Ten years!
Wang Quan discussed matters with Ruo Jinghong, Mei Niang, and the other Dao Seal Cultivators who had come to Stone City in the first group. In the end, they decided to spend ten years building their foundations and improving their cultivation.
Ten years later, regardless of their foundations or cultivation realms, they would connect to the Third-Layer World and the Second Layer of the Underworld simultaneously.
As for whether they would ultimately succeed, Wang Quan did not consider it.
Neither did Ruo Jinghong and the others.
Because they had to give it a try, after all.
If they could successfully connect to these two places, it would be tremendously important, whether for Wang Quan's own authority, Stone City, or everyone's escape route.
If the Real World truly collapsed, everyone could take refuge and scrape by in the first and second layers of the Underworld, or the second- and third-layer worlds.
The crow flew and the rabbit ran:
A year passed...
Stone City was filled with little brats and little spirit monsters crawling and running everywhere.
Fairy Qin personally led a group of female cultivators in caring for them.
Fairy Qin and the others were skilled at serving people, so they had no fear of problems arising while caring for them.
These female cultivators often taught the new generation Daoist scriptures and basic cultivation knowledge.
They even cast spells to draw in what the New-Method Cultivators called spiritual energy, cleansing the new generation inside and out and honing the foundations of their flesh and blood from infancy.
Under this cleansing by spiritual energy, the new generation was much stronger than ordinary infants.
But the Orthodox Cultivators were far too prolific, especially some Dao Seal Cultivators who had become addicted to attaching external Purple Palaces-they had to attach eight hundred