Optimizing Allocation, Marriage Alliances

"This is the compensation list drafted by the Council of Elders. Please review it, Patriarch." Song Yushi respectfully presented a jade slip.

Song Changsheng reached out and accepted it. Looking at the familiar names one after another, his heart felt heavy. Victory was victory, but the price had been anything but small.

Song Qingshui, Song Qinghu, Song Qingying, Song Qinghua, Song Youhe...

Five Foundation Establishment Cultivators alone had fallen, along with nearly three hundred Qi Refining Cultivators. This was the Song Clan's most devastating loss in eighty years. For a long period to come, the Song Clan would need to recuperate and rebuild.

However, in the short term, the Song Clan's strength was bound to surge dramatically.

This great battle had brought many talents to the fore. Many whose cultivation had long stagnated found their bottlenecks loosen after being tempered between life and death.

Combined with the abundant supply of Foundation Establishment Pills, many would surely break through their current realms.

It would not be limited to the Song Clan. Over the coming period, the number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators throughout the Great Qi Cultivation World would see an explosive increase.

During the decisive battle on the main battlefield, Song Qingyu had refined several batches of Foundation Establishment Pills, totaling more than forty. Together with the previous two batches, there were over fifty pills.

Most of these Foundation Establishment Pills had already been distributed as compensation and rewards. Once the major clans finished gathering funds, the remainder would essentially all be exchanged away as well.

Even with only a fifty percent success rate, the two provinces of Ling and Yang could produce nearly thirty Foundation Establishment Cultivators, exceeding their combined total over the past sixty years.

And that did not include the Song Clan's side.

If Ling and Yang Provinces