Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 1063 Flying Boat Puppet God General Chessboard
"Hmm, very good. Is there anything else?" Yang Zhengshan nodded and asked.

Yang Zongyuan stepped forward and said, "True Lord, we can create puppets!"

"Puppets?" Yang Zhengshan stroked his beard and thought for a moment. "What level of puppets can we make now?"

The Land of Spiritual Origin has a tradition of puppet making. When Yang Zongyuan first went to Baiyun Immortal City, he was very interested in puppets. After returning, Yang Zongyuan also began to study puppets. He was not only an excellent alchemist, but also a puppeteer. It's just that Yang Zhengshan didn't know what level his puppetry skills had reached.

"Tier 2! As long as we have enough ore, we can mass-produce Tier 2 puppets!" Yang Zongyuan said excitedly.

Alchemy was his specialty, but puppetry was his true passion.

He preferred puppetry to alchemy.

Of course, he did not neglect alchemy because of puppetry. He was not stupid; how could he not know the importance of alchemy to himself and the Spirit Source Land?

Besides, he already has considerable skill in alchemy, so he certainly wouldn't give up alchemy because of puppetry.

Therefore, puppetry was just a pastime for him; alchemy was his most important and proficient skill.

“Puppet control also requires a puppeteer, right? Besides you, do we have any other puppeteers?” Yang Zhengshan asked.

Puppetry is indeed a way to improve strength, and it's relatively easy and effortless.

However, puppets have many drawbacks. First of all, the manufacturing cost of puppets is high. Under normal circumstances, the materials required to manufacture a second-tier puppet are enough to refine three to five magic weapons.

Secondly, puppets require professional puppeteers to operate; without a puppeteer, the puppet's combat power will be greatly weakened.

Therefore, in many powerful factions, puppets can only perform tasks such as patrolling and guarding.

As for the Spirit Origin Land, the cost issue can be resolved, since the Spirit Origin Land is not short of money now. The key issue is the puppeteers.

Yang Zongyuan laughed and said, "Puppet masters can be trained slowly. A puppet master in the Qi Refining stage can control a second-tier puppet. Although he can only exert 80% of the puppet's power, it is much easier than training a Foundation Establishment cultivator!"

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, "That's right, training puppeteers is undoubtedly much easier than training Foundation Establishment cultivators!"

"I'll leave this matter to you. First, build a puppet army of three thousand people for the Spirit Source Land!"

Puppet plus flying boat, that's a good idea.

Since it's impossible to quickly increase the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators, then we should borrow external resources to obtain power comparable to that of Foundation Establishment cultivators.

If we had an army of three thousand puppets and twenty large flying boats, I dare not say we could fight against the thirty thousand Yin soldiers of the Impermanent Ghost Sect, but we could at least fight against five thousand Yin soldiers.

“Yes!” Yang Zongyuan replied.

Yang Zhengshan then turned to Xuanzhen and asked, "Could you pass on your method for creating divine generals to someone else?"

Xuanzhen's divine generals are comparable to ghost generals. In terms of strength alone, they are not much different from the Yin soldiers of the Wuchang Ghost Sect. Moreover, the growth potential of the divine generals is even greater than that of the Yin soldiers.

Xuanzhen thought for a moment and said, "To create a divine general, one must at least learn the Purifying Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra and the Golden Light Divine Mantra, and then one will also need a magical artifact similar to the Divine General Chessboard!"

"Currently, only a dozen or so disciples in my Wuzhen Dao Palace have mastered the Purifying Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra and the Golden Light Divine Mantra, and only two of them have reached the Foundation Establishment stage!"

The Divine General Chessboard is actually quite similar to the Myriad Ghost Banner; they share many similarities and are both magical artifacts for controlling Yin spirits.

However, the Ten Thousand Ghosts Banner aims to control the number of ghosts, while the Divine General Chessboard prioritizes quality over quantity.

Upon hearing Xuanzhen's words, Yang Zhengshan had a flash of inspiration and an idea came to mind.

"Give me the method for crafting the Divine General Chess Board later!"

“No problem!” Xuanzhen said.

All cultivation techniques in the Spirit Source Land are shared. Whether it's the cultivation techniques of Wuzhen Dao Palace or Yang Zhengshan's own, they can all be found on the Xuan Tie Stele in the Transmission Hall. This also includes the methods for refining various magic treasures, and even the methods for refining spiritual weapons.

The current Transmission Hall in the Spirit Origin Land was built based on the Transmission Hall in the ancient remnant array. In addition to the cultivation methods originally recorded on the nine Xuan Iron Steles, the Spirit Origin Land has added many more cultivation methods, including the eight divine incantations cultivated by Xuanzhen.

The Transmission Hall can not only store cultivation techniques, but also assign the most suitable techniques to each person according to their talents.

It can be said that the current Transmission Hall is the most important place for the inheritance of cultivation techniques in the Spirit Source Land.

"As for the disciples of Wuzhen Dao Palace, if possible, we should all forge a Divine General Chessboard as a magic weapon for them," Yang Zhengshan added.

The most powerful aspect of the God General Chessboard is that it allows a person to unleash strength far exceeding their own, and to gain a large number of helpers during battles.

The key is that the divine generals are not afraid of death. Even if they are scattered, they can be resurrected after a period of recuperation.

Because the true spirit of the divine general is contained within the chessboard, as long as the chessboard is not destroyed, the divine general is an immortal being.

It can be said that the divine generals are the most qualified cannon fodder.

Afterwards, Yang Zhengshan discussed with everyone some ways to improve the strength of the Spirit Source Land.

These methods can be divided into two parts. One part is effective in the short term, and powerful forces can be obtained in three to five years or more than ten years. This involves mainly manufacturing large flying boats and puppets, supplemented by refining the Divine General Chessboard and cultivating Divine Generals, as well as refining magic weapons, drawing talismans, and so on.

The other part is to cultivate cultivators and martial artists step by step, reduce the exchange price of the Hall of Merit, and release a large amount of resources to everyone in the Spirit Source Land, so that everyone in the Spirit Source Land can obtain enough resources to accelerate the speed of cultivation improvement.

In addition to these, Yang Zhengshan also proposed strategies to increase the population of the Spirit Source Land, encouraging early childbirth and encouraging Foundation Establishment cultivators and Golden Body Realm martial artists to have offspring.

The Spirit Source Land now spans tens of thousands of miles, yet its population is only a little over three million. Moreover, with abundant resources and an increase in average cultivation level, the population growth rate has actually slowed down considerably.

If a martial artist does not marry or have children before the age of forty, it will become more difficult for him to conceive after he reaches the Innate Realm in his cultivation.

Similarly, cultivators are also subject to this rule. Qi Refining stage cultivators are the most likely to have offspring. If they do not have offspring during the Qi Refining stage, they will have to spend a lot of effort to have offspring once they reach the Foundation Establishment stage.

Although offspring of Foundation Establishment cultivators have a higher chance of possessing spiritual apertures, early marriage and childbirth are still very necessary for the population growth of the Spirit Source Land.

In addition to increasing the population of Lingyuan Land from within, Yang Zhengshan also ordered the migration of people from outside the area into Lingyuan Land.

The scale of this migration was three million, mainly from the Da'an Dynasty, the Dajing Dynasty, and the Shenmu Sect, and the majority of the migrants were teenagers.

The Da'an Dynasty had 400 million people, the Da Jing Dynasty had 80 million people, and the Shenmu Sect had a much smaller population. All the islands combined had a population of about 3 million.

Selecting three million teenagers from so many people is quite easy. As for whether doing so will attract the attention of others, Yang Zhengshan no longer cares.

The fact that the Yang family possesses a grotto-heaven has long been an open secret, and there's no need to hide it anymore. This population migration should be the last large-scale relocation of people from the outside world from the Spirit Source Land.

According to Yang Zhengshan's idea, the Spirit Source Land can only support a maximum of 30 million people. Any more than that would not only be of no benefit, but would also affect the overall environment of the Spirit Source Land.

With a base of six million people, we can let the population grow slowly in the future; there is no need to continue large-scale migration of people to the Spirit Source Land.

……

After the meeting, Yang Zhengshan obtained the method for crafting the Divine General Chessboard from Xuanzhen, and then he summoned Yang Jizhen.

"How many divine generals can the Divine General Chessboard control at most?"

Inside the rear hall of the Hall of Longevity, Yang Zhengshan asked Yang Jizhen a question.

This Divine General Chessboard was crafted by Yang Jizhen, who is naturally the person who understands it best, even better than Xuanzhen.

“Three hundred and sixty-one!” Yang Jizhen said.

As Yang Zhengshan examined the contents of the jade slip, he asked, "What if I want to command more divine generals?"

Yang Jizhen pondered for a moment and said, "It can be done, but controlling a divine general requires a sufficiently strong divine soul. Moreover, if the number of divine generals is increased, it will no longer be a magic weapon; at the very least, it will be a spiritual artifact!"

Yang Zhengshan then asked, "What if I want the quantity to reach 100,000?"

"Uh, then it won't be a spiritual artifact anymore, it might become a spiritual treasure!" Yang Jizhen's lips twitched slightly.

Ten thousand divine generals?

He couldn't even think about it.

"Hehe!" Yang Zhengshan chuckled. "I'll leave this to you. First, forge me an ordinary Divine General Chessboard!"

He had an idea in mind: to train 100,000 divine generals.

This idea came from the Impermanent Ghost Sect.

Since the Impermanent Ghost Sect can refine a large number of Yin Soldiers and Blood Puppets, why can't it cultivate a large number of Divine Generals?

If he had 100,000 divine generals under his command, what would the Impermanent Ghost Sect be worth?

With a wave of his hand, he could summon 100,000 divine generals to charge into battle. Even if the Impermanent Ghost Sect had 100,000 Yin soldiers, he could fight them without restraint.

Of course, the idea of ​​100,000 divine generals was just one of his thoughts. Right now, he wanted to gather 361 divine generals first.

To command 100,000 divine generals, one must first possess a spiritual artifact similar to a divine general chessboard to contain the true spirits of the divine generals. Ordinary spiritual artifacts may not be able to contain so many true spirits; if the number reaches 100,000, it would probably need to reach the level of a spiritual treasure.

Secondly, he needs 100,000 Yin Gods, and they must be Yin Gods at the Ghost General level. Ordinary Yin Gods will also work, but it will take a lot of time to cultivate ordinary Yin Gods to the second level.

The Wuchang Ghost Sect should be able to produce 100,000 Yin Gods, but even if the Wuchang Ghost Sect, the Yellow Springs Palace, and ten times that number were added together, it probably wouldn't be enough for 100,000 Ghost Generals.

So this is just an idea, and it could take thousands of years to realize it.

The Impermanent Ghost Sect spent thousands of years accumulating so many Yin soldiers and blood puppets. If Yang Zhengshan wants to cultivate 100,000 divine generals, it will take at least two or three thousand years.

“It’s easy to make an ordinary chessboard for divine generals, but I need to think carefully about how to make one that can control 100,000 divine generals!” Yang Jizhen said.

"Hmm, no rush, you can figure it out at your own pace!" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile.

After that, Yang Zhengshan ignored Yang Jizhen and went to the Pill Hall to continue his alchemy work.

Resources, oh resources.

The more tense the situation, the more important resources become.

Especially third-tier spirit items.

The foundation of the Spirit Source Land is still too weak, far inferior to those established Golden Core forces.

Therefore, Yang Zhengshan had to find ways to acquire resources.

Currently, the best way for him to obtain third-tier spiritual items is to help Hengshan Sect refine pills.

Given his success rate, he can earn a profit from refining just one pill for the Hengshan Sect.

This refers to third-tier pills; if it were second-tier pills, he would earn even more.

Of course, he wouldn't bother refining second-tier pills. With Yang Zongyuan and Zhang Hexuan around, there was no need for him to waste time on second-tier pills.

Although Yang Zongyuan and Zhang Hexuan had a lower success rate in making pills, they could still earn a lot.

Yang Zhengshan continued refining pills. Although the pace of the war in the Wanhua Mountains had slowed down compared to the beginning, both sides were deploying more and more elite troops.

Although demon kings and Golden Core cultivators are still participating, second-tier Yin soldiers, second-tier demon beasts, and Foundation Establishment cultivators have become the main force on the battlefield.

Clearly, this war has become a protracted conflict.

The two sides are competing on resources and manpower.

However, Yang Zhengshan no longer paid attention to these things. Apart from refining pills, he focused solely on cultivation and paid no attention to external affairs, not even the affairs of the Tianyun Sword Sect.

Anyway, with True Monarch Baiyun and the others watching over the Tianyun Sword Sect, there's no need for him to be in charge.

Besides, his alchemy also helps the Tianyun Sword Sect earn resources.

As the middleman between him and Hengshan Sect, Baiyun Zhenjun has certainly made a lot of money from the price difference.

Therefore, he could hide in the Spirit Source Land to refine pills and cultivate his skills with a clear conscience.

Two years later, Yang Zhengshan handed over the last batch of pills to True Monarch Baiyun, thus completing this big deal.

However, the real trading has only just begun.

(End of this chapter)