Chapter 648

Chapter 648: Reaping

Year six thousand and eighty-nine in the Xia calendar.

Five months have passed since the live broadcasting of the battle. During these five months, the Huaxia Federation received millions of immigration applications. Even though most of the applications were rejected, they still recruited a large number of talented individuals.

While the overall technology of other countries in the world is not as advanced as that of Huaxia, they excel in some unique areas. However, these areas are now facing systematic destruction due to the mass exodus of talents. Even if these countries forbid people from leaving, those who have legs will still run away.

The influx of a large number of technology and engineering professionals has further strengthened Huaxia’s research capabilities. This has made Qingyun and Zhou Liao jealous, prompting them to launch a massive operation against the monsters within their territory within a few months.

However, their progress was not smooth. While Huaxia only suffered a few hundred casualties in the battle, they lost tens of thousands of soldiers, barely achieving a pyrrhic victory.

Luckily, there was some effect to it. Many people couldn’t apply for citizenship in the Huaxia Federation, so they entered the Qingyun and Zhou Liao instead. Not only them, but other powerful countries also followed suit. Even if they couldn’t attract top tech experts, absorbing some experienced workers was still beneficial.

This resulted in a survival of the fittest situation within the human race, where the strong became stronger and the weak became weaker. The weak, facing attacks from monsters, became increasingly defenseless, suffering heavy casualties, and even facing extinction.

"Today’s top news: starting from January this year, countries worldwide have begun competing to launch satellites. According to many experts’ predictions, the speed of cultivating cultivators cannot keep up with the monsters’ strengthening pace. Therefore, countries are placing their hopes on technological means…"

"Recently, the Republic of Gabon in the Fangzhang Continent set fire to sixteen mountain ranges within its borders, hoping to control the development of monsters by burning forests…"

"The Kingdom of Dawa in the Penglai Continent recently discovered a large-scale Spiritual Stone Mine with extremely high quality. It has reached a cooperation agreement with Huaxia, which has decided to dispatch a hundred thousand troops…"

In the manor of Haigang City, artificial intelligence is reporting key news to Lin Jiang. It speaks clearly and at a moderate pace, while Lin Jiang listens with narrowed eyes.

Upon hearing the news about the Spiritual Stone Mine, Lin Jiang paused the report and had the artificial intelligence search for related information. It accessed the confidential database of Huaxia, not just the information available on the internet.

"Life will find its own way out."

Lin Jiang sighed after reading all the information.

Huaxia took talents from other places, but those folks didn’t just sit around, they took action to save themselves. They either launched satellites, increased weapon production, recruited more people for the military, or implemented wartime strategies, or sought refuge.

Seeking refuge requires trading resources. Besides minerals, they exchanged immortal cultivation resources like spirit herbs, spirit stones, materials from spiritual creatures. They could exchange these for martial arts techniques, finished elixirs, magical tools, spiritual talismans, formations, or even requested military protection from Huaxia.

Huaxia benefited from this exchange too, especially in terms of minerals which they urgently needed. Currently, Huaxia is focused on training cultivators and lacks many resources.

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"Uncle, I’m back!"

"Why are you back? What about your students?"

Lin Jiang looked at Cao Ying walking in from the door and couldn’t help but ask, "Has this girl grown tired of being a teacher and run away, leaving the students behind?"

"They are still having classes."

"Being a miner is not a good habit."

"Hmph, I’m not like that at all. I had the science academy create some teaching robots for me. I input all the questions and answers about cultivation before the Golden Core Period that I know into them. They can find the answers themselves. I also had artificial intelligence make explanatory videos. If they still can’t figure it out, the robots can use artificial intelligence to find me. I can answer at any time. So, I’m not a miner, I’m changing the era with technology. Uncle, you’re out of touch with the times."

"Technology is the productive force, that’s good progress."

Lin Jiang was very pleased after hearing that Cao Ying had become clever and learned to use machines.

"Of course, Uncle, I have good connections with the science academy. I have customized twenty beautiful female humanoid robots for you, using the twenty most beautiful female celebrities in the world in the past hundred years as templates. They will be delivered in a few days."

"······"

The next thing Cao Ying said nearly made Lin Jiang choke on his saliva, his face turning black.

"How about that, very impressive, right? You can’t buy these outside."

"Move quickly, don’t make me hit you."

"Hmph, you say no on the outside, but you must be thrilled inside."

"Roll"

Lin Jiang was very angry, and Cao Ying ran away dejectedly.

"Where did Cao Ying learn this messy stuff from?"

Lin Jiang looked up and asked Wu Li, who was holding back laughter.

"Ahem, sir, madam is a free person, it’s not surprising for a free person to surf the internet and visit some websites."

"I, forget it, forget it, don’t get mad. Wu Li, go to the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute and ask the experts to limit Cao Ying’s internet access, so she can’t log into some inappropriate websites."

Lin Jiang waved his hand, children need to learn properly, this won’t do.

A few days later, Lin Jiang received a box of spirit stones donated by the foundation below. Lin Jiang’s foundation had acquired a lot of land worldwide, and in some places, there were Spiritual Stone Mines. The foundation contributed the Premium Spirit Stones to Lin Jiang.

Lin Jiang also needed these spirit stones. The current spiritual energy density could only support cultivation up to the late Building Foundation stage, but Lin Jiang and Cao Ying had forcibly advanced to the Golden Core Period and needed spirit stones to replenish their spiritual power, which was quite significant.

"The growth of spiritual energy has slowed down again, and it’s unknown when it will fully recover to the level of the cultivation era."

Lin Jiang felt the concentration of spiritual energy outside, and it was nowhere near as strong as in the cultivation era. This made Lin Jiang and Cao Ying give up on advancing their cultivation, as they needed to wait for the environment to recover.

Lin Jiang continued to monitor the world’s development. With his intervention, Huaxia gradually stabilized. Though there were still occasional appearances of demonic beasts harming some ordinary people, overall it was not a major concern.

Technological development was ongoing, benefiting from a vast amount of technology from the cultivation era. Research on spiritual energy was progressing rapidly. Lin Jiang even pushed for exploration of space.

After several months, several spacecrafts ascended into space for exploration. Upgrading the space station was also in progress. The new generation of space stations, with the application of spiritual energy technology, would be more suitable for human habitation.

The Lunar Base was the same, but there was no evidence of spiritual energy recovery occurring on celestial bodies like the moon. It seemed that spiritual energy recovery was unique to the planet where humans lived.

In the year 6090 of the Xia calendar, the first mainland country was destroyed. It was a small country with only a few million people, and even its capital was overrun by demonic beasts, resulting in countless casualties with the remaining people fleeing.

This event dealt a heavy blow to humanity. Many realized that while Huaxia was powerful, the world was not just Huaxia. People in other places were too weak, and if they were destroyed, it would create vast living spaces for the demonic race, inevitably leading to the emergence of even more terrifying demonic beasts.

"Resources, Defense Line"

Lin Jiang quickly sent people to create specific policies. Huaxia couldn’t just sit around, they needed resources from those areas, and they also needed to weaken the power of the monster tribe in those areas to establish a reliable defense line.

Therefore, a support plan was quickly put in place. Huaxia lifted many restrictions on the export of technology, and used the production lines of many military weapons as aid products to support those countries, helping them defend their territories and protect their people.

In return, those areas also had to provide various resources to Huaxia. This was considered a win-win plan.