It is precisely because of this ancestor of cultivation that they can pass on to the present.
There are actually villages in other places.
Forced by Daqian's exorbitant taxes and various oppressions, they ran to the wilderness to survive.
Many people move here every year to survive.
But in the end, within five or ten years, they were all devoured by various beasts and monsters.
Human beings are intelligent and invincible in nature.
The problem here is not nature, it is a place with extraordinary power.
There is also an upper limit to the wisdom of group humans.
Because they had ancestors who were cultivators, they had difficulty in reproducing.
But as the ancestor of the cultivator passed away, the inheritance he left behind.
There are very few people who have learned it, and their cultivation is worse than him.
The so-called generation is stronger than each generation.
That is based on a relatively large ethnic group.
If it is a relatively small group, the degeneration effect is most normal.
Cheng Lan is quite familiar with this matter.
Because there are some relatively civilized tribes on the earth who went to some desert islands, and eventually they gradually degenerated because the islands were small and lacked resources.
When resources are exhausted, civilization and technology will also degrade.
Eventually he became a barbarian.
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And they are like this now. As the population becomes smaller and smaller, there are fewer and fewer people who can learn spells.
This results in the inability to withstand more disasters, thus forming a vicious cycle.
After a few hundred years, their fate will probably be the same as other villages that disappeared long ago.
At this time, Cheng Lan asked them with the help of the female bodyguard:
"Since it's so dangerous here, why don't you go back and work hard?"
The village chief said with a bitter smile: "I won't even have a good day if I go back to work."
"You can live at least half of the good life here throughout the year."
"There is food and clothing, meat and wine, singing and dancing."
"You only need to worry about the half of the good days left."
"But everyone is satisfied."
"In Daqian, you have to be anxious every morning when you get up, worrying about whether you will be able to find a job and have food to eat today."
"I'm worried about whether I will meet a government official or a bully today."
Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger.
This is absolutely correct.
After hearing this, Cheng Lan was also filled with tears.
She completely understood what was said in the ancient poem, and it was indeed true.
She also understood why those ancient saints advocated governing by doing nothing.
The so-called governance by doing nothing means not bothering.
Three words: "Don't bother". If you don't bother the people, you are being kind and righteous.
Ordinary people can live a much more comfortable life relying on their own abilities.
If you mess around, people will die.
The more troubles you make, the more opportunities there will be for corrupt officials below.
You can take advantage of your troubles and create a clever name.
Similarly, those who are educated and literate will distort your original intention during your troubles. They say it is a tax increase when it is clearly a matter of tax reduction.
Anyway, the common people are illiterate, and the tax is only one penny, but they tell you to add one penny.
They even said that they would levy three coins.
There have been many similar things.
Even Wen Rensheng knew about this matter very well.
It is clearly stated that the land is measured and the landowners are allowed to pay taxes.
As a result, after he measured the land, he changed the measured land to the poor, so that the poor paid more taxes.
This is in the so-called feudal society, because the failure of governance by officials at the bottom leads to more reforms and changes at the top, the more the people suffer, and the more tragic the failure.
This is why big reforms often fail.
Because it is built on a completely deformed team.
It would be surprising if the reform could succeed.
But now, after Cheng Lan realizes this, she is even more determined why she wants to contract an entire team.
Otherwise, there is no need to successfully complete the mission given by the Lord God.
As for why the Lord God gave this mission.
Obviously because it has the greatest challenge and is the most tempering.
Everything from inner will to personal resilience can be honed.
Just like Yongzheng, he was a ruthless person.
Only then can the reforms be implemented.
However, what later generations didn't know was that this reform immediately disappeared as soon as he died.
Qianlong directly abolished it.
Still the old way.
not fresh.
The only one who was not abolished by the reform was Shang Yang.
And at this time.
The village began to entertain Cheng Lan's female bodyguards.
Good wine and meat are served.
Judging from the faces of the villagers, they did not feel the burden was heavy.
It can be seen that they also have no shortage of meat to eat.
It is the harvest time for the foot dolphins to welcome visitors.
Sure enough, without the oppression from above, life in the wilderness is actually easy and good.
It's just that there may be a shortage of necessary necessities such as salt and medicine.
However, these people have the inheritance of practitioners after all, and there is obviously no shortage of these two.
Then living naturally will be easy.
The only problem is the danger in the wilderness.
The female bodyguard then started eating without any ceremony.
I was eating, it didn't take long.
Not long after waiting, another person suddenly came over in a hurry and informed the village chief who was accompanying the guest.
"Village Chief, it's bad, those perverted sects have come to our village to recruit disciples again!"
"What, they're here again!"
"Hurry up and let the young and strong men hide in caves!" the village chief said anxiously.
At this time, Cheng Lan asked: "Why accept a disciple?"
"Well, the person who came here is from a sect. People nearby call it the Eunuch Sect. It is very powerful. They come to us regularly every year to recruit disciples."
"Isn't this a good thing? This can increase your defense capabilities?" Cheng Lan naturally knew there was something wrong with it, but she asked it deliberately.
The village chief shook his head and sighed: "Yes, normally speaking, it is a great thing that one can only hope for."
"But the real person doesn't know that when they accept apprentices, they have to castrate them on the spot."
"What, are you recruiting apprentices or suckling pigs?" Cheng Lan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"That's it, because their sect's martial arts can only be practiced from the palace."
"If that's the case, since you can practice the exercises, there will be people who are willing to be castrated, right?" Cheng Lan thought for a while.
"What I'm saying is that if you can practice martial arts after being castrated, even though we have a small population, there will still be people willing to try it." The village chief shook his head and said, "That's the problem."
Cheng Lan listened carefully.
"They castrate them first and then select their apprentices."
"What's the meaning?"
"That is to say, they have to pass a test to join the sect, but to pass their test, you must be a castrated person."
Cheng Lan thought about it carefully and suddenly realized.
"I know, it's like entering the palace."
"Before entering the palace, you have to castrate yourself, and after castration, you may not be able to successfully enter the palace."
"That's it. Because castration has a success rate, it's impossible to select someone to be a eunuch and then castrate him. It's all about selecting a group of people who survived after castration."
"This is just like us." The village chief sighed.
Cheng Lan nodded.
There are some shabby alleys near the capital, where a group of people who have castrated themselves gather.
They have been waiting for months and months to recruit people from the palace.
Some people have waited their entire lives and never got the chance to work in the palace.
It can be said that not only did he lose his body, but he also did not get a chance to have enough to eat, or even a trace of wealth.
In fact, most of the eunuchs came to the palace just to have enough food, and few of them expected wealth.
Hearing this, Wen Rensheng sighed.
He had heard of a man who, after being castrated the day before, the Qing Dynasty was over the next day and no longer took in eunuchs.
It can be said that it is very depressing.
At this moment, these people are similar to this.
From this we can also see the severity of the oppression in Daqian.
Cheng Lan then said here: "Then what should you do now?"
The village chief seemed to be waiting for this sentence:
"Zhenmao, can you save us?"
To come forward is to prostrate.
The people serving around him also kowtowed.
Okay, this pork is not easy to eat.
Cheng Lan thought.
"I do want to save you, but I am just an ordinary incarnation."
"Although this ordinary incarnation can be resurrected after death, it does not have many extraordinary abilities."
After hearing this, the village chief said in surprise:
"Master, if you have this ability, it is enough."
"If the people from the Eunuch Sect see that you have the ability to resurrect after death, they will definitely let us go."
"After all, compared to offending a powerful person like you, letting us go is not a big deal."
"That's right." Cheng Lan said, "Okay, I'll give it a try."
In fact, the reason why she said that her incarnation has the ability to resurrect after death is because it is not easy to hide it from the past.
After all, he died just once.
It's better to say it openly.
This world is full of tasks anyway.
I won’t hang out here next time.
Then the people in the village became more polite to Cheng Lan.
He told her everything he knew and told her everything.
There were even a few beautiful boys who recommended themselves.
Cheng Lan quickly rejected them all.
The female bodyguard was a little moved...
Well, when this woman is strong, she really has nothing to do with men.
And now, half a day later.
Sure enough, another group of people came outside the village.
It didn't come flying.
This made Cheng Lan feel relieved.
The female bodyguard came to the door.
About thirty people from the Eunuch Sect came.
Vast and vast.
fully armed.
Iron armor and iron sword.
Very luxuriously furnished.
"Luojiazhuang, we are recruiting 20 apprentices this time."
"No matter how many eunuchs you castrate, you must give us at least 20 qualified apprentices!"
Hearing this, Cheng Lan was furious.
During the meal, she asked the village chief.
That is a village of 3,000 people.
20 apprentices, behind them may be 100 young men who were castrated.
3,000 people, at most 1,000 young men.
This time I go to ten people.
And after castration, they can no longer reproduce.
It is also prone to infection and death.
Even if there is magical treatment, it is not a good thing.
At this time the village chief said: "Can we have three apprentices?"
"It's definitely not enough for three people, at least 20."
"Can those five people do it?"
The village chief didn't seem to put any hope in Cheng Lan, or he regarded Cheng Lan as the last straw and didn't want to use it immediately.
"Very good, it seems that you are not going to give our Eunuch Sect any face!" The leader of the Eunuch Sect suddenly became furious.
"Brothers, go up and fight in!"
"Regardless of men, women, old or young, we will all be arrested and made eunuchs!"
"Wrong, I should have called sisters, sorry!" the leader repeated.
I have just been castrated and it seems that I haven’t gotten used to changing my past name yet.
Cheng Lan shouted loudly: "Forget it, everyone, they are already suffering from life, what are you doing here again?"
"Why can't we give the people a way to survive?"
The leader of the eunuch sect looked at it, and then said disdainfully: "Who are you?"
"I'm just a passerby, passing by here to fight against injustice." Cheng Lan said calmly.
"Very good, then you can go and pass by Lord Yama."
After saying that, the opponent directly hit him with a big fireball!
Although he wears iron armor, he is actually a mage!
Cheng Lan yelled, "You're too old!"
Then the female bodyguard quickly rolled around like a lazy fish.
It was hard to escape.
That reaction speed is much faster than hers.
But the fireball can actually track automatically.
The next moment, it was rolled up from behind.
It burned her whole body to ashes.
Good guy, difficult.
It's really difficult.
The first time he was killed by a wild animal.
He died again for the second time.
Sister, I am so miserable.
Resurrected again half an hour later.
After walking for a few more hours, Cheng Lan's female bodyguard came to the village again.
Those eunuchs who were forcing the villagers to castrate themselves, then they saw the female bodyguard again.
Those members of the Eunuch Sect immediately knelt down on their knees without saying a word.
"I have seen the great God."
"God, have mercy!"
Good guy, what the village chief said is indeed right.
These guys really know what it means to be awesome.
The ability to resurrect after death is not something that ordinary people have.
At least you have to reach Nascent Soul to have this ability.
At this time someone whispered: "What if they are twins?"
"Idiot, it's impossible for twins to look exactly the same."
Then Cheng Lan asked them to get up.
After all, she, a female bodyguard, has no real supernatural power.
And the steel suit will be of great use to her.
No need to take it out rashly.
Later, people from the Eunuch Sect also sat down to eat in the village.
A group of people ate and drank with the female bodyguard.
Halfway through eating and drinking, the eunuch sect member also said:
"We also have our own reasons."
Good guys, they are all suffering.
Sure enough, these days, selling miserably is the way to go.
"What are your difficulties?"
"Our difficulty is that every twenty years we have to hand over eunuchs who have reached a certain level of cultivation to the Daqian Palace."
"For example, among the five eunuchs who are in the foundation-building stage, the one with the golden elixir is the best, and he will be rewarded."
Good guy.
Wen Rensheng laughed.
Jin Dan also wants to be a eunuch.
It seems that this Daqian Imperial Court is very awesome.
He used to live in a world of cultivating immortals, and he had never seen a golden eunuch serving anyone.
Generally speaking, if you have already cultivated the golden elixir, you will not castrate yourself.
Even if you are castrated, you will not serve others.
So if you want to get a golden eunuch, you can only start castration from a young age and practice it from an early age.
Jindan Eunuch, I can only say that this Daqian Dynasty is very awesome.
There must be at least a level of suppression in the palace that is above the divine transformation stage.
Only in this way can you afford the golden elixir.
Otherwise, just a Nascent Soul might not be qualified for this.
After Cheng Lan heard this, he asked: "Who is the person with the highest cultivation level in Daqian Palace?"
"The person with the highest cultivation level is a Mahayana Supreme Emperor."
Good guy.
They are all Mahayana.
This dynasty is as stable as Mount Tai.
Ordinary people are like ants.
No matter how hard you try, it's useless.
"Then shouldn't he be able to ascend?"
"We also want to, but he just won't ascend."
"Why, isn't it bad to become an immortal? Is it because he doesn't want to, or because he can't do it?" Cheng Lan asked directly.
"I don't dare to speculate like this, ancestor. Maybe ancestor thinks that after ascending, he should also become a eunuch?" said the eunuch clan member.
"What? How did you know?"
"It's a legend passed down from our sect's ancestors. I heard that after ascending to heaven, you will be selected by the heaven. Those who are not good enough in cultivation or have poor qualifications will also be eunuchs and serve the emperor's harem."
