Although the oxcart was slow and the road was difficult to travel.
But Ling Yi and his group traveled without stopping and, after more than a day, they were close to North Ye Cheng.
By this time, the number of pedestrians and vehicles on the road had gradually increased.
Most of them were heading to North Ye Cheng to participate in the Immortal Affinity Assembly.
With the Sun and Moon Empire's deliberate promotion, news of the Immortal Affinity Assembly has spread throughout the entire empire in just a few days.
Even ordinary people were discussing the Immortal Affinity Assembly and the affairs of the Heavenly Sword Sect.
Almost everyone with any ambition was rushing to North Ye Cheng.
The Immortal Affinity Assembly has no identity restrictions and does not require participation in any combat tests.
As long as the Immortal Affinity Stone detects Spiritual Root, one can join Immortal Gate.
This is quite Gravity.
This is true not only for North Ye Cheng, but for all prefecture-level cities.
Ling Yi stood on the carriage shaft.
I stretched.
Wow, there are so many people!
All around, in front, behind, and to the sides, were convoys of vehicles traveling.
The wealthy have large convoys and many guards.
Those who had no money sometimes shared a dilapidated oxcart.
Of course, most people walk.
In ancient times, ordinary people couldn't afford a cart, especially an oxcart with a closed carriage, which was only used to transport people.
Yes, almost all of them were oxcarts.
Occasionally, a few donkey carts would be mixed in with the others.
This world, or rather, the Sun and Moon Empire, has no shortage of cows.
The main reason is that the emperor of the Sun and Moon Empire issued a decree on cattle breeding ten years ago.
Ten years ago, the number of cattle used for plowing in the Sun and Moon Empire was extremely small.
Many farmers even have to use people to haul the land for farming.
The Sun and Moon Empire then issued this cattle-raising decree, and the government officially bred a batch of Xiaoniu.
Then the allocation was distributed by village and by household.
Raising one head of cattle exempts you from 30% of the grain tax that year; raising three head of cattle exempts you from all the grain tax that year.
The premise is that you have to keep them alive; if they die, you will be punished.
In less than five years, cattle began to proliferate in the Sun and Moon Empire.
Although cows only eat grass, they have big bellies and eat a lot.
West City in excess is harmful.
In many places, the grass has been completely eaten by cows.
Local officials, however, only knew how to increase the number of cattle in order to meet their performance targets.
The grass was gone, and they even started feeding the animals with unripe crops and grains directly.
With more cattle, life became even harder for ordinary people.
In the fourth year, a cattle famine occurred, shocking the entire Sun and Moon Empire.
There is a county with a population of over three million. The county governor required every household to raise at least five cows in order to support cattle farming.
And it cannot be allowed to die.
Anyone whose cow dies will be severely punished.
But the grass in the field was eaten up, and the unripe crops were also destroyed.
With so little grain stored at home, how can we possibly raise cattle?
In a county with a population of over three million, the number of cattle reached one million that year.
In the same year, out of a population of three million, more than one million starved to death.
This incident shocked the government and the public.
Only then did the emperor rescind the decree to allow cattle to be raised.
Five years later, the overpopulation of cattle finally subsided.
Although cattle are no longer abundant, they have indeed become the most common and frequently used domestic animal in the Sun and Moon Empire.
The Sun and Moon Empire, also known as the Cow Country by other countries, has another name for it.
The closer they got to North Ye Cheng, the more convoys there were.
This has even caused traffic jams for oxcarts.
It was already evening.
Only a tiny sliver of the setting sun remained visible.
It had already gotten dark.
Ling Yi sighed, "Who would have thought that traffic jams existed in ancient times!"
He turned and crawled back into the carriage.
Inside the carriage, Ling Shuang —well, I don't know her name anyway.
The woman was unwilling to talk about it.
Let's just use the name Ling Yi gave us, Ling Shuang.
Ling Shuang was still Meditation.
However, there was no Spiritual Power flowing through his body, nor any special effects of cultivation.
I wonder what Ling Shuang is cultivating through her daily Meditation.
"There's a traffic jam; we probably won't be able to get into the city today," Ling Yi said.
"Should we fly in tonight?"
"No need!" Ling Shuang said without even opening her eyes.
"Fine!" Ling Yi shrugged indifferently.
There's no rush to give it to him anyway.
He paused, then asked, "Is it absolutely necessary to join the Heavenly Sword Sect?"
"Yes, the Heavenly Sword Sect has what I need."
"Is this the Heavenly Sword Sect Sect's most prized treasure? They guard it very closely?" Ling Yi, Bored, continued to ramble.
Let's try to get some information out of each other.
Ling Shuang looked up at Ling Yi: "How did you know?"
Ling Yi shrugged. "Is that so hard to guess?"
"Novels, cough cough, aren't those picture books all written like this?"
Ling Shuang closed her eyes again.
The voice was cold and clear. "Be careful tonight."
"Hmm? Something's up?"
" Blood Tower Assassin!"
Ling Yi couldn't help but think of the two men in black who had been riddled with bullets the night before.
"However, you need not worry, your Heaven-Devouring Art is precisely the nemesis of the Blood Tower assassins."
"What do you mean?" Ling Yi asked.
" The Blood Tower assassins cultivate the Blood Yuan Art, a cultivation method that requires no Spiritual Root and focuses solely on cultivating Qi and Blood."
"This technique can continuously refine and improve the purity of Qi and Blood and Qi and Blood, and then use the Qi and Blood to replenish oneself."
"Isn't that amazing?" Ling Yi asked.
No Spiritual Root is required, which means that ordinary people can also cultivate.
This technique is pretty amazing!
Ling Shuang remained motionless and calmly said, "However, the Blood Yuan Art has a fatal flaw."
"It has a very high demand for Qi and Blood."
"In the early stages, you need to take one Qi and Blood Pill every month; later on, you need to take one Qi and Blood Pill every day."
"If you stop taking the Qi and Blood Pill, your cultivation level will rapidly decline, your Qi and Blood will dissipate, and you will become an ordinary person with depleted Qi and Blood."
"This Qi and Blood Pill sounds rather unreliable!" Ling Yi said.
"One Qi and Blood Pill is equivalent to a human life."
He's definitely not very serious.
Why does it have to be a human life?
"Because the human body possesses the most abundant Spiritual Essence, Spiritual Essence is the key to refining the Qi and Blood Pill."
"You mean, ordinary people aren't enough; it has to be a cultivator?"
According to the memories of the Heaven-Devouring Art, it seems that only those with Spiritual Root possess Spiritual Essence.
The better the Spiritual Root, the stronger the Spiritual Essence.
Who told you that?
"Um, isn't it only people with Spiritual Root who possess Spiritual Essence?"
Ling Shuang opened her eyes again and said, "Ordinary people also have Spiritual Root, but their Spiritual Root are relatively weak."
I see.
Ling Yi said that his knowledge of cultivation had increased again.
"And your Heaven-Devouring Art is precisely the nemesis of these Blood Tower assassins."
" Blood Spiritual Power has an absolute suppressive effect on their Qi and Blood and qi."
"And!" Ling Shuang paused here.
"Each Blood Tower assassin is a great tonic for you, capable of rapidly raising your cultivation level."
Ling Yi nodded, but she still felt uncomfortable with this claim of being highly nourishing.
Ling Yi, after all, was born nine years ago.
There is a certain degree of reverence and a bottom line when it comes to human life.
But Ling Yi also knew that he had to go through these things and adapt to them.
Otherwise, when I enter the Immortal Cultivation Realm in the future, will I become Ma Liya?
"Why aren't you making a move? With your strength, dealing with those Blood Tower assassins should be a simple matter, right?"