After my grandmother called me home in my dream, my spiritual energy revived

Chapter 240 Paying the Fine
Participants in the Global Practitioner Competition are prohibited from practicing outside of practitioner villages.

When the spiritual energy tide arrives, they all stay in the cultivator village to cultivate and absorb spiritual energy.

Their cultivation level is high, their skills are superb, and they attract a lot of spiritual energy during the spiritual energy tide. However, they also consume spiritual energy quickly.

The spiritual energy within the cultivator village was quickly absorbed.

After things calmed down, the teams that sent people to Xiaozhushan to scout ahead soon discovered that their men never returned.

There were distress messages coming back before, but now there's been absolutely no response.

Although they are not the main players in the competition, they are all elites that the country has devoted its efforts to cultivating. If something were to happen to them, it would be a great loss.

When they went out of the village to Xiaozhushan, they saw headshots of their missing team members posted on the barbed wire fence.

Only after having someone translate it did I understand what it said.

The missing team members were detained by Song Miaozhu for trespassing on private property. She will only release them if a huge ransom is paid.

And it's only available in RMB.

"バカ!"

"!"

"Bitch!"

"Connasse!"

"!"

……

Foreigners were cursing and swearing, while the Chinese onlookers were laughing heartily.

"This is hilarious! They actually went to raid Little Bamboo Mountain during the spiritual energy surge!"

"Please! The Eternal Life Society didn't even manage to injure Master Song with bombs back then. So many years have passed, nobody knows what Master Song's cultivation level is now, how dare they!"

"I remember the Global Cultivator Competition clearly stated that the organizers wouldn't interfere with disputes between participants in the cultivator village or outside the competition venue, right? With so many people missing, aren't they already eliminated before the competition even started?"

"One, ten, hundred... ten million, hundred million, if each person is fined 200 million, then 36 people would be fined 7.2 billion. Master Song is making a killing!"

"Why don't any foreigners come to my house to steal chickens or dogs? I want to get rich too!"

"What are you thinking! Do you think these foreigners are easy to deal with? Even if they really raided your house, could you take down so many of them all at once?"

"Master Song is incredibly powerful now. Did you see the spiritual energy overflowing from Xiaozhu Mountain the other day? The combined attraction of all the cultivators in our town to spiritual energy is not as great as hers alone!"

"Not only are we inferior to them, but even the elites in the cultivator village are inferior to them."

"Hahaha! I can't help but laugh when I see them cursing and swearing."

"If they get angry and try to storm the mountain again, and the whole army is wiped out, that would be ridiculous."

……

Amidst the laughter and jeers of the onlookers, the foreign teams walked away, cursing and swearing.

No one dared to cross the rusted, defenseless barbed wire fence again.

If one or two people get into trouble, you could say the other side is lucky. But if all the people sent by several countries are arrested, it just means that Xiaozhushan is much more dangerous than they imagined.

Although they wanted to test the most skilled cultivator in the country, they did not want it to affect the later competitions.

The Global Practitioners Competition is more than just a competition.

All member states of the International Council of Practitioners contributed valuable spiritual resources as a reward to the winning team.

The outcome of the competition will also determine the future influence of each country on the International Conference of Spiritual Practitioners and the trade of spiritual objects.

Forget about barging into Xiaozhu Mountain to demand their release; they were terrified that Song Miaozhu would come out of the mountain and capture them. They rushed back to the cultivator village without stopping, only then feeling a sense of security.

Only in the village of practitioners will the Chinese government guarantee their safety.

After they relaxed, they were still angry, so the countries put their heads together and contacted each other.

Several countries have joined together to complain to the International Practitioners' Council that China is maliciously detaining their people, affecting the friendly relations among international practitioners, and undermining the fairness of the practitioners' competition.

When Song Miaozhu posted the ransom notice, she had already notified Zhao Huoyan. The Bureau of Paranormal Investigation was prepared to hold these countries accountable.

They directly cited the rules of the Global Cultivator Competition, stating that since they had trespassed on the private territory of cultivators in their country, any disputes arising therefrom should be handled in accordance with cultivator laws.

The rules are written in black and white, and they were agreed upon by everyone together. No one else's opinion matters.

These countries only realized the situation was complicated after their complaints were rejected.

The team members were all registered several months ago, and each person has undergone qualification review; they cannot be replaced at the last minute.

The accompanying personnel are also substitutes.

With so many players missing at once, it will definitely affect their later matches.

Moreover, training these people costs much more than just this much.

There was nothing they could do but grit their teeth and pay the fine to redeem the person, as stated in the notice.

Unfortunately, the fines are limited to RMB.

Not many countries include the RMB in their foreign exchange reserves, and the few countries that dared to send people to explore Xiaozhushan right away don't have very good RMB reserves.

They rushed to mobilize funds and managed to transfer the fine to the designated account on the notice just before the start of the global cultivator competition.

Song Miaozhu was also very trustworthy. After paying the fine, she dragged the man out of the prison cell at the Lingzhai residence that same day and threw him out of Xiaozhushan.

Thirty-six people made a net profit of 7.2 billion RMB, which, if converted to ghost money, would amount to a full 3.6 billion.

Compared to her current trillions of ghost money deposits, it's nothing, but it can still be exchanged for thirty-six top-grade spirit stones.

After the people were rescued, the various countries inquired about their experiences overnight.

The result shocked them all.

Finally, in order to pique the interest of more cultivators in Song Miaozhu and to facilitate their efforts to obtain more information, they all unanimously "leaked" the experiences of their team members.

"You got stuck less than ten meters into the fog?"

"Your leg is stuck in the swamp, and you can't get out?"

"Master Song rode a huge creature with a sheep's head, wolf's hooves, and a deer's body, and captured them and locked them up?"

The fog was so thick you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. The people trapped by the bamboo horse boundary marker didn't know what had trapped them after they were rescued; they just assumed there was a swamp on Xiaozhu Mountain.

Chinese netizens commented, "Where is there a swamp on Xiaozhu Mountain? They must have been trapped by Master Song's magical artifacts."

There's also one with a sheep's head and wolf's hooves; it's clearly Master Song's Qilin mount!

Song Miaozhu had been waiting for a long time, hoping that someone could learn from the experience of predecessors and try again on the mountain, helping her earn billions more.

When the competition started, no one showed up.

The Zhuma Boundary Marker is just the outermost layer of protection for Xiaozhushan.

Her Paper Grass Bewitching Array, Paper Crane Sky Patrol Array, Azure Lotus Earth Vein Talisman, and Paper Shield Peach Talisman have all been used yet.

The haunted house, which was carefully hidden, has never been found by anyone.

Song Miaozhu sat idly on the locust tree, then summoned a group of paper servants to infiltrate the cultivator village and stealthily follow the main forces of various countries.
"I'd like to see if their main players are this bad!"