Chapter 25: Resurrection of Spiritual Energy
After completing the garrison mission and seeing that it was getting dark, Qin Mo withdrew from "Honghuang".
It has been nearly half a year since his soul traveled to Blue Star. Not only has his soul and body merged, but he has also gradually adapted to his new life.
Although Qin Mo seems to be able to call the shots in "Honghuang", he is extremely low-key in reality.
As soon as he walked out of the game cabin, Qin Mo subconsciously sensed the surroundings and his face changed drastically. He vaguely sensed that a trace of spiritual energy appeared between heaven and earth.
It's very thin, but it's undoubtedly spiritual energy.
Qin Mo subconsciously checked the dimensional space and found no objects with spiritual energy in it. This means that spiritual energy exists between heaven and earth.
"What happened?"
Qin Mo sat cross-legged on the bed, temporarily lifted the seal on his soul, sensed the heaven and earth, and realized that the shackles of heaven that originally stretched between heaven and earth actually had a crack.
The spiritual energy overflows from the cracks.
After sealing his soul again, Qin Mo woke up from his meditation with a changing expression.
The Blue Planet is becoming more and more mysterious.
Although only a trace of spiritual energy overflowed, as time goes by, the cracks in the shackles of heaven will inevitably become larger and larger, and the spiritual energy will flow back in, ending the Blue Star's Dharma Ending Age that has lasted for thousands of years.
Welcome another revival of spiritual energy.
Qin Mo couldn't be sure for the moment whether this matter would be beneficial or harmful to him, but what was certain was that with the revival of spiritual energy, at least two types of creatures would benefit first.
One is the Taoist hermits.
Over the past six months, Qin Mo has been looking up Taoist information on Blue Star off and on. From ancient myths to Taoist classics, to various strange stories and legends, traces of cultivation can be seen everywhere.
Qin Mo didn't believe that these were all made up.
Perhaps, at some time long ago, Blue Star also had a great era of cultivation.
As Taoism fades away, the sects of cultivation may disappear and disintegrate, but the tradition of cultivation will never be cut off, but will be passed down from generation to generation in some way.
In such a difficult situation, those who can be chosen as the successor of the hermit cultivation must be people with excellent roots and strong will, who have been comprehending the cultivation scriptures for many years in a state without spiritual energy.
Once their spiritual energy is revived, they will be able to soar into the sky.
"Qin Mo" has a physique of only 7 points, which can only be considered average at best. There is still a gap in his aptitude compared to these people. His only advantage is that he has taken a step ahead in the path of cultivation and has more experience.
That's all.
Another group of beneficiaries are the wild animals in the mountains.
The wild beasts live in mountains, forests and swamps all year round. They have not lost their wildness, and they have unique geographical advantages. They can pick spiritual herbs and fruits in the mountains. It is believed that with the nourishment of spiritual energy, they will soon evolve into ferocious beasts.
This is something that humans cannot compare to.
As for livestock raised artificially, their wildness and spirituality have been lost, so it is very difficult for them to evolve. However, pets such as cats and dogs still have the possibility of evolution if they are given the opportunity.
Let it be!
Of course, the revival of spiritual energy in a short period of time will have a very limited impact on "Honghuang", including "Honghuang" players. The spiritual energy of the Jiuzhou continent is much richer than that of the Blue Star.
The players' cultivation was still shallow, so they couldn't notice anything at all.
After calming down, Qin Mo had breakfast and went to school. Today was the final exam.
After the exams it’s summer vacation.
…
Just as Qin Mo was concentrating on the exam, in the back mountain of Wudang, a rarely visited place, between green mountains and clear waters, there was an ordinary wooden house, in which lived two men in plain Taoist robes.
One old and one young.
At this moment, both of them were sitting cross-legged in the courtyard, entering a state of meditation. The surrounding spiritual energy was like being attracted by a magnet, continuously converging towards them, forming a small spiritual energy vortex.
It's really scary!
And this kind of scene is not limited to Wudang Mountain...
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After two days of final exams, Qin Mo has led his troops to Ji County in "Honghuang".
Deng Mao was already waiting in the city.
Unlike Cheng Yuanzhi, Deng Mao, as a deputy general, did look down on Qin Mo at the beginning. However, as Qin Mo beheaded Zhang Fei, killed Guan Yu, and subdued Gongsun Zan, and won victory after victory, he was left with only respect for him.
Deng Mao had no objection to Qin Mo being appointed as the leader of the channel.
Not to mention that the leader also wrote him a special letter, asking him to assist Qin Mo and take over the Yellow Turban Army in Youzhou as quickly as possible to stabilize the situation in Youzhou.
After settling down, Deng Mao began to report on the situation of the Yellow Turban Army.
After the previous expansion, although Cheng Yuanzhi took away 30,000 elite troops, the Yellow Turban Army in Youzhou still had a huge number of 100,000. If the soldiers' families were included, the number would exceed 300,000, scattered across the four counties.
It looks very strong, but in fact it can hardly hold on.
"We have basically collected all the food that could be looted in Youzhou, but we are still spending more than we earn. Now we can only focus on food for the army, as the families of the refugees have already started to starve." Deng Mao had a worried look on his face.
"Can we allocate land to the refugees so that they can be resettled nearby ?" Qin Mo said.
"I'm afraid not." Deng Mao shook his head.
"Why?" Qin Mo asked.
"Marshal, although we call ourselves the righteous army, we are rebels in the eyes of the imperial court. Even if we distribute land to the refugees now, once we are defeated, the imperial court may take it away at any time. Who will have the heart to farm?" Deng Mao explained.
This is the inherent deficiency of the rebel army.
After thinking for a while, Qin Mo said, "I will find a way to solve the food problem. Now you do something for me."
"Please speak, Marshal!"
Deng Mao was cheered up. As long as the food problem could be solved, nothing else would be a problem.
"The rebel army is huge, with mixed qualities, and its combat effectiveness is worrying. You will be responsible for reducing the 100,000 rebels to 10,000, and send the rest to the refugee camps." Qin Mo said.
"Ten thousand, is it too little?" Deng Mao really admired Qin Mo's boldness.
Although Qin Mo's personal guard battalion has proved the correctness of the elite troops route, if 90% of the troops are laid off at once, what will happen if there is a major war one day?
"At most ten thousand. If there is any damage in battle, we can just replenish it." Qin Mo was firm in his attitude.
"I obey your orders!"
Deng Mao took it reluctantly. It seemed that he had to do this evil thing even if he didn't want to.
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After seeing Deng Mao off, Qin Mo began to worry about the food problem.
The first thing he thought of was to purchase flour from reality, but this was not feasible. It was not that the dimensional space could not accommodate it. With a capacity of 100 cubic meters, 1,000 tons of flour could be transported at a time.
The problem is that even at wholesale price, 1,000 tons of flour would cost more than 3 million.
Where did Qin Mo get so much money?
What's worse is that with 1,000 tons of flour consumed by 300,000 people, how long can it last?
It’s scary to think about it.
After much thought, Qin Mo decided to repeat his old trick and launch the "Salt for Food" plan, which was to buy salt from reality, sell it to merchants from the Three Kingdoms, and then purchase food from them.
In reality, 1 kilogram of salt only costs 2.5 yuan, but it can be exchanged for 100 kilograms of grain in the Three Kingdoms subcontinent.
This is much more cost-effective than buying flour directly in real life.
He did it as soon as he thought of it. It happened to be summer vacation, so Qin Mo simply went to the salt factory in the suburbs and wholesaled 50 tons of salt in one go, transported it to Ji County, and stored it in the warehouse.
Qin Mo no longer worried about how to exchange salt for food and directly left it to Deng Mao.
Deng Mao almost fainted with joy when he saw so much salt. He looked at Qin Mo with nothing but admiration and didn't dare to have any other thoughts.
"Marshal, with this batch of salt, we won't have to worry about food for the time being," Deng Mao said excitedly.
"That's good."
Qin Mo also breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a great sense of responsibility.
Once the population exceeds 10,000, the daily consumption will be a huge amount of money, which is really not something that ordinary people can afford. Even if Qin Mo used cheats, he still felt a little overwhelmed.
It is better to let the people be self-reliant.
In order to solve the food crisis, Qin Mo can only find an opportunity to sell some jade and save some money, otherwise he may encounter a financial crisis at any time.
This is what happened.
