Prayer, Golden Core Benefits?

Because, to the people of the Blood Demon Sect, the blood on cultivators' bodies was an excellent cultivation resource.

Although the Blood Demon Sect could not slaughter cultivators without cause, they always used such excuses to massacre quite a few cultivators in Huang Commandery.

The County Government's attitude was also rather interesting—they actually chose to turn a blind eye, allowing the Blood Demon Sect to do as it pleased.

This left you feeling utterly incredulous.

After reading the intelligence on Huang Commandery, you turned to the intelligence jade slip on West Commandery.

West Commandery lay southeast of Lin Prefecture. There were eleven County Governments within it, one more than Huang Commandery. The strongest forces in those County Governments were only ordinary, with nothing worth a second glance. West Commandery City likewise gathered all of West Commandery's Golden Core forces—there were ten Golden Core forces in total!

Seeing that West Commandery City actually had ten Golden Core forces gave you quite a shock. That was fully twice as many as Lin Commandery City! Lin Commandery City had only five Golden Core forces.

But you quickly learned the reason. West Commandery was the commandery with the best land and resources among the three southwestern commanderies. It produced all kinds of Spirit Ore, and Spirit Stone veins had even been discovered there. However, Spirit Stone veins generally belonged to the County Government and were not something just any force could get its hands on.

It was precisely because West Commandery had abundant Spirit Ore resources that it had more resources to nurture cultivators, giving rise to West Commandery City's ten Golden Core forces.

You once again realized the importance of resources in cultivating cultivators. Take Jinzhou County, for example: there were simply no worthwhile resource sites in the entire county. Jinzhou County's Rogue