Stabilize the Realm, Quell the Storm!

Calling it the Blood-Colored Plain is quite fitting.

If you were here, you would know...

What does this mean? Everywhere you look, there are bones; wherever you step, there are piles of corpses...

Furthermore, one can see a river, like a rushing river of blood, flowing towards the abyss!

You can also see piles of rotting flesh, turning into mountains of decaying corpses...

Perhaps nothing is happening right now.

But if another hundred years pass, it will likely transform into an ancient battlefield, a dangerous place, and also a man-made treasure...

Hundreds of millions of corpses piled up, and the future remains unknown...

What kind of monster will be born!

And all of this-

All of this was part of the Da Zhou Imperial House's schemes...

Whether it's the Blood Lake treasure land of Jade Tiger Pass, or the Blood-Colored Plain at this moment, in the future, as long as they are properly nurtured, they will all become sacred places for cultivation...

Cultivation resources don't appear out of thin air.

While constantly taking, we also need to constantly give back...

Only then can one live a long and healthy life; otherwise, one will eventually squander all one's wealth!

The war against Daliang--

His aim was both to expand territory and to deplete the resources of ordinary people and Warrior, which was crucial for the Da Zhou Dynasty, which had a population of hundreds of millions...

There are too many lowly ants at the bottom. Even if millions or tens of millions of people die, it will only make room for some people within the system.

Like the seven Prefecture bordering the north.

The population of this region alone is nearly ten million; a rough calculation shows that the population of the seven border prefectures alone is forty to fifty million...

Don't say--

The higher-ups of the Da Zhou even thought that too few had died!

This is a shortage of tens of millions of people. The states and counties located within the territory can easily fill this gap by relocating some people...

The resulting gap was then taken over by powerful clans who profited from it.

The more people at the bottom of society die, the more the beneficiaries receive—this is a very simple truth...

To put it more vividly...

The purpose is to use war to eliminate the inferior population within the country, preserve the highly skilled, and then shift the conflict to other countries...

Not only can it harvest cultivation resources from other countries, but it can also strengthen the mountains and rivers.

Just like that little mustache...

During the war—

Using countless inferior people as resources, two potential treasure troves were created. Just think how worthwhile that was, at the cost of tens of millions of lives at the bottom of society...

In return, you can acquire two treasure lands, one for the Dao of Blood and the Sha Dao!

This is a treasure trove--

If we could help one or two people achieve the Great Dao Foundation Establishment stage, that would be a huge win!

But ultimately--

Ultimately, it's a competition for cultivation resources; the higher one's cultivation level, the greater the resources one seeks!

Third-Tier- and Fourth-Tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures are not something that can be obtained simply by cultivating them. Often, an entire country would only have a handful, let alone Fourth-Tier spiritual objects...

Even Third-Tier items are extremely rare!

Moreover, they are almost in a semi-monopolistic situation; those that are visible are either growing in dangerous places or hidden among countless mountains and marshes...

Dao Tribulation, more difficult than ascending to heaven!

In the following months--

The border region of Daliang has completely collapsed, with 60% of the cultivators fleeing north to re-establish their positions by relying on the natural barriers behind their rear...

And the three major military legions of the Great Zhou State.

Then, they would redefine the frontier ahead and confront the remnants of the Daliang army!

With the three armies of Daoist soldiers stationed there, they acted like a giant hand, tightly gripping the lifeline of the Daliang front, killing them so that they dared not show their faces, much less launch a counterattack...

The other 40% --

A small percentage of the cultivators chose to flee to other countries, hoping to avoid this calamity...

Another ten percent or so defected to the Da Zhou.

Their fate is either execution or being refined into human pills or flesh puppets, with the authorities then seizing the industrial resources behind them...

Joke!

The Da Zhou is ruthless even to its own people, so why would it care about the cultivators of the Daliang?

Besides, why didn't you surrender before the war started?

Now that we've lost the war, our property is going to be confiscated!

You're only now thinking about surrendering and admitting defeat, trying to preserve your family business? Where were you all this time?

Two-headed grass, a piece of shit!

How could there be such a good thing in the world?!

If the upper echelons of the Da Zhou choose to accept these people, what will the native cultivators who are risking their lives on the front lines think?

They fought on the front lines for territory and resources!

Both emotionally and rationally--

Those cultivators who surrendered after defeat were all killed, their resources poured into the national treasury, and their territories left for the country's cultivators to fight over...

At this point, the entire Zhengyuan Dao District had fallen!

Its territory--

You've been fully accepted by Xuan Province, and fifteen new Prefecture and over three hundred county governments have been established. Your territory has been divided up for you...

The rest depends on your own abilities!

What you can grab is yours; whether you can hold onto it depends entirely on yourself.

Yunmeng Marsh, covering an area of 18,000 square kilometers, is divided into Cloud Dream County, which belongs to the Beichuan Qin Family...

If Yingchuan County is included, the total territory will reach 30,000 square kilometers!

It's already quite a large territory.

Furthermore, Cloud Dream County boasts a pleasant environment and abundant Spiritual Qi, thus attracting many who covet it...

But there are Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan.

The three Qi Condensation cultivators guarding the territory effectively deterred many who coveted it; without even a fight, many simply passed by...

after all--

There are plenty of beautiful mountains and rivers in the world!

Why get bogged down in trivial details and do things that are thankless and exhausting...

Furthermore, the presence of three Qi Condensation cultivators usually indicates a powerful clan in a Prefecture. It's best to avoid provoking them and becoming their enemy if possible...

Even if we don't become friends, it's still better than having multiple mortal enemies!

On the other hand, Longchuan Prefecture suffered casualties due to this battle...

Longchuan Prefecture, the fourth son's family.

Three Qi Condensation cultivators perished, and although there are still Qi Condensation cultivators remaining in their clans, they are too young and have already begun to decline...

The territory spit out--

It was then taken over by the Xuan River Zhang Clan and the Huanglian Huang Family...

The former's territory reached 40,000 square kilometers, while the latter expanded to 70,000 square kilometers!

Within the Zhang Clan, a second Qi Condensation cultivator has emerged...

The Huang Liang Lineage even boasts three members who have reached the Qi Condensation!

Its strength is second only to Longchuan Prefecture, and its oldest gate is Blue Wave Sect.

As for Wu Yanmian, Gongsun Zhe, and the other two, they were three Imperial Dynasty Cultivator.

Then not a single person perished!

Two individuals even received permission from the royal family to leave Longchuan Prefecture and travel to a new Prefecture to establish the Immortal Clan's lineage...

And so--

Two vacancies have appeared in the Longchuan Commandery Hundred Arts Bureau!

Qin Lu, as the only Qi Condensation Realm cultivator in Longchuan Prefecture who could refine pills, was promoted despite not being Rank-2 Alchemist...

Promoted to Chief of the Dan Department of the Longchuan Commandery Hundred Arts Bureau!

Gongsun Zhe, who was in charge of the Refining Department and concurrently served as an official, was promoted to Director!

The newly appointed head of the Ministry of Ceremonies was appointed by the imperial court and concurrently held the position of Director, responsible for performance evaluation...

Obviously--

The imperial court's move still reflects its distrust of these Lineage Cultivator and its unwillingness to allow them to take power.

However, with his promotion to head of the Pill Department, Qin Lu's salary increased from twelve Spirit Stone to thirty Spirit Stone per year...

If one becomes Rank-2 Alchemist, one can smoothly advance to the Xuan-grade Attendant.

Their salary will be increased to sixty Spirit Stone per year!

pity...

To this day, Qin Lu has been unable to find the whereabouts of the remnants of the Qi Clan, and with no successor, he has never been able to refine a Second-Tier spirit pill...

It wasn't that his skill level was insufficient, but rather that he lacked the Pill Formula!

There was also no method for refining Second-Tier pills, since Second-Tier pills weren't like First-Tier pills that could be made by hand...

There is a real distinction Second-Tier and the First-Tier, which is like that between immortals and mortals!