[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats-":3,"chapter-immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-685":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Immortality Cultivation: I Can increase My Stats Using Clansmen's Qi-Blood",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1157906,1501,"Chapter 683 - 329: The Current Situation of Qiuyue City_2","immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-685",685,"\u003Cp>Chapter 683: Chapter 329: The Current Situation of Qiuyue City_2\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Here, there’s no need to pay…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The simple and honest middle-aged man doggedly insisted, his expression very resolute as he spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From that moment on, the conflict between the honest man and a private soldier from the Lu Family in Qiuyue City gradually unfolded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you leaving or not, I’m asking you, are you leaving or not?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the gates of Qiuyue City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lu Family private soldier, clad in leather armor, was quickly running out of patience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He promptly drew the longsword hanging from his waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression turned vicious as he looked at the simple and honest middle-aged man in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more so, he raised the longsword in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aimed straight at the person before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed as if…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Source: , updated on Ɲονǥᴑ.ƈο\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you leave, I’ll act as if this never happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you keep causing trouble, the longsword in my hand won’t show any mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What you’re doing is illegal.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The rules set by the Qingshi City Luo Family state…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The honest middle-aged man stiffened his resolve, seemingly wanting to reason with the private soldier from the Lu Family of Qiuyue City before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, before he could finish,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lu Family private soldier wielding the longsword simply chopped off the honest-looking middle-aged man’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pah, such bad luck…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why did I have to come across such a blockhead today?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I told you, either pay up or leave.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Forcing me to take action, aren’t you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leather-armored Lu Family private soldier, holding a blood-stained longsword, walked up to the decapitated body of the honest man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spat with a look of disgust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, he waved his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He promptly beckoned several subordinates and instructed them to take the corpse away and clean up the scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, they still needed to continue collecting money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the scene were too bloody, wouldn’t it scare away the common folk?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To these Lu Family private soldiers in Qiuyue City, that would be a great loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it all happened so abruptly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a short time passed before the leather-armored Lu Family private soldiers took action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did some commotion arise among the commoners queuing up to enter the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it was only a slight disturbance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In turbulent times, life is as cheap as grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention one person, even if ten, a hundred, a thousand people died,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>generally speaking, as long as you have no status or background,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no one would care about incidents like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even those from the Qingshi City Luo Family,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would rarely concern themselves with such matters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s not that the people from the Qingshi City Luo Family didn’t want to intervene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainly, it’s because the emperor is far and the mountains are high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the vast Qiuyue City, the Lu Family is the emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qingshi City Luo Family can control the general direction of their subordinate cities,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but when it comes to the finer points, such as the death of commoners…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qingshi City Luo Family is somewhat helpless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is precisely for this reason that the think tank of the Qingshi City Luo Family was sparing no effort in trying to strengthen the Luo Family’s control over local cities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, only when the Luo Family’s power and influence grew larger,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would the rights of those think tanks that depended on the Qingshi City Luo Family become greater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So in the end, we still have to pay money?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Qiuyue City, at the city gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Yao, whose attention was gradually drawn, looked at the Lu Family private soldiers cleaning up the scene before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he glanced at the regular city guards of Qiuyue City nearby who seemed indifferent to the scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes narrowed slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within those narrowed eyes, a fleeting chill glinted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can the line remain this calm even after someone has died?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It seems that incidents like today’s probably happen every day.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thus, these commoners’ hearts have gradually become numb.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reflecting silently in his heart,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Yao continued to walk silently towards the front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the honest-looking middle-aged man fell here, the path into the city, which had been somewhat stalled, slowly began moving forward once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the queue to enter the city had already extended to where Luo Yao was standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You know the rules, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Either pay the money, donate willingly, or leave quietly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Otherwise…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The previous man will be your fate.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the city gate, a private guard of the Lu Family from Qiuyue City, dressed in leather armor,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was speaking to Luo Yao with an icy face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pay money?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Donate willingly?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Yao silently looked towards the donation box not far ahead, about the height of a person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, he fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was not hesitating over whether or not to pay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this very moment, he was pondering…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How much money would this so-called voluntary donation collect throughout the day?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Qiuyue City, even the powers on the territories under the Qingshi City Luo Family, were to honestly pay their taxes…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then would the Qingshi City Luo Family receive an extremely large and massive amount of tax revenue every month in future?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it briefly caused a rush of excitement in Luo Yao’s heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey you, what are you daydreaming about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Either pay up or leave.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The private guard of the Lu Family from Qiuyue City, next to Luo Yao, seemed to be growing impatient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even his hand was gradually moving towards the longsword at his waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, if he could,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he really did not want to create so much carnage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But alas, there were always those who courted death; it was unavoidable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is the place, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After snapping back to reality, Luo Yao reached into his chest pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not until he pulled out a substantially-sized silver fragment from his chest, did he toss it straight into the donation box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having made his donation, Luo Yao, followed by Luo Ze behind him, entered Qiuyue City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, on entering Qiuyue City for the first time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Yao had no intention of taking a tour around Qiuyue City or walking near the Lu Family’s territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he turned around,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his eyes slightly narrowed and expression silently observing the private guard from the Lu Family at the gate of Qiuyue City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After watching for some time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he then turned back around and quickly walked deeper into Qiuyue City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those so-called private guards of the Lu Family obviously could not harm Luo Yao in the least.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shadow Guard at Luo Yao’s side alone,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>could easily eliminate those private guards of the Lu Family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main reason Luo Yao chose to pay and enter the city,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was that he did not want the Lu Family of Qiuyue City to become aware of his presence and existence too soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qiuyue City was somewhat different from Dai Mountain City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lu Family of Qiuyue City and the three great families of Dai Mountain City also had significant differences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one could be considered the strongest in Dai Mountain City upon reaching the Perfection of Viscera Refinement,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then, in Qiuyue City,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even reaching the Perfection of Viscera Refinement would not allow you to be counted among the top echelon, let alone make it into the top ten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, regardless of other reasons,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>or for the sake of his own life,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he would not rashly make a big commotion until he was sure he could take action against the Lu Family of Qiuyue City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he really needed to make a move,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even if he really had something to do against the Lu Family of Qiuyue City,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then at the very least, he would wait until he had a Blood Refinement-level Shadow Guard for protection by his side before he could strike against the Lu Family of Qiuyue City with confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, without the protection of a Blood Refinement-level Shadow Guard,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>if by some chance the Lu Family of Qiuyue City decided to engage in a do or die struggle…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>wouldn’t he be at a complete loss?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was his status? And what was the status of the Lu Family of Qiuyue City?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was certainly no comparing the two.\u003C\u002Fp>",1381,"2026-06-03T12:44:25.911Z","2026-06-03T12:44:27.058Z",1,"novelbin.me","2cd3cbc078b4293b916ddd9982344c33d688f231fbdfa50a31e20273da35f975","immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-686","immortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--chapter-684",2094,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fimmortality-cultivation-i-can-increase-my-stats--cover.jpg"]