As the next few years proved...
Golden Spirit Holy Mother and Holy Mother Wudang had taken Jiang Ming's words to heart. Even Zhao Gongming personally cleaned house, executing quite a few Interception Sect disciples whose crimes were piled high.
Of course, this was a good thing.
After all, some disciples treated human lives as worthless in their pursuit of cultivation. They were vicious beyond measure, and when the time came to clean house, there could be no softheartedness.
Jiang Ming had done this to prevent trouble later. Once his army marched out, if any foolish Interception Sect disciples fell into his hands-especially those who treated human lives as worthless-he would have no choice but to kill them on the spot.
Time flew.
Three years passed, and Jiang Ming successfully entered the Three Corpses Severing realm. Even Yunxiao was astonished by the speed of his cultivation.
After all, she had personally watched him advance from the great perfection of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm to his current realm in just over twenty years.
Fortunately, with Jiang Ming's help, Qiongxiao finally completed Evil Corpse Severing as well.
This left both Qiongxiao and Yunxiao immensely grateful to Jiang Ming, and even more accepting of cultivating together with him.
During those three years...
In Great Shang, towering buildings rose from the ground one after another. It truly had entered a new era. Of course, traditional architecture had not been discarded either. Under Jiang Ming's deliberate support, cultivators generally owned a traditional building or garden where they could cultivate their sensibilities, comprehend the Dao, and practice cultivation.
As for the shortage of living space, they could only wait until the outward expansion five years later to release all that pressure at once. By then, every territory and population they seized would become part of Great