The most important factor in maintaining an oasis was vegetation.
Only vegetation of a certain scale could sustain an oasis. But the foundation of oasis vegetation was still water.
For an oasis, for a gathering place of the Sand Clan, water was the most fundamental and important thing.
If an oasis lost its sustainable water source, then no matter how abundant or vast its vegetation was, its disappearance would only be a matter of time.
Thus, the matter Ye Zhen intended to handle for the Black Sand Tribe before leaving was their water source.
Only after sincerely doing something for the Sand Clan, for the people of the Black Sand Tribe, could Ye Zhen accept the Power of Faith they offered with a clear conscience.
This was Ye Zhen's true heart, and it was also his conscience.
The Black Sand Tribe's water source was actually just an underground river flowing through this place. It was the foundation upon which the Black Sand Tribe depended for survival.
A water source was something formed by heaven and earth. It required an exceedingly complex and complete ecological environment to produce a sufficiently stable supply of water.
Creating or increasing a water source out of thin air was something even Dao Realm experts, or even Creation Realm Divine Beings, could not accomplish—let alone Ye Zhen.
What Ye Zhen could do was stabilize and expand this underground river.
According to Heiman, the chief of the Black Sand Tribe, the flow of this underground river, which they called the River of Life, had fallen by more than half over the past century.
The Black Sand Tribe's population had naturally dwindled by half, shrinking from a medium-sized tribe to a small one. The chief reason was the drastic decline in the River of Life's flow.
The reason