Chapter 173
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Chapter 173: Grain Yield and the First Heavenly Artifact
Yuexin didn’t mind; she happily hugged her book, immersed in it.
She had already learned the characters and understood most knowledge by herself.
Yun Ye only needed to answer her questions from time to time and assign homework for her to demonstrate her understanding.
In truth, he hardly needed to expend much effort.
Moreover, Yuexin was significantly different from ordinary people; she loved the unknown, and learning was a joy for her, not a hardship.
This difference allowed her to learn exceptionally quickly. In two months, she finished studying commonly used characters and had now started to learn various words and idioms, with her future success just around the corner.
Yun Ye lowered his head and took out various documents to process.
Unlike normal people, Yun Ye did not need to see things with his eyes; with just a sweep of his Spirit Sense, he could imprint all the text into his mind.
In terms of processing efficiency, Spirit Sense was at least a hundred times faster than using his eyes. The stronger one’s computational power and comprehension, the faster the processing speed.
Yun Ye’s arrangement of organizational sequences was also based on this principle; administrative tasks required only a small number of specialized people. Most of the time would be spent in discussion rather than reading and approving documents.
Ideally, those who became part of the highest decision-making body should possess wisdom and foresight that surpassed everyone else. Furthermore, as a Dao Artifact wielder, such individuals would never betray the ideals of Tomorrow. Thus, the overall decision-making efficiency of the organization would reach unprecedented levels, often moving in a positive direction.
Yun Ye quickly reviewed the documents to understand the situation in Tomorrow Village.
Currently, Tomorrow Village had about five thousand acres of farmland, having fully developed the entire valley.
Half a year ago, he joined the crop research team and guided seed optimization. In just one month, they achieved a breakthrough of over a thousand pounds per acre.
If all five thousand acres were planted with rice, that would total four million pounds of grain. Even if all were made into Spirit-level superior food, they would still have forty thousand pounds, enough to provide fifteen people with Spirit-level superior food for an entire year, eating it three times a day.
According to Yun Ye’s calculations, even those with poor aptitude and low proficiency in the Qi Cultivation Technique would only need to consume half a year’s worth of Spirit-level superior food to fully cultivate their Qi and awaken their Spiritual Roots.
This significance was already very clear.
In just one year, Tomorrow Village could produce at least thirty revival of Spiritual Roots individuals.
Furthermore, those revival of Spiritual Roots individuals would further increase land productivity, creating a positive cycle that would accelerate others’ awakening of their Spiritual Roots.
This is why Yun Ye prioritized seed improvement; it held immense importance for the Tomorrow Society.
Now, six months had passed, marking the time for the first batch of rice to mature.
Not all the farmland was planted with rice; some fruit and vegetables were included to ensure balanced nutrition, so the reported yield was…
Three million pounds!
This was an astonishing number.
Baishi Town faced extreme shortages of various supplies.
Due to the presence of demons, there was very little arable land available in the entire region. Three million pounds was often the harvest of several villages combined; a single family would typically obtain only a little more than this amount in food per year.
Moreover, large areas were planted with special plants, which would further reduce yield.
For instance, many materials for Spiritual Tools came from Mingzhu bamboo.
This grain formed the very foundation for entire families of thousands, making it quite scarce.
Additionally, many prominent families did not possess the technique to create Spirit-level superior food. Attempting to craft high-level superior food would not only cost far more than Yun Ye but would also yield inferior results.
This was the decisive reason why Baishi Town could not cultivate too many revival of Spiritual Roots individuals; they themselves did not have enough and naturally would not share with outsiders.
If it weren’t for these outsiders helping them with chores and even serving as offerings to lessen the Great Disaster’s impact, their chances of advancement would surely be completely cut off; this was almost a certainty.
The last time the Great Disaster Transformation occurred, it served as proof!
Last time, the sacrifices were too few, and they felt the pain, so this time they opened more entrances to cultivate more offerings.
Many remnants of past systems reveal Baishi Town’s previous attitude toward its subjects.
For example, when Yun Ye was a farmer in his first life, he wasn’t even allowed to leave the fields; he would be directly killed for it.
A little thought reveals that since such a system existed, no one would have come to different villages to recruit talented individuals in the past.
Baishi Town had as many cannon fodder as it needed; why would a prestigious official go to small villages to gather them?
However, viewing these children from small villages as ‘traitors’ makes everything reasonable.
Your ancestors were oppressed by me for generations, yet you come running for a thrown dog bone; you can’t blame me; it’s just your nature to be so lowly. If I don’t sacrifice you, who should I sacrifice?
This, however, is a natural trap.
No one can escape.
Without becoming a revival of Spiritual Roots, there is no hope for changing the status quo.
And since one desires to gain benefits and escape the identity of the exploited, one must inevitably become an exploiter.
Then, they would be used and sacrificed by the higher level of Baishi Town.
Cultivators live for hundreds of years, having ample time to nurture successors.
This is far more terrifying than ancient Earth; among cultivators who could become successors, the probability of them being fools is extremely low.
If the rulers do not make mistakes, it is nearly impossible for the weak without power to rebel and turn the tide; they often become pawns without even realizing it.
Even someone like Yun Ye, an exception who keeps breaking through limitations, can barely find a path to survival, remaining under constant threat of destruction.
"The Great Disaster will last another year or two; this is my time to develop…"
Yun Ye constantly made new plans.
As a Spirit Law master, Yun Ye swiftly completed his directives, and then someone came to take away the documents.
Currently, Tomorrow Village’s grain supply was nearly sufficient, and the difficulty of continuing research to increase yield surpassed previous efforts, so there was no need to invest massive resources for the time being.
Formations would be the focus of future research.
He must gather everyone’s wisdom to build the large formation within two years; this was the most urgent matter.
The Great Disaster Transformation has a time limit; once it exceeds that limit, the power of Reverse Liberation will vanish.
What will happen then is uncertain; it could lead to the Great Disaster directly becoming Tomorrow’s Heavenly Blade Mark.
With the Heavenly Blade Mark, it would be absolutely unstoppable and result in permanent damage.
Yun Ye must avoid this at all costs.
He gazed at the four black lightning marks on his right hand and murmured regretfully, “What a pity; I can only use Reverse Liberation when facing Baishi Town. Otherwise, perhaps I could harness all my power to create Spiritual Law by merging Spiritual Roots… At the very least, finishing the formations would be good.”
But there are no ‘ifs.’
Given Yun Ye’s character, he would never risk provoking someone from Baishi Town to trigger the Reverse Liberation state.
Thus, he could only accumulate strength. As the number of Spiritual Law masters in Tomorrow Village increased, the materials he could gather also grew. In the past six months, he had already created the first Heavenly Artifact.
In this life, his foundational strength was much stronger, with an initial stage of level three spirituality and a completeness of Spiritual Roots that surpassed his previous life.
Naturally, the power of his Heavenly Artifact now far exceeded that of his past life and would continue to rise.
Moreover, besides his foundational strength, Yun Ye now possessed additional powers.
For instance, he hadn’t practiced the Fire Transformation Secret Technique or the Three Mystical True Fire Method in his previous life. He also knew nothing of the Elevation of Spiritual Roots, burning Spiritual Roots, or the release that happens when artifacts are damaged.
In his previous life, he hadn’t even had a Water Spiritual Root!
