Taking Stock: Mortal, Spirit, Immortal!

Qin Realm -- Ancestral Domain -- Muxuan Mountain!

Today, Muxuan Mountain has become a towering peak, the highest spiritual mountain in the Qin Realm, magnificent beyond compare...

As the ancestral home of the Qin Humans Race, it can be said to be the most sacred place and the most glorious symbol in the entire territory ruled by the Qin Humans!

Muxuan Mountain is now the absolute core of the entire Qin Humans territory...

It is the ancestral home of the Qin Humans, the place where the clan held discussions, the irreplaceable sacred mountain of the clan, and the future abode of all immortals.

Further out are the Twenty-Four Spirit Peaks, surrounding and protecting Muxuan Mountain.

As the ancestral land of the Qin Humans, these Twenty-Four Peaks each manage all affairs, large and small, within the clan. Although not towering ten thousand feet high, they are not far off...

These Twenty-Four Peaks are the cultivation grounds for the Spirit Transformation cultivators of the clan.

Each peak is governed by one of the seven bloodlines of the Qin Humans. The direct descendants of these seven bloodlines live here, and upon reaching adulthood, they participate in the clan's selection process...

If they retain their status as direct descendants, the next generation can continue to live on the Twenty-Four Peaks; if they are defeated, they will be expelled.

Outermost edge --

These are the Seventy-Two Subordinate Peaks, essentially extensions of various fields within the clan, managing various internal affairs and serving as training grounds for the clan's Nascent Soul Cultivator...

As for those below the Nascent Soul, they are scattered in various corners of the Qin Realm.

Those with Golden Core cultivation are generally stewards of their respective clans within a designated area, obeying the clan's orders and carrying out tasks as required...

They typically manage a celestial city and maintain peace and order in the region.

The Dao Foundation Realm is like a second-level manager, the Qi Condensation Realm is like a clansman with some status, and the True Martial Realm is like an ordinary person in the clan...

now--

The Qin Realm was stable and its development was extremely rapid.

Five or six hundred years have passed since Qin Lu became an immortal. Over these many years, the Qin Realm has grown considerably larger than when it was first created...

The Ancestral Domain also expanded, adding several mountain ranges and dangerous, perilous locations.

With the increase in the number of islands at sea, the two mythical islands in the north and south gradually showed a tendency to evolve into a new continent, perhaps in a thousand years...

The two fairy islands, one in the north and one in the south, will become two new continents.

At that time, the Qin Realm will inevitably enter a new phase, and its size will surpass that of the Qin Realm Frost Cloud Realm...

After succeeding to immortality on behalf of Qin Zheng, the Frost Cloud Realm can be formally brought into the Great Qin Nebula, becoming a vassal world of the Qin Realm!

At this moment, in the ancestral temple of Muxuan Mountain.

A group of high-ranking members of the Qin Clan clan gathered together. Each and every one of them was a leader of the Qin Humans Race and a pillar of the clan...

Seated at the very top of the main hall was Qin Xuanzi, the fourth clan leader!

"Let the clan gathering, which happens only once every hundred years, begin."

"Daoyuan, you start."

Upon hearing this—

Qin Daoyuan rose and bowed respectfully. He was now in charge of the basic affairs of the Qin Realm, especially in the area of resource coordination...

He was now in charge of everything, and then began to report on the recent situation of the clan:

"In recent years, the Qin Realm has maintained a stable overall trend and is still growing rapidly. The number of large Spirit Vein has reached five, and the number of medium-sized Spirit Vein has increased to a staggering one hundred and nineteen..."

"The Spiritual Qi concentration is high; the average Spiritual Qi concentration has already surpassed that of the Frost Cloud Realm."

"The annual mining output of Mid-Grade Spirit Stone has reached 1,100 per century, with half of them used for the development of the clan..."

"The remaining 20% will be prioritized for Ancestor Zheng, Daoran, and Qin Zhenyu."

"The last 30% is for the resources of our ancestors, and every hundred years, we must also provide them with one thousand Golden Core and ten Nascent Soul."

"This expense has always been borne by the clan."

"Fortunately, with the opening of the Beichuan Market, there is now a stable supply channel for the food offered to the ancestors..."

"In addition, every hundred years, it can bring the clan an extra five hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stone and a basic income of over fifty million ordinary Spirit Stone."

"As for the implementation of Qin Coin, it stagnated."

"Qin Coin have long been used throughout the Great Qin Nebula, but their spread to the Star Sea has been slow. The most recognized currency in the heavens is still the Spirit Stone."

"The money-harvesting scheme my clan used has become ineffective, but it's more than enough to maintain the harvesting within the Great Qin Nebula."

"The rest are just minor squabbles..."

After Qin Daoyuan finished his report, Qin Yingjie immediately took over the conversation, talking about the growth of the Qin Clan's power in recent years:

"In the past century, our clan has added twelve more affiliated stars to the existing Qin Realm, Frost Cloud Realm, and eight subordinate stars!"

"Of the twelve newly added stars, five have already been bestowed upon the top three ranks of the Immortal Clan within the empire..."

"Among them were the Wang Clan, Bai Clan, Meng Clan, Li Clan, and Chu Clan."

"As for the other stars, they remain undeveloped and will be reserved as fiefdoms to be granted by the empire in the future. Apart from that..."

"Our clan also controlled a meteorite belt and established the Beichuan Market."

"We also recruited some Rogue Cultivator or members of the Star Sea Remnants to settle and operate businesses. A section of the Star Sea in the Meteorite Belt was also incorporated into our territory."

Upon hearing this—

Qin Xuanzi nodded slightly. These newly added guardian stars were an important part of building the nebula. These small stars...

It's similar to a secondary dimension!

These types of stars do not possess independent Daos; rather, the main world extends the Great Dao Long River into these vassal stars...

To put it simply, it's just an ordinary secret realm that relies on the world's operation but has materialized into a physical form—basically, an ordinary planetary world.

Such a world cannot give birth to True Immortal, nor even to Nascent Spirit Transformation; the general Nascent Soul Cultivator is at the Golden Core Realm...

These are the limits of the subordinate planes.

This became known as the mortal realm, where one could only cultivate to the Golden Core Realm, and then ascend to the Qin Realm or Frost Cloud Realm by undergoing the Nascent Soul Tribulation...

This is what many people call the Spirit Realm. Above that is the Ascension to the Upper Realm: the Primordial Land! That is, the Immortal Realm.

The reason for bestowing titles upon these vassal stars was...

On one hand, it provides these Spirit Transformation cultivators with a foundation, creating ties that can then bind them...

This dissuaded them from their idea of ascending to the Primordial Land.

After all, the world's continuous strengthening is inseparable from the support of Spirit Transformation cultivators; the more Spirit Transformation cultivators there are, the more Great Daos they can master in the world...

The world is constantly strengthening, which means it is constantly increasing the combat power of True Immortal!

Although the vassal star is small, it is still a fiefdom that belongs solely to them, and their Lineage can prosper for thousands of years to come...

But if one ascends to the Primordial Land, then it's like starting all over again.

If they don't become immortals, their Lineage's power will eventually be reduced to resources, and they don't know when they'll be wiped out. At least they'll remain in the Qin Realm...

Having the protection of True Immortal is better than gambling on one's own chance of becoming True Immortal.

At the same time, these subsidiary planets also form a natural barrier; to attack the main world, one must first eliminate the subsidiary planes...

It can effectively provide early warnings for the world!

At the same time, it can draw on more resources to support the development of the main world, achieving multiple benefits in one fell swoop. It can also win over those Spirit Transformation cultivators who have no hope of becoming immortals...

With twenty subsidiary planes, the Great Qin Nebula could be considered to have taken shape.

After Qin Yingjie finished his report--

Then it was Qin Mingyue's turn. Qin Mingyue was mainly responsible for the training of the clan's descendants and the examination list of the clan's strong members.

"Reporting to the clan leader, this is a list of newly promoted juniors in recent years, as well as a list of high-ranking cultivators promoted in recent years under the empire's rule."

As she spoke, Qin Mingyue handed over the booklet.

"Currently, our clan and its affiliated forces, under the rule of this empire, have one True Immortal and four candidates for Quasi-Immortal..."

"In addition, the clan has eight Spirit Transformation cultivators, two Nascent Spirit Transformation from subordinate groups, seven Ghost Emperor, and a total of seven Nascent Spirit Transformation in the empire. After deducting the two who ascended, only five remain."

"In total, there are twenty-two Nascent Spirit Transformation cultivators. If we include the four candidates for Quasi-Immortal, the number of Spirit Transformation cultivators reaches twenty-six."

"Our clan has fifty-three Nascent Soul Cultivator, our various subordinate races have thirty-two Nascent Soul, and the Empire has eighty-nine Nascent Soul Cultivator..."

"In total, there are 174 Nascent Soul Cultivator."

"Many of them are Nascent Soul, born in the last five hundred years. The number of newly born high-level cultivators will only increase in the future..."

"Furthermore, with the Taiyi Raw Creation Essence bestowed by our ancestor, it is predicted that within another thousand years, our clan will surely have more than ten more Spirit Transformation!"