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Just as An Ran was considering whether to assign the spirit fields by force, Shi Jiu Tong's corpse was suddenly transported back from the county to him. Shi Jiu Tong was dead!
The death of a third level Martial Disciple was no different than an earthquake to the Western Mountain Village. Yang Tian naturally knew that the ambush on Xu Sanniang had nothing to do with Shi Jiu Tong, so from the beginning, he had already thought of the possibility of Shi Jiu Tong going against him after returning to the Western Mountain Village.
Now that he had returned, even though he no longer had to fight against Yang Tian Gang in the entire Western Mountain Village, losing a third level Martial Disciple also meant that the village's strength had been greatly reduced.
However, advancing to the late stage of the Martial Disciple realm was not something that could be done that easily. Cultivation, strength, luck, resources, and so on were all indispensable, especially since he needed a large amount of cultivation resources to assist him. As long as he could see Yang Tian Chen charge towards the fourth stage, it would be easy.
The news came from the county. Last time, when the Dream Yoga Guards attacked Yuanwu Town and Xinghu Town at the border, Shi Jiu Tong and his guards joined in. Unexpectedly, under the joint pursuit of the Heavenly Wolf Sect and the Opening Spirit Sect, they were unable to return to Mengyu County with the Dao-soldiers formation and died in Qu Wushan Mountain.
After burying Shi Jiu Tong, the other Shi family members who had been causing trouble all ceased their actions. The matter regarding the Metric Spiritual Field was now going smoothly for An Xia. The Shi family, which had been even more powerful than the Xu family in Xishan village, had now become more obedient.
Along with Shi Jiu Tong was a reward from the county magistrate. Although he didn't know how Shi Jiu Tong became a substitute for the Dream Yoga Guards, the reward was given out according to the standard of the Dream Yoga guards, including a carriage full of spirit valleys filled with 150 stones and 150 jade coins. All of these were given to Shi Jiu Tong's wife and family members.
Meng Yu County's grain tax had originally been offered by the three tyrants, but now it had been reduced by ten percent. This year, when the Spirit Valley had a great harvest, the grain tax was only required to cover half of the amount of the previous years, which made the nine children of the Western Mountain village feel somewhat grateful for the loss of Shi Jiu.
After dealing with Shi Jiu Tong's funeral, Xishan Village's Spirit Valley's harvest was coming to an end. This year's harvest was pretty good. Almost all of the Spirit Fields in Mengyu County had harvested well.
However, it was fortunate that the grain tax was halved this year, and almost all the families of the spirit farmers would be able to make a surplus, not to mention that the new village head, Yang Tian Gang, was a very capable person. Regardless of whether it was the original village or the original village, both of them were looking forward to the future of the village.
This year, there were the newly matured three and a half acres of spirit farmland, the confiscated five acres of Shi Jiu Tong's former professional farmland, and the remaining four acres of spirit farmland left by more than ten households of the original Earth Stone Village. In total, the amount of spirit farmland that needed to be divided was over thirteen acres.
Originally, because of Xu Erchen's departure, the Xu family had cleared up a few acres of spirit farmland. However, these spirit farmlands had just been distributed by Yang Tian to the ten over Yang family's spirit farming farmers. This caused the Xu family to be greatly dissatisfied, but in the end, under the pressure of Xu Sanniang, the Xu family did not let this matter get out of hand.
It had already been two months since the incident in the village. After experiencing the internal strife of Xu Erchen, Xu Sanniang was gradually coming back to his senses. Everything that the Xu family had experienced in this period of time seemed to have been facilitated by an invisible hand behind them.
For this reason, she even tried to seek the Yu Family's help. However, ever since Song Wei mentioned that the Yang father and son pair had a faintly discernible relationship with the county magistrate, the Yu Family had always kept a low profile regarding the matter of the Xishan Village.
However, looking at the current strength of the Yang family, West Mountain Village had a total of nine Martial Disciples, and there were already five people standing on the Yang family's side. The Xu family's current attack could only bring about humiliation, perhaps Yang Tian was already prepared for the Xu family to cause trouble, and was waiting for them to fall into his trap.
The Xu family could no longer take any more unexpected blows. Recently, Xu Sanniang had also been completely exhausted, and there were times when she couldn't help but wonder if it was wrong for her to push Xu Erchen and the rest out of the Xu family.
However, when she thought of what Xu Erchen had done in the dark, she had no choice but to do so for his son. Furthermore, it was impossible for Xu Erchen and the rest to return now, and Yang Tian had just distributed a few acres of spirit farmlands that Xu Erchen and the rest had left behind to his clansmen in order to prevent them from returning in the future.
According to the rules set by Yang Tian, the newly advanced Spirit Farmer would first divide the fields. Only those who had advanced to the fourth level of the Mortal Realm would be able to become a Spirit Farmer, and the newly advanced Spirit Farmer would usually be allocated no more than three points.
After that, the advanced Spirit Cultivators would divide more fields. After the Spirit Cultivators reached the fifth stage, they would have no more than half an acre of land; after the cultivators advanced to the Martial Disciple Stage, they would have one acre of land.
This time, Yang Junshan advanced into the Martial Cultivator Stage, and he first distributed an acre of spirit farmland to the people in the village. In the villages, the privileges of a Martial Disciple were great, and every village welcomed and tried to recruit cultivators of the Martial Disciple Stage. This was also the reason why Xu Erchen dared to bring people away from the village to help him; as a Martial Disciple, no matter where he went, Xu Erchen would not be denied entry, and Yang Junshan would only receive one acre of spirit farmland, which was the lowest share of spirit farmland for Martial Cultivators.
At the same time, as a newly registered Martial Disciple, An Xia, who had reached the second level of the Martial Disciple realm, was given an acre and a half worth of spirit fields, which was also the lowest share.
The spirit farmland wasn't always able to maintain the spirit energy. Even if the spirit farmland was meticulously maintained, as time passed, it would be reduced to ordinary farmland due to the continuous loss of spirit energy. If the spirit farmland that lost its spirit energy wouldn't be able to get its share of the new spirit farmland in time, then it could only go and be someone else's farmer.
According to the rules set by Yang Tian, the thirteen acres of spirit farmland was quickly divided in the middle of Western Mountain Village and did not arouse too much controversy. Under Yang Tian's conscious arrangements, the villagers of the former Earth Stone Village were taken care of as much as possible, further strengthening the integration of Western Mountain Village.
After the splitting of the spirit farmland, Yang Tian had once again established his status as an independent individual in the Western Mountain Village. He had already come to understand the matters of the Western Mountain Village, but soon after, the eyes of everyone in the village focused on the Western Mountain Village.
It could be said that once the Spiritual Origin of the West Mountain was fully utilized, the strength of the West Mountain Village would increase by leaps and bounds in the next few years. If the operation was done correctly, it could even be said that the strength of the village could be compared to the entire Desolate Land town.
How to make full use of the Spirit Origin was the true test for Yang Tian Gang, the newly appointed Western Mountain Village.
At the entrance of Xishan Village, Yang Tian and Yang Junshan were standing there as if they were waiting for someone. Before anyone had arrived, the father and son duo had already begun chatting.
"Seventh Uncle, Blacksmith Zhang, and Shi Nansheng have been gone for half a month. Nothing will happen to them, right?" Ever since the previous conflict between the Dream Yoga Guards and the Heavenly Wolf Sect and the Opening Spirit Sect, Chen Ji had ordered a martial law on the border. The usual trading routes were all closed, and at the same time, people had been organized to search the smuggling tunnels at the border. There was no news of An Xia and the others for many days after they had entered the Zhang County through the Mt.
Yang Tian Gang shook his head and said, "Probably not. Your Seventh Uncle can be said to be very familiar with the secret route, and in the past two years, there have been people she knows from Zhang County. Moreover, there were three Martial Disciples this time, so there shouldn't be any accidents."
After the payment of the grain tax was completed, Yang Tian had just started organizing people to purchase the leftover food from the spirit farmer in the Western Mountain Village. Afterwards, he had sent three Martial Disciples to escort the carriage, bringing along the close to a thousand stone spirit valley and the hundreds of jade coins that Yang Tian had accumulated over the years to take advantage of the fact that Qu Wushan's secret passage had yet to be discovered, to head to Zhang County to exchange for the various cultivation resources that he needed.
Yang Junshan thought for a while and said, "Dad, Seventh Uncle and the rest of them are far from being able to prepare all the things they need. At that time, I might have to think of another way."
It took your grandfather ten years to build the foundation of the Yang Family from the time he discovered the Spiritual Source to the time he established the foundation of the Yang Family. It's almost the end of her family's wealth, and now with the support of the entire Western Mountain Village, it's already enough for us to have a solid foundation in three to five years. "Yang Tian smiled.
Yang Junshan nodded, and said, "Let's wait until Senior Lin arrives, then we can have a quick survey. We have a rough idea of how many things we will need then, so we won't need to prepare blindly."
Yang Tian nodded his head, and laughed: "You are right, but this Lin Chengzi is only a fourth rate Spirit Master, I do not have much hope for him, but compared to him, I am more concerned about what you said before, do you really have confidence in setting up a defensive array covering the entire Western Mountain and the Western Mountain Village?"
Yang Junshan laughed, "It's hard to say now, after all, it's the first time we've set up such a large-scale array, and we don't have that much resources to consume. We can first set up a smaller array, and then slowly expand with the accumulation of resources in the village."
However, he said, "Even if you can lay down the array formation, you have to wait until the Spirit Searcher has found the distribution of the Spiritual Origin Stage. Let's go, the Spirit Searcher Lin Chengzhi has come!"
In the distance, Yang Junshan saw an old man riding a packhorse toward the Xishan Village.