At dawn, golden sunlight streamed down from the heavens, passed through row upon row of trees standing like guards, and finally shone upon the dark, black earth.
It was as if this were a signal. Those motionless trees suddenly came alive. Their trunks, roots, and branches knotted together, and in moments they transformed into stout tree demons.
They greeted one another, stretched their bodies, then grabbed enormous plowshares and slammed them into the ground. They dragged the plowshares forward, trudging across the broad, boundless land.
Wherever they passed, the soil churned like waves upon a river. The hard, compacted earth immediately became loose and friable.
This was the latest type of farmer the Heavenly Dao Maiden had developed: tree-demon farmers.
They possessed tremendous strength, could endure hardship and labor, and were naturally attuned to plants. They were first-rate hands at reclaiming wasteland and farming.
The reason they used tree-demon farmers instead of human farmers was that the human race had too small a population.
At present, only the one hundred thousand sword cultivator disciples protected by the Hidden Sword Earth Vein within the Heavenly Sword Clan remained. The ratio of men to women was equal, and besides their daily cultivation, they now had to bear children and expand their population.
It was a helpless reality. Fortunately, the Heavenly Dao Maiden came with the functions of a matchmaker and love deity. Back when they were in the Fifth Sequence, she had already caused most of the disciples to find their destined partners. Now that things had settled down, new lives would probably be born very soon.
Under such circumstances, making the human race work as farmers would have been far too extravagant.
Besides the tree-demon farmers, the Heavenly Dao Maiden had also bred five flood dragons. Every day, they dragged dark