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Chapter 795 - Chapter 795 Chapter 795 Bring Your Own Provisions

Chapter 795: Chapter 795: Bring Your Own Provisions Chapter 795: Chapter 795: Bring Your Own Provisions It wasn’t long before a Sword Cultivator flew near Feng Jun’s camp, shouting loudly, “Beast invasion, beast invasion, Fang Market rotating battle cultivators, quickly go to the Martial Drill Ground to sign up… two hours, those who are overdue will charge at the front.”

Rotating battle cultivators are those selected in rotation from among the local residents. Qiuchen Market has an approximate population of two hundred thousand, with twenty thousand being combat cultivators — meaning one in every ten residents is a combat cultivator. The twenty thousand combat cultivators are divided into four groups, each taking turns, with five thousand people per group.

That is to say, when this invasion struck, the first line of response had to be five thousand people rushing into the fray.

At this moment, these five thousand individuals might not all be in the market; perhaps some are away and temporarily unable to return, or maybe others are in the market but choose not to show up — just pretending not to be home.

But if the ones on rotation didn’t show up, then they had to have someone to take their place — if it was your turn, you shouldn’t have gone far; you should always be ready for combat, and if you really had to leave, you needed to find someone to fill in for you.

In any case, you had two hours, four hours, and if you couldn’t make it to the Martial Drill Ground to gather, well, sorry, you’re going to the vanguard.

If you dared not show up at all, then the consequences… Of course, there’s no need to elaborate.

However, faced with such a major event, it was obviously not possible to only draft local residents. Take note that Qiuchen Market’s migrant population was a substantial one and a half million.

While the Sword Cultivator kept shouting, he moved further away and then many people were seen sprinting towards the core area, creating quite a commotion.

Subsequently, Feng Jun’s registration tablet started to tremble. He picked it up and channeled Spiritual Energy into it, and saw a line of text appear, “During the season of falling blossoms, queuing order is cancelled, Fang Market is urgently summoning fellow daoists for battle, refusal is not permitted!”

He was among the first batch of foreign cultivators to be mobilized, and the reason was quite straightforward: aren’t you in line waiting to enter the cave dwelling for cultivation? You must have some spare time, so come join the battle.

Feng Jun was a bit dumbfounded, “Just because I have some free time, I should join the battle? What if I refuse?”

Chen Junsheng, who after all had mixed in here twice, spoke seriously, “This is just the first round of mobilization. There are sure to be a second and a third round. If that’s the case, why not join the first round? You might end up in a relatively advantageous position.”

Feng Jun thought he made sense, so he immediately took down the camp and placed the five of them into an inn.

As it turned out, Chen Junsheng’s guess about the mobilization was correct. After the local combat cultivators gathered, they didn’t immediately rush into battle; instead, the entire Immortal Market cast a net wide, forcibly recruiting practicable cultivators to fight.

Out of the one and a half million transient population, they forcibly recruited over thirty thousand people — a ratio of around fifty to one.

In fact, not all of these people were in the Qi Refinement Realm; there were also some at the High-Rank level breaking through the Mortal Plane, and a portion of them were Innate Experts and High-Rank Martial Masters — their combat ability shouldn’t be underestimated.

Jing Qingyang, who was hiding in the inn, was almost mobilized as well — Innate Experts were bound to be drafted.

However, he showed Feng Jun’s draft order: Out of our group of six people, one, a Qi Refining Ninth Layer, has been mobilized. Keeping an Innate Expert to protect the others is quite necessary.

Such matters could be negotiated or not. However, the one in charge of the mobilization glanced over and noticed that aside from this Innate Expert, the group only consisted of two Mortals and two breaking through the Fourth Layer of the Mortal Plane; so, he felt that drafting Jing Qingyang as well would be a bit too harsh.

Thus, Jing Qingyang avoided this round of mobilization.

However, for Feng Jun, Chen Junsheng’s prediction wasn’t quite right; he didn’t have the autonomy to choose his position.

In the end, forty thousand people assembled in the Fang Market, with more than eighty percent being Qi-Refining Practitioners and the remaining twenty percent being Martial Cultivators and those in the Mortal Plane. After hurriedly gathering in the Martial Drill Ground, they were divided into four groups of ten thousand each and departed.

The four ten-thousand-person groups were headed to four different targets, with Feng Jun’s group heading southwest.

This time they could use flying artifacts, and Feng Jun took out his own Time Shuttle.

Two Qi-Refining Loose Cultivators approached and boarded his Flying Boat, as did several Mortal Plane cultivators and Martial Cultivators who came over to look, but likely because they didn’t recognize him, they turned away and left — the pressure from a high-tier Qi-Refining cultivator was still quite significant for them.

In six hours, ten thousand people reached a massive black gateway and surged in.

After entering the gateway, another enormous square revealed itself, and looking ahead, there was a wall that stretched to the horizon, with a seemingly endless yellow outside the wall, as if it was a world of sand.

Leading Feng Jun’s group was a young handsome man with an ethereal Intermediate Level presence, but his face bore a gloomy expression as if everyone owed him a great deal of money.

However, Feng Jun couldn’t be bothered to study him and was instead absorbing the news of the beast invasion and observing the surroundings.

The young man with a pale face might have been difficult to deal with, but he was efficient in his work. The guards here quickly exchanged a few words with him, and instructions were swiftly passed down, directing the arriving cultivators to rest in different areas based on their cultivation levels.

Feng Jun naturally went to the High Tier of Qi Refinement area, where nearly two hundred cultivators had gathered. It was then that someone took the initiative to greet him — there’s truth to the saying “birds of a feather flock together.” The saying wasn’t wrong at all.

As Feng Jun introduced himself as a Loose Cultivator, other cultivators showed a bit less enthusiasm, but since he was a Qi Refining Ninth Layer, no one particularly looked down on him.

Members from big forces were clearly more sought after; two female disciples from the Crimson Pheonix Sect were nearly surrounded by other high-tier cultivators.

As Feng Jun listened to their conversation, he took out a stove to start cooking. They were about to battle, and he definitely needed to prepare some food — who knew if he’d have time to cook once things got busy?

He wasn’t the first to do this; in fact, more than ten percent had started to prepare food.

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However, the aroma from his cooking attracted quite a few people’s attention–it was not just about the Spirit Rice, the key point was that he had Spirit Beast Meat, and furthermore… he was the only one at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer who still cooked for himself.

At such a level of cultivation, even if he didn’t like taking Fasting Pills, there was no need for him to cook personally, right?

At that moment, a young man in his early twenties came over, timidly asking if he could buy some cooked Spirit Rice from him.

The young man was at the Qi Refining Seventh Layer, and his aura was quite unstable, clearly indicating that he had only recently advanced. Seeing him holding a Storage Talisman, one could tell that he was rather strapped for cash.

Feng Jun had previously bought two hundred tons of Spirit Rice, so he wasn’t stingy; he said, if you’re hungry, eat your fill, but if you want to buy uncooked Spirit Rice, I’ll sell it to you at the original price.

The young man said he wanted to buy the cooked rice, but he didn’t have many Spirit Stones and hoped to trade a Cultivation Technique for it.

Feng Jun laughed when he saw the Cultivation Technique–it was a “Thick Earth Technique.”

The Thick Earth Technique was also a Mainland Technique, unremarkable in its characteristics, but it was a basic Earth System technique.

In Feng Jun’s collection of Five Elements Techniques, he was only missing the Fire and Earth systems. The Fire Technique had already been promised by Bai Luan of the Crimson Pheonix Sect, who agreed to get him a set, and although it was not the sect’s basic technique, it was definitely a Mainland Technique.

This Thick Earth Technique that Feng Jun had seen in the Technique Store could be cultivated up to the Qi Refining Peak, and it was priced at two thousand Spirit Stones.

He didn’t buy it at the time because he didn’t have anyone around him with an earth-attributed physique; he thought there was no rush, and now someone was offering it to him, so he just accepted it.

However, what surprised him was that the other party actually offered a price of one thousand five hundred!

At that price, which was five hundred Spirit Stones cheaper than the store’s, Feng Jun felt like if he really bought it for that much, he could expect Huang Fu Flawless to tease him again.

And with war about to break out, if he showed that he was carrying many Spirit Stones, he would have to be wary of more than just the wild beasts. Anything could happen on the chaotic battlefield.

So he waved his hand, “Forget it, I’ll give you two pounds of Spirit Rice, but it’s uncooked–you’ll have to find a way to cook it yourself.”

I really want to help you, but the way you sell things makes it seem a bit like you’re taking advantage.”

The young man was a bit stunned, “Is the price too high? But I’m selling it cheaper than the store.”

Someone nearby chuckled and chimed in, “Not just a bit too high, this thing is only worth four or five hundred Spirit Stones at most. You really dared to ask for much.”

“Impossible,” the young man exclaimed, “The Technique Store sells it for two thousand!”

Another person retorted with a sneer, “Then go ask how much the Technique Store will buy it for.”

By the High Tier of Qi Refinement, everyone was pretty clear about the trickery in those Technique Stores.

To this response, the young man seemed quite surprised, “It’s only worth that much? And I thought it was a treasure.”

Someone else added, “Even if it were really valuable, you can’t afford to price it high now, during an invasion by the wild beasts. Who would carry that much Spirit Stones with them?”

This was indeed the unvarnished truth–even if someone did carry a lot of Spirit Stones, they wouldn’t dare to show it off.

But in the end, the young man traded a piece of ice silver for ten pounds of Spirit Rice with Feng Jun.

Feng Jun made it clear he wouldn’t cook anything for him; it really hurt his self-respect.

He stated: Even if I lend you the cooking utensils, you will be the one to cook, I definitely will not.

As for the meat he cooked, well, that was out of the question–I can’t make a fool out of someone I’m trying to help.

Once the young man learned the details, he no longer engaged in conversation, just borrowing Feng’s cooking utensils to prepare his own meal, seemingly embarrassed.

After Feng Jun had steamed three large pots of rice and cooked two large pots of meat, there was finally someone else who came up to borrow the utensils.

This was a good time for Feng to take a break and learn what this beast invasion was all about.

He had heard of beast invasions; the so-called wild beasts are essentially advanced versions of Spirit Beasts. If Spirit Beasts correspond to Innate Experts or the Qi Refinement Realm, then wild beasts correspond to the level of practitioners beyond the mortal plane.

Many exits in the Cultivation World border the territories of wild beasts. People enter the wild beasts’ region to hunt and kill them, and many major forces even have similar trials. However, wild beast invasions into human territories are quite common as well.

Feng was primarily curious about the usual frequency and scale of wild beast invasions in Qiuchen Market, the intensity of the battles, and if there were a war merit-based reward system in place since everyone was supposed to bring their own provisions to the battle, right?

Indeed, cultivators conscripted for battle were truly bringing their own provisions, weapons, pills, Magical Treasures, talismans… all self-supplied.

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