Fifty Buildings

It's obviously not feasible to recruit these informants to reclaim wasteland right now. They certainly don't have a clear understanding of their current situation and will inevitably still be waiting for Myriad Connections to come and rescue them. How could they possibly be willing to lower their heads and work now?

They will inevitably have to go through a process of coercion and inducement to adapt.

Lin Xiao entrusted this matter to the highly experienced senior Liao Pantu.

These informant monks, being prisoners, naturally couldn't be treated the same as the residents and visitors of Xiushui City; they didn't have much freedom.

Xiushui City has designated a special area for them to live in, located in the underground city of Xiushui City. It is not far from the Trade Affairs Center on the surface, but it is separated from the auction venue by a barrier, which they cannot cross at present.

It can be said that the residential area arranged by the Lingxian Sect for its spy cultivators is a secluded zone within the underground city.

However, this does not mean that they are imprisoned in this underground city. They can still go to the surface, but the only passage to the surface leads to the hundred acres of farmland in the Trade Center and the large area of barren mountains behind North Mountain.

Xiushui City had already isolated this area from other places with a barrier before they arrived.

Therefore, these spy cultivators could not see anyone except the disciples and followers sent by the Lingxian Sect to manage them, and they could not even think about secretly passing on any messages.

Their only destiny is to reclaim wasteland and cultivate the land.

Of course, they can also choose to resist or do nothing.

Unfortunately, Liao Pantu had already prepared a countermeasure.

In the first few days after the informant cultivators arrived in Xiushui City, they discovered that although it couldn't compare to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, it was indeed one of the most Spiritual Qi rich places in the Mortal Realm. Moreover, they didn't see anyone torturing or interrogating them; they were simply locked up in separate rooms in tall buildings.

These rooms don't really look like prison cells; they're all one-bedroom apartments, fully furnished with basic furniture like beds, tables, and chairs.

It's just a bit too dense. One high-rise building has twenty-five floors, with sixteen rooms on each floor, and there are fifty buildings in total.

All of them moved in, and there are still thirteen buildings empty.

The people guarding and managing these informant monks made them choose floors from low to high according to their cultivation level. This was because these buildings didn't have any staircases or similar structures; their doors were all directly on the building walls.

If we let people in the Qi Refining Stage live too high up, I'm worried they might not be fully awake and accidentally fall half to their death when they open the door.

After all, cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage cannot fly, and their physical strength is not strong enough to withstand a fall from a height of nearly 100 meters without injury.

It wouldn't be good to let these Qi Refining cultivators fall every time they go out, so the lower floors must be reserved for Qi Refining.

For the first few days, Liao Pantu simply locked people up here and didn't care. The spies initially thought these Mortal Realm cultivators were ridiculous, capturing so many of them and not keeping a close watch on them. So, Venerable Guijia took the lead in gathering everyone in a large open space in front of the fifty buildings.

He thought that no matter where they were, with so many cultivators, they could somehow manage to blow this place up and escape.

Then I can quickly return to headquarters and embellish what happened here, saying that the cultivators here colluded and that the Spirit Transformation cultivator came from who-knows-where, possibly from another force in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. That way, I can shift the blame and not only avoid any wrongdoing, but I might even gain some credit for bringing information out of the Spirit Transformation cultivator.

All the spies agreed with what Venerable Guijia said, clearly not believing that the barrier of the Mortal Realm could trap so many of them.

They were arrested before because they were caught off guard and their group was too scattered.

There are over ten thousand of them here now, including more than a thousand Golden Core Nascent Soul and Nascent Soul cultivators, and another ten thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators. Even if that Spirit Transformation cultivator came, they would have a fighting chance. With so many of them forming a formation, they could wear him down!

Unfortunately, ideals are often grand, but reality is often harsh.

When more than 10,000 of them tried to break the barrier around the area, they found it was impossible!

It wasn't that the combined power of their Law Technique wasn't enough to shatter the area barrier; rather, they simply didn't have the opportunity to cast Law Technique!

As soon as they began to mobilize their Spiritual Power to unleash attack Law Technique, all the Law Technique were instantly neutralized by an unknown force.

At the same time, a bolt of lightning as thick as a bucket will descend from the sky and strike each of them, blasting them to a crisp.

Although the lightning bolt didn't look very thick, its power was considerable; even Nascent Soul Cultivator was injured by it.

Those with keener observation were startled to discover that the power of the lightning that struck each of them seemed to be about the same as the power of the Law Technique they had just cast.

"Could this be... an attack-backlash type formation?" A knowledgeable person immediately pointed it out.

Without understanding this formation, any attacks they launch within it will be futile, unless they truly have masochistic tendencies.

Therefore, these informant monks began searching the entire region for a way to break the formation.

What they didn't know was that this was a built-in function of the entire Xiushui City. If they could break through and escape with their current level of skill, Lin Xiao's system might just activate its self-destruction program.

So they spent several days trying, but still had no clue.

Gradually, some people started to give up.

Anyway, the Spiritual Qi here is abundant, so I can just stay here and cultivate diligently while waiting for people from headquarters to come.

When it comes to giving up, once a small group of people start doing it, everyone else will eventually be dragged down with them.

After cultivating for about ten days, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the cultivation effects here were quite good.

Here, there are no distractions from various chores. They don't need to spend all day monitoring the situation in different places and relaying messages. Even if headquarters finds out, they can't be held responsible, because even the most powerful Venerable Guijia was captured and helpless. What can these lowly minions, whose cultivation hasn't even reached the Nascent Soul stage, do?

As the saying goes, if the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up.

Not to mention, the Spiritual Qi here is much denser than in other places, making it an excellent place for meditation and cultivation.

For a time, the atmosphere of cultivation in these fifty prison buildings was comparable to that of the Lingxian Sect's Cultivation Hall.

Unfortunately, things don't always go as planned; good times are rarely long-lasting.

Less than half a month later, these informant cultivators were astonished to find that there was no Spiritual Qi around them.

The Spiritual Qi here didn't gradually thin out; it just suddenly disappeared.