Longzang

Chapter 370 Living Beings with Spirits
On the barren land, a group of people, barely clothed, are busy quarrying rocks, sharpening tools, and making plans around the few fertile plots of land in the wasteland.

People formed groups of several dozen and dispersed in all directions to begin exploring their surroundings.

On the edge of the fertile land, over a hundred people sat in a circle, arguing fiercely. They eventually elected seven people—five men and two women—and then unanimously chose a dignified-looking middle-aged man as their leader.

With the selections made, these people reorganized the large number of idle individuals and assigned them tasks. Hundreds of young men and women knelt before a makeshift stone platform and began praying for rain.

Others used stone shovels to dig large pits in the ground, and then dug ditches to connect these pits. It seemed that they were for storing water after it rained.

Sure enough, a heavy rain began to fall, but the sky remained dark red, and the full moon still hung high in the sky. The rain looked indescribably eerie.

Under the guidance of the elders, people dug many shallow canals to collect rainwater from the ground into deep pits, forming ponds. Then they dug canals into the fertile soil, using the canals to divide the land into plots. The only problem is that there is nothing to grow in the land now.

Several other groups of people went to different places to worship some of the world's sacred trees. One tree had a broken trunk, the cut charred black, but several new buds sprouted from the break. The other two were still saplings the size of a palm, but that didn't stop people from worshipping them.

However, the two saplings were completely different in nature. In order to prove that the sacred tree they worshipped was more powerful, the two groups of believers argued fiercely, spat at each other, and almost came to blows.

However, what the believers did not notice was that the distance between the two sacred trees was getting farther and farther.

In the distance stands a towering jade mountain, the sacred mountain of this world. On this sacred mountain grows a divine tree, but it is neither worshipped nor accepted by faith.

The area surrounding Jade Mountain is a sacred place that they cannot approach.

In addition, there is another holy place in the world, where the true god and her retinue stand. It is said that another true god is being conceived, but everyone instinctively hates that true god and does not want to offer him any incense.

The seven newly elected elders have already assigned their tasks: some are planning farmland, some are planning cotton fields, and others are searching for mineral veins. In addition, the eldest elder and another elder are leading the people to quarry rocks and begin building stone houses.

Although the stone houses were sturdy, they were extremely laborious and time-consuming to build. It wasn't that people didn't want to build wooden houses, but rather that there were only a few sacred trees in this world, and no other trees at all. Not to mention trees, there weren't even any flowers or plants.

However, when the stone house was halfway built, a new problem arose: the roof could not be built.

Wei Yuan looked at the group of people busy in the vast land and rivers and was speechless.

Previously, the Dao Foundation or Dharma Aspect warriors who emerged from the pool were all puppets, unable to receive commands and requiring Wei Yuan to control them with his own attention. Only after they attained enlightenment were they able to receive Wei Yuan's commands.

This time, tens of thousands of people were transformed from the vengeful spirits of the Yin soldiers. Although they were all ordinary mortals, each of them possessed spirituality and carried some memories of their past lives.

Wei Yuan didn't notice at first, but by the time he did, they had already chosen the location of the town, located the fertile land, dug canals to divert water, quarried stones to build houses, and were even exploring for mineral veins. They had also chosen their own leaders, creating a scene of settling down and creating a paradise.

When Wei Yuan discovered tens of thousands of people busily working across the vast land, he was utterly shocked.

At this moment, hundreds of people built an altar with stones and began to pray. Wei Yuan heard their voices: asking the Creator Immortal to grant them seeds, trees, and mineral veins.

In fact, Wei Yuan could hear them clearly, but the thoughts they had during their prayers were directly transmitted to Wei Yuan's divine sense, so the language difference could be ignored.

These are a group of simple and honest people. They only want the simplest and most basic raw materials. They didn't even dare to ask for timber, but only for saplings. Wei Yuan glanced at the vast land and rivers. This place was indeed too barren. Apart from a few immortal plants, no other spiritual plants remained. Not even a single ordinary tree or grass could be found.

As for mineral veins, Wei Yuan knew perfectly well that there were none. What existed in the vast land was only soil and rocks.

Wei Yuan silently picked up a stone, infused it with the essence of the cauldron, and then flattened it. If one ignored the true meaning within, it would simply be a stone slab. Wei Yuan then transmitted the process of the stone slab's transformation into the consciousness of these people.

Upon receiving the true meaning from the cauldron, the crowd erupted in excitement. This was a true immortal manifesting!

This sparked a frenzy of worship! In that instant, Wei Yuan heard tens of thousands of different praises, some of which were so nauseatingly sycophantic that they were shameful.

Despite the praise, Wei Yuan didn't gain a single bit of luck. However, Wei Yuan had already incurred the karma of these people, so he couldn't ask for more.

These people were all reincarnated from the Gate of All Realms and were born into Wei Yuan's Dao Foundation. In reality, they had no physical form, and their life and death were completely controlled by Wei Yuan's will.

Wei Yuan had initially planned to conduct an experiment on someone to see the effect of direct annihilation. However, after some thought, he shook his head. Although these people were reincarnated and had to rely on the vast land to survive, they possessed their own souls and independent intelligence.

Wei Yuan felt that at least most of them were human. Randomly wiping them out was not much different from murder.

On the battlefield, Wei Yuan would never show mercy, but in peacetime, even though these people were theoretically puppets within his Dao Foundation, Wei Yuan was still unwilling to harm them indiscriminately.

After the worship, everyone began to process the stones according to the true meaning of the cauldron. Wei Yuan ignored them for the time being and began to inspect the condition of the vast land.

At this moment, the girl's Yin and Yang had already begun to develop spirituality. On her own, this level of spirituality far surpassed that of a True Lord, and Wei Yuan even felt that ordinary immortals might not be able to match it.

In terms of quantity, tens of thousands of ordinary mortals with spirituality can easily equal several hundred Dao Foundations and a dozen or so Dharma Forms.

In addition, a powerful spirituality is being nurtured, its rank already approaching that of a True Lord. Wei Yuan had never seen such a change before, and he estimated it to be the soul of an old ghost from the remnant clan after its death.

He claimed to be a descendant of the true dragon bloodline, and said that bloodline members could refine each other into dragon guards after killing one another. Judging from his words, these dragon guards seemed to be extremely powerful, and the strength between two bloodline members mainly depended on the difference in the number of times they had hunted each other.

Thinking back to the shock Old Ghost felt when he first met Yin Yang, could it be that the witch woman he captured was also a descendant of the true dragon? After being killed by him, she was reborn as a dragon guard, namely the young girl Yin Yang.

Wei Yuan thought about it more and more and more and more that this should be the case, but there was still one thing he didn't understand: if he really was a descendant of the true dragon bloodline, then where was his innate treasure?
Even the old ghost of the remnant clan has a piece of dragon bone, surely I can't be completely without anything? Although, judging from the size of a true dragon's body, this piece of dragon bone is probably a fragment from some corner of the dragon's body, or perhaps the smallest one.

At this moment, the blood energy in the Yuanxue Pearl had been almost completely depleted. Suddenly, the vast land trembled and a long, resonant sound rang out, like the simultaneous ringing of bells and tripods.

The entire earth, the sky, and everything between heaven and earth, including the girl Yin Yang and tens of thousands of mortals, were transformed into one whole, and a spiritual sea appeared deep in the earth.

At this point, Wei Yuan's Dao Foundation Spirituality was complete, his Rebirth Realm was perfected, and he had made significant progress in his Spirit Gathering Realm, about to touch upon the Dharma Aspect.

However, as a late-stage Dharma Aspect cultivator, the old ghost's life's blood and energy accumulation was only enough for Wei Yuan to advance one realm in the Foundation Establishment stage, not even two. This made Wei Yuan constantly complain in his heart.

(End of this chapter)