Chapter 130 Reinforcements and Territory (please vote)

"Storage bag? Why wasn't it destroyed?" Fang Dushu actually wanted to ask what treasure was in the bag.

Seeing how happy Master Xia Qi was, she suddenly looked dozens of years younger.

Fang Dushu couldn't help but murmur, could it be that a large amount of tribute was packed?

Literary scholar Xia Qi caressed the storage bag, appearing to cherish it very much.

She told Fang Dushu: "This spider demon comes from the Jiuquan Snowfield. There are many remains of ancient demons buried under the snowfield. This spider demon was lucky enough to pick up the true remains of the ancient demon, but it has eyes that cannot recognize gold and jade.

Instead of sacrificing the magic weapon and refining it, instead using it as a storage item, it is really a waste of natural resources."

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

Fang Dushu said with a smile: "Fortunately, it made the real body covered in dust, otherwise today's hard work would have been in vain."

"That's really true."

Master Xia Qi was even happier than him. She raised her head and looked at him. The more she looked at him, the more she admired him. She regarded him as her lucky star: "Boy, you have made a great contribution this time. No matter what reward you want, you can ask me for it."

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After a pause, she emphasized: "You can ask for it, even if it is a complete oracle bone, I will think of a way and try my best to help you achieve your wish."

If Fang Dushu had not discussed the source of the tribute with Fang Xianfu when he was in Shangfang City, then he would have chosen oracle bones without hesitation. After all, the Oracle Bone Scripture can improve his cultivation.

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

He first asked for advice: "Uncle Xia, I heard that in ancient times, those demon cultivators with powerful magic powers could all command demon soldiers to make tributes. Is this true?"

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

"My teacher is fine, but you are seriously injured!"

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

After she finished treating Qin Hongyao's wound, she gave Qin Hongyao an elixir to take, and then summoned a cicada-wing treasure, which turned into a flying wing about ten feet long, carrying Fang Dushu and Qin Hongyao.

Fly out of the valley.

At this time, the army of insects outside the valley was still fighting. Those golden holy spirit insects were all raised by Master Xia Qi.

After leaving the valley, Master Xia Qi used her wings to fly close to the ground. She hung a treasure bag high and put all the Holy Spirit Insects into the bag.

As soon as the Holy Spirit Insects left, the mountain demon swarms also lost their attack target and began to run around everywhere.

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 their spiritual wisdom have been killed. The remaining little monsters may regard Black Head Mountain as their habitat, or they may flee out of the mountain, but they are no longer afraid."

Master Xia Qi glanced at Fang Dushu: "Do they go south to the Qingmiasma Forest? Does it have anything to do with you?"

"The disciples' clansmen built a city and settled down in Qingmias Forest."

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

"Your family actually settled in Qingmi Forest? Didn't the city in Qingmi Forest move from Dayong?"

Master Xia Qiwen is a golden elixir-level monk and does not know the situation of ordinary cities in the world. Qin Hongyao's family is one of the Longzhou aristocratic families. She has more information about the aristocratic families, but she does not know the details of Shangfang City.

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Fang Dushu wanted to introduce the situation of the Fang family to the two of them. At this time, Feiyi happened to pass by the hilltop where Fang Xiande and Yin Jue were staying.

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

Master Xia Qiwen immediately stopped flying and shouted: "Fly up all of us, I will give you a lift!"

Her magic power was so deep that Fang Xiande and Yin Jue could not see through her cultivation level, but they all knew that they were meeting a great master.

After boarding the Feiyi, Fang Dushu introduced: "This is Master Xia Wen from the Holy Spirit Peak of the Zhenwen Sect, and he is also my uncle. Come and meet him!"

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The four of them all thought that the Jindan senior of the Zhenwen sect had actually come out of the mountain? But how could she show up in Heitou Mountain in Lizhou?

Even though the four of them have successfully built the foundation, they have never interacted with high-level monks. Now that they see the golden elixir-level senior in front of them, they must bow and bow on the spot.

However, he was stopped by Master Xia Qi: "Since you are Xiaofang's relatives and friends, you will be exempted from the common etiquette. Everyone sit down and I will drive Du Fengyi to continue on his way."

The literary master had already spoken, and the four of them did not dare to say a word. They just used their peripheral vision to look at Fang Dushu, especially the brother and sister Gao Fei and Gao Li, who were very envious of Fang Dushu's status in Zhenwen Sect.

"Xiao Fang, where is your city?"

Master Xia Qiwen explained: "The reinforcements I sent will arrive in Qingmi Forest soon. If we need a place to stay, choose one near your home!"

"Uncle Xia, my family can free up the city so that my family can rest."

Fang Dushu doesn't mind entertaining the disciples of the Zhen Wen Sect. There will be Wen masters who will visit together and will definitely reward the Fang family with some treasures.

"No need to work hard!"

Master Xia Qi said: "Every time the disciples travel, they all carry something with them to stay and travel, so they can find ways to establish a place of residence."

As he spoke, Feiyi had already sailed out of Black Head Mountain and arrived over the camp at the border of Qingmiasma Forest.

Fang Xiande and Yin Jue jumped off their wings and said goodbye here. They need to guard here to prevent the insect swarm from moving south.

"The leader of the big demon in the insect swarm has been wiped out by Uncle Xia, and the rest of the small demons are not large enough. You can stay here with peace of mind and don't have to worry about another insect nest disaster."

Before leaving, Fang Dushu left such encouraging words.

When Fang Dushu flew away, Gao Fei asked curiously: "Since the insect plague has been suppressed, why does the Zhenwen Sect still send reinforcements to Qingmias Forest?"

He clasped his fists at Fang Xiande and Yin Jue again: "Do you two fellow Taoists understand?"

Fang Xiande and Yin Jueqi said: "We don't know anything either. We won't know everything until the reinforcements arrive at the front line!"

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

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

"Xiao Fang, didn't you ask me before if the demon clan can make tributes?" Master Xia Qi began to answer him:

"In comparison, the demon clan is more suitable for refining tributes than human cultivators. The demon clan is more efficient and does not need to take care of many mundane tasks like human cultivators. Just let them guard the bell and cauldron and issue orders, and they can do dozens of

I only do this one thing day in and day out."

It is impossible for a human cultivator to tie himself to a bell and tripod. Making tribute is hard work. You only pay hard work but get little reward. No cultivator will let himself become a puppet for making tribute.

The demon clan has no such constraints, and driving the demon clan to pay tribute may be in line with their comfort.

"But it is not easy to make the monsters be used by me." Master Xia Qi said: "In our world of immortal cultivation, it is very common to tame the monsters as mount slaves, but every cultivator has to raise the monsters all his life.

The number of slaves is quite limited, and raising three to five slaves is already enough. If this number is used to make tribute, it will be a drop in the bucket and will not be of much use."

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

He raised a fire silkworm, which has not advanced to any level so far. Its demonic power is pitifully low. Although it will obey the arrangements unconditionally, the fire silkworm's shallow cultivation level does not meet the conditions for practicing tribute.

Fire Silkworm has not yet developed his spiritual intelligence, and he is guarding the bell and cauldron but does not understand the method of refining tribute. Even if he reluctantly teaches it, it is ineffective. Let Fire Silkworm refine it for several months, and the results will not be as good as those practiced by people at the first level of Qi training.

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

This requires decades or even hundreds of years of hard work before fire silkworms can become well-trained.

Fang Dushu also suppressed an ice silkworm. Its demonic power was stronger than that of a fire silkworm, but it was disobedient to discipline and was more difficult to cultivate than a fire silkworm.

Having said that, raising individual demon mounts or slaves is simply not qualified for the task of making tribute, so is it feasible to start directly with gregarious insect demons?

Master Xia Qiwen specifically confirmed this method: "Due to family inheritance, I have been exposed to insect breeding since I was a child. I am determined to delve into a method that allows insect demons to replace human cultivators and become the main force in tribute. However, I have to raise insects for a hundred years.

, even though we have raised tens of thousands of Holy Spirit Worms, we still cannot cultivate on behalf of others."

"What's the problem?"

"First of all, it is more difficult to activate the intelligence of insects than other demons. I cannot tame Holy Spirit Insects to make tributes skillfully. Secondly, they have low demonic power and the speed of making tributes is extremely slow."

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

"That's right! I've done a drill, using dozens of Holy Spirit Insects to work together, and the tribute-making efficiency is barely equal to that of a first- and second-level Qi practitioner!"

"Disciple thinks this efficiency is quite good! Uncle Xia, you have tens of thousands of Holy Spirit Insects, which is equivalent to hundreds of people cultivating at the same time. When the power of Holy Spirit Insects increases in the future, the efficiency will definitely continue to improve!"

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

Literary Master Xia Qi smiled and shook his head. The Holy Spirit Insects looked silly and willing to work hard, but they were living entities, not puppets.

Master Xia Qi talked about the biggest difficulty with Fang Dushu: "During the tribute making period, the Holy Spirit Bugs will continue to 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.

Abandoned, there are tens of thousands of Holy Spirit Insects, and their daily consumption is astronomical. As a Golden Core Stage monk, I cannot afford their food expenses."

Normally, she would keep tens of thousands of Holy Spirit Bugs in a specific spiritual pool, and rely on the restriction of the Spirit Pool to temper the demonic bodies of the Holy Spirit Bugs. This not only consumes less money, but also helps them practice their martial arts.

But once the insect swarm is invested in making tribute, the consumption will increase exponentially, and the increase in the demonic power of the insect swarm will completely stop.

After repeated verifications, Master Xia Qi finally gave up the idea of ​​letting the insect swarm replace human cultivation. She had calculated the cost and found that no one would be cost-effective to use the insect swarm.

Of course, if Master Xia Qi can raise tens of thousands of Holy Spirit Insects to the Golden Core Stage or Nascent Soul Stage in one breath, and all the insect swarms are full of intelligence and demonic power, then they can also replace people in cultivation, but this is not a matter of dozens of people.
To be continued...