Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 175 – Control

The reason for this resistance was mainly because of the Shi family. The ones fighting over the five mu of Ling Tian s that Shi Jiutong had left behind and the ten odd Spiritual Farmerhat had left were all about four mu of Ling Tian s that Shi Nansheng had left behind, so for this reason, Shi Nansheng stood out to try and obtain more Ling Tian s for the Shi family.

Just as An Xia was pondering about whether she should distribute the Ling Tian s by force, Shi Jiutong’s corpse was suddenly transported back from the city. Shi Jiutong was dead!

The death of a third stage martial arts realm cultivator was no different than an earthquake to the Xishan Village, Yang Tiangang naturally knew that Xu Sanniang’s sneak attack had nothing to do with Shi Jiutong, thus he had planned for the possibility of Shi Jiutong going against him after returning to the Xishan Village, but he never thought that Shi Jiutong would actually die!

Now that he had returned, even though there were no longer any people in the Xishan Village who directly challenged Yang Tiangang, the loss of a third stage martial arts realm cultivator meant that the Xishan Village’s strength had greatly decreased.

The thought of breaking through the fourth stage of the martial arts realm became even more intense in Yang Tiangang’s heart. However, advancing to the late stage of the martial arts realm was not so easy, as cultivation, strength, luck, resources, and so on were all indispensable, especially requiring the assistance of a large amount of cultivation resources.

The news came from the county city. Last time, when the Dream Yoga Guards had ambushed Yuanwu Town and Xinghu Town at the border, Shi Jiutong’s Dream Yoga Guards had also joined in. Unexpectedly, under the combined pursuit of the Sirius Gate and the Dao-Soldier Formation, they were not able to return to Mengyu County and died in Tuo Wu Shan.

After burying Shi Jiutong, the Shi family members who were making trouble earlier had all given up. An Xia’s plan to measure the Ling Tian had become extremely successful, and the Shi family whose fame was higher than the Xu family in Xishan Village had become more obedient this time.

Shi Jiutong also sent oveeward from the county magistrate. Although he did not know how Shi Jiutong had become a substitute for the Dream Yoga Guards, the reward was given out in accordance to the standard of the Dream Yoga Guards, including a carriage of 150 stones from the spiritual valley and 150 Jade Coins s, all of these things were given to Shi Jiutong’s wife and family.

At the same time, there was alsension that benefited the entire Xishan Village, and that was the 10% reduction in the’s food taxes. Originally, the Mengyu County’s food taxes had already been reduced by 50% due to the initiative request of the three big shots, but now, there was another 10% reduction. This year, when the spiritual valley had a great harvest, the food taxes would actually only need to be paid by half of what they had paid in the past years.

After dealing with Shi Jiutong’s funeral, Xishan Village’s large-scale harvest was nearing its end. This year’s year was not bad, and almost all of the Ling Tian in Mengyu County received a bountiful harvest.

However, it was fortunate that the food taxes were halved this year, making it possible for almost all the families of the Spiritual Farmers to have a surplus. Furthermore, the new Village Head was an extremely capable person, whether it was the original Tuqiu Village villagers or the original Earth Stone Village villagers, they were all extremely anticipating the future of the Xishan Village.

This year, there were three and a half acres of newly matured Ling Tian, five acres of’s original work field, and more than ten acres of remaining Spiritual Farmers s from the original Earth Stone Village. The total number of Ling Tian s that had to be divided into thirteen acres was now.

Originally, because of Xu Erchen bringing a portion of his clansmen and leaving, the Xu Family was left with a few acres of Ling Tian, but Yang Tiangang had given these Ling Tian to a dozen or so newly moved Lao Yang Clans’ Spiritual Farmers s. This matter had once displeased the Xu Family greatly, but in the end, under Xu Sanniang’s pressure, the Xu Family did not let this matter get out of hand.

It had already been close to two months since the start of the battle, and after experiencing Xu Erchen’s internal strife, Xu Sanniang started to gradually regain his senses. Everything that the Xu family had experienced in this period of time, seemed to be facilitated by an invisible black hand.

Xu Sanniang had suspected Yang Tiangang before, but because there was no evidence, she gave up. For this reason, she even tried to seek the Yu Family for help, but ever since Song Wei mentioned that the father and son of the Madame Yang were faintly related to the county magistrate, the Yu Family kept quiet about the matters of the Xishan Village.

But looking at the current strength of the Yang family, Xishan Village had a total of nine Martial Realm Cultivator s, and there were five of them standing by the Yang family’s side. The current attack of the Xu family could only bring about humiliation for themselves, maybe Yang Tiangang had even made preparations long ago, and was waiting for the Xu family to stir up trouble and fall into his trap.

The Xu family could no longer receive any kind of unexpected blows. Recently, Xu Sanniang had also felt extremely exhausted, and sometimes, she even couldn’t help but think if it was a mistake for him to push Xu Erchen and the others out of the Xu family.

Furthermore, even if Xu Erchen and the others wanted to return, it would be impossible. The very first thing Yang Tiangang did was to give his clansmen the acres of Ling Tian that Xu Erchen and the others left behind when he left, in order to prevent Xu Erchen and the others from returning in the future.

According to the rules that Yang Tiangang had set for the first time splitting up the land, the newly advanced Spiritual Farmers s would divide the land first, and only those who have cultivated up to the fourth stage of Mortal Realm would be qualified to become a Spiritual Farmers, so the newly advanced Spiritual Farmers s would not be able to get more than three parts of the land.

After that, the Spiritual Farmers s who had advanced to the next level would be given more land. After the Spiritual Farmerdvanced to the fifth level, the number of Ling Tian under their name would not exceed half an acre. And after cultivators advanced to the martial arts realm, there would be one acre of Ling Tian.

This time, Yang Junshan advanced into the martial arts realm, and first split it into an acre of Ling Tian. This time, the entire Xishan Village did not have any objections, in every village, the privileges of the Martial Realm Cultivator were great, and every village would welcome and try to rope him in. This was also the reason why Xu Erchen initially dared to directly bring people away with him, and as a Martial Realm Cultivator, no matter where he went, no one would stop him from leaving.

At the same time, as a newly naturalized Martial Realm Cultivator, because his cultivation was at the second level of martial arts realm, he received one and a half mu of Ling Tian, which was also the lowest share.

The Ling Tian s could not always maintain their spirit energy. Even if the Spiritual Farmers were to carefully maintain it, as time passed, due to the constant loss of spirit energy, it would decline to a normal farm. If the Spirit Cultivators who had lost their spirit energy could not obtain a share of the new Ling Tian s in the village, they could only go and be someone else’s farmer.

Following the rules set by Yang Tiangang, these thirteen acres of Ling Tian were quickly separated into Xishan Village, which did not arouse too much controversy. Under Yang Tiangang’s conscious arrangements, the original Earth Stone Village’s villagers were taken care of, and the fusion of the Xishan Village was further strengthened.

After the Ling Tian was separated, Yang Tiangang once again established his standing as the sole independent individual in the Xishan Village. He now had a basic understanding of the matters regarding the Xishan Village and the village, but right after, the gazes of everyone in the Xishan Village were focused on the Western Mountain.

It could be said that once the Western Mountain was fully utilized, the Xishan Village’s power would increase by leaps and bounds in the coming years. If it was properly managed, it could even be said that the power of a village could be comparable to the strength of an entire Wasteland Town.

This was the true test of the new Xishan Village, Yang Tiangang, on how to make full use of the Spirit Source Land.

At the entrance of Xishan Village Village, Yang Tiangang and Yang Junshan stood there as though they were waiting for someone. Before anyone had arrived, the father and son duo had already started chatting.

“Seventh Uncle, Blacksmith Zhang and Shi Nansheng have already left for half a month. Nothing bad will happen, right?” Yang Junshan asked worriedly. Ever since the first time the Dream Yoga Guards provoked the Sirius Gate, Spiritual Master Chen Ji immediately ordered a martial law on the borders, closing down all normal trading routes. At the same time, he organized a search of the smuggling routes at the borders, and for many days, there was no news of An Xia and the rest entering the Zhang County through the tunnels.

Yang Tiangang shook his head: “Probably not, your seventh uncle can already be said to be familiar with the road, and there have been some acquaintances helping you out in the past two years in Zhang County. Moreover, this time there are three Martial Realm Cultivator s coming out, so there shouldn’t be any accidents, probably because they brought too many things, which is why they took up some time.”

After paying the taxes on the rations, Yang Tiangang began to organize people to purchase the leftover rations from the Spiritual Farmers. After that, the three Martial Realm Cultivatoook the carriage and brought the thousand stone spiritual valley and the hundreds of Jade Coins s that Yang Tiangang had accumulated over the years to the Zhang County to exchange for the various cultivation resources that they needed while the Tuo Wu Shan had yet to be discovered.

Yang Junshan pondered for a moment, and said: “Father, Seventh Uncle and the rest probably won’t be able to gather all the things they need this time. At that time, I might have to think of another way.”

Yang Tiangang laughed: “It’s also because I was too anxious, the amount of resources needed to build a place around the Spirit Origin Stone was not small, all those years ago when your grandfather discovered the Spirit Origin Mountain and built the Yang Family’s foundation, he spent ten years of time, almost all of his family’s money was spent, now with the support of the entire Xishan Village, it’s already enough for us to have a good foundation in these three to five years.”

Yang Junshan nodded his head, and said: “Let’s wait until Senior Lin arrives, then we can do a quick survey on the spot. At that time, we will havough idea of how many things we need, and won’t need to blindly prepare.”

Yang Tiangang nodded his head, and laughed: “You are right, but this Lin Chengsi is only a fourth rate Spiritual Seeker, I do not have much hope of him, but compared to him, I am more concerned about what you have said previously, do you really have confidence in setting up a defensive array formation that would cover the entire Western Mountain and Xishan Village?”

Yang Junshan laughed: It’s hard to say now, after all, it’s our first time setting up such a large scale array, and furthermore, we don’t have that much resources expended. We can first set up a smaller array, and then slowly expand along with the accumulation of resources in the village.

Yang Tiangang nodded his head, his eyes revealing a look of gratification, he said: “Even if you can lay down the array formation, you have to wait until Spiritual Seeker finds the distribution of the Spirit Origin Mountain’s Earth Vein, then we will see. Let’s go, then Spiritual Seeker Lin Chengsi is here!”

In the distance, Yang Junshan saw an old man riding a packhorse toward the Xishan Village.