Chapter 269: Being Conscripted

After a few cups of spiritual wine brought by Wang Chen, Chen Qi's floodgates of conversation burst open.

From his mouth, Wang Chen learned the root cause of Dongwu Stockade's current state.

Turned out that Guiyuan Gate and Five Peaks Mountain, which had divvied up Cloud Sun Old Land, had been making frequent moves against the loose cultivator village-fortresses in their governing areas.

The two sects demanded these village-fortresses to submit grain and pay taxes, and they also forcibly conscripted a large number of loose cultivators to labor in the mines and hunting grounds.

When the Cloud Sun Sect was in charge, they mostly adopted a laissez-faire approach to the village-fortresses in the Outer Domain, at most taking advantage of the sect's resource superiority to reap benefits from the loose cultivators.

Although the days of loose cultivators could not compare to sect disciples, their survival was not a problem.