Year 5 of the Ancestor God

At this time, relocating the iron smelting workshops inside the tribe would be too troublesome, and Yang Hua also felt that building iron smelting workshops over near Ancestor City was not quite suitable.

Instead, the valley where their tribal encampment was located was not far from Ancestor City, and it was relatively secluded, with the roads already constructed.

The iron smelting workshop had also taken initial shape, so rather than starting from scratch, it would be better to just leave it right here.

With this thought in mind, the more Yang Hua thought about it, the more appropriate it felt.

Immediately, Yang Hua gave the order to turn the original tribal encampment inside the valley entirely over to iron smelting, designating that place as their weapon manufacturing factory.

Furthermore, Yang Hua also had the Suí Emperor and others use the Ancestor God Era from then on, with the day of entering the city as the first day of the first month of Year 1 of the Ancestor God Era, taking this as the calendar so it would continue on through the ages without end!

Inside the Battleship Command Center, Yang Hua sat in a chair and asked the system in his mind, "How many energy points do I currently have?"

"Master, you currently possess a total of twenty-nine thousand energy points! Does Master need to exchange them for anything?"

"No need. Ever since I paid off my last loan, I've understood the pain of not having energy points in hand."

"From now on, I will strive to collect energy points, so that when the time comes that I need them, I won't have to take out a loan from you again—it's such a rip-off!"

Yang Hua directly refused the system, and he even set a flag!

"Right, I'm getting ready to leave here and go take a look at other places. Anyway, things here are already on the right track, so even if I'm not around, there won't be any problems!"

Suited the action to the word, Yang Hua summoned a team of Red Alert space soldiers and had them temporarily stay behind to watch over the Gorgon-class Battleship, lest any accidents occur.

Then Yang Hua woke up Cang Yun, who was on his arm, stood on his head, and rode the dragon away.

March of Year 5 of the Ancestor God, today was the fifth year since Yang Hua left the Suiren Tribe. During this period of time, Yang Hua had ridden Cang Yun and practically traveled all over the world.

Fortunately, he did not discover Soton; judging by this, it should not have been thrown to Earth by Death God Karl yet, and as for Du Kao and the others, encountering them was even less likely.

Yang Hua remembered that when Du Kao descended to Earth, it was already the Anno Domini calendar era, and it was still way too early for that.

Moreover, after such a long period of travels, Yang Hua had also figured out the location of the Suiren Tribe: it was situated in the central region of future Huaxia, which could be said to be the place of origin of the Huaxia Civilization.

As for other places, primitive tribes were extremely scarce. Not to say there were none, but there were definitely no more than fifty, and they were all just like the Suiren Tribe that Yang Hua had encountered when he first arrived here.

They were very primitive, and their populations were small. It could be said that the present Suiren Tribe practically possessed eighty percent of the primitive humans of this era of Huaxia.

At this time, Yang Hua stood atop the future Kunlun Mountain, looking at the beautiful scenery around him, his mood exceptionally carefree.

"System, I feel really good here. I've decided that I'm going to live here from now on! Quick, get me a palace, a pretty good one, and don't make it like the last one that was blown to pieces by a few missiles—Big Brother isn't short on cash right now!"

Yang Hua said to the system with an air of bold generosity.

"No problem. Master currently has ninety-three thousand energy points, which can be exchanged for the best buildings among three-star items."

"The Primordial Beginning Palace of the Five Innate Tai, exchange price of thirty-eight thousand. It possesses attacks with the might of the Creation Realm for defense, and it can autonomously absorb any energy between heaven and earth for Master to cultivate with!"

"Not bad, this is the one. Exchange it for me!" Yang Hua nodded in satisfaction, waved a grand hand, and bought it directly right then and there.

The words had just fallen when Yang Hua saw a massive and luxurious palace appear on the peak of Kunlun Mountain. The entire palace looked resplendent with gold and jade, and the light radiating from its surroundings practically reached ten thousand miles away.

"I say, System, can you make it not shine so brightly? How are you expecting me to keep a low profile? I don't want Karl or the angels to discover this Earth god of mine at a time like this."

Looking at the high-profile Primordial Beginning Palace, Yang Hua couldn't help but complain to the system in his mind.

"Master need not worry. Once Master enters the palace, you can adjust this issue yourself."

As soon as Yang Hua finished speaking, the system explained it by his ear.

"Fine then. Cang Yun, transform into human form and come inside with me."

Saying that, Yang Hua took the lead and flew toward the entrance of the Primordial Beginning Palace.

"Understood, Master!"

Cang Yun, who had been fluttering about in the sky behind him, heard Yang Hua's instructions and immediately transformed into a little boy of around sixteen years of age, eagerly following closely behind Yang Hua as he flew inside.

Meanwhile, after five years of vigorous development, the Suiren Tribe now possessed a population of one hundred and eighty thousand.

Although the Suí Emperor had not expanded outward again during these five years, quite a few small tribes had still joined in, so over the span of five years, the population of the Suiren Tribe had already reached as high as one hundred and eighty thousand.

Moreover, Ancestor City here had also expanded outward twice, and it was now a medium-sized city capable of accommodating a population of over three hundred thousand.

Over the past few years, practically all affairs over at Ancestor City had been managed jointly by Pan Tianshi and the elders within the tribe.

With an abundant workforce, the speed at which Pan Tianshi led people to build houses was extremely fast.

Using only a year's time, they expanded the residential area of the outer city by a full double and more, allowing all these newly added tribal residents to move into houses.

During this period, the population explosion provided the Suí Emperor's side with a larger workforce distributed across various industries, which also greatly boosted their productivity.

The elevation of productivity naturally ushered in an explosion of strength.

For instance, the yields of iron ore, coal ore, and copper ore in the Suiren Tribe increased substantially because the Suí Emperor had allocated a large amount of manpower to those three types of mining fields once again.

As for agriculture, the reclaimed wasteland increased manifold, turning many places around Ancestor City into farmland.

Meanwhile, the iron smelting workshop at the original tribal encampment was expanded by more than double, and the iron material produced every day was also more than triple what it was before.

At this time, the strength of the Suí Emperor's Ancestor City was far more formidable than it had been five years ago, with productivity vastly improved.

And over these past five years, the Suí Emperor had also directly raised the number of troops under his command to twenty thousand.

However, the Suí Emperor still retained the hunting teams; these hunting team members were actually equivalent to reserves, and they were ready at any time to serve as replacement soldiers to replenish military attrition.

In the span of five years, the Red Alert Base over there had also manufactured nine sub-bases, along with ten thousand space forces.

Through allocation, Yang Hua divided these people into nine teams, having them pilot Gorgon-class Battleships to head toward the major planets within the Solar System to establish sub-bases.

Upon reaching each planet, the battleship would drop off a sub-base and one thousand space forces, until all nine sub-bases were established.

The Gorgon-class Battleship would then take the remaining one thousand space forces and head to station itself on the Moon, and without Yang Hua's orders, they would not return again.