In a few years, around the time Wu Jie turns fifty, the climate of the entire Kyushu realm will undergo a large-scale change. Specifically, it will be a general drop in temperature, accompanied by a major drought that almost covers Kyushu.
This is not a weather forecast - there is no weather forecast more than ten years in advance in the world - but the result of divination.
The first person to come to this conclusion was Ning Feng, the Qintian Supervisor of the Great Chu Kingdom. He was loyal to state affairs and conducted a large-scale occupation every month. During a certain occupation, he accidentally discovered that there seemed to be a drought in the future.
After seeing the signs, he made a special calculation on this matter and came to a shocking conclusion.
After arriving at this conclusion, Ning Feng did not make any announcement. Instead, he found his uncle Xiao Buyi and asked Xiao Buyi to verify it.
Xiao Bu did some calculations in his wardrobe and got a more detailed result. It was indeed that a severe drought was coming. He was not sure about this, so he found his senior brother Su Lin. But Su Lin spent nearly a hundred years of life to calculate it.
The result that came out was very similar to what he had calculated.
Then the news was secretly spread to various sects, including Qingyang Sect. At least ten Huandan Patriarchs who were good at divination held various rituals and used various magic weapons, trying to
Improving the accuracy of divination - or in other words, trying to draw different conclusions.
Unfortunately, as long as there are no mistakes in all divination, the final conclusion will not be much different. At most, it will be different in some details that have nothing to do with the overall situation.
"Presumably this is the so-called 'transformation of heaven and earth'." In the Feijian letter sent by the master, the master said worriedly, "The destiny of heaven and earth is unstoppable, it is like the change of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Likewise, even if you understand the truth, you can't change it."
"A major disaster like this usually only occurs once in a thousand years. Being in a disaster is both misfortune and opportunity. For mortals, danger often makes outstanding people stand out; for monks like us, the process of disaster relief is
The process of cultivating the mind is of great benefit to improving spiritual practice."
"Disciples who are away from home, I very much agree with you going to disaster relief, but you have to do it on your own! When helping mortals, remember to do what you can. Don't be dazzled by compassion. Stay useful so that you can help more people in the future.
people!"
Wu Jie understood what he meant: According to Zang's notes, whenever a catastrophe comes, some decent monks who care about the world will die in order to rescue the disaster. The deaths of these people are naturally shining and will make future generations
Admirable, but the fate of heaven and earth will not stop because of the sacrifice of one or two people - even if it moves the world, it is only a temporary thing, and it is impossible to reverse the fate of heaven and earth for a long time.
Compared with the extreme approach of working hard to die, having appropriate reservations can not only protect yourself, but also protect others in the future. From a long-term perspective, this is the most appropriate choice.
Wu Jie respects those who sacrifice their lives for the common people, but in comparison, he would rather preserve himself for the future.
Since the fate of heaven and earth cannot be stopped, then just do your best. If you can save one person, save one; if you can save one place, save one place. As long as you try your best, you will have no regrets, and there is no need to put yourself at risk.
Forced to death.
He is an immortal, not a savior - not to mention, in the past and present, who has been able to save the world?
Even if there is no upcoming major drought, dissatisfaction is everywhere in the world. If you want to solve all these dissatisfactions, you can probably only learn from the Great Light Sect and train 20,01 Dharma-protecting divine generals to create an ideal world.
?
But that's all just a daydream!
So over the years, he has been preparing for disaster prevention and reduction. On the one hand, he strengthens reserves, and on the other hand, he tries to find some ways to make up for it.
Building water conservancy is a good idea, but if the drought is too severe, even the Black River may dry up - this kind of thing has really happened in history!
Although the Dragon Clan has the ability to move clouds and spread rain, water must eventually be obtained from elsewhere. There is water in the four seas, but to continue to draw water from the East China Sea to irrigate Kyushu requires unimaginable supernatural powers. Experts from all sects in the world combined
It's impossible to do it.
In the far north, there is a large ice field with icebergs connected one after another. During the severe drought in the past, some decent experts once moved the icebergs to the Central Plains and turned the ice into water to nourish them. But this also requires great supernatural powers and magic power, and
The amount of water needed during a severe drought is astonishing. Compared to the entire land of Kyushu, even if all the monks work together, it will still be a drop in the bucket.
Wu Jie did not have the magical power to "hold Mount Tai and reach the North Sea", and he could not get water far from the sea, so his main measures were focused on the following aspects:
First, look for drought-resistant crops.
Food is the most important thing for the people. During a severe drought, the most terrifying thing is the failure of agricultural harvests and lack of food. In order to deal with this problem, he asked his junior brother Yan Gu, who had traveled all over the world, to go to the north to find several plants with strong drought resistance, and then tried to
Transform it into something edible.
It’s not easy. Those plants that survive drought are not friendly at all. They are often not only covered with sharp thorns, but also contain toxins - they are not born to be eaten!
If it were just Wu Jie himself, he might not be able to do anything with them. But behind him are the masters of golden elixirs with great powers, the immortal demon gods with infinite power, and the world of the Book of Heaven with the wonders of creation. Jasmine put those plants in miniature
After going through the cycle of life and death hundreds of times, I finally came up with a variant that has practical value.
This is something similar to a cactus. Its root system is extremely developed, and it can absorb dozens of feet of water underground. Its stems are segmented one by one and can be eaten raw when picked, which contains a lot of water.
Unfortunately, even though they tried many ways, the taste of this thing is still slightly bitter and not sweet at all. This made Du Ruo very dissatisfied and complained about God's stinginess.
After having this edible cactus, Wu Jie felt somewhat confident. Then he turned his attention to the sea and began to think about whether he could get some resources from the sea.
It is obviously unrealistic to expect ocean fishing to feed the people of a county. Moreover, there are too many powerful things in the sea in this world. Inshore fishing is nothing more than offshore fishing. There is no difference between ocean fishing and death. So his eyes are not looking at
Instead of looking at the sea itself, I looked at the tidal flats on the beach.
Soyang County is adjacent to the East China Sea. There are no beaches on the seashore. Most of them are tidal flats covered with black mud soaked in salt. These tidal flats are very vast, but they basically do not produce much valuable things. At best, they can only provide some firewood for the people.
According to Wu Jie's impression, there seems to be a practice of using salt-resistant plants to transform tidal flats on Earth. Although he does not have suitable salt-resistant plants on hand, he can think of other ways.
Amidst Jasmine's complaints, the Book of Heaven world was once again put into operation on a large scale. A small ocean and beach were created, and then all kinds of strange plants began to grow on the beach.
For several years, he used the power accumulated in the Heavenly Book World without hesitation, and finally created a plant that had never appeared in the Kyushu World.
This is a vine that can grow rapidly on salt-alkali shoals. It completely ignores the terrible salt in the sea water, absorbs it and discharges it from the back of the leaves, but it does not contain a lot of salt in its body, making it an "edible" vine.
” scope.
Unfortunately, this food tastes really bad. When I tried it, Du Ruo kept shaking his head and said, "Fourth, if you let me eat this again, we will break off our relationship." Unless he was extremely hungry, he would
It definitely cannot be eaten by humans, it can only be fed to livestock.
And this thing also brings another by-product, which is salt.
There is a method of drying salt in Kyushu. It was invented by a monk who practiced at the sea a long time ago. However, the sea salt produced by drying is always a bit bitter. Wu Jie knew that this was because of impurities, but he did not know how to eliminate them.
Impurities can only be discarded.
This plant he invented can produce salt by picking its leaves and drying them. Although it is also a bit bitter salt, it contains some grassy aroma and tastes slightly better than traditional sea salt.
Of course, the output of this kind of salt is not very high, and it is nothing compared to the salt drying fields all along the coast. But it can still be regarded as an income, which is a small supplement to people's livelihood.
If he uses magic, Wu Jie can indeed create refined salt that is almost free of impurities similar to that on earth, but he has not made this on a large scale - all his inventions and research have taken the middle and lower level route.
Targeting the welfare of ordinary people.
As for those wealthy big dogs, natural disasters can't kill them anyway, so Wu Jie just doesn't bother to deal with them!
Except for Wu Jie, none of his disciples and the decent sects in the world were idle. They all gave up their cultivation and were busy preventing disasters. Probably when he completed the special vegetation named "Sea Herb Grass", a Taoist priest
The uncle of "Qingxiazi" invented the technology of offshore planting.
This technology is not much different from what Wu Jie saw in his previous life. They lay corrosion-resistant rope nets in the sea, and then plant kelp and other things on the rope nets. However, that kind of rope nets are not easy to make, so for the time being, they can only be made by immortals.
Hosted by the man in the door.
Like the cactus and sea grass invented by Wu Jie, this technology was spread as quickly as possible. Immortals don't need money, and they don't study these things for their own benefit, just to help more people.
During these years of hard work to prepare for the famine, dozens of monks including Wu Jie put their energy into the seaside, and eventually opened up thousands of miles of tidal flats.
Seagrass is grown on the seaside, and kelp is grown in the sea, which can also help the fishery.
Although it took countless efforts and energy, flying from the sky and looking at the sea fields thousands of miles away, every decent immortal smiled.
"Being able to do such a career in my life makes me feel that my life is worth it..." An Ziqing, who has become more like an old farmer than a rich man due to long-term hard work, said with a smile.
Wu Jie also smiled: "Yes, only those who can benefit the people are the real immortals!"
