329 If you don't learn the tiger's teachings, you won't get the tiger cubs. They pretend to be pigs to eat tigers.
The appearance of fake spiritual roots is not surprising, but what is strange is that they appear in large numbers in a village inhabited by mortals.
Xuanlin Village is a large village with a large population. It can be considered a town in other places.
The price of the lowest grade pseudo spiritual root in the Qi Refining Stage ranges from one hundred to five hundred high-grade spirit stones, and the main price is determined by the purity of the pseudo spiritual root.
Even if these mortals were using the cheapest pseudo-spiritual roots, Chu Linfeng roughly calculated that there were hundreds of villagers they could see alone, which meant that at least tens of thousands of high-quality spirit stones were spent.
It’s not that they look down on mortals, but high-grade spirit stones are common in immortal sects, but they are rare items for some small and medium-sized sects. Mortals have rarely seen even mid-grade spirit stones, so how can they come up with so many high-grade spirit stones?
"There's a problem..." Chu Linfeng stroked his non-existent goatee in a mysterious manner, looking old-fashioned.
"Among the fake spiritual root production, operation and sales qualifications issued by the Great Zhou Dynasty, the one with the best sales and reputation is Kesiyunlai Trading Company. Fifth Junior Brother, do you have any idea?" Ning Yao asked.
Chu Linfeng shook his head: "I haven't heard from my family that there are so many orders for fake spiritual roots. Look at those old men, they are not young anymore, and they have also reached the Qi Refining Stage..." Chu Linfeng specifically looked for Jiang Xin to confirm, "Junior Sister, are you sure that everyone in this village has fake spiritual roots?"
Jiang Xin raised her head and looked carefully at the village not far away, then nodded.
Chu Linfeng continued, "That's even weirder. Implanting a pseudo-spiritual root requires a very high level of physical fitness in the recipient, usually between five and fifteen years old. Generally, after the age of twenty, because it becomes more difficult to draw Qi into the body, many people's pseudo-spiritual roots will fail to fuse."
He pointed at the gray-haired old men he had mentioned earlier and said, "If these old men were implanted with fake spiritual roots when they were young, and those children were implanted with fake spiritual roots recently, then this is a big business that will last for decades. It is impossible for our family to not care about it at all. All the fake spiritual roots sold must be reconciled with the court."
"Maybe they bought it from other channels?" Ren Yuan guessed.
Chu Linfeng: "All the fake spiritual roots that can be purchased through regular channels on the market are produced and operated by our family."
"Aren't there other businesses selling fake spiritual roots?" Wen Ziqi asked.
Chu Linfeng: "That's a branch of our company that was secretly opened."
Wen Ziqi: "Does your family have a monopoly?"
Chu Linfeng corrected him righteously: "This is called the trust of the court. After all, our family only makes money, so we know what we can and cannot do. If the license is issued to other people who don't know the depths of the matter, what if they want to mass-produce fake spiritual roots and learn the cult's high bloody sacrifices?"
"Could they have bought these spiritual roots on the black market?" Wen Ziqi asked again.
Chu Linfeng: "At least 70% of the fake spiritual roots on the black market also come from our family."
Wen Ziqi: "...what about the other 30%?"
"Among the other 30%, some are from evil cultivators, and some are secretly made by major forces." Seeing Wen Ziqi's contemptuous look, Chu Linfeng emphasized, "The fake spiritual roots that our family sells to the black market are to grab market share. Otherwise, if evil cultivators and people with bad intentions occupy the black market, what if they get a taste of the sweetness and can't stop, and cause a tragedy?"
Although everyone in the spiritual world knows that Ke Si Yun Lai is a wicked person, to some extent, Ke Si Yun Lai's reputation has always been good.
Now, after listening to Chu Linfeng's confident words, Wen Ziqi finally understood where this sense of contrast came from.
It seems that this group of evil hearts still has a bit of conscience.
"So many fake spiritual roots are a considerable expense, and implanting fake spiritual roots also requires a lot of spiritual power. Generally, no one is willing to do this unless they are close relatives. Most of the fake spiritual roots in Xuanlin Village are of ill-gotten origin, and the cultivators who implanted fake spiritual roots for the villagers probably also have ulterior motives." Ning Yao speculated.
"Could it be that a villager accidentally became a Jindan cultivator and became the hope of the entire village, so he saved up a large amount of spirit stones to benefit the villagers?" Ren Yuan thought naively.
Lin Yan thought it was unlikely: "It is true that only after reaching the Jindan stage can pseudo spiritual roots be implanted in people, but implanting pseudo spiritual roots for so many villagers is extremely time-consuming and will likely damage their roots. The simple relationship between the villagers is not enough to make people make such a big sacrifice."
Zhao Shi, who rarely speaks in public, also feels that something is wrong: "In addition, the spiritual energy here is very weak. If we simply help people implant fake spiritual roots, it will not have any effect on the spiritual energy here."
Ana Shen took a deep breath, still without such a feeling: “Why are only the two of you able to sense that there is something wrong with the aura here?”
Zhao Shi and Ren Yuan looked at each other and no one said anything. They didn't know the reason either.
Wu Xin guessed, "Perhaps it's because both of their bloodlines come from Immortal Venerable Mingchen. Today's Tiancheng Spirit World is the world created by the Immortal Venerable. The Moon Clan's bloodline and the snowman of Kunlun Palace were both created by the Immortal Venerable. Therefore, they have a stronger affinity with this world and have a natural resistance to things like pseudo-spiritual roots that don't exist."
"Yes, yes." It was a rare opportunity for Jiang Xin to hear something she could understand during the break from eating. She nodded her head and tried hard to fit in with the group.
With her words, the matter seemed to have been settled and everyone stopped worrying about it.
Lin Yan looked at the rapidly spinning Bagua plate in his hand. The Kun hexagram lit up brightly, and the Qian hexagram flickered slightly. He said thoughtfully, "Why don't we go take a look?"
Shen Muse looked at the dazzling Kun hexagram and felt a little timid: "Second Brother, I remember you said that Kun represents the earth and represents death. Do you think it is appropriate for us to go with this hexagram?"
Lin Yan motioned him to rest assured: "The Qian hexagram is also lit."
Shen Musi flattened her mouth: “It’s also miserable to be reborn after being put to death.”
"This doesn't mean you have to risk your life to survive, but it means that this place is full of death, but it also hides vitality. I don't have a strong premonition of death, so it shouldn't be a big problem." After saying that, Lin Yan looked at Jiang Xin specifically.
He was not sure whether the death energy shown in the hexagram referred to the villagers' false spiritual roots or the villagers' approaching death, so he wanted to get some hint from Jiang Xin.
However, Jiang Xin was obsessed with the spirit stone and didn't hear these words. She was only thinking about how delicious the Edelweiss was and how she wanted to ask Second Uncle for another one next time.
Given the little girl's personality, if this place was really extremely dangerous, she would have been complaining in her heart a long time ago.
Ning Yao has a lot of mission experience and suggested: "We'd better find an excuse to sneak into the village."
"Since the biggest problem here is the fake spiritual roots, why not start with that?" Wu Xin said, and when he saw that no one objected, he told everyone his plan one by one.
He was very smart and in just a moment he came up with a perfect idea.
Everyone had no objection, and they all reduced their cultivation to the Qi Refining Stage as he said, changed into ordinary low-level robes, and walked towards Xuanlin Village carrying Jiang Xin, who had no cultivation at all.
Without training, one cannot get a tiger cub. Now they are pretending to be pigs to eat the tiger!
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