Chapter 512: Chapter 508: The Old, Weak, Sick, and Disabled

“…Those with inner vision and above cultivation, stand by on the west side of

Camel Hump.”

The crowd was thrown into another commotion. Those who possessed cultivation capacities separated themselves from the crowd and ran towards the west side of the main peak. The group was roughly ten thousand strong.

These were the last capable people among the refugees. Those left behind, in anyone’s eyes, were all similar to odd-shaped melons and split jujubes.

Their physique was undermined due to food scarcity, and their diminished stature caused these small, dark figures to blend together when standing so closely. Even Tang Luo could not tell the men and women apart.

The women, who should display gender characteristics, had chest parts as flat as the men’s. Though unable to distinguish in appearance, Tang Luo knew that the majority of those remaining were females.

This was an apparent fact. The notion of favoring males over females was deeply rooted in this land. Boys had the potential to work and earn money, carry on the family lineage. Some ordinary families would even skimp to afford their children’s Foundation Building, thus changing the fate of their entire household.

The girls were not so fortunate. They had no opportunities to learn to read, and they lacked the conditions to practice martial arts. For poorer households, raising a girl until the age of three or five and then giving her away for a man’s family to raise, or even selling her into a brothel, became customary.

For instance, Miaoyin Square would purchase a large number of young girls each year. These girls were not seized forcibly by the Tang Clan. Rather, the locals would eagerly sell their three-to-five-year-old daughters to Miaoyin Square for only one or two hundred gold, using the money to improve their own lives.

daughters had become a significant component

alone possess the specialties of the Five Elements. However, aptitude was not correlated with

outstanding talents were awaiting his discovery. He spoke loudly to the remaining people. ‘Though you

learn martial arts, lift

who wish to learn to read and write, and master the craft of the Five Elements, lift

over ninety percent of the crowd raised either their left or right arm, with their eyes filled

looked at the scene before him and said to the scholars behind

have our work

people who needed to learn anew were

down their knowledge in literature throughout their lineage. Though their cultivation levels were not high, their

he had already requested the Tang Clan for over a dozen

Clan’s instructors were experienced warriors. Many of them held the role of martial arts hall master. Under

concluded as the

any skills had been assigned, there were

label, “elderly, weak,

sickly thin individuals, children around seven or eight, commoners

he coughed, “How does the Clan master plan to arrange for us?” “Didn’t the old man just hear?” Tang Luo calmly looked at the old man as he spoke, “Learning a craft or martial arts, that is my arrangement for all of you.” The old man started a series of violent coughs that almost made it seem as if he was about to cough out both his lungs. His dark blue veins stood out on the hand clutching the cane. A blind woman quickly supported the old man’s left hand while patting his back. After a while, his breath had

old man shook his head with a tragic expression. He pushed away the woman, turned towards Tang Luo and continued, “clan master, we heard about and understand your orders, but…” The old man turned back to look at the people on the mountaintop, facing Tang Luo and pleaded, “We are a

the old man’s plea, the weak and elderly gathered on the mountaintop started sharing

my left hand when I was a child and am blind in my right eye. Even though I

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