Cultivation Rights
He didn't know that many low-level cultivators in the Mortal Realm had always had this problem: many things weren't worth exchanging for a Spirit Stone, but they couldn't cut Spirit Stone, so they often had no choice but to scrape together what they could from others, which easily led to problems.
Therefore, many low-level cultivators often find it difficult to make purchases.
The Spirit Bead from Xiushui City was practically tailor-made for them, low-level cultivators.
This unintentionally earned Xiushui City a wave of goodwill among the lower-level cultivators, since no one in the entire Mortal Realm had noticed this matter or tried to resolve it for many years.
However, Xiushui City, with Spirit Transformation Stage expert in charge, easily provided a solution by creating Spirit Bead that was so convenient for their low-level cultivators.
Xiushui City has now become a sacred place in the hearts of almost all Rogue Cultivator in the Mortal Realm.
Here they can find jobs that earn Spirit Bead, buy very cheap Cultivation Resources, and don't have to worry about being robbed or killed in the city.
Even many Rogue Cultivator from various regions who had carefully considered not relocating to Xiushui City and settling there had gained numerous opportunities to work and earn Spirit Stone from various sects and royal families due to the prosperity and development of Xiushui City.
In the new year, even the cultivators who were confined in the Cage Compound, who could only clear land, farm, and refine things every day, were given a holiday. Even the Spiritual Qi in the Cage Compound recovered briefly during these few days of holiday.
This surprised the cultivators who were prisoners. They hadn't expected that Yuan Jinsheng, who seemed so domineering, would not only give them leave, but also allow them to recover their Spiritual Qi.
Suddenly, these cultivators no longer felt as resistant to the Cage Compound or even Xiushui City as they had at the beginning.
In particular, many low-level cultivators suddenly felt that working here was quite good. They were paid according to the amount of work they did each day. Although it wasn't much, the pay they received when working at Myriad Connections before wasn't much either, and they were also exploited and bossed around by their superiors.
Unlike in Xiushui City, in this Cage Compound a type of monastery), what superiors? What high-level cultivators? At most, they're just faster during land reclamation. Once back in Cage Compound, what can you do with them anyway?
Even the recovery of Spiritual Qi these past few days has been limited to the area within their respective houses; once they leave their dwellings, the energy disappears. Moreover, each person's room is protected by a restriction, preventing others from entering.
Clearly, the purpose of the Cage Compound was to prevent them from gathering in large groups and to avoid any possibility of trouble.
As for the high-level cultivators, they clearly looked down on the meager rewards offered by the Lingxian Sect. Now they were under someone else's roof and had no choice but to bow their heads. They were still constantly thinking about how the Immortal Cultivation Realm would discover something was wrong and send someone to rescue them in a few years.
Therefore, once the annual leave was over, most of the monks in Cage Compound did not suffer from the post-holiday slackness; on the contrary, they worked even harder.
As the year went by, they increasingly felt that staying here wasn't so bad, if this place could provide them with a long-term, stable environment for Spiritual Qi cultivation instead of the intermittent interruptions in Spiritual Qi they were experiencing now.
The vast expanse of deep forests behind the North Mountain Range has long since been transformed into fertile farmland thanks to the cultivation, irrigation, and maintenance efforts of so many cultivators.
Beyond that, there was still an endless expanse of mountains and forests. However, after looking at the land, the Spirit Field Group felt that this amount of land was enough for the time being, as any more would exceed the maximum range of their protective barrier.
The farmland and the city share the protective barrier of Xiushui City. Although the protective barrier of Xiushui City covers a large area, it is still finite.
So after completing their task of reclaiming the wasteland, the monks of Cage Compound changed their job to farming.
More than 10,000 people was really too many. If the Spirit Field Group sent people to teach them farming one by one, it would take an unknown amount of time and effort. So in the end, Yuan Jinsheng simply printed a bunch of farming manuals produced by the Spirit Field Group and gave one to each of these informant cultivators.
"These manuals won't cost you Spirit Stone. I hope you can study them well and cultivate diligently. From now on, your wages will be linked to the yield and quality of the spirit fields you cultivate," Yuan Jinsheng said to the more than 10,000 informant cultivators who had gathered in the square of Cage Compound, arms crossed.
The monks who had just received their farming manuals all began flipping through the booklets in their hands.
Yuan Jinsheng continued, "Each person only gets one copy. If it gets lost or damaged, you're on your own. The purchase standards and corresponding prices for Spirit Valley are all in there. These prices are almost the same as those outside. Whether you want to earn these Spirit Stone is up to you."
"Whoever cultivates those spirit fields outside is responsible for them. The tokens we gave you are the jade tokens that enchant your respective spirit fields; no one can take away the fields you've cultivated."
In other words, the amount of land they develop before will determine the amount of land they can produce in the future.
Hearing this, many cultivators who had worked diligently before were excited, especially the lower-level cultivators.
They had already glanced through the booklet in their hands. If the purchase prices were calculated according to those prices, they could make a lot of money from their land, as long as the harvest wasn't too bad!
Isn't this much better than being a spy, running around in all kinds of weather? You only get a fixed salary, and you rarely get a bonus, plus you have to suck up to your boss.
If I could cultivate all those fields I've cultivated properly in the future, wow, that would be amazing!
Many of the clerks with their eyeliners have already begun to dream about their future happy lives.
Seeing their overjoyed expressions, and a few others still looking disdainful, Yuan Jinsheng said in a harsh and gruff voice, "But don't think that just because you've been given the right to cultivate that land, you can do whatever you want with it. If we find someone abandoning their land and not cultivating it properly, we will immediately distribute that person's land to other diligent and good farmers."
"Those who have no land to cultivate also have no right to leave!"
Upon hearing this, even the Golden Core cultivators among these practitioners did not utter a word of protest.
Having been here for a year, they already know what the consequences of resistance will be, and they have long been accustomed to obedience. After all, the first thing most newcomers learned at Myriad Connections was to obey.
They instinctively gripped their own jade tokens tightly, for these would be their means of survival here from now on.
Those cultivators who had been sent back to the Cage Compound for various reasons of laziness or violations showed expressions of resentment and regret.
I shouldn't have resorted to such underhanded tactics!