Chapter 501: Reclamation and island building

Huangsha Island has better conditions than Dafang Island. There are 130,000 spirit stones collected in the treasury of each family on the island alone. Together with various rare materials, the sect spirit stones have finally been solved. Shi Qingqing's urgent need made Jia Mengzhen, who was in charge of finance, feel a little better.

In addition, there are two third-level low-grade treasure ships on Huangsha Island, which together are worth tens of thousands of spiritual stones, which also expands the size of the treasure ship fleet.

Now in the fleet, there are already four third-level high-grade treasure ships, namely Shengli, Yueya, Huangsha, and Cloud Whale, and two third-order low-grade treasure ships, Bai Ying and Feiyan. They have enough power to patrol the nearby sea.

Crescent Island is located to the north of Dafang Island, 3,600 miles away from Dafang Island, while Huangsha Islands is located southwest of Dafang Island, about 13,000 miles away from Dafang Island.

Although this distance is not that far for the Zifu monks, it only takes about a day and a half to travel day and night. However, in the vast sea, if you want to find this archipelago, you still have to try your luck.

The last time Zhang Zhixuan went to Xuanyang Island, he took the direction of Huangsha Island and did not find this archipelago. Even Qingchan of the Jindan period did not find the Huangsha Islands the last time she went to Xuanyang Island. Although this island The islands were not too far away for her.

Therefore, if you want to find an island in the boundless sea, the most important factor is luck, which has nothing to do with the monk's cultivation.

Even for monks at the Nascent Soul stage, their spiritual consciousness can only travel a few hundred miles. In the vast sea, this distance is actually very short.

There is currently no teleportation array, so the two islands can only communicate with each other through treasure ships. A round trip for a lower-grade third-level treasure ship takes twelve days. For a high-grade third-level treasure ship, a round trip only takes three and a half days.

In the sea area from Huangsha Island to Dafang Island, treasure ships passing along the way are very rare. There are also some monsters near this route, and even high-level monsters above the fourth level occasionally appear.

After being touched at the door of his house twice in a row, Zhang Zhixuan also decided to change the situation. He dispatched three treasure ships, Cloud Whale, White Eagle, and Feiyan, to cruise nearby, blockade the nearby sea, and returned the goods to Gu Qiwen, the captain of the Cloud Whale. A fourth-level communication talisman was issued to facilitate her to notify the news to Dafang Island at any time.

In addition, Zhang Zhixuan is also planning to build a lookout on the island, install a telescope, and arrange for special monks to be stationed on the island to prevent him from being watched again without being noticed.

In addition, Zhang Zhixuan is preparing to build islands around Dafang Island and move Dafang Island's defense line forward. He plans to turn these newly constructed islands into fortresses that will serve as the gateway to Dafang Island. This will not only expand the land area and cultivate more monks, but also serve as a frontline stronghold to guard Dafang Island.

Zhang Zhixuan is going to leave the task of building islands in the sea to Wan Wenhe.

There are many islands and reefs near Huangsha Island. Although they do not have large-scale island reclamation, they do have some experience. Besides, Wan Wen and these people have been working for free for twenty years, and Zhang Zhixuan will not let them be too leisurely.

When the situation on Huangsha Island stabilized, Zhang Zhixuan immediately recruited Wan Wenhe and others into the underground cave.

Along the smooth crystal wall tunnel, Wan Wenhe and others came to the underground cave for the first time. In an instant, they felt a pure spiritual energy, which made them feel relaxed and happy.

"This must be a fifth-level spiritual vein. How can there be a Golden Core monk on the small Dafang Island? It turns out there is a cave underground. This place must be the orthodoxy of the senior monks. Several ancestors should be the direct descendants of the senior who built the cave. "

Seeing Zhang Zhixuan, Wan Wenhe and others hurriedly put away their distracting thoughts and stood aside respectfully.

"The main reason I asked you to come here today is to build an island from the sea. As the core of the sect, Dafang Island was touched twice by others. Although it didn't cause any damage, our faces are not good-looking. I heard that you We have also experimented with reclaiming land from the sea on Huangsha Island, and I asked you to come here just to listen to your opinions.”

Everyone on Huangsha Island looked at each other, and finally Wan Wenhe was the first to speak: "Although we have built islands before, the scale was still relatively small. Because the division of family interests on the island was not agreed upon, this matter was not pursued. Go down.

However, according to our experience, if you want to build an island from the sea, it is extremely difficult to fill in an island from scratch. On the contrary, it is easier to build it from the original island reef. We are not familiar with the sea area near Dafang Island, nor do we understand the hydrological and ocean current conditions. It will take some time to investigate before we can give our ancestors a clear opinion. "

Wan Wenhe did not finish his words. Zhang Zhixuan was quite satisfied with his cautious attitude and nodded: "Okay! I will lend Jia Mengzhen and others to you, and the treasure ship Victory will be temporarily under your control. I hope you will not let me down. Well done, I’ll take credit for you and help you get rid of your slavery and regain your freedom as soon as possible.”

Jia Mengzhen and others are natives of Dafang Island. Under their leadership, Wan Wenhe and others carefully inspected the sea hundreds of miles near Dafang Island and discovered more than a dozen nearby islands and reefs. Among these islands and reefs, they chose Land reclamation from the sea has begun in various places.

Compared with ordinary people, the abilities of the monks in the foundation-building stage are far beyond ordinary. They excavated rocks from the nearby seabed, transported them by treasure ships, and continuously filled and piled them on the islands and reefs. More than a dozen monks in the foundation-building stage worked together to build it in less than a year. A small island with a radius of more than ten miles.

In order to strengthen the protection of the island, Zhang Zhixuan and other high-level monks also personally took action to cultivate third-level low-grade spiritual veins on the island and cultivated some spiritual fields.

Only when there is a spiritual vein on the island can the monks be stationed for a long time, and it is considered to have a foundation. Even if the investment is larger now, Zhang Zhixuan can only grit his teeth and do it for the safety of Dafang Island.

Not only that, Zhang Zhixuan also built a watchtower on the island. Although it is easy to build a watchtower, it is more difficult to refine a telescope.

Fortunately, a set of jade slips for building a third-level inferior treasure ship was collected on Huangyan Island, which contained the method of refining a third-level superior telescope, so the watchtower was built and could barely monitor the nearby sea surface.

The third-level superior telescope can only observe a radius of more than 100 miles, and it still cannot stop the prying of the fourth-level treasure ship. However, a base has been established on this small island, and the exchanges between the monks on the island and Dafang Island will be very frequent. The frequent activities of the monks can naturally block the prying from many directions.

Counting the cost of cultivating the third-level spiritual veins, plus the investment in the island defense formation, the watchtower, and the telescope, it takes 16,000 spiritual stones to build an island.

Even with such a large investment, Zhang Zhixuan still spent four years to build four islands, consuming half of the spiritual stones seized from Huangsha Island.

On these four islands, Zhang Zhixuan dispatched four foundation-building and forty-eight Qi-training cultivators to garrison. With the support of the mountain protection formation, it was enough to wait for the rescue of the cultivators on the islands.

After all, the farthest of these islands was only four hundred miles away from Dafang Island, and the closest one was only eighty miles away. Once a sound transmission note was sent for help, reinforcements from the island would not take more than a quarter of an hour.