Strategies for Reclaiming the Wilderness

The Vast-Heaven Mirror is, after all, just a Demon-Refining Supreme Treasure. Although its combat power in a short period of time is not weaker than that of a Nascent Soul Nascent Soul, it is very troublesome to recover the power it has lost.

Since the Mo Yuan Cataclysm more than four hundred years ago, the Vast-Heaven Mirror has waged a major war almost every hundred years, resulting in considerable losses of power.

To restore sufficient combat strength, it would take at least several decades, and with that in mind, Chen Nianzhi could only suppress the thought.

"Then let's wait a few more years, and make a plan after we return from our travels..."

"..."

Having temporarily set aside his task of dealing with the Demon Cave, Chen Nianzhi went to Peaceful Sun City.

The Old Clan Leader was pondering the Cultivation Method when he saw him and said, "Nianzhi, you've come at the right time. Quickly explain this Sunfire Scripture to me."

The Sunfire Scripture is, after all, Cultivation Method for the Golden Core realm realm, and its profound methods are extremely mysterious. Chen Changxuan has cultivated the Sunfire Scripture many years, and he also has some doubts about this Cultivation Method.

Since the creator of the Cultivation Method was there, the Old Clan Leader could ask Chen Nianzhi directly, thus saving himself the trouble of painstakingly figuring it out.

The two discussed the Cultivation Method for half an hour, and only after the Old Clan Leader's doubts were dispelled did he reveal a satisfied smile.

Chen Changxuan put down his Cultivation Method, then brewed a pot of tea for Chen Nianzhi before saying, "I still don't know what brings you here today?"

"Linglong has broken through to the late Golden Core stage," Chen Nianzhi said calmly.

"Really?"

The Old Clan Leader revealed a look of surprise and hesitated for a moment before saying, "With her cultivation speed and the help of the Spirit Peach, wouldn't she be able to break through to the Nascent Soul realm in a hundred years?"

"Without the Heavenly Dao Qi, reaching the Nascent Soul realm would probably be a long way off."

Chen Nianzhi shook her head and said that people like Chen Nianzhi and Jiang Linglong naturally aim for the Heavenly Dao Nascent Soul.

While the Earth Dao Qi is precious, it can be purchased with Heavenly Crystal, but the Heavenly Dao Qi requires both fortuitous opportunity and a powerful background.

Fortunately, the once-in-a-millennium opportunity for the Heaven-Earth Resonance also brings down the Heavenly Dao Qi. However, the fortuitous opportunity for the Heaven-Earth Resonance is still about two hundred years away.

Suppressing the thought, Chen Nianzhi spoke again, "Once we break through to the late Golden Core stage, the Five Elements Essence in our Lineage will not be able to keep up with our consumption. I hope to further expand the scale of our cultivators."

"Increase the Lineage cultivators?"

The Old Clan Leader's eyes flickered slightly, and he shook his head, saying, "We have over thirty million mortals. Peaceful Sun City already covers a radius of thousands of miles, and the number of mortals is nearing its limit."

"If we want to increase the population further, we either have to relocate all the other Lineage in Yu Commandery, or we have to find new Lineage settlements."

Chen Nianzhi frowned; this was a big problem.

Humans have extremely high requirements for their living environment; they simply cannot survive without a suitable geographical environment.

For example, in the Eastern Wilderness, mountains can be tens of thousands of feet high. Many places look big, but to ordinary people, they are like insurmountable barriers.

Moreover, the Eastern Wilderness is teeming with poisonous insects and ferocious beasts, making the task of cultivating the Primeval Plains overgrown with weeds for hundreds of millions of years extremely difficult.

"Bring the map."

Chen Nianzhi had someone bring him a map of the Chu Kingdom, and after examining it carefully for a long time, he revealed a look of surprise and delight.

He pointed to the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness, his eyes shining, and said, "This Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness has relatively flat terrain, and many rivers run through it, enough to irrigate countless fields. Once fully developed, it could support billions of mortals."

"The Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness?"

The Old Clan Leader frowned. The Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness was incredibly ancient, and in earlier years it had always been a buffer zone Border Province and the Demon Race.

Back when Heavenly Python Lake still existed, every time the Demon Race fought a major battle, they would cross the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness to attack the Chu Kingdom, and in the end, tens of thousands of Demon Beast would scatter throughout the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness.

These Demon Beast have thrived and multiplied in the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness, and have been almost impossible to eradicate until the last one or two hundred years.

However, the number of Demon Race among them is still extremely large, and the poisonous insects and ferocious beasts they breed are almost impossible to eradicate completely.

After pondering for a moment, the Old Clan Leader said, "In the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness, the Demon Race can still be continuously exterminated, but the poisonous insects and ferocious beasts that breed there are too troublesome."

"It would be quite difficult to cultivate this land; without two or three hundred years of continuous development, it would probably be completely unsuitable for mortals to live in."

"Then burn it."

Chen Nianzhi said resolutely, gesturing as he drew a large circle around the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness: "This Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness is boundless and overgrown with wild grass; we will set it on Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness."

"Arrange for ten thousand Lineage cultivators to take turns exterminating the Demon Beast and poisonous insects Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness."

"When the Great Wilderness grass withers each autumn, we will set fire to the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness. If we continue to burn the land for decades, it will surely be enough to wipe out most of the poisonous insects and wild beasts in the Great Wilderness."

The Old Clan Leader's pupils contracted slightly. If the poisonous insects were burned with a great fire, and tens of thousands of cultivators took turns day and night to kill the poisonous insects Demon Beast, then...

This process, repeated day after day and year after year, was indeed enough to exterminate 99% of the Demon Beast and poisonous insects in the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness.

However, this would require mobilizing a large amount of manpower and resources. The annual salaries of tens of thousands of cultivators would cost hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stone, and setting fire to the mountains would likely have a significant impact on the environment of the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness.

Thinking of this, the Old Clan Leader said, "If we burn it every year, won't it turn the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness into a desert?"

"Wild grass cannot be burned out; it will grow again with the spring breeze."

Chen Nianzhi shook his head and said with a smile, "As long as there is enough water, the prosperity of the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness will be guaranteed."

The Old Clan Leader nodded and smiled as he offered his advice, "We can take it one step at a time, cultivating a large number of second and third-tier Spirit Vein in the Eastern Wilderness to build cities."

"Each city has a population ranging from 100,000 to 1 million, and Foundation Establishment and Purple Mansion cultivators are dispatched to oversee them."

"Once we advance to the Nascent Soul Immortal Clan, the Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wilderness should be sufficient for mortals to survive. At that time, we can expand the population freely."

As the Old Clan Leader spoke, he suddenly frowned and said, "But this means we won't have enough Foundation Establishment cultivators to guard the area."

"Foundation Establishment Personnel".

Chen Nianzhi frowned. In recent years, most of the Lineage's cultivators have chosen to become Self-Foundation Establishment, and many of them have the potential to reach the Purple Mansion stage.

However, this also resulted in a large number of the Purple Mansion cultivators in the Lineage, but far fewer Foundation Establishment cultivators compared to ordinary Golden Core realm Lineage.

Generally speaking, a Golden Core Immortal Clan has at least three hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, let alone a top-tier Golden Core Immortal Clan like the Chen Clan.

However, the Chen Clan currently has fewer than a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, which is far fewer than that of ordinary Golden Core Immortal Clan.

Although the Lineage has passed the stage of fanatical pursuit of Self-Foundation Establishment in recent years, and the number of cultivators choosing to use Foundation-Building Pill has gradually increased, the proportion is still quite high.

Thinking of this, Chen Nianzhi said, "Perhaps I should find a way to increase my chances of Self-Foundation Establishment."

"It's not that easy."