Chapter 926: Rapid Development After the Unification of the Northern Plains

Jiang Ding spent several months reinforcing the Absolute Spirit Array near the Tie family of Guishan and added a detection array to ensure he could always know what happened within it.

Then he flew toward the Wang Ting Wangting Fudi Secret Realm.

Over these years, as he traversed every spiritual vein, Jiang Ding had successfully located the Wang Ting Wangting Fudi Secret Realm, the most crucial contingency arranged by the Sun Canghai Tianjun for his descendants for a thousand generations.

During the flight, Jiang Ding spent some time monitoring the situation in the Northern Plains.

It has been three years since the unification of the Northern Plains, and the situation in various regions has changed greatly.

First, the man-eating demonic beasts have been basically wiped out; the vast number of demonic beasts brought by the invasion of the Western Desert Demon Clan, regardless of race or strength, have all been hunted down as long as they ate humans, and their blood, bones, and demonic cores have become raw materials for human cultivators refining pills, forging artifacts, and drawing talismans.

Every part has its use; nothing is wasted.

This is the reason many demonic clans are resentful.

The human techniques for utilizing demonic blood, bones, cores, and skins did not appear out of nowhere; they developed over countless generations. Throughout history, there have been no shortage of human cultivators who hunted demonic clans for artifact forging, and related artifact forging and pill refining techniques have improved bit by bit.

Many demonic cultivators believe that eating humans is not wrong, but natural and right.

This is the reason for their death.

They did not know the times and did not understand the great righteousness between realms.

To some extent, the invasion of the Western Desert Demon Clan, their eventual retreat, and the blood of countless Demon Lords, Demon Generals, Demon Kings, and minor demons shed across the Northern Plains, instead irrigated this land of the Northern Plains, bringing a vast amount of heavenly treasures and earthly gems; if absorbed and digested, the Northern Plains Cultivation World will be even more prosperous for the next several hundred years.

However, the demonic invasion also brought serious adverse consequences.

The human population of the Northern Plains was forcibly reduced by more than two-thirds over these decades; billions of people died in war, died from being devoured by demons, and became the main course for demons, with only a very small number of farmed residents in the great cities surviving.

These farmed cities were the vegetable gardens of demonic nobles; occasionally, giant claws would descend from the sky, catching a large swath of mortals and sending them to the kitchen to be fried, boiled, and cooked, with all eighteen methods applied.

This was the ordinary demonic noble.

Higher-level demonic nobles farmed individual Foundation Establishment sects and Jin Dan sects, often feeding them spirit stones and spirit grains, and then, when guests arrived or when they felt the desire for food, they would directly catch and cook them.

Those who were more particular, demonic lords who claimed to be literary gentlemen, would even set up the Confusing Soul Great Array, using secret realms, sect trials, and demonic invasions to catch prey, ensuring the ingredients were as fresh as possible, in the most delicious state from body to mind.

The various crimes committed by these demons caused the human population of the Northern Plains to drop to an extremely dangerous level.

The Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting has already taken action, currently transporting immigrants using Jin Dan cultivators carrying storage artifacts capable of holding living things.

to various parts of the Northern Plains, which are almost blank slates, and providing help to the immigrant humans by building houses, providing livestock, and clearing surrounding fierce beasts.

Furthermore, at Jiang Ding's suggestion, the Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting also trained a large number of mortals in the Inner Qi realm as doctors and had them sign agreements.

The Master Tushan Zhongting cultivates them into Inner Qi realm martial artists and trains them in medical skills; in return, after they graduate, they must travel across the grasslands to provide free medical and childbirth services to herdsmen.

The method of supervision is for Foundation Establishment cultivators to randomly check the divine souls of a portion of the Inner Qi realm doctor martial artists on a regular basis.

If the Inner Qi realm doctors follow the agreement, that is fine.

If they only take the Master Tushan Zhongting's money but do not do the work, then it is hard to say; the Master Tushan Zhongting is now in a near wartime state and executes strict laws and harsh punishments, so the consequences will certainly not be pleasant.

If a negligent Inner Qi realm doctor is not checked, then he is lucky; there are too many humans in the Northern Plains, and Foundation Establishment cultivators cannot manage every single detail.

Besides doctors, at Jiang Ding's suggestion, every tribe in the Northern Plains with more than a thousand people has opened a night school responsible for teaching martial arts and moral character, and all school-age children must attend.

The martial arts taught there are specially designed so that mortals with good cultivation aptitude and good comprehension can get started faster.

Moral character is the key to consolidating consensus among the human population of the Northern Plains.

Jiang Ding is already tired of the current situation where all subordinates are human-shaped traitors and hopes to change things a little.

Of course, it is probably just a little.

The most important thing is one's own strength; if one's own strength is not stable, no amount of moral character education will be useful.

Currently, the night schools are running smoothly, and a large number of immortal seedlings are discovered every year; the probability of talent appearing is almost dozens of times that of the old era.

After all, the Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting is a Daoist power and is not stingy like a mortal feudal dynasty; it can afford to pay for this food subsidy and teacher salaries.

In addition, reforms were carried out in sects across the Northern Plains.

Sects in various parts of the Northern Plains must undergo annual reviews regarding education, moral character, creativity in Daoist spells and Gong Fa, production capacity, and other aspects.

Jiang Ding does not know what these big and small sects and families are thinking.

Anyway, Jiang Ding views them as a combination of various Master Tushan Zhongting official agencies and sects both large and small; the Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting often issues orders directly to these sects without hesitation, replaces the personnel of sect masters and clan leaders, or severely rebukes them, demanding rectification within a set timeframe.

These sects, if they fail to meet the annual production, education, and Daoist spell research and creation targets, will be fined and rebuked; if they fail multiple times, they will be directly disbanded and given to True Persons or Master Dinghai Zhenjuns who want to establish sects and families.

Cultivators within sects and families are free to move; sects and families cannot restrict them and cannot use

private punishment.

If private punishment is used and someone reports it, the person who applied the private punishment will be severely punished by the Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting.

Reforms of families and sects, reforms of mortals, and so on, are unfolding vigorously in the Northern Plains, and the Northern Plains is changing with each passing day.

Mortals have begun to reproduce in large numbers; it is estimated that within thirty to forty years, the population will increase several times, at which point measures to limit the population will probably need to be considered to prevent the massive reproduction of the population from destroying the surrounding ecosystem.

All these things are clearly written in the textbooks of the immortal gates; they are not anything profound or obscure, and for Jiang Ding, they are not difficult; he just needs to follow them.

"Thirty to forty years... so fast..."

Jiang Ding put down a document from the Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting in his divine sense and exclaimed with a click of his tongue.

After he closes his door for a small seclusion and wakes up to leave his seclusion, he should be able to see the grand spectacle of the Northern Plains population fully recovering and increasing massively.

"Tax revenue..."

Jiang Ding skipped over many documents and looked directly at the financial report, converting the figures in his mind.

"This year's income is 6.7 billion low-grade spirit stones, a fifty percent increase... it is estimated that after stabilizing in a hundred years, the annual tax revenue will be 13.2 billion low-grade spirit stones."

"13.2 billion low-grade spirit stones?"

"Not bad."

Jiang Ding's spirits lifted.

He knew this was not because the Northern Plains was so rich.

Rather, the Northern Plains was actually part of the great division of labor in the Daoist industries of the immortal gates, equivalent to a raw material base for the immortal gates; it could sell its produced spirit mines, spirit plants, spirit fruits, and other raw materials with zero tariffs, hitching a ride on the Daoist industry of the immortal gates.

If it were just the Northern Plains alone, 5 to 6 billion low-grade spirit stones for these primary raw materials would be good enough.

(End of this chapter)