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Chapter 1412: Chapter 1030: Gone! (2)

The sounds of discussion came to an abrupt halt, and many demon beasts dispersed to explore and seek the best habitat. The new life suddenly began after a brief encounter, though there was no choice, the result was indeed good.

The denser spiritual energy, the vast primordial jungle, and prey not far away were all far superior to the previous habitat.

"Thank you, Daoist, for your gift!" The Wolf King silently expressed gratitude as Jiang Yuan’s vision displayed a notification: [Wind Wolf King’s favor +1000].

"It seems they are very satisfied with my arrangement!" He was in a good mood, enthusiastic, and selected suitable locations in the jungle where he found demon beasts to settle.

When he finished his tasks, the sky was already dark, and he suddenly remembered that the Celestial River ships must have all returned, and Jiang Yuan hurriedly teleported to Conch Island to check.

Indeed, they had all returned, but one of the ships was half-damaged and could only be reclaimed and rebuilt.

Clicking to view the ship’s navigational log, it showed that it encountered a sea monster attack on the return journey, causing damage to the good Celestial River ship and a considerable loss of loot.

Fortunately, the other two ships had substantial yields, and they finally gathered the Sea Stone essential for the main quest.

Clicking to construct the Basic Navigational Log Platform, a progress bar completed, and a simple stone platform appeared.

Click to view the status of owned ships, which can be directly dispatched to sea. After loading the sea chart, navigation routes increase, allowing for an intuitive view of detailed conditions within the jurisdiction sea region, such as which area yields which fish during what season, where there are reefs or currents, and which area yields certain loot more likely.

[Main Quest: Construct Level Three Conch Island. Reward: Unlocking the Island Exclusive Basic Blueprint Area]

[Task 2: Construct Basic Navigational Log Platform, completed. Reward: Water Repelling Pearl +1 issued]

[Task 3: Plant ten types of economic trees, at least three of each type. Reward: Island Textile Workshop blueprint +1]

"Economic trees?" Jiang Yuan was momentarily confused. Clicked to view details and suddenly realized, "Coconut, lychee, mango, banana, longan, rubber... I didn’t know the island could grow so many types of trees, but the seeds can’t be directly purchased."

The System Mall doesn’t sell seedlings, and the Celestial River ships randomly brought back some seeds, but the types and quantities were insufficient, so he could only plant and see.

Planting trees isn’t limited by seasons, but outside the correct season, even if the tree matures, it won’t flower or bear fruit, only in the correct season will it bear fruit.

"Alright, dispatch the Celestial River ships to continue fetching materials, strive to plant a forest soon." Given the nature of farming games, the raw materials for the subsequent series of workshops like the Textile Workshop and Bait Workshop will most likely come from these trees, so he cleared a plot of land specially for planting trees.

After planting the seeds he had and completing two public orders, Jiang Yuan clicked to return to the main courtyard.

"Master! Master, I want to grow, I want to flower! My flowers are gone, I’m so bare and ugly, Master please have pity on me!" The Flowing Light Hibiscus sensed its new master’s familiar presence, and the chatterbox couldn’t hold back but dared not shout recklessly, only muttered over the water surface.

Jiang Yuan: ...

Not even a mouth, yet it talks so much?

"Shh! Quiet, hold on, I’ll use a farming accelerator for you, stop blabbering!" He calmed it while classifying the newly fetched loot.

Cao Yuanwei is a notable figure, and in his treasury, besides abundant spirit stones and immortal jade, there are a lot and excellent heavenly materials and earthly treasures suitable for artifact refining, alchemy, and array construction.

He kept materials recognized by the system and distributed the remaining ones to Leng Yutang, Yun Ying, and Hao Daqiang for their use, picking the leftover useless items to throw into the accelerator as fuel;

Whereas Lu Chongde’s private storage was considerably lacking, with fewer spirit stones and neither enough diverse nor abundant heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Magical artifacts and treasures were mostly lower grade, so he packed them for the Celestial Sword Sect and Haoyue Sect, leaving the unwanted scrap for either decomposition in the Melting Workshop or as fuel.

Recently, dealing with the Leisure Sect’s evil cultivators left a lot of useless loot.

The accumulation of fuel within the accelerator ranged from several hours to days or months, until now adding it all up, the usable time is two years, four months, twelve days, nine hours, and thirty-two minutes.

"It would be spectacular if we continuously stayed in accelerated state for two years!" Jiang Yuan thought but dismissed the crazy idea, after all, farming acceleration only consumes spirit stones to purchase seeds; other accelerations require a lot of raw materials, and the warehouse doesn’t have that many resources.

So he first used the remaining nine hours and thirty-two minutes for farming acceleration, seeing if he could stimulate the Flowing Light Hibiscus to transform!

[Start Farming Acceleration!]

A notification flashed in his vision, and the crops rustled softly, sprouting, flowering, fruiting, maturing, harvesting, and planting in one go. The spirit roots in the Cloud Field quickly matured, planted new seeds continuing rapid growth.

"Grown up! Ha ha ha ha, Master, look at me grow up, soon I’ll bloom another flower!" The chatterbox Hibiscus chirped excitedly, stretching its leaves.

In the farming acceleration state, a large and small leaf grew a bit bigger at slow speed, with its color getting deeper.

Gradually, two tender stems emerged from under the leaves, followed by two small flower buds at the top...

[Flowing Light Hibiscus Warehouse +1]

[Flowing Light Hibiscus Seed +1]

As the first Flowing Light Hibiscus flower bloomed, the system popped up a notification.

Jiang Yuan quickly planted the seeds and then clicked to check the new warehouse — a Hibiscus flower had 300 storage slots! Comparable to a Level One Immortal Grade storage bag!

He immediately decided that once farming acceleration was complete, he would transplant the most flowering chatterbox Hibiscus to the island, avoiding running short on storage boxes there and having to shuffle items back and forth in the storage bag.

The new seeds slowly grew, sprouting three leaves, and began budding.

The chatterbox Hibiscus bloomed a second flower, and simultaneously gained another seed, which he continued to patiently plant in the Turquoise Pool.

Night fell, cold winter winds blowing through, while soft and warm candlelight brightened the small courtyard. Just as Jiang Yuan was immersed in the joy of a bountiful harvest, far-off Wanbao City suffered a heavy blow—the demon beasts surrounding the city disappeared!

"What do you mean disappeared? Don’t panic, clarify your words." City Lord Kang Muzi had just finished cultivation when a flustered subordinate burst in, yelling incoherent claims about "demon beasts disappearing."

The subordinate’s face was slightly pale, and he hurriedly said, "Lord City Lord, please come and take a look, the demon beasts around our city have all disappeared!

Just last night, you were worried about the slow speed of demon beast slaughter, saying if this continued, it might easily form a beast tide, hoping a Great Demon Cultivator or Great Demon Beast would come and clean some out.

But tonight, when night fell, the city gates opened; everyone rushed out to find not a single demon beast around!"

He thought inwardly, wondering if the Lord City Lord’s mouth was blessed?

It’s possible a Great Demon Beast passed by and cleared those demon beasts, right?

Due to the dissolution of the Demon Realm Alliance, Wanbao City’s demon cultivator mobility has significantly increased recently, with many reputable demon cultivators moving away. Demon beasts that couldn’t be cleared at night would gather nearby during the day, and in the daytime, terrifying creatures would appear in the wilderness, swallowing many gathered demon beasts in one bite was also possible.

"It shouldn’t be!" Kang Muzi felt a headache hearing this, and pondered with a slightly furrowed brow, "The Great Demon Beast near Wanbao City would be the red-haired badger in East Source Forest. It’s vegetarian; it couldn’t have swallowed so many demon beasts. If other Great Demon Beasts passed by, we should have sensed the terrifying aura, but all day I’ve not sensed anything."

The subordinate anxiously said: "Set aside the cause for now; it’s critical to check the teleportation array. In the vast Wanbao City, millions of demon cultivators rely on slaughtering demon beasts to live, and now there’s not a single demon beast to slaughter. Without a reasonable explanation, even more cultivators might leave!"

A city’s most crucial aspect is its population.

Earlier, losing many skilled cultivators was already an immense loss. If the reason for the demon beasts’ disappearance isn’t clarified, soon more demon cultivators will leave, and with thirty teleportation arrays concurrently transporting a large number of demon beasts, inadequate processing will surely lead to disaster!

"You go first to calm down various cultivators, tell them I’m already checking the teleportation array. Trust that there will soon be enough demon beasts to hunt; I’ll bring more people to drive the demon beasts around the city." Kang Muzi nodded in agreement, got up, and started gathering troops and generals.

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