Chapter 493: When Jinghu is ripe, the world is prosperous!
In the battle of Yangcheng Lake, Xin Zhen defeated the Netherworld Monster, the Purple-eyed Dragon King, the Divine Monk Ci Ning, and the Abbot Ci An of the Jade Pu Realm one after another. Head of the Huashan Sect, Xin, has already become one of the best in the world and is known as the New Four Wonders.

As the Huashan Sect disciples were heading south, they launched an extremely resolute counterattack in the face of the practitioners who came to attack one after another. This was especially true in the three major battles, in which there were several thousand people involved in each battle, and the Huashan Sect disciples won every time!
After the three wars, the name of Huashan Sect spread throughout the entire cultivation world. Almost all practitioners knew that there was a sect called Huashan Sect in the cultivation world that had produced a powerful person in the Jade Raw Material Realm, and each of its disciples was stronger than the other.

However, it is regrettable that this sect was only a flash in the pan. After showing its extraordinary strength, it disappeared from the world of cultivation.

Some people say that this was originally a hidden sect, but it was forced to show up due to compelling reasons. After the matter was resolved, it naturally returned to seclusion.

Some people say that Huashan Sect has been targeted by some powerful person. Some powerful person gathered dozens of Yuanying level masters and slaughtered all the members of Huashan Sect in one fell swoop, and all the skills were taken away.

Some people say that the Huashan Sect was frightened by the war in the Central Plains and Jiangnan, and fled to the south of Jinghu to avoid the war.

There were various theories, but the Huashan Sect was soon forgotten because, whether in the north or in the south, after the war, there was news worth paying attention to every day.

Who would always remember the people and sects that only emerged on a certain day? New heroes appear every day, and outstanding sects steal the limelight every day. It has always been like this.

At this time, the Huashan Sect had already taken root in Wudang Mountain, but tens of thousands of Huashan Sect disciples did not build any large-scale buildings on Wudang Mountain. Logically speaking, they were all practitioners who were good at high-altitude cultivation, and if they were willing, they could quickly build a tall and majestic complex of buildings.

However, their main task is not this, but to help the people who come to the Jinghu area to take root.

The Jinghu area has always been prone to floods, which is why it is still underdeveloped. If we want tens of millions of people to live and work in peace and contentment in the Jinghu area, we need to solve this problem.

Xin Zhen, with thousands of accomplished disciples and professional personnel from the Jinghu area, began surveying and mapping, and then carried out construction of the water conservancy facilities designed by professional technicians.

Under the organization, the nearby people sent people to help build dams, dig rivers, various canals, etc., while Xin Zhen and thousands of disciples were tasked with taking on the most difficult and dangerous work, such as opening mountains, building bridges, etc.

With practitioners like Xin Zhen helping to build various water conservancy projects, the construction speed was much faster. A large river was dug and many reservoirs were built. With the large river and reservoirs for regulation, many swamps in the Jinghu area were turned into fertile fields.

However, the process of land reclamation was also full of surprises. All kinds of snakes, insects, rats and ants were one thing, but the key was that this was a wild area, so there were many monsters, and monsters often ate people.

So Xin Zhen ordered the Huashan Sect disciples to go down the mountain to eliminate the monsters. Monsters willing to coexist peacefully with humans could become the land of each village and be worshipped. If they were unwilling, they would be expelled to a place further south. If they were extremely vicious, they would be beaten to death.

During this period, there were problems such as food shortages, rampant epidemics, and flood threats, but they were all overcome smoothly under the leadership of the Huashan Sect.

In the autumn of the following year, the Jinghu area had a bumper harvest, and the people who had worked hard for more than a year finally had white rice to eat.

At this time, some of the people in the north and south of the Yangtze River who had not yet migrated had died at the hands of monsters or were corroded by the black fog of the underworld. Those who barely survived fell into famine.

The Jinghu area became a paradise on earth.

Huashan Sect gave new hope to tens of millions of people, and tens of millions of people naturally appreciated Huashan Sect's kindness. Huashan Sect started the third round of recruiting disciples, and this time it accepted about 100,000 disciples.

Xin Zhen didn’t know how severe the catastrophe of heaven and earth would be, but he only knew that no matter how severe the catastrophe was, he could only survive it if his strength was strong enough.

The Huashan Sect's martial arts are magical enough. The more people learn them, the more powerful the Huashan Sect will become. When the time comes for the Huashan Sect to step in to clean up the mess, the final decision can be made.

However, this requires a lot of time, but the second generation disciples of Huashan Sect, namely Pei Ziheng, Duan Jingwan, Lu Lin'er, Gong Wangan, Bai Qiang and other disciples, have grown into the backbone of Huashan Sect.

After these years of training, they have not only broken through to the top of the mountain, but they are also very proficient in various skills of dealing with people, and can basically stand on their own.

Each of them basically has dozens, twenty or even hundreds of apprentices. These apprentices may be the same age as them, or even one or two years older than them, but it doesn’t matter.

This is the world of cultivation, and there are many people who have practiced for a hundred years. After a hundred years, the age difference between master and disciple is only ten to twenty years.

If it’s a few hundred years old, a difference of 10 or 20 years would actually make them the same age, so a few years difference, or even being older than the master, doesn’t matter at all.

Time flies, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

This is the fourth year that the Huashan Sect has led tens of millions of people to the Jinghu area to start a new journey.

In fact, by last year, when the third year of bumper harvest had arrived, a saying was circulating in the north and south of the Yangtze River: When the harvest in Jinghu is ripe, the whole world will be well fed.

Both the north and the south of the Yangtze River were severely damaged by the war, especially the south of the Yangtze River. Although the war was not as fierce as in the north, the black fog erupting from the Nether Well had a huge impact on people, and many people became abnormal due to the erosion of the black fog.

Those people became radical, warlike, and bloodthirsty. They were excluded from normal society, so they gradually gathered together and were called the Netherworld People.

There are quite a few Netherworld people, and gradually they have formed several large forces. These people have bad relations with the demon race and the human race, but they are naturally full of reverence for the Netherworld monsters and are full of longing for the Netherworld, believing that it is an extremely beautiful world.

What’s hilarious is that the Netherworld monsters that escaped from the Netherworld Well prefer to eat neither the demon race nor the human race, but this species called Netherworld People.

Due to the influence of the black fog and the existence of the ghosts, the food production in the south of the Yangtze River has become extremely abnormal. The black fog will even affect the growth of crops. The appearance of the black fog has basically made the south of the Yangtze River say goodbye to planting, because of the dark clouds and the lack of sunlight, there will naturally be no crops.

Fortunately, because a large number of people went south, they could only take a part of the food with them, and there was a lot of food left in the local area, enough for them to survive for two years. In addition, some people became ghosts, who mainly eat blood and do not eat grain, so a lot of food was saved.

However, no matter how much food there was, it was finally exhausted by the third year. But at this time, good news came from the Jinghu area: Jinghu had a bumper harvest!

Therefore, the big families in Jiangnan began to send people to the Jinghu area to purchase food. The products in Jiangnan were basically exhausted, but under the special environment, the creatures were also evolving rapidly. The fog of the underworld caused some evolution or degeneration of the creatures, and thus produced many things that were originally different.

For example, almost every household in the south of the Yangtze River raises silkworms. When the fog first arrived, due to the lack of sunlight, a large number of mulberry trees died. Without mulberry leaves as food, the silkworms also starved to death in large numbers.

However, the surviving silkworms learned to catch various insects and ants for food, so some people began to try to feed these silkworms with blood and flesh. Unexpectedly, these silkworms actually survived and spit out a kind of blood-red silk.

This kind of silk does not sink in water or burn in fire and is not afraid of low or high temperatures. What's more amazing is that it has the natural ability to conduct true Qi, making it an excellent material for refining equipment.

This silkworm is just one of them. Many animals and plants are also constantly changing. Some are developing for the better, while others are developing for the worse, but they are all struggling to survive.

People in the south of the Yangtze River are also constantly trying to find ways to survive. Without rice, they try to grow algae that do not require sunlight and use algae as food.

Without plants such as cotton and linen that could be made into clothes, they began to look for other plants that could replace them. As horses died in large numbers, they looked for some kind of monster with more tenacious vitality to pull their carts.

Such as this, whether it is human, monster, animal, or even plant, they are all struggling to survive.

In the past few years, more and more Netherworld creatures have escaped from the Netherworld Well. Sometimes, thousands of them come out in a single day. Of course, sometimes, not a single Netherworld creature comes out for more than ten days. The strengths of the Netherworld creatures that come out vary. For example, those that are as strong as those that come out on the first day are not average. Some are much weaker than that.

With the invasion of the Netherworld's black fog, practitioners discovered that there were many more ways to practice. Some people found that by absorbing the black fog, the substance later called Netherworld Qi, they actually possessed a special kind of true energy.

The true energy was extremely aggressive and had a unique effect in fighting. As a result, many practitioners who did not have much advantage in normal practice turned to practice this Netherworld Energy and made rapid progress, thus attracting more people to join.

As more people practiced cultivation, they discovered that hunting these Netherworld monsters was a great choice. Sucking their souls and eating their flesh and blood could improve their cultivation.

Therefore, those weaker Netherworld monsters also became the hunting targets of the aristocratic families. The original monster hunting teams, which were now hunting monsters, also began to hunt Netherworld monsters.

When Xin Zhen went to Jiangnan for research and saw these things, he couldn't help but admire the strong desire for survival of living things.

Xin Zhen didn't know what the catastrophe of heaven and earth would look like in the end. Perhaps this was the final appearance of the catastrophe of heaven and earth. In fact, it was miserable enough. After the eruption of the Netherworld Well, at least 10 million people died in Jiangnan, with a mortality rate of 20%. Many of those who survived turned into ghosts who were neither human nor ghost. The Netherworld Well was still erupting, and would eventually cover the entire world.

Looking at the appearance of Jiangnan, everyone has become unrecognizable. Jiangnan has also become a different Jiangnan. The original Jiangnan was a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, outstanding people, and a prosperous and wealthy place. But now Jiangnan is dark, and there are basically no green leafy plants. The vegetation has gradually turned into luminous species, and the algae in the water can also glow by themselves. The eyes of newborn babies can see at night and will have a faint green light.

If this is not a catastrophe, then Xin Zhen can only say that he has too little knowledge.

But if we say that this is a great catastrophe of heaven and earth, that is not right, because the practitioners are actually very little affected, and they have even discovered many different paths of practice. This is a great thing for practitioners.

If that were the case, then this great catastrophe of heaven and earth would not be a big deal. At least the immortals, gods and Buddhas should not hide, because such a catastrophe would not affect them at all.

Therefore, there will definitely be more disasters in the future, the kind that will threaten even the immortals, gods and Buddhas!

Xin Zhen went to visit Huo Guang, and Huo Guang was doing well recently. This was because when the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the Jinghu area built towns, they would build a City God Temple to protect them according to their original custom. When a City God Temple was built, the god enshrined in it was naturally still Huo Guang, so Huo Guang's divine power had not declined much.

But Huo Guang was still worried about the invasion of the underworld.

"This is definitely not the climax of the Nether Well's eruption. If it were just this, the gods and Buddhas would not be able to close the passage. This... is just the beginning!"

This was similar to what Xin Zhen had guessed, so Xin Zhen asked, "General, how bad do you think things will get?"

Huo Guang smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know, but we must break this sky, otherwise, what kind of catastrophe will it be?"

Xin Zhen bid farewell to Huo Guang and walked alone in the land of Jiangnan, then ran to the north. The north had been fighting for nearly ten years, and some places had been completely reduced to ruins, while some places, because of relatively stable forces, actually showed a kind of beauty of a paradise in troubled times.

When Xin Zhen passed through Fan's territory, he found that the situation under Fan's rule was quite good. The people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and officials from all places were loyal to their duties. A son of Fan discovered Xin Zhen and quickly reported it to the family. The patriarch of Fan quickly sent someone to invite him.

The Xin Zhen of today is no longer the Xin Zhen of the past. The Xin Zhen now is one of the four great masters in the world, and he is one of the four great masters who has definitely killed someone in the Yu Pu realm.

In the past, the Fan family did not value Xin Zhen, but now the Fan family needs to look up to Xin Zhen. However, there are still some people in the Fan family who think that although Xin Zhen is strong, he is just a lone ranger, while the strength of the Fan family is that they can compete for the world. Therefore, there are still some people who do not take Xin Zhen seriously.

Xin Zhen naturally would not bother with them. He just visited them and then left for Huajing. Although the Daoluo Si had not unified the north in these years, it had basically controlled the entire Henan region.

Moreover, the Daoluo Si had a strong control over Henan, and Xin Zhen was discovered as soon as he entered Henan.

(End of this chapter)