Tushan Central Court's reach spread across every corner of the Western Desert.
The first step was naturally to build first-, second-, and third-tier teleportation arrays based on the spirit veins in each region.
Third-tier teleportation arrays referred to short-range arrays capable of teleporting across a range of one thousand kilometers, mostly used by low- and mid-level cultivators.
Second-tier teleportation arrays referred to long-range arrays capable of teleporting across distances from three thousand to thirty thousand kilometers.
First-tier teleportation arrays referred to cross-region teleportation arrays. They could transport people between the Western Desert and the Northern Plains, but had to be built upon fifth-tier spirit veins. Their cost of use was exorbitant and required strict approval. Normally, only Nascent Soul Cultivators and above could use them.
What Tushan Central Court was currently constructing were second- and third-tier teleportation arrays. As for first-tier teleportation arrays, Jiang Ding handled them personally. He only needed to lay down the Immortal Sect's prefabricated array artifacts at the Great Snow Mountain Holy Land.
The teleportation arrays being built across the various regions were extremely costly, consuming more than fifty years of tax revenue from the entire Northern Plains.
But this was necessary.
It represented Tushan Central Court's concrete control over the Western Desert.
Without teleportation arrays everywhere, if the cultivator armies traveled from the Northern Plains to the Western Desert to suppress rebellions, marching alone would take over a decade, while searching for and tracking enemies would take several more decades. A round trip could easily take a century.
By then, the daylilies would have long gone cold.
Under such circumstances, there could be no talk of rule. They could only adopt de facto enfeoffment, appointing Nascent Soul Cultivators to govern the various regions on their behalf, so long as they paid their taxes. As for