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The sun and the moon go by, and five years pass by in the blink of an eye.
Eternal Life Martial Sect.
Han Yu hesitated for a moment, then pushed open the wooden door on the top floor of Star-Picking Tower, holding three thick kitchen account books in his hand.
Lu Chang'an followed her, scratching the back of her head, with a bit of embarrassment on her usually fearless face.
Su Yueli was sitting on a wooden chair by the window drinking tea when he heard footsteps and raised his eyes to look at the two eldest disciples.
"With a sad face early in the morning, who owes you money?" Su Yueli asked, putting down his tea bowl.
Lu Chang'an stepped forward and shook his head quickly. "Master, no one owes us money, it's just that we are running out of food."
Han Yu walked over, spread the three account books on the wooden table in front of Su Yueli, pointed to the lines of charcoal writing on them and reported, "Master, in the past five years, we Azure Cloud City have gathered 100,000 refugees, and the number of martial arts disciples officially entered into the sect's roster has reached 3,000. This is a good thing, but the food and meat reserves in the kitchen have bottomed out."
Han Yu feels a little worried.
In the past, when there were only fifty people in the sect, they could eat just a few wild animals and buy some coarse grains.
There are now three thousand young martial artists, each of whom practices boxing and iron fighting from morning to night every day. Qi and Blood consumes a lot of energy and eats more than five times more than an ordinary strong man.
Lu Chang'an was counting the accounts with his fingers beside him. "Master, you don't know how good these guys are! Three thousand people will eat 10,000 kilograms of white flour and three thousand kilograms of animal meat for just one breakfast."
"Three meals a day, 30,000 kilograms of grain and 5,000 kilograms of fine meat are not even visible. In the past few years, the spiritual rice and bacon saved by the Canghai Sword Sect branch and several immortal cultivating families in the city were confiscated. According to the current eating method, it will last for fifteen days at most."
The foundation of martial arts practice is Qi and Blood, and Qi and Blood is completely supplemented by whole grains and flesh and blood medicine.
Once meat is cut off, the disciples' high-intensity boxing exercises every day will directly deplete their bodies. Within ten days and a half, all three thousand disciples will be useless.
Han Yu grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist, his eyes were cold, and he had murderous thoughts in his heart. "Master, Azure Cloud Province is surrounded by several large immortal cultivators who are attached to the Immortal Sect. There must be a lot of spirit valleys and captive spirit beasts stored in their warehouses."
"Why don't I, disciple, take Li Meng and the others out for a walk tonight and rob some of their houses? It will be enough for us to live for another year."
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Yueli raised his right hand and tapped Han Yu's forehead lightly with his finger.
"Ouch." Han Yu covered his forehead and shrank his neck back. The fierce energy just now disappeared instantly.
Lu Chang'an was snickering next to him, but when Su Yueli glanced over at him, he immediately shut his mouth and stood up straight.
"Robbing one family can last for a year, robbing ten families can last for ten years, but what about ten years later?"
Su Yueli picked up the tea bowl and took another sip, and said in a calm tone, "We Eternal Life Martial Sect are going to take root in this land for hundreds of thousands of years and live by looting. That is the way of bandits and bandits, and it will not become a climate."
"Three thousand mouths need to eat, and then it becomes thirty thousand mouths, or three hundred thousand mouths. Is it all up to you two to grab it with swords?"
Su Yueli knows very well that the reason why the Immortal Cultivation Sect has been able to rule this world for thousands of years is because they have mastered Spirit Field, the mineral veins and complete production routes.
Han Yu and Lu Chang'an Although Martial Dao is extremely talented, he came from a poor background and has not yet learned how to lead a family life.
When you train a disciple, you can't just teach them how to kill, you also have to teach them how to revitalize the foundation of the sect.
However, although she still has some Spirit Stone in her hands,...
As the number of disciples increases, it is almost impossible to get out, and sooner or later you will have nothing to gain.
At this time, Han Yu put down the hand covering his forehead and lowered his head with some shame. "Disciple thinks it's easy, but the wasteland outside the city has just been reclaimed, the food will not be harvested until autumn, and the meat is not available. We cannot let the junior brothers drink from the northwest wind."
Su Yueli stood up and walked to the wall, took down the Azure Cloud Province cowhide map hanging on the wall, and spread it on the table.
She stretched out her index finger and pointed at a mountain range eighty miles west of Azure Cloud City.
"This is Blackwind Ridge."
Su Yueli said, "There are no big monsters in the mountains, but there are a large group of the Second Realm Demon Beast Bloodfang Wild Boar, numbering no less than two thousand."
Lu Chang'an's eyes lit up, he patted his chest and said, "Bloodfang Wild Boar That's great! That beast is full of tendon meat, Qi and Blood is strong, and an adult wild boar weighs eight hundred kilograms!"
"Master, I will take people into the mountains right now, kill all these wild boars, bring them back and marinate them into bacon!"
Su Yueli glanced at Lu Chang'an and secretly sighed in his mind that this silly boy could only smash him to death or kill him.
"Slaughter them all. After this meal, what will you eat next month?"
Su Yueli directly denied. "Bloodfang Wild Boar can give birth to more than a dozen piglets in one litter, and they can be slaughtered in half a year. Moreover, they are not picky about food, and their fur is tough and can be made into armor for low-level disciples. What I mean is, don't kill them all, capture them alive and raise them."
"Capture alive?"
Lu Chang'an was stunned. "Master, that Bloodfang Wild Boar has a very bad temper. His two fangs can directly pierce a cast iron shield. When he goes crazy, even Second Realm's peak warrior can't hold him down. How can he be captured alive?"
"If you can't hold it down, it's because you are incompetent."
Su Yueli sat back on the chair and started assigning errands directly. "Lu Chang'an, you bring Li Meng and two hundred Second Realm and Third Realm disciples into Blackwind Ridge. You are not allowed to bring heavy hammers and spears. You are only allowed to bring thick hemp ropes, iron nets and wooden sticks."
"Within ten days, I want to see at least eighty lively Bloodfang Wild Boar entering the city, both male and female, especially sows and piglets."
Lu Chang'an replied with a grimace, "Disciple, take the order."
Su Yueli then turned to Han Yu: "You stay outside the city, take Zhou Tie and the craftsman camp, enclose a hundred acres of land on the riverbank west of the city, build a fence with three-foot-thick Bluestone boards, and build a large animal pen."
"Go and tell Gu Qinghe to come up with a feed formula and use the waste residue left over from Alchemy Chamber's daily medicine. This will not only make the wild boars grow faster, but also smooth out their manic and wild nature."
Han Yu immediately understood the master's intention and his eyes lit up.
If Bloodfang Wild Boar can be successfully raised in captivity, Eternal Life Martial Sect will have a steady source of Demon Beast meat in the future, and they will no longer have to worry about meat!
"Disciple, let's do it now!" Han Yu simply turned around with his fists clasped.
Watching the two apprentices walk out of the hall in a hurry, Su Yueli picked up the slightly cold tea again.
During the thousands of years she spent in seclusion, she was used to the behavior of powerful cultivators who ate the wind and drank the dew, but did not eat the fireworks of the world.
But she herself has come step by step from a mortal, and she always feels that steaming meals, livestock running all over the mountains, and the clanking blacksmith shop are the real down-to-earth days.
Han Yu and Lu Chang'an walked down Star-Picking Tower, and happened to meet Li Meng and Gu Qinghe running over with sweat on their heads.
"Senior Sister Han, Senior Brother Lu, what did Master say?"
Li Meng asked eagerly, "This morning, the boys from Camp Third Realm finished practicing punching five hundred times. When they went to the kitchen, they found that half of the meat in the broth was missing. Everyone was complaining that they were hungry, and they almost quarreled with the kitchen steward."
Lu Chang'an patted Li Meng on the shoulder and told Su Yueli how to go to Blackwind Ridge to capture Bloodfang Wild Boar alive.
When Li Meng heard that he was going into the mountains to catch live pigs, his eyes suddenly lit up. "It's great to catch live pigs! It can help the junior brothers practice their coordination without Spirit Stone going to other states to see the faces of those merchants who cultivate immortality!"
He was about to set off. "I'm going to pick two hundred brothers with quick hands and feet and strong strength, and then dig out all the thick hemp ropes and Refined Iron fishing nets in the warehouse!"
Han Yu turned to look at Gu Qinghe: "Qinghe, Master will leave it to you and me to select the location of the animal pen and the feed formula. What are the regulations you have there?"
Gu Qinghe thought for a while and said seriously, "Bloodfang Wild Boar is a second-order Demon Beast. I am used to eating poisonous insects and tubers with Blood Qi in the mountains. I will definitely go on a hunger strike or hit a wall when I first put it in a cage."
"I have to go back to Alchemy Chamber first, sort and sift out the three thousand kilograms of second-level Bone Forging Decoction medicine residue that I have saved in the past few days, and then go to the grain store in the city to collect a batch of aged wheat bran and tartary buckwheat."
"Senior Sister Han, when you lead people to build the animal pens, remember to dig a sewage ditch under each stone circle, leading directly to the retting pond outside. The pig manure is a good thing for fertilizing the fields, so don't waste it at all."
"Okay, I'll do as you say." Han Yu nodded in agreement, and they immediately split up without further delay.
In less than half an hour, the west gate of Azure Cloud City opened wide.
Just in case, Lu Chang'an carried his Dark Iron Sledgehammer on his back, followed by Li Meng and two hundred strong young disciples.
The disciples carried on their shoulders Refined Iron fishing nets that had been knitted overnight, arm-thick oil-soaked hemp ropes and solid hardwood sticks, and shouted all the way towards Blackwind Ridge.