Undercurrents Surging

After obtaining the Green Wood Sha, Chen Mobai stayed in Xiao Kingdom for a while longer.

Under his orders, Yan Kingdom quickly had Yuan Chiye lead a team over, sending the first batch of two hundred Qi Cultivation Cultivators as support.

These were all skilled hands trained over several years, good at excavating river channels. However, they were all Rogue Cultivators, long-term hires employed by North Abyss City in the name of the Divine Wood Sect.

According to Chen Mobai's instructions, since the two great rivers were at the very least massive projects spanning twenty or thirty years, these Rogue Cultivators had to sign long contracts of at least ten years with the Divine Wood Sect.

At first, this long contract naturally was not accepted by the Rogue Cultivators.

After all, here in the Eastern Wasteland, what Rogue Cultivators revered was freedom and ease. They would finish one job, hole up to cultivate, and only come out again to look for work once the spirit rice and Spirit Stones in their hands had run out. That was the norm.

But the conditions offered by the Divine Wood Sect were simply too good!

Especially after Zhuo Ming led people to open up over ten thousand mu of spirit fields in Yan Kingdom, achieving freedom in spirit rice, all the Rogue Cultivators began scrambling to sign this long contract.

Some people even wanted to renew it for several decades, or even a hundred years, working for the Divine Wood Sect their entire lives.

After all, being paid in Spirit Stones and receiving spirit rice as a benefit was rare high treatment throughout the entire Eastern Wasteland.

If the Divine Wood Sect had not been the number one great sect of the Eastern Wasteland, with a passable reputation, the Rogue Cultivators would even