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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 383

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:23:44 AM


Chapter 383: Terraforming

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Chapter 383: Terraforming

Sage did as told, moving all the Hoplites and their possessions to the vicinity of Ruanfu and the rest of Kings remaining family. He was reminded again of his vengeance, but he kept that burning ember properly concealed for now. Then, Guan Zhenyan started to guide him. The Inner World at this point only had two large continents, and they were both reconfigured very carefully. At this current time, Sage had a pair of both Heavenly Jewels and Heavenly Waters. The Earth and Water would have to be shared carefully or else the balance of the world wouldnt be maintained. The main mass of water was the oceans, and Sage carefully mixed the Eye of the World and the Green Lifewater to split the seas half and half. That meant making them have an equal amount of influence, but with different source points. The inaugural upload of this chapter took place via N0v3l-B1n.

The two different source points were of course the two main oceans between the two continents. The waters were able to mix freely, and the rotation of the planet along with the pull of the other objects in the Life Nebula caused currents and tides. Those ocean currents made the two types of water mix in subtle ways, but the placement of the water sources meant that each ocean was dominated by one of them, but the other was still present. He repeated this process with the underground water sources for each continent, creating a portion of each continent where one water or the other was dominant without lacking the other.

Guan Zhenyan even had him place the Green Lifewater so the ocean and groundwater where it was dominant happened to be the closest coastline to Ruanfu and the Hoplites. That area was of course going to be the most fertile on the Inner World and so it would need the most tending to.

Its a shame I couldnt find any Heavenly Flames. Theres such a great demand for fire treasures, but your world just doesnt have the conditions to grow any good ones yet. Oh well. Okay, lets start shaping the terrain.

After the waters, a similar thing was done with the Heavenly Jewels. The two types of earth were mingled together, but with much less care than the Heavenly Water. This of course was because of their nature. The Sovereign Stone was naturally the ruler of all other Heavenly Jewels, so the Black Enhydros was its subordinate. Also, the Black Enhydros preferred to stay nice and deep, building oil stores underground. It was quite different from the two Heavenly Waters. The Green Lifewater loved rich coastal zones and fast flowing rivers, while the Eye of the World preferred the deep sea, murky swamps and stagnant bodies of water. When the two of them had to share the whole of the ocean they had to be carefully balanced as they were both out of their element.

Unfortunately, Sage didnt have any extremely potent Heavenly Flames to nurture them and so he was left with targeting the much larger but less lucrative Spirit Plant market. Even so, he had a whole planet with an accelerated growth rate so he was going to be making a fortune in the future. With enough investment his Inner World would be able to support a dozen Huge Sects in the future. Of course, that depended on a big enough investment and also how fast he could push the time acceleration. Unless he trained a whole army of Hoplites with growth acceleration techniques, it would still take hundreds of years for certain Spirit Plants to reach maturity.

Heh, I guess thats one area where Guan Zhenyan was right. The Hoplites are definitely only incomplete products.

After the main continent was done, Sage moved all the insects onto a small island and rebuilt the second continent. When the many hundreds of seeds and small plants were planted and properly arranged, Sage sought Guan Zhenyans advice on his insect horde. They were sorted into those beneficial to the plants, beneficial to combat, and finally breeding stock. Sage formed two large islands, in the center of each large ocean. One of them was populated with the combat insects, while the other was left to the breeding stock. These were all the bugs that Guan Zhenyan thought were useless on their own, but for the sake of not being wasteful they werent destroyed. The combat species were of course those most useful for fighting, and their island was far larger than the other. Giving them ample space for hundreds of them to reach full size. Sage was told to monitor them and remove the majority of the matured individuals. He could store them in Beast Bags, or send them to pens for the Hoplites to train.

Lastly, the beneficial insect species. Ants, Silverbees, Spirit Jade Beetles, Alarm Crickets, Steel Silk Webspinners, Thorn Cloud Hornets, Fat Grass Worms, Golden Salamanders, Fire Crested Iguana, Refinery Worms, Succubus Beetles, and also a few types of insects that Guan Zhenyan purchased that were helpful to certain Spirit Plants. Some were released into the wild to naturally tend to the plants, while others were resources in themselves and put into large ranches for the Hoplites to raise and farm. At this point, Sage also consulted with the Hoplites and their villages were split into smaller groups and told to reproduce. They were going to be the caretakers of all the Spirit Plants and ranchers of the many insect species. With their new roles arranged, Guan Zhenyan seemed satisfied, though not completely.

You need to finish those Hoplites. They should have two castes, Warrior and Worker. They should be infallibly loyal to you, alone. Youll have to pay extra for any more advice, so the rest is up to you, but dont screw it up. If one of those villages starts a mutiny they could waste a lot of our profits too easily.




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