To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck

In Qingyang Country here, this is the relationship between Immortal Sects and mortals.

If this year’s celestial selection really fails to produce an Immortal Species, Qing Mountain Pavilion wouldn’t mind at all directly extracting taxes exceeding one hundred percent, driving the tens of thousands of townspeople to their deaths.

After all, these mortals can’t resist and pose no threat.

Even if driven to death, it’s just one city’s people.

There are thousands of similar cities within Qingyang Country, with over a thousand under the control of Qing Mountain Pavilion; they truly do not care about the likes of No Water City.

Should the people here perish, a new group can be relocated from elsewhere, and in a few years, it’ll be a new city.

Several hundred thousand ants wouldn’t take more than a few years to replace; in the vast population of hundreds of millions under Qingyang Country’s rule, it would only take a year or two, or even just a few months, to recover.

It can’t even be considered a loss.

Maybe it’ll even alleviate the pressure from an excessive population in the area.

One should not doubt that Qing Mountain Pavilion, an Immortal Sect, could commit such acts.

Just look at Changqing Domain, which began to collapse after the Great True Person died; the various Immortal Sects contending openly and covertly for their interests, losing their minds over it, and even colluding shamelessly with demons.

These signs of moral decay and chaos have already revealed the darkness and cruelty of the sects here.

Otherwise, how could the Monster Nations brazenly establish themselves, or the demon-infested chaos that plagued Youxin Country for hundreds of years, have emerged in this Southern Changqing Domain where Immortal Sects are abundant?

It is only due to the indulgence and support of the local Immortal Sects that the situation has deteriorated to this extent.

"Compared to Dongyang Domain under the rule of Dongyang Mountain, where order is well maintained and morals are upheld, Changqing Domain, which has become a land of chaos, is truly fallible beyond measure."

Yi Dancheng couldn’t help but recall the Dongyang disciple he had parted ways with not long ago.

In contrast to the Immortal Sects here that are as wicked as demons, Li Ruoqing, a cultivator who upholds righteousness and is dedicated to subduing monsters and exorcising demons, is truly a refreshing current in the Immortal Cultivation World.

Interacting with such people is truly like drinking sweet water, pleasurable and uplifted in spirit.

They might be from neighboring domains, yet the cultivators produced are worlds apart, as different as two species.

"The Immortal Cultivation World in Changqing Domain is sick, lacking the suppression of a Great True Person, numerous ambitious villains rise, and the order is disrupted, with Sects beginning to resemble Demon Sects.

The mortals of this domain are starting to live worse than livestock.

This state of affairs is incorrect.

And those cultivators are mistaken and in need of correction."

Yi Dancheng took a deep breath, his heart set with determination, "That’s why the Avatar is needed, why we avatars have come here to return this world to the right path.

This is also the reason for my existence as a cultivator.

Moreover, the local Immortal Sects of Qingyang Country act so perversely and deceitfully, like a Demon Sect, oppressing the people below.

Such behavior is an outrage to the whole world!

In subjugating them, I only need to raise the banner of righteousness; it would be heeding the Heavenly Path, punishing the tyrants, restoring rites and music, and ensuring peace in the world.

It is a divine right and name indeed."

Originally, before coming to Qingyang Country, Yi Dancheng had some concerns that directly annihilating three Immortal Sects and monopolizing the country might be inexcusable in terms of reputation.

But having seen the current living conditions of the ordinary people in cities like No Water City along the way, his concerns dissipated.

While the various Immortal Sects in these chaotic times provide the most basic security for the locals, preventing them from becoming blood livestock bred by demons, as seen in the neighboring Great Eye Kingdom,

The people of Qingyang Country are just slightly better off than those of the Great Eye Kingdom.

Even excluding the fact that people of the Great Eye Kingdom can be used as livestock and directly consumed by demons,

Because their food and cultivation resources are already being provided by mortals.

The demons of the Great Eye Kingdom don’t value the supplies necessary for human survival and are thus not inclined to exploit them.

Over there, the demons actually prefer to let their bred mortals get plump and chubby, finding them tastier to eat that way.

Therefore, in terms of quality of life, the mortals in the Great Eye Kingdom are better off, since they can keep all the harvests from their own farming, surpassing those of Qingyang Country.

Because before cultivators in the Immortal Sect gather the Three Qi, they cannot abstain from grains.

Those cultivators who are at the level of gathering one level or two levels of energy still need massive support from mortals during cultivation; they require a great deal of worldly wealth to sustain their cultivation.

When a novice cultivator starts gathering one level of energy, they need the support of at least a thousand mortals through farming and management.

When they reach the stage of gathering two levels of energy, this number soars to ten thousand people.

Moreover, as their cultivation increases, the number of supporters required keeps growing, and it’s quite common to need thirty to fifty thousand people before reaching the Three Qi stage.

In such cases, if an Immortal Sect recruits disciples, a number of three to five hundred is manageable and doesn’t excessively exploit the local populace.

They might not even need to exploit at all; with a simple trick like bringing rain for the mortals, they could collect enough supplies for their disciples’ cultivation.

However, if this number were to increase to one or two thousand disciples, at least twenty million mortals would be needed to satisfy the operational needs of an Immortal Sect.

If the number of disciples rose to ten thousand, without a hundred million mortals, the sect couldn’t be sustained.

For within an Immortal Sect, those who achieve Five Qi Towards Primordial are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

Those who succeed in becoming immortal are hard to come by in a thousand years.

Even reaching Gathering Three Qi is one in a thousand.

The true majority and mainstream are those ordinary disciples who have gathered one level or two levels of energy, whose numbers are not recorded in the annals of true discipleship and who are simply cannon fodder to beef up the sect’s presence. This is the most common reality in the Immortal Cultivation World.

It is precisely because of them that the mortals of Qingyang Country lead such hard lives.

"The three local Immortal Sects, surrounded by three neighboring countries with Immortals, are besieged by powerful enemies.

The three Immortal Sects themselves are also fraught with conflicts, accumulating countless grievances over the years that are impossible to resolve.

Facing external threats and internal blood feuds, these conditions force the three sects to spare no effort to enhance their own strength.

Even one more disciple at the level of gathering one Qi is valued, and for this, they are willing to ruthlessly exploit those defenseless commoners, pushing them to their deaths.

This excess of cultivators is also a calamity for Qingyang Country.

Once I settle in this country, I must make it a priority to reduce the inflated number of cultivators, alleviating the burden on mortals, so that long-term peace and stability may be achieved."

After this in-depth analysis, Yi Dancheng gained a better understanding of the problems in Qingyang Country.

"However, these issues can be addressed later, gradually resolved.

Now, on my journey here, I’ve only witnessed the state of affairs under the rule of a single sect, the Qing Mountain Pavilion.

Here in Qingyang Country, there’s also the Wind Thunder Fortress Yang Family in the southern part of our state, this cultivation family.

And another force, primarily consisting of solitary cultivators, that occupies the northern part, Beidou Gate.

I should first observe the situation of these two, whether they are as oppressive and perverse as the Qing Mountain Pavilion.

If they are indeed the same, then when it comes time to subdue them in the future, I will have righteous cause, without the need for much concern."

With such thoughts in mind, Yi Dancheng finished his last cup of wine, left the money for the meal, and turned to leave the inn.

There was a selection ceremony for Immortals being held in the city, an event he had long heard of.

In Changqing Domain, the selection ceremony is almost the mainstream method for sects to recruit disciples.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Now that Taiping Dao has been established, it will inevitably recruit disciples in the future.

As the School Leader, it’s only proper for me to see how the local sects recruit their disciples.

I don’t necessarily have to imitate entirely, but it is acceptable to learn a thing or two.