Sometimes, when they encountered fierce persons committing violence within the city, the City Lord's Mansion also had the duty to apprehend them. If they ran into someone ruthless and vicious, the entire force being wiped out was a common occurrence.
In Red Kite, the cost of maintaining order had always been extremely high.
2. Spirit Fields.
Of the eighty thousand qing of Spirit Fields outside the city, forty thousand had been opened up by experts of the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect when Guiling City was founded and had always belonged to the City Lord's Mansion. The remaining forty thousand had been opened up by later generations and were their private property.
The Spirit Fields mainly grew Spirit Rice. Since Guiling City's tribute cycle was five years, the primary crop planted was also the first-rank Spirit Rice that matured once every two and a half years—[Azure Essence Rice]!
That was just enough to grow two harvests. Selling them to Gold Abundance Pavilion's branch in the city could earn a million Spirit Stones in five years. If costs such as seeds, human power, and fertilizer were included, the net profit was around eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
Although he had cleared out the City Lord's Mansion, there were still three thousand spirit farmers at the early Qi Refining stage outside the city. The three great families had quite a few spirit farmers in this aspect as well, but because their combat strength was worrying, they basically did not count as cultivator fighting power.
Among them were also many people from the Tuoba Family, as well as survivors who had not been in the City Lord's Mansion when the incident happened.
Wang Yu had once given the order for extermination of the clan. If the Bai Clan knew what was good for them,