85: The tide of the times!

Ye Su felt much more relaxed now.

There was no other reason; Great Xia had simply made its stance clear.

In the beginning, the officials were playing dead.

Later, when Ye Su saw the Great Turtle and then the Mountain King, he felt completely uneasy.

No, the opponents were really starting to rise up.

What are you guys doing?

Later on, Ye Su established the Order for Professionals.

Hey, guess what?

The officials came back to life.

The key was that the official actions finally had the support of a righteous cause.

Whether it was ordinary people, Professionals, or ordinary people waiting to become Professionals through exams, there was a set of Order that could manage them.

This was exactly what the officials wanted.

At this moment, the entire country was in motion.

Schools opened immediately and arranged Martial Arts classes.

In fact, there were even more Martial Arts classes than academic ones.

A large number of experts and scholars worked through the night to compile textbooks based on Professional data.

Theories on Professional blood qi circulation.

Criteria for judging the pros and cons of Professional scrolls.

The subtleties of Professional Skills, and so on.

Books were being written and distributed at lightning speed, almost frantically.

Perhaps some of them contained errors.

But it didn't matter.

Textbooks would become increasingly rigorous as time passed.

What needed to be done now was to thoroughly promote the concept of Professionals.

To tell everyone that being a Professional isn't determined by fate; we also have ways to become Professionals.

In this way, an era of Luck was directly transformed into an era of theoretical explanation!

Calculating the time.

It was just shortly after the Lantern Festival.

A large number of people were starting to look for work.

Perfect.

Building cities required people, and it required a massive number of people.

As for all those messy companies, you can just stay on the sidelines.

Free up all the labor and put it into Suzhou and Hangzhou-building work.

It was very fair.

Don't say you're not allowed to recruit; recruit as much as you want, as long as the wages you offer are higher than Suzhou and Hangzhou-building!

Because of the potions, the Suzhou and Hangzhou-building wages would eventually flow back.

Therefore, no matter which Suzhou and Hangzhou it was, the wages for Suzhou and Hangzhou-building were set extremely high.

Over ten thousand was just the baseline; if you were a bit more diligent and worked some overtime, you could take home tens of thousands a month!

In this way, many other professions were directly crowded out.

As for how other cities managed to produce such a massive amount of capital for circulation.

It was also very simple.

Zhuge Hu had negotiated with various cities.

The more expensive the potions, the more expensive the Materials.

Other cities provided Materials, Suzhou and Hangzhou provided potions, and everyone worked together to drive up the market!

This price hike had another benefit.

That was, the suppressed Professionals suddenly discovered that as long as they were willing to work hard, the money they could make was insane!

By forming a team and frantically hunting the Yao Race in the wild, their corpses were money.

And with money, they could buy number 3 potion.

This allowed them to vent their energy and stay out of trouble while also improving their strength.

The entire cycle entered the right track.

Zhuge Hu, along with the officials, guided and adjusted the market and the general trend of the entire Great Xia.

The whole of Great Xia suddenly became prosperous!

In schools, children were obsessed with Martial Arts classes; this was the path to becoming a Professional.

On construction sites, people shed sweat, and high wages gave their families hope.

Professionals formed teams to fight in the wild, and being able to increase their strength by earning money was simply wonderful!

Everything was moving in a positive direction.

Time.

As long as enough time was given.

Great Xia could complete its transformation, and the era of universal Professionals would surely arrive!

But—what was truly lacking was time!

The land-dwelling Yao Race had retreated into hiding.

Even the Mountain King that Ye Su had seen in the Shennong Forbidden Zone could no longer be found even with satellites.

No one knew where it was hiding.

This also caused the nuclear carpet-bombing plan that Ye Su had proposed at the time to be shelved.

Furthermore, not just in the Shennong Forbidden Zone, but nationwide, the King-level existences in other forbidden zones or primeval jungles had all gone into hiding.

It seemed they were waiting for something.

Meanwhile, the Sea Race was becoming increasingly active.

Cui Hu, over at the Fortune-class aircraft carrier, provided several reports every day on the Sea Race's combat power, numbers, and other data.

Comparing this data, it could be seen that the Sea Race was constantly evolving.

This wasn't a major problem.

After all, the Rain Water was still falling; it was normal for the Sea Race to mutate and grow stronger.

The truly worrying thing was that those fish demons of the Sea Race were becoming smarter.

They were gradually starting to grow brains.

This was bizarre!

The Sea Race's biggest advantage was their sheer numbers.

If they had numbers and brains, it was inevitable that a 'Mastermind' would be born among them.

Currently, they were still in a state of disorganized probing.

If a Mastermind really appeared and shouted;

"Let us unite—"

Oh boy.

Then humanity would immediately find things very difficult!

---February 28, 2025 (solar calendar will be used hereafter), the 10th day of the Rain Water solar term.

Countries around the globe discovered an abnormality in the center of the Pacific Ocean on their satellite cloud maps.

There, there were people!

No... wait...

As the satellite images became clearer.

People were shocked to discover;

These 'people' actually had no feet, and their lower bodies were fish tails.

Merfolk, or rather, the Jiao People.

They were born.

This discovery immediately put all countries worldwide on high alert.

Are you... fish or human?

If you're just fish, that's fine; whether you eat humans or not, your intelligence is limited, so you can't play any schemes and certainly won't think about unifying the ocean to invade the land.

But if you are 'human'!

Then things would get out of hand.

If you could unify the ocean, then as technological military power grows relatively weaker, you could give a single call.

Countless members of the Sea Race would come ashore.

Humanity would instantly face a cataclysmic disaster!

Several major powers immediately convened a meeting.

Finally, they reached a consensus;

Give them a big one!

Great Xia, Lighthouse, Gaul, Never Setting Sun, Big Bear.

After the meeting ended, they directly mobilized their mushroom egg strike forces.

At 00:05 on March 1, 2035.

They launched a mushroom egg strike on the Pacific Ocean!

On this day.

An artificial sun rose above Planet Blue.

A great sun rose slowly, accompanied by an overwhelming mushroom cloud that blotted out the sky.

The intense electromagnetic reaction affected the entire globe to varying degrees.

Warships still in the ocean witnessed this magnificent scene even more clearly.

The violent mushroom egg strike caused a magnitude 7 tsunami in the Pacific Ocean, but fortunately, the birthplace of the Jiao People was in the central Pacific.

This tsunami might slightly affect some coastal countries, but it wasn't a major problem.

At the same time.

After the mushroom egg strike.

The sea monsters across all of Planet Blue's oceans paused their harassment.

This gave merchant ships and warships in the sea a brief moment of respite.

However, there were exceptions.

Some super sea monsters whose life level had reached the King-level, with their newly developing brains, felt that this was a provocation.

As a result, they retaliated with even more violent and frenzied harassment.

Both merchant ships and warships were targets of their revenge.

Because of this.

The distress signal from the wide-area silence flashed even more intensely.

That Godzilla-like creature beneath the sea surface had simply gone mad.

Given its size.

There was a real danger that the wide-area silence might capsize!