Chapter 161 - Chapter 161: Exploiting Redwood Island (1)
Chapter 161: Exploiting Redwood Island (1)
Translator: Daoist6fubtiW
“Rumble!”
The Spirit Void Battleship tore through the sky.
Very quickly.
One after another, the Spirit Void Battleships landed on Redwood Island in an orderly manner.
Rays of light flew down from the battleship. Everyone looked at each other when they saw the scene in front of them.
This…
It was actually a deserted island!
One had to know that the lowest cultivation level of the cultivators present was at the early Foundation Establishment stage. With their cultivation level, the lowest level of cultivation would have a first-grade spirit meridian to support their cultivation.
They were used to seeing high-level spirit veins, and they felt extremely uncomfortable with a completely deserted island.
He saw the disappointed looks in the eyes of the cultivators.
Chen Daoxuan encouraged them.” Although the island under our feet is a deserted island, it’s huge. It’s not much smaller than large islands like the Spiritual Shell Island or the Golden Crow Island.
“It’s suitable for our western defense zone to station. Moreover, things like spirit veins can be cultivated as long as we have spirit stones. There’s no need to worry.
I plan to cultivate a third-grade spirit vein here for our western garrison!”
” Third rank spirit meridian?”
Isn’t that the same as Guang ‘an City and Ling Zhou City?”
“That’s what I’m saying. We’re also one of the five major defense zones, so we’re not that much worse than others!”
“Now, it seems that we might even have an advantage. You have to know that our defense zone has the least people, which means that each of us has the most spiritual energy resources!”
“That’s right.”
Seeing that everyone’s morale had recovered, Chen Daoxuan nodded slightly.
There was another important reason why he chose to station his troops on Redwood Island. It was the closest place to the Chen family’s Shuanghu Island, only four hundred miles away.
With Chen Daoxuan’s speed, he only needed a few hundred breaths to rush back.
This way…
If the clan encountered any danger, he would be the first to take care of it.
If he was really asked to take on the role of commander of another defense zone, Chen Daoxuan would decisively refuse.
This was because the Chen Clan, aside from him, who had a battle prowess comparable to that of a Zifu Disciple, only had the strongest cultivator of the ninth level of the Ki Refining realm. They didn’t even have a single Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Once they were ambushed by the zombies on Lotus Island, the Chen family would not be able to resist at all.
Seeing that everyone’s morale had recovered.
” We are the first batch of cultivators to arrive,” Chen Daoxuan continued.” If the main group wants to arrive, it will take three months.
“During this period of time, let’s work hard and open up our respective cave abodes first. I’ll cultivate the spirit veins first.”
“It should be Lord Commander who has worked hard. Opening a cave abode is nothing to us itinerant cultivators!”
“Yes, yes, yes. Commander, you’ve worked hard!”
“Thank you, Commander!”
Hearing that Chen Daoxuan was going to set up a grand array for them, everyone became excited.
Nurturing a Grade 3 spirit vein would not only require more than ten million spirit stones, but also a Grade 3 Spirit Accumulation Formation.
Generally speaking, one needed to use a Tier 3 array formation master.
However, with Chen Daoxuan’s attainments in array formations and the ability of the Primordial Enlightenment Scripture to store comprehension, setting up this array formation was not too difficult.
It would just take some time.
Chen Daoxuan estimated that it would take about a month or so to finish setting up this Grade 3 Profound Spirit Array.
And it would probably take a year for the spirit vein to advance to grade-3.
During this period of time.
Of course, Chen Daoxuan wouldn’t just wait.
It should be noted that the 100,000 Aura Refining Cultivators and 1,000 Foundation Building Cultivators were not the only ones who came to Redwood Island. There was also a large group of mortals behind them.
Among these cultivators, some were clan cultivators and some were itinerant cultivators.
However, no matter what kind of cultivator they were, they had a large number of mortals behind them.
Other than settling these cultivators, Chen Daoxuan also had to settle these mortals.
He estimated that there were at least ten million mortals behind this group of cultivators.
It was a huge project to migrate so many people.
But it was also a helpless move.
Now that Guang ‘an Prefecture was constantly facing the threat of the zombie tide on Lotus Island, ordinary Refinement Realm families and itinerant cultivators did not dare to scatter on the various islands in Guang’ an Prefecture like before.
The consequences of doing so could be seen from the Zhao family.
It was impossible for any cultivator to think that their family or their own strength was stronger than the Zhao family.
Huddling together to keep warm was the wise choice.
This was also the reason why everyone strongly objected when they heard that Chen Daoxuan would be the commander of the western defense region.
What they needed was the protection of an expert, not a cultivator with the same cultivation level as them or even weaker than them.
It was foreseeable.
As Redwood Island was developed, the Western Defense Region stationed troops here.
More and more cultivators and mortals would gather on Redwood Island, especially those who usually lived in the west of Guang ‘an Prefecture.
As for settling down in Guang ‘an Prefecture Immortal City and Ling Zhou Immortal City.
Even so, he had to have a seat.
Right now, Guang ‘an Prefecture was in a mess of corpses, and everyone was desperately trying to find a safe haven.
The first choice would definitely be the Zhou Clan’s Spiritual Shell Island.
However, the total population of Guang ‘an Prefecture was more than hundreds of millions.
The Spiritual Bei Island couldn’t hold so many people.
The reason why it couldn’t bear the load here wasn’t because the land wasn’t enough for people to live in.
In fact, with the Zhou family’s spiritual shell island and the surrounding spiritual veins, it was not a problem for hundreds of millions of people to live.
What he meant was that he couldn’t support so many mortals.
After all, mortals were different from cultivators. Cultivators could consume qi and not die, and could refine spiritual qi without eating or drinking.
If humans could not do it, they would starve to death if they did not eat or drink.
Hundreds of millions of mortals needed to consume an astronomical amount of food every day.
They had to cultivate large enough fields to feed these mortals.
Therefore, it was impossible for the Zhou family to gather all the mortals on a few islands. That was unrealistic.
Even if Redwood Island was developed.
Chen Daoxuan couldn’t possibly arrange for all these people to be on Redwood Island.
He would only use Redwood Island as the core and develop the surrounding islands as food production areas for mortals.
This was the only way.
Only then could they feed a huge population.
The current situation was stable enough, and they could still rely on imported food.
However, when the corpse chaos completely broke out in the future, or if Daoist Master Shenjue did something new, it would cause chaos in the entire Guang ‘an Prefecture.
Having a stable food base was very important.
Only by grasping the bag of grain steadily could there be a possibility of development.
Otherwise, if the mortals starved to death, the cultivation forces would not be far from declining.
Chen Daoxuan naturally understood this simple logic.
Redwood Island.
A simple port.
Several cargo ships of the Chen family stopped here.
On the cargo ship.
A white-haired old man walked off the cargo ship with a walking stick.
“Elder Chen, slow down.”
Chen Daoxuan looked at Chen Beiwang, who was staggering, and took a few steps forward to support him.
“Thank you, young clan leader.”
Chen Bei cupped his hands at Chen Daoxuan and looked up at the red island.
“Young Clan Leader, are you talking about this island?”
“Yes!
Chen Daoxuan nodded and thought for a moment before saying,” Old Chen, let me show you the entirety of Redwood Island.”
As he spoke, he waved his sleeve lightly.
A gentle gust of wind enveloped the two of them, and Chen Bei and Chen Daoxuan slowly rose into the sky.
When Chen Beiwang was on Shuanghu Island, he had been taken by cultivators to survey the landscape.
Therefore, he was very calm.
It took more than two hours.
Chen Daoxuan then brought Chen Beiwang to survey the entire Redwood Island.
After seeing the full picture of Redwood Island.
Chen Beiwang cupped his hands and said,” Young Clan Leader, this island is mostly flat plains. There are many trees, fresh water lakes, and rivers on the island. It’s very suitable to build a city along the coast.”
Compared to Shuanghu Island, the geographical location here was better.”
Chen Daoxuan naturally understood this.
Back then, the Chen Clan Ancestor chose to establish his clan on Shuanghu Island because of the spirit eye and copper ore on the Red Copper Mountain.
Otherwise, choosing Redwood Island would be much better than choosing Twin Lake Island.
Chen Daoxuan nodded in relief and said,””If I let you build this city, will there be any problems?”
Hearing this.
Chen Beiwang was delighted at first, but then he shook his head and said bitterly,””Using the power of mortals to build a city would take at least ten years or even decades.
This old man can’t wait that long, I’m afraid I’ll have to disappoint Young Patriarch.”
Chen Beiwang cupped his hands.
“Old Chen, don’t be pessimistic. Your body is still strong.”
After consoling him, Chen Daoxuan continued,” I know that it took a long time to build this city with mortals as the main force. What if we used the power of cultivators to build it?”
“You mean…”
Chen Beiwang said excitedly.
“Yes, I want you to lead the construction of this city. As for the specific construction tasks, let the cultivators complete them!”
“But…”
Chen Beiwang did not know how to explain. After a while, he said,” But I’m just a mortal. I low can I command the Immortal Master to do things? This is treason…”
Chen Daoxuan raised his hand to stop him:” Don’t worry, Old Chen, I guarantee that they will all be very obedient!””
“This…”
Chen Beiwang immediately thought of Chen Liangyu, the manager of the family’s flying sword factory.
Theoretically, the cultivators working in the factory were also under Chen Liangyu’s jurisdiction.
However…
After all, he was a cultivator of the clan, a disciple of the clan.
Chen Beiwang was surprised that they were under Chen Liangyu’s management, but he could accept it. Now, he had to command unfamiliar cultivators to complete the construction of the city.
This was completely different from how Chen Beiwang managed the cultivators in his family.
Cultivators…Would they really listen to the commands of a mortal?
Chen Beiwang was very suspicious.
However, when he saw Chen Daoxuan’s eyes, Chen Beiwang put away all his doubts.
After all, in Chen Beiwang’s eyes, there was nothing Chen Daoxuan could not do.
Chen Daoxuan was the one who had contributed the most to the Chen family’s growth on Shuanghu Island.
The current Chen family had become the most powerful family within a radius of 10,000 miles, even though this ” strongest” was very exaggerated and was mostly built on Chen Daoxuan’s personal strength.
However, with this momentum, the Chen family’s strength would soon catch up.
The oldest batch of cultivators in the Fu generation was already six years old.
In another two years, they would be able to enter the factory continuously.
At that time, the Chen family would truly soar.
At that time.
What the Chen family needed to worry about was not the problem of insufficient production capacity, but the problem of insufficient market.
Chen Daoxuan knew that once the scale of industrial expansion was expanded, the increase in productivity would be explosive..