Kong Wenxuan's Most Important Task: Hiring Cultivators
Sizzle!
Roar!
A faint tearing sound rang out, accompanied by a terrified roar. A Second Tier leopard Demon Beast was almost effortlessly killed on the spot by Kong Wenxuan's Second Tier "White Metal Divine Sword" attack, Refining the Sword into Threads.
Kong Wenxuan activated the "White Metal Divine Sword," transforming it into a beam of sword light that swept up the leopard Demon Beast's corpse, which had been cut in half, and stored it in a specially prepared Storage Bag.
This was the last Second Tier Demon Beast in this mountain range. Kong Wenxuan had almost completely wiped out all the Second Tier Demon Beast in this nearly 100-mile-long mountain range in just half a day.
Most of the time was spent traveling and searching for these Second Tier Demon Beast.
Once he actually found these Second Tier Demon Beast, very few could withstand his Second Tier Refining the Sword into Threads -thread strike; they were all instantly killed on the spot.
Even if there are one or two Second Tier Demon Beast, those that are fast enough or quick enough to react, and can outrun his "Refining the Sword into Threads" slash, they will still be unable to escape the entanglement and obstruction of the "Crimson Fire Divine Sword's" Sword Qi Thunderclap and thunderous sound. Then, the Second Tier "White Metal Divine Sword's" Refining the Sword into Threads is just another slash.
Kong Wenxuan completely overwhelmed these Demon Beast of the same rank that lacked intelligence and wisdom and were unable to refine or use Spirit Artifact or demonic artifacts, without even taking more than a few minutes.
He rode on the Crimson Fire Divine Sword, surveyed the mountain range once more, and only after confirming that no Second Tier Demon Beast remained did he return to the foot of the highest peak, to the Crescent Moon Lake.
The Second Elder Kong Changlan, and the Second Aunt Kong Yujin, are still here studying the "Crystal Stone" mineral and the arrangement of the "Mountain and Water Layered Waves Formation".
The clan leader and his eldest uncle, Kong Yushuo, had already returned to the Lineage in the "Peacock Feather Boat." Even if they used the "Feather Boat" to transport the Lineage's and servant Lineage's pioneering team of cultivators over, it would still take at least ten days for them to make the round trip.
With nothing else to do, Kong Wenxuan took out Second Tier spiritual Fire Spirit and materials at the foot of the highest peak of the mountain range, summoned the "Crimson Fire Divine Sword Crimson Fire Divine Sword," and began to continue refining and cultivating it.
Since he upgraded the "White Metal Divine Sword" to the Second Tier Spirit Artifact level and emerged from his three-year seclusion, several months have passed, during which he has been busy with the Lineage's expansion of territory.
During this period, he could only steal moments of free time to occasionally refine the "Crimson Fire Divine Sword" to devour and refine Second Tier- tier spiritual fire for sword-making cultivation. In this piecemeal way, he has not even devoured or refined half of a Second Tier "spiritual fire" material yet.
Now that we have successfully captured this "mountain and water intertwined" land where a city will be built, the subsequent expansion war will still be troublesome. We need to cultivate this land of mountains and lakes, build cities and set up formations, expand the surrounding area of thousands of miles with this place as the center, expand the entire Peacock County, and even open up roads and trade routes leading to "Demon-Suppressing Pass".
Then, after opening up the area, Peacock County needs to be able to hold onto its territory and develop it further.
Furthermore, it is necessary to build a "Peacock Secret Realm" belonging to the Kong Household, and so on.
However, much of this work is no longer his responsibility.
Whether it's building a city, setting up formations, cultivating fields, expanding Peacock County, opening roads, or clearing out Demon Beast, these tasks can naturally be left to the Lineage and the numerous cultivators of the three servant Lineage to complete gradually.
As the current top combat force in the Lineage, his job is to stay here and take charge. When the Lineage members and servant cultivators encounter insurmountable opponents during the war and the clearing of Demon Beast, he will take action to deal with the most troublesome and powerful Demon Beast and enemies for the Lineage.
In addition, his most important task is undoubtedly to improve his cultivation and strength, and maintain the combat power level of the Lineage's strongest force.
In this way, when encountering troublesome and powerful Demon Beast or enemies in the Lineage's expansion wars, they will have enough strength and combat power to solve the troubles and kill the enemies when they ask him for help.
We can't just turn to the Ya Zhaoying Ya Household help like they would when we encounter some troublesome enemies or problems later on.
This was, after all, territory being expanded by the Kong Household, not the Ya Household.
Therefore, seeing that there was nothing to do, Kong Wenxuan began to focus on refining the Second Tier "spiritual fire" material and forging the "Crimson Fire Divine Sword" to improve his cultivation.
A month later, a dozen or so "Feather Boat" appeared on the northern horizon and flew towards this "land of mountains and rivers".
Upon closer inspection, Kong Wenxuan discovered that the leading vessel was the "Peacock Feather Boat" piloted by the clan chief and his eldest uncle, followed by ten "Fire Crow Feather Boat" from the Ya Household.
Eleven "Feather Boat" landed on the Crescent Moon Lake, and a large number of cultivators disembarked from these "Feather Boat".
Kong Wenxuan and the Second Elder Kong Changlan went to greet them and found that among the cultivators who came down, there were clearly more than just cultivators from their Kong Household and the three servant cultivator Lineage of Yan Household, Ma Household, and Yun Household.
There are also nearly a hundred cultivators of various bloodlines.
"Clan leader, who are these cultivators...?" Kong Wenxuan greeted the clan leader, Kong Changgeng, and asked with some doubt.
"These people were all recruited by me at Demon-Suppressing Pass. Most of them are wild Bloodline Lineage cultivators who settled outside Demon-Suppressing Pass. These wild Bloodline Lineage were mostly severely damaged or even wiped out in the previous attack by the Du Household. Most of the survivors became Rogue Cultivator and made a living near Demon-Suppressing Pass."
"There are also some Bloodline Lineage cultivators from ' Cuckoo Town ' and ' Fire Crow County ' who are active in ' Demon-Suppressing Pass '."
"I recruited them at the Demon-Suppressing Pass, signed contracts with them, and used Spirit Stone, as well as various spiritual materials and spirit medicine, to hire them to participate in the Lineage's expansion efforts."
"After the Lineage's expansion war yields some results, I plan to recruit more cultivators to participate in the expansion war in ' Demon-Suppressing Pass ' and even ' Cuckoo Town '."
"Otherwise, with just the hundred or so capable cultivators that our Kong Household, along with the Yan, Ma, and Yun families, could muster, it would take several years to completely expand the ' Peacock County ' within a thousand-mile radius."
A thousand miles may not sound like much, but the war of expansion involves thoroughly clearing out this entire area, surveying its resources, spiritual lands, spiritual materials, and mineral veins, and eliminating various dangers such as Demon Beast, insects, swamps, and poisonous lands.
This necessitates sending out troops to survey, sweep, and clear out territories on the ground, rather than simply patrolling the skies in "Feather Boat" and selecting points to attack and occupy.
Expanding a war requires comprehensive reconnaissance and clearing, not point-to-point reconnaissance and combat.
Thus, it would take the expedition team several days to traverse a thousand miles on the ground, not to mention the need to survey and search for various spiritual materials, spiritual lands, and mineral veins, as well as to fight and clear out various Demon Beast and dangers.
Building a county from scratch, even if it's just a "lower-class county" with vast territory, is by no means a simple or easy task.
Otherwise, the Golden Crow Imperial Dynasty and the Vermilion Bird Royal Court would not have granted a ten-year tax exemption to all the "True Spirit Lineage" that newly developed spiritual lands.
It's assumed that if such a war of expansion could be completed within ten years, that would be quite good.
Kong Wenxuan nodded upon hearing this, understanding the clan leader's meaning, but still asked with some concern, "Is it alright to Rogue Cultivator these independent cultivators who have no worries about their livelihood?"
"They won't steal our resources, will they?"
Clan Chief Kong Changgeng, however, remained unconcerned, saying, "Theft of resources is bound to happen, but this is our Kong Household's territory. With the ' Peacock True Spirit Star ' suppressing us, its starlight illuminates thousands of miles. How could we possibly fear them?"
"Anyone caught stealing resources should be severely punished, even publicly executed."
"The contract I signed with them already stipulated this: if they breach the contract and steal resources, our Kong Household has the right to deal with them!"
Clan Chief Kong Changgeng's words were quite confident, and even more so, they reflected the contempt of the "True Spirit Lineage" for ordinary Bloodline Lineage cultivators.
After several years of successful Star Inlaying by the Kong Household, the patriarch and his clansmen seemed to gradually adapt to their identity and status as a "True Spirit Lineage".