Chapter 236 Karmic Obstacles
Ning Xuan's idea was excellent. Xi Yue first used infrastructure robots to build a living area on her planet. It wasn't a large community, but it could accommodate several hundred families. Then, she opened up a piece of land near the community as a planting and research base.
After the facilities were built, she started posting job openings on the interplanetary network, requiring applicants to settle on her planet. The first 100 settlers would enjoy additional benefits, in order to encourage interested people to apply as soon as possible.
Then, in less than a week, Xiyue recruited 100 residents who also became staff members of the research base.
Because her current planet is not a habitable planet, in order to ensure that her first residents can live here safely and with peace of mind, Xi Yue spent a huge sum of money to buy an energy shield to protect the entire residential area, including the research base.
It's both a form of protection and a way of preventing residents from wandering around the planet freely, since her planet has so many pure crystal mines that cannot be exposed at present.
She deliberately chose a location for the living area and research base on land that had already been mined. This large area had been completely mined out, and there were no mining robots in sight, so Xi Yueci felt at ease letting these people come and live there.
Although there is still about a year before the first review, she feels it's safer to prepare early.
After settling matters with the permanent residents, Xi Yue focused her main energy on cultivation and mining. At the academy, puppets took over her classes, and she would teleport back to the academy every so often.
She teleported back not only to complete tasks that the puppets couldn't, but also to gather evidence of the academy's conspiracy to deliberately conceal the true efficiency of the purification plants. Once she reached a certain level of strength, she might expose this conspiracy, and all of this would become evidence.
During this period, they shared a lot of good stuff in their group, including a soil purification card that can purify 1 square kilometer of soil. Everyone gave this to Han Dongling to use.
There's also the teleportation card, which is similar to the stealth talisman, but it also has a location function. If you want to teleport to a specific location, you can specify that location, which is more convenient than the stealth talisman.
However, the most frequently seen items are various mall coupons and discount vouchers, and everyone is speculating when the mall will open.
Everyone considers whether they can use the items in the welfare red envelopes. If they can't use them, they will give them to someone who can. For example, everyone gave the soil purification card to Han Dongling.
The atmosphere in the group was great, and everyone's cultivation level was rising rapidly. But just when everything was going well, two unpleasant messages came into the group at the same time.
One is Wang Shulan's side. The Great Jin Kingdom is coveted by neighboring countries because news of its abundant high-yield crops has spread. The neighboring countries have begun to fear the Great Jin. If the Great Jin becomes powerful, it will break the current balance, and the Great Jin may start to devour the neighboring countries.
As a result, several of the larger neighboring countries began to have close exchanges.
The spies sent out by Da Jin brought news that eight of the larger neighboring countries were going to unite and attack the Da Jin Dynasty.
The situation was the same for Katerina; news also came from the nobles that a neighboring country was going to attack their country, Elayne.
Katerina was somewhat indifferent; she had grown accustomed to the frequent outbreaks of war on the magical continent. What she found unacceptable was that a nobleman had set his sights on the forest where she now resided.
Compared to Katerina, Wang Shulan is more patriotic. She is very worried that war will cause many innocent people to be displaced. Moreover, having been affected by war in her childhood, she also harbors hatred towards other countries.
[Wang Shulan: I want to go to war. How about I use a face-changing pill to change my appearance, then go to war and drive other countries away, scaring them into submission?]
Wang Shulan's idea was met with strong opposition from Yunxi.
[Yunxi: No, cultivators cannot directly participate in mortal wars, much less interfere with the changing of dynasties. Otherwise, it will create great karmic burdens, especially regarding the changing of dynasties; you cannot bear the consequences of such actions.]
[Wang Shulan: What can we do then? Are we just supposed to stand by and watch our people suffer the persecution of war?]
[Yunxi: There's a roundabout way. You can strengthen your court by spreading your ideas, but remember not to directly give them heavy weapons, such as the explosive talismans you have, or the firearms Lin Yuhan and her group possess.]
[Lin Yuhan: Does that mean we can only influence them at the ideological level? What about the high-yield crops I gave them before? Does that mean it's okay?]
[Yunxi: That's fine. As long as you don't directly participate in the war, you can avoid harming mortals who have no direct karmic connection to you.]
[Lin Yuhan: In that case, Shulan, you should try to improve your country's strength. I recommend that you guide your emperor to implement an economic war.]
After listening to Yunxi and Lin Yuhan's words, Wang Shulan's desire to change her mind and join the army cooled down, and she began to ask Lin Yuhan about the economic war.
Later, Ning Xuan acted as an intermediary, trading the military books and videos introduced by Lin Yuhan to Wang Shulan.
Now, the cultivation of various high-yield crops has been widely popular throughout Dajin. In addition, the shops opened by Wang Shulan and the Empress are very profitable, providing great assistance to the Emperor. Therefore, Wang Shulan now has a lot of say in front of the Emperor and Empress.
She studied the military strategy that Lin Yuhan had given her, and then began to guide the emperor to wage an economic war, fully opening up trade with neighboring countries.
Wang Shulan took the opportunity to open several more stores, and her business grew several times over.
As for Katerina, they didn't know much about the magical world. There, the nobles had a lot of influence. Although Katerina was a famous witch, there were many other powerful witches on the magical continent, so she was also constrained. If she directly defied the nobles' decisions, the nobles might call in other witches to kill her.
Ning Xuan thought for a moment and then spoke in the group chat.
Ning Xuan: Why don't you wage an economic war too? But this time, you're going to dismantle it from within. Aren't the nobles over there particularly fond of luxury? You mentioned before that your gems have been coveted by nobles several times. Why don't you get more gems from Yu Han and use these luxury goods to increase your influence among the nobles?
Once your status among the nobles rises, you can, like Shulan, guide them to establish new systems and abolish unreasonable, outdated ones, thus avoiding direct involvement in the war.
[Katrina: Honey, that's one method, but it'll take a while to show results, and neither can I or this forest wait that long~]
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