The flying sword tore through the air and erupted into a violent roar.
In the sky, a figure quickly crossed the sky.
Flying high in the sky, Su Ming looked at Yaojiang City in front of and below him.
This was the first time he stood at high altitude and overlooked the entire Yaojiang City. As a mortal city where rivers and seas meet, Yaojiang City is no smaller than Tianshu Daofang City.
If the villages and towns surrounding Yaojiang City are included, its area is even larger than Tianshu Daofang City.
The entire Yaojiang City, including its surrounding villages and towns, has a population of more than 10 million.
Its scale is larger than any ancient city that Su Ming knew in his previous life, and even in terms of population size, it is not inferior to modern cities.
For such a huge city, the amount of food consumed is extremely staggering.
Therefore, there are countless fertile fields around Yaojiang City.
However, most of these fields are in the hands of the landed gentry, and very few of them belong to ordinary farmers.
Just like Wu Laoshi, Su Ming's subordinate, he has been a tenant of the Qi family for generations, cultivating land for the Qi family.
As a monk, Su Ming rarely paid attention to ordinary people in the world of immortality.
But the mundane world of this world is the cornerstone of the world of immortality.
Without the ordinary world, there would be no people, and there would be no prosperous world of immortality.
This is also the reason why all major sects in Daqian have expressly banned monks from interfering in the operation of the mortal world.
Because the power of monks is too strong, if they are allowed to interfere arbitrarily in mortal affairs, it will inevitably lead to constant war in the mortal world.
After all, a large number of wars have brought about a sharp decline in population.
The Xianxia Sect is not the Lingbao Mountain, and they are worried that too many monks born in the secular world will affect their rule.
As for the Xianxia Sect, they wish they could have more casual cultivators.
So as to create more value for them and provide them with more outstanding disciples.
This is the most different place between the two sects of Xianxia Sect and Lingbaoshan Sect.
The difference in concepts also led to the strength and weakness of these two sects.
Using the Breath Condensation Technique, Su Ming chose a deserted place and slowly lowered his figure without attracting anyone's attention.
As soon as he stepped into the boundary of Yaojiang City, Su Ming felt the spirit summoner of Yaojiang City through the Hall of Immortals.
After more than a year of development, the number of soul summoners that Su Ming originally arranged in Yaojiang City has expanded to a total of seventy people.
There are a total of ten Spiritist squads.
Each team consists of seven people, led by a black soul envoy.
As soon as Su Ming stepped into the boundaries of Yaojiang City, he randomly found a hiding place in the woods outside the city, and then ordered the seven soul summoners: "Take all your mortal souls and come one hundred miles east of Yaojiang City."
Each black soul envoy heard the voice in his mind, and each of them paused one after another.
They all replied:
"Yes, Lord Immortal!"
"I obey my orders!"
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After hearing the replies from the seven black soul envoys, Su Ming waited quietly.
After this, night fell quickly.
Through the Hall of Immortals, Su Ming could clearly sense that one after another, the black soul envoys found the white soul envoys who were summoning souls throughout Yaojiang City and rushed towards the location specified by Su Ming.
Since all the white soul envoys were scattered throughout Yaojiang City, it took a lot of effort to find the black soul envoys one by one.
It was not until nightfall that the seven black soul envoys found their subordinates and rushed towards Su Ming.
Su Ming did not directly put them into sleep mode and take over them.
Instead, we use the seven black soul envoys to find their respective subordinates and observe how well they control the white soul envoys.
As a result, Su Ming was very satisfied. The seven black soul envoys he specially promoted all did well, and none of them was unable to control their subordinates.
You must know that although Su Ming gave power to the seven black soul envoys, apart from being the nominal bosses of the six white soul envoys, these black soul envoys were only more powerful than the other white soul envoys.
Apart from these two points, the Black Soul Envoy itself does not have any means to restrain the White Soul Envoy.
The reason why the White Soul Envoy is so obedient to the Black Soul Envoy is, to a greater extent, because he is afraid of the mysterious and unpredictable Su Ming.
These soul envoys are not honest farmers like Wu Laoshi. They were all extremely shrewd people in the world during their lifetime, and they knew how to judge the situation best.
In fact, Su Ming also likes to deal with people who know how to assess situations. At least when he has absolute control over the other person's life and death, such people will never have second thoughts about him.
In fact, being able to guarantee this was enough for Su Ming.
He does not need everyone to be infinitely loyal to him, nor does he need this kind of loyalty. The reason why Su Ming has gone through such a long journey is to build an army of paper figures that can farm for him.
As for whether the spiritualist is loyal or not, it doesn't matter at all.
Su Ming only needs the other party to complete the tasks he assigned.
As long as the mission is accomplished, what does it matter whether the spiritualist is loyal or not?
Su Ming's power came from the Hall of Immortals, from himself, and had no direct connection with the Spiritualist or even with the ordinary paper man farming army.
Under the black gauze-like night.
A series of strange figures quickly gathered towards the east of Yaojiang City.
It's just that under the cover of the blinding technique, mortals can't see these paper puppets at all.
Just when one by one the spiritualists were approaching a distance of fifty miles from Su Ming, all the spiritualists paused and fell into sleep mode.
Afterwards, Su Ming controlled them and continued to run towards him at high speed.
An hour later.
A total of seventy paper puppets stood in front of Su Ming. These were the team of spiritualists that had slowly grown over the past two years.
Compared to the farmer-type paper puppets, the number of spiritualists is much smaller.
Even so, every spiritualist among them has accumulated mortal souls in his body that are about to be exhausted.
Although Su Ming used the spirit puppet reincarnation technique to put all mortal souls into a deep sleep.
But hundreds of souls packed into the body of a paper puppet are still too crowded.
Su Ming looked at the most powerful paper puppet. This soul summoner made him realize that it was the first black soul envoy he appointed, named Zhou Tongshu.
He waved.
Zhou Tongshu immediately walked towards Su Ming.
After some inspection, Su Ming found that there were actually 974 mortal souls gathered in Zhou Tongshu's body.
"so much?"
Su Ming was secretly speechless.
Perhaps, the population around Yaojiang City is larger than he expected.
Next, Su Ming checked the number of souls in each paper puppet.
After some inquiries, he found that none of the paper puppets had less than eight hundred souls.
The total number of souls in the seventy paper puppets actually reached a terrifying sixty-eight thousand, four hundred and thirty-two.
In the past two years, Su Ming used his essence and blood to make paper puppets when he had time. Without affecting his own cultivation and foundation, he only accumulated more than 2,500 paper puppets in the past two years.
"This is the reason why I have not deployed soul-callers on a large scale in Yaojiang City. Otherwise, with the population size of Yaojiang City and its surrounding villages and towns, it would be impossible for only this few people to die in two years."
Su Ming thought to himself.
In a residential area with a population of tens of millions, the normal number of deaths in an average year should be at least 150,000.
Moreover, in the ordinary social production structure, farmers account for the vast majority.
In other words, at least 70% to 80% of the people who died were farmers.
Calculating this, within two years, the spiritualists should have collected more than 200,000 mortal souls.
After all, the mortal souls Su Ming required were not just farmers, but also talents with special skills, such as winemakers, various craftsmen, etc.
Although cultivating spiritual fields is an industry that Su Ming plans to develop vigorously, it is by no means the only industry.
The reason is actually very simple: the profit from cultivating spiritual fields is too low.
However, Su Ming's current strength is too weak, and he does not have enough strength to protect the highly profitable industry, so he chose the industry of planting spiritual fields.
Shaking his head, Su Ming stretched out his hand, and a mini fairy palace appeared in his palm.
It is the Hall of Immortals who has been promoted to the magic weapon.
Su Ming looked at Zhou Tongshu in front of him and immediately put it into the Hall of Immortals.
Then, the mortal souls in Zhou Tongshu's body emerged from his body one by one.
As soon as these soul shadows emerged from Zhou Tongshu's body, Su Ming threw them into the dense army of paper figures below the Hall of Immortals.
This time, Su Ming used paper to make soldiers and made a hundred thousand paper figures in the Hall of Immortals.
These are all paper-man farmer bodies, specially prepared for these mortals.
As the nine hundred and seventy-four mortal souls were thrown into the bodies of the paper puppets in the Hall of Immortals, the bodies of these paper puppets swayed slightly, as if they were about to wake up.
Su Ming was too lazy to explain too much to these paper farmers, and immediately put them into sleep mode.
Suddenly, the nine hundred and seventy-four paper puppets stood motionless in place.
In this way, Su Ming kept repeating this action.
Less than half an hour.
A total of 68,432 paper farmer puppets were completed.
Compared with the previous time when Su Ming had to use blood essence for sacrifice, the efficiency has increased countless times.
"Okay, great!"
Su Ming looked at the army of paper figures in the Hall of Immortals, his face filled with joy.
With this farming army, Su Ming can imagine how many spiritual stones he will earn next year!
As early as two months ago, Su Ming asked Wu Laoshi to lead his farmers to open up spiritual fields. Now he is just waiting for the more than 68,000 paper man farming troops to join the farming team.
Next year Guangyuan Island's spiritual rice production will reach an unprecedented peak.
After dealing with the paper man army, Su Ming controlled the spirit summoner to return to the original route.
After a stick of incense.
After the spirit summoners were hundreds of miles away from Su Ming, Su Ming let go of his control over them.
Zhou Tongshu was the first to wake up. Looking at the empty mortal souls in his body, he knew that these souls must have been taken away by the Immortal.
really.
Su Ming's majestic voice sounded from the ears of the seven black soul envoys again.
"Your next task, in addition to the normal recruitment of farmers and various talented mortal souls, is also to find suitable candidates for soul summoners."
Upon hearing this, all the dark soul envoys suddenly became excited.
They all know what it means for the number of spiritualists to continue to expand.
Judge, the position of judge in Yaojiang City is still vacant so far.
The promotion to the position of judge this time must be done among their seven black soul envoys.
Although latecomers also have opportunities, based on their understanding of Master Shangxian, the other party attaches great importance to qualifications and merit.
And of these, which spiritualists are comparable to these seven.
Among these seven black soul envoys, in terms of merit and qualifications, the one who ranks first is of course the first black soul envoy promoted by Su Ming, Zhou Tongshu.
In fact, Su Ming himself had the greatest expectations for Zhou Tongshu.
In the past two years, Zhou Tongshu has exceeded the tasks assigned to him every time.
The biggest reason why it took two years to recruit the souls of all the farmers who died normally in Yaojiang City is that the soul summoning department is short of manpower and there is not enough space to contain the souls.
The body of a spiritualist can usually hold hundreds of mortal souls at its limit.
But just now, Zhou Tongshu's body contained a total of 974 souls, only 26 short of a thousand souls.
Su Ming noticed that when Zhou Tongshu ran over, his steps were a bit heavier than those of the other spiritualists.
Although the soul has no weight, so many souls are crowded into Zhou Tongshu's body, which will inevitably affect his actions, even if these souls have entered dormant mode.
Su Ming must solve this problem, but not now.
The top priority is to send these more than 60,000 and nearly 70,000 paper puppets to Guangyuan Island.
Fortunately, when recruiting souls, the soul summoner has already told Su Ming what they will do next.
Otherwise, once so many paper puppets suddenly appear on Guangyuan Island, it will inevitably have a huge impact on Wu Laoshi's management work.
There are nearly 70,000 paper puppets. This time, Su Ming must stand behind Wu Laoshi and support him.
Otherwise, it will definitely have an impact on the management system that has been formed on Guangyuan Island.
Although most of these farmers have farmed their entire lives, it does not mean that they are all fools.
Including the original paper puppets on Guangyuan Island, the current number of farmer paper puppets has exceeded 70,000, reaching a terrifying scale of 70,432.
It can be said that even the ordinary Jindan family may not have a spiritual plant husband of this scale.
Su Ming can be sure that some of these paper farmers will stand up and want to challenge Wu Laoshi's management position, which Su Ming will never allow.
For Su Ming, the top priority is to stabilize the series of chaos caused by the large number of paper farmers entering Guangyuan Island.
Rather than replacing the management with Wu Laoshi as the core.
Changing management when major events occur will only add to chaos.
Su Ming naturally understood this simple truth. For him, even if Wu Laoshi was not a qualified manager, he would at least last until after this spring plowing.
It won't be a big problem until all the spiritual rice seeds in the spiritual fields are planted, and then we can slowly select talents and replace the originally incompetent management.
Instead of rushing to replace Wu Laoshi right away.
Besides, after two years of hard work, Wu Laoshi's ability to manage the paper farmers has also improved.
People's abilities are not born with them, they are acquired through training.
Su Ming firmly believed in this.
Wu Laoshi was able to manage the spiritual fields of Guangyuan Island in an orderly manner in the past two years. If he didn't believe Wu Laoshi, would he still trust a newcomer who had only been on the island for a few days?
He saw all the spiritualists leaving him.
Su Ming immediately took out his flying sword and flew towards Guangyuan Island.