Hide in The Immortal Cultivation World, Strike Hard in the Martial World
Chapter 123 - 101: Hiring? No, Selling Oneself_2

In addition to this, other forces gradually arrived,

Apart from a few leftover Immortal Seedlings with three spiritual roots who were chosen by the large Foundation Establishment forces to cultivate as disciples,

The remaining Foundation Establishment forces found only those with four spiritual roots and below, who were of inferior quality. Thus, their treatment and attitudes were not as pleasant.

Chen Yi, Liu Huo, and about seven or eight others were in the first tier, yet they were still children with four spiritual roots. At this point, they were no different from the others.

When the forces came to choose candidates, they all shook their heads in the same way.

In the end, only a few forces offered their conditions, but they were all extremely harsh:

The first was Spirit Plant Island, a first-tier spiritual vein force,

Spirit Plant Island: Recruits spirit farmers, signs a 50-year contract, provides 50 jin of spirit rice seeds yearly, allowing you to plant spirit rice on the island with first-tier spiritual veins. You must hand over at least 5000 jin of spirit rice each year, and the rest can be kept for yourself. After 50 years of continuous labor or promotion to the Foundation Establishment Period, you can become a free cultivator.

MMany people shook their heads immediately after hearing this. Anyone who understands the rules knows that to produce 5000 jin of spirit rice from 50 jin of spirit rice seeds, you need very high planting experience and round-the-clock care for the spiritual plants.

After a year, there is almost no time for cultivation, and there won't be much spirit rice left for oneself,

In plain words, they give you a first-tier spiritual vein cultivation environment while making you work for free for 50 years.

And 50 years is the prime time for a Qi Refining Cultivator. Once the 50 years have passed, anyone who isn't at the Foundation Establishment stage generally becomes weak and feeble, with waning Mana.

They probably can't even perform the task of planting spiritual plants, so the island doesn't take them and just sends them away.

Chen Yi would hardly consider such an unequal contract.

Of course, there were several children from farming families who had some planting experience and agreed to go to Spirit Plant Island. After all, for them, becoming a cultivator and practicing Qi Cultivation was considered extremely fortunate and they didn't have many choices.

The second was the Pill Heyday Pavilion, which recruited Alchemy Apprentices. They provided a fixed amount of spiritual rice and spirit stones each year and taught alchemy skills, all under a 50-year contract.

They even gave an example of an apprentice from a small farming family who had now become a second-tier Alchemist and had the potential to become independent. After signing a new contract, his yearly income was several hundred spirit stones.

This seemed like a good offer with technical instruction, but in reality, they most recruit a significant number of apprentices to do the grunt work. The preliminary handling of spirit materials for pill refinement is the most arduous task. It involves the largest quantities and doesn't require advanced Mana skills.

Saving on these costs by employing apprentices is highly cost-effective. They can't betray the contract, and those who stand out for having a knack for Alchemy would be trained as Alchemists within the forces.

However, this just means moving from the low-level position of Herb Farmer to the slightly better position of Alchemist. It's not a significant difference.

Of course, everyone understood this, but there were still more than a dozen people who signed up for the Pill Heyday Pavilion.

The third was the Refinery Workshop; this one was even more brutal. Apprentices had to mine for 10 years before being taught the art of smelting. They stated outright during recruitment that they only accepted male Immortal seedlings.

This caused a great uproar among the female Immortal seedlings. Even though they were not capable of performing the task, they were angry about not being given the opportunity. They felt it was unfair!

The fourth force was major one called the Blood Shadow Tower, which recruited the most people.

The condition was to sign a 50-year contract. After entering the tower, Immortal Cultivation could be practiced in the first-tier spiritual land for free, with opportunities to practice in second-tier spiritual veins.

For male cultivators, they provided 3-5 mortal women of prime age as Cultivation Partners to choose from. Those who performed well could increase the number of partners, and if a partner became resentful, they would be replaced at any time.

A reward of 10 spirit stones was provided for each offspring born with spiritual roots.

Female cultivators were also accepted as they had higher chances of giving birth to offspring with spiritual roots. Thus, their treatment was three to five times better than that of the male cultivators.

The training environment was comfortable, the treatment was generous, and the workload was acceptable to most male cultivators.

The only condition was that offspring with spiritual roots born in this way would belong to the Blood Shadow Tower. They wouldn't acknowledge any kinship with the parents.

Chen Yi guessed that those children would probably be trained to become killers, slaves, or confined to other obscure statuses.

Given these conditions, out of the remaining 80 or so male cultivators, over 50 chose the Blood Shadow Tower!

These cultivators, most of whom came from farming families, had never dreamed that they could marry 3 or 5 young women in their lifetime, not to mention spiritual land for cultivation and spirit stone rewards?!

This was an opportunity that they wouldn't be able to find even with a lantern!

Liu Huo was also tempted by this offer. He was eager to give it a go, but seeing Chen Yi's calm, unmoving face,

Liu Huo thought about it and restrained himself.

Chen Yi looked at the cultivators frantically signing up and felt bitter in his heart.

He now understood why these Immortal seedlings seldom returned to the Mortal World after entering the Spirit Mist World.

In his past life, Chen Yi had studied pig farming, particularly breeding pigs.

The male breeding pigs, which seemed to have countless females to mate with,

However, once a hobby becomes a profession, it no longer brings joy.

Especially with this task; eating aphrodisiac food every day and waking up to the thought of having countless tasks to complete. The thought alone could give them backaches.

Especially in the Immortal Cultivation World—if one sought to procreate offspring with spiritual roots, it is unknown what invisible price would have to be paid,

It might be bearable for two or three years, but as time went on, it would be hard to say if these people could live beyond 20 years.

Would they even be able to cultivate then?

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