Lou Xiaoyi had discovered this situation two years ago, but the news had not yet spread. There were not many people, so he could still make some gains. However, the large number of red thread worms caught by the Pufferthread Incense had caused a catastrophic reduction in the number of red thread worms in the core area of the Gobi Desert. The others were not like him, who could not wait to catch as many as he wanted. They did not care about the seasons or whether they would run out of resources.
Therefore, Lou Xiaoyi went in last year and used a lot of Pufferthread Incense, but he only caught one or two hundred red thread worms. Such a change made him realize that this precious land would not be of any help to him in the future.
Fortunately, he had some resources before.
The vague memories of his previous life gave him a very persistent awareness of protecting the environment and creatures. Therefore, he never caught indiscriminately. After using the Pufferthread Incense, he would definitely send these little worms back to the Gobi Desert. However, there were still too few people with this awareness, especially under the premise that everyone was fighting for it!
He did not go to the core area this year because he knew that the news should spread. In the future, even the ordinary white sand worms might not be able to survive in the Gobi Desert, let alone the red thread worms. Once the value of these species was discovered by humans, there would be no other outcome other than extinction.
Even the relatively remote place he was staying in had lost its former tranquility. From time to time, there would be cultivators coming over to touch and fiddle with the ground … He had no reason to stop them, and this was not his private territory. He had eaten his fill, so he went to restrict others from eating. This was not the way of cultivation!
In other words, he did not have the ability to set his own path in the Gobi Desert!
Therefore, he moved his cultivation ground back to the Earth Cliff Cave. After all, at the edge of the Gobi Desert, there would be fewer people looking for worms. Everyone's first target was still the red thread worms.
This was a rational move. This year, there were an unusually large number of rogue cultivators in the Gobi Desert. Everyone swarmed into the core area of the Gobi Desert, using the relatively cheap Pufferthread Incense to exchange for the precious red thread worms. Excessive catching had begun to spread. There were no sects nearby to declare sovereignty, and there was no ban period.
When there were more people, there were fewer resources. Under the scorching sun, conflicts were inevitable. From individual confrontations to conflicts between different countries, different regions, and different interest groups, although Lou Xiaoyi was far away and couldn't feel the fluctuations of spiritual aura, he could occasionally see cultivators fleeing in panic.
In the seemingly peaceful cultivation world, when interests could not be reconciled, it would immediately become bloody. Lou Xiaoyi didn't know if he was one of the people who had just learned the news. Would he also go to the fire to get chestnuts?
It shouldn't be idle, because ever since he stepped into this circle for nearly ten years, he hadn't found a way to obtain resources that was worth doing for a long time.
If he had to count, maybe robbery was one of them?
To Lou Xiaoyi's surprise, the situation was worsening. Just from this direction, he saw several injured cultivators fleeing. One of them even met him and politely asked which state and prefecture he was in. Lou Xiaoyi also knew the general process of their conflict. Because he could not sense the participation of cultivators of higher levels such as the Foundation Establishment, this large-scale confrontation was basically a fight between rogue cultivators, and it was developing into an alliance.
Several large regional groups began to reach an agreement and joined forces to drive away the rogue cultivators and rogue cultivators. The power of an organization was gradually revealed in this chaos.
They wanted to dominate the Gobi Desert. At the very least, they had to completely control the core area of the Gobi Desert, which was also the most important area where red thread worms were produced.
For an individual, it was difficult to resist. Everyone was in the Qi Eater stage, and there was no essential difference in their combat power. Therefore, the party with the advantage in numbers was basically the party that controlled the situation.
This injured cultivator was a lone traveler who had been ostracized. There were many like him in the central area. After being scattered, they could only flee in all directions and had no choice but to leave the area where the red thread worms were produced. For late stage Qi eating cultivators like them, ordinary white sand worms were meaningless.
The world of rogue cultivators was actually no different from that of mortals. At least at their level, there was not much difference.
Lou Xiaoyi sighed in his heart. There was nothing he could do about it. For him, it was good enough that he could take care of himself. Other people's affairs were too far away from him, so far that he couldn't reach them even if he stretched out his hand!
But trouble was like this. When you wanted to avoid it, it would pester you like a ghost. Even if he didn't go to the central area, didn't cultivate in that remote place, and didn't want to get involved in these disputes, it would still find him like a shadow.
This afternoon, he was going against the flow on the Earth Cliff. He didn't hide, because even if he hid in the caves, the changes in the spiritual vigor in the sky couldn't be hidden from people passing by. Therefore, it was better to sit on the Earth Cliff and cultivate in the Dafa. At least he could find people approaching from a farther distance.
Other people liked quiet and cool cultivation, but he liked the heat. He liked the feeling of physical exhaustion with sweat on his face, the feeling of being calcined in an oven. This was not a physical affection, but a psychological closeness.
Therefore, he found two cultivators riding a dessert camel at the first moment. It was not because he could feel the breath of cultivators, but because from this direction, they couldn't be ordinary mortals. This was not the direction of the trade route, and there were few water sources.
The dessert camel ran unhurriedly. Obviously, it was different from the lone travelers who were being chased. Lou Xiaoyi slowly stopped his cultivation, but still maintained the posture of cultivation to deal with possible troubles.
The two strangers obviously didn't have any special intention. They saw that the soil of the Gobi began to plate. There was more and more soil, and less and less sand. They knew that this place was close to the edge of the Gobi. Then, they saw the relatively high Earth Cliff and a person sitting on it.
Under the scorching sun, those who could sit here and bask in the sun were either lunatics or cultivators. The two hesitated for a moment, and then rode their dessert camels to find him. They ran to the bottom of the Earth Cliff and looked at the person who was still sitting there motionlessly. One of them said,
"The Red Line Alliance of the Gobi is temporarily seizing this area. My friend, you'd better not stay here for long, or we'll be in trouble!"
These words were very polite, but the meaning behind them was aggressive. Lou Xiaoyi was very puzzled.
"Seizing? Do you have the authorization of the Imperial Court of the Ye Kingdom? Give a seal? Send a letter everywhere? If not, as far as I know, Zhaoye is not a cultivation country. The land and rivers are all owned by the country. Since when can cultivators divide their land and claim a certain area as their own? "
The cultivator frowned. Sure enough, there were no good people among the rogue cultivators. As long as their interests were threatened, they would immediately refuse.
"Since we're cultivators, we shouldn't talk about the mortal world! We control this area and only control the entry and exit of cultivators. Mortals are not forbidden!
Little brother, when you're outside, don't be infected with the bad habits of rogue cultivators! When it's time to give in, you have to give in! Otherwise, don't blame us for not warning you in advance when you suffer losses! "
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