Three months later, Mo Caihuan obtained the Heavenly Demon Root. It was a metal rod as long as a forearm and as thick as a thumb, black all over, with no distinctive shape. It looked like an ordinary metal rod.
According to the Heavenly Demon Art, simply infusing it with magic power would attract heavenly demons, whose power she could then absorb to strengthen her body.
Mo Caihuan planned to wait until Chu Fangfang emerged from seclusion before absorbing the heavenly demons' power. Before then, to repay the princess's kindness, she needed to help Ling Yuling resolve a few problems.
Tianxing City had no shortage of problems. Though it was the largest city of cultivators in the Lower Realm, cultivators were still human, and officials demanding favors, taking bribes, creating obstacles, and extorting payments were a serious problem within the city.
Mo Caihuan offered an idea: the princess could establish a school, recruit young cultivators, and train a new batch of grassroots personnel. She also suggested that all cultivators' children should complete compulsory schooling and that minors must not be forced to cultivate.
Adulthood would be set at eighteen, with anyone younger considered a minor. Giving cultivators' and mortals' children the same education would foster empathy between the two groups.
If the latter could not be done, implementing only the former would suffice.
The princess had never considered building her own faction, but Mo Caihuan was right. Arresting people alone was useless. After arresting them, she still needed people to fill their posts. The key was whom she would use to replace the grassroots cultivators.
If she did not understand her own people, how could she ensure they would not continue demanding favors, taking bribes, creating obstacles, and extorting payments?
Cultivators, too, could find themselves urgently needing help for a