Secret Lands and Secret Realms Emerge, the Leadership Finds a Solution, the Ancestral Hall

This transformation was cultivation for him, a cultivation that involved both understanding and practice, and the effect was much better than trying to comprehend it alone.

Next, Wang He's cultivation revolved around the transformation of Yin and Yang and the shaping of spiritual land.

On the other side, at the Heavenly River Dao Palace.

Immersed in cultivation, Wang An sensed something through his authority. His divine sense, at the level of Golden Core True Lord, gathered immortal energy and transformed into a decree, which flew out of the cave and directly entered the Return to Heaven Suppress Jade Tower New Solar System.

This place has been refined into the most superior spiritual building.

Its height has increased again and again, and its internal area has expanded again and again, reaching a height of hundreds of miles, containing three thousand layers of space, and gathering many departments of the Human Federation, making it the central hub of the entire Federation.

The Golden Core Elixir Mantra flew to this place and shone brightly.

The Five Elements Immortal Qi circulates, and every living being who sees this decree instantly understands its contents.

"From this day forward, spiritual beings of the space will be born. They can create Inner Landscape Blessed Field, spiritual mansions, and blessed lands, and the path of Inner Scene Earth Immortal will flourish in the world. In addition, Space Transformation Primordial Qi emerge, which can transform into secret lands and realms of heaven and earth, and the cultivators of the Federation will naturally compete for them."

This information was a shocking development for unsuspecting cultivators, but many high-ranking officials in the Federation had already noticed it and were not too surprised.

However, they paid more attention to the True Lord's attitude towards the secret places and realms of heaven and earth.

Does natural competition mean letting them compete for internal resources based on their own abilities, or does it mean that the control of the secret realm will be determined through natural competition?

A high-level meeting was held on the top floor of Return to Heaven Rectify Jade Tower, where nine people gathered.

The sixth-generation disciple Daoist Yufu Fu, fellow disciples of the same generation, governed and managed the affairs of the Federation.

He then chaired a meeting to discuss how to respond to this change.

"As you all have seen the Ancestral Master's decree, how should the Federation implement it?"

"Natural competition involves multiple aspects, including natural competition for control of the secret realm or natural competition for internal resources. If there are restrictions on the number of entries, should those entries also be subject to competition?"

Upon hearing this, all the high-ranking officials fell silent for a moment, frowning as they pondered the meaning of the patriarch's words.

A high-ranking official in charge of federal military affairs stood up and laid out various data.

"As you all know, only a hundred years have passed, and in many prosperous star systems within the Federation's inner region, a trend of indulging in pleasure has begun to emerge."

"Dao Foundation Establishment cultivator Shelter his child, piling up all sorts of resources to create a subpar Foundation Establishment whose very Dao Foundation is incomplete. How will the Federation respond if a crisis arises in the future?"

The senior executive in charge of innovation and development nodded in agreement and began to speak.

"Over the past fifty years, the pace of innovation in new types of cultivation techniques, spells, and methods in the Federation has slowed significantly, decreasing by thirty percent compared to the past."

"Many Qi Refining cultivators, faced with repetitive experiments day after day for over a decade, gradually lose patience..."

The senior executives in charge of resource allocation and federal resource management also released a set of data.

"Although we are still continuously transforming life-bearing planets and expanding the production of cultivation resources, according to the estimates and predictions of the intelligent agents, the Federation lacks effective crisis management, and the growth rate of Dao Foundation and Qi Refining cultivators willing to undertake expansion tasks is decreasing year by year, until it begins to decline after three hundred years."

These figures caused the federal officials present to frown deeply.

At this point, Daoist Yufu presented a set of statistical data.

"Gentlemen, as of now, the Federation has been established for over six hundred years, with a population exceeding six hundred billion, more than ten thousand Dao Foundation cultivators, and twenty-five Purple Mansion Perfected Person."

"Our population has grown the fastest in the last two centuries, but it is now slowing down. Based on non-interference forecasts, our population may remain around three trillion within the next millennium."

"This population is only slightly larger than some established mid-level civilizations, but compared to the population of other High Tier civilizations' capital cities, we are still far too few."

He then stood up with the Daoist Yufu and slowly spoke, his voice loud and deep.

"I believe that we should crack down on hedonistic tendencies to the greatest extent possible, and impose varying degrees of education and labor penalties on those who waste collectively provided resources."

"At the same time, a group of cultivators, led by those at the Purple Mansion level, accompanied by Dao Foundation and Qi Refining cultivators, will be dispatched to the Thirteen Heavenly Realms of the Ancient Church of Truth Seeking Sect for training."

"Of course we're doing these things, but they're only treating the symptoms, not the root cause."

"Now that we have these secret realms and hidden places, I think it can also soothe the dejected spirits of some cultivators who have lost hope for the future."

"Secret lands and realms—I just inquired with several Purple Mansion Perfected Person, and they said that some secret lands and realms have already formed within the cave heavens."

"Its whereabouts are unpredictable, usually moving back and forth within a certain area. Its opening hours are sometimes regular, sometimes completely random, and it contains opportunities to achieve the Dao Foundation and Purple Mansion."

"Then let's do it this way. The Federation will take control of all the fixed and regularly occurring secret realms and locations, and the quota will be determined by regional battles and skill competitions."

"Private control by non-governmental forces is prohibited. This matter will be monitored by the Middle Tier Qi Destiny Observation Station and executed by the Purple Mansion Perfected Person."

"As for random secret realms and secret areas, the Federation's intelligent agents will protect the cultivator's identity upon entry."

As a series of practical policies were proposed, the high-level officials present worked together to improve them from various aspects, combining them with the deductive abilities of advanced intelligent agents, in order to motivate the cultivators to strive for higher realms.

Finally, there's the issue of managing spiritual objects within a space, and the internal space of Earth Immortal cultivator.

A high-ranking official in charge of oversight raised a possibility.

"If some Earth Immortal cultivators were to keep humans within their inner realms, providing them with resources to cultivate demonic techniques, how would this be supervised?"

"If certain forces were to do this in man-made spaces, how could we regulate it?"

Upon hearing this, many people fell silent. This was no longer an uncertain possibility, but something that, based on human nature, was bound to happen.

"With our current spatial technology, it's difficult to achieve a monitoring function. Perhaps after a large number of spatial spirits are born, there will be a technological breakthrough, but this will only be a temporary solution, not a fundamental one. It will probably still be a two-way struggle..."

After a moment of silent contemplation with the Daoist Yufu, he spoke.

"If we can't solve it, then let's seek help from the Purple Mansion. If the Purple Mansion can't solve it, then the True Lord will surely have a solution."

He checked the time; two days had already passed.

"Alright, that's the policy for now. All departments should implement it as soon as possible. If there's anything else we haven't considered, please bring it up... Dismissed."

The nine-person meeting was dissolved.

Returning to the office with Daoist Yufu, he retrieved the Federal Vice Speaker's Seal and activated one of its internal abilities.

The next moment, the seal emitted Dao God, opening the portal to the grotto.

He stepped in decisively, and was immediately enveloped by an extremely rich source of Primordial Qi energy.

He appeared inside a palace, which was the ancestral hall of the entire Heavenly River Dao Lineage.

Five portraits are placed at the highest point. The portraits contain the Five Elements elements of immortal qi, the Netherworld Spirit Qi, the reincarnation soul qi, the rebirth life qi, and the Spatial Transformation qi, which obscure the faces of the figures, revealing only their figures.

The honorific title above clarifies this for all disciples.

At the highest point is the figure of a young Daoist priest, who holds a flying sword, has Heavenly River encircling his waist, a divine moon ring behind his head, and resides in the Primordial Heavenly Palace, with the honorific title of [Immortal Beginning True Five Elements Heavenly River True Lord].

Below, the images of the three Netherworld deities are even more blurred, obscured by the three energies. Only the divine tower, the celestial compass, and the Earthly Register and Judgment Brush reveal their divine might. They are revered as the [Great Emperor of Fengdu], the [Heavenly Venerable of Samsara], and the [Judge of Reincarnation].

Further down in the image, a divine tree reaching to the heavens and earth covers the sky, and a goddess stands beneath it, revered as [the Primordial Spirit Who Creates the Spatial Transformation Divine Lord Huanjing].