“Patriarch, in the city, the head of the Luo Family in the city has come to visit with a few elders!”
Qin Li had just gotten up and stretched.
It had to be said that Concubine Xia Yu was a cup of aged wine, the kind of gentleness that made him feel like he couldn’t forget for a long time when it really mattered.
“Luo family? Why did you come over so early in the morning?”
Qin Li frowned, and after some thought, he added, “How about this, you go call Vice Patriarch Bai over, and I’ll go with her to receive the other party!”
“Alright!”
That female disciple immediately went to inform Bai Ruyun to go.
“Which Luo family ah, the families in this city, I’m still this unclear!”
After Bai Ruyun rushed over, she also couldn’t help but frown, “I also don’t know what the other party is coming over for!”
“I don’t know either, we’ll see in a moment!”
Qin Li smiled and asked that female disciple to let the other party in.
Sure enough, a moment later, a slightly chubby middle-aged man came in with four or five people.
“Right, senior, that, what sect are you guys from? We’re not quite sure yet!”
After that man came in, he arched his hand at Bai Ruyun and then asked.
“You’re welcome, we’re called the Earth Sect, my name is Bai Ruyun, an unimpressive sect only, not many people!”
Bai Ruyun smiled and also arched his hand at the other party.
“En, meet Patriarch Bai!”
The other party immediately arched their hands at Bai Ruyun and saluted together.
Bai Ruyun sweated and immediately laughed, “Gentlemen, I’m not the Patriarch, I’m the Vice Patriarch, and this Mr Qin Li, is our Patriarch!”
That Luo Family’s people sucked in a mouthful of cool air after hearing this, they didn’t expect that this woman who was so powerful yesterday, who had easily decapitated that Huang Family’s head, was actually not a Sect Leader, but only a Vice Sect Leader.
Doesn’t this mean that this young man, is the strongest person here, is their Patriarch?
Wouldn’t it mean that their Patriarch, didn’t even make a move yesterday?
“Greetings, Patriarch Qin!”
The other party immediately saluted Qin Li.
“You’re welcome!”
Qin Li smiled, before he said, “Luo Family Lord, you guys are …… here early in the morning, is there something going on?”
The Luo Family Master then said, “Truth be told, the several towns on our side have an unwritten rule, that is, they all have to pay offerings to the biggest power in their place! This is not, originally there are still two days, to pay the offerings, this you guys are now obviously the biggest snob in our Flying Dragon City, I think, just come and pay the offerings!”
“Offerings? What do you mean?”
Qin Li frowned, somewhat unsure.
That Luo Family Lord was also sweating a bit, this power, originally not a power over here, and didn’t know where it came from and stayed here, so it was normal that he didn’t know.
He had to patiently explain: “In fact, it is with the protection fee is almost the same thing, every year the other forces, will give you to pay the offerings, something is not too much, almost the third grade of spirit grass one hundred plants, four grade of spirit grass one hundred plants, five grade of fifty plants, every year, and after the payment of the largest forces, will not suppress us these forces, and, for example, we Flying DragonCity, if we meet a time where the survival of the entire Flying Dragon City is at stake, you should come forward and take the initiative to protect us!”
The Luo Family’s Grand Elder, on the other hand, stepped forward and said, “Yes, inside the forest over there, the deepest part of the forest, try not to go there, the demonic beasts outside aren’t very powerful, but deep in the forest, there are also the Heaven Breaking Realm’s seventh and eighth grades of demonic beasts, and I heard that someone has seen the Reincarnation Realm’s first grade of demonic beasts. These demonic beasts, generally seldom come out, but sometimes, there will be angry demonic beasts rushing out and attacking our city, and at that time, I’ll be hoping that you guys will lead everyone and attack the demonic beasts together!”
Hearing the other party say this, Qin Li and Bai Ruyun, the two of them, then understood a generalisation.
This one family, if they gave so some spirit grass, it wasn’t a lot, but what about ten? Dozens of large and small families, all have to give words, a year down, these spirit grass and so on, that is also quite a lot!
The most critical thing is, this is not to give once, but every year to give, this every year to give words, then ten years, twenty years down, this is still quite horrible.
Only, this for the other forces, undoubtedly some unfair, clearly is also with a kind of extortion, said the good point is to protect each other. However, when a demonic beast really came over, he should have also made a move, after all, he was making a move against the humans in here, not just those small forces.
Qin Li and Bai Ruyun glanced at each other, and both of them nodded in understanding, clearly thinking of the same thing.
Qin Li had just opened his mouth and was about to say something when, unexpectedly, another female disciple guarding the gate flew in and said to Qin Li, “Patriarch, Vice-Patriarch, there are a few people outside who have come to pay a visit, and they say they are from the Wang Clan!”
Qin Li couldn’t help but cry and laugh when he heard that, by the looks of it, there should be more than one family that would come to visit.
He directly smiled and said to the other party, “Alright, let them come in, you don’t need to inform anyone who comes to visit in a while, just bring them in directly!”
“Okay Sovereign!”
That female disciple immediately flew out, and sure enough, after a while, the Wang Family’s Family Head, came in with a few elders.
“Greetings to this Sovereign, I don’t know who you are ……”
That Wang Family Head, after coming in, didn’t know what sect Qin Li and the others were from, and immediately arched his hand at Bai Ruyun.
Before the other party could finish, Bai Ruyun was directly saying, “I’m only the Vice Sovereign, this is our Earth Sect’s Sovereign Qin Li!”
“This, this is the Patriarch!”
The other party’s eyes similarly flashed with a hint of surprise before he immediately led his people to salute.
“Wang Clan Master, you guys couldn’t be, also, here to pay some kind of offering, right?”
Qin Li asked directly after thinking about it.
The Wang Family Head nodded, to be honest, this was something that their hearts were really unwilling to pay, because it was all the cultivation resources that the family’s sons and daughters risked their lives to find in that forest, and their family was relatively small, and there weren’t many with high cultivation levels, and every time they went in, they could still die so many people inside, so the cultivation resources that they got, weren’t a lot.
However, every year, they have to prepare offerings for the Zhou family, which is also a very helpless thing, otherwise, they have to be suppressed by the Zhou family.
It’s just that, now it’s been replaced with this Earth Sect.
“Of course, hehe, I just didn’t expect that Luo Family Head, was actually faster than me!”
The Wang Family Master laughed, before he catered again, “Our Wang Family, if we hand over offerings, we’ve always been quite active as well!”
Qin Li sweated, this kind of thing, was obviously being forced, now, the other party was afraid that he would destroy them as well in a fit of rage, that’s why he had to come over, right?
To actually have to come over with a smile on his face, he also deeply understood that these people were truly not living an easy life.
“Patriarch Qin, don’t worry, our Luo family will pay the offerings in the future, it will definitely be the most active as well, in the future, every year just today, we will come to pay, don’t worry about it!”
That Luo family head, also patted his chest and assured up.
However, at this time, the female disciple who was guarding the door, again came in with a group of people.
Qin Li thought for a moment before he asked the crowd, “By the way, which power did you all hand over to in the past?”
“The Zhou Family, in the past, they were one of the most powerful families in our area, their family has a total of over 4,000 people, of which there are 40 to 50 with Heaven Breaking Realm cultivation, while there are two or three with even a Heaven Breaking Realm Ninth Grade cultivation!”
The Wang family head immediately said.
“Oh, you guys are looking at the fact that we have more people with Heaven Breaking Realm cultivation levels, than they do, so you think that we are stronger than them? Aren’t you guys afraid that their people will be unhappy?”
Qin Li laughed bitterly before he added, “We don’t have as many people as they do, only fifteen hundred disciples!”
“This, although you are few in number, I believe that you are stronger than them, after all, yesterday, I saw that your Vice Patriarch and a few women, each of them had quite a high cultivation level. Moreover, Patriarch, you haven’t even made a move yet, I believe it should be handed over to you guys!”
Wang family master immediately said, in his heart, there was actually a little bit of nagging, only fifteen thousand, in case this Earth Sect, fights with that Zhou family’s people, if they can’t fight, then it would be really troublesome.
At this time, the Zhou family, the Zhou family head’s face sank, “What clan is this ah, actually destroyed the Huang family, this Huang family is not weak, is that woman, is also the ninth grade of the Heaven Breaking Realm?”
That Grand Elder also frowned, then said, “Family Head, what should we do? I’ve asked people to inquire, several family heads have taken their people to hand over offerings to that sect, if this is really handed over to them, wouldn’t it show that we are weaker than them? Then in the future, we won’t have any offerings, and then, we’ll still have to pay them!”