After Zhao Hai had a long talk with Hu Ding, Hu Ding and the others were fully immersed in their research. Research wasn't an independent matter. Just like how Zhao Hai wanted to change the desert's environment, it wasn't as simple as the Bottle Tree. There were many other things involved as well, such as other plants.
The Bottle Tree could release water, but the other plants couldn't store the water and use it to their fullest potential. This was the key point.
If the Bottle Tree released water but the other plants didn't use it well, then the water would quickly seep into the ground while the grass was still dry. This way, the Bottle Tree would continue to release water. It wouldn't take long before the water in the Bottle Tree disappeared. Because of this, Zhao Hai and the others needed to research the plants that were compatible with the Bottle Tree.
The entire research project was huge. After all, the desert's land was already severely desertified. Although it wasn't as good as a real desert, it wasn't too far off. In this case, how to improve the soil was very important. Changing the quality of the soil wasn't something that could be done in a day or two. It would take a long time to do this.
The best and fastest way that Zhao Hai could think of to improve the soil was to use plants to improve it. Once the grass withered, new grass would grow. Then the grass would wither, and new grass would grow. Slowly, the soil would be improved. Naturally, they would need to plant some plants to fertilize the soil. But now wasn't the time.
Because of these reasons, Hu Ding and the others immediately started to get busy. They wanted to help Zhao Hai with this project as soon as possible.
While Zhao Hai and the others were busy with these matters, the strongholds of the Grand Desert also began to move. Fire Phoenix was a smart person, she used this opportunity to get in touch with the nine strongholds. At the same time, she was also discussing the matter of forming an alliance. Two months after Hu Ding and the others entered the desert, the Ten Strongholds Alliance was finally established. The Ten Strongholds Alliance didn't have a leader, only ten elders. Moreover, they didn't need to discuss everything, only important matters. And this so-called important matter was actually the matter of robbery.
The environment in the Grand Desert was too bad. If they relied on the Grand Desert's own resources, they wouldn't be able to sustain themselves. Therefore, the people in the Grand Desert had to go out and rob. Only by robbing would they be able to survive.
Therefore, robbing was definitely a big thing for the people of the Great Desert. Of course, they still had one more thing to do, and that was to open up a trade route with the Saber Spirit Nation.
The Saber Spirit Nation has already recognized their identities. However, the trade route between the Saber Spirit Nation and the Grand Desert hasn't been opened. The Grand Desert also hasn't started to do business with the Saber Spirit Nation. This created a situation where the things that the Grand Desert robbed couldn't be sold in the Saber Spirit Nation. For the strongholds of the Grand Desert, this wasn't a good thing.
At this time, the strongholds of the Grand Desert didn't lack good things. However, they lacked all kinds of daily necessities. Because of this, after the Ten Strongholds Alliance was established, the first thing they did was to open up a trade route with the Saber Spirit Nation.
For this matter, the people of the Ten Strongholds Alliance would certainly ask Zhao Hai for help. After all, Zhao Hai was someone from the Saber Spirit Nation. Moreover, when he entered the Grand Desert from the Saber Spirit Nation, it was as if he was entering an uninhabited area. The people of the Prairie knew that Zhao Hai had entered the Prairie, but they didn't know where he was. While the people of the Prairie were still wondering if Zhao Hai had entered the Prairie, he was already in the Grand Desert. Because of this, the people of the Grand Desert wanted to ask Zhao Hai to help them open up a trade route.
However, Zhao Hai was currently busy with his research, so he didn't have time to take care of them. Therefore, he sent a person from the Hu Clan to help the Ten Strongholds Alliance. This person from the Hu Clan was an acquaintance of Zhao Hai. He was a core disciple of the Hu Clan that Zhao Hai met when he first entered the Hu Clan. His name was Hu Xin. But now, Hu Xin had become an independent figure of the Hu Clan. This time, he also followed Hu Ding into the Grand Desert. However, Hu Xin's talent in studying plants wasn't very high. Therefore, Zhao Hai sent him to cooperate with the Ten Strongholds Alliance. This allowed the Hu Clan and the Ten Strongholds to officially establish contact.
Hu Xin was very happy about this mission. His temperament was a bit jumpy, so he couldn't stand to stay in one place for too long. However, Zhao Hai's research required him to stay in one place for a long time. Therefore, he was very bored in the past two months. Now, he could finally return to the Saber Spirit Country. Although he had a mission, he was still very happy.
The Ten Strongholds were very nervous about this matter. Not only did they send out their elite troops, but they also took a lot of good things and loaded them into carriages. Then they went to the Saber Spirit Country.
Zhao Hai gave the eagles to Hu Xin so that Hu Xin could use the eagles to rescue them when they were attacked. Of course, the chances of this happening weren't very high. The prairie was currently in chaos. Just like what Zhao Hai thought, after the Golden Wolf Tribe lost control of the prairie, the entire prairie fell into an era of chaos.
The prairie was so chaotic that it was actually even more unsafe. This was because some small tribes would try to avoid this kind of war. Some larger tribes would take this opportunity to expand so that when the Golden Wolf Tribe recovered in the future, they would have the strength to fight back. Therefore, in the prairie, from time to time, one could see the cavalry of the various tribes. The eagles in the prairie were flying all over the place. If the people of the prairie were to discover the army of the desert, they wouldn't hesitate to rob them.
Fortunately, the eagles that Hu Xin sent weren't ordinary eagles, they were falcons. Falcons were able to fly higher and farther than ordinary eagles. They were also more intelligent. Because of this, Hu Xin's army didn't encounter any attacks from the falcons.
Zhao Hai wasn't in the mood to care about them. He was now spending his time on research. Their research had already made great progress. The most important thing was the research on the Bottle Tree and the Baobab Tree.
The Bottle Tree and the Baobab Tree were plants that were more resistant to drought. Zhao Hai wanted the Baobab Tree to be more resistant to drought, while the Bottle Tree could store more water. At the same time, it could also automatically release water.
Now, the Bottle Tree didn't meet Zhao Hai's requirements. However, the Baobab Tree was more resistant to drought than before. At the same time, the problem with the Baobab Tree had also appeared, and that was its output.
Originally, the output of the Baobab Tree was good, but now, the output of the Baobab Tree had decreased a lot. After Zhao Hai learned about this situation, he thought that it was normal. After all, in an environment like the desert, the nutrients that the Baobab Tree could absorb were much less than other places. Moreover, it could absorb very little water. In this case, the output of the Baobab Tree had decreased.
In addition to the Bottle Tree and the Baobab Tree, Zhao Hai's research on drought-resistant grasses and other fertilizers had also achieved some results. Zhao Hai had always attached great importance to the grasses' drought resistance research. The grasses were indeed a plant that grew everywhere in the Soul Realm. Their vitality was really tenacious. Most importantly, their ability to adapt to the environment was really strong to the extreme. Zhao Hai calculated that a bowl of water could make one grass germinate and grow normally. But now, a bowl of water could make ten grass germinate and grow normally. It could be said that the progress was huge.
During these two months, Zhao Hai was the busiest. This was because these two months were the rainy season in the desert. Whenever it was about to rain, Zhao Hai would leave the village and enter the desert. He would constantly plant seeds and collect rainwater from the desert in preparation for future experiments.
Now, the people in the desert knew that Zhao Hai was doing research, so they were very cooperative. From time to time, they would send people to the old people's village to see if there was anything that the old people needed. If Zhao Hai was too busy to take care of the old people, they would help to take care of them. They would also send some supplies to the old people's village from time to time to avoid Zhao Hai's worries.
The reason why the Ten Great Strongholds were so attentive was because they had obtained a lot of benefits from Zhao Hai's research. Take the army that went to the Blade Spirit Country as an example. The army was accompanied by a lot of plant masters. And these plant masters were carrying the seeds of the Bottle Tree and the Baobab Tree. This almost solved the problem of drinking water and eating. This made the people of the Ten Great Strongholds support Zhao Hai's research even more.
Naturally, this wasn't the only thing that the Ten Great Strongholds did. They had already begun to send spies to the Tiger Soul Country in order to investigate the situation there. Attacking the Tiger Soul Country was completely different from attacking the Wolf Soul Country. The Wolf Soul Country was a prairie, and in the prairie, the strongest army was cavalry. Cavalry was invading like fire, coming and going like the wind, they were the kings of the prairie. But in the Tiger Soul Country, it was very difficult to find a piece of flat land. All the flat land had been planted with grain by the people of the Tiger Soul Country. In the Tiger Soul Country, cavalry was almost useless. The main fighting force in the country was infantry, and it was mountain infantry.
Of course, the most important thing was that the desert bandits had robbed the Tiger Spirit Country in the past. Although they didn't manage to steal much, they still made the Tiger Spirit Country more vigilant. Because of this, the Tiger Spirit Country built a fortified city near the desert, blocking the entrance of the desert into the Tiger Spirit Country. This made it even more difficult for the desert bandits to attack the Tiger Spirit Country.
Additionally, the desert bandits had been robbing the prairie all these years. They simply didn't have any hidden posts in the Tiger Spirit Country. This was unlike the prairie, where they could get news of any movement. However, they couldn't do this in the Tiger Spirit Country. Because of this, they needed to investigate the Tiger Spirit Country and understand the situation there. Only in this way could they enter the Tiger Spirit Country and rob it. Otherwise, if they entered the country, they would be destroyed by the Tiger Spirit Country in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
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