Heavenly Monarch Mie Ri Is Released from Prison

After cultivating, Jiang Ding continued to keep watch over the Tushan maids' development for several years.

The situation was temporarily stable. With ten thousand people stationed at the center of the eastern Black Snow Great Grassland—upon the three Third-grade top-tier Spirit Veins where the Six Paths Sect had persisted in resisting—they arranged formation arrays and established Tushan Central Court as the ruling center.

Then, they each dispatched teams of a thousand across the eastern Black Snow Great Grassland. Whenever they reached a Grade 3 Spirit Vein, they left people behind to occupy it, accepted the allegiance of nearby Foundation Establishment powers, and brought them under their rule.

Each Golden Core Cultivator guarded a Grade 3 Spirit Vein.

Any Golden Core level Power that stubbornly resisted was eliminated on the spot.

Thus, after several years, the eastern Black Snow Great Grassland had been brought under control. The Tushan Maid Squad began collecting taxes, conscripting troops, developing commerce and agriculture, just as they did within Tushan Immortal City.

Their annual fiscal tribute amounted to thirty percent of that year's revenue: two hundred million Low-grade Spirit Stones.

Among it, Fourth-grade Natural Treasures were exceedingly rare. There were some Third-grade Natural Treasures, but the overwhelming majority were first- and second-grade Natural Treasures.

At this point,

Jiang Ding's annual income exceeded four hundred million Low-grade Spirit Stones, enough to make up part of what he needed for cultivation.

Tushan Central Court's plan was that, in the tenth year, once the eastern Black Snow Great Grassland had stabilized and they had replenished part of their forces, they would immediately expand toward the territories of the three clans, including the Yin clan, near the Six Paths Sect's mountain gate, and grow through war.

They made all these decisions themselves. After a Central Court resolution was passed, they