Chapter 163: Arrival of Mortals

The Azure Void welcomed its first batch of mortals.

The first wave of people was not too many, arriving one after another, totaling more than three thousand, all of whom had previously lived in nearby villages. Wei Yuan had already marked out a piece of open space by a small lake in the southeast of the domain as the first city for mortals to live in.

This place is about one hundred and ten miles away from the Azure Void, currently belonging to the edge of the domain, but after tens of thousands of Shaman corpses are converted, the domain can be pushed forward by another twenty miles. There are large pieces of open space by the lake, which had been cultivated before, but all were abandoned after the great battle, and now re-cultivating them at least saves some effort in reclaiming wasteland.

Everyone was exhausted after walking all the way, but after entering the domain, they were all refreshed, and many illnesses that had plagued them for many years disappeared. When they arrived at the small lake and saw the vast and flat land, many people were moved to tears.

Wei Yuan gained another strand of cyan Qi.

The so-called mortals actually include many Body Forging cultivators, who are reluctant to leave their families and have not gone out to venture. And in the places where humans live, if there are more Body Forging cultivators in the family, whether it is neighborhood disputes or fighting for fields and water, it will be much more advantageous, and if they practice to Blood Merging, they can be village bullies.

Wei Yuan had already designated the area for building the city, nailed the boundary stakes all around, and specifically assigned dozens of cultivators to maintain order and help them build houses.

Humans in the Western Region lived extremely hard, and tens of thousands of people lived under the shacks in Quliu Town. Therefore, these people had low requirements for where they lived, as long as there was a place to shelter from the rain.

Now Wei Yuan had quite a lot of building materials on hand, all dismantled from the Shaman army camp. On the day the Shaman tribe was defeated, the camp was only repaired halfway, and a large number of materials were directly abandoned, which naturally benefited Wei Yuan.

When these people arrived at the city-building site, Wei Yuan spent half a day patrolling and personally asked about every matter. The first day's accommodation could only be made do with tents and shacks, and real houses would take some time.

The population in the domain suddenly increased by two times, and the food was a bit tight, and water was also a problem.

The small lake had just been covered by the domain for a few days, and the water in the lake was still dark green at this time, and the color had only faded a little. Wei Yuan's spiritual sense swept over, and he knew that the lake water could not be drunk at this time, and it was estimated that it would take a month to be completely converted.

However, Wei Yuan had already ordered people to build a water storage pool with stones here, and two days of rain had accumulated half a pool. The rainwater in the domain can be drunk, and in the future, every household can catch rainwater themselves, which can also solve the urgent need.

In terms of housing, Wei Yuan referred to the data written by Xu Wenwu and decided to build a four-story wooden building for the migrating mortals to live in. There are countless giant trees in the domain, and if they are cut down, they are pillar materials of more than ten zhang, and there is no problem in building four-story wooden buildings.

Until everything was seen, Wei Yuan returned to the main peak and took out the Xu family's intelligence to read carefully.

After obtaining the merchant caravan intelligence, Wei Yuan had a brand new understanding of the Lying Flat Inn's intelligence network, so he gave one hundred taels of immortal silver the second time he went, bought all the intelligence of the Xu family, and then had this booklet in Wei Yuan's hand. The booklet listed dozens of characters of the Xu family, from personality characteristics to daily hobbies, to privacy quirks, everything.

Holding this intelligence, Wei Yuan actually had a feeling of reading a storybook.

After a while, the intelligence was read, and Wei Yuan had a clear context in his heart. Originally, he planned to collect other mortals first, and finally attack Quliu Town. But since the Xu family had already torn their faces, Wei Yuan simply advanced this plan. Nearly one hundred thousand mortals lived in Quliu Town, which is something that cannot be given up no matter what.

Wei Yuan descended from the main peak and saw a cyan lightning galloping in the mountain forest from afar, so he greeted it. A moment later, Xu Wenwu rode over, jumped off the horse, and panted: "It's already walked today."

At this moment, the cyan warhorse standing in front of Wei Yuan was already one zhang high, with four white hooves and flying mane, looking very spirited. This horse was only eight feet when it was handed to Xu Wenwu two days ago, and now it has consumed a strand of cyan Qi in two days, and has transformed from a mortal horse to an introductory spirit colt.

In comparison, the warhorse using heavenly Qi luck has only consumed less than half a strand of Qi luck now, and is still at the level of a good horse among mortal horses, estimated to take five days to consume the complete strand of Qi luck.

The mortal horse that transformed after using heavenly Qi luck is more fierce and violent, and Wei Yuan's own blood-colored warhorse is already a middle-grade among spirit colts at this moment, not inferior to the black horse of the Liao tribe young master back then. If it encounters an ordinary Liao horse, without Wei Yuan taking action, it can bite the Liao horse to death itself.

And cyan Qi is easier to absorb, and it is strong and gentle after transformation, and has better endurance for long-distance running. Both Qi lucks have their own strengths, but heavenly Qi luck is clearly better. It's just that heavenly Qi luck is hard to come by, and cyan Qi already has a stable source. Seeing the cyan horse, Wei Yuan knew that Xu Wenwu was not lazy, so he said: "I brought some things for you."

Seeing a few brand-new storybooks, Xu Wenwu's eyes instantly lit up. The storybooks in the world he was in before were all written by mortals, limited by the mortal body, and naturally didn't have the tricks of cultivators.

Wei Yuan asked again: "Do you want to practice?"

"Think, of course I want to!" Xu Wenwu said without thinking, and then asked uneasily: "Do I really have talent?"

During this period, Xu Wenwu finally understood that his talent was not very good, and his comprehension was directly inherited from the previous world, not to mention it. In the past, Xu Wenwu always felt that the ancients were stupid, and couldn't even write a good eight-legged essay. But after reading the Primordial Palace's literary test questions, he understood that in this world, he was afraid that it would be difficult to even pass a licentiate.

Wei Yuan encouraged: "Wait until the Great Senior Sister tests your root bone and Qi luck and you will know."

Xu Wenwu nodded, then held the storybook and ran away with small steps.

After all the trivial matters were finished, in the blink of an eye, it was night time, and the arriving mortals were initially settled. Looking from the main peak, one could see bonfires by the lake.

The preliminary count was also completed, and there were 3,200 mortals who arrived today, including dozens of old people over fifty, and the rest were young and strong and children. In the Western Region, it is very rare for mortals to live past forty.

Among these people, about a thousand had practiced Body Forging, and more than two hundred had finished the Tendon-Muscle Realm.

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Under "All Living Things in an Instant," these two hundred people could instantly improve to Great Completion in Body Forging, which is the standard of the Great Tang's Nine Armies. The thousand or so people who had practiced Body Forging were elite border troops, and the rest of the mortals were regular border troops.

With the arrival of three thousand mortals, Wei Yuan clearly felt that the rain threads in the Azure Void had increased, and the accumulation speed of the pool water had almost doubled. Correspondingly, the Dao Foundation Ten Thousand Miles of Heshan also had progress, and the speed of absorbing heaven and earth spiritual energy had accelerated.

At this time, it had been more than ten days since the Azure Void recognized its master. With the perfection of its state, Wei Yuan gradually had a clear perception of his own cultivation under its application.

The heaven and earth spiritual energy required by the Ten Thousand Miles of Heshan is too huge. If Wei Yuan had been honestly sitting in meditation and closing his doors in the Primordial Palace, without taking elixirs, it would take about fifty years to complete the accumulation of the Dao Foundation's early stage and plant the root of the Dharma Form.

The heaven and earth spiritual energy here in the Azure Void is naturally far inferior to the Primordial Palace mountain gate. If the Ten Thousand Miles of Heshan were still the same, then the time required for accumulation would become three hundred years. That is to say, if Wei Yuan practiced honestly and did nothing, he would be able to cultivate to the middle stage of the Dao Foundation before he died of old age.

But after the Azure Void recognized the master of the Ten Thousand Miles of Heshan, the manifestation range of the Ten Thousand Miles of Heshan has now expanded to three thousand zhang, and it is slowly swallowing and spitting heaven and earth spiritual energy all the time. The cultivation efficiency is even close to sitting in meditation in the Primordial Palace. Now if Wei Yuan does nothing, he only needs fifty years to enter the middle stage of the Dao Foundation, and in his lifetime, perhaps he can touch the edge of the Dharma Form.

However, after countless Shaman warriors entered the Jade Mountain on their own, Wei Yuan's cultivation inexplicably advanced a section, saving three years of hard work.

And with the arrival of three thousand mortals, they hadn't done anything yet, and Wei Yuan's cultivation speed had gained benefits again, and the Ten Thousand Miles of Heshan swallowed more spiritual energy. At this time, it saved another year of hard cultivation, and it only takes forty-six years to complete the foundation.

Three thousand mortals can save one year of hard cultivation, then what about thirty thousand, three hundred thousand?

Just when Wei Yuan was checking the Dao Foundation, he suddenly felt that there was a bit more vitality in the domain, and at the same time, the spiritual energy absorbed by the Ten Thousand Miles of Heshan was a bit more. Although this bit of spiritual energy was negligible, if converted into cultivation time, it would save more than ten days, but it was lively and full of vitality, making it difficult for Wei Yuan not to notice it.

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