Yue Xin did not mind. She hugged her book and read with great interest.
She had learned the written language long ago, and could understand most knowledge on her own.
All Yun Ye had to do was answer her questions from time to time and assign exercises to test her.
In other words, he basically did not need to spend much effort on her.
Moreover, Yue Xin was vastly different from ordinary people. She was extremely fond of the unknown, and learning was a joy to her rather than a torment.
This difference made her learn extraordinarily quickly. She had mastered the commonly used characters in two months, and had now begun studying various words and idioms. Becoming a prodigy was just a matter of time.
Yun Ye lowered his head and took out various documents to process.
Unlike ordinary people, who needed their eyes to understand things, Yun Ye did not need to look. A sweep of his divine sense imprinted every word into his mind.
In terms of processing documents, divine sense was at least a hundred times more efficient than the eyes. The stronger one's calculating and comprehension abilities, the faster the processing.
Yun Ye had organized the order of the organization for the same reason. Handling government affairs actually required only a very small number of professionals, and most of their time would be spent discussing matters rather than approving and reading documents.
Under ideal circumstances, those who could become the highest decision-makers should possess wisdom and foresight surpassing everyone else. Moreover, as Dao Artifact Wielders, they could never betray Tomorrow's ideals. In that case, the entire organization's decision-making efficiency would rise to unprecedented heights, and would generally move in a favorable direction.
Yun Ye quickly learned about Tomorrow Village's situation through the documents.
At present, Tomorrow Village had around Five Thousand Acres of Cultivated Land, and had fully developed the entire valley.
Half a year ago, he had joined the crop research team and guided them in optimizing and improving their seeds. In just one month, they had fulfilled the requirement of Yield Per Acre Exceeding One Thousand Jin.
If all Five Thousand Acres of Cultivated Land were planted with rice, they would produce four million jin of grain. Even if all of it were made into Spiritual-Grade Fine Food, it would yield forty thousand jin—enough to supply fifteen people with Spiritual-Grade Fine Food at every meal for an entire year, with three meals a day.
According to Yun Ye's calculations, even someone with extremely poor aptitude and extremely low proficiency in the Qi Nurturing Technique would only need to eat Spiritual-Grade Fine Food for half a year to reach perfected qi nurturing and awaken their Spirit Root on their own.
The significance of this was already crystal clear.
In just one year, Tomorrow Village would be able to gain at least thirty Spirit Root Revivalists.
And Spirit Root Revivalists would further increase the land's yield, forming a positive cycle and accelerating the rate at which others awakened their Spirit Roots.
That was precisely why Yun Ye had placed improved seeds at the very top of the list. They were far too significant to the Tomorrow Society.
Now that half a year had passed, it was also time for the first batch of rice to mature.
Not all of the cultivated land had been planted with rice. Some had been used for fruits and vegetables to ensure a balanced diet, so the calculated yield was...
Three million jin!
This was an astonishing figure.
White Stone Town was desperately short of all kinds of supplies.
Because of the demons, there was very little arable land available throughout the entire region. Three million jin was often the output of several villages combined, and the grain an Aristocratic Clan could obtain each year would not exceed that figure by much.
Moreover, large areas were planted with special plants, which further reduced the yield.
For example, Ming Bamboo, a source of materials for many Spirit Tools.
This grain was the foundation that kept an entire lineage of over a thousand, or even several thousand, people running. In truth, it was extremely scarce.
Moreover, none of the major Aristocratic Clans had mastered the technology for making Spiritual-Grade Fine Food. Producing high-grade fine food not only consumed far more resources than Yun Ye's method, but its effects were also vastly inferior.
This was the decisive reason White Stone Town could not cultivate many Spirit Root Revivalists. They did not have enough for themselves, so naturally they would not bestow it upon outsiders.
If those outsiders had not been able to help them with menial labor, or even serve as sacrifices to reduce the might of the Great Calamity Tribulation, their prospects for advancement would certainly have been severed completely. This was practically inevitable.
The previous Great Calamity Tribulation was proof!
They had sacrificed too few people last time and felt the pain, so this time they opened more entrances and cultivated more sacrifices.
The remnants of many systems made it possible to discern White Stone Town's former attitude toward its subjects.
For example, when Yun Ye had been a serf in his first life, he had not even been allowed to leave the fields. Anyone who did so would be cut down on the spot.
A little thought made it clear. Since such a system existed, surely no one in the past had gone around the villages recruiting talented people.
White Stone Town had as many cannon fodder as it needed. Why would a dignified Judge need to recruit from some tiny villages?
But once the children who came from those tiny villages were regarded as "traitors," everything became reasonable.
"Your ancestors have been oppressed by me for generations, yet you come crawling to gnaw at a dog bone just because I tossed one out. You can't blame me for that. You're simply born this cheap. If I don't sacrifice you, who should I sacrifice?"
Yet this was a natural trap.
No one could escape it.
Because without becoming a Spirit Root Revivalist, there was no hope of changing the status quo.
And if one wanted to gain benefits and break free from the status of the exploited, then one inevitably had to become an exploiter.
Then they would be used by White Stone Town's upper echelons and sacrificed.
Cultivators lived for hundreds of years, giving them ample time to cultivate successors.
This was far more terrifying than ancient Earth. Here, cultivators who could become successors had only a very small chance of being idiots.
As long as the rulers did not make mistakes, it was as difficult as ascending to heaven for the powerless weak to rebel and turn the tables. More often than not, they became pawns without even realizing it.
Even someone as unconventional as Yun Ye, who kept activating cheats, had merely managed to force his way onto a path of survival and remained under the threat of annihilation at any moment.
"The Great Calamity will last another year or two. That is my development window..."
Yun Ye continued making new plans.
As a Divine Law Practitioner, Yun Ye quickly finished writing his approvals. Then someone came and carried the documents away.
At present, Tomorrow Village had almost enough food. The difficulty of continuing to research ways to increase the yield had also surpassed what it had been before, so there was no need to invest vast resources in it for the time being.
Formations—that was the direction of future research.
He had to gather everyone's wisdom and initially construct the grand formation within two years. This was the most urgent matter.
The Great Calamity Tribulation had a time limit. Once that limit was exceeded, the power of Reverse Liberation would vanish.
It was difficult to say what would happen then. For all he knew, the calamity might directly become Tomorrow's Heavenly Blade Scar.
A scar carved by Heaven's blade—this was something absolutely impossible to resist, a permanent injury.
Yun Ye had to avoid that as much as possible.
He looked at the four black lightning marks on his right hand and muttered regretfully, "What a pity. Reverse Liberation can only be used when facing White Stone Town. Otherwise, perhaps I could use Reverse Liberation at full strength to create Spirit Law and create Spirit Root Fusion... At the very least, completing the formation would be worthwhile."
But there were no ifs.
Given Yun Ye's personality, he could not possibly take the risk of seeking out people from White Stone Town to trigger the state of Reverse Liberation.
Thus, he could only accumulate strength. As the number of Spirit Law Practitioners in Tomorrow Village continued to grow, more and more materials could be gathered. Over the past six months, he had already created the First Celestial Phenomenon.
In this life, his foundational strength was much greater. His Spirituality Tier 3 Early Stage, Spirit Root Completeness, and Spirit Root Attribute had all surpassed those of his previous life.
Naturally, the might of his Celestial Phenomenon had also far exceeded that of his previous life, and it would continue to increase.
Moreover, aside from his foundational strength, Yun Ye now possessed other additional powers.
For example, in his previous life, he had not cultivated the Fire Transfer Secret Technique or the Samadhi True Fire Method when creating the Celestial Phenomenon. He had known nothing of Spirit Root Ascension, Spirit Root Burning, or the liberation brought about by the destruction of a magical artifact.
In his previous life, he had not possessed a Water Spirit Root either!
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