My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 458 - 414: First Case: Pollution

Chapter 458: Chapter 414: First Case: Pollution

That said, the effectiveness of such an initial order outweighed that of a pile of second-grade orders.

Without the slightest hesitation, Wang Zijia accepted it immediately in his mind.

In the worst-case scenario, he could exchange the pollution first before drawing.

Anyway, nothing could affect the reputation made by the first order!

[Task accepted successfully, please wait for the Chen family to contact you!]

Looking at the information on his identity card, Wang Zijia also tapped into the Chen family’s data under the Array Chess lineage for a view.

Indeed, this Chen Yichang really had a bit of the main character’s vibe.

The Chen family was an ancestral clan of real people that had existed for more than a dozen generations, with their share of ups and downs.

When he became the family head, it was during a period of decline for the Chen family.

About forty years after a true person from the Chen family collapsed, the family power faced a severe retreat, and the resources began to be squeezed. He managed to reverse this decline, succeeded as a real person, and held up the falling building. It was not an overstatement to call him the savior of the Chen family in this generation.

"Chen Mingyong: Young Martial Brother, are you at the White Peach Peak Taoist field?"

Wang Zijia had just looked at the material for a while when a message came from his identity card.

Chen Mingyong, a direct descendant of Chen Yichang, over two hundred years old, was a middle-stage real person, the second true person in the Chen family, and was one of the contemporary key figures.

"Right, Martial Brother Chen, you can come directly, or I can go to your Array Chess Lineage to find you!"

"It’s not proper to ask the junior brother for help."

"What is there to ask? Martial Brother, you’re too polite."

"I’m here."

Huh?

Wang Zijia thought the other party would ask for the location before starting his journey. It turned out he was informing him to meet him up!

He paused slightly, and was just getting up.

"Bang!"

The door was opened, and An Xingsheng hurried over and reported, "Martial Uncle, Chen Mingyong of the Chen family from the Array Chess lineage has come to visit, should we take him to the reception hall?"

"Let’s go, I’ll receive him myself." As Wang Zijia said this, he went out and said to Xu Xian who was waiting outside:

"Go outside to make a pot of spiritual tea in White Peach. Compared to the reception hall, I think those from Chess Cultivation, Book Repair, and Sound Cultivators would prefer to chat in Peach Garden."

"I understand!" Xu Xian, who had been trained over this period, immediately responded respectfully.

Wang Zijia then, accompanied by An Xingsheng, left the building and happened to see Xiang Yu leading Chen Mingyong into the courtyard.

"Building a Taoist field among the peach forests on the mountain, Martial Brother Wang, this place is truly elegant!" Chen Mingyong greeted Wang Zijia with a bow and said with a smile.

Wang Zijia also returned the greeting with a smile and said, "We can only work on the environment. As a fledgling lineage, we can’t compete with the Array Chess lineage."

"Martial Brother Wang, you are too modest. Who in the Outer Sect doesn’t know about the Jade Talisman Lineage today? Apart from the scale and the timing of establishment, the Array Chess lineage can’t compare with you!" Chen Mingyong responded.

"Let’s not stand here. Let’s go to the pavilion in the Peach Garden next to us for some tea!" As Wang Zijia said this, he wanted to take Chen Mingyong to the pavilion in the Peach Garden next door.

Chen Mingyong, however, said apologetically, "I will come over for a chat another day. Today, Martial Brother, you should come with me to see our family ancestor first and see if you can accept this task, OK?"

Wang Zijia hesitated slightly and asked in surprise, "Is the situation really that urgent?"

Chen Mingyong nodded sadly.

Wang Zijia frowned slightly and said, "Why did you wait until it was this urgent to ask for help? Do you know why Heritage Masters are also called Deathbed Masters?"

Chen Mingyong replied with a bitter smile, "I’m not afraid of you worrying too much, we have been rejected by dozens of three-four star Martial Brothers in the inheritance hall in a row. Now, most of the third-grade true people have already known about my family’s situation through the circle, let alone accepting the task, there are very few who are willing to go and see."

Although star rating represents the proportion of earnings and doesn’t represent the strength of the inheritance master.

But under the premise of performance determining success or failure in the inheritance hall, those who dare to charge four parts already represent too many things.

After all, four parts is almost the limit that an inheritance master can collect. If the data isn’t impressive enough, most people would rather find a two or three-star master.

After all, the inheritance obtained with the active cooperation of a true person, enduring extreme torture, once successful, it is worth at least several million magic money.

Each part of the income is not a small sum for any true person cultivator!

Of course, if you are a fourth-grade inheritance master, and you come to take a third-grade task, I guess even if you open a five-star, someone would be willing to give it a try.

"Alright!" Wang Zijia suddenly realized, it’s no wonder that they could find him. It was clear that they came to him, a newly promoted third-grade true person, with a try-the-last-chance attitude.

With that, Wang Zijia told An Xingsheng and left the yard.

"Where is Martial Brother Yichang now? In the clan’s ancestral land of Array Chess Lineage?"

Chen Mingyong shook his head, threw a small flying boat into the sky, and said, "The family head, for some reason, left the sect and has been recuperating in the family’s ancestral land for many years."

As he spoke, Chen Mingyong signaled Wang Zijia to board the flying boat with him.

’Going to the ancestral land for recuperation? Shouldn’t someone whose lifespan is exhausted be in the sect, or even better, find a way to stay in the Inner Sect?’

As these thoughts raced through his mind, Wang Zijia stepped on the flying boat.

Chen Mingyong then drove the spirit artifact level flying boat, turned into a stream of light, and shot towards the outside of the sect.

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In Wanyu Sect, compared to the rights to establish a lineage, the qualifications to establish a family were much easier to obtain.

Once the Wine Monks met certain conditions, they could accept a task and gain clan lands to establish a family.

Even the peak child, if willing, could venture far enough to establish their own clan.

A Perfected one almost needed no conditions to be granted a peripheral area.

As they built their clans, a large population suppressed the wilderness, putting an end to the resurgence of demons.

So, other than the vast ranges of different bloodlines, the Wanyu Outer Sect was surrounded by a large ring of clan territories.

They formed the second circular layer that guarded Qifeng.

Of course, the branches of the Outer Sect and the clan territories on the periphery were not two wholly separate layers.

The closer to the peripheral area, the less apparent the distinction between clan and lineage.

In particular, the east and south areas near Flying Immortal and Daqian were piled with countless clans, due to being relatively safe places.

If a new lineage wanted to emerge, it would have to requisition clan lands.

Under such circumstances, they were usually given two choices: either merge into the new lineage as part of the clan, or receive compensation from the new lineage and relocate.

Most of them chose to merge into the lineage and become one of the core clans of the new lineage.

This resulted in the peripheral area having a myriad of obscure, small lineages that were established purely for exploiting Sect resources. They were basically a collection of several clans, claiming to start a new lineage.

After all, the resources allocated by the Sect for establishing new lineage were limited, and were almost entirely swallowed by the Perfected ones with the power to start a lineage after giving some to the requisitioned clans.

Under such circumstances, what could they accomplish?

Many of them didn’t even have any Channel Stabilizing buildings!

Like in his previous life, how rural areas received grants for building new villages, but the village managers and project bosses would set up a façade, each pocketing part of the funds.

If Wang Zijia had chosen to start a lineage here, he would probably have been in the same situation.

Even if he intended to achieve something, the clans that owned the territory would likely have drained off half of his resources and blood as compensation for relocation.

In the end, he would have been more than willing but less than able, either falling through or have taken a big portion of the resources and simply mixed into the Inner Sect.

So, playing by the rules is the same in every world.

Where there’s effort, there’s slacking off;

Where there’s light, there’s darkness.

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Since White Peach Peak was in the west near the Demon Forest area,

And the Chen family’s ancestral land was in the east, Chen Mingyong, leading Wang Zijia, had crossed almost the whole Wanyu Outer Sect, passing through numerous clan territories.

They arrived at the Chen family ancestral land after about forty-five minutes.

At their current flying speed, they had crossed the equivalent of two national territories in their past life!

As the core clan of an Outer Sect lineage, and being an old lineage carried through many generations of Perfected ones, the Chen’s ancestral land was actually very large, no smaller than a third-grade dynasty of the Sect.

The population had also reached an extremely exaggerated level of four to five million.

This was not necessarily a bad thing, given the rampant demons in the wilderness today.

It was these large and small clans, occupying numerous territories developed by the Sect, building cities and cultivating the wilderness, suppressing an area with their population, that brought peace to the surroundings of Wanyu.

And the extremely excessive number of descendants of cultivators ensured the replenishment of disciples with spiritual roots, thus guaranteeing Wanyu’s development and continuity.

As for the problem of Wanyu being controlled by clan monks...

When a clan grew to a certain extent, it was no different from a kingdom, just under a different form, coupled with Wanyu ensuring that there were enough clans to check and balance, complex factions making sure no one clan dominated.

Once the so-called clans were numerous enough, and sufficiently mixed and complex to form the Wanyu Outer Sect ...

What was the difference between it and a country formed by countless households?

Both were constituted by families forming nations.

Both had struggles between private and public interests, and when the scale became large, you would find that some inherent ideas were really ridiculous.

When he first understood the Wanyu Outer Sect, Wang Zijia was also worried that Wanyu would be controlled by some clan.

But when he really understands it, he finds that the scale of Wanyu has become so large that the clans with tens of millions of people are equivalent to a small clan with a few hundred people in his previous life.

Then he fully realized how ridiculous his idea was.

After all, weren’t the so-called countries of his previous life made up of countless families of tens or hundreds of people!

Could they be controlled?

Was there a single family dominating?

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Chen Mingyong brought Wang Zijia to the Chen family’s ancestral land and sped towards a prairie lake.

The two descended from the sky at a rapid pace, hovering slightly in the air.

Below, they saw a large area covered by an array, wrapping around a beautiful forest lake, surrounded by a large group of buildings.

The whole array area was entirely built around that lake.

The lake was shimmering, and there were many spirit fish swimming in it at first glance.

There were not many buildings in the forest around the lake, only a few elegant courtyards scattered about.

"Splash!"