Another hour passed, and the clouds scattered, the rain ceased,
and all the demon beasts of Canglang Island above the fourth-tier were exterminated.
In two hours, She Maohai had accomplished one: the annihilation of an island that was originally no weaker than Cishi Island!
"Little ones, collect the corpses first, then each of you go back and bring ten powerful fifth-tier demon beasts from your clan."
Looking at the towering corpses of the Canglang beasts, She Maohai's mouth watered a little, but there were more pressing matters, so he began to issue orders.
"My King, I will go inform the clan immediately."
A giant snake, 370 zhang long, did not transform into human form, but directly bit the corpse of a sixth-tier Canglang beast, turned into the sea, and then rapidly headed for Cishi Island.
"My King, we will handle the corpses."
The other seventeen demon kings rushed into Canglang Island one after another. The fastest ones snatched the sixth-tier demon kings, while the slower ones had to settle for the late-stage fifth-tier great demons.
"..."
She Maohai's face was covered in black lines, but he did not restrict his subordinates from snatching corpses.
After all, this was the habit of demon beasts; cannibalism among their own kind was common for food, let alone the corpses of enemies.
Moreover, he had promised his subordinates before the expedition that they could share in some of the spoils of war.
Shaking his head, She Maohai flew into Canglang Island. The first thing he did was devour the corpse of the seventh-tier demon lord Canglang, which was a hundred zhang long.
He was also craving it!
Canglang Island was just the beginning. Subsequently, Cishi Island attacked nearby islands at a rate of one island per month.
As long as the island could be used for demon beast cultivation and had a decent spiritual energy concentration, it was all captured.
Then, the Cishi demon race was scattered to these islands for cultivation.
Islands with special products still had fourth-tier demon beasts that could survive and were used as slaves to work for the Cishi clan;
for islands without special products or insufficient resources that She Maohai was interested in, the Cishi clan would directly slaughter all the demon beasts on them and then migrate the Cishi to inhabit and reproduce.
Generally, a pair of fourth-tier small demon-level snake demons would take their offspring to live and multiply on an island, and all resources on that island would become the resources of that snake demon family.
Their task was to cultivate and reproduce as quickly as possible to increase the population of the Cishi demon race.
Islands with high-level resources, such as spirit stone mines or spirit iron mines, would have some foreign small demons transported to them to mine these resources.
Such islands were usually guarded by about ten fifth-tier snake demons, with hundreds of fourth-tier snake demons living and reproducing.
Every time the Cishi demon race destroyed an island, they would devour the demon beast corpses on that island and use these corpses as nutrients for rapid cultivation.
After these corpses were digested, they would begin their next invasion and attack,
again obtaining demon beast corpses to continue cultivating, and so on.
Under such a cruel cultivation method, in just thirty years, She Maohai cultivated to the eighth-tier demon lord;
and occupied a vast area of the sea.
However, that was a story for later.
...
At the same time that She Maohai completed the conquest of Canglang Island,
the adorable Xiao Kui also welcomed her first rotation off duty.
Well, except for Yu Ke Wei and Hua Xin Lei, who had adult appearances as tree spirits, and did not need to be City Lords in Huamu City, all other child-like flower spirits and tree spirits had to serve as City Lords for one year to temper their dispositions.
Each one served for a year, rotating in turns.
"Master~ Master~ I'm off duty, I want consecration, I want to be consecrated."
Inside the City Lord's mansion of First City, Xiao Kui rushed in shouting loudly.
"Sister Xiao Kui, you're back, did you bring us anything delicious or fun?"
Xiao Kui did not see Yang Hong and was immediately surrounded by a group of little radishes, who looked about her age.
"Sister Xiao Kui, I've grown so many talisman leaves!"
"Sister Xiao Kui, I'm the most amazing, I can already grow fourth-grade spirit talisman leaves!"
A group of little radishes held storage bags and blocked Xiao Kui's path, trying to sell them.
Every day, these little tree spirits would transform into their original forms and, when Yu Ke Wei cast the [Sweet Rain Technique] daily, they would absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, then guide it onto their leaves, growing patterns of talismans to form sheets of talismans.
Moreover, as the search by the Black Fish clan concluded, Yang Hong began to take over the casting of the [Sweet Rain Technique], and these tree spirits, including Yu Ke Wei, would learn and grow talisman leaves under the Sweet Rain Technique.
Now, these little ones were at least sixth-grade spirit plants, and at least able to form third-grade talisman leaves. Some tree spirits with magical talent could already produce fourth-grade talisman leaves.
Among them, Hua Xin Lei's leaves were the most special.
Hua Xin Lei's original form was an iron bark birch, which was not good at magic but excelled at fist techniques.
The leaves he grew were very unique, being fist-shaped leaves, completely different from the slender leaves before.
As Hua Xin Lei continuously infused these leaves with his fist intent, they actually transformed into special talismans that could unleash one-tenth of Hua Xin Lei's strongest combat power.
Furthermore, with continuous nurturing, these leaves could continuously increase in power.
Therefore, Hua Xin Lei's leaves had never been picked.
In the past six months, since She Maohai of Cishi Island left, the demon beasts to the east of Rendao Island had basically not come over.
However, demon beasts from the other three directions continuously came to Huamu City for trade.
The best-selling items were these talisman leaves.
They sold the leaves and exchanged them for spirit stones and demon cores.
These spirit stones and demon cores could help the tree spirits grow, so they naturally worked hard to grow.
"Alright~ alright~ everyone move aside, let Xiao Kui take out her earnings from this period, and you can share them slowly."
Hearing the commotion, Yang Hong, who had finished his day's cultivation, came out and shouted loudly.
All the little tree spirits immediately obediently scattered, revealing Xiao Kui.
"Heehee~ I knew Master was the best.
I exchanged for 380,000 spirit stones and 9,200 demon cores these two months, and also..."
"This is Master's, this is mine, this is Xiao Pu's, and this is..."
Xiao Kui took out storage bags one by one and handed them to their respective owners.
The year of training had indeed matured her a little.
She quickly finished distributing the storage bags.
Of course, it was also because there were too few tree spirits here.
Up to now, besides Yu Ke Wei and Hua Xin Lei, Yang Hong only had 12 small tree spirits around him.
"Master, there are some demons who want to open shops in our Huamu City, should we accept them?"
After distributing the storage bags, Xiao Kui leaned close to Yang Hong and asked expectantly.
"Oh~ finally some demons want to open shops in Huamu City?
Agree, why not agree?"
Hearing Xiao Kui's question, Yang Hong smiled.
Before the First City was built, he had first constructed the simple Huamu City, wasn't it for this moment?
"Xiao Kui, you don't need to take your holiday off for now. You and Xiao Pu will continue to be on duty for another year.
In the next year, you will vigorously attract investment. As long as it's a demon race wanting to open a shop and settle in Huamu City, accept them all, and offer rent discounts."
"You just need to ask them to agree to two things:
First, send us more humans, living humans. We'll buy as many as they send, and we'll pay a high price.
Second, if a demon who opens a shop in Huamu City leaves and is killed, Huamu City will not be responsible."
As he spoke, a sinister smile played on Yang Hong's lips, and a hidden killing intent flickered in his eyes.