Big Vine Mountain.
Lu Haochu, Zhao Si and a Jindan elder from Shangqing Palace arrived here again by helicopter, preparing for the fifth meeting.
"Old Lu, how long will the negotiations last?" Zhao Si asked.
"Talks are over." Lu Haochu paused and lowered his voice and said, "At present, we both know what the other side wants, but both sides are unwilling to make more concessions. In my experience, it will either be a stalemate for a long time, or suddenly a fight will break out."
Although both parties did not talk about the death incident due to practicing Changchun Gong from beginning to end, every sentence they spoke was about this incident.
Negotiations are always useful. The death toll is gradually decreasing with their negotiations. Now no one has died from practicing. This period of time made Lu Haochu feel like he was back to five years ago, when the government had a series of negotiations with the practitioners, including how to persuade the other party to maintain the legal order on the surface.
For example, not all mortals are good people, and monks cannot put a sign on their heads telling others not to mess with them. It is inevitable that some deadbeats will blame the monks, and then the monks will kill them, leading to a series of vicious incidents.
At that time, the government needed to teach these powerful monks how to avoid dirtying their hands, how to go through legal channels, and even how to use the government. Instead of drawing their swords and killing people immediately when encountering problems, leaving after killing people, and finally having the government clean up their mess.
But now the situation is very different. It is no longer the government asking these cultivators for help, but an equal negotiation. However, the cultivators obviously did not adjust their attitude and still acted superior to the government.
It is true that the government no longer has overwhelming power, but it is no longer a soft persimmon that anyone can kick.
"Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that people in the temple will make concessions. It is said that someone suggested giving up the low-grade spirit vein."
"Fuck, this is too frustrating."
Zhao Si cursed inwardly, and said indignantly: "They killed our people and threatened us with murder, and we have to give in to them. Isn't this a loss of sovereignty and humiliation of the country?"
Although the government's promotion of the official version of the practice method has caused great controversy, even local practitioners do not support it. After all, it is in their own interests. If the people absorb more spiritual energy, they will absorb less. Too many practitioners will also weaken their special status from the side.
But Zhao Si, who became a monk halfway through his life and was influenced by Li Yi's education, did not think so. He even felt disgusted with the behavior of such vested interests.
Spiritual energy was originally created by heaven and earth, and all living things in heaven and earth have the right to absorb it. Let alone the fact that spiritual veins have physical existence in the territory, it is too much to monopolize something like spiritual energy, which is similar to air.
The most important thing is that this undoubtedly hinders Brother Yi's great cause of becoming a Taoist ancestor. He, Zhao Si, is determined to put the interests of the immortals at the center and will not waver!
"Damn it, if Brother Yi didn't want to get involved, they wouldn't have gotten to jump around."
Lu Haochu shook his head and said, "You are putting that person in a difficult position. Regardless of whether he wants to move or not, the spread of Changchun Gong is not only 700 million to 800 million people who have practiced it, but at least 10 million people have practiced it. With so many people spread across the region, who can protect them?"
"Moreover, Changchun Gong generally has a requirement for exemption from liability. Any problems in the practice cannot be attributed to the compiler, creator, or publisher."
The last sentence was just the government's own excuse, and Lu Haochu also thought it was nonsense. This series of events had nothing to do with immortals, but it was related to the government and the entire society.
This is not a simple death caused by promoting a practice, but a challenge by some people to the entire social order, and a purposeful and indiscriminate murder.
"It's so frustrating. It's so frustrating."
Zhao Si was still somewhat dissatisfied but he quickly controlled his emotions before approaching the negotiation site.
Although I am very disgusted with this shitty thing, I still have to live my life. There is no way to send these guys to hell now, I will settle the score with them later when he has the strength.
If I still don’t have that ability in the future, I will just report it to Brother Yi like crazy.
The negotiation site was still set up on an open space on the hillside. There was not even a decent table and chairs here. The two sides stood on the open space to exchange views with each other.
Taoist Xuantian had never studied any subjects related to modern diplomacy, and he obviously had no spirit for negotiation. He came up and said calmly as he had done the previous times: "Spiritual energy is the foundation of cultivators, and spiritual veins are the foundation of sects. Both are indispensable. If the government is willing to give us a few spiritual veins, our sect is willing to provide all possible help."
"I will be responsible for reporting this to the government." Lu Haochu smiled but didn't really smile. Then he listened to the voice in the headset and asked, "Regarding the recent death cases, we would like to entrust you to investigate. In modern society, human life is of paramount importance. Once someone dies, the nature of the death will change."
At first, Lu Haochu brought a negotiation expert with him, but because the expert was a mortal, the people in the sect simply didn't bother to talk to him. Often the atmosphere became stiff and the talks could not go on, so the negotiation expert had turned to behind-the-scenes command.
But even so, the atmosphere is still very tense because both sides have very few chips to offer.
The government still kept the spiritual vein red line, and could only add the number of spiritual stones but could not press the spiritual vein. The sect was clinging to the spiritual vein and would not waver no matter how many spiritual stones were added, which attracted some independent cultivators who were not involved in this incident to stand on the side of the government.
But the problem remains unsolved, and the damage to Changchun's reputation continues.
Taoist Xuantian closed his eyes slightly and muttered: "Spiritual energy is the foundation of cultivators, and spiritual veins are the foundation of sects."
Anyway, they have plenty of time, as long as the immortal doesn't say anything, they will not let go. And until now, the immortals in the world have not come forward, which shows that the immortals are on the side of them, the cultivators, and do not want to see the government completely monopolize the spiritual energy.
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