Another Way Out for You

"Senior Brother, I've finished tallying Azure Cloud City's population." Jiang Zhiqiu came to report to Zhang Yang with a gloomy expression, documents in hand.

Zhang Yang glanced at Jiang Zhiqiu and asked, "How many are left?"

Jiang Zhiqiu sighed. "Before the Buddhist Dharma was preached, Azure Cloud City had more than 1.8 million people."

By any measure in this land, that had made it an enormous city.

There was nowhere else with a permanent population of over 1.8 million.

"Now, a little over half remain." Jiang Zhiqiu sighed repeatedly. "There had originally been nearly 800,000 cultivators, but now only a few tens of thousands remain. The ordinary people did not suffer much loss. Adding in the population born over the past twenty years, the total currently stands at more than 915,000.

Among the remaining tens of thousands of cultivators, there are over two hundred in the Primordial Spirit Realm, over five hundred in the Nascent Soul Realm, around a thousand in the Golden Core Realm, and all the rest are in the Foundation Establishment Realm.

These people were all those who had originally lived rather well in Azure Cloud City.

Everyone else is gone."

In other words, Wu Fa had taken away nearly 800,000 cultivators...

"Good!" Zhang Yang clapped his hands heavily. "Excellent!"

Jiang Zhiqiu looked utterly aggrieved. The population was gone, and that was good?

Those several hundred thousand Rogue Cultivators who had left were Azure Cloud City's biggest taxpayers!

Zhang Yang said with a smile, "The people who left were all people with too many ideas.

If they had stayed in Azure Cloud City, trouble would have broken out sooner or later.

Now that several hundred thousand cultivators have left, the benefits belonging to those several hundred thousand cultivators have been freed up.

As long as Azure Cloud