The plan made by the Zhang family actually has nothing to do with the north.
In the territory north of the Ling'an River, there are dozens of threatening forces, and there are three major families further north who regard that land as their back garden.
The cost for the Zhang family to occupy that land would be very high.
But the south side is different.
The Yan family in Chenshan is too close to the Zhang family. After Minglou and the Ling family disappeared, the Yan family became a serious problem for the family.
What's more, the Yan family had forced the Minglou and Ling families in the past, resulting in their territory being only a few hundred miles away from Chilang Gorge. This distance was even within the battlefield of Zhong Jinlian.
Naturally, the Zhang family would not want to see the Yan family hanging around in front of their house.
In addition to the Yan family in the south, the other Wuzi Shenxian Sect on the edge of the Immortal Bei Mountains is not a threat, because almost all of the latter's resource points are in the Immortal Bei Mountains.
One sect occupies an entire mountain range, and it has been a fantasy for the Yan family to enter it for many years.
That sect doesn't have much desire for the strangeness here. As long as this side doesn't provoke them, they won't become enemies of the Zhang family.
So to the north, the Zhang family has to face most of the enemies in this 100,000-mile territory, while to the south, they only have to face one Yan family. Do you still need to think about the choice?
As for why no one else has thought about this issue, it is still because of the prestige of the six major forces in this territory.
In their eyes, the more than 20 cultivating forces north of the Ling'an River that have golden lotus cultivation are on the same level as the Zhang family, and the Zhang family's strength among them is even among the top three or five.
This understanding is that the Zhang family is still far behind the six major forces.
The Zhang family went north to start a war with the Yu family. It was also because of this that they did not think that the Zhang family was the opponent of the Yan family, so they had to pick on the weak.
This has been known for thousands of years, and the Zhang family has not shown the power to overthrow everything.
They didn't think that the Zhang family would go to war with the Yan family until death.
But the Zhang family didn't think so. They did move a large amount of resources and monk population northward, and ignited the entire Ling'an River to start a war with the Yu family.
But that has only one purpose, which is to tell everyone in the north that no one of you can get close to the south of Ling'an River, otherwise the Yu family will suffer.
That Yu family was just the chicken chosen by the Zhang family to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.
The real purpose is still in the south. They want to gnaw off the strong bones of the Yan family.
Up and down, north and south, from the Ling'an River to the Xianbei Mountains where the Wuzi Immortal Sect is located, there is nearly eight thousand miles of land, and from left to right, from the Baishui coast to the hilly range where the Shushan Sect is located, it is more than ten thousand miles.
In such a territory, nearly one-ninth of the one hundred thousand miles of heaven and earth under the control of Midnight City is home to between 10 and 20 million human beings.
The Holy Court is vast and sparsely populated, but the cultivation world is prosperous. Among the 20 million people, the number of monks is definitely not to mention 1.5 million, 2 million, or 1 million. Among them, there are countless small and small forces. There are only six or seven families who grow golden lotuses.
What the Zhang family wants is just one-ninth of this, nothing more.
These are all numbers that have surpassed Yun Mengze's numbers before, but the Zhang family thinks they can afford it, and they only need to... destroy the Yan family in Chenshan.
As long as the Chenshan Yan family disappears, the Wuzi Immortal Sect has no interest in expanding its territory to the north, and the Shushan Sect has no interest in expanding to the east, one-ninth of this will belong to the Zhang family.
And these two sects basically have no idea of such expansion.
The Wuzi Shenxian Sect is said to be more concerned about the practice world further south of the mountain range, while the Shushan Sect, as can be known from previous exchanges, hopes to enter the belly of Shenting, where there are higher pursuits, whether it is opening the Tianmen and starting from the Tianmen. In the world, they all need to contact the more powerful experts in the divine court.
There are no such strong people going east, unless they are willing to abandon their thousands of years of foundation and enter the ocean, and even go deep into the ocean.
It is not that Shenting does not have such power. After all, there are more resources in the endless ocean that are not available on land and are even more ownerless.
However, those are not within the one hundred thousand miles of Midnight City.
Zhang Shenling stood next to Zhang Yuxian, looking down, feeling the sea breeze blowing in the distance.
When the Zhang family came to Shenting, there was no so-called thousand-year foundation to hold them back, so was one-ninth all he wanted?
No, it's not enough at all. The white water is vast, how many rare treasures does it contain? The 3,500 states further away are in turmoil. Could the Zhang family have a hand in it?
The Zhang family needs that ocean, the Chenshan Yan family? One-ninth of Miye City? It's just a small goal of the Zhang family in recent years.
Only those who know the Zhang family can understand why Zhang Shenling's spirit is so high.
Not to mention other tribesmen, even Zhang Shenling himself didn't think that he would stop here in this life, stop outside the Tianmen.
So what if you think more?
Looking down at the battlefields of Qi-training monks with his hands behind his hands, Zhang Shenling did not agree with Zhang Yuxian's disdain.
"It's nothing more than giving them some spiritual fields. With the spiritual fields, Qingyan City will truly belong to our Zhang family. Moreover, the spiritual objects they planted are single. If they want to cultivate for a long time, they will not be handed over to us in the end. Exchange spiritual stones to buy elixirs?"
“In the end, the spiritual fields we give away will still come back to us.”
"And let these casual cultivators help us attack the Yan family and consume some of the Yan family's Qi cultivators. Why not? If they succeed, the spiritual field will be given to them. If they fail, what does it have to do with my Zhang family? There is no need to give it to them. Compensation.”
"Apart from these, there is the most important thing."
Zhang Shenling's eyes were deep, as if he had thought of something, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
"When the Qing boy dealt with the Ling family and Minglou, the first thing he did was to turn countless casual cultivators in Qingyan City against the two families."
"These people actually have the courage to take advantage of the chaos to hunt down monks from two families, right in front of their own homes. Don't you think it's unreasonable?"
“In the final analysis, it comes down to one thing: resources.”
"The Ling family and Minglou block the resource path of these casual cultivators. Only the once-a-year Ling Yu can feed the casual cultivators in Qingyan City?"
"The Ling family and Minglou simply occupied the city, that's why so many casual cultivators dared to attack them."
"If the Zhang family wants to occupy Qingyan City, they must avoid this kind of thing."
Zhang Shenling pointed to the casual cultivators in Qingyan City below, "If these people succeed, they will get spiritual fields. If there are too many people who fail, I will also find a way to let them get some spiritual fields through other means."
"With Lingtian, they are no longer casual cultivators. Taking families as an example, they will be separated from most of the casual cultivator families in Qingyan City."
"When the time comes, the resource conflicts between my Zhang family and the casual cultivators will be transferred to them."
"My Zhang family has already given away the spiritual fields. If those casual cultivators lack the resources to practice, do you think it would be easier to deal with the behemoth members of my Zhang family, or to kill these people who own the spiritual fields and can harvest a sum of spiritual stones every year?" Is it easy for spiritual farmers?”
"To deal with the Zhang family, they must be determined to put the whole family to death. To deal with these people, they only need to consider how to kill them, and then - occupy their spiritual fields."
"After all, those spiritual fields no longer belong to the Zhang family, and there will be no more consequences."
"If you were given a choice, who would you choose to kill?"
