My Cultivation Starting from Archery

After escaping from Black Light Mountain, Chen Sansi returned straight to the Qingxu Sect.

Along the way, he passed several mortal towns.

In the countryside, there were vast farmlands, but the crops grown were not food, but Spiritual Grain.

In recent years, due to the continuous wars on the borders, the consumption of Spiritual Grain has been increasing daily.

Spiritual Grain, as the main raw material for refining Elixir Pills and even some Magic Artifacts, is as important to cultivators as food is to mortals.

Even Nascent Soul cultivators need to regularly consume large amounts of Elixir Pills.

With such massive amounts of Spiritual Grain, the major sects naturally couldn't plant within their own lands, wasting Spirit Veins and land.

Thus, it could only be planted in the mortal world.

When Chen Sansi first arrived at the Sky Water Continent, half of the farmlands were Spiritual Grain, but now it has increased to sixty percent!

Sixty percent per acre!

What does this concept mean?

Even in years of plenty, a family of five with little land could barely survive.

So, they had to find ways to exchange for food.

Almost every region has several "Immortal Master Officials."

The so-called "Immortal Master Officials" are mostly Mixed Spirit Root Qi Refinement cultivators who couldn't make it in the cultivation world, so they simply came to become local tyrants in the mortal world.

They would stockpile large amounts of food in advance, and at such times, under the guise of "voluntary" exchanges, control life and death over a region.

They experienced the supreme honor which only Nascent Soul cultivators could possess in the cultivation world.

As for whether mortals would rebel, the answer is of course, but it's futile.

Even if many mortals rebel, just send a few Qi Refinement "Generals" over, casually casting a few Spells, and they would collapse.

If they want to resist, they can only rely on the power of cultivators.

Undoubtedly, there are good cultivators too, mostly among the Loose Cultivators.

Take for example, the couple Wei Xuan and Song Guizhi.

When they first arrived, they tried to help mortals resist, but quickly realized their strength was limited, like an ant trying to stop a car.

If a high realm Loose Cultivator were to step in, they would be labeled by the major sects as mortal realm cultivator slayers, belonging to the Demon Path cultivators, with a bounty order on them!

In contrast, actual Demon Path cultivators, if they find a person with a Spirit Root in the mortal world, could lead them into the Demon Path as a way to escape this land.

Besides.

There truly is an organization in the cultivation world, specifically killing these "Immortal Master Officials."

The Demon Slaying Sect.

After matters in Beiyang Dao concluded, Shangguan Siheng disappeared. Chen Sansi's investigation found more records about the Demon Slaying Sect.

Its origin seems related to the Upper Realm.

The top ranks of the Demon Slaying Sect hold a secret technique called "Transplanting Spirit Roots," capable of transferring a cultivator's Spirit Root to a mortal, allowing mortals to cultivate.

Precisely because many of the high ranks of the Demon Slaying Sect originate from mortals, they can empathize with mortals and wish to eradicate all sects for peace in the mortal world.

It's said that even on the Border Wall, there are figures from the Demon Slaying Sect. As the war intensifies, the major sects have temporarily cooperated with the Demon Slaying Sect to jointly fend off the alien race.

In Chen Sansi's view, land is limited, but the demands of cultivators are limitless, which means there can only ever be pressure downwards, and mortals have no power to resist.

If a new order is not established in the cultivation world with sufficient restrictions, the Spiritual Grain problem is nearly insolvable.

He looked at the numb expressions of the villagers in the fields and the overbearing Immortal Master Officials, feeling an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

How is this different from Po Yang County's oppressive taxes and extortions of the previous dynasty?

What cultivation world, and mortal world—all look the same!

"Wait."

Chen Sansi arrived at the door of a family preparing to sell their daughter.

"Who are you, so blind..."

A fat, big-eared Qi Refinement cultivator, sensing the mana emanating from the other party, immediately broke into a cold sweat, bowing in fear and trembling, "I deserve to die, I deserve to die, nearly offended the senior!

"I wonder what guidance the senior has?"

"This girl is mine now."

Chen Sansi spoke, throwing over a few Spirit Stones.

The cultivator quickly said, "Oh, senior has taken a liking to this little brat, just take her, how dare the junior accept Spirit Stones."

"Just take it."

Chen Sansi said indifferently, and the man immediately shut up, not daring to say another word.

He led the seven or eight-year-old girl, using sword control to soar into the sky.

In the air.

With his hands behind his back, gazing into the distant clouds, he spoke without turning back, "Put down your knife."

The young girl behind was startled, her worn-out dagger hung mid-air for a moment, but in the end, she gritted her teeth and stabbed forward, only to find she couldn't even pierce the white robe of her target, instead hurting her own slender arm.

Seeing no hope of killing the other, she simply leapt to jump from the thousands of feet above to end her life, but as soon as she stepped out, she felt a grip on her neck, hanging her mid-air unable to move.

"Enough."

Chen Sansi proceeded to inspect her qualification and root bone: "I'll give you two choices, one is to send you back, with no one to protect you, you'll soon be sold again, the other is to come with me to learn cultivation."

Just as he passed by, he noticed an extremely obvious phenomenon within this girl and decided to save her.

A closer inspection revealed her Spirit Root mutation into the extremely rare "Yin Spirit Root," quite interesting.

Most people in the mortal world with excellent Spirit Roots were reserved as disciples at a very young age by sects.