In the days that followed, Liu Changxu and the Liu Household members scarcely had time to savor the joy of victory before embarking on the arduous work of building their new home.
Everything on Peach Blossom Island had to be started from scratch, from food and clothing to housing and transportation. As they set to work, they encountered many situations they had never anticipated. Many of these matters were minor, yet exceedingly tedious and troublesome.
There was also the question of how to accommodate and employ the cultivators from other lineages who had accompanied the Liu Household, as well as the rogue cultivators who had joined the Peach Garden Guard.
Now that the fighting was over, besides the five hundred Peach Blossom Guards, there were more than three hundred cultivators from other lineages. They could hardly leave so many people sitting idle.
The rogue cultivators who had joined the Peach Garden Guard were easy enough to handle, as the Liu Household had plenty of work waiting for them. How to settle the cultivators from other lineages, however, required further discussion. The Liu Household could hardly assign people specifically to escort these three hundred-odd cultivators back home.
Besides, they had all come with assignments from their own lineages and hoped to gain sufficient benefits on Peach Blossom Island themselves, so the Liu Household could not simply leave them to their own devices.
Of course, the Liu Household had no obligation to take responsibility for these cultivators from other lineages, but they still had to give them somewhere to stay!
According to Liu Changxu's plans, the area covered by the grand formation around Spirit Crane Peak on Peach Blossom Mountain-the land where Peach Blossom Island's spiritual essence was concentrated-would become the Liu Lineage's core territory. Not only would cultivators from other lineages