Chapter 1515 - 1076: Heading to the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect_3
Jiang Yuan skimmed through the details the System had popped up and patiently explained, "After the Demonic Energy invaded, it polluted the air here. For the flowers, plants, and trees that used to grow in this world, the air turned into a toxic miasma they couldn’t adapt to, so they all withered and died."
"With no vegetation, the surviving creatures either got ’poisoned’ to death by the Demonic Energy; or they barely dragged out a living yet couldn’t get any food replenishment, and starved to death. After that, the rivers dried up, the land turned to desert, the climate went haywire, and even in the depths of the ocean there were no living beings left."
Puppets had no tears. Faced with a world steeped in death, Yun Shu could only let out a long sigh to vent the sorrow in her heart.
"It’s really terrifying..." Yun Ying wanted to say something but never managed to, and only whispered, "I just hope that before the Demonic Energy invaded, all the living beings here left safely."
The map already had the location of the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect Secret Realm marked.
Jiang Yuan tapped on automatic tracking, and with the two of them he followed the huge pale-blue arrow, riding the Immortal Ship that looked like a Gundam as it swept over ruined cities and wastelands.
"Rumble—!"
Dark clouds rolled in from the edge of the sky; lightning flashed and thunder roared, and then the rain poured down in sheets. Before they could fly closer, the heavy rain came quickly and left just as fast.
The muddy ground was baked by the blazing sun that followed the dispersing dark clouds, sending up waves of warm mist.
"What a pity. Without vegetation, even if it rains you still can’t retain any water." Yun Shu asked, "Sir, for a Little World like this, do we really have no choice but to let it live or die on its own? Judging from what we’re seeing, Mingqi Star is probably going to follow in the footsteps of those collapsed worlds."
He led the way in front while answering, "If we can find plant seeds from the Demon Realm and try cultivating them to hold the soil and water, then given enough time, maybe a small oasis could spread until the entire world regains ecological balance. However, by that point Mingqi Star would only be suitable for the Demon Race to live in."
He paused for a moment, then sighed. "I’ve heard that worlds occupied by Demonic Energy, no matter how desolate, won’t collapse. Don’t know if that’s true or not. Besides, the Demon Realm is just too vast, and occupies too many worlds. A lot of Little Worlds are saturated with Demonic Energy, yet no Demon Race lives there at all."
At this point, he thought of the new courtyard that was very likely located in the Demon Realm—the Crystal Palace.
Once Conch Island rose to Level Ten and unlocked the new courtyard, if it really was in the Demon Realm, then the System Mall would definitely have Demon Realm crop seeds that would sprout and mature in just a few days once planted.
When that time comes, would it be possible to take in all these uninhabited Little Worlds and open them up for farming?
He’d heard Jiu Qing and Jiu Mu mention that ordinary members of the Demon Race in the Demon Realm had a miserable life; that place was basically a slave society through and through.
On top of that, Demon Realm crops had extremely low yields. Ordinary Demons who had no ability to resist worked their fields day in and day out, facing the soil with their backs to the sky, yet still couldn’t fill their stomachs. If he could rely on the System’s farming to benefit the Demon Race and overthrow the Demon King slave-owners’ rule, that would be a great deed of merit!
Back when the little courtyard’s farming venture had just gotten started, there weren’t any sprinklers, much less an Automatic Full Set. For a while, all the watering was done by Xiao Bai, and the seeds still managed to grow.
Aside from the land reclamation that needed his own hands, planting, watering, harvesting, and picking fruit—his disciple Wan Mingchuan had helped out plenty.
Which meant that as long as the Demon Realm courtyard really was unlocked and Demon Realm crop seeds could be purchased, then once the courtyard’s own area had been opened up and could autonomously fuse with new Land God domains, he could try fusing a Little World into it!
He’d open up countless farmlands, have the Demon Race plant, water, and harvest, then distribute ample food to them. As the saying goes, a single spark can start a prairie fire—starting from the Crystal Palace, he’d extend outward, turning the poverty alleviation work into something big and strong!