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Chapter 388 - 362: 26 Years in a Hurry_2

Chapter 388: Chapter 362: 26 Years in a Hurry_2

Within a mere decade, it accumulated a millennium’s worth of growth from countless demonic beasts, transforming into a Perfected-level Spiritual Gu.

Species: Swallowing Void Toad (Dragon Beast)

Cultivation: Initial stages of the Perfected Realm.

Dao Cultivation: Three hundred years (432/10 million)

Bloodline: Swallowing Space Bloodline (Extremely weak 2.37 million/5 million)

Talents: Devour, Space Travel

Space Travel: An innate divine power that has already awakened. It allows for space navigation, with the range depending on the level of cultivation. Currently, it can accomplish one directional navigation within a hundred-mile range every day.

Note: With the further advancement of Dao cultivation and bloodline, this talent will develop into two functional directions: navigation and flashing.

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Demon Suppression Sect, Immortal Artifact Peak.

This peak, as the one which withstood the thunder tribulation of the Upper Realm and triggered the second Spiritual Tide, became the only Fourth-Grade Advanced Spiritual Vein in this world.

Yet, the peak wasn’t rebuilt for large-scale habitation.

Now, only the peak of the Immortal Artifact Peak has an elegant courtyard styled like that of the Jiangnan region and a gargantuan main statue towering ten meters high standing in the center of the preaching square.

The rest of the peak was left untouched, nurturing countless spiritual plants.

This courtyard, of course, was Wang Zijia’s new residence: the Xianlin Courtyard!

Since Wang Zijia escaped the Heavenly Dao’s punishment thunder and was granted the freedom to enter and exit the forbidden area, outside of the forbidden area’s Demon-suppressing Tower, this mountaintop courtyard became his second Cave Mansion.

On that day, within the Great Hall of Xianlin Courtyard.

Wang Zijia, somewhat lazily, was leaning on a jade throne, while Mo Yunzi was sitting on a small straw mat on his right.

Shortly after, Fu Wenrui, Hui Feiyang, and Li Lexin hurriedly stepped in.

Addressing Wang Zijia, they said, "Greetings, Ancestor, greetings, Great Elder."

Mo Yunzi, the ever-relaxed elder, glanced at the crowd and replied with a nod.

Wang Zijia also perked up a bit, looking at the three people below him and asked, "Has the planning for each area been done yet?"

Among the three, Hui Feiyang immediately responded, "Replying to the Ancestor, the final Star City was built last month. It houses thirty thousand relocated residents and is defended by one disciple."

Li Lexin also continued, "All sects, large and small, have joined the Sect Alliance and undergone unified standardization."

"Recently, even some monks have suggested emulating the tradition of ancient times, changing the Alliance into a Taoist School, and each family and faction would be known for their own Dao lineage. Thereafter, there would be no distinction between sects, only differences in lineages."

As they spoke, all four cast their gaze towards Wang Zijia.

"Is it that you can’t reach consensus without my decision?" Wang Zijia asked casually with a wave of his hand.

"Handle these matters on your own if you can. I will return to the Upper Realm sooner or later. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the Daoist School or the Alliance, if you need me to make a decision to stop the wrangling and finalize things, you might as well not do it at all."

"Yes, we replied, understanding your words!" With a somewhat solemn expression, Li Lexin respectfully replied.

Wang Zijia then turned his attention to Fu Wenrui, the vice head teacher of the Beast Control Lineage, and Fu Wenrui immediately reported, "Ancestor, disciples from our lineage have been assigned tasks and split into different Star Cities to assist with defense."

"Based on the reference opinion you gave, Ancestor, we cultivated livestock and spiritual beasts in various wilderness to enrich the ecosystem, provide for the living, and prevent the rebirth of powerful demons."

Wang Zijia nodded.

The three vice head teachers and the Great Elder Mo Yunzi successively reported their findings, giving a general summary of everything happening on the Xianling Continent.

It was clear that the Qing Lian Cultivation world had been fully formed after undergoing twenty-six years of evolution.

After a while, upon finishing their summary, Wang Zijia looked at the others and said, "Have the disciples below prepare. Next month, we will start the recapture action of the second continent, the Qinglian Continent."

"Let’s take advantage of the fact that the current power limit isn’t too high and reclaim the three continents as soon as possible. Let’s complete our preliminary clean-ups, or else if Infant God-level demons appear, it will become harder to clean up!"

"Yes, we understand, Master!" The four spoke in unison.

"Alright, let’s conclude the discussion on demon exorcism and expansion. Furthermore, we need to continue strengthening our birth encouragement program. Now, just to maintain the Xianling Continent, we are already running short of population. When it’s time to develop a second continent, the population issue will only become more critical."

Wang Zijia looked at everyone and cautioned, "Don’t end up cleaning the area only to return it to wilderness due to lack of population to build cities. That will be a wasted effort."

The few people looked at Li Lexin in unison, and he replied with a wry smile, "Master, things are not progressing as fast as expected. Now, in the older generation of the Qinglian realm, each family is already having at least three to five children."

"Those who were born after the first year of Xianling and are now in their twenties have also joined the ranks of procreation. Those born more than ten years ago before Xianling have already started their families and have two to three children!"

"In the twenty years that you were in the lower realm, Master, our population has jumped from just tens of thousands to nearly one hundred million!"

"If you hadn’t foreseen this situation, Master, and made plans to impact the mortal world, dispatching disciples to defend, and regulate the seasons and so on, this issue would have arisen much earlier."

Without missing a beat, Wang Zijia urged, "Keep going. In the current era of cultivation, without population, we have nothing."

"When the third tide is complete, and once the special era of spiritual energy revival ends, even in the lower realm, self-enlightenment of magical doors would gradually become difficult. At that point, only a population of cultivators will be the future."

"One monk is one Dao seed. Only with infinite Dao seeds growing can higher-level monks be nurtured. If it’s not working, use everything I’ve taught you. It’s not too hard to motivate ordinary people."

Upon hearing this, the corners of Mo Yunzi’s mouth twitched uncontrollably.

"Hang banners, mobilize everyone, award and honour the whole village... Use every method you can think of." Li Lexin said with mixed laughter and tears,

"I even had people initiate birth campaigns every now and then. Now, many commoners in cities are avoiding the sight of birth officers!"

"This is simply unacceptable! What else are young people doing if they’re not having kids?!" Wang Zijia said with a stern face, "This is a disease that needs treatment!"

Fu Wenrui: "······"

Hui Feiyang: "······"

Mo Yunzi: "······"

The four were silent for a moment. After Wang Zijia had expressed his stance, they would naturally heed it attentively.

He then looked at the three people in front of him, and drew out two demon pills from his sleeve.

These were the demon pills of two true-person-level demonic beasts encountered during the clearing of the Xianling Continent over the past decade. These beasts had not completely turned into demons yet.

Wang Zijia held the demon pills and turned his gaze to the three deputy headteachers.

Before Wang Zijia descended, the three of them had already reached the late stage of the sacrificial wine, with their cultivation at its peak.

After twenty-six years, under Wang Zijia’s occasional teaching and perfecting, they completely understood the three top-grade Magic Doors and cultivated to great mastery.

But they were stuck at that stage.

After all, the Qinglian Realm was a small thousand world at the time. The difficulty of breaking through to becoming a true person was equivalent to reaching the ascension level!

The resources of the entire Qinglian Realm could not in fact support too many true persons.

Clearing an entire continent, and having not even reached the middle stage of a true person, revealed much about the situation - not least the impact of the upper limits of this realm’s power.

This was even after he had absorbed and assimilated the pollution. He absorbed an unknown amount of pollution, which allowed him to constantly increase his cultivation in line with the upper limit of the Qinglian realm’s power.

For such a Qinglian Realm, it really requires too much luck for a true person to be born naturally!

In one sentence: harnessing the power of a whole realm can just barely support three or five ascension-level cultivators, and this is probably the current state of all realms.

Of course, under Wang Zijia’s accelerated development, not considering the difficulties of breakthrough and opportunities, just on the issue of resource support, this number can be multiplied three or five times.

However, it wouldn’t increase by much!

Only when the Qinglian Realm completes the final spiritual tide and returns to being a medium thousand world, will it be much easier for true persons to appear.

Fu Wenrui, Hui Feiyang, and Li Lexin have long been concerned about the Divine Talismans for becoming a true person. Seeing Wang Zijia’s move now, they all look slightly excited.

"Among these two demon pills, one of them follows the flesh and blood path, which barely matches Hui Feiyang’s Entering the Coffin Path, and the remaining golden path is not too compatible with either of you."