Chapter 150: Collecting Taxes (1/2)

In order to resist Feng Tianzong, these gentry families spared no effort to support the front line. The newly formed army in the rear is being sent to Hongcheng continuously.

If the armies of these cities are gathered together, it will be easy to form an army of 100,000.

Feng Tianzong is quite in favor of Zhang Weiyu's suggestion. The gentry families in those cities have obviously been organized.

Thinking of the Tai Shi Mingzhen of the Five Elements Sect who just came, Feng Tianzong felt that the people behind those gentry families should be Tai Shi Mingzhen of the Five Elements Sect.

Maybe the disappeared Jin Hongzhi also defected to them, otherwise these people would not be able to connect all the gentry families in the fifteen cities so quickly, and there must be someone who is threading the needle.

Otherwise, it would definitely not be so fast. It has only been a few days, and even the army has been formed. There must be people who are proficient in military strategy. No matter how capable the immortal cultivators are, it is not so easy to organize the army.

"The person who came here has bad intentions! However, judging from Taishi Mingzhen's behavior, he came here in advance to show courtesy before force. It is estimated that the people who had done something to him in the back before were not from the Five Elements Sect.

There must be another group of forces behind the scenes who are secretly acting. This group of people is more sinister. Maybe the Five Elements Sect's early demise is due to their shadow. Let me fight with the Five Elements Sect first." Feng Tianzong thought to himself.

It is a well-known reason in the entire cultivation world that the longer a puppeteer does not take action, the stronger he will be, but as the battle continues, the puppeteer will become weaker and weaker.

Because every fierce battle, the number of puppeteers of the puppeteer will be more or less damaged. And refining a puppet is more troublesome. The more powerful the puppet, the longer it takes to refine.

"The group of people in the dark are constantly leading people to the northern border to fight against me, with the purpose of consuming the puppets in my hands. Until they become toothless tigers in the end.

And the puppets can explode by themselves. Even if someone defeats me as a puppeteer, there will be heavy losses. The mastermind can jump out and reap the fruits of victory." Feng Tianzong had a vague sense in his heart, but his Liantian Yishu was only at the entry level now, and he couldn't figure out who the mastermind was and where he was hiding.

"Forget it, don't think about it, make a new puppet. See if you can integrate the formation required by the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gangs into the Bone Spirit Puppet." Feng Tianzong didn't delay, no matter who the opponent was, he had enough confidence to deal with it.

Three days before the New Year, Wang Mingyuan sent the population and land account books of the two cities that had recently been brought under his rule.

Feng Tianzong, who was refining the Bone Spirit Puppet, also stopped his work.

Sure enough, from the time he received the account book, his innate magical power could see that the population under his command had increased by more than 50,000.

"There are only more than 50,000 people in the two cities. This is too few people?" Feng Tianzong said dissatisfiedly.

"My lord, when we went out to fight, those gentry and wealthy families all ran away with their families, including their servants, their families, some small landlords, and their relatives. Almost everyone with a little wealth ran away.

Now the whole northern border is spreading rumors. They say that our Liaoyuan City is a robber, saying that you will rob everyone's wealth, bully men and women and do all kinds of evil.

Most of the ordinary people are ignorant and have no ability to distinguish, so all those who have some connections and some money have run away.

Most of the remaining ones have little money and can't run away even if they want to, or they are reluctant to give up their family's foundation. Not only ordinary rich families ran away, but even gang members in the city and those idle hooligans also ran away with their families.

What's more annoying is that those who ran away actually had people to help them settle down, so the population is a little small." Wang Mingyuan said in a pretended anger.

He also knew that Feng Tianzong attached great importance to the population. Now that he had recently acquired two cities, the population was only half of that of Liaoyuan City. This news might be lower than Feng Tianzong's expectations, and he was afraid of being angered.

Feng Tianzong did not speak, but nodded silently. It seemed that the other party had started to act a long time ago.

He did not blame Wang Mingyuan, but waved his hand to let him leave.

"Fifty thousand people is not a small number. It can also collect five hundred years as taxes." Feng Tianzong was very open-minded. There were still three days before the New Year, and then he could collect taxes for the new year.

The population under his command now reached more than 310,000. Today, he could collect five hundred years, and three days later, he could collect three thousand one hundred years.

Together, it would be three thousand six hundred years. Just thinking about it, Feng Tianzong was quite excited. He was thinking about whether to improve his cultivation first, or to improve his puppet first, or to improve Liantian Yishu first.

Each has its own advantages. The benefits of improving cultivation are naturally obvious, but improving too quickly is easy to arouse suspicion.

Improving puppets can naturally improve combat effectiveness. If you can use bone spirit puppets to form the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gangs Formation, the improvement in combat effectiveness will be huge.

But it is not very likely. In the past ten years of taxation, he has only refined fifteen bone spirit puppets. Even if the population of Liaoyuan City was a little smaller, the tax revenue for ten years is eight thousand years.

He now has twelve bone spirit puppets left, and he wants to refine twenty-four bone spirit puppets in the late stage of foundation building. This tax time is not enough.

The benefits of improving Liantian Yishu are also visible to the naked eye. As long as he practices Liantian Yishu deeply enough, no one can calculate him anymore.

The mastermind who had been plotting against him behind the scenes could be easily figured out, which was also very helpful in military affairs.

He knew where the enemy marched from and where they transported food. If a war broke out, it would be a true knowledge of oneself and the enemy, and it would be invincible.

But it was not easy to cultivate the Tianyishu to a high level. Feng Tianzong still remembered that his master said when he got started that Yishu was easy to learn but difficult to master.

But it took him 30 years to get started with the so-called Yishu, which showed that he had no talent in this area.

If he wanted to cultivate to a high level, it would take a lot of time.

"Save the tax for five hundred years first, and use it together when the tax is collected after the New Year." Feng Tianzong thought with some distress. No matter how much time he had, it was also a happy worry.

He worked hard silently, and then surprised everyone in an instant, giving his opponent a big surprise.

In the past few days, Feng Tianzong has refined another bone spirit puppet.

To refine a bone spirit puppet, one needs to integrate a magical seed. If it is a small magical power, one magical seed needs to consume fifty years of taxes, and a large magical power needs one hundred and fifty years.

However, the bone spirit puppet with a large magical power is directly in the foundation building stage. To upgrade to the late foundation building stage, it needs three hundred years of taxes. In other words, he needs to consume four hundred and fifty years to refine a bone spirit puppet in the late foundation building stage.

He now has three thousand six hundred years of taxes, which can be used to refine eight bone spirit puppets in the late foundation building stage.

Feng Tianzong thought about it. He is now at the fourth level of foundation building, which is just entering the middle stage of foundation building. It is still far from the golden elixir. It is too eye-catching to upgrade to the golden elixir stage at once, but a small upgrade should be no problem in the name of fighting for the dragon.

Take small steps and run fast. Improving one or two levels of cultivation every year will not be too eye-catching, and it will not delay your own strength.

[Consume taxes for three hundred and sixty years to improve cultivation, the fourth level of foundation building stage-the fifth level of foundation building stage. 】

【Consume taxes for 420 years to improve cultivation, foundation building stage 5-foundation building stage 6. 】

After a moment of hard work, this time was stretched to 780 years. After 780 years of hard work, he finally improved his cultivation to the peak of the middle stage of foundation building.

Feng Tianzong was a little emotional. If he hadn't awakened his innate magical powers, his qualifications would not be much better than those mortals who couldn't practice. Even if he worked hard to practice until he died, he couldn't break through the Qi Refining Stage.

At the same time, he was secretly glad that he chose to lie down and return to his hometown. Otherwise, if he stayed in the world of immortal cultivation and rolled with his brothers, he would not have achieved anything even if he rolled himself to death.

Feng Tianzong raised his cultivation to the peak of the middle stage of foundation building in one breath. Although he was still in the middle stage of foundation building, his mana was incomparable.

Moreover, his cultivation, which was improved by consuming taxes, was extremely powerful. He found that his mana was higher than that of the cultivators who broke through normally, and each breakthrough in cultivation was a little higher.

At the beginning, he didn't realize it. It was not until he returned to the sect this time and communicated with his fellow disciples that he realized that his mana was deeper than that of his fellow disciples.

Now that he is at the peak of the middle stage of foundation building, his mana is not weaker than those of his uncles in the late stage of foundation building.

It is much easier to control and command the golden elixir puppets, which is a good thing.

Of course, puppets are also indispensable. He spent another 900 years of taxes to refine two bone spirit puppets in the late stage of foundation building. In addition, he spent another 300 years of taxes to refine the bone spirit puppet refined before the New Year to improve its strength.

He replenished his bone spirit puppets to the level of 15.

Then there is puppetry, which is the specialty of their puppet sect and must be improved. Otherwise, it would be too difficult to form the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang formation.

[Spend 200 years of taxes to improve puppetry. [Puppetry Level 2 Advanced - Level 3 Elementary]

Feng Tianzong found that he was actually quite talented in puppetry. Level 3 Elementary Puppetry meant that he could refine Jindan-level puppets.

In fact, the time he spent on puppetry should be the time required for normal disciples to practice, and he might even be faster than his fellow apprentices.

"It seems that I am not completely useless without any talent. At least I am very talented in the technique of puppetry. At least on this point, the master did not make a mistake.

I was born to be useful. I was born to be a member of the Puppet Sect." Feng Tianzong thought to himself with a little pride.

Whether it was cultivation or magic, he spent too much time to improve, which made him have sufficient self-awareness of his talent.

Looking at the tax, there were still 1,420 years left.

He thought about it and realized that the combat effectiveness of the Jindan level needed to be increased. If there was only one Jinshi, it was still a little thin. As his cultivation level improved, his spiritual awareness also increased. He no longer felt tired when commanding a puppet in the Jindan stage.

Before, he really thought that the golden stone that had merged with four magical seeds could sweep the Jindan stage and be invincible. Unexpectedly, he was taught a lesson by Wan Hongcheng, the old Taoist of the Wanfa Sect, in the Jiemen Pass and was easily controlled by others. He could only threaten the opponent by self-destruction.

This is a very dangerous situation. He needs to upgrade another puppet to the Jindan stage. In this way, one can fight the enemy outside and the other can stay by his side to protect him.

In case he really encounters a strong enemy, his backhand is enough to be used as a trump card.

Feng Tianzong decided to upgrade the gray stone to the Jindan stage as well.

The tax was spent on refining the gray stone for 360 years, raising the gray stone's strength to the Jindan stage. However, the gray stone is still not as good as the gold stone, and the core magic power is far behind.

The gray stone's defense is not bad, but it is not as sharp as the gold stone's armor-breaking divine light in attack. Relatively speaking, the speed is slower in the Jindan stage, and it cannot fly.

However, that is only compared to the gold stone. Compared with the normal Jindan cultivator, the gray stone puppet is not bad. Once the gray stone gets close, it is also very difficult to deal with. The defense is strong and it has the property of breaking the law, especially the opponent of this time, the Five Elements Sect, which relies on magic to make a living.

Any magic power, when used in the hands of the magic cultivators of the Five Elements Sect, will become particularly powerful, which is determined by their core skills.

However, against the stone spirit puppet of the puppet sect, the power is directly halved. It can be said that the stone spirit puppet is the nemesis of the magic cultivator.

Especially the gold stone, which integrates four core magical powers and directly increases the magic immunity to 75%. A spell with a power of 100 points hits it, and only 25 points are left. In addition, the defense of the gold stone is strong.

With the two stone spirit puppets, the gold stone and the gray stone, Feng Tianzong feels that it is enough to make Tai Shi Mingzhen and other Five Elements Sect practitioners cry.

Thinking of Tai Shi Mingzhen's beautiful face, if she is hit by a stone spirit puppet, I'm afraid she will cry for a long time! Or maybe she won't cry at all.

[Gray Stone (Time-consuming Refining, Jindan Early Stage - 500 Years)]

As his puppetry was promoted to the early stage of the third stage, his understanding of puppets became deeper and deeper, and he understood a lot of knowledge about the formations used on Jindan puppets.

In the process of refining the gray stone, the formations on the gray stone were constantly changed, including the formations on the gold stone. So that both its combat effectiveness and endurance have been enhanced to a certain extent.

He saw that there were still 1,060 years left. Next, he had to learn the knowledge of formations and build a comprehensive and qualified formation for his nest.

Anyone dared to come to Liaoyuan City. Although it was his territory, he was actually restricted here. It was better for the enemy to let go.

If there was a defensive formation, it would not be like this. It could not only defend, weaken the attack, and protect the people, but also make the enemy afraid and dare not come to his nest to make trouble.