Beginning Alchemy

Yun Ye adjusted the direction and decided on its precise course.

The Tomorrow Society entered a stable and orderly phase of development, presenting a state completely opposite to that of the outside world.

After another winter passed, Tomorrow Village officially reached a population of two hundred.

In ancient times, there was no such thing as contraception, and the only entertainment available to commoners was making children. Thus, having an entire brood was an irreversible outcome, especially when life was somewhat comfortable and the harvests were good.

White Stone Town was the same. Unlike modern times, when every household had only one child, even commoners in White Stone Town who were in a monogamous marriage would have at least four children.

Thus, often only one generation was needed for the population to expand explosively. No matter how much was consumed, it could never all be used up.

Now that Tomorrow Village had sufficient food and a suitable environment, even more children would be born. Instead, the real problem was the lack of girls of marriageable age.

As a year passed, the women and children Yun Ye had brought back also showed differing conditions.

The children of the thirteen pregnant women had all been born, but six of the women had died one after another over the course of that year. Their bodily potential had been completely destroyed, and after giving birth, they had all been on the brink of death.

Even when Yun Ye gave them some Spirit-Grade superior food, it was useless. Without actively practicing the Qi Nurturing Technique, superior food was nothing more than food that filled the stomach better. There was no saving them.

The other twenty children all survived, but three of them had suffered complete destruction of their minds. They could only listen to orders in