Asura Mad Emperor-Chapter 758 - Tianyuan Reform

In the following period,

the alliances of the four major forces in the Upper Realm scattered, busying themselves with their own affairs. With the cross-domain passage opened by the Jiang Family now closed, there were no cultivators reckless enough to come looking for trouble.

Mo Wentian's whereabouts also remained unknown.

Tianqing City regained its former tranquility.

The expansion of Tianyuan Nation's power was now exerting a positive effect.

The talents, connections, and various resources of Heavenly Treasures Materials from the entire Dongju Continent and the Heavenly Mountain Domain flowed into Tianqing City without cease.

The strength of Tianyuan Lineage's cultivators in Tianqing City was rapidly increasing.

Li Zhi certainly did not miss this excellent opportunity to expand Tianyuan's power. He allocated a piece of land in Tianqing City to establish the Tianyuan Academy,

specially to enroll the elite geniuses from all over the world.

At the same time, in the former capitals of the Three Kingdoms such as Great Yan Jiuxiang and the Heavenly Mountain Domain of Nanchi Continent, Tianyuan Sub-academies were established.

A quarter of the resources and Mysterious Crystals collected from various places were allocated to support these academies and to attract geniuses.

Of course, compared to the vast territories and the entire population of the Great Domain, just a few sub-academies and one main academy were far from enough to completely absorb the talented individuals from the wide mundane world into the cultivation path.

He then came up with a plan. Tianyuan would further subdivide each Great Domain into various prefectures, each governed by a Domain Lord.

Tianyuan established prefectural offices, decreeing that each Domain as well as its prefectures establish Tianyuan academic schools in their respective territories.

The schools within a prefecture were called Primary Academies, while those within a Domain were termed Advanced Academies.

All children within a prefecture's Domain, upon reaching the age of eight, could go to an academy to test their aptitude.

If they passed the aptitude test, they could enter a Primary Academy to cultivate. After successfully graduating from six years of cultivation there, they could then proceed to an Advanced Academy to practice more powerful Divine Power Spells.

If they could graduate from an Advanced Academy, they would have the chance to enter one of the various academies to cultivate.

While a single prefecture might be small for the strong, it is still a distant place for ordinary mortals; therefore, the academies needed to sink further down into the mundane world.

However, these were not things the Tianyuan Royal Family could accomplish on their own, as there were too many mortal villages and cities for the Tianyuan Royal Family to cover every aspect.

Li Zhi then came up with another solution. The resources that could be obtained from Tianyuan by the academies each year were limited; if they wanted more resources, they would need more cultivators to graduate successfully. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com

As a result, the academies would naturally find ways to reach down into the mundane world, either by establishing institutions or by conducting regular annual aptitude tests in the villages.

Of course, this was just one of the measures Li Zhi took after Tianyuan's expansion.

A year after the implementation of this measure, Tianyuan Nation's prestige also reached its peak.

Because of this reform, Tianyuan has undoubtedly created an upward path for all children of mortal families within its realm, regardless of their status, to become strong.

Previously, it was incredibly difficult for ordinary people to start cultivating. Taking the first step, testing one's talent, many people of the mundane world found it unattainable; only slightly more prominent families were qualified to test their talent and embark on the path of cultivation.

Testing one's talent was just the first step; afterwards, one had to do everything possible to join a Sect.

After joining a Sect, cultivation was not smooth sailing either. Sects were rife with conflicts of interest, and for a new disciple to stand out, they had to navigate through considerable scheming and compete for resources with the children of the elders from various factions.

Without a strong background or once-in-a-millennium talent, ordinary cultivators found it extremely difficult to rise up. Being able to cultivate to the Dragon Transformation Realm was already akin to their ancestors' graves emitting a green smoke, or having their parents at home burning incense every day.

Being able to set foot on the path of cultivation was already fortunate; half the children from the mortal families would forever miss the opportunity to cultivate.

However, after the establishment of the academies, with good cultivation conditions and without the various obstacles on the path of cultivation, most cultivators who originally could only reach the Dragon Transformation Realm would have sufficient strength to step into the Holy's Realm.

Meanwhile, Li Zhi and others spent months composing and promulgating the "Tianyuan Code", initiating an era of governing the Divine Wilderness Continent with codified laws.

In this code, it was explicitly stipulated that all cultivators within Tianyuan Nation are subjects of the Ancient Tianyuan Kingdom, and everyone must abide by the rules of the code.

Among them, the code introduced an unprecedented concept.

Killing was against the law.

Before this, with sects prevalent throughout, the four ancient kingdoms in constant strife, and killings and lootings being common occurrences.

In people's eyes, such events were commonplace; to avoid being killed, one only had to become stronger and kill the opponent.

Therefore, in the entire Divine Wilderness Continent, from the top-tier powerhouses down to the small cultivators of the Tempering Body Realm, nobody thought there was anything wrong with killing; people would often kill in a fit of rage, with blood splattering on the spot.

Now that Tianyuan had unified the land, such chaos had to be curbed.

Of course, this measure was currently only aimed at the mundane world below the Dao Palace Realm.

For cultivators above the Dao Palace Realm, killing and plundering couldn't be effectively restrained in the short term.

However, the code also firmly restricted those on the path of cultivation from willfully acting against those below the Dao Palace Realm in the mundane world; anyone discovered doing so would be relentlessly pursued by Tianyuan's law enforcement officers.

All these reforms were meticulously underway under Li Zhi's management.

Thanks to Tianyuan's stability and rich resources, its strength had also made rapid progress.

Just last year, there were as many as a thousand new Holy Cultivators in Tianqing City alone, more than two hundred had reached the Great Saint Realm, and there were several dozen Supreme Saint experts; this was just in Tianqing City, not to mention the countless others across the entire Ancient Tianyuan Kingdom.

Even within the royal family, a new Quasi-Emperor Realm powerhouse had emerged.

The number of new powerhouses added this year, if placed five years ago, was something Li Zhi and the various old ministers of Tianyuan wouldn't even dare to dream of.

Qinchuan had also heard a bit about the series of reforms and measures Li Zhi had implemented within Tianyuan.

This guy, it seems, truly has the well-being of the world's inhabitants at heart.

Even from a certain perspective, Qinchuan felt that Li Zhi's ideals might even be greater than his own.

After all, everything Qinchuan did was for the sake of reviving Luo Ling'er.

Even his initial desire to support the Ancient Tianyuan Kingdom in dominating the Divine Wilderness was wholly for the convenience of gathering Heavenly Treasures Materials from the Divine Wilderness Continent, which could be said to be for his own personal benefit.

Whereas Li Zhi was concerned with the entirety of the Divine Wilderness.

Indeed, this elicited a degree of admiration from him.

While the interior was steadily progressing, the exterior expansion was also proceeding in an orderly fashion.

Now that they had firmly established a foothold, the push into the Nanchi Continent continued without pause.

Adjacent to the Heavenly Mountain Domain, both the Fenghe Domain and Xianyang Domain's great families, having previously opposed Qinchuan at Devil Mountain, were easily subdued—those who were destroyed were destroyed, and those who surrendered did so without a fight.

Everywhere they passed, Sect Families yielded one after another, not daring to resist.

Today, the Ancient Tianyuan Kingdom has already conquered ten Great Domains in the Nanchi Continent, which totals one hundred and three Great Domains; now, one tenth of them are in Tianyuan's hands.

It won't be long before the entire Nanchi Continent is unified under Tianyuan.

Of course, in addition to those who submitted, there were also many Sects that rebelled.

Among them, dozens of Sects with Emperor Realm experts in one Great Domain banded together to resist Tianyuan's expansion.

But facing the onslaught of Mei Qian'er, Li Kaitian, and Ancient Ape and others, these Great Emperor experts soon suffered defeat, swore oaths to the Heavenly Dao, and proclaimed their submission.