Stockpiling supplies was unavoidable.
Once the severe drought truly arrived, mundane production would plummet.
By then, ordinary people would surely starve to death in droves.
The chain reaction it brought would be far too great.
The occasional deaths of a few hundred thousand ordinary people meant nothing to Wu Kingdom's various True Core powers.
After all, Jade Bone Sect alone governed a population of fifty million. The sudden deaths of a few hundred thousand ordinary people would not cripple it.
But if several million died, or even a fifth of the population...
Then all six True Core powers would have a headache.
For one thing, with so many ordinary people dead, their production would inevitably plummet afterward.
With the production of mundane rice, flour, and meat greatly reduced, how many mundane supplies would the various sects still have to cultivate their academy students?
As the number of academy students declined, they would receive insufficient nutrition from their daily training. The number of academy students who advanced to Prenatal martial artists would plummet, which in turn would reduce the number of outer disciples in the sects.
By then, how many people would the sects still have to guard their various branches?
Without their own people watching over them, how could the sects guarantee their interests in various places?
The resources collected in previous years would probably be instantly cut down to a fraction!
With fewer outer disciples, the number of Prenatal martial artists in the sects would even be affected.
Without a sufficient base population, how many could break through to the Prenatal realm? Even if the number of Prenatal martial artists decreased by just one compared to the past, it would still be a loss to a sect.
Not to mention that martial artists themselves were valuable resources—the cream of