After Xiao Fei single-handedly annihilated the thirty members of the Man family, the entire city of over a thousand people was thoroughly intimidated.
Everyone believed him to be a peerless master who had broken through his limits, and they feared him even more than they had the Man family before.
Xiao Fei, capitalizing on his undiminished momentum, announced to everyone that he was taking over all the rights and privileges of the Man family.
All debts owed to the Man family must now be paid to him, Xiao Fei.
As for the debts owed by the Man family to others…
Hmph! Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt has its owner. They could go and demand payment from the Man family themselves; what did it have to do with him, Xiao Fei?
If anyone disagreed, they could come and fight him to see whose fists were harder.
Xiao Fei's approach, surprisingly, went smoothly in the Giant Realm. Not a single person among the city's thousand-plus inhabitants stepped forward to oppose him.
Everyone highly approved of his methods, offering no dissent, acting as if it were all perfectly natural.
The Giants were physically strong and their brains were filled with muscle; they were all quite superstitious about brute force.
Problems that could be solved with fists were never tackled with brains. Might made right.
The lives of the city's thousand-plus people remained largely unchanged. They continued with their daily routines, with only their ruler having changed.
Many of the city's industries belonged to the Man family, requiring annual rent payments, all of which now belonged to Xiao Fei.
In addition to this, there were vast tracts of land outside the city, though not all of them were suitable for cultivation.
Only about a third of the land was arable, and this was due to the relatively dense presence of 'qi' in the area, which allowed for so much cultivable land.
Naturally, most of this prime land also belonged to the Man family, and most of the city's inhabitants survived by helping the Man family cultivate it.
After Xiao Fei took over the city, all policies remained unchanged. Everything was maintained as it was, and the people lived in peace and contentment.
The only difference was that he selected ten somewhat simple-minded Giants from a group of starving people, gave them food, and had them follow him around, wielding large clubs.
Previously, the Man family had suppressed the city through sheer strength. With over thirty members in their household, no one dared to provoke them.
However, Xiao Fei had defeated the Man family through poisoning and trickery, temporarily bluffing the city's thousand-plus inhabitants.
Xiao Fei felt somewhat insecure daily, which was why he recruited these simpletons to stay by his side.
Now, whenever he went out, he was followed by ten simpletons, causing a commotion wherever they went, quite a show of power.
For the past while, he had been taking these ten simpletons out to play aimlessly outside the city every day.
Today, after repeatedly explaining the rules of the game to the ten simpletons, Xiao Fei launched his white bone spear, sending it flying towards a distant mountain.
At almost the same time, nine of the simpletons also threw their spears. One simpleton remained frozen, scratching an itch.
Of the remaining nine, their spears were thrown with varying degrees of speed, and some even missed the target, despite the mountain's immense size.
Xiao Fei was not too surprised, as they were all slow-witted. For their first training session, their performance was quite satisfactory.
There were two types of people easiest to command in this world: one was the simple-minded, whose thoughts were straightforward and who could easily be trained to be obedient.
The other was the exceptionally intelligent; such people understood everything and could grasp all kinds of advantages and disadvantages, requiring only benefits or threats to be driven.
After their simultaneous attack, the peak of a large mountain was shaved off, and dust billowed into the air.
Xiao Fei approached and struck the scratching Giant's hand with his club, sternly questioning him.
"Han Shi, did you hear the command?"
"Yes!"
Han Shi pulled his hand out from his trousers, sniffed it deeply, and then answered unhurriedly.
"Then why didn't you throw your spear?"
"I was scratching an itch!"
As Han Shi spoke, he tried to put his hand back into his trousers to scratch again, but Xiao Fei hit his hand with his club once more.
"You disobeyed the command during training. Your qualification for today's training is revoked. You get no food today."
Han Shi, who had not seemed too bothered by being hit earlier, was stunned when he heard he would receive no food.
He had followed Xiao Fei solely to get food. Now that he was denied food, it was more distressing to him than being beaten.
Han Shi could only dejectedly walk to the side, watching the others continue their game, feeling even hungrier at the thought of having no food today.
The remaining nine simpletons continued to play the game with Xiao Fei, becoming much more serious than at the beginning.
Now, upon hearing a command, each of them immediately followed Xiao Fei in throwing their spears, daring not to delay, fearing they might miss out on their evening meal.
After a day of training, Xiao Fei produced dozens of 'qi' potatoes and the carcass of a giant beast, assigning the simpletons to cook.
These ordinary Giants were not particular about their food; as long as there was something to eat, they were content, regardless of whether it was cooked or raw. It was only under Xiao Fei's strong insistence that they managed to cook the food before eating.
Han Shi, huddled in a corner, saw the beast meat and his mouth began to water profusely.
Food was scarce in the Giant Realm. Being able to fill one's stomach was considered good fortune; eating meat was something they dared not even dream of normally.
On the second day of training, Han Shi behaved uncharacteristically, showing exceptional enthusiasm. Whatever Xiao Fei commanded, he would follow without hesitation.
That evening, Han Shi successfully ate meat. The fellow beamed with joy, hugging a large chunk of meat.
In the following period, Xiao Fei conducted various targeted training sessions with these ten simpletons.
Through various rigorous trainings, supplemented by rewards and punishments, he invisibly established absolute authority in the minds of the ten simpletons.
Whatever command Xiao Fei issued, they would obey reflexively and execute the orders resolutely.
Although Giants generally had somewhat dull minds, and these ten were the cream of the crop selected from them, their individual strength was not compromised in the slightest.
His ten subordinates, the simpletons, possessed the strength of ten Integration stage powerhouses.
Under his training and integration, the combat power they could unleash was sufficient to deal with thirty opponents.
Now, when Xiao Fei walked around the city with these ten simpletons, collecting rent and protection fees, he felt much more confident.
With sufficient martial power guaranteed, he also brought out the crops he had planted in his space and sold them in the city, exchanging them for more Origin Crystals.
The Giant Realm was not limited to his city; there were other large cities as well.
There were also merchants who traded goods between cities. Xiao Fei sold the Blood Fang Rice he cultivated to these merchants in batches.
Over time, his reputation gradually spread, and often merchants from outside the city came to purchase Blood Fang Rice from him.
During this period, he first seized all the wealth of the Man family, then continuously collected rent from the city, and added to that the income from selling Blood Fang Rice, accumulating a large amount of Origin Crystals.
Xiao Fei invested all these Origin Crystals into his space. After being absorbed by the space, the time flow within the space increased from 80 to 90 times.
He planned to at least raise the time flow to 100 times within the Giant Realm.
Additionally, he intended to save more Origin Crystals to prepare for his breakthrough to the Integration stage.