Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 192 Alien Beasts
Regarding the lower realm, Su You's idea is to spread the inheritance of various cultivation arts and crafts, so that the cultivation world can become more prosperous and more talented people can emerge.

As for the consumption of resources, Su You was not worried.

With the abundant spiritual veins of the True Dragon Secret Realm providing sustenance, the spiritual energy supply from just a few worlds is not a problem at all.

The only concern is the consumption of basic resources. If the cultivation of immortality and the arts flourish, these resources will be consumed very quickly.

However, if basic resources are consumed at a cost, it will be a limitation on the development of various cultivation arts.

Su You doesn't have a good solution for this at the moment.

As for medicinal herbs, he can sow a large number of medicinal herb seeds throughout the world.

As long as there is sufficient spiritual energy, there will be no shortage of spiritual herbs, and cultivators themselves will also cultivate spiritual herbs.

However, as for spirit ore, all the spirit ore in these worlds now comes from those smaller worlds and does not have sustainable regeneration capabilities. Sooner or later, it will be exhausted.

However, the world of cultivation has many secret techniques, and Su You, in particular, has obtained a portion of the Lingbao Sect's inheritance, so there are ways to solve this problem.

The first and simplest method is to purchase the mother stone of a spirit mine. This is the most essential part of a vein of minerals. If a spirit mine has a mother stone, it can continuously absorb spiritual energy to produce spirit ore.

However, the probability of finding a mother ore is extremely low; only one out of tens of thousands of veins will produce one.

Su You has moved through dozens of worlds, and the number of mother mines he has mastered is only tens of thousands. However, compared to dozens of vast spaces, tens of thousands of ore veins that can produce their own ore are just a drop in the ocean.

Fortunately, the vast world of Canghai is boundless, and Yunhai Immortal City is practically the economic center of this spiritual realm, where you can buy almost anything.

Su You also doesn't need to buy any high-grade spirit ore mother stones. These are not needed for the time being, and they are not only expensive but also rare.

On the contrary, the price of low-grade spirit ore mother stones is not high. After all, low-grade ore veins are everywhere in the Canghai Great World, so these mother stones that can produce spirit ore themselves are naturally worthless.

In addition, the Lingbao Sect's weapon-refining tradition also includes a mineral-nurturing technique. This technique is extremely powerful; it only requires a portion of the spiritual ore and the setting up of a mineral-nurturing array to continuously generate new spiritual ore through spiritual energy.

Of course, this method of generating spirit ore only applies to low-level spirit ore. For high-level spirit ore, if you want to generate it using the ore-nurturing technique, it cannot be generated solely by spiritual energy; it also requires the input of many high-level spiritual objects.

Su You doesn't have any ideas about high-grade spirit ores for the time being, but he can make more use of the ore-nurturing technique for low-grade spirit ores, especially those that are relatively scarce, or even those with few spirit ore mother stones. He can use the ore-nurturing technique to produce more of them.

These are all grand plans for the long-term development of the space. Since we want to select qualified geniuses from countless cultivators and mortals, we must naturally take on the responsibility of supporting them.

Moreover, Su You's resources will not be wasted. These cultivators and mortals are born here and die here, and their spiritual energy will remain in the space after they die.

The only drawback of Su You's space is that it cannot form its own spiritual energy cycle like the real world. Even if those living beings perish and are transformed back into spiritual energy, it takes a long time, unlike the world where they can quickly enter the cycle.

Furthermore, with an infinite number of living beings, the twin clones in the Mirage Realm have no shortage of the seven emotions and six desires required by them, and they don't even need to actively seek out those souls.

With so many living beings, the Mirage Realm is likely to experience explosive growth.

After settling things off at the Immortal Cultivation Academy, the twin clones got back to work.

At least for the next few years, he will need to monitor and regulate the space within the Wizard Tower to ensure its stable development.

Back in Yunhai Immortal City, Su You also managed to purchase a large quantity of supplies. Yun Yun had accumulated a wealth of connections over the years by running her shop.

Instead, the items Su You purchased were not high-level items. For example, the spirit herb seeds were all of the first to fifth rank, with the first to third rank being the most numerous, totaling approximately several hundred billion seeds.

This number of seeds is not much, especially considering that they are scattered across dozens of spatial realms, and then within those realms, the seeds need to be scattered to every corner of the space. On average, there aren't many seeds left.

With such a large quantity of medicinal herb seeds, the price is not low either. Even the lowest-grade medicinal herbs cost one spirit stone each, and the investment in medicinal herb seeds alone amounts to a full two trillion low-grade spirit stones.

Fortunately, An Ling'er killed that group of cultivators in the True Dragon Secret Realm and obtained about 120,000 spirit crystals from them, which, if exchanged according to the ratio, would be worth 12 trillion low-grade spirit stones.

Of course, the exchange rate, especially when exchanging a higher-tier item for a lower-tier one, will be even higher.

Moreover, Su You's investment in the spiritual herb seeds can be considered an initial investment. After all, investing in a world is worthwhile no matter how much you invest.

Secondly, there were spirit ore mother stones. Su You wasn't looking for high-grade ones, but he bought about six million of them, ranging from first to fifth grade spirit ore.

Among them, the fifth-tier spirit ore mother stone is the most expensive and the rarest, with only three pieces. Moreover, these are the three most common types of ore veins, but their prices are already comparable to those of ordinary seventh-tier spirit items.

As for low-grade spirit ore mother stones, most types have been collected. After all, the value of this material is still very low. At most, cultivators occasionally use them as materials for refining weapons. A first-grade mother ore is equivalent to a third-grade material.

This expenditure was higher than that for the medicinal herb seeds, costing approximately six trillion low-grade spirit stones.

Two trillion plus six trillion low-grade spirit stones could buy an unknown amount of spirit herbs and spirit mines, but compared to sustainability, Su You felt it was better to invest more to avoid future troubles.

In addition to these two items, Su You also purchased a large quantity of ordinary ores, which were to be moved into the world to form ordinary mineral veins for use by mortals.

Although the last time it was said to be a relocation of the world, it is estimated that not even one percent of the world's things were moved over.

His wizard tower space still seems too empty. There are too few plants, the soil layer is too thin and needs to be thickened, and there is very little lava and magma underground.

It's impossible to create a channel of subterranean fire as easily as in the world of cultivation. Currently, subterranean fire can only be drawn out in certain specific areas.

Therefore, this part needs to be further increased, and once the lava and magma increase, the soil layer must be thickened to prevent eruptions and outflows.

Now, if we look down from high above in space...

You can clearly see that the earth below is a yellowish-brown color, with green and blue patches scattered sparsely, and a large number of living creatures gathered together.

Now, under the command of the cultivators, these creatures are gradually separating and building cities, towns, and villages in various places, restoring some order to humanity. This is only possible because of the cultivators' suppression; without a large number of cultivators sent to guide them, it's uncertain how many of these creatures would have survived after relocating here.

Unlike now, although many people still perish on the road, most of them are still alive. As long as they find a place to settle down, they will eventually be able to slowly recover.

During this period, especially after all the mortals moved in, Su You issued an order for the cultivators in the world to help. Although it might not be of much use, having cultivators above them would at least prevent riots and other such incidents.

Moreover, these monks were also tasked with delivering food.

For this relocation, Su You specially purchased a large amount of mortal food in the Tongtian Vine World. The Tongtian Vine World has the most abundant vitality, and ordinary grains can be harvested five times a year with very high yields.

Su You specifically asked dozens of races skilled in farming to help him grow large quantities of common grains, and then paid them with elixirs.

This is a windfall for them, as it directly helps them grow enough food to feed the creatures in the Wizard Tower for decades.

Su You wouldn't have relocated like this if there hadn't been enough food.

The cost of such relocation is very likely that most of the people will starve to death inside.

After all, growing food in space is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

However, most of the space has now returned to normal, towns have been built, most creatures have settled down, and all arable land has been cultivated, making it barely possible to be self-sufficient.

The main problem was that the soil in Su You's space was too thin and lacked fertility, so it took several decades to make it barely usable.

If he hadn't left behind enough grain, public resentment would have been boiling over long ago.

Su You is now having his men dig up the soil in the True Dragon Secret Realm to enrich the soil in these spaces. With enough food, their development will accelerate.

However, the drawbacks of the secret realm are still very obvious. It is very different from the normal world, and he can only rely on his subordinates to make adjustments slowly.

For example, the various waterways, rivers, and lakes on the mainland all need extensive restoration, which requires a large amount of fresh water that needs to be transported from outside.

In addition, there are too few trees in the space, so these also need to be transported in from outside.

The twin clones have already found several suitable uninhabited islands in the outer sea, where they left the Dream Butterfly Mirror. They only need to send their subordinates to relocate a large number of people there.

Not only rivers and trees, but also various animals and other creatures can be sent into the space to improve the species within it.

Su You estimated that it would take at least several hundred years for his current space to vaguely resemble a normal world.

For him, this time is not long; he now has plenty of time to get things done.

After Su You delivered the medicinal herb seeds and other treasures, the twin clones got busy again.

Su You couldn't easily sow the seeds of spiritual herbs; it would be too time-consuming. He could leave them all to the students of the academy or the cultivators in the cultivation factory.

There aren't many requirements for where these medicinal herbs are sown, the only requirement being that they cannot be sown in areas inhabited by mortals. In other places with rugged terrain, more seeds can be sown.

Of course, the majority of them are in the areas surrounding the spiritual veins. Su You has moved all the spiritual veins of those worlds into the area, but they are not all controlled by the cultivators in those worlds.

The majority are distributed across various areas of the space, and these will be gradually explored and developed as the cultivators within the space become more prosperous.

As for the spirit ore mother, it was buried by the twin clones themselves. After all, only he, as the master of space, could easily bury it deep in the earth.

However, these spirit ore mothers are unlikely to grow in a short period of time, since the overall spiritual energy in the space is still somewhat thin.

However, as Su You collects more and more spiritual energy outside, the growth of the spirit ore mother stone will also accelerate.

He could even send cultivators to pour spiritual liquid into the locations of these spirit ore mother stones to help them grow rapidly.

In addition, there are ordinary ores, all of which are located in the mortal realm, but no large veins have been formed, and the mining difficulty is very low.

After doing all this, the Gemini clone can finally relax for a while.

However, monitoring of these spaces cannot be relaxed. He even sent a large number of academy students into the mortal realm to see what was still lacking.

Mortals are different from cultivators; their survival abilities are much weaker. Therefore, we need to continue to observe them for at least a hundred years. Once they can adapt, they will have essentially adapted to this world.

The investigation results came out quickly, and it was still the most basic problem, the most basic problem in the space.

That is the lack of basic resources. Although these mortals have the ability to do things, they don't even have the materials to make things, so they don't know where to start.

This is also why Su You ordered his men to quickly move all kinds of ordinary trees over.

With minerals and trees, most of the needs of ordinary people can be met.

Of course, there is another point, namely the scarcity of herbs, which has had a huge impact on the ecology of ordinary people. In the past few decades, the price of medicines has become higher and higher, and even medicines that were very cheap before have now increased in price by dozens of times.

This was something Su You hadn't expected.

However, the solution is quite simple: first, implement macro-level regulation by having the plant provide a large amount of herbal resources, and then, once the surrounding ecosystem is established, relocate a large number of plants there.

Then, sow a large number of herb seeds around the area, and after a period of time, the situation will stabilize.

(End of this chapter)