Liu Province, Black Marsh Commandery.
This commandery had originally consisted mostly of tidal flats and marshland. Whether in the number of spirit fields available for cultivation, the quantity of resources produced, or other such measures, it had always ranked dead last among Liu Province's eleven commanderies. Even its clan families and population lagged behind those of the other commanderies; the Human Way was underdeveloped.
Yet now, Black Marsh Commandery was ablaze with activity and bustling with life.
Less than three thousand li south of Black Marsh Commandery City lay what had once been vast stretches of marshland. Now, the waters of the marshes had gathered into rivers and flowed into neighboring lakes, while great tracts of marsh had transformed into fertile spirit fields.
This was the result of Liang Xiangkun's more than twenty years of work, during which he had sorted out the earth veins between Liu Province's commanderies, adjusted the water veins, and linked together the terrain of every region.
He had organized and transformed Black Marsh Commandery's vast marshes and tidal flats into blessed lands of lakes, rivers, spirit fields, and more.
This was precisely why geomancer cultivators were so sought after. They could often reshape heaven and earth, turning barren wastelands into blessed spirit fields.
And when barren tidal flats became blessed lands, they naturally drew countless eyes.
Especially now, when the Immortal Dynasty's central court and imperial family had dispatched large numbers of cultivators to reopen the County Academy and commandery academy systems throughout the dynasty's provinces, commanderies, and counties. The local clan families were locked in an inseparable struggle with the Imperial Academy and the imperial envoys, and the most crucial point of contention was the fight over resource lands and spiritual lands.
Throughout Liu Province's commanderies and counties, resource lands and spiritual lands had