Chapter 45: The Emperor's Three Thousand Concubines

  The village where Liang Zimo lived was a famous gold mine village, very rich. There were two-story small villas everywhere in the town where Liang Zimo lived, like those in later generations.

  However, among many beautiful small buildings, there are also some old and dilapidated thatched cottages that are on the verge of collapse, standing out awkwardly among the numerous two-story villas.

  There is a gap between the rich and the poor in any village, and it is particularly evident in the village where Liang Zimo lives. Those who live in two-story small Western-style houses are all engaged in gold mining related matters.

  As for those who live in grass houses, they are mostly elderly people who live alone or have no labor force at home.

  Generally speaking, only these two kinds of people would be so impoverished. Others, as long as they had the strength, all ran to work in the gold mines.

  Although everyone knows that working in a gold mine is extremely dangerous and may cost their lives, they have to take the risk for the sake of high pay.

  The elderly people living in those dilapidated thatched cottages in the village actually have descendants, but most of them lost their lives in mining accidents.

  Although they can get some money when someone dies in a mining accident, this amount of money is just a drop in the bucket. Many people will soon spend all the money and fall into poverty again.

  There are still some people who choose to leave the gold mine village and live elsewhere. The rest are all old people, reluctant to leave their hometown, so they just stay there waiting for death.

  Underneath the prosperity of Jin Mine Village lies countless blood and tears.

  The widows in Jin Kuang Village are almost the most in Xiangling City. In the village, there are widows who have lost their husbands everywhere. These widows form a unique landscape of Jin Kuang Village.

  In general, young men are rarely seen in the village, only some children and women can be seen. These people make up the population of the gold mining village.

  This situation looks so cruel, but it can't be avoided.

  "The resentment and yin energy here are really heavy, the feng shui is not good at all." Lao Ding couldn't help but say as they arrived at the entrance of the village where Liang Zimo was.

  Xuan Qi had not noticed it before, but after hearing Lao Ding's words, he used his Qian Qi technique to take a look and found that the entire Jin Kuang Village indeed looked hazy, as if shrouded in a layer of yin energy.

  This situation is extremely rare.

  "A place of great calamity?" Xuan Qi said to himself after seeing the situation in Jin Cun Village. It seemed that this yin energy was very ferocious, as if it were about to form a yin evil energy.

  The whole village looks so lifeless and dull.

  Lao Ding heard Xuan Qi's words and couldn't help but say, "Youngster, you're still not skilled enough! Let me take a closer look, then you can draw your own conclusions!"

  It can be seen that Xuan Qi's previous guess should be wrong.

  Having heard Lao Gui's words, Xuan Qi looked carefully and suddenly realized: "Old Turtle, I understand now. This is not a place of great calamity, but rather a place of great auspiciousness. According to reason, this should be a very prosperous village!"

  The old man sighed and said, "Although the aura here is very strong, the five elements are not balanced, resulting in too much metal energy. Although it appears to be full of noble energy, the killing energy is too heavy, causing the village to be filled with vengeful spirits. As a result, the resentment and yin energy in the village have become very heavy. Fortunately, this place was once a blessed land, where the spiritual energy and resentful energy cancelled each other out, preventing it from becoming a dead land."

  For such a piece of Feng Shui treasure land, being ruined like this, Lao Ding feels very regretful and depressed. If in the past, this blessed land had not been destroyed, people living here would have lived at least several years longer than those living elsewhere.

  However, Lao Ding knew that this world only recognizes money, not people. Most modern people would choose to exchange their health for wealth.

  After all, this is a world where money is supreme.

  "No choice, for the sake of living. After all, lifespan cannot replace money. If there is no more money, a person will live a very hard life no matter how long they live."

  Xuan Qi was no longer surprised, but continued to study the layout of this place. Looking at the place in front of him, he found it quite interesting. In his opinion, the feng shui here was very intriguing.

  The Liang family village where Liang Zimo lives is surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side, which is a very good place at first glance. This layout is called leaning against the mountain and beside the water, known as the Shanshui Fengshui Bureau.

  The mountains and rivers here are still unchanged, but the green mountains and clear waters that were originally there have become barren mountains and yellow waters.

  Those who opened these small gold mines were all people with ulterior motives. When they arrived at the mountain, they directly cut down trees and dug some tunnels to start mining for gold.

  After that, they would directly crush the gold ore sand they dug up and start panning for gold in this clear small river using the most primitive method.

  Getting gold is not an easy thing. In people's imagination, those who dig for gold may be able to dig up big chunks of gold directly in the mine.

  That is almost impossible.

  In nature, truly naturally formed gold nuggets are extremely rare. Those nuggets, called cow head gold or dog head gold and the like, are very seldom seen.

  Most gold mines extract a large amount of soil containing gold sand and then start panning for gold.

  Compared to large enterprises, these private small gold mines will cause huge pollution to water sources. Although they have panned out the gold, the remaining residues and debris will flow down with the water, polluting the water source.

  After panning for gold, these yellow ones contain various heavy metals and other unhealthy things that will destroy human physical health.

  Although in recent years, people in Liangjia Village no longer fetch water from the small river in front of their doors, they believe that the well water which is thought to be safe is also unhealthy.

  The seemingly clear river water has been polluted by heavy metals. Long-term consumption will naturally lead to a series of diseases.

  In this way, the dead air is naturally very heavy.

  "Huh? Why hasn't Liang Zimo come to pick me up yet, is he standing me up?" Xuan Qi couldn't help but feel a bit anxious after waiting for a while at the village entrance.

  He originally agreed with Liang Zimo that he would go pick him up and take him home to play.

  Although he got along well with Liang Zimo, Xuan Qi had never been to Liang Zimo's home. So when he came to play, he still needed Liang Zimo to pick him up.

  However, in fact, Liang Zimo's home address was known to Xuanqi. Later when reading university, Liang Zimo had brought Xuanqi to his home to play.

  "Never mind, I'll just go to his house directly. This kid might have forgotten because he was too busy playing games." Thinking of Liang Zimo's unreliable personality, Xuan Qi shook his head and prepared to head to the Liang residence.

  The old man's voice rang out: "This friend of yours has a pretty good personality, lazy and sloppy, with a bit of a flirtatious heart. It's actually quite suitable for practicing dual cultivation techniques. If you want to make rapid progress, what you need to do is find more furnaces and then practice dual cultivation. This way, it's much stronger than your hard work."

  As for Xuan Qi's character, Lao Ding was still somewhat dissatisfied. He found that whenever Xuan Qi mentioned anything related to romance or relationships, he would always become evasive and fearful.

  For his shy and timid personality, Lao Ding was very displeased.

  Xuan Qi furrowed his brow and said: "You mean you want me to be a philanderer and a stud?"

  Lao Dingdao said, "What's the big deal? Dual cultivation is also a way of cultivating the Tao. Think back to those days, that Yellow Emperor wasn't listening to my words, he had three thousand consorts and directly ascended to become an immortal. As a member of the Xuanmen, one must cast aside worldly restraints."

  "If I were to have three thousand concubines, I'm afraid I would have gone mad long ago. Even if I didn't go mad, I would be taken away by others. Now is a society ruled by law, and it's not allowed to play with women's emotions."

  Regarding Lao Ding's topic, Xuan Qi felt a headache.

  Although he has been a human being for two lifetimes, Xuan Qi still insists on treating emotional matters with the same seriousness and solemnity as before. He thinks that emotions are pure and beautiful, and should not be desecrated.

  So, for Lao Jun's tendency to say that people are being used as a furnace and cauldron at the drop of a hat, he still has some discomfort.

  "Old man, I didn't think of letting you enslave three thousand women. Now it's hard to find that many suitable stoves and cauldrons too. You don't have the courage and ability like Huang Di's son. Besides, even if you could really enslave three thousand women now, you still can't ascend to immortality. This world is not suitable for cultivation at all, with thin spiritual energy. In my younger years when I took in Huang Di, it was a golden age of cultivation. Later when I took in your ancestor Xuan Yangzi, it was barely passable. It's nothing like now, where finding someone in the foundation-building stage is so difficult. Although there are tens of billions of people now, their roots and bodies are far inferior to before..."

  For this modern world, Lao Ding is really very unhappy. Every time at this moment, he always has a kind of nostalgia for the past years. Whenever mentioning this topic, he will talk endlessly for a while.

  "Old Turtle, don't crush my enthusiasm. If you keep talking like this, I really won't have the energy to cultivate anymore. Alright, let's stop here, the Liang family has arrived."

  At this moment, Xuan Qi walked in front of a five-story small building. This small building is also unique in Liangjia Village with many two-story foreign houses.

  The high walls and the huge iron gate, as well as the ferocious wolf dog in front of the gate, all speak to the unique status of the owner in Liangjia Village.

  This is Liang Zimo's home, and also the largest boss in Jin Cun Village.

  Just as Xuan Qi was about to shout at Liang Zi Mo, he suddenly saw the wolf dog lying dead in front of the door and couldn't help but be shocked, saying: "Not good, it seems that something has gone wrong."

  At this time, the wolf dog in Liang Zimo's house, which was almost as big as a person, had already become a corpse, stiffly lying at the door, and could no longer perform its duty of guarding the house.

  On closer inspection, its mouth was full of white foam, and it looked like it had died from poisoning.

  How dare you poison the Liang family's dog? This is equivalent to digging a grave on someone's birthday, it's utterly infuriating. Anyone with even a bit of common sense wouldn't do such a thing.

  It seems that these vicious people are going to do something unfavorable to the Liang family.

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