Chapter 673: The Huang Ye of the Four Commanderies

Ten years had passed since the last beast tide.

During that last tide, the Su Family, leading their allied families, had blocked the demon army at the edge of the Liuyun Mountain Range and even managed to slay a Tier 4 demon beast.

On the other side, the Yunyang Sect had also successfully repelled the branch army of the beast tide.

It could be said that while this last beast tide was the most ferocious attack on the Zheng State in a thousand years, the damage it caused was the least.

Very few immortal cultivation markets were actually breached; instead, they provided the cultivators of the Zheng State with a massive influx of materials.

Although 99% of those demon beasts were Tier 1, most parts of these beasts could be utilized.

Demon beast blood could be used for talisman ink, the meat could be consumed, the fur could be used to refine talisman paper, and the scales and other hard parts could be used for artifact refining.

It could be said that the hundreds of thousands of demon beasts brought a vast amount of materials to the Zheng State.

This caused the prices of magical artifacts and spirit talismans to drop by ten to twenty percent for a time.

It could be said that the surviving cultivators all had slightly fuller purses.

Especially the cultivators of Liuyun Mountain, who had gained a great deal from both the initial defense and the final pursuit.

Added to this were the rewards provided by the Su Family.

The Su Family was particularly generous with Foundation Establishment Pills; they had brought out thirty-five of them solely as merit rewards.

Among the rogue cultivators, twelve were obtained, which subsequently created eight Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators.

The rest were taken by the major immortal cultivation families, most of whom were considered vassals of the Su Family.

As for the Su Family, they obtained even more Foundation Establishment Pills, as they had slain twenty-six Tier 3 demon beasts in this battle.

The Su Family could refine twenty-six batches of Foundation Establishment Pills, ultimately obtaining one hundred and fifty-two pills.

Of course, excluding the merit rewards, the Su Family brought out another thirty-seven Foundation Establishment Pills for auction.

After all, in defending against the beast tide, the Su Family had consumed two to three million spirit stones; it could be said that they had exhausted a century of accumulation all at once.

They also owed the Yunyang Sect five hundred thousand spirit stones.

Therefore, auctioning off thirty-plus Foundation Establishment Pills could also recover a portion of the spirit stones, as one Foundation Establishment Pill was worth nearly twenty thousand spirit stones.

In one go, they recovered seven to eight hundred thousand spirit stones.

The remaining eighty Foundation Establishment Pills were reserved for the Su Family's own clan members and external members.

With the Su Family's foundation, eighty Foundation Establishment Pills could create nearly fifty Foundation Establishment cultivators, if not more.

Taken together, the Su Family had not suffered a loss this time; after all, those one hundred and fifty-plus Foundation Establishment Pills were worth nearly three million.

There were also many demon beast corpses and such, worth nearly four million.

And that was not even counting the Tier 4 demon beast.

Therefore, in the end, the Su Family had not lost money in this beast tide; instead, in the coming decades, the Su Family's strength would grow rapidly.

In the ten years after the beast tide ended, the Su Family did not stop their pace; instead, they took the initiative to attack, capturing the Huoyun Mountain Range in one fell swoop and connecting it to the Liuyun Mountain Range.

The Su Family officially possessed two mountain ranges, and after the two areas were connected, Su Family cultivators went out every day to clear the wilderness within a radius of eight thousand li.

This sweep lasted for ten years.

With ten years of uninterrupted sweeping, not only the Su Family's own clan but also those rogue cultivators followed behind, finally cleaning up the wilderness almost entirely.

There were not many demon beasts left.

Even if there were, they were all Tier 1 demon beasts, which no longer posed much of a threat to the two areas.

With the two areas connected, the area was about the size of a prefecture in the Zheng State.

For this reason, the Su Family united with the Taihe lineage and a group of affiliated families to establish several commanderies and counties in these two areas and their surroundings.

"The first step of the clearing work is finally completed."

In Liuyun Peak, the Su Family's annual high-level meeting had also begun.

A group of the Su Family's high-level members gathered together.

"Thank you all for your hard work over these ten years. Without you, this ten-year sweeping work would not have been completed so easily."

Su Wanjun cupped his hands and said solemnly to everyone present.

"Clan Leader, you are too kind!"

Hearing this, everyone hurriedly said they dared not take the credit. Over these ten years, Clan Leader Su Wanjun had personally presided over the Su Family's political affairs, managing this major sweeping operation in an orderly fashion.

Everyone could see the ability of this Su Family Clan Leader, and no one was unconvinced.

The Su Family's strength was visibly improving, and the Su Family's external members and those allies naturally saw this very clearly.

"Haha!"

"Teleportation arrays have already been established in the Liuyun Mountain and Huoyun Mountain Ranges, and four commanderies have been opened up between the two areas, though these four commanderies are currently still a thousand li of wilderness."

"Next, the task for the Su Family and all of you is to build up these four commanderies and develop them."

"If you have any ideas, you can bring them up now, and our Su Family will also do everything possible."

Su Wanjun's words left many people present in silence.

This was not a simple matter. The original wilderness had indeed become much safer after being cleared by the Su Family for ten years without interruption.

Moreover, this wilderness was not completely barren; there were still many places with spirit veins, although not like the Liuyun Mountain and Huoyun Mountain Ranges.

But in some places, there were still Tier 2 spirit veins, just like in Yu Commandery.

The Su Family had divided this wilderness into four commanderies after reconnaissance, and there were quite a few Tier 2 spirit veins in these four commanderies.

Because the Su Family had the Liuyun Mountain Range and the Huoyun Mountain Range, they naturally did not look down upon these four commanderies.

But that did not mean the four commanderies could not be developed; most of the four commanderies were located in plains.

It was the best place for the development of mortals.

Unlike the Liuyun Mountain Range, which had Tier 4 spirit veins, the development of mortals was not very extensive; there were limits, as there were too few plains in the mountain range.

The upper limit was only about ten million or so.

But if these four commanderies were fully developed, it would absolutely be no problem to support eighty million mortals.

One must know that the productivity of this world was not as good as that of the later Earth.

This showed the fertility of these four commanderies.

But wanting to develop them was not that easy. The Su Family had cleared the wilderness, but they had only cleared the demon beasts within it.

In the eight thousand li of wilderness, wild beasts were rampant, and the mountain forest aura was also very dangerous for mortals.

Even the wild grass in the plains was as tall as two people.

To develop a place suitable for mortals to survive would require a great deal of effort, and relying solely on mortals, one did not know how many decades it would take.

After all, not all family cultivators could be like those Su Family disciples, willing to go to the wilderness as immortal cultivators to clear land for mortals.

There were not many cultivators who were willing to abandon their status like this. ===== CHAPTER 674 =====