Beginning of the Great Battle
"That's the situation right now." Taiheng Palace, several disciples stood before Qu Heng, their expressions serious and anxious. "Everyone is very agitated right now, and we hope the sect can send someone to suppress these rioters!"
Southern Forest's total area is less than a quarter of Taiheng's, but Northern Plains and Western Splendor are sparsely populated areas, Eastern Victory had experienced war before. Therefore, Southern Forest is the most prosperous area in Taiheng.
Before the Lin family was expelled from Taiheng, the number of disciples from Southern Forest who entered the Ascension Academy each year accounted for more than three-tenths of the total number of new students.
Even after a Great Qing within Taiheng, a quarter of the disciples from the Southern Forest faction still remain.
In other words, a quarter of the Outer Disciple, a quarter of the inner disciple, and a quarter of the Spiritual Law Realm elders all come from Southern Forest!
Now that such a big thing has happened at Southern Forest, how could they not be anxious!
The seemingly ordinary landlord or gentry killed by the Yellow Turban Army today might have had ancestors who cultivated immortality in Taiheng!
"I already know about this. You may all leave now!" Qu Heng waved his hand.
The disciples, filled with resentment, still withdrew from the Taiheng Palace.
Upon arriving Taiheng Palace, a disciple said irritably, "What does the sect leader mean by this? Are you not planning to get involved?"
"Who knows? The sect leader isn't from Southern Forest, so whatever happens there is none of his business. Of course he wouldn't care!"
"So what do we do now?"
After exchanging glances, one of them spoke up, "No, I have to go back. My Lineage lives too close to those rioters; I'm afraid the fighting will spread to us!"
"Take me with you!" someone else exclaimed. "My Lineage has been wiped out, and I must avenge my parents!"
"But," someone nearby said, "Currently, even Qi Refining Stage cultivators can't get into Southern Forest!"
The words were spoken, and the entire room fell silent.
After a long while, the man whose Lineage had been wiped out spoke up, "If we can't go in, the Outer Disciple can! Hundreds of thousands of Outer Disciples, can't they suppress a few rioters? At worst, I'll provide Spirit Materials, Spirit Artifact, and Spirit Pill!"
Upon hearing this, the others began to have a new perspective.
That's right, Qi Refining Stage disciples can't get in, but Body Refinement Realm disciples can!
Taiheng alone has 400,000 Outer Disciple!
Not to mention that Taiheng also has countless small sects under his command, and each of these small sects has its own cultivators at the Body Refinement Realm!
The millions of rioters were not a concern in themselves; it was only because Hengming Tower sealed off both the inside and outside that things became so complicated.
But now that we have a solution, the problem is no longer a problem!
Regardless of the plans of the inner disciple, Qu Heng went directly to the Hengming Tower.
"Lord Hengming, you said you wanted Southern Forest, and we gave it to you, but now this has happened to Southern Forest. How do you explain this?"
"Explain what?" Hengming asked calmly.
"Right now, a group of Demonic Dao have instigated a riot among the people! It has affected tens of millions of people, and the number of rioters has reached hundreds of millions!" Qu Heng asked with great distress, "If we were in charge, this would never have happened!"
The implication is that you've managed Southern Forest so well, turning it into this chaotic mess; shouldn't you admit your mistake?
Hengming. He had spent a lot of time with Yang Ning, and his thoughts were naturally influenced by Yang Ning.
It sounds like a fantasy that a 15-year-old could influence an ancient monster that has lived for 300,000 years.
However, Hengming Tower is not an old monster; it is a celestial artifact with a mindset closer to that of highly intelligent artificial intelligence, and therefore does not possess a fixed worldview or philosophy of life.
If you're right, he can quickly update his knowledge base.
As for whether Yang Ning is right or wrong?
Hengming has already seen the results.
Leaving aside the importance of the Yang God Method in enhancing the sect's strength, the Great Peace Way alone was a pleasant surprise for Hengming.
The Taiping Dao has 30 million militiamen and 5 million regular soldiers. Not only do they all cultivate, but among these 5 million regular soldiers, 500,000 people have actually reached the sixth level of the Body Unity Realm in just three years!
Another 20,000 people have reached the Eighth Level of Body Refinement Five Senses Realm within three years!
Furthermore, 3,700 people cultivated to the Body Refinement Tenth Layer the Divine Sea Realm of the Physical Body within three years and began cultivating the Yang God Method!
To put this into perspective, the Ascension Academy only graduates about 40,000 students each year. Among those 40,000, only one student in the sixth year of school can cultivate to the Body Refinement Tenth Layer, and that number only appears once every few years!
It's not that the Great Peace Way Dao is superior, nor that Yang Ning gave these people any cheat codes. The fundamental reason is that the Immortal Method in the Taiheng Realm don't have a threshold like Spirit Root, so everyone can cultivate!
The proportion of geniuses born has always been fixed; it's not that if your Lineage has produced immortals, you're more likely to become one.
Ascension Academy admits 40,000 students every year, which is equivalent to selecting talent from among 40,000 people.
The Great Peace Way Dao (Way of Peace) has a reach of 200 million people, and 30 million of them have been taught martial arts!
Even though the disciples of the Great Peace Way suffered from food shortages and their success rate was not as high as that of the scions of aristocratic Aristocratic Clan, their sheer number still allowed many individuals with terrifyingly high cultivation talents to emerge from the buried pool of talent.
These geniuses are not constrained by resources.
Given the organizational structure of the Great Peace Way, they could select disciples with good cultivation talent from the very first stage of cultivation. Even though these hundreds of millions of people had to support the greedy officials above them, these officials didn't work in the fields and had no idea how much the grain production had actually increased.
With the resources of hundreds of millions of people, supporting tens of thousands of talents is more than enough!
This is what Hengming Tower saw. Yang Ning only made a slight move, yet his selection mechanism already Taiheng Sect.
If this mechanism could be extended to the entire Southern Forest, and even Eastern Victory, Western Splendor, Northern Plains, how many geniuses would Taiheng Sect receive each year?
It's likely that within a few decades, the number of Qi Refining cultivators in the Taiheng Sect will begin to surge, and a few thousand years later, the number of the Spiritual Law Realm cultivators will also begin to surge!
No, the Qi Refining Stage disciples has already begun to surge!
Seeing this bright future, and then looking at Qu Heng, whose mind was full of scheming, she couldn't stand him anymore.
They're just occupying a position without doing anything. A talented person with the potential to change Taiheng has emerged, yet they're thinking of persecuting him. Now that Southern Forest has finally seen some progress, you're still trying to suppress it?
I won't allow it!
Um?
Hengming thought for a moment and then contacted Yang Ning again.
"The Taiheng Sect wants to send disciples to suppress the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Should I agree or not?" Yang Ning asked.
"Agree? Why wouldn't I agree?" Yang Ning said calmly.
"But if Taiheng sends troops, many people will die!" Hengming, "The Great Peace Way's excellent situation could be suppressed!"
"The situation in the Great Peace Way isn't good at all!" Yang Ning laughed. "It's only improved its social organization a little bit, and I haven't even started to exert my full strength yet!"
"Really?" Hengming was astonished. Talented people were already emerging in abundance, and this was only a slight improvement in organizational efficiency?
If it weren't Yang Ning who said that, Hengming have already unleashed a solar flare.
However, Yang Ning himself has already created many incredible things; the Defiant Fate Power above his head has spread to a radius of 100,000 li!
"Then I'll wait and see!" Hengming nodded, deciding to trust Yang Ning and the Great Peace Way!
On January 4th, 30227 of the Taiheng Calendar, the Taiheng Sect officially issued a mission to all Outer Disciple and all its subordinate sects to go to the Southern Forest region to suppress the Great Peace Way rebels!