When those cultivators with colorful clothes, fairy-like and handsome cultivators emerge from the magnificent floating mountains with swords and look down at ordinary people with yellow skin, ragged clothes, and even stinking smells, the difference between heaven and man is nothing more than this!

"Ordinary people are just ants!"

Li Yao, who grew up in the new era, was extremely difficult to agree with this sentence.

Because in the modern cultivation civilization in the Starry Federation, even ordinary people who are powerless can be well-dressed, clean and tidy, have a strong body and a good mental outlook, at least at first glance, it may not be much different from those of cultivators.

However, in such an ancient world with underdeveloped productivity, the so-called "difference between immortals and mortals" really exists. What are the ordinary people struggling in the local nests, not lambs and ants?

Therefore, the cultivators who Li Yao secretly observed did not mean that they were evil in their eyes and were free to ordinary people, at least when they were in contact with ordinary people, they naturally showed a high smell.

Their eyes of ordinary people are more like "indifference" than "contempt", as if the distinction between them and ordinary people is natural and natural.

I passed by more than a dozen sects in a row, almost all of them were like this.

Li Yao secretly sighed in his heart, and was about to use the glorious theory of Star Yao Federation that "the cultivator is a fish, ordinary people are water, and cultivator is the sword of human civilization" to criticize these ancient cultivators who look down on ordinary people.

Some natives in the ancient holy world slapped him hard in the face.

It was him staying in a town called "Shiwu City". Seeing that the mountain gate of the local sect "Shiwu City" was particularly tall and magnificent, the fortress was particularly golden, while the villages of ordinary people nearby were particularly dilapidated and bleak. When he moved his heart, he stopped and investigated in depth.

He sent Ling Lanyin away, dressed up as a dusty traveler and entered Shiwu City.

Sure enough, when I saw the cultivators here, they were particularly arrogant and rushed around, and regarded ordinary people as nothing.

When he arrived at a tea shop at the foot of the mountain outside the city, he heard the chatting of several tea lovers, and Li Yao couldn't help but feel the nameless anger in his heart.

It turned out that the Shiwu Gate was separating the country and doing its own thing. Not only did it intercept the food and taxes that should have been paid to the court, but it even launched corvee service instead of the court!

Ordinary families within the Shiwu Sect's sphere of influence have to draw strong men to serve in Shiwu Sect. They will last for three to five or seven years, and they will only receive very meager rewards during this period, and even no money will be given.

The youngest son of this tea chef was originally a job in Shiwu Gate and was a cattle and horse for cultivators. He had been working hard for three years and was about to be put back home.

Suddenly one day, it turned into a cold corpse and was thrown out by Shiwumen. It was said that it was overworking and died suddenly.

Judging from his body, it was indeed skinny, with blue veins exploding, and blood and exhausted. It was obviously caused by long-term labor that could not be achieved.

The key is that when this tea chef talked about the death of his youngest son, he did not have any dissatisfaction with Shiwumen except for his mourning.

Even other tea shoppers just sighed that he was not lucky and his youngest son had little fortune and short life, but he did not dare to complain about Shiwumen, and he did not even realize the responsibility of Shiwumen.

Li Yao really couldn't bear to listen, such as "sading his misfortune and angering his failure to fight", such as "natural human rights, born equality", such as "raise his arms and shouting to awaken the ignorant and numb ancients", and he couldn't help but speak a few sarcastic words.

Unexpectedly, after a few words, it aroused public anger and was attacked by the crowd. Even the teacatcher, whose youngest son died of hard work in the Shiwu Gate, was furious at him and spit out loud.

The rebukes of many tea lovers first made Li Yao stunned, then there was nothing to say, but in the end they were blushing and extremely ashamed.

It turns out that the area where Shiwumen is located is the most steep and densest mountainous area in the Wujiang River Basin.

In addition to this small basin, the surroundings are surrounded by high mountains and ridges, and the high mountains and ridges are shrouded in clouds that can never disperse all year round.

There are many places in the mountains that can only see the sunshine for two or three days a year, and the rest of the day is continuous rain.

Such poor mountains and rivers are naturally filled with monsters, ghosts, dragons, snakes, tigers and leopards. They not only swallow up the mountain people who have fallen into the deep mountains and forests, but also go down the mountain to sweep them in groups, leaving only piles of bones left in the entire village and town.

With such a harsh living environment, a big city, seven or eight big towns and dozens of villages can be developed, all of which are the contributions of the Shiwumen cultivators.

It is entirely up to them to be fearless and go deep into the mountains and forests again and again, kill demons and open up living space, so that ordinary people can follow them, burn mountains and clear wasteland, and build new villages!

"For more than two hundred years since the establishment of Shiwu Gate, it has swept through the mountains and forests in the four sides more than a dozen times every year to eradicate the nests of demons and ferocious beasts. Every year, there are not fifty immortal masters, at least ten or twenty!"

"That's right, in recent decades alone, in order to kill demons and eliminate demons, even the head of the Shiwu Sect has died!"

"The immortal master without Shiwumen will be ruined by demons and monsters within a radius of hundreds of miles. Therefore, our place is called "Shiwu City". It is to thank the great kindness and virtue of the immortal masters!"

"As a person, you must be grateful and repay. How can you be considered an ungrateful and heartless bad species? Even two of the heads of the great powers have died, and more than ten or twenty ordinary disciples have died every year. Just one trial can kill seven or eight disciples. If one of our ordinary people dies in the family, what can we say?"

Li Yao did not expect that these "ignorant and insensitive victims" would say this. After a long time of grunting, no matter what, the Shiwu Sect should not intercept the taxes of the court and should not collect labor service privately. This is to place the dignified imperial court majesty, where would it be? If every sect was like the Shiwu Sect and was like a small kingdom, what would happen to the stormy Daqian Dynasty?

These words caused even more cheerful laughter.

Until now, many tea lovers regarded Li Yao as a sour and corrupt scholar who was stupid in studying, and were too lazy to care about him.

A slightly gentle native who seemed to be a teacher, made a calculation with him with his fingers.

First of all, theoretically speaking, Shiwumen certainly does not have the power to intercept the food and taxes paid to the court.

But then again, for the common people, they have to pay taxes anyway. If these foods and taxes are paid to the court, they know where they will use them in the end, or if they are in the hands of the high-ranking officials of the court, they will eventually be transferred!

If you pay the food and taxes directly to Shiwumen, Shiwumen is a native local sect. No matter how much you spend, most of them will be spent locally. This is the reason why pigs and pork are rotten in the pot and the fat and water will not flow to outsiders.

What's more, to wipe out demons and monsters in the surrounding mountains and forests, in order to collect rare materials on them, as well as the treasures of heaven and earth deep in the forests, this is a great benefit to Shiwumen, and even the fundamental way to maintain the development of Shiwumen.

Even without the urging of the people, Shiwumen will do their best to kill demons and eliminate demons. Most of the resources they collected must be used in this regard.

To a certain extent, this is also considered "taken from the people and use them for the people"!

Therefore, the local people are of course wholeheartedly supporting Shiwumen. Every time the tax collection season comes, they try every means to help Shiwumen intercept food and taxes.

The same is true for corvee labor.

For the common people, the people all need to perform labor service, either serving as a servant for Shiwumen or serving as a servant for the court.

But working as a job for Shiwu Sect is of many benefits.

First of all, Shiwumen is located in the hometown. Even the high-ranking cultivators are mostly fellow villagers in the village, and they can have some connections in the twists and turns.

As the saying goes, "One person can attain enlightenment, and the chicken and dog can ascend to heaven." Once a cultivator, he can completely ignore his relatives. Can even mother be treated as an ant?

Of course it is impossible. At least for most low-level monks, they still cannot watch their seventy-year-old mother sit on the ground and roll around without any hesitation.

Therefore, the choreography introduced by my seventy-year-old mother is at most a little cold in attitude, but it is impossible to torture it on purpose.

Therefore, over the years, ordinary people who work for Shiwu Sect have died of overwork, but they are rarely seen as tortured to death. Even if there are, they have violated the laws of the sect and were "made rules".

Another thing is that by working for the Shiwu Sect, the more energy you have, the more time you can give the Shiwu Sect cultivators a little more practice. The stronger your practice is, the more you can kill another monster. Wouldn’t the place be more calm?

What's more, if you are a clever person in the cultivation sect, and if you are more clever and lucky enough, you may be able to learn some superficial skills in boxing and footwork. Even if the opportunity comes, you will transform and become a cultivator!

Although this possibility is extremely small, for ordinary people who "face the loess and back to the sky, and one sweat bead falls eight petals" all day long, it is their own children and their only upward path.

Even if this road cannot be done, as long as you serve it with all your heart and strength, win the favor of a certain immortal master, you will have a great backer when walking in the countryside in the future!

If these benefits are given to the court, they will not have any of them.

First of all, when serving as a job for the court, you often have to be recruited thousands of miles away. If you are not familiar with the land, you will still be a trivial matter. Being beaten, knocking bones and sucking marrow, but you will not respond every day and not working. These are common things.

To put it bluntly, if you die in Shiwu Gate, you can leave it for the whole body to come back.

Join the imperial army and die on the battlefield thousands of miles away. If you can leave a jar of ashes back, even if your ancestors bless you!

Another thing is that the imperial army composed of ordinary people is the lowest profession, and there is almost no contact with cultivators, teachings, and the possibility of finding a backer.

Finally, the local young and strong people were summoned to 108,000 miles away. What should the monsters and monsters in the nearby mountains and forests do? The immortal masters can't do heavy chores and kill demons again, right?

What? The court needs a large army to fight against the ghost Qin people?

What does the fucking Ghost Qin people have to do with me? The Ghost Qin people who have been rampant in Shiwu for hundreds of years are not Ghost Qin people, but demons and monsters in nearby mountainous areas!

The Ghost Qin Wolf Rider trampled on the Northland, that was the Yankees' business. Why should we southerners bleed in vain?

"The court? Here, the court is just an egg, and the Shiwu Gate is the sky!"

"When demons were rampant, the tigers and wolves went down the mountain, the immortal masters of Shiwumen rushed up and fought. Where was the imperial army? No hair came!"

"When the autumn harvest is ripe, the grain is needed to be collected, it comes very quickly. I asked the immortal masters of Shiwumen to fight back!"
Chapter completed!