After executing the strategic deception plan, the danger of the Heavenly Saint Sect was lifted, but the Heavenly Saint Sect offended a great enemy with this, and this great enemy would definitely retaliate in the future.

With the current development of the Heavenly Saint Sect, it is certain that he will enter the Central Continent in the future, and as long as he goes to the Central Continent, the Heavenly Xuan Sect will inevitably be unable to bypass the hurdle, which will put great pressure on Lin Xiao.

The only way to alleviate this pressure is to develop strength, as long as the Heavenly Saint Sect reaches a certain strength, they can reach a balance of power with the Heavenly Xuan Sect, and they may not dare to do it directly.

In recent years, a lot of minerals have been discovered in the realm of Wuguo, which has made the wealth of the Heavenly Saint Sect skyrocket, and Nan Xuan has counted that in the case of the full excavation of several minerals such as the Xijin Mine and the Barbarian Wilderness, after deducting various expenses, there can be tens of millions of profits.

However, this is theoretical, in fact, the minerals everywhere in the wilderness are very difficult to excavate, there are still many monsters over there, and the environment has not been modified, it is not suitable for mortal life, if you use immortal cultivators to be miners to mine, then the cost will skyrocket and the profit will decline.

Therefore, Nanxuan's wilderness plan began to accelerate, and most of the income from the Xijin Mine was invested in the wilderness, not only calling for scattered cultivation and small forces to go to the wilderness, but the various sects of the Heavenly Saint Sect also began to plan to carry out the wilderness.

The first step in the wilderness is to hunt demon beasts and cut off the first threat to mortals, for this reason, the Heavenly Saint Sect and the Danyang Sect and other sects frequently send troops, and the monks who are active in the wilderness are at least more than 20,000 every year.

These 20,000 people took Qiaotou Mountain as a base to hunt demon beasts around, at this time, it was not the mode of more than a dozen squads, but thousands of people were dispatched at a time to directly encircle and suppress a spiritual mountain, and completely remove the demon beasts on the mountain by pulling the net.

After two or three years of operation, the security range of Qiaotou Mountain has been expanded to four or five hundred kilometers, and with the safety range, the Wu Kingdom has begun to migrate mortals.

The wild area is equivalent to the tropical rainforest, very hot flashes, all kinds of mosquitoes, poisonous insects, miasma breeding, these hazards can not hurt the immortal cultivators, but the threat to mortals is not ordinary, Nanxuan's first batch of 5,000 immigrants passed, and half of them died in less than a year.

Less than one percent of these casualties died from the mouths of demon beasts and beasts, and ninety percent were the cause of various diseases, although immortal cultivators have all kinds of elixirs, but these elixir cultivators are not enough, how can they be provided to mortals, even if these mortals are enough, what will happen to hundreds of thousands of millions of mortals in the future?

So Lin Xiao quickly made another decision, that is, to make the relocated mortals prisoners, the territory of the Wu Kingdom has been greatly expanded, and the population under his rule has also developed rapidly without war for hundreds of years, and now the population has exceeded 70 million.

There are quite a few people who commit crimes in such a huge population, such as murder, theft, robbery, etc., and the crimes that exist in the mortal world are still on the side of the martial country.

Therefore, Lin Xiao immediately canceled the mortal death penalty in the martial country, all death row prisoners did not need to be beheaded, but were thrown into the wilderness to do hard labor, these death row prisoners Lin Xiao was only given three pardons a year, and most of them had to work to death.

Serious offenders under the death penalty are more lenient and can be pardoned by hundreds of places per year, while minor offenders are exempt from punishment after serving a few to several years of hard labor.

"Boss, this group of prisoners who have just arrived, 300 prisoners on death row, more than 800 prisoners, and the rest of the more than 1,000 people are light criminals"

In Qiaotou Mountain, Jia Mengran took out a list for Lin Xiao to consult, and at the foot of the mountain, there was a caravan unloading, and these criminals came with the caravan.

"How many mortals are there in the Qiaotou Mountain area now?"

"Excluding the prisoners brought by various families, more than 500,000 prisoners have been relocated, and all the prisoners of the entire Wu Kingdom have been concentrated here, with a total of more than 1,500 villages and towns, spread over a radius of 300 miles, and hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land have been developed.

"Is there a renovation plan?"

"Yes, the sect has come up with a template, the first step is to cut down the mountains and burn the mountains, cut down a huge number of them, burn the low trees and the like, level the fields, and plant food.

The second step is to build water conservancy facilities to control the river and prevent flooding, and the third step is to fill in some of the swampy lakes that are mosquito breeding grounds, and only by filling them all in can we reduce disease.

The fourth step is to build roads, open up all these more than 1,000 villages and towns with roads, and strengthen the connection between villages and towns, so that resources can be coordinated and there is no need to let the border of the military country spend.

Some other measures are very detailed, such as establishing a mortal management system, especially the medical department, which is extremely important, and the Wu country has mobilized six hundred mortal doctors and three thousand apprentices, and the burden of reducing population losses is on them."

"Among the migrated population, those who are not prisoners must be compensated, and not many of the 500,000 people will survive this time."

"This naturally understands that only about half of the 500,000 prisoners can survive, but as long as they do a good job in these ten years, the mortals who will migrate in the future can improve the survival rate, according to the calculations of the sect, as long as seventy percent of the people survive within ten years, it is enough to be cost-effective."

"Got it, let's go, go and walk around Lingshan"

Lin Xiao nodded, as a superior, his heart became more and more indifferent, and the life and death of these 500,000 were already insignificant in the face of the strategy of opening up the wilderness.

"Master, looking at it from this side, although the safe range of mortals is only three hundred miles, our immortal cultivators are more than that, and now our scope of activities has expanded to a radius of more than two thousand miles centered on Qiaotou Mountain, so it can be said that the entire barbaric buffer zone directly under the Martial Kingdom is within our range of activities.

After statistics, there are a total of thirty-five spirit mountains of various levels within these thousands of miles, and now we have taken thirty, of which eighteen have been completely stabilized and produced, and the remaining twelve only need to repel a few counterattacks from demon beasts.

It will also take ten years, as long as it takes another ten years, we will be able to completely occupy the wilderness buffer zone and push the buffer zone thousands of miles south, and then the situation will be similar to that of Tianyun Prefecture five or six hundred years ago."

Lin Xiao didn't know what Tianyun Prefecture looked like five or six hundred years ago, but when he was there, Tianyun Prefecture was still full of demon beasts, and there were demon beasts entrenched in many spiritual mountains in the territory, and mortals under his rule did not dare to go out of mortal villages and towns a hundred miles away, otherwise their lives would be in danger.

However, in just two or three hundred years, Tianyun Prefecture has become a martial country, and within the territory of the martial country, no matter where mortals go, they don't have to worry about being attacked by demon beasts, and even wild beasts can only tremble in the mountains and forests.

"In other words, in the past ten years, there has actually been no output in the wilderness, and we have to continue to support the Wu country, right?"

"Almost, the level of the spirit vein is too low, there is not much output at all, now what can make up for the income is to hunt demon beasts, the 20,000 horses of the Wu Kingdom are gathered in the savage buffer zone, and the consumption is very large, so the real defense is only the early 10,000 centaurs, and the rest have poured into the depths of the wilderness, hunting demon beasts everywhere, collecting elixir ores to make up for the income, even so, the entire Wu Kingdom has to smash tens of millions of Xuanjing in a year"

"It's worth it, there are thirty-five spiritual mountains in the buffer zone alone, as long as we put a little effort and time into it, this will be the source of money in the future"

"Yes, the vision of the sect masters is very good, they are all investing, our Heavenly Saint Sect now occupies eight spiritual mountains, and our family has a thirty percent stake in Qiaotou Mountain, given time, we can still take the lion's share here."

"This is the spiritual mountain of our Heavenly Saint Sect, and all the planting is spiritual rice?"

Lin Xiao pointed to a spiritual field and said, there were more than a dozen monks working with a group of mortals on it.

"Yes, it's Ling Mi, Ling Mi is a bulk commodity, it takes up too much space to dispatch from the Wu Kingdom, and the value is low, but our Heavenly Saint Sect's Ling Mi has always needed to buy a part, plus the spirit veins here are not high, and it is impossible to grow high-level elixirs, so Ling Mi is the most suitable"

"Very good, Meng Ran, you have done a good job, do it well, and when the foundation for things here is laid, you will return to the sect and prepare for a breakthrough."

"Yes, Master, I'm not in a hurry, I'm still decades away from a breakthrough."

"We're moving so much, is there any reaction from the purple-eyed demon king?"

"The reaction is not big, the demon king who was originally closest to the buffer zone was the Tiger King, the last time the Tiger King of the Beast Tide was killed, the Tiger Clan also suffered heavy losses, and now it is impossible to control this area, the new fifth-order demon king is the Red Crystal Leopard, this Red Crystal Leopard is extremely powerful, especially its pair of Red Crystals, which can hurt people's souls and spirits, and it is impossible to prevent it, but the number of their races is extremely small, less than three hundred in total, and they cannot dominate this large area at all, causing great confusion, and it is also convenient for us.

The purple-eyed demon king doesn't seem to care about the life or death of ordinary demon beasts, as long as the red crystal leopard does not die, it will not go crazy, so we didn't mobilize a master to hunt the red crystal leopard.

However, about 10,000 miles away from Qiaotou Mountain, there is a spiritual mountain called Purple Thunder Peak, when the Chen Kingdom perished because the thunder beast on the Purple Thunder Peak was killed, it was the territory of the direct descendants of the Purple-Eyed Demon King, it is worth noting there, and it cannot be moved lightly"

"Then leave it alone for the time being, the cultivation conditions of the thunder beast are harsh, and the general spirit mountains are not applicable, and they will not come out easily, so they should not cause us great harm."

"The demon beasts of Purple Thunder Peak really don't like to come out, our losses in the wilderness over the years are actually not big, according to incomplete statistics, the loss of our martial country in the wilderness over the years is only about 3,000 people, which is not as good as the beast tide died in a big battle, far less than the supplementary people and horses"

"It seems that the wild side has entered the right track, then I don't have to worry about it, I have to go out after a while, you sit well, if there is something, send the news back to the sect, there will be someone over there"

Lin Xiao nodded, Nan Xuan and Jia Mengran have done a good job, it seems that he doesn't have to worry about wild things, then he has to solve other problems.