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Chapter 1023: The Immortal Path Should Focus on Economic Development

With the capture of the Great Snow Mountain Holy Land, two Ice Phoenix clan members who had reached the level of God were killed in battle, and the Western Desert War came to an end.

Beiyuan Tushan Courtyard won a complete victory!

The next task will be to focus on clearing out the remnants of the Western Desert Ogres, settling accounts with criminals and demons, and establishing grassroots governance and taxation.

The most important task in Ximo at present is naturally to restore the population.

During the thousands of years of rule by the demon race, and after the demon race's defeat in recent years, they slaughtered human slaves in the Western Desert to vent their anger. The number of humans in the Western Desert has dropped to less than one million, less than one thousandth of the number in its heyday. It can be said that they are on the verge of extinction.

This is true for all mortals, and it is naturally the same for cultivators who are born from mortals.

In the entire Western Desert, it is hard to say whether there are thousands of immortal cultivators above the foundation-building stage. The immortal civilization of the human race in the Western Desert has basically ceased to exist.

If there were no external influences, it would have taken at least hundreds of thousands of years of decline and birth, and the accumulation of wisdom and blood and bones of countless geniuses to create the current immortal civilization bit by bit.

This is still the case when we are lucky. If we are unlucky, there is a high possibility that the race will be exterminated.

This is the biggest difference between humans and other races. Humans don't have bloodlines at all, and everything depends on acquired civilization.

The level of immortal civilization directly determines the strength of the local human race.

If the human race does not have civilization, it will be weaker than the weakest pig demon clan. It is an ant among ants and cannot even become a slave.

Because they have no civilization, pig monsters and cow monsters are stronger than humans, and they grow flesh faster than humans. They are a completely useless race.

In today's Western Desert, the native human civilization is basically destroyed.

But it doesn’t matter. We can just migrate people from Beiyuan here, as well as the immortal cultivators. Many immortal cultivators will be ecstatic and willing to exchange their military merits for such an opportunity.

This is because the vast Western Desert is filled with spiritual veins, spiritual mines, and spiritual medicine gardens of various levels!

From level one to level five.

There are endless opportunities here, huge and generous war dividends. As long as you have military merits, everyone can share a generous share of the spoils. You can use your military merits to further improve your cultivation, and you can pass them on to your descendants. All of this is free.

Of course, taxation is unavoidable.

Every cultivator in Tushan Courtyard should understand that the only inevitable things in their life are birth, cultivation, and paying taxes. The taxes are very heavy, mostly over 50%, and 70% to 80% are not uncommon.

That's not high.

It can be said that the entire Western Desert was almost entirely conquered by Tushan Tianjun. He took on more than 90% of the battlefield pressure and killed all the enemies in front of him. Compared with him, the military exploits of millions of lower-level cultivators are very small.

It can be said that more than 90% of the entire Western Desert is Tushan Tianjun’s spoils of war.

Fairness must exist not only among low-level monks, but also among high-level monks!

What the monks exchanged for their military merits was nothing more than the management rights of local spiritual lands and spiritual medicine gardens. If they lacked the ability, they could give it up at any time and hand it over to monks with stronger management capabilities.

In the current Tushan Courtyard, business magic has become popular, such as the Great Earth-Splitting Spell, which can cultivate dozens of acres of spiritual land at one time, the Great Cloud and Rain Spell, which can water dozens of acres of spiritual medicine gardens at one time, and the Insect Removal Spell, Weapon Refining Spell, and Alchemy Spell...

Such business techniques began to become popular. The techniques of fighting and killing were no longer the most important.

Whoever has better management skills and can increase production more will receive more rewards.

The same is true for developing new business spells. The gains from one time may be greater than those from dozens of previous robberies!
Whoever is better at management and research and development will be able to obtain more natural treasures and merits.

And natural treasures and merits mean future and life to cultivators!

After weighing the two options, it is not difficult to understand why many monks relegated the practice of fighting and killing techniques to a secondary position and instead spent a lot of time diligently studying business spells and developing business spells suitable for local areas.

Economy is the foundation of social customs and culture.

In the Tushan Zhongting immortal cultivation world, the past custom of using cultivators' fighting and killing abilities as the only criterion for judging began to change. Many female cultivators began to admire cultivators who had achieved success in business techniques, and many elders began to like younger cultivators who had talent in business techniques, and so on.

This made many traditional cultivators indignant, believing that they had lost the fundamentals of cultivators and were harmful to the world.

In this world, the most important thing is strength.

If one is not strong, no matter how well-managed one is, one will be captured by alien races or demons, which is a matter of putting the cart before the horse.

This debate was very lively for some time and has not yet subsided.

Jiang Ding also heard about the boiling public opinion and just laughed it off.

The result of his guidance bit by bit is that the cultivators use their powerful mana, consciousness and spells to develop production rather than to fight and kill each other.

These measures will greatly benefit the world's production of natural treasures and the circulation of spiritual energy.

This world is broken.

It can be said that what might have originally taken hundreds of thousands of years to recover and re-generate a peak-level cultivator now only takes tens of thousands of years. This is the benefit of the virtuous cycle of the world's immortal ecosystem.

As for the problem of delay in practicing the art of fighting and killing, which causes the cultivator's strength to decline, and eventually he becomes powerless and becomes a slave of alien race?
This is even more of a joke!
What was the original Beiyuan cultivation world like?

Families and sects are constantly fighting each other. All cultivators, even the most talented alchemists, spend most of their time honing the art of fighting. They have no choice but to do so, because no matter how rich they are, if they don't have the strength to rely on, they will become the fat sheep of other cultivators at any time.

It is common for someone to be killed and robbed if he is not careful when going out.

It can be said that every monk is engaged in a crazy arms race and has no choice but to do so.

Finally, what developed?
A group of poor cultivators who are as beggar-like as them. Most of them have only a few magical weapons and artifacts, and they are all of low quality.

Their so-called fighting and killing skills, which they have honed for a lifetime, are only somewhat impressive in terms of ferocity, brutality, and adaptability. The actual spell structure, efficiency in utilizing spell power, efficiency in mobilizing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth... and so on, are simply unsightly and worthless.

Only when you are rich can you talk about strength!

As numerous immortal cultivators honed their magic skills, the overall wealth of the immortal cultivation world increased greatly. They used this increased wealth to exchange for more powerful magical instruments and treasures, elixirs for cultivation, talismans, and combined them with sophisticated military formations.

Don’t these improve your strength?

It can be said that in the current Beiyuan immortal cultivation world, immortal cultivators of the same level, status and qualifications may lack the ferocity and decisiveness when fighting with the same Beiyuan immortal cultivators in the past. After all, they have less training and have not experienced life and death and fighting frequently. This is a fact.

But when the real fight comes, the current Beiyuan monks can definitely crush the former Beiyuan monks!
There is no suspense.

Because the current Beiyuan monks have surpassed the previous Beiyuan monks in all aspects, including skills, spells, magic tools, talismans, etc.!
As long as they don't go crazy or suddenly lose their minds, the current Beiyuan cultivators can definitely crush and defeat the latter.

This is the importance of economic development in the world of immortal cultivation.

Only when the immortal economy develops and prospers can we talk about the path and strength. Otherwise, it would be like a group of beggars comparing treasures, talking about how clever their methods were today, and how decisively they grabbed a big bowl of rice, which would make people laugh.

(End of this chapter)