The production in this area was handled by a team of over a hundred survivors led by Lu Zhouming, who worked day and night using technological means to keep the production running.

Lu Zhouming has become the production captain of Xiaoyun Temple. After all, his design is beautiful, grand, economical, and quick to build, and it can effectively prevent the possibility of the indigenous people discovering the technology.

For this reason, Xiao Linlin had firmly placed Lu Zhouming in this position, and Lu Zhouming was happy to accept it. He even got himself a safety helmet and wore it every day, running around Xiaoyun Temple and its surroundings.

As for the remaining survivors and followers, Xiao Linlin divided them into two forces. One force, mainly composed of Su Lin's followers and supplemented by a small number of survivors and other followers, continuously spread and radiated the influence of Xiaoyun Temple outwards, while also recruiting local NPC disciples with clean backgrounds.

It doesn't require exceptional talent or a background in cultivation; it only seeks strong controllability. Ideally, the candidate should be an ordinary, unreliant genius, like a blank sheet of paper with ample potential for development.

To avoid confusion, Xiao Linlin even emphasized quite bluntly: "Just follow the standards for finding assassins! Show kindness to people, win their hearts, sever ties with the mortal world, and take root in the sect!"

The sixteen-character mantra is the core of this power, constantly bringing fresh blood to Xiaoyun Temple.

As for the other force, it consists mainly of survivors, supplemented by scattered followers, and they travel around the Xiaoyun Temple area to expand their sphere of influence.

In reality, to put it nicely, it's about expanding spheres of influence; to put it bluntly, it's about seizing territory.

To meet the rapid development of Xiaoyun Temple and cope with the resource shortage caused by the increasing population, the resource gaps in all aspects must be filled quickly.

In Xiao Linlin's budget, this shortfall cannot be entirely covered by Su Lin, nor can it be paid out of pocket by each escapee; neither of these are sustainable solutions.

Moreover, the amount of this resource gap is enormous!

Whether it's the food rations for those who haven't yet cultivated, their winter and summer clothing, the repair and replacement of weapons, or even the resources and materials for cultivation, these are all extremely exaggerated figures.

In addition to these demands, a monthly "protection fee" must be paid to Jia Zhengyi to steadily increase his Tian Shu merits.

Even if Su Lin invested all his assets, these expenses combined would only last him a year or two at most.

But Xiao Linlin's plan is based on a 300-year cycle, and there are no telling how many more 300-year cycles there will be. Even if she sold Su Lin, it wouldn't be enough to cover her expenses.

Therefore, given the severe resource shortage, Xiao Linlin gave clear instructions to the second force: "Fight! Loot! Fight! Take back everything that is unclaimed! Take back everything that is claimed!"

"What if the master disagrees?"

One of the survivors asked this question deliberately, and Xiao Linlin's answer was straightforward: "Then kill, kill until the treasure becomes ownerless!"

It's hard to imagine that these words came from a little girl.

A single, seemingly casual decision can determine the life or death of various sects, large and small, in the surrounding area.

But to put it bluntly, the survivors aren't exactly innocent either; they'd rather do this kind of thing.

Compared to management, people are more interested in destruction and scrambling, especially those who wield power.

With Xiao Linlin's nod and approval, this force was almost completely unleashed. On the first day, they went out and wiped out two small sects with a population of less than a hundred, emptying their entire mountain gates.

Following Xiao Linlin's instructions: move everything that can be moved home, and cut down anything that can't be moved and bring it home.

There is no distinction between good and evil in this world, only the cruel reality of the victor taking all.

Those who adapt to their environment survive; those who don't perish over time.

Clearly, Xiao Linlin is an extremely adaptable person. She keenly perceives the core of the world's operating rules, and in addition, she doesn't have a pure sense of good or evil in her actions, only seeking to benefit herself.

A decision-maker without moral constraints and a group of lawless fugitives form the most ruthless and dominant force in this desolate region.

Moreover, these survivors are extremely clever. They never fight blindly. They send out intelligence agents to investigate and confirm that the enemy is weak and they are strong before finding a suitable excuse for conflict to start a fight.

Having gained some grounds and not being at a disadvantage in terms of strength, it is natural to be invincible.

Of course, doing so would naturally cause panic and resentment among the surviving sects in the surrounding area, but unfortunately no one dared to openly target Xiaoyun Temple.

If Xiaoyun Temple attacks them, the Tian Shu cultivators might ignore it, but if they attack Xiaoyun Temple, the young sect leader might stand up and shout: "Why are you destroying my subordinate sect! Injuring my disciples! Do you think my immortal sect has no one to rely on!"

This Xiaoyun Temple is already the young sect leader's private property; not just anyone can come and cause trouble.

It's cruel and unreasonable, but that's the truth.

In just one month, 23 small sects within a thousand miles of Xiaoyun Temple have been wiped out, and a massive amount of resources are continuously being sent to Xiaoyun Temple.

Within this month, the first batch of more than 1,000 mortal NPC disciples also entered Xiaoyun Temple. They all underwent background checks and were officially registered as cultivators.

It is worth mentioning that among these thousand people were a few who had escaped from the destroyed sects, who were mixed in with the group in an attempt to take advantage of the chaos and cause some big trouble within the Xiaoyun Temple.

However, the survivors have a variety of methods and talents, especially their reconnaissance talents, which are completely different from the methods used locally, making it easy for them to find the traitor.

Want to go undercover? Want to play the victim? Want to take us all down with you?

That's impossible. If the NPCs really did this, they would have been relegated to the lowest level long ago. They wouldn't be qualified to enter the B-level zone.

With the scrutiny of countless survivors, talent investigations, Xiao Linlin's personal oversight, and the secret investigations conducted by various attendants at the grassroots level, the innocent backgrounds of these thousand new disciples were largely ensured.

The addition of these thousand new disciples also means that more new disciples of the same type will continue to join Xiaoyun Temple in the future.

They are the second internal circulation power system that Xiao Linlin created for Xiaoyun Temple. It is a second power different from the escapee system and will become the most important power in Su Lin's hands in the near future!

Just as Xiaoyun Temple was expanding its sphere of influence in full swing this month, new news also came from Jia Zhengyi's side.