"Treating evil sui as cattle and sheep, Qingzhou as a pasture, and the common people as grass to be harvested, they enact the severest of laws."
Li Tianqing said in a low voice, "When the common people break the penal laws, the evil sui devour them, and they refine the evil sui into medicinal fertilizer. This medicinal fertilizer cultivates spiritual herbs, and as the spiritual herbs mature, they prolong lifespans. Qingzhou's prime model of benevolence—they truly are the greatest benevolent benefactors of all."
Grief and righteous indignation boiled inexplicably within his heart.
The heavens and earth of the Western Ox Continent were flawed, causing cultivators to only increase their cultivation base when breaking through realms rather than extending their lifespans.
Spirit pills and potent medicines had very limited effects on increasing lifespan.
Thus, this sort of business came into being: using ordinary people to feed evil sui. The evil sui devoured the vital energy and souls of ordinary people, gathered it up, and transformed it into fertilizer that spiritual herbs could absorb.
They refined this fertilizer from the bodies of evil sui to use as top-dressing for the spiritual herbs.
Chen Shi looked thoughtful and said, "Only by eating people can one become a person above others. But eating people is too slow, and it damages one's karmic virtue. It's better to let evil sui eat people, spiritual herbs eat evil sui, and the people above others eat the spiritual herbs. That way is much faster."
Li Tianqing looked toward those sentient spiritual herbs in the spiritual nursery and asked, "How do they extract the medicinal fertilizer?"
Luan Disheng said, "For evil sui with physical forms, we use this needle to extract their heart's blood. For those without physical forms, we use this precious gourd to draw out the vital