Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Chapter 354: Chapter 142 The Secret of the Grey Mist, Acquiring the Treasure Tai Sui!_3

Regarding the Black Tai Sui, it is often found in ominous places, whereas the Blood Tai Sui requires the blood of the Strongest to grow, making it nearly impossible to find in the wild.

Chen Jie responded to this, ”So that’s how it is.”

Meanwhile, the Old blind man continued, ”This Tai Sui is a very important strategic asset, and you, lad, are blessed by the Heavenly Mandate to have discovered such a weak Earth Tai Sui. It’s truly your destiny!”

”Don’t let anyone else know about this. If the court finds out, I’m afraid that even Prince Runan of Jiangnan Dao will come to inquire personally.”

”By then, you won’t have any share in it.”

After hearing this, Chen Jie looked at the Old blind man and said, ”I understand.”

Chen Jie truly understood; the Tai Sui was indeed a key strategic asset, especially crucial to Martial Artists, as it could serve as a high-end supplement to bolster combat power.

If one were to equate this item to the Cultivation World, then the elixir formed from the Tai Sui Meat would be akin to a Spirit Stone, capable of replenishing a Cultivator’s energy.

The living Tai Sui, on the other hand, was like a small Spirit Vein, capable of nurturing a small sect.

Stumbling upon such a treasure, it had to be said that Chen Jie was truly favored by destiny!

Of course, had he been eaten by the Earth Tai Sui today, it would have been a case of ill-fated circumstances; the victor is named favored by destiny, the defeated as ill-fated.

Additionally, the Old blind man provided Chen Jie with a very important piece of information – that he was fortunate to have encountered an Earth Tai Sui.

The distinctive feature of Earth Tai Sui is that they do not move; they grow in one place and stay there for life, thus also known as a Living Spiritual Vein.

Other Tai Sui types could move; for example, a Water Tai Sui might be encountered here today and gone without a trace the next day.

Only the Earth Tai Sui laboriously lay in wait here, trapping creatures to absorb their nutrients, waiting for someone fated to use it for great undertakings.

Furthermore, Chen Jie had learned from the Old blind man that Daqian was able to firmly suppress the Central Plains Han people because they possessed several large Tai Sui Spirit Veins.

To nurture these Tai Suis, the Mulan people would often capture Han slaves to sacrifice at the Spirit Vein, offering them to the Tai Sui.

After listening to so much explanation from the Old blind man, Chen Jie could grasp the significance of the Earth Tai Sui; possessing one was like having a small arms factory during a time of resistance, or like grasping a small Spirit Vein in the Cultivation World.

The Old blind man also said that the Tai Sui normally hid in the earth and would not consume on such a large scale.

Chen Jie arrived by chance, and as he fought the wolves, their blood soaked into the ground. The Earth Tai Sui absorbed so much blood that it mistook it for a sacrifice and emerged to enjoy the offering.

That was why Chen Jie was attacked.

Boom!

A loud explosion sounded, and the five massive maws of the Tai Sui slammed down, stirring up dust within a fifty-meter radius.

Seeing this, Chen Jie said, ”Can this thing really be defeated by human strength?”

The Old blind man replied, ”You definitely can’t win head-on, but once you reach the Wolf Smoke Realm, you can try digging from the side; its lateral tentacles are not very strong.”

Hearing this, Chen Jie nodded. This was a great gift indeed.

As the saying goes: the basis of great undertakings, this is the very foundation of a great undertaking.

However, the Old blind man remarked that this small Tai Sui was not that large, being just under a thousand years old. The largest Tai Sui mine in the court’s possession had a major Earth Tai Sui estimated to be over ten thousand years old.

An entire mountain was its body, a true behemoth that could supply tens of thousands of troops of Daqian.

Even some of the Tai Sui Pills rumored in Jianghu had leaked out from this mine.

Moreover, at least twenty thousand Han people were sacrificed each year to sustain this great Tai Sui...

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie said to the Old blind man, ”Senior, with so many Han people sacrificed each year, don’t they resist?”

The Old blind man answered, ”Resist? That’s why the Zoroastrian Sect rebelled.”

Chen Jie fell silent; he was still someone who had yet to open his eyes to the world, with his understanding being limited to the size of Mianshui County. He was not familiar with the outside world.

The Old blind man said, ”Jiu Si, the world is not as peaceful as you imagine it to be. Your Mianshui County is located in the south, where Daqian’s control is lax, so the governance here is different from that in the north.”

”Northern Lands are at the core of Daqian’s territory. They came from the grasslands, conquered the Great Song, claimed territory, and killed any resisting Han people. Seven or eight out of ten Northern Han people are slaves to the Mulan people; their lives and deaths are at the Mulan’s whim.”

”The barbarous Mulan have a penchant for violating wives and daughters, treating people like animals they own. Men are tied up in the stables daily, while women are forced into open gatherings. As wives and daughters endure suffering and cries inside the tents, the men are tied up like dogs at the entrance, forced to listen to their own wives and daughters being desecrated.”

”Jiu Si, I have witnessed these things with my own eyes.”

”Moreover, each year, the Han people in the Northern Lands are subject to randomized selections, and the court would arrest them on trumped-up charges, claiming they will work in the mines. Many are fed directly to the Tai Sui, using human blood for sacrifice, which is extremely cruel, including children as young as six or seven. I have seen such a scene once, and it is something I can never forget.”

”As for the Southern Han people, especially of Hubei Road, with Wudang Mountain as a stronghold and Master Zhang present, the Mulan people are somewhat restrained. Therefore, using softer policies, life in the south is somewhat harder due to heavy taxes, but it’s incomparable to the north.”

”Compared to the Northern Han, Southern Han are practically living in paradise!”

The Old blind man paused after saying this and then resumed, ”This is also why I blinded myself, in pursuit of knowing the Heavenly Secret.”