"Mingyu, it will be dark in three hours. Come eat with us, brother. You'll have to live in the woodshed from now on," Duan Mingyu's father said. "By the way, you can just call me Duan Tai from now on. We'll harvest loquats in two days. You'll work for a week, and after that, I'll give you one ounce of silver. Then you won't have to work anymore, and you'll be free."
The purchasing power of one or two taels of silver in Beixingzhou is only a little over one hundred when converted into the Alliance currency of Qingliu City, which is equivalent to twenty yuan a day. It is absolutely cheap labor. However, Duan Tai believes that Wang Xiaohai is an unemployed vagrant who is so poor that he is a thief. It is good enough for him to have a job. How can he be qualified to choose a high-paying and easy job?
Wang Xiaohai didn't care. He didn't care whether he got paid or not. He wasn't here to make money.
The father and daughter of the Duan family put down their weapons and walked into the house. The loquat tree was not far from their house, less than ten meters away. The nearby loquat forest of almost one acre belonged to the Duan father and daughter, as well as the black dog running around.
"Hello, my name is Duan Mingyu. What's your name?" the girl asked Wang Xiaohai.
"Wang Xiaohai."
"What does the sea look like?" asked the young girl Duan Mingyu. Although she had heard of the word, she had never actually seen it. Very few people in the entire country of Jietian had seen it. It was estimated that only the upper class had travelers who had been to the Jiehai.
She had heard that traveling by carriage from the foot of the mountain in Jietian Kingdom to Jiehai, traveling by day and resting at night, would take over twenty years, or fifty years round trip. This required enormous financial and material resources. A Jinwu Realm cultivator could travel much faster, completing the round trip in a month. However, all those at the Jinwu Realm had become generals or deputy generals in Jietian Kingdom. Who would tell a girl who hadn't even reached the Qingwu Realm about this? Jietian Kingdom had thirty prefectures, and their Jieguo Prefecture had twenty counties, but there was only one Jinwu Realm cultivator, the commander of the Jieguo Prefecture's garrison. A Jinwu Lesser Realm cultivator's primary responsibility was to suppress uprisings and rebellions.
"The sea is just a lot of salt water, so much so that most people can't see the end of it," Wang Xiaohai said. "But what does this have to do with my name? Your name is Mingyu. Are you made of jade?"
"You little bastard, you took advantage of me!" Duan Mingyu angrily opened the second-floor window, climbed in, and locked the door.
All the houses in Jie Tian Kingdom are like this, with their backs against Jie Tian Peak. Many carriages pass through the driveways behind the second or third floors of other people's houses.
Wang Xiaohai didn't understand how he had taken advantage of her. He was completely bewildered. What he didn't know was that a strange man calling a girl by her name was tantamount to molesting her, except for her family and relatives.
Wang Xiaohai walked towards the trapezoidal woodshed. From the outside, it looked like a right angle at the top and a hypotenuse at the bottom. He wondered if he would slip if he went to sleep in it. After walking in, Wang Xiaohai realized that he was wrong. The ground inside the house was also flat, having been dug flat during construction. Come to think of it, it made sense. The mountain is sloping, and no one would be so foolish as to build a house on the mountainside!
When I opened the door and went in, I saw the house was full of dried firewood piled up in piles, some big, some small, and in different shapes. It seemed that Duan Tai was a carefree person who didn't care about details.
Wang Xiaohai came to the door, sat on a thick log, took out the perfect martial arts secret book from his arms and opened it.
A white light came out of the secret book, directly penetrated and entered Wang Xiaohai's consciousness space, and turned into countless mysterious words floating around the little man representing martial arts, slowly rotating. Wang Xiaohai realized that this was a divine text, and hurriedly closed his eyes, blocking other surrounding sensations, allowing his spirit to enter the consciousness space - the little man with closed eyes suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes changed into strange symbols.
The symbol transformed from perfect martial arts melted and reorganized in Wang Xiaohai's consciousness space, trying to become a new character and blend into the colorful clothes on the little man.
The symbol of perfect martial arts was shattered the moment it hit Huayi, turning into countless light points, and then slowly gathered and changed - the first attempt failed!
The light spot of perfect martial arts slowly reorganized into another symbol, and tried again to rush into the blank space of Wang Xiaohai's colorful clothes, but failed again and shattered!
There is no sound and no sense of time in the space of consciousness. Wang Xiaohai quietly controls the light spots of martial arts to combine. Countless mysterious symbols emerge in his mind. Although he perceives most of the meanings, there are still a small part of the symbols that he does not quite understand. He is trying to combine the symbols that he does not understand to integrate the colorful clothes.
Fail again and again, try again and again, the hall of success needs many bricks of failure as steps.
When Wang Xiaohai tried it for the 99,999th time, although he failed, an epiphany suddenly came to his mind, just like a racing driver who finally makes a perfect drift after accumulating a certain level of experience, or like an athlete throwing a javelin in the most perfect arc and setting a record.
A mysterious symbol was condensed by Wang Xiaohai, and a brilliant light was discovered in the space of consciousness.
That's it!
Wang Xiaohai used his mind to merge the talisman into the colorful robe. After the colorful robe merged with the talisman, its shape slowly changed, and finally turned into a colorful ball floating in front of the little man's chest.
The martial arts figure in Wang Xiaohai's consciousness space held up the colorful sphere with both hands, and he received a message: after the baptism of golden light and advancement, the balance space disappeared, and he gained the domain awakening skill of mind domain, and its use would consume 80% of the energy stored in the body.
"It takes time for the body to replenish its energy. This means it can only be used once per battle, and only when the energy is at least 80%!" Wang Xiaohai's consciousness reconnected with his body and he slowly opened his eyes...
The situation outside shocked Wang Xiaohai - there were blazing flames all around, thick smoke billowing in the air, branches in the flames crackling, and the smell of ashes filled his nose.
"What's going on? How long have I been in the consciousness space?" Wang Xiaohai walked out of the burning woodshed and found that the loquat tree was also burning, and the house where the Duan family's father and daughter lived was also burning.
Wang Xiaohai saw the back of a man in front of him setting fire and throwing burning torches under the loquat tree. He immediately rushed to the man and grabbed his hand.
"Duantai!"
Wang Xiaohai was surprised to find that the man he had captured was actually the elder Duan Tai, the man who had tried to chop him with a kitchen knife. Was he crazy? Why would he burn his own loquat forest?
"Eh—it's you?" Duan Tai was also surprised. He thought Wang Xiaohai had quietly left. He had been to the woodshed but didn't see Wang Xiaohai. "Where did you come from?"
"Why do you want to burn your own loquat forest?" Wang Xiaohai let go of Duan Yu's hand.
"Where have you been these past three days?" Duan Tai asked. "Forget it. I don't need to pick the loquats and sell them. They're not mine anymore."
Wang Xiaohai thought that he had stayed in the consciousness space for three days. The reason he was not discovered was probably because he had entered a special state that could not be seen by people below his level.
“Why aren’t the loquats yours?”
"Because the new county magistrate does not acknowledge that this loquat forest is mine, he said that it was originally the county's land and was leased to my ancestors, and now they want to take it back." Duan Tai said depressedly, "Tomorrow they will bring people to take over the land and forest. I plan to take my daughter to live in another county." He became a homeless man overnight, and it was obvious that the road ahead would be extremely difficult.
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