Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

”The Three Kingdoms, after deducting various administrative and staff expenses, had a revenue of sixty-five million, two hundred and twenty-one thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones for that year.”

Jiang Ding set down a financial report, silently calculating and cross-referencing it with intelligence from various parties such as Golden Pill cultivator Li Qingyun of the Qiyu Sect.

Although the current administration was run by Tushan maiden group, and the institutional frameworks could still be considered well-established, the necessary supervision was still required. Human nature was not worth testing and should not be tested.

”There are minor flaws, but still within the margin of error.”

Jiang Ding put down the financial report he was holding and picked up another labelled ”New Additions to the Tushan Maiden Reserve.”

This was an extension of his martial force, an institution for extending governance, and needed to be given more attention.

Over seven years in the Three Kingdoms, the Tushan maiden group rapidly expanded due to various administrative and combat needs as well as territorial expansion.

Up to now, the number of prospective maidens had reached six hundred and seventy-four individuals, all either twinling root or Three Spiritual Roots with exceptional talent and comprehension, or Quadruple Spiritual Root individuals whose comprehension overshadowed others.

Of these, twenty percent were maidens from the yao tribes.

From the Rabbit Tribe, Three-tailed fox tribe, Tiger Clan, Snake Clan, Horse Clan, and the Five-colored peacock, among others, they flocked to join, with the most outstanding demon race female cultivators longing to be a part.

The Tushan maiden group.

This was the highest governing body in the Three Kingdoms!

The fate of the Three Kingdoms was steered, controlled, and executed by them, carrying out orders from Ancestor Tushan. Besides the power involved, the treatments in terms of Cultivation Method, Elixirs, and transmissions were beyond imagination.

Even if the demon race girls themselves were not keen, their elders and siblings would go to great lengths to train them to qualify to become a part of the Tushan maiden group.

”There’s an abundance of talent...”

Jiang Ding muttered to himself as he looked over every maiden, their appearance, talent, and comprehension skills.

The demon race, unlike humans, valued their racial bloodlines instead of Spiritual Roots.

Mixed Blood, Pure Blood, Noble Blood, Earthly Quality, Sky-grade, the categories are roughly such, corresponding to the Human Race’s Quadruple Spiritual Root, Three Spiritual Roots, twinling root, and Sky Spiritual Root respectively.

Sky-grade was known as the divine bloodline among demons, equivalent to the Daoist Body among humans.

There were no Sky-grade bloodlines.

Yet, there were three with Earthly Quality Bloodline, equivalent to human’s Sky Spiritual Root!

It was a massive surge in the demon race’s destiny in the Three Kingdoms, as if all had surfaced at once, seizing the opportunity to grow wildly and aggressively taking over living spaces.

Even Jiang Ding couldn’t help but recall the racial destiny theories often found within native sects, which many predecessors of the Xianmen Sect had dismissed as superstitious.

Such an astonishing coincidence.

The first name on the list of prospective demon maidens was Bai Hualing, a member of the Three-tailed fox tribe, with above-average comprehension.

Yes, it was the former ruling clan of the Tushan Monster Country, the Three-tailed fox tribe.

It wasn’t without reason that the demon race revered bloodlines; the royalty and the country lord’s bloodlines provided a much higher chance of producing demon race talent than the common bloodlines.

”Investigate this.”

Jiang Ding casually ordered.

”Yes!”

Outside the palace, a Peak of Foundation Building maiden in a light blue gown, hand on the hilt of her sword, appeared, bowed slightly, and flew off with her people.

Jiang Ding did not discriminate based on origin.

But he had personally killed the Peacock Demon Kong Que, Tushan Country Lord, and others from the Tushan Monster Country. If there was any vendetta, they could no longer be trained. His open-mindedness did not extend so far.

Of course, he would not kill them either.

So many years had passed; these girls had not yet been born at that time. It would be petty to hold such infants accountable.

The second, Kong Yu Ling, from the Five-Colored Peacock Clan, with Earthly Quality Bloodline and above-average comprehension.

If there were no surprises, this was the race of the great King Kong Que from back then. This race boasted a talent known as the Five-colored Divine Light. Although somewhat boasting, it was indeed powerful. In the past, even in the early stages of his Golden Pill, he had been hard-pressed by them, nearly turning the tables, a truly mysterious racial talent.

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Needless to say, with similarly over-the-top investigations, the handling was the same.

Most noble members of the Demon Race are like this, possessing one or two very strong bloodline talents that invoke envy in others.

By comparison, humans seem very ordinary.

A large number of humans have no Spiritual Root, and most of those who do possess the Three or Quadruple Spiritual Roots. The rest with a Twinling Root or Sky Spiritual Root often can’t compare with a same tier Earthly Quality Bloodline in combat strength or advancement speed.

They seem pitifully weak.

Beaten up by the vast majority of the Demon Race, savory blood meals on two-legged sheep.

But once a human Elite emerges, they can instantly make you realize who’s the daddy, crying and pleading, cursing the unfairness of the gods.

This vast territory wasn’t given as a bonus with a phone recharge.

While bloodlines raise the lower limit for the Demon Race, they also bind their upper limit. Even astonishingly brilliant Demon Elites have to overcome this constraint of their bloodlines to reach heights higher than their ancestors.

Humans, on the other hand, have no such encumbrances. Destitute and without resources, they have no shackles inhibiting them from reaching greater heights.

The talents of the two are focused differently.

”The third Demon Race individual with an Earthly Quality Bloodline... intriguing,”

Jiang Ding’s eyes flickered.

”Yu Bai, of the Rabbit Tribe origin, with a mutated Earthly Quality Bloodline in the direction of moonlight, could be referred to as the Moonlight Jade Rabbit Bloodline. Her talent is also related to controlling moonlight, and her comprehension is above average.”

”A mutated moonlight bloodline, with an uncertain future, not as visibly promising as the Five-colored Peacock Bloodline or the Three-tailed Fox Tribe Bloodline, hence ranked third.”

”This one is very good,”

Jiang Ding revealed a smile.

There was no need to investigate; he knew that there were no blood feuds between Yu Bai and himself. The Rabbit Tribe was famously known throughout the Demon Race for being weak and quick-witted, branded as a delicious delicacy, and oppressed within the Demon Race.

Even more intriguing was the mutated bloodline.

This implied that as she rose to power, there would not emerge a powerful Demon Race species to support her, creating a tendency to lean towards the Human Race under objective conditions.

Of course, it was just a tendency.

Including the other two maiden Demon Race members with Earthly Quality Bloodlines, they were currently well-behaved, with simple mindsets, not secretly harboring ill-intentions. No one would send such a talented young Demon girl to be a spy.

What the future would hold depended on how they were nurtured and their growth process.

Nevertheless, compared to the other two maids, this Rabbit Tribe maiden had a higher starting point in terms of innate politics.

”Thirty points for political advantage,”

Jiang Ding wrote a note next to the name of the third Rabbit Tribe maiden.

This meant that this Rabbit Tribe girl named Yu Bai would receive more cultivation. With the same talent and comprehension, her starting point was simply higher than the other two.

If the Five-Colored Peacock Clan’s Kong Yu Ling and the Three-tailed Fox Tribe’s Bai Hualing wanted to catch up or even surpass her, they would need more effort, opportunities, and their own talent and charm.

However, it was not set in stone.

If Yu Bai was not diligent enough or lacked talent, her high starting point would not change anything.

The final outcome remained unknown.

”The Demon Race has some good talent... the path of ’embracing all rivers’ is the right one,”

Jiang Ding continued reading.

There were many young Demon Race maidens with bloodlines equivalent to a Twinling Root — the peacock girl with a pair of beautiful wings, the fluffy three-tailed fire-red fox Tribe girl, the adorably naive Tiger Clan girl, the cold and indifferent Snake Clan girl, the lovably clumsy Bull Clan girl...

One could imagine, once they grew up, what a formidable force they would represent.

If confined within the Human Race, such talents would be wasted, worth less than chaff, dying indiscriminately and causing not even a ripple.

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