On such an unfamiliar island, Zhang Zhixuan and the others were even more cautious. Because of the language barrier, they did not dare to easily communicate with the islanders. They could only hide in the dark and observe every move on the island.
The sun rises and sets, spring passes and autumn comes, and in the blink of an eye it has been three years since the three people teleported here.
In the past three years, Zhang Zhixuan and the others have been hiding in secret. While practicing hard in the underground cave, they relied on the invisibility charm to learn the local language and characters, and at the same time investigated the surrounding situation clearly.
This desert island is called Dafang Island. It was just a desert island more than 300 years ago. Because the island has a solid core and has not experienced any earthquakes for thousands of years, Liu Xuanyan chose it to build an underground cave.
After the underground cave was built, Liu Xuanyan rescued some monks and supported them to establish themselves on the island. Due to the leakage of underground spiritual veins, a spiritual vein gradually formed in the center of the island, and also attracted some scattered people who had failed to compete nearby.
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After many years of management, these people have cultivated the spiritual veins on the island to the third level, and the spiritual energy is quite impressive.
So far, there are seven monks in the foundation building stage and more than 300 monks in the Qi training stage on the island. These monks have multiplied and multiplied, forming seventeen monk families.
These seventeen families live together on an island. Due to limited resources, there will of course be fights. However, when facing foreign enemies, they are able to put aside their conflicts, act unanimously, and resist foreign humiliation.
In the past three years, Zhang Zhixuan witnessed a fierce battle with his own eyes.
The monks on Dafang Island united as one, repelled the invasion of a small treasure ship and defended their gate.
In this battle, more than 40 monks in the Qi-training stage on the island were killed, and even two monks in the foundation-building stage were killed and three injured. After the war, the island also carried out rewards and pensions, and did not deprive them of them.
Those who suffered heavy losses and lacked the strength to protect their family's interests and territory.
The environment of Qingli Sea is different from that of Nanya Prefecture. There is a vast and boundless sea everywhere, with scattered islands dotted on the sea.
Most of these large and small islands are desert islands, and only some of them have spiritual veins and are suitable for monks to garrison.
The stronger the spiritual veins on the island, the more powerful monks can be cultivated, and they can occupy a favorable position in the competition, strengthen the sect, and develop the family.
Therefore, in order to compete for the spiritual island on the Qingli Sea, very cruel and fierce battles often break out.
Because there are long distances between islands, except for the main spiritual veins controlled by large sects that have teleportation arrays, communication between most spiritual islands is through treasure ships.
Treasure ships use spirit stones as energy sources, combined with countless rare materials, and are extremely difficult to refine. It often requires the cooperation of dozens of monks such as weapon refiners and array masters, and it takes a lot of time to refine them.
Refining a third-level small treasure ship costs more than tens of thousands of spiritual stones, which is much more difficult than cultivating spiritual veins.
Compared with the popular spirit boats in Nanya Prefecture, treasure boats have many advantages and specific disadvantages.
A small third-level treasure ship can carry at least a thousand people. Its internal space is far larger than Zhang Zhixuan's fourth-level spiritual boat Fuyunzhou, and it is better at transporting cargo than whale beasts.
Secondly, a large amount of materials were used in the construction of the treasure ship. Not only is it large in space, it is also very strong and can withstand violent winds and waves at sea and terrifying beasts underwater.
Without the escort of treasure ships, ordinary ships cannot leave the island at all. Even if they barely go out to sea, they can easily be attacked by monsters in the sea, resulting in the ship being destroyed and everyone killed.
An environment like the Qingli Sea, except for the giant island occupied by Yuanying Stage monks, is as large as a vast continent. It has no shortage of land and can open up countless fertile fields for self-sufficiency.
Ordinary small islands are limited by their size and cannot support too many people.
For example, Dafang Island had a population of more than 30,000 three decades ago. However, there was insufficient land on the island, and there were no blueprints for building treasure ships. It could not go to sea to obtain resources, so it could not support too many people.
Nearly two hundred years have passed, but the number of mortals on the island has not increased much. On the contrary, the number of monks has increased a bit, and there are also a few more foundation-building monks. As a result, a war has returned us to the starting point, and within a few hundred years, the number of monks has increased.
All your hard work is in vain.
The first reason why Dafang Island has been able to develop to this point is because the cultivation techniques on the island are well inherited. It was inherited from a very powerful senior three hundred years ago. The first few foundation-building monks on the island received her skills.
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The second is that it has absorbed a large number of casual cultivators who failed in the competition. The competition for Qingli Hailing Island is very common and cruel.
If a spiritual island that is developing smoothly is unlucky and encounters a powerful monster or a large treasure ship, it may be accidentally defeated, lose the spiritual island where it can live, and become a casual cultivator.
The rules on Dafang Island are free to come and go, and these monks who have failed in competition can easily integrate into the island. Foreign monks continue to enter the island to improve their bloodline, which leads to the island's population getting better and better. On average, one hundred mortals can
The probability of giving birth to a child with spiritual roots far exceeds that of the immortal cultivating family in Nanya Prefecture.
The Zhang family and the Liu family have a population of more than 300,000, but they have only trained 400 monks. This small island has a population of only 30,000 to 40,000, and the number of monks on the island is only slightly less than that of the Zhang family.
If there were no outside monks to improve the bloodline and intermarry with the island's population, the bloodline of the mortals on the island would get worse and worse, gradually become mediocre, and would have no stamina after a hundred or two hundred years.
The treasure ship is not only large in space, but also very sturdy, and its sailing speed is not weaker than that of the spirit boat flying in the sky. However, compared to the spirit boat flying in the sky, the treasure ship can only sail on the water and can only be anchored in the port.
Moreover, the spirit boat can be enlarged or reduced, stored in a storage bag, and can even serve as a natal magic weapon, refined into the Dantian for warmth and nourishment. Once the treasure ship is made, it cannot change its shape, let alone shrink in size, and be stored in a storage bag.
Mobile manipulation requires a lot of manpower.
Compared with the spirit boat, this is the biggest shortcoming of the treasure ship.
In addition, extremely powerful magic weapons are refined on the treasure ships, and there are also special formation protections, which can give full play to the advantages of large numbers and gather the magic power of many people. They can often defeat the strong with the weak, and defeat masters whose cultivation is far superior to themselves.
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A third-level high-grade treasure ship usually carries three fourth-level God-Destroying Crossbows. The God-Destroying Crossbow uses mid-grade spiritual stones as energy source, and the crossbow arrows fired are not weaker than the Liuyang Demon-Destroying Crossbow used by Qingchan.
If a monk in the foundation-building stage is not careful, he may be killed instantly with one blow. Even a monk from the Zifu, if attacked by three fourth-level God-destroying crossbows at the same time, has to scramble. If his cultivation is not enough, he may be injured.
As long as the treasure ship carries enough spirit stones, a third-level high-grade treasure ship with five foundation builders and thirty Qi-training monks stationed there can compete with one Zifu.
Of course, a third-level high-grade treasure ship is absolutely no match for Qing Chan, nor can it defeat a master like Zhang Zhixuan in the Purple Mansion period, or even Han Yan. But when it comes to a monk like Wei Bohan, who is in the early Zifu period,
You can fight against it until the treasure ship runs out of spiritual stones.