Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Jiang Ding spent several months near the Guishan Iron Family, reinforcing the Absolute Spirit Formation and adding detection formations to ensure that any events occurring within could be promptly noticed.

He then flew towards the direction of the King’s Court Blessed Land Secret Realm.

Over the years, as he traversed every Spiritual Vein, Jiang Ding had successfully pinpointed the location of this vital fallback, meticulously arranged by Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch for his descendants for generations to come.

While flying, Jiang Ding took some time to focus on the situation in the Northern Plains.

Since the unification of the Northern Plains, three years had passed and significant changes occurred everywhere.

First and foremost, the man-eating monsters were almost completely eradicated; the large influx of Demon Beasts from the Western Desert Demon Race, regardless of species or strength, as long as they were man-eaters, had been hunted down to near extinction, their blood, bones, and Demon Pills becoming raw materials for Human Cultivators in alchemy, Artifact Refining, and talisman-making.

Every part was utilized, nothing was wasted.

This was a major reason many Demon Races ceased to exist.

The Human Race didn’t conceive these techniques of utilizing Demon blood, bones, and skins out of thin air; they evolved over countless generations, with a long tradition of Human Cultivators hunting Demons for Artifact Refining, and the related Artifact Refining and alchemy techniques gradually improved.

Many Cultivators from the Demon Race believe that eating humans is natural and justified.

That is the reason for their demise.

They are unaware of Heavenly timing, and fail to grasp the greater righteousness between domains.

In a way, the invasion from the Western Desert Demon Race, ultimately resulting in their retreat, had sprinkled their blood across the Northern Plains, nourishing the land and bringing forth numerous Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. If these could be assimilated and absorbed, the Northern Plains Cultivation World would prosper greatly for the next few centuries.

However, the invasion of the Demon Race also brought severe consequences.

The Human Race of the Northern Plains had been severely depleted over the decades, reducing by more than two-thirds. Billions died in the war, devoured by the Demon Race, becoming feasts for them, with only a few city dwellers who were raised in captivity surviving.

These captive cities were like vegetable gardens for the elite of the Demon Race, where giant claws would occasionally descend from the sky, capturing a swath of mortals to be fried, boiled, or cooked with eighteen different methods.

This was typical of the elite of the Demon Race.

The higher echelons of the Demon Race’s elite kept Foundation Establishment Sects and Golden Core Sects captive, routinely feeding them Spirit Stones and Spirit Valleys, and when dignitaries visited or when they craved for flesh, they would directly capture and cook them.

The more sophisticated Demon Monarchs, who considered themselves cultured and refined, would set up Soul Confusion Great Arrays, and use secret realms, Sect trials, or Demon Race invasions to capture their prey, ensuring the freshness of their ingredients to the greatest extent, both in body and spirit.

These heinous crimes committed by the Demon Race led to the Northern Plains Human Race decreasing to a dangerously low level.

Tushan Central Court has now taken action, with Golden Pill Monks using Storage Treasures capable of transporting living beings to move immigrants to nearly empty areas of the Northern Plains, constructing houses for humans, providing livestock, and clearing surrounding fierce beasts.

Even, under the suggestion from Jiang Ding, Tushan Central Court trained a large number of Inner Qi Realm commoners in medical skills, who signed agreements after training.

The Central Court fostered them as Inner Qi Realm Martial Artists and trained in medical skills, and they were required to roam the grasslands upon graduation, providing free medical and midwifery services to herdsmen.

The supervision method was that Foundation-building cultivators would periodically conduct random inspections of the Divine Souls of some Inner Qi Realm healers.

If the Inner Qi Realm healer acted according to the agreement, all was well.

But if they only took money from the Central Court without actually working, it was a different story. The Central Court was nearly in a state of war, enforcing strict laws and severe punishments, and the consequences were certainly not pleasant.

If any negligent Inner Qi Realm healers weren’t caught in the inspections, they were just lucky. There were too many people in the Northern Plains for the Foundation-building cultivators to manage everything.

Besides the healers, under Jiang Ding’s suggestion, in the Northern Plains, each tribe with more than a thousand members established a night school responsible for teaching martial arts and moral thought, with all school-aged children required to attend.

Among the martial arts taught here are specially designed, so that ordinary people with good cultivation talent and comprehension can get started faster.

Moral and ideological education is the key to uniting consensus among the Northern Plains Human Race.

Jiang Ding has grown weary of the current situation where all his subordinates are rebellious in nature and wishes to change that to some degree.

Of course, that change might be slight.

The most important aspect is still one’s own strength; without stable personal strength, all forms of moral and ideological education are futile.

So far, the night school is running smoothly, discovering a vast number of Immortal Successor seeds each year, with the occurrence of talents nearly dozens of times more than in the old era.

After all, Tushan Central Court is an Immortal Path Force, unlike the stingy feudal dynasties of mortals, they can afford to provide food subsidies and teachers’ salaries.

Besides, reforms have also been carried out in Sects all around Northern Plains.

Each year, these local Sects in Northern Plains must undergo audits on education, moral and ideological values, creativity in Immortal Spells and cultivation techniques, and production capabilities.

What these various big and small Sects and clans think, Jiang Ding does not know.

Anyway, Jiang Ding treats them as combinations of government agencies and educational institutions of various central courts in Tushan, often issuing decrees directly to these Sects without courtesy, changing Sect Masters or clan leaders, or severely reprimanding them, ordering them to rectify within a deadline.

These Sects, if they cannot meet the annual production, education, and research and development targets for Immortal Spells, will be fined and reprimanded, and if repeatedly failing, will be directly dismissed and given to true beings and Immortals who wish to establish Sects and clans.

Cultivators within the Sects and clans can move freely; Sects and clans cannot restrict them or use private punishments.

The use of private punishment, once reported, the perpetrator will be severely punished by Tushan Central Court.

Reforms in clans, Sects, and mortals and such measures are vigorously carried out in Northern Plains, which is undergoing rapid changes day by day.

Mortals begin to reproduce in large numbers, it is estimated that between thirty to forty years, the population will experience a several-fold increase, and by then, measures to limit population may have to be considered to prevent the massive reproduction from destroying the surrounding ecology.

These various measures are clearly written in Xianmen textbooks, not something profound and obscure, and for Jiang Ding, they are not difficult to implement.

”Thirty to forty years... so soon...”

Jiang Ding puts down a document from Tushan Central Court in his Divine Sense, exclaiming.

After he comes out of a brief seclusion, he should be able to see the prosperity of the fully recovered and greatly increased population of Northern Plains.

”Tax revenue...”

Jiang Ding skips over many documents, looking directly at the financial reports, calculating in his mind.

”This year’s income, 6.7 billion Low-grade Spirit Stones, up fifty percent... estimated to stabilize at 132 billion Low-grade Spirit Stones per year after a hundred years.”

”132 billion Low-grade Spirit Stones?”

”Not bad.”

Jiang Ding feels invigorated.

He knows that it is not because Northern Plains is extremely rich.

Rather, Northern Plains is actually part of a large division of the Immortal Path industry of Xianmen, serving as the raw material base for Xianmen, able to export its mined Spirit Mines, Spiritual Plants, Spirit Fruits, and other raw materials with zero tariffs, benefiting from the Immortal Tao Industry.

If it were just Northern Plains alone, these primary raw materials would be good at around 50 to 60 billion Low-grade Spirit Stones.