King of Creation

Chapter 1909: Chapter 1894: Countless Lives Saved

It is often said that human power has its limits, and sometimes one can only do their best and leave the rest to fate. This is a reflection of Ye Zhen’s situation now.

After the first batch of two hundred million shi of relief grain was delivered, the grain crisis in Yizhi Sand Sea was resolved. However, more and more tribes were suffering from water scarcity due to the death of the Yidongqing Divine Tree.

Even with Ye Zhen working tirelessly day and night, only five to six dozen tribes could have Yidongqing Divine Trees sprout each day.

To complete the rescue of the 7100 tribes under Wuy Youu, it would take at least three and a half months.

Starting from the second month, the daily death toll due to heat disease or water shortage reported by each tribe exceeded five thousand, and this number was increasing exponentially each day.

Ye Zhen was burning with anxiety but helpless.

He exhausted every possible solution.

For instance, he had neighboring small tribes gather together, so that saving one tribe would equate to saving two or three.

Meanwhile, the Yizhi Temple fully mobilized the martial artists who could enter underground rivers to directly fetch water from them.

However, the situation continued deteriorating, and the number of martial artists who could fetch water from underground rivers was limited. Furthermore, the underground rivers near water-scarce tribes had already seeped into the sand sea, making the available water very limited.

To fetch more water, one had to travel further to the main vein of the underground river, though the amount of water that could be retrieved was still limited.

By mid-third month, when Ye Zhen had nearly completed rescuing Wuy Youu’s tribes, the daily death toll had exceeded one hundred thousand.

This was despite many small tribes fetching water from nearby tribes with water sources.

The root problem boiled down to two words—water scarcity!

Moreover, this number continued to rise!

Ye Zhen was in such a panic that blisters formed on his lips, yet he could only watch as countless Sha Clan people perished in this disaster.

However, with the end of the hottest months of July, August, and September, the abrupt cooling of the weather made the sand sea more bearable, and individuals’ daily water requirements drastically reduced.

This decreased the daily death toll from its peak of around three hundred thousand to approximately eighty thousand.

By this time, Ye Zhen’s disaster relief efforts were entering their sixth month.

Throughout the entire Yizhi Sand Sea, nearly forty million Sha Clan people had died due to this calamity.

The death of forty million people, written on paper, was merely a figure.

But to Ye Zhen’s eyes, it was piles upon piles of corpses and black smoke billowing over the sand sea.

Cremation was the most convenient and safest method for the Sha Clan to eliminate the threat of plague during hot weather.

Fortunately, as the weather turned completely cold, by the time Ye Zhen left the tribes under Weng Lide’s Weng Divine Sacrifice’s rule, the daily death toll had reduced to around thirty thousand.

The cooling weather significantly reduced water demand, and after months of death, the surviving tribes found temporary means to hang on.

Tribes might fetch water by martial artists or share a single water source among several tribes.

With the temple’s coordination, the Sha Clan people remained united.

As for tribes that couldn’t find a way to survive the crisis temporarily, they had largely perished.

Now, most Sha Clan people dying were the sickly or weak, succumbing to illness amidst water and food shortages.

Ye Zhen finally caught a bit of respite, allowing him some opportunity to recover as he was nearing his limit.

Ye Zhen’s disaster relief lasted a total of one year and two months.

In one year and two months, Ye Zhen had traveled through all tribes under the rule of the five Divine Sacrifices, nurturing countless Yidongqing Divine Trees.

Ye Zhen had helped each tribe cultivate more Yidongqing Divine Trees than originally existed, with better layout and improved ecology.

Wuy Youu and Huaa Xing’an even wanted to invite Ye Zhen to perform miracles in their untouched tribes.

The goal was to collect a large amount of All Living Beings’ Will Power and improve the ecological conditions of those tribes.

Ye Zhen declined this proposal without hesitation.

During these one year and two months, both Ye Zhen and Little Demon used the Yimu Spiritual Communication Technique continuously, reaching a point of nausea.

If it wasn’t for the will to save lives keeping them going, both Ye Zhen and Little Demon would have collapsed long ago.

If you ate fifty to sixty bowls of noodles a day for a year and two months, you’d feel nauseated too!

Undoubtedly, Huaa Xing’an, a somewhat stingy person, also joined Ye Zhen’s Divine Messenger Sect, becoming a staunch supporter of Ye Zhen.

Yet all this was facilitated by Wuy Youu and Chief Steward Huang.

When leaving Wuy Youu’s territories, Ye Zhen no longer had the interest or intention to bargain with the Sha Sea Divine Priests for benefits.

He had only one thought in mind—to save people, to save more people!

Hence, all such matters were negotiated by Wuy Youu leading Huang Tuo.

Furthermore, when it came to others, these instances weren’t mere exchanges of benefits, but gratitude towards Ye Zhen.

For example, with Guii Divine Sacrifice, anxious to save lives, Ye Zhen didn’t waste words but immediately proceeded to perform divine arts to manifest miracles.

Guii Divine Sacrifice naturally harvested a large amount of All Living Beings’ Will Power.

When Wuy Youu approached, Guii Divine Sacrifice quickly offered three-tenths of the annual income from tribes saved by Ye Zhen as a token of gratitude.

Additionally, Huang Tuo, on behalf of Ye Zhen, assured that he wouldn’t interfere in Guii Divine Sacrifice’s tribal governance.

However, Guii Divine Sacrifice deemed this promise unnecessary.

After all, the abundance of All Living Beings’ Will Power surpassed a hundred or thousand-fold of what he offered to Ye Zhen.

Guii Divine Sacrifice even intrigued at the thought of having more disaster-stricken tribes under his care like Wuy Youu.

Afterward, Weng Lide and Huaa Xing’an, the Sha Sea Divine Priests, acted similarly.

Each offered three-tenths of annual income from tribes aided by Ye Zhen as thanks.

Yet, as Weng Lide was aligned with Grand Priest’s faction, Ye Zhen wouldn’t poach or accept from him.

Nevertheless, Huaa Xing’an, influenced by Wuy Youu, joined without hesitation.

It’s noteworthy that Sha Sea Divine Priest Xiao Zeo, having remained silent for a year, agreed to the conditions brought forth by Wuy Youu and Huang Tuo.

For a Sha Sea Divine Priest, All Living Beings’ Will Power is invaluable.

This point mattered little to Ye Zhen.

During the process, Ye Zhen acquired at least twice the All Living Beings’ Will Power than other Sha Sea Divine Priests.

With All Living Beings’ Will Power and saving lives, why not seize the opportunity?

Throughout, Grand Priest Nahar praised Ye Zhen endlessly.

In Grand Priest Nahar’s words, Ye Divine Envoy had provided immeasurable merits in saving countless lives, and even doubled the strength of Sha Sea Divine Priests.

This was his first time witnessing such results from disaster relief.

Although over fifty million died, equaling half of Yizhi Sand Sea’s Sha Clan populace, it was noted to be the lowest death ratio from disasters in Yizhi Sand Sea’s history.

Ye Zhen’s arduous efforts over the year and two months yielded plentiful rewards.

Besides massive All Living Beings’ Will Power, he gained much Sand Sea Golden Lotus Tea, Golden Lotus Jade Essence, Dao Realm experts Zhang Yide and Qinglian.

Ye Zhen also gained three-tenths annual income from nearly half the tribes across Yizhi Sand Sea.

Such income mostly constituted Yizhi Sand Sea’s original commodities, which soared in value when traded externally, greatly supplementing Ye Zhen’s resources amid substantial consumption due to supporting cultivation in Mirage Dragon Pearl Sequential Space, significantly easing Ye Zhen’s economic strain.

Still, Ye Zhen’s greatest achievement in these one year and two months was—saving countless lives!

Preliminarily estimated, twenty-five billion Sha Clan people survived directly due to Ye Zhen’s efforts, with indirect impact uncalculable!