Chapter 382: Expansion (2)
Zangjianling did not punish the people who moved out, and even after the population outside the city reached a certain number, it did one thing, that is, to gather people to build a road leading to the pioneer city.
In the past, there were only small paths, and they were all small roads that those outsiders went out to hunt demon beasts and slowly stepped out, but it was very inconvenient, and they had to turn a lot of corners when going up and down the mountain.
And now several martial artists from the transcendent realm of Zangjian Ridge have personally taken action, leveling many hills with great mana, and cultivating a smooth road that is thousands of miles long.
This time it took more than a month to build the road, in addition to some mountains that must be bypassed, small mountains and small ravines were directly leveled, and many bridges were erected with steel as the frame, which greatly shortened the time for those outsiders to come and go.
This road points to the depths of no man's land.
It also made the outsiders who had moved outside realize that Pioneer City did not blame them for building houses or even cultivating land in those places, because it was creating convenience for them to travel.
This makes them feel more comfortable running their own land in this place.
Fang Hao spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build that road, the main purpose was to guide those outsiders in the direction of living outside.
In the direction of the depths of the no-man's land, of course, it is more dangerous, so many outsiders choose to live outside in the area that is biased towards the edge of the no-man's land, in any case, the safety factor is much greater.
But this is different from Fang Hao's idea of gradually encroaching on the territory of the no-man's land.
It's not good to forcibly specify where they live, so there will only be a rebellious mentality, and if there is a security problem and they are attacked by monsters, then they will encounter a lot of blame.
It can't be mandatory, so the only way to do it is to build it.
It is much more convenient to choose to live and live near this road, and it is also much more convenient to enter the pioneer city to do business.
There are so many conveniences that those who choose to move out, most will prefer to be next to this road.
With such a guide, the migration of those outsiders moves in the direction of the depths of the no-man's land.
There really is some danger, and with such a way, they can also retreat to Pioneer City as quickly as possible.
Zangjianling took the initiative to build such a road, which also made many people feel the convenience of building such a road, and some outsiders also automatically organized people to build the road.
Because of their ability, they couldn't make a big deal on the side of Zangjianling, but they also built some small roads to facilitate the travel of more people and improve the living environment in this area.
These are all what Fang Hao wants to see.
Another five years later.
The permanent population of Pioneer City has reached 70,000 or 80,000, and the number of those who live outside has reached more than 100,000.
Although there are no large families, there are some small families, and some relatively large villages appear in this area.
Although most of the people who came here were martial artists, the improvement of the travel environment also made those martial artists bring some ordinary people over.
Those ordinary people are their people.
Because there is enough land in this place, and there is no need to pay rent to anyone, it is better to develop and harvest by themselves than in the place where they used to live, so it attracts some people who do not have much land to come and open up the land.
In this new five-year period, the road of the pioneer city has been built to 5,000 miles deep into the no-man's land.
In this large area, the powerful demon beasts have basically disappeared.
The demon hunting team led by Fang Hao had already reached a distance of 10,000 miles away from the Pioneer City.
In the process, they had encountered powerful demon beasts, and even seventh-level demon beasts.
However, Fang Hao's cultivation was also getting higher and higher, although he was still only in the Transcendent Quadruple Realm, but ordinary Transcendent Six Reconstructed martial artists might not be able to be stronger than him.
When encountering a seventh-level demon beast, he was also able to defeat it.
In this area, there are basically no demon beasts above level seven.
Because there is no aura in this place, it is no longer a good place for those powerful demon beasts to survive, they have the ability to migrate to a better place, and there is no need to continue to survive in a harsh environment.
The Spirit Gathering Array in the Hidden Sword Ridge has also been upgraded in the past five years, and the area for absorbing spiritual energy is even broader.
Upgrading the Spirit Gathering Array requires a lot of materials, but in the past five years, there have been a lot of Mithril produced in Hidden Sword Ridge, and this alone is enough to buy enough materials to upgrade their Spirit Gathering Array.
Although it has not been upgraded to the scale of the five major sects in the south, the scope of attracting spiritual energy has also expanded several times compared to the beginning.
This is not only to allow the disciples here to have more aura to cultivate, but also to let those powerful demon beasts in this area leave earlier, so as to fight for a safer living environment for them.
In addition, the people of those sects will not choose this way, because the demon beasts are also resources for them, and if they all enter the depths of the no-man's land, it is equivalent to driving those resources away, which is a stupid behavior in their opinion.
Although it would allow more places to be made for human habitation, it would not do them much good, they felt that it was not cost-effective.
They think that there are enough places for humans to live now.
Therefore, in the mines in the no-man's land, basically they have not set up a spirit gathering array, and even if they do, they are all very small, and they will not waste money to do such things that are not beneficial in their opinion.
In the area on the edge of the no-man's land, many places have been divided into spheres of influence by those sects that entered, but in the depths they are all ownerless places, and there is no division of spheres of influence, and whoever occupies it first is whoever owns.
The most successful of them is the Royal Beast Villa, because the location where their sect was set up is not much away from the no-man's land, and the purpose of their sect is to grab land for humans in the no-man's land and expand the living area of human beings.
Of course, this purpose also gives them access to a large number of resources in that area, as well as a safe living environment.
However, the territory they fought for belonged to the kind of places where there were more plains, and those places where there were lofty mountains and mountains, and they did not come to fight for them.
Because the environment is too harsh, it will not attract many people to live here, and it will not be able to hold on to it unless the general environment there needs to be greatly changed.
Changing the environment is an extremely difficult thing to do, and it requires countless human and material resources.