Si'er's family.
The daughter-in-law of the fourth son of the dog, when she was pregnant with this doll, found a red fruit on the mountain, was so hungry that she couldn't stand it, and after eating it, she fell asleep for seven days and seven nights before waking up. ” The fat man suddenly let out an oh and pointed casually at the crowd.
The crowd parted in an uproar, revealing a tall woman with a face that could only be described as three points delicate and five points dignified.
The two armorers strode forward, dragged the frightened woman out, pressed her heavily in front of the fat man, and ordered her to kneel on the ground.
A middle-aged man holding a long needle smiled and took a few steps forward, and casually stabbed the woman's shoulder with the long needle, and more than a foot long needle pierced more than half of it.
The surface of the long needle was immediately covered with a faint layer of red, and then a ray of ghostly light erupted, turning into a small curtain of light, and a few lines of text were revealed inside.
"Well, the essence of the fruit watered by the essence of the 3,000-year-old dragon power fruit is just a wild hawthorn tree, but it has the essence of the dragon, so it gave birth to the dragon power fruit."
The light curtain words tell in detail the ins and outs of the dragon power fruit that this woman took underneath.
The fat man waved his hand and snorted softly.
"The dragon with a mere 3,000-year-old climate has not yet harvested its value, and after his climate has passed for 10,000 years, after the dragon turns into a dragon, the dragon horn is still a little interesting.
It seems that it is a dragon of fire attributes."
"Ming'er sent a few people out, found this guy, and put a ban on him.
To be able to hide in our territory for three thousand years is also a cautious and cautious goods.
It's just that since he has missed any clues, he is destined to be the material in our Panlingwei warehouse, and after another seven thousand years, he will be harvested at that time. ” Hehe laughed a few times, and the fat man shook the muscles on his face to the old men.
"A few old immortals, congratulations to your village.
This doll's qualifications are not bad, come on, he will be the reserve soldier of our Panlingwei in the future, and he will follow us back to Panlingwei tomorrow, from today onwards, he will ascend to the sky in one step, from a pig-like lowly breed, to a human being. ” "Well, this doll is from your village, so all his food and drink needs, and all the materials needed for weapons and armor must be prepared by your village.
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From today onwards, until this doll's cultivation is successful, tentatively for thirty years, your village will have to pay at least 30,000 square meters of man-level ore, understand" Several old men trembled, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the fat man.
Whether it was these old people, or the men and women standing in the square, there was a trace of helplessness and sadness on their faces.
Human-level ore, which is the material needed by the Panlingwei to craft the armor and weapons of low-level warriors.
The Void Spirit Realm is rich in products, and it is not difficult to find human-level ores, just outside their village, there are several high-grade and even low-grade veins of human rank.
However, the ore that could be used to forge monks' armor and weapons was much harder than ordinary gold, silver, copper, and iron ore.
Basically, an adult strong man, working day and night for a month, can barely mine one-tenth of the ore from the vein. 30,000 cubic meters of ore requires 300,000 adults to work for a month.
However, in their village, the strong men who have the strength to mine human-level ore add up to more than 1,000 people, and they can mine 100 square meters of ore if they work hard for a month, which is 1,200 square meters a year.
The obese man made them have to pay 30,000 square meters of ore in 30 years, and these strong laborers in their village basically have no leisure to do anything else in the next 30 years.
Ploughing the fields, hunting, fishing, chopping wood, driving away harmful beasts, and so on, could not be counted on.
There is no need to think about it, in the next thirty years, because of this child with an innate fire spirit body, the living standard of the entire village will drop a lot.
This is what the Void Spirit Realm calls the Child Tax.
The people of the Most Holy Dharma go to the villages to select those children who have the potential to be cultivated, and train them to become cannon fodder for the Holy Dharma Sect to fight and fight.
But the food, drink, and clothing of these children, as well as all the raw materials for refining the armor and weapons they needed, had to be paid tribute by the villages to which they belonged.
This is the child tax.
If a village suddenly has a large number of children with cultivation potential within a period of time, it is very likely that the village will be in debt, and it is not impossible that it will eventually collapse completely.
Just three months old, the child of the Gou Si'er family was picked up by a maid, sent into a cave to wipe his body clean, and wrapped in a fairly neat cotton cloth.
From today on, the fate of this child is very different from that of other children in this village.
If he is successful in cultivating in the future, can survive in the battle against the invasion of the Holy Spirit Realm, and can make some contributions, maybe he will be able to get an insignificant small position in Panling Wei in the future, and the village where he was born at that time can get a little benefit from him.
The woman kneeling at the entrance of the cave watched her child take her child away, and she wanted to open her mouth to scream, but several women came up to her, covered her mouth, and dragged her back into the crowd.
After the test was completed on the children under the age of one, no other children were able to light up the needles.
The fat man frowned dissatisfiedly and cursed in a low voice.
Middle-aged men armed with long needles came to the other children under the age of 10 and used them to take their blood for testing, kneading their joints and muscles vigorously.
Some children who are suitable for cultivation will not be able to reveal their qualifications until they grow up, so in any village, children under the age of ten must be tested every year.
And among these children, even if some of them are not qualified for cultivation, as long as their muscles and bones are stronger than ordinary children, they will also be selected and sent to Panlingwei to receive other special training.
Soon, fifteen of the children, who were tall and muscular enough to be adults, were selected and sent to the cave as well.
The fat man nodded contentedly and pointed to several old men kneeling on the ground.
"These dolls, each of them can send 3,000 square meters of ordinary gold, silver, copper, iron, jade, crystal and other ores.
They are not worth wasting those genius treasures.
I don't force you either, the materials needed for these dolls, you can be a little more lenient. ” "Just, of course" The fat man smiled strangely and slowly lengthened his voice.
To be continued tbgttbgt “”: