Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 270 Jiang Qing Returns to the Sect
You Ersheng finished his shift and took his belongings from the mine shed where he lived during his shift. He paid the full share of spirit stones with a smile, and after the inspection clerk recorded the detailed quantity, he took a pack animal cart and headed out of the mine to his vacation residence.

It took two hours of shaky journey before You Ersheng finally returned to the clean and tidy miner's blue brick house, feeling a little tired.

You Ersheng has been working in the Lingshi Mine for nearly three years. As a top-class miner, the two days of rest every ten days is one of the benefits he has earned for himself.

Moreover, during the holidays, You Ersheng also had his own blue brick house, and he didn't have to squeeze on a dirty dormitory bed with a group of smelly people of the same sex.

Living in a place like that, not only is there no way to buy wine and meat for entertainment, but even if you want to invite a singing girl to come in and have a wild party, it would be difficult to do so.

Therefore, You Ersheng cherished his identity as a first-class teacher very much. In the eyes of the laborers recruited by the New Yun League to mine the spiritual stone mine in Tanggu County, this identity was as precious as that of a marrow-refining martial arts master.

The supervising immortals divided the workers at the spirit stone mine into three grades: A, B, and C. This was a benevolent policy that had only been implemented in the past one or two years.

In the past, the mines were divided into different areas by the martial arts masters who practiced marrow and blood. The mining tyrants at all levels exploited the lower-level masters like You Er who had relatively poor martial arts skills.

Even if these low-level teachers were beaten or killed, their companions would report it to the supervising immortals, but the latter would not do anything.

After all, this mine is so big, and some advanced monsters appear from time to time. There are so many mortal masters in the entire mine, so how can the immortals have so much time to find out the truth.

In the end, it was still those bloody mining tycoons who handled it. As long as they dealt with the people who complained, the immortals would naturally stop bothering them in front of them.

It has to be said that under such a management method, the disciples sent by the New Cloud Alliance to supervise the masters will be less worried and will not be delayed too much in their practice.

However, the master suffered a lot, and the output of spirit stones in the mine did not improve at all.

On the contrary, due to the abundant spiritual energy in the spirit stone mine, the mining tyrants holding whips have rosy complexions, as if they were not conscripted to work, but came here to practice in seclusion.

It was only after Jiang Qing arrived that the teachers were freed from this nightmare life.

Before leaving, this man had received instructions from the former head of the Lingshi Mine in Tanggu County, Kang Da, so as soon as he arrived at the mine, he sent his disciples to sort out the big and small mining tyrants in the mine vein, picked out those who had committed many evil and brutal acts, and killed them in batches.

Afterwards, strict laws and regulations were enforced on all laborers, and a set of punishments were imposed, including but not limited to distribution according to work, and prohibition of private beating and killing. Anyone who violated any of these would be subject to beheading as the lightest punishment, while more serious punishments would involve the involvement of relatives.

Not only that, Jiang Qing also recruited independent practitioners to set up a clinic, clean camps, adequate meals, and clean clothes for the laborers.
All the laborers were divided into different grades and their treatment during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The disciples of each family would explain the rules of rewards and punishments, ensuring that every laborer was familiar with them.

Arrange monks to take turns patrolling to protect the safety of the servants. Every ten days, the monks on duty will be evaluated based on the casualties of the servants. These will be linked to their regular salary of spirit stones.

In fact, the other foundation-building families who came to guard the spirit stone mines did not know why Jiang Qing, who seemed to be quite arrogant, cared so much about these worthless mortal masters.

However, they didn't care much about these ants. Since Jiang Qing was willing to make trouble, they didn't bother to care. Therefore, Jiang Qing's regulations were implemented unimpeded.
Those foundation-building practitioners had never imagined that Jiang Qing's regulations had only been issued for two or three months, but the output of spirit stones in the mine had increased visibly.

You know, compared with these gains, the few spirit stones that Jiang Qing spent on the mortal servants are not worth mentioning at all.

Now there is no reason to reject these measures. With the vigorous promotion of these foundation-building practitioners, they have all been effectively implemented.

You Ersheng was one of the biggest beneficiaries after the implementation of these measures.

He was indeed just an ordinary bone-refining warrior, but mining in a spirit stone mine was not just about martial arts skills, it also required skills and keen observation, as well as some of the most subtle luck.

In the same mining area, You Ersheng can mine much more than those blood refining masters and even marrow refining masters.

This also made him feel like a fish in water in the mine.

As long as he can continue to work hard at mining and maintain his status as a first-class teacher, he will not only be able to obtain relatively generous treatment.

After collecting a certain amount of spirit stones, one can even exchange them from the immortals for martial arts elixirs and martial arts secrets that are hard to come by in the outside world.

Because of this, whenever You Ersheng thought of this place, he would feel grateful to the great leader of Chongming Zongkang and Jiang Jianxian.

He was from Gongxing Village. Because Jin Shilun was adopted as a disciple by Kang Dabao, he was able to follow his father You Er and move to a farm outside Chongming City with the village leader Jin when he was a child. From then on, his previous difficult life came to an end.

Thanks to this, You Er, who had settled down and was granted land, was able to save some money and food. He gritted his teeth and trained his son You Ersheng to become a bone-refining warrior.

In the past, his father You Er was a tenant farmer who delivered fine vegetables to Gongxingzhai. By the time of You Ersheng's generation, he became a laborer who mined for Emperor Chongming, which could be considered a class transition.

Therefore, You Er thought that he could take advantage of these years to mine more spirit stones and accumulate more merits, and exchange them for elixirs and skills. When he returns to his home in Chongming City in the future, he might be able to achieve something great.

By the time You Er's next generation comes, perhaps he will be able to rely on these accumulations to cultivate a marrow-refining martial arts master.

As the family has grown and spread from generation to generation, it is possible that among the descendants of You Er, the former tenant of Gongxing Village, there will be one or two unattainable immortals.

"Yes, yes. After returning, I will definitely place the portraits of Sect Leader Kang and Immortal Jiang at home, and burn incense and offer sacrifices to them constantly."

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Jiang Qing didn't know how many teachers in the spirit stone mine were grateful to him at this moment, but he didn't care about it.

The Jiang family had produced several generations of cultivators in the Chongming Sect, and their foundation was quite solid. It was only in the past few decades that there was a gap in the number of cultivators.

Jiang Qing was born into the Jiang family's main branch and had been practicing in the sect since he was young. As a result, he had never experienced any suffering in the world and therefore did not care much about people's livelihood.

But since the eldest brother wants to do it himself, then I will just do it myself.

He looked at the number of spirit stones collected this season, then returned the jade slip in his hand to the clerk who was recording it expressionlessly. Shan Sheng, who was standing beside him, smiled widely and leaned in to flatter him:
"It is all thanks to the merits of Brother Jiang Daoist, who has issued benevolent policies and eliminated the accumulated abuses. Now the output of our spiritual stone mine has increased a lot, a full 51% increase compared to before."

"It's all thanks to Senior Brother Jiang," Jiang Qing said calmly without changing his expression. He then turned to the other foundation builders and said, "Jiang still needs to practice swordsmanship, so please take care of the rest."

This was a bit arrogant, but Shan Sheng and the others still did not show any dissatisfaction, and instead stood up to see him off:
"Yes, yes, Brother Jiang, cultivation is the most important thing. We can just take care of some mundane matters."

"Fellow Daoist Jiang, take care"

"What a shame, what a shame. I had originally found some top-quality second-grade tiger bone wine to drink with Brother Jiang."

The reason why everyone has such a good attitude towards Jiang Qing is, firstly, because after Jiang Qing's arrival, the income of the Lingshi Mine has indeed increased a lot; secondly, it is due to the recognition of Jiang Qing's own strength.

The foundation-building cultivators stationed at the spirit stone mines by various families are at least a hundred years old and have good eyesight. They can see that Jiang Qing has strong spiritual power and outstanding swordsmanship.

Not to mention, there are also records of killing people of the same level in formation.

Besides, Jiang Qing was just a little arrogant and aloof, but he was not the kind of person who bullied the weak. His words were harsh, but he did not steal everyone's spiritual stones. The cultivators might have some complaints in private, but they would never show it on their faces.

After all, their path is very long, and there are probably only a few people in the entire Shannan Road who have built their Bingye foundation within forty years.

If you make it to the end, it's hard to say what else, but it's very likely that you'll get a fake pill. Why bother offending these inferior leaf-grade peers now? It's better to make friends with them before they start to gain momentum.

You know, this guy hasn't gotten married yet.
Jiang Qing returned to the cave he had just opened up, and the formation lit up. The furnishings in the cave were extremely simple. There were no rockery or flowing water, no delicacies or beauties, and there was not even a Taoist boy to serve him.

This is considered very simple among the ascetic practices.

After Jiang Qing entered the room, he changed into a Taoist robe. A somewhat dull-witted yellow wooden puppet heard the noise and slowly brought a bowl of dew, asking Jiang Qing to drink it.

Jiang Qing, who had no expression when interacting with people of the same level, showed a trace of warmth in his eyes. He stretched out his one arm, took the dew, drank it slowly, and said softly: "Thank you for your hard work, Da Huang."

The mechanical puppet nodded its bulky head blankly as a response, then squatted back into the corner where it had been standing blankly, waiting for Jiang Qing to call it before it would move.

After the mechanical puppet named "Da Huang" retreated, the faint smile on Jiang Qing's face gradually faded, and he returned to his previous cold look.

This mechanical puppet was a gift from Kang Dabao when he turned six. It was not expensive, costing only three spirit stones, and with a broken spirit particle inside, it could run for a year.

Such low consumption meant that this mechanical puppet had not reached a certain level and could not be used in combat. It could only do simple chores such as sweeping and cleaning for the monks.

This type of mechanical puppet is quite popular among some independent cultivators who have a little wealth and a good reputation. They are in urgent need of using some inexpensive but useless spiritual tools to distance themselves from the real low-level independent cultivators.

But for a foundation-building cultivator like Jiang Qing, a mechanical puppet like Da Huang has long been useless, and is not commensurate with his status. It is precisely because it was given by Kang Dabao that Jiang Qing has been using it since he was a child until today.

Taking his eyes away from Da Huang, Jiang Qing took out the "Ten Essays on the Sword Classics of Qingfu Zi" and started reading it.

Although this sword manual given by Master Ming was written by a sword cultivator who had never practiced elixir in his life, his attainments in swordsmanship were indeed profound. Even the Taoist Black Shoes, who had always been a little self-conceited, was greatly impressed by this sword manual after borrowing it to read, and felt that he had gained a lot of enlightenment.

He said frankly that if this person were still alive, he would invite him to sit down and discuss swordsmanship with him, and he would definitely gain a lot of insights.

Taoist Hei Lu spent half a year and made a lot of annotations on the sutra before returning it to Jiang Qing. Since then, Jiang Qing regarded the sword sutra as an even greater treasure.

Previously, some disciples in the sect were resentful of the fact that Master Kang had helped the Ming family. They thought that since the Ming family had already severed the relationship, they should just pretend to be deaf and dumb. There was no need to ruin Commander Tie's impression of the Chongming Sect for his family.

They also said with certainty, "If you repay evil with kindness, how can you repay kindness in return?"

But he didn't know that if Kang Dabao had not done this thing to repay evil with kindness and returned with this sword manual, Jiang Qing, the first foundation-building person in the Chongming Sect in 200 years, might have failed to break through and died in the Biha Cave at the bottom of the pool.

"Ten Essays on the Sword Classics by Qingfuzi" is simply a theory of sword, not a sword technique.

Jiang Qing is currently practicing the "Three Yang Sword Technique" passed down by Grandmaster Zhang of the Chongming Sect. The grade of this sword technique is not low, it is already a top-grade Hong level.

But Jiang Qing's understanding of the way of the sword is really good. He has only been practicing for more than 20 years, but he has already practiced the "Three Yang Sword Art" to the great success realm.

According to what Taoist Heilu said, it would only take another thirty to fifty years for Jiang Qing to master the Chongming Sect's signature sword technique to perfection.

Don't think it's a long time. You need to know that this is something that Zhang Yuandao, a fellow cultivator of the foundation-building stage who lived for 249 years, failed to accomplish in his entire life. This shows how talented Jiang Qing is in swordsmanship.

In addition to swordsmanship, Jiang Qingyun also cultivated the Bailu Sword, a second-grade intermediate spiritual weapon that was given by Nan'an Earl to Master Kang as a wedding gift, to some degree.

The toothless old man who was cut in half by it should be able to understand this.

If Jiang Qing had been able to nurture his strength until now during the Battle of Xiaowushan, he would not have ended up losing an arm.

However, even if his Dao body was flawed, Jiang Qing was able to rely on his attainments in the Dao of the sword, the Bingye Foundation, and the powerful spiritual power of the Hong-level top-grade skills to fight against ordinary cultivators in the middle stage of Foundation.

When he reached the foundation-building stage, even a genius like him would find it difficult to kill enemies of higher levels as he did in the Qi training stage. It was like chopping melons and vegetables.

There is always someone better than you. They are all old guys who have lived for hundreds of years. Some of them have been in the foundation-building stage for longer than the history of the Chongming Sect. How could they not have any means to save their lives?
“But as long as you work hard and study diligently, things will get better.” Jiang Qing sighed softly, and gently spread out his slender fingers. A ball of three-colored flame ignited in his palm, and the spiritual essence was dazzling. One glance showed that it was no ordinary item.

This is the Three Yang Fire formed by practicing the "Three Yang Classics". According to what Grandmaster Zhang said in his notes, this spiritual fire can not only be used as a flying sword against the enemy, but can also be used for refining weapons and elixirs.

It's a pity that Jiang Qing is not good at this, and Yuan Jin, Pei Yi and others do not have the qualifications to practice the "Three Yang Classics", which is a pity.

This time, Jiang Qingzu practiced for more than a month before he stopped. A message from Master Kang summoned him out of the retreat room.

The letter stated that within two months, the New Cloud Alliance would take the initiative to attack and join the Changning Sect in a hunting event at Laoniushan in Baisha County, and Jiang Qing was asked to make preparations early.

Although the supplies Tie Liuyun provided were not much, he would allocate the Xiezhi Guards and select available foundation-building cultivators to form a formation to guard outside the Lingshi Mine after the foundation-building cultivators stationed at the Lingshi Mine left. He also promised that during this period, no embezzlement would occur.

Because of his previous bragging, Commander Tie Liuyun's credibility among the various families was greatly reduced, and what he said was not very convincing.

Is there any cat in the world that doesn’t like fish?

Therefore, the leaders of each family decided to order the foundation-building cultivators stationed at the spirit stone mines to prepare to take back the spirit stones they had accumulated this year while there was still some time. Even if there was a loss by then, it would be less.

If possible, the teachers from each family should be sent back first. After all, these people are very capable now. They have been trained with great difficulty. Wouldn't it be a pity if they were harmed by those Xiezhi guards?
Shan Sheng knew the news earlier than Jiang Qing. After all, he was called by Taoist Heilu to attend a meeting. With the pale flying sword suppressing him, Shan Sheng remembered every word of what Taoist Heilu said at the meeting.

At this time, he came over and said flatteringly: "Fellow Daoist Jiang's immortal hometown is far away, and your sect is the gateway to this battle. You are busy at home, so you might as well go back early to prepare. You don't have to go back to the spirit stone mine later, we can meet in your sect."

The other people had no objection after hearing this. Jiang Qing actually began to have some good feelings towards Shan Sheng this time. He was eager to go home right now.

After checking the spiritual stones that belonged to Chongming Sect and Heilu Taoist, he bowed and said goodbye to all the cultivators.

The war is imminent, so we need to go back sooner so that we can feel at ease.

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