[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-longevity-start-farming-with-entries":3,"chapter-longevity-start-farming-with-entries-longevity-start-farming-with-entries-chapter-40":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Longevity: Start Farming with Entries",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},679666,911,"Chapter 40 - 38: Monopoly","longevity-start-farming-with-entries-chapter-40",40,"\u003Cp>Qingyang Market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Ming was somewhat absent-minded as he walked down the street, recalling the words of Shopkeeper Liao earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the price of spirit rice drops, it means that his income will be significantly reduced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This directly affects his speed in earning spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind was constantly pondering, and he even began to feel agitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A large circle of cultivators had gathered around the announcement wall at the road ahead, pointing and discussing something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, there were cultivators watching the announcements here, but it was his first time seeing so many.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could something have happened again?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Ming couldn’t help but be curious and joined the onlookers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the top of the wall, there was a very conspicuous red bounty notice, its paper was twice as large as the others around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were no portraits on it, just descriptions of a five-person bandit group, specific features unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This group of bandits was extremely daring, having captured the son of an elder from Golden Cloud Valley in broad daylight and extorted a huge ransom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, in a very brutal manner, they killed him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that’s not even the end of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more shocking was that this group of bandits managed to escape from the pursuit of a Foundation Establishment Stage elder from Golden Cloud Valley...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Have gone beyond mere kidnapping and killing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were openly challenging the dignity of the entire Golden Cloud Valley sect!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was purely a heinous event!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden Cloud Valley, having lost face in this incident, is now offering a massive bounty to hunt down these bandits, vowing to scour the entire Yunze Wilderness at all costs to find their whereabouts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The notice stated that anyone who captures or kills any one of these five people will be rewarded with a Foundation Establishment Pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone who provides specific information on the bandits will be rewarded with the opportunity to join the inner sect of Golden Cloud Valley, along with a Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone who knows but doesn’t report them will be treated as an accomplice of the bandits and put to death without pardon!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn, they’re like beasts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even dared to kill the son of a Golden Cloud Valley elder!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Ming looked at the notice and couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the tempting rewards on the notice, many onlookers among the cultivators were eager to try their luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A Foundation Establishment Pill is good, but you’ve gotta be alive to take it, sigh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To escape unscathed from a Foundation Establishment elder’s pursuit, they surely aren’t any ordinary people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He very clearly shook his head, then silently left the place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could this group of bandits be the same ones who killed Fellow Daoist Long?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such lawlessness, daring to challenge the dignity of an entire sect, the method of the crime seems very similar.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Qin Ming walked, he suddenly remembered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back at ’Cool Small Residence.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quietly felt grateful for his wise decision to move into the market area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the cost was high, at least it was much safer than outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now the area around Qingyang Market is so chaotic, even the sect elder’s son can be killed without hesitation, what can’t these tribulation cultivators do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knock knock knock!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Ming was using the High-Level Spirit Rain Technique on the Withered Blood Poison Vine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The courtyard gate outside was knocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Ming put away the spell, walked over, and peeped out through the door hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw that it was Cai the Ninth outside the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened the gate restriction and invited Cai the Ninth in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lao Jiu, what brings you here today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What, sold the spirit rice and are ready to treat me to a drink at Juxuan Pavilion?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come in and have a cup of tea first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Ming asked with a smile on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tea... no, no tea.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Little Qin, um... can you... lend me a hundred spirit stones...\" Cai the Ninth mumbled, not daring to look at Qin Ming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Ming was taken aback to hear this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had been fellow spirit farmers here for many years, but this was the first time Cai the Ninth had asked to borrow spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something wasn’t right...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Didn’t I tell you yesterday to secretly sell all the spirit rice?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How come...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Ming, puzzled, noticed Cai the Ninth kept his head down the whole time and frowned as he said, \"Lift up your head and talk!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Cai the Ninth raised his head to look at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately revealed a face bruised and swollen, looking very miserable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him like this, Qin Ming was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lao Jiu, what happened to you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai the Ninth finally sighed in grievance, saying: \"Sigh! Yesterday, when I received your communication talisman, I intended to sell all the spirit rice to Shopkeeper Liao.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But who knew, as soon as I walked halfway, I was stopped by Jiang Kun and his gang from Spirit Feather Sect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They accused me of selling Spirit Feather Sect’s spirit rice to outsiders, not only did they beat me up, but they also confiscated all the spirit rice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They even fined me double the spirit rice, amounting to two hundred spirit stones...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I can’t pay up in three days, they’ll... they’ll exile me to the battle camp...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Qin Ming’s brow furrowed deeply, yet again it was this Jiang Kun! Last time in the Steward Hall, he almost caused trouble for me too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you mean by unauthorized selling?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After paying the spirit rice tax, the remaining spirit rice is ours, Spirit Feather Sect has no control over it, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"On what basis are they fining you?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai the Ninth nervously said: \"Th-they said Jiang Kun and these inner sect disciples also set up a ’Mingzhen Tower’ in the market.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Their number one competitor is ’Juxuan Pavilion’ within the market.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They didn’t expect that the profit of running a restaurant in the market would grow so large, and part of the spirit stones earned through ’Mingzhen Pavilion’ would be sent back to the sect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So even the upper echelon of Spirit Feather Sect tacitly approve of this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They said, in a few days when the spirit fields open for cultivation, Steward Gue will announce this matter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the future, it will be strictly forbidden for spirit farmers under Spirit Feather Sect’s jurisdiction to sell spirit rice to other shops except Mingzhen Tower.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Violators will be heavily fined.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Additionally, a few spirit farmers were also selling spirit rice in the market yesterday, and one of them even had his leg broken by Jiang Kun and his gang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai the Ninth’s voice became hoarse as he spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On hearing this, Qin Ming’s head buzzed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is trying to create a monopoly!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget everything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have a contract with Juxuan Pavilion!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I break Spirit Feather Sect’s ban, I surely won’t come off well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if I breach the contract with Juxuan Pavilion, I’ll face sky-high spirit stone compensation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirit stones are secondary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key is that if I anger Guu Qingzhao, Mirror Snow Pavilion probably won’t let me go either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cost of breaking the contract, I know all too well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh, that bastard Jiang Kun!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why meddle with anything? Why start Mingzhen Tower??!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those bandits should have captured him too and killed him!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Ming gritted his teeth in hatred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This current predicament left him in a dilemma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After pondering for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out one hundred and fifty spirit stones from his storage pouch, along with two healing pills, and handed them to Cai the Ninth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take these for now, take care of your injuries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’ll discuss the other matters later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai the Ninth took the spirit stones and pills from Qin Ming’s hands, immediately tearing up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment he was choked with sobs and unable to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this cruel cultivation world, not everyone is willing to lend out spirit stones casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>PS: Thank you to all the grand audience for every recommendation vote, too many to thank individually, so thank you all together here!\u003C\u002Fp>",1357,"2026-06-02T08:35:13.175Z",1,"novelbin.me","bd42088f16cbd76a34f2455dad3277092e82fc18c7c8910d7911df3415771065","longevity-start-farming-with-entries-chapter-41","longevity-start-farming-with-entries-chapter-39",633,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flongevity-start-farming-with-entries-cover.jpg"]