Chapter 1658: Chapter 630: Storming the Green Lotus Temple
Besides having somewhat stronger invisibility abilities, they haven’t undergone any changes and haven’t grown wings.
This leaves Zhou Chun rather disappointed.
Then he observed for another half a year and discovered that apart from growing larger with abundant food supply, the four little bugs did not exhibit any unusual abilities.
This performance thoroughly disappointed him, and he no longer focused too much attention on them, only feeding them occasionally.
By this time, after more than ten years of construction and management, the Zhou Family finally had the Green Lotus Mountain Range’s Spirit Mountain Blessed Land completely under control, and various Spirit Lands in the mountains were put into development.
Of course, due to lack of manpower, many places were just casually protected with a formation, with periodic patrols, and actual development was not high.
Despite this, because of the continuous deployment of numerous formations and hiring many loose cultivators, the Zhou Family’s treasury was almost emptied.
Zhou Chun, Zhou Mingde, and other high-ranking family members personally subsidized many Spirit Coins.
At this point, the Zhou Family had some energy to consider areas outside of the Green Lotus Mountain Range.
Places like other cultivator families or individual cultivator strongholds in Lanzhou and Lianzhou.
These forces will be directly controlled and led by the Zhou Family in the future, nominally becoming vassals of the Zhou Family.
Meanwhile, the opening rights to marketplaces in both places will belong to the Zhou Family.
Some unclaimed Spirit Lands will also be under the Zhou Family’s jurisdiction and allocation.
Previously, during the entire reconstruction period in Jingguo Country’s Central Southern Region, neither the Zhou Family nor other families had the heart to pay attention to these matters.
But now, after more than ten years, each family has rebuilt their sect gates and is entering the recovery phase, so these matters have to be addressed.
Especially marketplaces for cultivators to exchange and trade, urgently needing reconstruction.
In response, Zhou Chun, in the name of the Zhou Family, sent invitations to every force within the two state territories, inviting each force’s leaders to Green Lotus Mountain Range to meet and discuss related matters.
“Clan Leader, now there are no Golden Core families within the two states, only four cultivator clans with Purple Mansion Phase cultivators, and sixteen cultivator families with Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, totaling fifty-two smaller families with sect gates established.”
“As for individual cultivator strongholds, there are two Purple Mansion Phase loose cultivators from a foreign country, who have seized Spirit Land sect gates originally belonging to two cultivator clans, establishing cultivation strongholds, and there are also six strongholds established by Foundation Establishment Stage loose cultivators!”
While the invitations were being distributed, Zhou Xinyan seized the opportunity to report the gathered information on various forces within the territory to Zhou Chun, to help him be aware of the situation.
Upon hearing Zhou Xinyan’s report, Zhou Chun also showed a surprised expression.
He couldn’t help but ask him directly, “How can there be so few? Didn’t the Chen Family in Lanzhou also withdraw initially? Did they even abandon their ancestral lands?”
Zhou Chun certainly remembered that there were six or seven big cultivator clans in a single state like Lanzhou, not to mention Lianzhou.
Even if the previous beast tide was too fierce and those families misjudged the situation and failed to respond adequately, it shouldn’t have left only so few.
Upon hearing his words, Zhou Xinyan replied wryly, “The Supreme Elder of the Chen Family in Lanzhou unfortunately perished in the beast tide, and several senior members of their family were also lost, plus they might have felt it would be difficult to get along with our Zhou Family in the future, so they have now moved to Tanzhou State, occupying a Spirit Land there to rebuild their sect gate!”
“As for other former Purple Mansion Clans, either their Purple Mansion Phase cultivators perished, causing their status to drop, or they were exterminated in the beast tide. A few were particularly close to the Green Lotus Temple and seem to have left following the Green Lotus Temple!”
This answer made Zhou Chun silent.
After a long silence, he smiled faintly and said, “Let it be then, since those people don’t want to return, they needn’t return ever again!”
The cultivation world ultimately has more people than lands. As long as Spirit Mountain Blessed Land is there, it will eventually find suitable owners.
Those forces and people lacking confidence in the Zhou Family will regret their ignorance in the future!
However, with only a few lonesome forces around, the upcoming meeting seemed uninteresting.
Once all the representatives of various forces were present, Zhou Chun made a brief appearance, representing the Zhou Family to acknowledge their sovereignty over the Spirit Lands they occupied, accepting their allegiance, and then announced the Zhou Family would rebuild the marketplaces as soon as possible.
As for how to interact with these vassal forces in the future, Zhou Chun, as a Golden Core Stage cultivator, needn’t worry about it.
Zhou Chun was true to his word, and within half a year of convening the vassal forces, the Zhou Family simultaneously started construction in Lanzhou and Lianzhou, rebuilding new marketplaces at the sites of the previous ones to facilitate exchange between cultivators in both states.
At the same time, the former “Worldwide Circle” trade firm also began to resume operations.
But this only indicates the cultivation world’s situation is improving.
In the mortal realm, Lanzhou and Lianzhou remain desolate for thousands of miles, with only a few mortals relying on the protection of cultivators to survive under the threats of demon beasts and wild beasts, expanding their population.
It would likely take two to three hundred years to restore the cultivation world and mortal realm to pre-beast tide conditions in these two states.