Zhou Yang had just tested the benefits of using monster beasts to control monster beasts on the Wind Shadow Leopard not long ago.
So he worked tirelessly and flew back to Yuquan Peak Oasis several times with his sword, and used his spirit beast bag to transport four flame-devouring spiders to Red Fox Ridge one by one.
As soon as the four flame-eating spiders arrived, they quickly captured the flying fire bats in the fire bat cave under the command of Zhou Xuanzhao and Zhou Yuanliang.
Facts have proved that Zhou Yuanliang's suggestion was completely correct.
The flame-eating spider also likes to live in underground caves, and its silk is tough and fire-resistant. It is the natural enemy of small fire-type flying monsters such as the flying fire bat.
Captured by the webs of four adult flame-eating spiders, the flying fire bats in the entire fire bat cave were quickly captured one by one and imprisoned in individual small caves.
Then four pregnant female flying fire bats were also caught in the net one after another, and then lived in a "delivery room" specially built for them by two animal trainers, so that they could safely give birth to their fetuses.
After catching all the flying fire bats in the fire bat cave, Zhou Yang had time to look for the light jade vein.
Since the three-tailed demon fox can dig out jade essence and a large amount of light jade to decorate his residence, it means that the light jade vein must not be buried deep, and it may even exist on an oasis.
In this case, of course it is best to discover and mine early.
At this time, after a period of preparation, Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the Yuquan Lake Oasis, had begun arranging in batches the mortals who had already registered to migrate to the new oasis.
These migrant mortals who were registered in accordance with Zhou Yang's requirements a few years ago are all young men and women between the ages of sixteen and forty. Once these people arrive at the oasis, they can immediately be put into labor and production.
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Moreover, once these young adults are transferred away, those mortals in the Yuquan Lake Oasis who want to have offspring will not have enough people of the right childbearing age to give birth. This is another method of Zhou Yang's population control.
As for whether these people are willing to leave their hometown and come to a new oasis with nothing to build a new home, it is really not up to these people. After all, the population crisis of the Zhou family has reached the point where the population must be relocated.
If mortals refuse to migrate, they will eventually starve to death or be lured by immortal cultivators to attract monsters to eliminate the excess population.
They are all of the same clan. Unless it is absolutely necessary, the monks of the Zhou family will definitely not want to use such extreme methods to eliminate the excess population. Therefore, no matter how reluctant mortals are to migrate, they must obey the overall situation and follow the migration!
Therefore, Zhou Yang only needs to find the vein where the light jade is located, and he can start mining and processing it as soon as the mortals arrive.
If the mineral vein is on the oasis, then a mortal town can even be placed there.
It's just that spiritual things obscure themselves, and when minerals containing spiritual energy are buried underground, the spiritual energy contained in them will not be emitted at all when wrapped in soil, sand and stones.
Even a monk in the foundation building stage like Zhou Yang with strong spiritual consciousness can only measure the oasis mountains and rivers step by step and find the location of the mineral veins inch by inch if he wants to find the mineral veins buried underground.
After searching for more than a month, Zhou Yang discovered the light jade vein in a mountain col near Lujialing Mountain.
After some exploration by Zhou Yang, it was finally determined that this jade vein was a small jade mine. If it was not exploited indiscriminately, there would be no problem in mining this jade mine for two to three hundred years.
After all, the market for immortal cultivators in the Immortal Cultivation World of the Boundless Sand Sea is only that big, and the light jade magic weapon is famous for its durability. The Zhou family does not want to turn this high-end luxury item for Qi-training monks into a cheap light bulb.
If so, production capacity must be controlled.
At this time, the first batch of mortals who migrated from the Zhou family had already arrived in the new oasis. Zhou Yang let these people settle near the mountain col where the light jade vein was discovered, and personally collected a large piece of light jade to make a plaque with the inscription:
The plaque of "Glow Town" is given to those mortals.
The title "Nightlight Town" is of course inspired by the poem from his previous life.
Because of this, his mind wandered and he thought of other uses of light jade. This kind of spiritual jade, which can emit soft and bright light, is only used as a raw material for making lighting instruments, which is obviously a waste.
Maybe, he can try to sell it as a luxury product like a "luminous cup". If it can be achieved, every family will use the "luminous cup" as a designated drinking utensil for celebrations such as foundation-building celebrations.
If so, then the benefits generated by this light jade vein will be great!
However, to accomplish this, one has to wait for a suitable opportunity. Zhou Yang is not in a hurry and just keeps this matter in mind for the time being.
After he was busy looking for the light jade veins, there were not many things that Zhou Yang needed to worry about. Whether it was cultivating spiritual fields and medicinal gardens, or relocating and resettling the migrant population, these things could not be done by him, the leader of the clan, himself.
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At the Yuquan Lake Oasis, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan was looking after and presiding over the overall situation, and it was impossible for anything to bother him, so he was finally able to practice in seclusion for a while.
At this time, after one or two months of careful carving by Xiao Ying, the cave where the three-tailed demon fox originally lived has changed drastically.
Except for the spiritual vine with the "Purple Cloud Fruit" that Xiao Ying did not touch, she transformed the entire cave into a huge cave with more than ten stone chambers.
In addition to the bedroom and training room for two people, the cave also has various stone rooms with different functions such as living room, kitchen, alchemy room, weapon refining room, utility room, spirit beast room, library, etc.
Fortunately, Red Fox Ridge is big enough. Even if they open such a large cave, it will not affect other foundation-building monks from opening caves.
"Mr. Zhou, I want to name the cave [Ziyun Cave], what do you think?"
In the cave, Xiao Ying, who was showing Zhou Yang the fruits of her many days' labor, finally plucked up the courage to make a small request to him after showing him the entire cave.
"It's a pretty good name, let's call it that!"
Zhou Yang looked at the girl who was looking at him expectantly, smiled, reached out and touched the girl's pretty face, and agreed.
Then he took matters into his own hands and used his flying sword to leave the words "Ziyun Cave" on the mountain wall outside the cave.
After doing all this, he said to the happy-looking girl next to him: "Ying'er, now that the cave has been built, and the migration of mortals is also in progress, I plan to practice in seclusion for a period of time, and you will accompany me to practice in seclusion.
Or should we continue to open up medicinal gardens and spiritual fields with Guangxiang and the other spiritual planters?"
Xiao Ying heard this, lowered her head and thought for a while, then she couldn't help but shook her head and said: "I have just been promoted to a higher level, so I am not too urgent about my cultivation. I'd rather open a medicine garden with Guangxiang and the others!"
"That's okay, but you all have to pay attention to safety. If you want to leave Lingshan, you must take the griffon with you."
Zhou Yang nodded, said a few words of safety, hugged and kissed the girl for a while, then waved to the girl with a sassy smile, walked into the practice room and retreated.
There was nothing else in the training room except a cold jade bed. Zhou Yang walked to the cold jade bed and sat down cross-legged. He reached out and patted the storage bag and took out the jade box containing the jade essence.
This piece of jade essence finally fell into his hands. None of the other monks of the Zhou family were willing to compete with him for the right to use this object, not even Zhou Guangxiang, who possesses high-grade spiritual roots.
In fact, now, all Zhou family monks who know that Zhou Yang possesses the "Qian Yang Treasure Body" know that in terms of true talent, Zhou Yang is the number one person in the Zhou family.
His cultivation speed and his fighting ability are not comparable to those of ordinary high-grade spiritual root monks.
Although Zhou Guangxiang succeeded in building the foundation, he did not have any thoughts of competing with Zhou Yang. He knew that he could not compete even if he wanted to.
At this time, Zhou Yang took out the jade essence and placed it on the cold jade bed. However, less than an hour later, he clearly felt that the concentration of spiritual energy in the training room had increased by nearly 20 to 30%, and finally remained at about 30% without moving.
The level of spiritual veins in Red Fox Ridge is only the third level of low-grade. Originally, Zhou Yang's practice here was not as good as that at Yuquan Peak and Haoyang Mountain. However, with the spirit gathering effect of Jade Spirit, he can practice here On the contrary, it is better than practicing at Yuquan Peak, and second only to practicing at Haoyang Mountain.
This shows how powerful jade essence is.
While Zhou Yang was practicing in seclusion, Chihu Ridge and even the entire New Oasis became a busy construction site.
After Zhou Minghan returned to the family to take charge, he not only arranged for mortals to move to the new oasis, but also arranged for some low-level monks who were not usually valued much within the family to be sent here to help with the construction.
After these low-level monks come to the New Oasis, they should not think about leaving the New Oasis for at least thirty to fifty years.
However, the Zhou family has not treated them badly. Every low-level monk who migrates here can receive an additional 10 family contribution points every year. It seems that this amount is not much, but when applied to their own cultivation level, this is That's a lot.
With these low-level monks coming to help, Xiao Ying, Zhou Guangxiang and others who were cultivating the medicine garden and spiritual field, as well as Zhou Xuanzhao, Zhou Yuanliang and others who were responsible for taming the beasts, all breathed a sigh of relief.
The monks of the Zhou family will arrange some small tasks such as tending the spiritual field and cleaning the animal garden when they first come into contact with spiritual practice. When they become adults, even if they have not learned the relevant skills of cultivating immortals, they will not be familiar with these basic knowledge. Nothing is known.
Now that they have arrived, at least the hard work of cultivating the spiritual fields and medicine fields can be taught to them, and then the spiritual planters can focus on cultivating seedlings, breeding and other technical work.
At the same time, the cleaning of bat guano in the Fire Bat Cave can only be done by these low-level monks.
Don't talk about mortals. Mortals are too weak. The germs and toxins on the bat excrement in the Fire Bat Cave will have no effect on immortal cultivators who have magic power to protect themselves. However, if mortals go in, they will definitely get sick.