With the rescue over, countless mortals began rebuilding their homes amid their grief.
Su Shi'er went outside the oasis and set up another illusion array.
Though the grand array destroyed earlier had been broken, many of its resources could still be put to use.
Su Shi'er also made use of the ruined grand array, repairing it into a new formation centered on entrapment.
Without a Spiritual Treasure Flying Sword serving as the array core, the formation's power was limited.
Still, trapping three to five Spirit Severing stage cultivators for a short while would not be a problem.
As for the six Spirit Severing stage Rogue Cultivators who had agreed to remain at the Ancient Immortal Sect and stand guard for a time, they were not idle either.
Lin Hezhuo promptly arranged cave residences for them in the sect's rear mountain.
He then had the six lead teams of Ancient Immortal Sect disciples to reclaim the resource-producing lands that other forces had occupied for hundreds of years.
The unceasing flow of resources was not merely for the sect's own use.
More of it would be traded in markets for other cultivation resources, as well as Spirit Stones, spirit crystals, and so on...
Possessing vast resource-producing lands might not immediately raise a sect's strength.
Yet given time, it could allow the sect to cultivate more powerful experts.
Places like this accounted for only a very small portion of Chenxing.
Far more were scattered throughout the Hundred Thousand Mines and other stars similar to the Hundred Thousand Mines.
On those stars, the core resource lands were naturally controlled by super-first-rate and first-rate forces.
But the scraps around the edges were held by other third-rate, fourth-rate, and even lesser forces.
With the open and covert struggles between the various factions, conflicts over resource-producing lands