Wang Daoyuan packed up Zhao Baoguo's belongings and put the giant python's corpse into his space, handing it over to his two doppelgangers to deal with.
This giant python was also a poor python. It was a dignified high-grade rank one demonic beast, but there was nothing valuable in its cave.
After leaving the cave, he discovered that he wasn't far from Mirror Iron Mountain.
The harvest this time was huge, so he could give some things that he didn't need to the patriarch for the time being. Especially these hundred or so mid-grade spirit stones. After giving them to the patriarch, the total number of spirit stones in the clan would exceed sixty thousand. Obtaining a Foundation Establishment Pill could be said to be a cinch.
In order to avoid exposing his whereabouts, he didn't choose to go ashore. Instead, he continued to use Cloud Mist Escape in the water.
Once he found the underground river where the Spiritual Spring Cavern was located, he followed the flow of the river upstream.
After entering the spirit spring cavern, he was shocked. It had only been a few days, but the cavern had changed greatly.
The originally uneven ground had been smoothed out, and there were more than six acres of spirit fields. All kinds of spirit herbs had been scattered in the spirit fields, and some had already sprouted.
In the middle of the newly opened spirit fields, a new canal was dug to irrigate the spirit fields with spirit spring water. There were also many Jade Butterfly Orchids planted on both sides of the canal.
Seeing his shocked expression, Wang Shouye proudly asked, "How is it? Your uncle did well, right? "
Wang Daoyuan didn't answer. He directly took out a Purple Gold Grass and waved it in front of the Twelfth Uncle.
Wang Shouye's eyes widened. He swallowed his saliva and shouted in shock, "Purple Gold Grass, it's still alive!"
His shout startled the patriarch who was meditating beside the spirit spring.
Patriarch Wang Zhian was also extremely shocked when he saw the Purple Gold Grass in Wang Daoyuan's hand. "Daoyuan, where did this Purple Gold Grass come from?"
Wang Daoyuan replied, "I went out to see if there was an ambush near the meeting place. I also crossed the border of the Sky Slash Mountain Range and went in to search for spirit items. I found a clump of Purple Gold Grass. I still have some here."
After saying that, Wang Daoyuan took out another ten or so Purple Gold Grass. There was still a clump of soil on the roots.
Wang Zhian excitedly took the Purple Gold Grass. "With the Purple Gold Grass, the clan will no longer lack low-grade Level Two Spirit Talismans. Daoyuan, you've done a great service. I'll give you 3,000 clan contribution points for these Purple Gold Grass. "
Wang Daoyuan smiled and said, "Fifth Great Uncle, don't be in such a hurry to calculate the contribution points. There are still some good things that you haven't taken out yet."
After saying that, he took out a dozen cocoons and four mulberry saplings that were as tall as a person. The saplings of the mulberry trees had already taken root, so there was no point in keeping these saplings.
However, the branches of the mulberry tree were clearly not freshly plucked and looked like they had been stored for a few days. It was too suspicious to take them out, so he could only hand the saplings over to the chief.
When Wang Zhian and Wang Shouye saw the cocoon and mulberry sapling, their eyes widened. To a clan, this was a true treasure.
Planting mulberries and raising silkworms was much more cost-effective than mining ores.
Small mines generally didn't have spirit veins, but they needed cultivators to oversee them.
In places without spirit veins, the spirit energy was very thin. It was not enough to sustain the daily cultivation of a Qi Refinement cultivator. That would require the consumption of spirit stones or pills.
As a result, the cost went up.
Planting mulberries and raising silkworms could be done on their own spirit mountains. Their daily work was picking mulberry leaves, spinning silk, and so on. These tasks could be done by ordinary people.
They only needed cultivators to watch over these spirit silkworms and prevent them from escaping.
The cost of planting mulberries and raising silkworms was extremely low. As long as there was sufficient spirit energy, the spirit mulberries could grow very well without needing to be planted in spirit fields.
The Wang Clan could be said to be blessed by the heavens. With the Jade Dragon Spring, as long as they watered it often, they could plant spirit mulberries anywhere. Jade Spring Peak could plant spirit mulberries and raise spirit silkworms on a large scale.
Moreover, these tasks didn't require cultivators to do them.
The clan had about 100,000 ordinary people, and there were thousands of new children born every year. They could take care of as many spirit mulberries as they wanted.
Now that they had spirit mulberries and spirit silkworms, the clan could develop the mulberry silkworm industry as their main business in the future.
This was a sustainable development path, unlike spirit mines that would disappear after they were mined. As long as there were spirit veins, the mulberry silkworm industry could continue.
The mulberry silkworm industry was a low-cost and high-return industry, but very few clans would use it as a pillar industry.
There were two main reasons.
First, without conditions like the Jade Dragon Spring, they could only rely on spirit fields to plant spirit mulberries. Spirit trees needed a lot of space to grow, and only a few could be planted in one mu of land. It also consumed a lot of soil energy, so planting spirit mulberries was not as cost-effective as planting spirit herbs.
Second, common spirit silkworms were all low-grade grade one spirit silkworms. High-grade spirit silkworms were extremely rare, and low-grade grade one spirit silkworm silk wasn't worth a few spirit stones. High-grade spirit mulberries were also not easy to find. If spirit mulberries weren't good enough, even the best spirit silkworms couldn't produce good silk.
The Wang Clan had the Jade Dragon Spring, and their ancestors had thought of developing the mulberry silkworm industry. Unfortunately, the Wang Clan had been oppressed by the Liang Clan in the past, and it was very difficult for them to make ends meet. They didn't have the financial resources to find valuable spirit silkworms and spirit mulberries.
Now that the clan's external environment was much better, they already had the right time and place to plant mulberries and raise silkworms. This time, they had high-grade grade one spirit silkworms and spirit mulberries that could grow to low-grade grade two spirit mulberries. It could be said that they had gathered at the right time, place, and people.
Wang Zhian asked in shock again, "You only went out for a few days, and you found so many good things? Also, what grade are these spirit silkworms and spirit mulberries? "
He was so shocked that he forgot to use his divine sense to investigate the cocoons and spirit mulberries.
Wang Daoyuan replied with a smile, "I can't detect this cocoon with my divine sense, so I speculate that it's a Spirit-Forbidding Silkworm.
This spirit mulberry's mother stalk is low-grade grade two and is more than thirty meters tall. I don't have the ability to move it, so I can only dig up a few small stalks and bring them back. "
Hearing his words, Wang Zhian's eyes lit up.
He originally thought that it would be good if these spirit mulberries and spirit silkworms could be mid-grade grade one. There was a high-grade grade three spirit vein in the Jade Spring Peak, so they might be able to advance to high-grade grade one in the future.
Ordinary high-grade grade one spirit silkworm silk could be sold for twenty to thirty spirit stones per kilogram.
After a few decades of development, the scale would increase, and it could be a pillar of the clan's industry. However, he didn't expect the spirit silkworms and spirit mulberries to be of such high grade.
The grade of the spirit mulberry's mother stalk had a great impact on the upper limit of the child stalks' growth. These spirit mulberries, if planted in a place with abundant spirit qi, would grow to low-grade grade two spirit wood without a problem.
He scanned with his divine sense and couldn't find any cocoons. These were indeed Spirit-Forbidding Silkworms.
One kilogram of silk could be sold for more than two hundred spirit stones. In the future, when the silkworm industry developed and expanded, it could support the expenses of a large Golden Core clan.
Of course, this would take a long time. Without a few decades of development, it wouldn't be able to reach a climax.
If the state of Zhao could be stabilized for another one or two hundred years, it wouldn't be difficult for the Wang clan to restore the prosperity it had when the ancestor was alive.
Wang Zhian said with a trembling voice, "Dao Yuan, I really don't know how to reward you this time. After I finish dealing with the matters of the Greenwillow Province, I'll return to the mountain and discuss with the elders before making a decision.
Shouye, take the Purple Gold Grass, spirit mulberries, and spirit silkworms and immediately return to the Jade Spring Peak.
To be safe, leave a spirit mulberry, four cocoons, and two stalks of Purple Gold Grass in this cave residence. "
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