The Great Wild God - Chapter 430

Chapter 430 Fief

After the recruitment process was complete, Chen Xun was thrown to a rank two Martial Attendant named Yang Chun.

“My master is a dignified rank six general. Why did he arrange such a dilapidated place?” Chi Hai said angrily when he saw the dilapidated small house on the west side of the city.

The mansion covers an area of about 20 mu, and there are nearly a hundred houses, so it can’t be considered small.

Chen Xun raised his head to look at the empty lintel. The stone beams and wall pillars that had many traces of time left behind had many incomplete openings. Before him, he didn’t know how many owners he had changed.

This mansion was indeed somewhat dilapidated as a mansion.

Martial Attendant Yang Chun couldn’t see what Chen Xun was thinking, but he didn’t dare to let General Du Wei vent his resentment on him. He hurriedly and carefully said,

“Apart from this mansion, the general also has a mansion at the southern foot of the Thousand Dragon Ridge. It’s a beautiful mountain with rich spiritual energy. It’s also close to the Xuanjing. It’s only three to four hundred kilometers away from the city. Yang Chun feels that the general can build an immortal mansion in the manor’s spiritual land.”

“The Xuanjing City is narrow and does not have too many spiritual veins. No matter which general’s residence is, it is not bad. However, if the fief is arranged thousands or tens of thousands of miles away, wouldn’t it be delayed for all of you cultivators to work in Xuanjing?” Yang Chun smiled.

Chen Xun smiled faintly. He thought to himself that the outer city wall of Xuanjing City was 600 kilometers long. It looked extremely large. In fact, the amount of spirit mountains and beautiful waters that could enter was extremely limited. As the remnant of the Eastern Ancestral Dragon Mountain, the Thousand Dragon Ridge was also a vassal state in the northeast of Xuanjing City. The gathering of spirit energy was absolutely incomparable to the chaotic Western City.

If he really wanted to live in Xuanjing for a long time, he should have built his mansion in the Thousand Dragons Ridge.

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There was no restriction outside Xuanjing City, but cultivators were strictly forbidden to fly in the air within Xuanjing City.

The east and west of Xuanjing City were nearly two hundred kilometers wide, and they couldn’t fly in the air. Chen Xun, as the commandant general of Zuo Capital City, if he ran wildly on the streets, it would be a bit too unusual.

The Black Sly Horse is a hybrid of the Dark Scaled Sly and the High Scaled Horse.

A high-grade Black Sly Horse was tall and powerful. Its body was covered in black scales, and no sabers or spears were allowed to enter. It traveled three to five thousand kilometers a day, no slower than an ordinary cultivator flying into the sky.

Back then, Mansion of Marquis Martial’s black-armored generals had traversed the Northwest Domain and crossed over to Liang Jun. This was the type of black-armored scaled horse.

A Reincarnation Realm martial artist who was skilled in riding could use the Black Sly Horse to reach the realm of one person and one horse. When fighting on the battlefield, his combat strength would be more than doubled or tripled.

In Xuanjing City, royal ministers often used black horses to royal carriages to show their status as nobles.

After leaving the Xuanjing City, Chen Xun and the others had also ridden on several horseback.

The black horses that King of Qing had gifted were truly incredibly divine horses, and climbing mountains and mountains was as if they had covered the flat ground. Otherwise, if Chen Xun didn’t have the Void Origin Pearl, he would need to carry these black horses on his shoulders and fly back to the fief.

The Thousand Dragon Ridge, as the remaining vein of the Ancestral Dragon Mountain, stretched for two to three thousand li. Just this was three to four times larger than Mountain Parasol. In the early years, countless princes and ministers of the Xi Martial Emperor Dynasty had built their mansions deep within the mountain.

Holding the talisman imperial edict, Yang Chun led Chen Xun through the mountains and stopped in front of a camel-shaped mountain.

Yang Chun pointed at a small gray city in the mountain range and turned around to say, “Here we are. The general is at the foot of the Lion Hump. When the general and Daoist Gu are talking, Yang Chun has already sent someone to inform the steward of the village.”

Chen Xun nodded. Presumably, Yang Chun had already guessed that they would be dissatisfied with the place on the west side of the city. He had already called someone over to take care of it. Looking at the dense trees on the Lion Hunch Peak, the criss-crossing streams, and the growth of many apricots and other miscellaneous trees, he thought that it was a paradise sealed deep in the mountains.

Along the way, Chen Xun also learned many truths about the fief from Yang Chun.

Apart from the three sealed spiritual veins that could be used to build caves for cultivation, there were also two thousand Li farmers living within a thirty-mile radius of the mountain range in God-controller Mansion.

Li Nong was the slave in charge of farming.

In the future, this mountain forest and the two thousand Li farmers would be Chen Xun’s personal property.

Not only would his future pension be provided by these two thousand Li Nong households, but the servants and maids of his private residence could also choose some well-behaved and clever children from the Li Nong households.

Riding his horse around a stone gorge, Chen Xun saw that there were some reclaimed fields beside the woodlands of the valley.

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“Little Elder Zhao Lu is the steward of the Lion Hunch Peak’s Armored Village. I wonder if General Zuo Du Wei will come to the Armored Village today. Everything is not ready yet. Please punish him, General Zhao Lu.” A group of people knelt in the mud in front of the stronghold, led by a skinny old man wearing an armor robe.

Zhao Lu was a minor official under God-controller Mansion. He was usually in charge of managing two thousand Li farmers near the A Ding Village. He had indeed received too much notice and was not prepared for anything here.

Zhao Lu looked at Chen Xun in panic, afraid that Chen Xun would vent his anger on him. Ten lives wasn’t enough for him to lose.

Chen Xun swept his eyes across the crowd kneeling in front of the village. Apart from Zhao Lu, who had the cultivation of the late True Yang Realm, the dozen or so guards of the Jia Ding Village were extremely sparse in cultivation. Even their armor was crooked, so they could only suppress Li Nong.

Li Nong, who had gathered to kneel down to greet him, was a mortal who had never cultivated before.

Most of them were ragged and humbly kneeling in the mud on both sides of the stone path, not even daring to breathe a single mouthful of air.

Those young children looked up curiously. The dark black beads had not yet deeply branded themselves as slaves, but their parents and elders quickly pressed down their heads in panic.

“I don’t like to be overly courteous. I will use this place as my mansion in the future, but when everyone sees me, they don’t need to kneel on the ground.” Chen Xun said, pulling out his horse’s head and galloping straight towards the village gate.

Although the Jiading Stronghold was small, it could be considered a city in the depths of the Thousand Dragon Ridge. The city wall was forty zhang tall, and the tower, arrow stacks, and female walls were all ready to guard the main road into the Lion Hump.

A stone wall divided the Jia Ding Stronghold into two parts, the north and the south.

Nanpian is an outer city. It is the place where the supervisors and servants live. It seems to be in a mess. There are government offices dealing with Li Nong’s affairs, prisons where prisoners are detained. There are small school grounds for executions and drills. There are public warehouses, granaries, horse barns …

The northern part was an inner city, occupying a slightly larger area than the outer city. There were more than a hundred tidy houses scattered all over the place, looking quite old.

Entering the inner city, Chen Xun saw that the pavilions and palaces were covered in dust. At this moment, there were hundreds of servants inside to hurry up and clean up. Chen Xun thought to himself, whose mansion had been here a long time ago. It was neatly tidied up, but it was a good mansion.

However, the three spirit veins of the A Ben Stronghold were all on the lion hump behind the stronghold.

After the previous owner left, the three spirit veins on the lion hump had been sealed by God-controller Mansion. However, in the depths of the clouds, there were still a few pavilions and palaces that could be faintly seen.

Apart from the stone cliff in front of the mountain with the three words “Lion Hunch Peak” engraved on it, the distance between Jiading Stronghold and Lion Hunch Peak was only a few kilometers. There were no stone paths and the bridge connected. It could be seen that the previous owner of this place was impatient to have too much contact with the mortal world.

For cultivators who could fly through the air, living in the depths of the Absolute Ridge did not require any path.

“The Lion Hump must be ordered not to come out, and the Jiading Stronghold is unable to cross the restriction placed by God-controller Mansion at the foot of the Lion Camel Ridge, so nothing has been cleaned up on the mountain.” Zhao Lu said carefully.

Chen Xun nodded. The restriction on the Lion Hump was only symbolic, but it was not something that Zhao Li and the others could surmount.

After arriving at a new place, it might take a few years to settle down. Scarlet Sea, Snake Wuxin, and Black Tea were quite excited.

Bei Xuanjia asked Chen Xun doubtfully, “These mountains and forests are deep and rich in resources. Why do those Li Nong outside look so ragged and hungry?”

Chen Xun said, “Most of the nearby mountains and forests are sealed off. No matter how deep the mountains are, no matter how vast the land is, if they do not support their people, they will naturally be impoverished.”

“Not to mention mountains, forests, and valleys, even beasts in the forest and fish in the pond are all private belongings of generals. How dare low-grade villagers take them without reporting them?” Zhao Lu smiled embarrassedly as he accepted the conversation, but his heart was filled with unease.

If it was any other profound practitioners of the various sects who entered Xuanjing, most of the time, in order to cultivate quietly, they would drive the Li people out of the mountains. After all, the profound practitioners of the various sects who could enter God-controller Mansion did not expect two to three thousand Li Nong to be able to provide them with the resources they needed for cultivation. Kicking him out would save him a lot of trouble besides being quiet.

Zhao Lu didn’t know what kind of plans the new General Commandant had. Would he find these Li Nong eye-catching and expel them to save time?

“Notify me that apart from this Lion Hump in front of me, I want to use it to open up a cave. All other mountains and forests will be unsealed.” Chen Xun said.

Along the way, Chen Xun could also see what the mansions of other princes and ministers in the depths of the Thousand Dragon Ridge looked like. Most people would drive these Li Nong out, but if he really wanted to follow suit, where would these two thousand Li Nong families be able to settle down with their families?

Chen Xun did not mind living next to the two thousand Li farmers, nor did he think that Chun Lingjun would do anything to the two thousand Li farmers.

Zhao Lu hurriedly nodded his head, but said worriedly, “The mortals of the A Ding Stronghold have not cultivated much. If the general chooses servants, they will have a lot of inconvenience in going up and down Lion Camel Ridge.”

“This is easy.” Chen Xun smiled faintly. He stood at the stronghold and watched the mountain. After a while, he slapped out a spirit sword from his bag of holding. In an instant, it turned into dozens of strands of sword qi that sliced through the middle of the mountain. Without using half a cup of tea, it carved out more than two thousand stone steps between the steep cliffs, forming a stone path connecting the middle of the mountain.

While Zhao Xun and Yang Chunmu were stunned, Chen Xun brandished his sword qi and pulled a huge rock from the cliff peak of Lion Camel Ridge.

Chen Xun pointed at the boulder that had fallen from the top of the mountain and said to Chi Hai, “Bring that boulder over to that long stream as a bridge …”

“Alright!” Chi Hai’s figure became blurry. When he reappeared, the wings of his bones that were surging with demonic runes stretched out for sixty to seventy feet. He soared into the air and faced the huge rock that weighed more than ten thousand feet. He steadily carried it on his back and flew to the deep stream at the foot of the mountain, placing it on the deep stream as a bridge.

In this way, the road to Lion Camel Ridge would be cleared.

Zhao Lu and Yang Chun didn’t expect that the sharp-mouthed Sui Hu beside General Du Wei was actually transformed by a Six-clawed Winged Demon and was stunned.

Zhao Lu was a little better, after all, his knowledge was a little shallow. Yang Chun couldn’t help but be shocked in his heart. This Sui Hu, who saw the beautiful woman in Xuanjing, couldn’t help but drool. He was actually transformed by a Transformed Heavenly Yao?

Chen Xun also wanted to see what realm the Giant Force Technique Chi Hai cultivated had reached. He didn’t expect that he would directly return to his original form and carry a huge rock on his back. He could only helplessly laugh. He only hoped that he wouldn’t frighten those Li Nong at the foot of the mountain.