King of Creation

Chapter 1888: Chapter 1873: Three Billion

Inside the Heavenly God Golden Hall, the awkward atmosphere lasted for quite a while, until the experienced Sand Sea Divine Priest, Guii Gu, broke the silence.

"Grand Priest, the recent matter of threatening Divine Envoy Ye was indeed somewhat petty and excessive. Regarding this, we can express our apologies.

However, we are currently faced with a catastrophe, where many tribes are under the threat of total extinction. Now, only Divine Envoy Ye has the capability.

Please, Grand Priest, help us smooth things over and invite Divine Envoy Ye over for a proper discussion about disaster relief."

At this point, Grand Priest Nahar’s voice became extremely solemn, "Regardless, we cannot sit back while billions of Sha Clan people starve or die of thirst!"

Grand Priest Nahar’s eyes flashed, indeed, Guii Gu’s words were eloquent and truthful.

However, everyone knew that the present Sand Sea Divine Priests, wouldn’t lower their dignity to ask him to speak to Ye Zhen if not for their interests.

Their purpose was indeed to save those dying Sha Clan people, but had it not been for the fact that their deaths would affect their fundamental interests, they wouldn’t be this urgent.

Though Grand Priest Nahar was aware of all this, for him, as long as he could save more Sha Clan people, it was sufficient.

"I shall try."

With Grand Priest Nahar personally reaching out, he invited Ye Zhen to return to the Heavenly God Golden Hall of the Golden Tribe to discuss disaster relief.

Even though Ye Zhen was reluctant, he had to give them face.

Moreover, the hurricane sandstorm disaster this time wasn’t something that could be fully resolved just by Ye Zhen generating a large number of Yidongqing Divine Trees.

Ye Zhen’s generation of a large number of Yidongqing Divine Trees was only able to restore the oasis ecology of various tribes, preventing them from becoming desertified again and losing the underground water vital for survival.

It provided them the conditions to survive in the Sand Sea, preventing them from extinction in the coming years.

Thus, after Grand Priest Nahar personally reached out, Ye Zhen agreed to return to the Heavenly God Golden Hall to discuss disaster relief.

Finally, considering Ye Zhen’s current distance from the Heavenly God Golden Hall being at least five days away, going back and forth would be a huge waste of time.

Grand Priest Nahar would use his Divine Skills to personally bring Ye Zhen back to the Heavenly God Golden Hall.

It only took an hour for Grand Priest Nahar to bring Ye Zhen back to the Heavenly God Golden Hall from over three million miles away.

Upon seeing Ye Zhen arrive, the three who had recently threatened Ye Zhen enthusiastically, Huaa Xing’an, Weng Lide, and Wuy Youu, all had somewhat awkward expressions.

Even Xiao Ze, with his thick skin, felt somewhat uncomfortable facing Ye Zhen.

On the contrary, Guii Gu, faced Ye Zhen as if nothing had happened, without any abnormality.

The internal meeting at the Yizhi Temple was not bureaucratic or verbose; once Ye Zhen arrived, the meeting went straight to the main topic.

And the first item was, naturally, the crucial Yidongqing Divine Tree.

Within the territory of Sand Sea Divine Priest Wuy Youu, the disaster was most severe.

In Wuy Youu’s territory, there were approximately 7,400 tribes, but the number of affected tribes reached 7,100.

Among these 7,100 tribes, the number where Yidongqing Divine Trees were completely dead reached 6,800 tribes, accounting for over 90%.

Although Wuy Youu could also use the Divine Arts left by the Yizhi Sand Sea Sky God, it was indeed like a drop in the ocean.

Even if Wuy Youu mobilized all his Blue Robe Priests and Green-Robed Priests capable of using Divine Arts, including himself, to personally take action, continuously for a year without rest to generate Yidongqing Divine Trees, at best he could save less than a hundred tribes.

Mainly their use of Divine Arts lacked the immediate effect of Ye Zhen.

For someone like Wuy Youu, the cycle of generating a batch of Yidongqing Divine Trees was at least over half a year.

Therefore, this need was extremely urgent.

Weng Lide’s territory was also heavily affected, with more than 40% of the tribes’ Yidongqing Divine Trees completely extinct, and the affected tribes exceeded 70%.

Huaa Xing’an’s territory was slightly less affected, with the number of affected tribes as high as 70% and Yidongqing Divine Tree complete extinction in over 30% of tribes, yet even those tribes not completely extinct with Yidongqing Divine Trees weren’t much better.

The territories of Guii Gu and Xiao Ze, the two Sand Sea Divine Priests, were slightly less affected, with less than half of the tribes affected, and among the affected tribes, those with complete extinction of Yidongqing Divine Trees ranged between 10% to 20%.

But their territories were vast.

In Xiao Ze’s territory alone, there were over two billion Sha Clan people, even if 20% of tribes faced future extinction, the number of disappearing Sha Clan people would exceed four hundred million.

In Wuy Youu’s territory, the population was just over five hundred million; without any disaster relief measures, in the future, when 90% of tribes disappear, the number of dead Sha Clan people would also exceed four hundred million.

This is the reason for the urgency of the Sand Sea Divine Priests.

Moreover, this is only the long-term impact death number due to the extinction of Yidongqing Divine Trees.

This catastrophe did not only cause the extinction of countless Yidongqing Divine Trees, but it also resulted in another major disaster: crop failure.

Aside from the complete crop failure of grain fields, the various drought-resistant crops that Sha Clan people relied on for survival, those which could carry them through barren years, have also died out.

In past years, Sha Clan people could, even with poor harvests, survive barren years by eating dry fruits from Sea Buckthorn Trees and chewing Desert Grass, as long as they had a little bit of grain.

Due to the environment of the Yizhi Sand Sea, the Sha Clan people of the Yizhi Sand Sea essentially lacked food reserves, even in the tribe warehouses, grain storage was minimal.

Under normal harvests, Sha Clan people could at least rely on a year’s grain yield to get through winter; even with poor yields, they only needed to survive the winter, and the rest would be easier to endure.

But now, there’s widespread crop failure.

According to the predictions of several Sand Sea Divine Priests, aside from many tribes currently facing extinction due to the Yidongqing Divine Trees’ demise, there’s another issue: food scarcity. Their prediction indicates that this winter, the entire Yizhi Sand Sea will witness countless deaths due to starvation.

For various reasons, the food situation of each tribe has not been fully tallied, but even under optimistic estimates, this year in the Yizhi Sand Sea, the number of people starving to death might reach 20% to 30%.

Twenty to thirty percent, that equates to twenty to thirty billion Sha Clan people.

Upon hearing these numbers, Ye Zhen was somewhat dumbfounded.

A 30% population decrease, under normal circumstances, this would only happen during a genocidal war!

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, if more than ten civilians starved to death, the local County Magistrate would lose his official hat.

Yet in the Yizhi Sand Sea, seeing how the Grand Priest and Sand Sea Divine Priests discussed this matter, it seemed as if losing several billion to starvation was normal.

"The food issue will be discussed later, we can only try to find ways to gather more. For now, let’s discuss the survival crisis of tribal extinction due to the Yidongqing Divine Trees’ extinction."

When Grand Priest Nahar began, everyone’s gaze fell on Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen then started to ponder!