Myriad Ghosts Sea Region, Townsea Sect ruins.
On a towering emerald peak that pierced the clouds, Wang Tianqi stood at the summit, gazing at a massive thundercloud high in the sky.
Thick bolts of Silver Lightning crashed down one after another, striking a valley planted with strange flowers and exotic herbs. A curtain of silver lightning enveloped the valley as thunder rumbled without end and lightning flashed.
Over the years, the Wang Family had continuously relocated personnel to the Townsea Sect ruins. At present, there were 2,135 cultivators in the ruins: five Core Formation Cultivators, 225 Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and 3,572 mortals.
The Townsea Sect ruins had now become a source of Cultivation Resources, where spirit herbs were grown, Spirit Fish were raised, and weapons and Puppet Beasts were forged. The island was vast enough to house over five thousand people without issue. The troublesome part was that the mortals reproduced too quickly.
Most of the Spirit Fields were used to grow spirit herbs, with only a small portion used for Spirit Grain. There was no spare farmland on the island, and the mortals mainly ate low-grade Spirit Grain. However, mortals could not do much work. The island's buildings had all been renovated, and the mortals could only be assigned tasks within their abilities. Even so, many mortals still had nothing to do. Whenever they were idle, they had children, and their numbers increased by the day.
They were all descendants of the cultivators on the island. Since they ate low-grade Spirit Grain for all three meals each day, they were in better health and reproduced quickly.
By Wang Tianqi's estimate, the mortal population would exceed ten thousand within less than a century. These mortals were all descendants of the island's cultivators; some cultivators even had more than thirty grandchildren.