In Douluo, Wuhun holds the Tianping

Three days later, Li Xuan finally found a human settlement.

Looking at the desolate land and dilapidated city walls before him, with numerous severed limbs and corpses visible, Li Xuan shook his head helplessly.

This place should have been a relatively prosperous city, after all, it was quite large.

The Five Thunder Puppet sensed the presence of humans here; there were people in this town, and quite a few of them.

Li Xuan did not allow the Five Thunder Puppet to enter the town immediately. Instead, he wrapped the puppet's body with strips of cloth to prevent others from seeing that it was a wooden puppet.

In addition, Li Xuan created a voice generator that could mimic human voices and installed it on the Five Thunder Puppet.

After Li Xuan's modifications, this Five Thunder Puppet is now basically no different from an ordinary person. Unless you come into close contact with it, you won't easily discover that the Five Thunder Puppet is not human.

"That should be about right," Li Xuan muttered, then controlled the Five Thunder Puppet to walk towards the human settlement.

Upon entering the town, Li Xuan noticed that there were many people on the streets. These people were dressed in rags and were emaciated, and it seemed that they had been starving for a long time to become like this.

"Who are you! What are you doing here!" A middle-aged man spotted the Five Thunder Puppet and immediately raised his cane at it, angrily shouting.

After hearing the middle-aged man's voice, the others slowly turned around to look at Li Xuan and then slowly approached him.

"Uncle, hello. I came from a cave not far away. I'm here to sell some grain, nothing more." Li Xuan thought for a moment and then controlled the Five Thunder Puppet to speak to the people in front of him.

"Selling grain? How much?" the middle-aged man asked incredulously, his eyes wide.

Li Xuan controlled the Five Thunder Puppet, opened the small cave, and took out more than a dozen sacks filled with grain.

“Each person can only buy one jin (500 grams) of grain and one silver soul coin per day!” Li Xuan said, raising his hands to the people in front of him.

Everyone was stunned when they heard Li Xuan's voice.

He's a living Buddha!

At times like this, what's the difference between one silver soul coin for one pound of food and giving it away for free?

However, everyone's eyes were filled with vigilance, wariness, and deep disbelief.

Soon, the noise attracted all the residents of the town.

Looking at the food in the bag, everyone silently swallowed.

"Before the war broke out, I stockpiled a large amount of grain. I want to rebuild this place, which is why I'm selling the grain to you at such a low price. Also, those who don't have money don't need to worry. They can exchange grain by repairing the city walls and cultivating wasteland." Li Xuan clapped his hands as he controlled the Five Thunder Puppet, and then said to the people in front of him.

After Li Xuan finished speaking, the surroundings fell silent. No one spoke, and everyone's eyes were on the bags that Li Xuan had taken out.

Everyone's eyes were filled with longing.

"Give me a pound!"

A middle-aged man raised his hand and spoke to Li Xuan in a hoarse and frantic voice.

Li Xuan didn't stand on ceremony. He took out a small cloth bag, opened the large bag, filled it with a pound of grain, and threw it to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man took out a pearl from his pocket and handed it to Li Xuan.

After receiving the pearl, Li Xuan examined it carefully.

"I'll value this at one gold soul coin. For the next ten days, you can come here every day to collect one pound of grain. Anyone else want to trade?" Li Xuan waved his hand and said nonchalantly.

"Thank you, thank you so much!" The man hugged the bag of grain tightly and ran home to cook porridge for his family.

When the others saw that Li Xuan was really giving out food, they rushed over frantically and charged towards Li Xuan.

"Give me a pound!"

"Give me a pound too!"

……

In an instant, everyone rushed towards the Five Thunder Puppet like hungry wolves.

Of course, some people also want to take advantage of the situation and steal grain.

"boom!"

A bolt of lightning struck the ground beneath their feet.

This startled everyone.

These people never expected that the person distributing the grain in front of them was actually a Soul Master, and it seemed that his Soul Power level was not low.

"Don't worry, I have plenty of grain. Each of you will get at least a pound of grain. Don't rob or steal, or I'll hang you on the city wall," Li Xuan said with a cold snort.

These people immediately distanced themselves from the food sacks, but their eyes were filled with longing for the food, even though Li Xuan was a Soul Master who could kill them at any moment.

"Ahem! Those with money, line up at the front. After you buy the grain, go home for a meal. Those without money, line up at the back. After you receive your grain, get to work for me," Li Xuan shouted to the people in front of him.

As soon as Li Xuan finished speaking, everyone fell silent, obediently queuing up to receive their food.

Li Xuan wasn't in a hurry. He took out a bunch of cloth bags and started filling them with food for these people.

Half an hour later, all the wealthy people had left with their food bags, leaving only those who were starving and had no money.

"I know you have no food, but I don't want you to starve to death. So, I'll give you food, and you work for me!" Li Xuan said to the people in front of him.

"Okay! Sure! Just let me have something to eat!" A man who was starving raised his hand and said, panting heavily.

“Yes, we’ll do anything as long as we get food!” another old man said.

……

Others also expressed that they would do anything if given food.

"Okay, if you have family members at home, bring them here immediately. We'll eat here," Li Xuan said, waving his hand.

"Yes!" Those with family members immediately stood up and went to find them.

After most of the people left, there were still some people left in front of Li Xuan, probably because there was no one left in his family.

"What's the name of this city? Who's the city lord? Are there any Soul Masters here?" Li Xuan asked the people in front of him.

"Hello, esteemed young master, this is a border town of the Heaven Dou Empire called Blackwater City. The city lord and his entire family are all dead, and as for the Soul Master, he is gone too." A middle-aged man sighed and then explained to Li Xuan.

"I see." Li Xuan nodded.

Judging from the looks of it, the people here are living relatively well.

"So how do you live here?" Li Xuan asked again.

“There’s an orchard in a valley not far from the city. We’ve survived thanks to the fruit there,” a young man said, raising his hand to Li Xuan. The fact that Li Xuan could produce so much grain proved he wasn’t short of food, so whether the orchard was exposed or not didn’t matter much.

However, the others were all looking at the young man with fierce eyes, after all, they did not trust Li Xuan that much.

"Don't worry, after I arrive, you'll have food to eat and won't have to live on fruit anymore," Li Xuan said with a smile and a wave of his hand.

"Thank you, esteemed young master." The others also stood up and bowed respectfully to Li Xuan.

In their eyes, Li Xuan's Five Thunder Puppet was a noble Soul Master, and no one dared to act recklessly, obediently following his orders.

"By the way, how's the overall situation in Douluo Continent now?" Li Xuan asked again.

"Everything is in chaos. The Medicine Man army has destroyed eighty percent of the towns. Only the two great empires, a few duchies, and the area near the Spirit Hall have some land with people. Soul Masters are all gathered there, and nobody cares about us ordinary people." Another old man chimed in, his tone filled with grief and despair.

After hearing the old man's words, Li Xuan shook his head helplessly. It seemed that the war between the two empires had ended, and the Spirit Hall must be exhausted by the spirit masters in the City of Slaughter.

"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's cook first, and then we can get back to work after we eat," Li Xuan said, looking up at the person in front of him.

"Thank you, esteemed young master! Thank you, esteemed young master!" These people knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to Li Xuan.

"Hurry up and cook." Li Xuan picked up a bag of grain and threw it to them, then took out a large iron pot.

These people thanked them profusely and began to cook.

Those who had gone to look for their families have all returned and started cooking.

Li Xuan found a place to lean against the wall and rest.

Two hours later, everyone had eaten quite a bit and sat on the ground looking at the Five Thunder Puppet.

Li Xuan also sensed that these people had finished eating, so he got up from the ground and glanced at the people in front of him.

“I need a lot of labor, so I’d like to ask if any of you know where those people outside the town are?” Li Xuan asked the people in front of him.

"This..." Everyone looked at each other, none of them wanting Li Xuan to sell the grain to others.

"For every ten people you bring back, I'll give you a pound of grain," Li Xuan said with a sigh of helplessness.

There still needs to be a reward system, otherwise these people won't have much motivation to work.

"I know, I know, I'll go and bring them back right away!" a young man raised his hand and said loudly.

“I know that, but there are those drugged people who have gone mad outside the town, we dare not go there,” another middle-aged man said helplessly.

"Yes, those medicine people are too cruel, they eat people directly!" an old man sighed.

"I'll go with you," Li Xuan said, clapping his hands.

“It would be great if you could come with me! There are about thirty people!” the young man said loudly, raising his hand.

“I know a place with twenty people,” another person said.

……

In no time, the people here told Li Xuan all the gathering places they knew.

Li Xuan did a simple estimate and figured that he could gather about a few hundred people.

"Alright, those who don't know the location of the settlement, go and repair the city wall for me. I will check the repairs when I come back. If anyone dares to cheat me, there will be no food tomorrow." Li Xuan snorted, conjuring a ball of lightning in his hand as he spoke to the people in front of him.

Everyone fell silent again, and then quickly split into two groups.

A group of people went straight to the city wall and started repairing it. After all, they had eaten Li Xuan's food, so they had to do something too. More importantly, they had to prepare for tomorrow's food.

Li Xuan led a group of people away from the town, leaving behind a puppet to look around for a suitable place to store and distribute the grain, which required a fixed location.

After the Five Thunder Puppet left the town, the one that remained in the town began to wander around.

Li Xuan controlled the Five Thunder Puppet to walk around the town for a while and found that all the houses had been smashed and looted, and most of the rooms were empty of anything of value.

Soon, the Five Thunder Puppet arrived at the City Lord's Mansion.

Li Xuan checked the place and found that there was no one in the city lord's mansion except for a few corpses rotting in the courtyard. He didn't know why no one lived there, but it was fine, as it saved him the trouble of chasing people away.

Li Xuan sighed helplessly, then took out a dozen or so ordinary puppets from the space in the Palm Heaven Bottle and began cleaning the City Lord's Mansion.

Next, Li Xuan prepared to open the granary and distribute grain here.

An hour later, the city lord's mansion had been completely transformed, and all traces of the vandalism had been cleaned up.

Next, this is Li Xuan's granary, as well as the place where he sells grain.

……

As the sun set, Li Xuan's Five Thunder Puppet led more than two hundred people back to the town.

Along the way, the Five Thunder Puppet killed at least dozens of out-of-control drug-using people, and Li Xuan collected their corpses.

These corpses are of little value to ordinary people, but for Li Xuan, they are excellent research subjects and can also be used to cultivate medicinal herbs, making them extremely valuable.

After leading these people into the town, Li Xuan took out two sacks full of grain, let them have a hearty meal, and then let them find a place to stay.

After settling these people in, Li Xuan controlled the Five Thunder Puppet to wander around the city wall. In about three more days, the repairs to the city wall outside the town would be completed.

After everyone else had eaten and drunk their fill, they all returned to their rooms to rest. This was a peaceful day they hadn't enjoyed in a long time.

After everyone had left, Li Xuan went straight back to the city lord's mansion.

They found a basement and filled it entirely with food.

Li Xuan also left more than a dozen puppets in the city lord's mansion to guard the grain.

In addition to keeping the town clean and hygienic, a large amount of land outside the town also needs to be reclaimed for growing crops.

Within the space of the Heavenly Bottle, several million catties of grain can be produced in three days, enough to supply these people without any problem.

However, these people still need to be able to support themselves. Li Xuan's Five Thunder Puppet will definitely not stay here for long.

After settling things in Blackwater City, Li Xuan's spiritual energy returned to Seagod Island.

After a long day of running around, Li Xuan was exhausted and lay in bed, thinking about what to do next.

After all, the Douluo Continent is such a large place that it's impossible for a single puppet to supply all the food.

We need to think of other solutions.

(End of this chapter)