Some time ago.
Da Chen Imperial Dynasty, Emperor Court.
Shenjing, Xuantian Palace.
Within the great hall, a major council was underway concerning post–Blood Sea Great Tribulation civilian welfare, disaster relief supplies, and their deployment.
"...According to the circuit inspectors' investigation, more than forty prefectures suffered severe damage this time. There are over seventeen hundred major cities in the key disaster zones and more than ten thousand smaller cities. Fortunately, Da Chen's Earth Vein Array is the natural bane of this kind of calamity, so civilian casualties were minimal. But due to the Blood Sea Spawn's corruption of the land, harvests in the affected regions this year—and likely for several years to come—will be completely ruined."
An elderly Minister of Revenue official was reporting the figures. He bowed respectfully toward the imperial throne. "This minister believes that the most urgent matter is to open the granaries to aid the people, provide relief through work, mobilize the Martial Army in every region to repair the city-protecting formations, temporarily exempt local agricultural taxes, and organize Earth Vein Celestial Masters to restore the corrupted areas..."
He went on to provide further details. Those in lightly affected areas would receive food aid to weather the difficult period, while in severely affected areas, aside from dispatching Celestial Masters for repairs, local governments would need to prepare evacuations and relocations to avoid secondary corruption caused by the Blood Sea Spawn.
After the Ministry of Revenue official finished, a military officer beside him immediately gave his report—nothing too complex, merely reports on the extermination of Blood Sea Spawn across the regions, as well as the growing number of Heavenly Demon sacrifices and the spread of the True Demon Sect. There were, truthfully, also some reports concerning the Tianyi Demonic Sect, but no one cared about those.
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