390: Immortal Cultivation Wave

However, the data provided by the Young Attendant just now, along with the sights he saw on his way here, suddenly opened up his line of thinking. Indeed, the Xuanji Tower was raking in money daily; wasn't this precisely accumulating resources?

With the arrival of the era of Immortal Cultivation, the most important thing was to gather cultivation resources!

As long as the vast majority of cultivation resources were held in the hands of the Imperial Family, the Great Ming would remain the Great Ming, and the difficulty for others to replace the Great Ming would be much greater... "Cultivation resources—likewise, it's Wealth, Companions, Techniques, and Land. Wealth is money; Companions can be understood for now as cultivation talents; Techniques are various Cultivation Techniques and arts; and Land refers to places suitable for practicing Immortal arts. All of these must be controlled by the Imperial Family one step ahead of others!" The more Zhu Jian thought about it, the brighter his eyes shone, and his confidence grew significantly.

He thought for a moment and asked the Young Attendant, "I wonder how many of the three hundred-plus people tested this morning possess a Spiritual Root?"

Hearing this, the Young Attendant was slightly startled, thought for a bit, and said, "It seems there aren't any yet? I'll go ask to confirm..."

He quickly walked over to the boy in charge of testing to ask, then returned to tell Zhu Jian, "There were two this morning! One is a Fifth-grade Miscellaneous Spiritual Root, and the other is a Third-grade Spiritual Root!"

"So few?!" Zhu Jian said in surprise.

The Young Attendant smiled and said, "This ratio is already very high! Truly very high!"

Hearing this, Zhu Jian was even more surprised and said, "Only two people out of over three hundred have a Spiritual Root, and you still say it's high?"

The Young Attendant was speechless but still said, "Your Highness might as well first look at some information regarding Immortal Cultivation from this tower. Oh, you can also chat with our Tower Master; he will definitely answer your questions! The Tower Master is already waiting for you inside!"

Zhu Jian nodded upon hearing this and said, "Good!"

Under the guidance of the Young Attendant, Zhu Jian soon met Sabado, and the two had a long, heart-to-heart talk... After Zhu Jian returned from the Xuanji Tower, the Great Ming officials issued many decrees, which were basically all related to Immortal Cultivation. Among them, there were three main ones: first, the Great Ming officials would cooperate with the Xuanji Tower to jointly promote the development of the Immortal Cultivation cause; second, there were plans to popularize basic knowledge of Immortal Cultivation in official bases and academies at all levels, increase efforts to train talents with cultivation Aptitude, and include them in specialized official Immortal Cultivation academies, where these people would automatically obtain official positions and become members of the official System; third, encourage capable and qualified people among the populace to also participate in the great cause of Immortal Cultivation, welcoming cooperation with the Great Ming officials to jointly promote the development of the Great Ming's Immortal Dao!

The issuance of these decrees caused an immediate sensation across all levels of Great Ming bases!

From initially being skeptical, people were now completely convinced that Immortal Cultivation was a real thing. Moreover, the Great Ming officials had endorsed it and even offered extremely generous welfare benefits to Cultivators, enrolling them in official Immortal Cultivation academies and granting them formal official positions. It could be said that anyone capable of Immortal Cultivation would have a chance to change their destiny in a single leap!

"Can you Cultivate?"

"Have you been tested?"

"I heard that the Xuanji Tower can do the testing, but the testing fee is a bit expensive..."

"Isn't it just one superior xuan stone? I'll sell everything I own just to get tested. What if I really have cultivation Aptitude? Wouldn't I take off immediately?"

"True, if I don't go get tested, I won't be able to find peace of mind no matter what!"

"Yeah, even if the probability of having a Spiritual Root is very low, what if I actually have one?"

"Xuan Practitioners are about to be phased out; Immortal Cultivation is the way to a bright future!"

"I want to Cultivate; no one can stop me!"

"Immortal Cultivation! Immortal Cultivation!! Immortal Cultivation!!!"

Driven by the joint efforts of the Xuanji Tower and the Great Ming officials, a wave of Immortal Cultivation instantly swept across all parts of the Great Ming. The Xuanji Tower planned to set up testing points in every base, but due to the limited number of Spirit Testing Stones, they were currently only set up in about ten Primary Bases. In these Primary Bases, countless people's eyes turned red with excitement, and they rushed there, howling and lining up for testing. The entire Great Ming entered a state of frenzy... Just as the trend of Immortal Cultivation began to blow across the land of the Great Ming, a figure quietly appeared on a desolate hilltop in Mobei. Looking at the sight of the battlefield that stretched as far as the eye could see below the mountain, he couldn't help but sigh softly and shake his head. It was Long Yuan!

Flying at high speed, it took him only a day and a night to travel from South Yue City to the edge of the battlefield where the Great Ming and the War Bear Country were fighting. At this time, the war that had lasted for several months was coming to an end. This period was characterized by the Great Ming army's active counter-offensive, while the War Bear Country fought as they retreated, finally ending with a major active withdrawal!

Only sporadic skirmishes remained, mainly caused by accidental encounters of remnant forces, which could no longer affect the outcome.

This result was within Long Yuan's expectations because he knew that the experts in the War Bear Country's army had actually been dealt with in secret by Zhu Jian. If the Great Ming army still couldn't win under such circumstances, they would simply be too useless!

Of course, it wasn't ruled out that the War Bear Country also had experts of Zhu Jian's caliber, but such experts couldn't possibly arrive on this battlefield in a short time because the territory of the War Bear Country was too vast, and the distance between the east and the west was suffocatingly long. Unless such experts had already come earlier, they could only retreat for now. Zhu Jian's appearance was clearly unexpected by the high-level officials of the War Bear Country, making their defeat inevitable.

Additionally, Long Yuan felt there was another major factor: the recent movements of the Sea Race must have panicked the high-level officials of the War Bear Country. Since the Sea Race was already attacking the Snow Eagle Country, they might even be attacking the War Bear Country's homeland now. Therefore, the War Bear Country could no longer afford to worry about the conflict with the Great Ming and had to concentrate their forces to deal with the Sea Race's invasion. This was perhaps the main reason for the War Bear Country army's active withdrawal... "In this moment of life and death when the Human Race is confronting the Beast Race, you still had to launch such an internal human war of aggression to seize others' land. You deserve to lose so much manpower and weaponry..." Long Yuan sneered and began to scavenge the waste on the battlefield... Not long after this action began, Long Yuan couldn't help but feel that this trip was truly worth it!

Because countless pieces of war equipment and weapons were left on the battlefield, appearing to be piled up like small hills in many places, and there were also countless human-shaped wastes lying scattered on the ground. Every one of these human-shaped wastes had been tempered by countless Profound Qi energies; each person was a small energy body!

Although Long Yuan wouldn't pray for more of this human-shaped waste, since it had appeared, it had to be collected. Otherwise, over time, this area would become a breeding ground for plagues, causing great harm to surrounding living beings. One must know that these places were the territory of the Great Ming, so the harm would certainly be to the people of the Great Ming...