As soon as Lu State surrendered, Cang State and Tian Eclipse State followed closely, and soon reached a peace agreement with Wu State. There was no deep hatred between these two countries and Wu State, so naturally there were no harsh conditions, and it was almost an equal peace.
In this way, the four countries were temporarily at peace, and the fighting in the entire southwestern tip of Nanzhou stopped. This made many casual cultivators applaud, because this peaceful environment was more conducive to making a living for them.
The monks and mortals of Lu State were also very happy, because they were spared the dangers of war and did not have to fear death on the battlefield due to the invasion of Wu State. Most of the people could live in peace of mind.
The Wu Kingdom is also very happy. It does not need to launch a cruel annexation war, it can gain benefits without going to the battlefield to fight, and it can become a proud member of the Wu Kingdom.
The Cang Kingdom and the Heavenly Eclipse Kingdom are also very happy. They don't have to spend a lot of resources in a long-term arms race due to the threat of the Wu Kingdom. They can have time to cultivate more outstanding disciples and can develop with peace of mind.
It seems that peace satisfies everyone, even the rare conspirators and ambitious people, but they are powerless to stop this general trend.
One year after the negotiation, the five states abandoned by Lu State completely surrendered to Wu State and became its territory. They could see clearly that compared to the decayed Lu State, the young Wu State was more important to them.
What's more beneficial is knowing how to choose.
Therefore, the five prefectures and counties became the five provinces of the Wu Kingdom. The administrative divisions of the Wu Kingdom already had twelve provinces. The territory of the Wu Kingdom also became the largest in the southwestern tip of Nanzhou, with a radius of more than 13,000.
Thousands of miles.
However, the five newly merged states and counties still have a low sense of belonging to the Wu Kingdom. In fact, the previous Tianyun Prefecture system has not really included them, and it will take at least decades or hundreds of years to do so.
The mortal administrative management system does not impose any mandatory requirements on them. It just gives them a template and allows them to manage it themselves. As for the results, no one cares about it.
In fact, only the Zhili Dao of the entire mortal administrative system of the Wu Kingdom was truly established, because only the Tiansheng Sect really invested huge manpower and material resources in building it. As for the other states and counties, they were either half-assed or in name only.
, many of the rules stated when the country was first founded have not been truly implemented.
Lin Xiao still didn't care about this. There were too many interests involved, and even the Tiansheng Sect couldn't really force them to implement it, so Lin Xiao was prepared to slowly induce them to correct themselves, because Zhili Road had already shown
There are enough benefits.
When the Zhili Dao was first established, there were less than five million mortals. After decades of management by the Tiansheng Sect, the population has increased significantly. Now it has exceeded six million people. It has increased in just a few decades.
More than one million, this is a number that could only be increased in the past hundreds of years.
As there are more mortals, the number of immortal cultivators naturally increases. In Zhili Road alone, the Tiansheng Sect can add more than 600 children with spiritual roots every year. Today, the number of disciples of the Tiansheng Sect has exceeded 20,000, even if
After deducting various factors such as those who died in battle, died in death, accidental disappearance, etc., the number can increase by more than 300 people every year.
With so many new disciples starting, the number of disciples with excellent spiritual roots has also increased a lot. Every year, some disciples with high-grade spiritual roots appear, and occasionally even disciples with top-grade spiritual roots appear. Now there are three people in the sect.
It is of the highest quality spiritual roots.
These three people have all been trained intensively by the sect, and their cultivation speed is extremely fast, which also puts a lot of pressure on many people in the sect. After all, they know that there will be more and more disciples of this kind of high-quality spiritual roots in the future. If they
If they no longer work hard, they will suffer a great loss in terms of resource allocation.
After the negotiation, Lin Xiao went into seclusion. This retreat lasted for ten years. When he came out, Lin Xiao was already at the third level of aura. It took Lin Xiao more than thirty years to cultivate at this level. He was subjected to various
Things have been delayed.
Lin Xiao had even turned down the position of leader, and wanted to be his ancestor with peace of mind and give up all the ordinary affairs. However, after consulting the system, he found that it was not possible. The system did not give a reason, so Lin Xiao could not do this.
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In the second year after leaving seclusion, the Dao fruit tree matured. Of the three Dao fruits, only one was sent to Bai Jade City for Li Muxue to refine the Dao Ji Dan. The other two were refined by Bai Xixi.
This time Bai Xixi did not disappoint Lin Xiao. A total of eleven pills were refined from the two furnaces of Daoji Pills, and her alchemy skills improved a lot.
As for Li Muxue, eight of them came out, but this time Lin Xiao did not disclose the number. Except for one that Li Muxue took, all eight were given to Ye Xiao.
There are now twenty Dao Gang monks in Ye Xiao, but as the stall is getting bigger and bigger, this power is still not enough. They also have thirty to fifty peripheral Dao Gang monks in their hands.
, if the Night Owl is not strong enough, it can easily be turned against the guest.
The auction in Gongming City is as successful as ever. More and more people are participating, and the permanent population of Gongming City is also increasing. It has exceeded the 30,000 population mark. Everything is so safe.
The sect has obtained a large amount of mysterious crystals. There has been no war for decades, and the sect has accumulated a lot of savings. Lin Xiao began to redeem the merit points in the sect. Decades ago, Lin Xiao's merit points exceeded five
Ten million. In the past few decades, Lin Xiao has not even received a monthly salary, but has been saving all his money. His merit points have almost reached 70 million.
Therefore, Lin Xiao had to put some pressure on the sect. He exchanged five million Xuan Crystals this year, and told Li Yiwen that he would exchange more than 500,000 Xuan Crystals every year in the future until the sect's achievements could be eliminated.
Until the point exchange is completed, the sect must be prepared.
And it's not just Lin Xiao. The merit points owed by the sect to Li Muxue also exceed 20 million, and Bai Xixi's merit points are almost 10 million. These three people are owed by the sect and they all have to start paying back.
Especially Bai Xixi, she is ready to break through the spiritual light, but the treasure for this breakthrough is still difficult to find, and the sect also has to contribute, which makes it very difficult.
Currently, among the more than twenty Dao Gang monks in the sect, five have reached the twelfth level of Dao Gang. Among these five, Bai Xixi and Ye Nanyu have been practicing for several years. It is difficult to say when they will reach perfection.
, but it certainly won’t be long.
Back then, Lin Xiao and Li Muxue only spent more than ten years polishing their skills, but Lin Xiao was a monster and couldn't be judged at a normal speed. Bai Xixi and Ye Nanyu estimated that it would have taken them twenty or thirty years, and they also
It must take this long, otherwise the consequences will be serious.
Take Leng Ning for example. She didn't even have ten years of polishing time, but she has already paid a heavy price for it. That is, her foundation is insufficient and her potential is exhausted. Decades have passed, and she is still at the first level of aura. According to Leng Ning herself.
, she could not even reach the twelfth level of spiritual light in this life, let alone reach the Shenxu stage.
Lin Xiao knew that Leng Ning had suffered this loss, so naturally he would not let them suffer again, so he told them not to be impatient and to stay calm. They were not very young and had plenty of time.
In the entire Tiansheng Sect, after the death of the thirty old, weak, sick and disabled people left behind, Lin Xiao is the oldest, followed by Bai Xixi and Bai Zichen, Xiao Linxiao, and then Xu Zhongsheng and Li Mingyang, but even if
That's right, they haven't reached three hundred years yet, and they still have a long way to go before the five hundred years life limit of Dao Gang monks.
On the contrary, Lin Xiao didn't know where to get the Lingming Pill for them. Lin Xiao made a very bad start with the Daoji Pill and used the system to replace them with the Daoji Pill, which caused the subsequent disciples to be non-Daoist for a period of time.
Kidan refused to break through, and some people even hated Lin Xiao because of it.
If Lin Xiao hadn't brought out the Dao Fruit Tree to make up for it afterwards, there would probably have been a lot of trouble, so unless it was absolutely necessary, Lin Xiao would not change the Lingming Pill from the system, and Lin Xiao couldn't afford to change it.
The Lingming Pill costs 30,000 points. There will be more and more Lingguang monks from Tiansheng Sect in the future. How can we afford it? The remaining points expenditure will also become larger and larger.
In the past, a few thousand points were enough for Lin Xiao, but now after a big war, it costs hundreds of thousands of points. Even if it is to provide Lin Xiao with pills for his own cultivation, it will cost more than 20,000 a year, as well as fifth-level magic weapons.
And so on.
So Lin Xiao planned to let Li Muxue refine the Lingming Pill. The Lingming Pill was still a fifth-level elixir. If Li Muxue was given a lot of support, she could still improve her alchemy skills.
Lin Xiao was actually quietly collecting the ingredients for the Lingming Pill. The Lingming Pill required a total of more than 300 ingredients, most of which were relatively easy to find and available in the market. Only the three main ingredients were more precious.
Among them, the most difficult one is True Spirit Grass. True Spirit Grass is a fifth-level high-grade spiritual grass. It has harsh growth conditions and takes nearly two thousand years to mature. In the Tiansheng Sect’s Spiritual Medicine Garden, Lin Xiao used systematic means to continuously
The compressed maturity time also takes more than three hundred years. After the last system upgrade, Lin Xiao redeemed three seedlings and planted them. Now it is less than a hundred years.
After getting more points, Lin Xiao redeemed dozens more trees, but it took even longer. The true spirit grass is different from the Tao fruit tree. One is a grass that matures and is gone when you pull it out, while the other is a tree that bears fruit. Fruit
After picking, it will take several decades to mature.
Therefore, the great sects in Central Continent all set aside a five-level spiritual mountain to plant the true spiritual grass step by step. As long as the first one survives, a cycle will be formed, and in the future, one will mature every few decades or hundreds of years.
pills to ensure that there is no problem with the supply of Lingming Pills, but it is a pity that Tiansheng Sect does not have this background.
Of course, Lin Xiao could also exchange mature true spirit grass from the system, but this would be of little significance to the development of the sect. This abnormal development would be very harmful to the sect. Once Lin Xiao had been away for decades,
If he doesn't come back, the entire sect will collapse, which is something Lin Xiao doesn't want to see.
So how to get the Lingming Pill became a problem for Lin Xiao. Li Muxue was away, so Lin Xiao had to find Bai Xixi and Ye Nanyu to discuss it.