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Chapter 65 Landlord
The village is located in a valley, with dozens of houses of different sizes arranged in a disorderly manner to form a small square and four streets, two horizontal and two vertical.

Most of the houses are earthen houses with thatched roofs, and only about ten are brick and tile houses.

"Is this the tribe you were talking about?" Su Daoshan asked curiously.

As he spoke, he mobilized his spiritual sense.

When he came here just now, he could smell the fragrance of Ling Yun from a hilltop. Now standing here, the fragrance is getting stronger and stronger.

"Yes, Boss. This tribe is called Gurong Tribe," Ao Jiu pointed at the village and said, "Do you see the big banyan tree in the village?"

Su Daoshan nodded.

It was a big tree growing in the center of the village. The roots of the tree were winding, many of which were exposed on the ground, like spreading blood vessels, almost covering the entire village. Its crown was also huge. From a distance, it looked like a giant umbrella, very conspicuous.

"This banyan tree belongs to a powerful spirit monster named Wu Che. He is the leader of this tribe and the owner of this orchard." Ao Jiu said.

"Landlord?" Su Daoshan smiled, he was not unfamiliar with this word.

The greatest pleasure in the original world was to hang out in the dormitory with buddies from all over the world, shirtless, holding a deck of cards, shouting and screaming with great enthusiasm.

"The spiritual essence in the spiritual realm is unevenly distributed. Some places have more, some places have less." Ao Jiu explained, and drew a large circle inside and outside the valley below with his hand, "This valley is a piece of spiritually rich land. Every month, it produces a lot of spiritual essence fruits. We call such places orchards. However, such spiritually rich lands will give birth to powerful spiritual monsters. They guard this place, and no one can collect it here without their consent. These big monsters are the landlords."

"There is such a treasure in the spiritual realm?"

The fragrance of the spirit essence became stronger and stronger, full of temptation, making Su Daoshan eager to try. With shining eyes, he looked at the big banyan tree curiously and asked, "Are these spirit monsters very powerful?"

Based on his understanding of the human species, there is usually only one outcome when encountering such a thing - that is war. No matter in the real world or in some spiritual realm, whoever dares to block the way to wealth will be the sworn enemy!
If a person stands in the way, kill him. If a Buddha stands in the way, kill him. If a demon stands in the way, kill him!
However, Ao Jiu nodded and said, "Great! But great is only one aspect, the main point is trouble."

Su Daoshan turned his head and looked at him, "What's the trouble?"

"The ratio of time in the spiritual realm to that in reality is three to one, and every time we enter the spiritual realm, our stay cannot exceed twelve hours in the real world. Once this time is exceeded, our souls may be permanently lost in the spiritual realm..." said Ao Jiu.

Su Daoshan nodded. He knew about this taboo. Not only was there relevant information in Tianqi, but Xie Xunbai had also repeatedly warned him about it before.

Twelve hours in reality is thirty-six hours in the spiritual world. This is a red line in the spiritual world. Once this time is exceeded, the Tao seeds that enter the spiritual world will merge with the spiritual world. If the connection with the Tao seeds is lost, the human soul will not be able to return to the sea of ​​consciousness.

It is said that many extraordinary warriors have lost their lives due to this over the past hundred years.

Ao Jiu continued, "Because of time constraints, we can neither fight them for a long time nor work together. Besides, even if we can kill a landlord, when we come in next time, there might be a new landlord..."

Ao Jiu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "We can't afford to waste time with them."

Su Daoshan thought about it and nodded silently.

This is a sad and cruel reality - the mere fact that there is a time limit means that extraordinary warriors are destined to be just weak passers-by in the spiritual world.

After all, even if you kill the original "landlord", you will eventually have to leave the spirit realm. And there are so many spirit monsters, and there will be no shortage of big monsters. When you come back next time after an unknown period of time, there may be another "landlord" waiting for you.

There is no solution at all!

"Then how can we get the permission of these spirit monsters?" Su Daoshan asked thoughtfully, "Don't they also want to fight for the spirit essence?"

Ao Jiu said: "Yes. But the spirit monsters are intelligent. The stronger the spirit monster, the higher the intelligence. They know that if they forcibly occupy the orchard, they will attract attacks from humans. So except for those spirit monsters with poor brains, other big demon landlords are willing to choose to cooperate..."

As Ao Jiu explained, Su Daoshan's mind gradually formed an outline of the current spiritual realm.

Generally speaking, these orchards in the spiritual realm are like oases in the desert. They naturally attract nearby spirit monsters, spirit beasts, and extraordinary warriors. In the early years, local big monsters and extraordinary warriors fought each other. In the end, both sides found that this kind of war has no end at all. It is not good for anyone to keep fighting like this. Therefore, compromise and cooperation are a matter of course.

It is impossible to verify which clever spirit monster came up with the idea in the first place. Anyway, they took out a portion of the Lingyun Fruit and hired extraordinary warriors as caretakers.

In this way, not only did these great monsters secure their positions, but the conflicts also naturally shifted from between the spiritual monsters and the extraordinary warriors to within the extraordinary warriors themselves.

The spirit monsters did not intervene in the fight. Even if the extraordinary warriors fought each other, they would not care. They would cooperate with whoever had the bigger fist. As long as the caretaker could protect the orchard and ensure that their interests were not violated, that was enough.

With fixed landlords and guards, order and rules emerged.

Over the past hundred years, more and more spirit monsters and extraordinary warriors have gathered in orchards of all sizes, and these orchards have gradually formed villages and begun to expand their control and influence. According to Ao Jiu, some spiritual realms have even seen the emergence of cities. This gave Su Daoshan a feeling that human civilization had developed from primitive scattered settlements to tribal settlements.

However, this is not the real world after all, and the town is very different from reality. The most peculiar thing is...

"Those people," Su Daoshan looked at the small village and asked in disbelief, "are they also spirit monsters?"

"Yes." Ao Jiu nodded.

Although there are only dozens of houses, the village is not deserted.

Under the eaves of an adobe house, a middle-aged woman was washing clothes, and the man next to her was weaving something with bamboo strips. On the street not far away, three children were playing, and two slim girls were walking and whispering.

In the farmland beside the river, farmers were swinging hoes. On the rocks extending from the riverbank into the river, young men were constantly throwing fishing nets into the river with skillful techniques.

And these were only what Su Daoshan could see. In the invisible houses, there were wisps of smoke rising up. And people were coming in and out from time to time.

From the first moment he saw the village, Su Daoshan knew that this scene was abnormal.

All humans who can enter the Spirit Realm are extraordinary warriors. But who would come to the Spirit Realm to wash clothes and weave bamboo after paying the price of their life force? Besides, where did those children come from? There can't be such a young extraordinary warrior, right?
It was not until he heard Ao Jiu's story that Su Daoshan realized that these "people" were actually transformed spirits. Seeing these spirits, which were completely different from humans, living in a rigid way like humans, made him feel weird.

Just as Su Daoshan was marveling at the sight, suddenly, his spiritual sense detected a strong fragrance.

Lingyun fruit!
And unlike the scent I smelled before, this scent is nearby!
"Do you smell it?" Su Daoshan turned his head to the right. Along the way, his spiritual senses sensed the fragrance of Ling Yun again and again. Especially after arriving near the ancient banyan tribe, the fragrance became stronger, constantly teasing him and making him eager to move.

He had been patient before because he found that Ao Jiu had no reaction to the aroma and simply ignored it. In addition, since he was in a hurry to get here, Su Daoshan did not ask.

But now, the scent felt too close, too tantalizing.

Ao Jiu looked confused: "What?"

"Lingyun Fruit!" Su Daoshan looked at him in surprise, then ignored him and rushed out in one leap, "Follow me."

The two of them were running in the jungle, one in front and one behind.

At first, Ao Jiu was confused. But as he ran, he discovered a faint fragrance coming from his spiritual sense.

"It's really the Lingyun Fruit!" Ao Jiu was shocked and excited.

This fragrance was naturally very familiar to Ao Jiu, but as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he was suddenly startled.

Because Ao Jiu found that he could barely smell the scent of Lingyun Fruit only after running a few hundred meters with his "boss". But if this was the reason why the boss brought him here, then doesn't it mean...

"Boss, did you smell it at that place just now?" Ao Jiu asked in shock.

"Yes. Why, you don't have it?" Su Daoshan asked even more shocked than Ao Jiu.

"No." Ao Jiu got confirmation. While he was puzzled, his eyes were full of awe and envy when he looked at Su Daoshan.

He knew that this "boss" was a rookie who had just entered the spiritual realm, so he took the initiative to explain: "Spiritual perception depends on the quality of the Tao seed. The higher the quality of the Tao seed, the sharper the spiritual perception. My Tao seed is only the third grade, so..."

Ao Jiu stopped talking here.

Su Daoshan suddenly understood.

He had not expected that because of the different levels of Dao Seed, the spiritual perceptions of different extraordinary warriors would be so different. So... he asked in disbelief: "Then we just came from that side, and you didn't smell any spiritual essence on the way?"

"On the way? Is there?" Ao Jiu shook his head in confusion.

Su Daoshan's cheek twitched and he wanted to slap himself, feeling that he had missed out on hundreds of millions!
They walked down a hillside covered with dead branches and fallen leaves for more than 20 meters. Just as they passed a few large trees that blocked their view, they saw a "bird's nest" made up of thousands of spiritual lights interwoven in an open space covered with dead branches and fallen leaves in front of them.

In the center of the "Bird's Nest", a golden Lingyun Fruit is slowly condensing from virtual to real.

(End of this chapter)