After being delayed in Huzhou for three or four days, Yang Hongyuan and Ziyuan finally returned to Yuzhou Xishan successfully, leaving behind the Shangqing clone and the transformed Fengyuan.
Ziyuan immediately went into seclusion. She had accumulated enough information in the Five Elements Origin Sea. The most important thing now is to digest all these information and advance to the Taoist realm.
After Yang Hongyuan spent two days placing five large Origin Beads, he hurried north toward the Liangyu Mountains.
Yang Hongyuan didn't know how big the changes would be in the future, so he felt relieved to quickly move these crystal veins to his home.
The three medium-sized crystal veins are not only buried deeper, but also because their grade is higher than that of spiritual jade, so their migration is naturally more difficult.
But now Yang Hongyuan has not only advanced to the Taoist level, but the level of Tiandunjing has also reached the peak of the lower level of the Taoist level.
The two were combined, and three medium-sized crystal vein beads were successfully extracted.
In the end, after more than a hundred years of excavation and migration by Yang Hongyuan, the huge spiritual jade vein group in the Liangyu Mountains was reduced to the core of a small spiritual marrow vein.
Because of the existence of the Heavenly Escape Mirror, Yang Hongyuan has migrated countless spiritual veins, earth veins, and mineral veins since the beginning of his practice.
When practicing, there is neither spiritual power nor spiritual jade. After all, when you break through the realm, you usually directly refine the original power.
However, after advancing to the Dao realm, I had a profound feeling.
It has been more than three hundred years since the Yuzhou War stopped. It can be said that the vitality of the entire Yuzhou Mortal Realm and Warrior Realm monks has been restored to the level before the Yuzhou War.
Correspondingly, over the years, except for the nine counties controlled by the Yang family, which are still vigorously promoting population growth, the number of monks from other factions has basically not increased or even increased slowly, reaching a bottleneck.
What limits the number of monks is the most basic cultivation resources, spiritual grain and spiritual rice.
The various families in Yuzhou are not like the Yang family, who have the support of jade coins that are colder than the mountains. They have been cultivating and maintaining their spiritual fields, so that the area of their spiritual fields has been increasing.
In fact, the number of spiritual fields controlled by each family has basically not changed in recent years. Therefore, the spiritual grains and spiritual rice they produce are naturally fixed, and the amount of mortal realm they can supply naturally has a limit.
Ordinary spiritual farming monks, unlike disciples of family sects and factions, have spiritual veins to cultivate, jade coins, spiritual grains and other monthly rituals to receive, and spiritual pills to take.
The most common way they practice is to eat a meal of spiritual rice every now and then, and then use their cultivation techniques to absorb thin spiritual power from the air for months and months.
So most of the spiritual farmers who can cultivate to the fourth and fifth levels of the mortal realm before the age of sixty are people from well-off families.
As for the monks, it would be great if they could maintain their current state without the help of spiritual valleys and could only rely on absorbing the thin spiritual power in the air.
Even after the age of sixty, when a monk in the mortal realm has passed his peak, if he does not have enough spiritual grain to cultivate, his cultivation level will still decline.
From this we can see that the population of the counties and towns controlled by various factions is no longer increasing, not because they don’t want to, but because they simply cannot afford to support it.
Even if there are more children, many of them may not be able to break through to the third level of the mortal realm due to the lack of spiritual objects, so what's the point.
It's better to have two or three children and raise them carefully, that's all. This is the current situation of most ordinary spiritual farmers today.
Of course, the number of children in each Yang family today is still around four to five. After all, there is still a huge population gap in Leizhou and overseas.
And because of the spiritual vein mines in Liangyu Mountains, the Yang family could also afford it.
When reaching the warrior realm, if one wants to progress in cultivation, he or she needs to practice on at least one small spiritual vein.
But can spiritual veins be something that can be mastered casually? Not to mention small spiritual veins, even micro spiritual veins, not even a few prominent families have them.
In addition, it is necessary to refine a large amount of jade coins, spiritual objects and other resources in order to progress in cultivation.
Therefore, there are one or two high-level families in each village who are in the martial arts realm. They usually have only the first or second level of martial arts realm, and there are very few who can advance to the middle martial arts realm.
As for the real-life monks,
If he wants to progress in his cultivation, he must at least practice on a medium-sized spiritual vein.
Those wealthy families in the cultivation world who have real-life realms may have several micro or even small spiritual veins accumulated through generations of their families, but don't even think about medium-sized ones.
Therefore, most wealthy real-person realm monks spend their entire lives wandering in the first level of the real-person realm, Huangang realm, and those who advance to the second level of the real person realm are rare.
Anyone with medium-sized spiritual veins is qualified to become an independent force, just like the various factions in Yuzhou.
But the spiritual veins of a force are not exclusively for the use of a real person, such as opening a spiritual medicine garden, operating formations, practicing disciples, etc.
And if you want to see how many medium-sized spiritual veins they have, it's easy, just look at how many real-level monks they have.
Among the sect forces, excluding the operation of the sect, a medium-sized spiritual vein is basically enough to support a real-life monk.
The number of real people in the four sects of Yuxiao, Yujian, Tanxi, and Binxi has basically remained at six or seven in recent years, so the number of their spiritual veins is roughly the same.
The number of real people in the other sects is basically maintained at three or four, so the number of medium-sized spiritual veins is basically three or four.
Of course, these can only meet the most basic needs of a real person's cultivation. If you want to improve your cultivation, you also need the assistance of refining crystal coins and treasure-level spiritual objects.
But even the Shaking Sky Sect doesn't have many of these, so they can only be replaced by jade coins and spirit-level spiritual objects. Not only is this a big loss, it will also squeeze the resources of the warrior realm.
Furthermore, as the cultivation level of the real person increases, the spiritual power required every day will be more. This is why the cultivation level of the older generation in Yuzhou is basically in the Jugang realm.
The four Linxiao people broke through to the Tiangang Realm, and looking at the scenery, you can tell that the four sects are tightening their belts and living a life, and they are afraid that all the four sects' wealth will be wiped out.
If Tiangang and Taigang realm monks want to maintain their normal cultivation, they also need the supply of at least three or four medium-sized spiritual veins.
In this way, it can be explained that several Tiangang masters in Yuzhou in later generations could only work hard for many years.
Taoist monks, on the other hand, need to practice on large spiritual veins to meet their daily needs, and only higher-grade chalcedony coins are used for them.
Of course, in addition to the influence of spiritual veins, there are also earth veins. The combination of the two creates an impact that reflects the strength of the various factions in Yuzhou today.
Because of the vastness of their ancestors, the Shaotian Sect left behind several large-scale earth veins, with the deepest foundation.
Originally there were large spiritual veins, but due to continued weakness, the spiritual veins were exhausted, causing the large spiritual veins to disintegrate into medium-sized spiritual veins.
Although today's Shaking Sky Sect has more than ten medium-sized spiritual veins, there is no spirit-seeking master to take action, but it does not have the ability to synthesize large-scale spiritual veins.
