Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

In the next period of time, Zhang He screened all the important personnel under his command, and the results were good. No one has been possessed by the shadow demon so far.

Another thing that Zhang He didn't expect was that he originally thought he would encounter great resistance during the screening process, but he didn't expect that things went extremely smoothly.

In fact, the reason is not difficult to understand. The monks under him are very different from the traditional immortal cultivators of the Zhou Dynasty.

In traditional monks, there is almost no trust between people. Even fathers and sons and brothers will plot against each other for their own benefit.

For example, the messy affair between Lu Bo's father and son is the best proof.

But the immortal cultivators under Zhang He turned out to be the sons of tenant farmers who had nothing, and it was Zhang He who gave them everything.

These people all have unconditional trust in Zhang He, especially among them are a large number of idiot fans who graduated from the academy.

Even if the rest of the people have never attended school, they will gradually be influenced by him after spending time together, and they will subtly become Zhang He's admirers.

Among the many subordinates who occupied important positions, only Gu Liangyu joined halfway, and she only started working for Zhang He because of Zhang He's generous rewards.

However, he only thought about it for a while, then gritted his teeth and chose to let Zhang He check his soul.

Although he still didn't fully trust Zhang He in his heart, he was still a little repelled.

But he knew very well that Zhang He's subordinates, who were as stupid as fans, would definitely agree to Zhang He's request.

At that time, among the top leaders of the entire force, he was the only one who did not investigate the soul. He seemed out of place. If anything happened, suspicion might be raised on him.

So he finally gritted his teeth and made a more rational decision, letting Zhang He check the soul. Fortunately, Zhang He didn't do anything to his soul.

After screening all the senior officials, Zhang He began to try to refine the Golden Pill.

He has already cultivated all the materials needed for alchemy in space, and now all he has to do is refine them.

In order to refine the golden elixir, he specially refined a high-grade alchemy furnace out of red copper, and then soaked it in the spiritual spring for a few days to improve the quality of the alchemy furnace to the highest quality.

With the top-quality alchemy furnace and numerous elixirs in hand, coupled with his rich experience in alchemy over the years, Zhang He's confidence in alchemy has greatly increased.

However, after he started refining it, he realized how difficult it was to refine the Gold Condensing Pill.

A large amount of elixir was refined in more than ten furnaces, but in the end, only two furnaces were made, and only five gold-condensing pills were obtained. It was a huge loss.

However, despite the high price he paid, he finally mastered the method of refining the Golden Pill, and the tuition was still worth it.

With the reserve of Ningjin Dan, Zhang He felt relieved. It was right for him to lay the foundation now, but he had to be prepared for both.

In the following days, Zhang He practiced the nameless Kung Fu and the Shadow Demon Secret Technique every day.

All aspects of his physical fitness are steadily increasing.

Now his magic power has already surpassed that of ordinary late-stage foundation-building monks, and his physical speed and strength have also been greatly improved in all aspects.

Ever since he pretended to be a shadow demon, no large-scale demons have appeared in the three counties under his jurisdiction.

Occasionally, some small-scale demons appeared and were easily wiped out by the Blackwater Army.

However, judging from the news that the Shadow Pavilion continues to send back, the territories of the major forces are not peaceful, and large groups of monsters will break out from time to time.

Zhang He took advantage of the temporary peace and tried his best to accumulate strength, including himself, the Blackwater Army, and even the militia.

Such days have lasted for 30 years.

In the past 30 years, the human forces in Lu State were harassed by demons. Human monks continued to die in battles, spiritual fields were destroyed, and many spiritual mines were lost.

The people at the bottom are even worse. They are displaced and the population continues to decrease. It has reached the point where there is no rooster crow for thousands of miles.

During this period, Liang and Cheng, who were adjacent to Lu State to the east, may have good intentions to help each other, or they may want to take the opportunity to seize Lu State's territory.

In short, these two countries sent troops, and the fresh troops of these two countries entered Lu State. At first, they did annihilate a large number of demons.

However, before they could gain a foothold in Lu State, a large number of demons suddenly appeared in Liang State and Cheng State to cause trouble, and the two countries could only withdraw their troops in a hurry.

While people everywhere are in dire straits, after years of development and absorbing a large number of refugees, the three counties under Zhang He's rule have now become extremely prosperous, with the total population doubling to 600,000.

Of course, these 600,000 people are crowded into three counties. With the meager grain output, it is obviously impossible to feed so many people.

In order to alleviate the food problem, Zhang He could only plant sweet potatoes on a large scale in three counties.

As for the increased risk of leaking sweet potato seedlings, Zhang He can no longer care so much. He can't watch hundreds of thousands of people starve to death just to keep the sweet potato seedlings.

He has also organized some precautions in various places. As for whether the seedlings can be prevented from leaking out, it is difficult to say.

On this day, Zhang He finished his training and felt the surging mana in his body. In terms of the total amount of mana alone, it should be similar to the early stage of Jindan.

But there is no golden elixir in his body, and the purity of his mana essence is definitely not as pure as that of a golden elixir monk.

As for the spiritual consciousness, he now believes that even the late-stage Jin Dan is not as good as him. As for the Nascent Soul spiritual consciousness, it is definitely not there yet.

He now has a vague feeling that he will condense the golden elixir immediately. With his current solid foundation, he doesn't know what the golden elixir he will condense in the future will look like.

"Sir, there is someone outside the door asking to see you!"

A guard knocked on the door and came in to announce.

"Who is it?"

"Reporting to the young master, he is a monk of the Ye family."

"Oh! Invite him in quickly."

The person who walked in was a Ye family qi-training monk. He saluted Zhang He, handed Zhang He a jade slip with restrictions on it, and then hurriedly said goodbye and left.

Zhang He opened the ban on the jade slip according to the agreed method, and his spiritual consciousness penetrated it. The content inside was very brief, which was to ask Zhang He to go to Ye Mansion to discuss important matters.

Over the years, the connection between Zhang He and Shadow Demon has never been broken, and the two parties have enjoyed cooperation.

Ye Kai even considered that Zhang He was trapped in the human race alone. If the matter was exposed, it would be a dangerous situation of death or life.

Therefore, Ye Kai specially applied for three shadow demons to possess Zhang He's important figures and help Zhang He break out of the human siege at the critical moment.

Zhang He naturally wanted to express his gratitude to Ye Kai for his kindness.

Arrange for these two shadow demons to seize the fat tiger and the rich.

With the help of Zhang He, the two shadow demons were unwillingly devoured by Fat Tiger and Fugui. At the same time, they obtained each other's memories and pretended to be the two shadow demons.

From then on, the two of them were regarded as one of their own among the demons.

After Zhang He read the jade slips, he said a few words to his subordinates and then flew towards Zhaoling County with his sword.

Judging from the information revealed in Ye Kai's letter, something big may happen this time.