Chapter 546: Current Status of Nine Mountains, Shenxiao Drill
If Zheng Fa were asked to comment, he would also say that Lord Shuyulong asked a good question and hit the nail on the head.
Zheng Fa’s pancake is big and fragrant, but there is only one problem - it is inedible.
Not to mention how long it would take Zheng Fa to cultivate to the level of Golden Immortal, just cultivating a brand new dragon clan would definitely not be something that could be done in decades or even hundreds of years.
But judging from Xuanwei's current situation, Jiushan Sect definitely does not have so much time.
It's hard to refute.
Seeing Zheng Fa didn't say anything, Lord Shuyu Dragon laughed softly, as if mocking him.
"Dragon Lord doesn't believe it?"
"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. You may have faith, but I can't put my life on your shoulders."
"Then I would like to ask Lord Dragon to accompany me to see something."
"What?"
Zheng Fa flew towards the palace entrance, and only two words echoed in the palace: "Faith."
When Lord Shuyulong heard his decisive tone, she couldn't help but feel curious. She also had to admit that although what Zheng Fa said was vague and illusory, it was very tempting to her.
Seeing Zheng Fa flying out of the Heavenly Palace, she followed him along with the elders of the Jiushan Sect.
A group of people flew out of the Ziweiyuan of Jiushan Sect and descended from the sky to the mortal world of Jiushan Realm.
Lord Shuyu Dragon has been to the Nine Mountain Realm many times, but has never left the Three Enclosures and Four Stars, mainly because he is not interested.
But she was now quite curious about the Jiushan Sect, so she was secretly observing along the way.
Although she has been living at the bottom of the sea, she is not completely unfamiliar with the situation in the Xuanwei Realm.
In her early years, in order to find her people, she traveled to various places in Xuanwei many times and visited all the major sects, but they were not known to the public.
Therefore, she actually had a pretty good understanding of how ordinary people lived.
But the scenery before him made Lord Shuyu Dragon feel fresh and dazzled everywhere.
A Shenxiao flying boat flew past them, and from the windows of the boat, they could see it was filled with human heads.
Compared with their speed, the Shenxiao flying boat can be said to be slow, but most of the people riding on the flying boat are mortals!
Looking into the distance, there are Shenxiao flying boats flying in the air in all directions.
There are as many as 10 to 20 ships in total.
This was what she saw in just a short moment. Judging from the area of the mortal world in the Nine Mountains Realm, the total number of these Shenxiao flying boats must be hundreds or even thousands.
She turned her head and glanced at Zheng Fa, puzzled. The speed of this flying boat was comparable to that of a Jindan cultivator, but Zheng Fa allowed these mortals to ride it?
The Jade Dragon Lord did not speak, but just carefully observed the mortals and buildings on the ground.
The group just happened to fly over a big city.
Although it was called a big city, it actually had no city walls. There were only densely packed buildings spread out on the ground, starting from the center of the city and spreading out in concentric circles in all directions. It was bigger than any city she had seen before.
The streets in the city are wide and crowded, especially the streets lined with shops, which are crowded with people.
The clothing worn by those mortals was also very different from Xuanwei's customs. The cuffs were narrow, and both men and women mostly wore trousers. The material of the clothes was obviously strong and rough, and the colors were not very bright, mostly blue and black.
Although he was poor, the man was strong and sturdy, and quite tall.
The woman's face was rosy and her hair was black. She looked quite vigorous as she walked on the road.
The mortals in the Nine Mountains Realm only care about food and not clothing?
Even with just a casual glance, Lord Shuyu Dragon could be sure that the lives of the mortals in the Nine Mountains Realm were much better than those under the rule of the Four Sects.
"My Nine Mountains Sect has been operating in the Nine Mountains Realm for decades." Zheng Fa suddenly spoke up, "Dragon Lord may not know what the situation was like when I first arrived in this realm."
"What's going on?"
"The entire Nine Mountain Realm has a population of less than ten million. The people I see are practically skeletons. Anyone who lives past thirty is considered a centenarian."
"Ten million?" The Jade Dragon Lord was surprised and looked at the city below him. "I think the population of this city is over a million!"
"This is one of the larger cities in the Nine Mountains Realm. Because transportation is relatively developed and convenient in the Nine Mountains Realm, the population has been gathering in cities, which is why it appears so large."
The Jade Dragon Lord asked curiously, "How many people are there in the Nine Mountains Realm now?"
"Close to 320 million people."
Senior Sister Zhang answered this.
The Jade Dragon Lord was slightly stunned: "More than thirty times?"
“It’s much less than expected.”
"Is this not enough?"
Zheng Fa shook his head. Three hundred million was indeed less than what they had calculated before.
In the early years, the population growth rate of the Jiushan Realm was close to eight percent.
If this growth rate had been maintained, after fifty or sixty years, the population would have reached at least 600 million.
But later, the population growth rate of the Nine Mountains Realm dropped sharply.
This is not because the Nine Mountains Realm cannot support it - although the Nine Mountains Sect is not large in area, it has the help of immortal magic and abundant resources, so the upper limit of the population it can accommodate is actually very high.
The problem is - I don’t want to have a baby!
Zheng Fa had never thought of this, but he figured it out later.
Over the past fifty years, the Jiushan Sect has taken two actions in the mortal world that have greatly affected population growth:
Industrialization and universal education.
These two things enable most people to make a living.
When a person can support himself or herself, having children at home is no longer an option.
But this is not the only reason for the decline in population growth, nor even the main one.
The fundamental factor is the popularization of the culture of cultivating immortals.
Most of the mortals in the Nine Mountains Realm aspire to cultivate immortality when they are young, and are unwilling to lose their Yuan Yin or Yuan Yang in their early years.
The increase in life expectancy makes everyone tend to marry and have children later.
In addition, monks tend to be self-sufficient and have few desires, so mortals take monks as their role models, which gives rise to some new thoughts.
To be honest, this was not part of Zheng Fa's plan, but he had to admit that this was actually in line with the development law of the Nine Mountains Realm. After discussing with Senior Sister Zhang and others, he decided to wait and see. After all, the Nine Mountains Realm was not short of people.
But he felt it was too little, while the Jade Dragon Lord felt it was too much. Looking at those strong mortals, she felt it was even more rare.
If it were before, she wouldn't care so much.
But what Zheng Fa said, about cultivating her own dragon clan, has been engraved in her heart.
"Dragon Lord, I've said that when it comes to managing the country and benefiting the people, making money, and developing the country, our Jiushan Sect is no less capable than anyone else."
“Is this what you call faith?”
Of course she understood that the lives of these mortals had undergone tremendous changes under the rule of the Jiushan Sect, which was enough to prove the Jiushan Sect's governance capabilities.
Although there is a huge gap between dragons and mortals, there is no race distinction when it comes to making money.
"Of course it's more than that. This is just to let you know, Dragon Lord, that we have the ability to create wealth." Zheng Fa smiled and pointed forward, "And that is our ability to protect wealth."
The Jade Dragon Lord looked at where Zheng Fa was pointing, her eyes suddenly solemn. She seemed to not believe her own eyes. She turned her head to look at Zheng Fa again, then back to the front, looking back and forth, repeatedly. After a long time, she finally spoke: "Two of you?"
In the void ahead, the Emperor of Heaven smiled and bowed gently to the Jade Dragon Lord.
"Let me introduce you. This is my avatar, named the Heavenly Emperor Body."
"Clone?!!"
The word "clone" was said by Lord Shuyu Dragon with ups and downs in his tone, which contained confusion, surprise, and even disbelief.
It wasn't that she was jumpy and ignorant, because the only problem with Daoguo was that in the Xuanwei world, the method of splitting one's body had always been quite sensitive.
It’s not that there are no methods of creating clones, but all methods of creating clones will deliberately suppress the clone’s strength to avoid being taken over, and most of them are also incomplete in intelligence, like fools.
But from the perspective of Lord Shuyu Dragon, the aura of this Emperor of Heaven is not inferior to that of Zheng Fa's original body.
The Heavenly Emperor flew closer, and the Jade Dragon Lord's eyes flashed with blue light as she looked at him carefully. She was a True Immortal, and the Heavenly Emperor didn't seem to be hiding his true identity, so she could immediately tell -
This is an immortal cultivator who has reached the corpse-transmigration realm. In terms of cultivation alone, he is indeed no less powerful than Zheng Fa's original body.
But when it comes to actual combat power, it is certainly inferior to...
wrong!
The Jade Dragon Lord suddenly turned around and asked Zheng Fadao, "Is your clone the Lord of the Nine Mountain Realm's Divine Dao?"
"Dragon Lord saw it?"
"I recognize the power of this incense. Most of what I saw before was the body of the Heavenly Emperor, right?"
The Emperor landed in front of the two men and bowed to the Jade Dragon Lord. He said, "Please forgive me, Dragon Lord. I was in seclusion at the time, so I had to receive them."
Seeing his lively expression and fluent responses, the Jade Dragon Lord was even more impressed: "Even after seeing you so many times, I never realized you were a clone. Master Zheng's clone method is truly amazing."
Zheng Fa bowed slightly to her.
On the one hand, the purpose of displaying the Lu Tiandi body was to show some strength, and on the other hand, the formation of the sword body gave the Jiushan Sect a new trump card, which allowed them to peel off a layer of the onion.
Moreover, the Dragon Lord Shuyu is indeed one of the people who can be trusted - the reason why she confronted the Dragon King Cangming was partly because of the Jiushan Sect. The Dragon Lord Shuyu herself was aloof and would not mention this matter, but Zheng Fa did not forget it.
"If that's the case, then you, the Heavenly Emperor, are in the Nine Mountains Realm, and I'm afraid you're equivalent to a Loose Immortal or even a True Immortal?"
"Loose Immortal." Zheng Fa nodded. "Maybe close to a True Immortal, but not quite."
"The Cave Heaven Method is indeed miraculous." The Jade Dragon Lord sighed, and then said, "A clone with the cultivation level of a wandering immortal, is this your confidence?"
Lord Shuyu Dragon was secretly calculating in his heart.
After Zheng Fa killed Luo Sanxian of Hao Ri Mountain, the Xuanwei Realm had already reached a consensus on his strength and regarded him as a true immortal.
Jiushan Sect also has Zhang Wuyi and Xie Qingxue, two people who can be said to be invincible under the Dao Fruit.
Now there is another immortal clone.
In terms of strength, there is not much difference between it and Cangming Dragon Palace. If I am included, I will definitely be better than Cangming Dragon Palace.
But it would be a bit too much to say how much confidence a clone of a wandering immortal could give her.
"No, my Heavenly Emperor body is a tool to demonstrate confidence."
"oh?"
The Shuyu Dragon Lord became more and more curious, so he pointed ahead and said to her, "Dragon Lord, please look."
Following the direction of Zheng Fa's finger, the Jade Dragon Lord was slightly stunned and asked doubtfully, "The Thick Earth Elemental Magnetic Formation?"
The scenery ahead looks quite familiar.
The barren mountain peaks and the dark green reflective rocks were very different from what she had seen before entering the Nine Mountains Realm.
The only difference is that the top of this mountain is flat, with several rows of houses and some huge magical weapons on it.
"It's the Thick Earth Elemental Magnetic Formation, and it's also the newly formed Divine Sky Legion of my Jiushan Sect."
"The Divine Sky Legion?"
"The Divine Sky Legion is composed of the most skilled disciples of the Nine Mountains Sect in thunder magic. In fact, they can probably all be considered your disciples, Dragon Lord."
Lord Shuyu Dragon couldn't help but turn his head to look at Xiao Yuying. Seeing his disciple's face full of pride, he couldn't help but shake his head secretly.
"So, you want the Shenxiao Legion to preside over the Thick Earth Elemental Array."
"The Dragon Lord's Wisdom Eye."
That's indeed true.
There are two major legions, Tianhe and Shenxiao. Needless to say, the Tianhe Legion is the strongest armed force and the life-saving trump card.
The positioning of the Shenxiao Legion is different.
They tend to be used for defense, reconnaissance, and transportation, which are highly compatible with the Thick Earth Magnetic Array. In essence, they are all applications of thunder magic.
It is a perfect match.
“They are my confidence.”
Upon hearing this, Lord Shuyu Dragon was puzzled. She had seen the Thick Earth Yuanci Array before. Although it was quite extraordinary, how could it compare to the clone of a wandering immortal?
As if he saw through her doubt, Zheng Fa chuckled, slightly bent his middle finger, and flicked it in the air.
A long red rainbow streaked across the sky.
Before Lord Shuyu Dragon could figure out what was happening, the Emperor of Heaven beside him had already rushed forward with the long rainbow.
With every step he took, he grew ten feet taller. By the time he reached the front of the Shenxiao Legion, the Emperor of Heaven was already ten thousand feet tall, and at the height of his knees, he had already surpassed the black mountain.
There were nine golden suns surrounding him behind him, and even his breath was hot enough to burn everything.
The Emperor of Heaven struck down upon the Nine Mountain disciples with a fist, and the might of the fist made the Jade Dragon Lord startled and ask, "What are you doing?"
"This is a drill of the Shenxiao Legion."
"exercise?"
"Oh, I just want them to try to deal with the Loose Immortals."
Lord Shuyu Dragon was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but look at the group of disciples, feeling a little pity in his heart.
What kind of life are these disciples of mine leading...
To her surprise, she was worried about the Shenxiao Legion, but these disciples seemed to be accustomed to facing such powerful enemies.
They ran quickly on the hill, lined up in an orderly manner, and took out their magic weapons.
The natal magic weapon of a group of disciples seems to be a drum.
The sound of drums was exciting, carrying a blue light, and spread rapidly in all directions.
The magic weapon of the other team of disciples is a similar magic mirror.
They threw the magic mirrors into the air at the same time, forming a wall facing the Emperor's fist.
The other disciples seemed to be manipulating the Yuan magnetic formation.
"His character is firm, but his strength..."
Lord Shuyu Dragon was still not optimistic about the Shenxiao Legion. In her opinion, even if this group of people could control the Yuanci formation, their strength was only at the Dharmakaya level.
Compared with Daoguo, it is like heaven and earth.
Beside him, Zheng Fa didn't say anything, but just looked into the distance.
The Lord of Shuyu Dragon couldn't help but look over and then discovered something strange.
From all directions, countless beams of light surged towards this place.
In the blue light, the sound of drums echoed, as if responding to the disciples here.
"Are there other Shenxiao armies? No, there's also the magnetic force of the distant earth veins?" The Jade Dragon Lord understood immediately, but his disbelief grew even greater. "How big is your Thick Earth Magnetic Formation?"
Although she was asking Zheng Fa, her eyes were fixed on the mirror wall.
Hundreds of rays of light condensed into a giant white pillar on the mirror wall that was almost solid. After being reflected by the mirror, it collided with the fist of the Emperor of Heaven.
When the two met, Lord Shuyu Dragon saw with his own eyes that the Emperor of Heaven seemed to be unable to control himself and could not bear the burden, so he took three steps back.
A group of the most advanced disciples, with the help of this thick earth magnetic formation, actually repelled a wandering immortal?
(End of this chapter)
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