The response received by Emperor Quhe also fell silent.
Judging by this, that vast expanse of barren land, almost occupying half of Daqian's territory, indeed seemed to have little need for salvation. The resources and favors required to salvage it would be enough to conquer another equally large territory, so why deplete their own foundation for it.
However, Emperor Quhe remained quite puzzled:
"Since it requires such a great cost to restore that barren land, why did the Liu family you mentioned earlier demand it?
Even for the sake of that barren land.
They were willing to accept and resettle over a hundred million refugees.
I don't believe she does things without benefit. How can anyone be so foolish? No, tell me in detail about the situation of the Liu family in Jiyun City!"
"This, Imperial Grandfather, is a bit difficult for me to explain.
Currently, I've only investigated that the Liu family is ostensibly a Golden Core lineage. Their strongest member is their current family head, Liu Yan. However, this Liu Yan is very powerful. The cultivation technique she practices seems to be extremely special. Not only is her mana vast, but her mana also contains boundless vitality, making it easy to promote the growth of crops and ensure a bountiful harvest.
Moreover, she possesses quite a few high-yield grain varieties.
Many of these grain varieties yield over twenty shi per mu.
These seem to be the foundation upon which she can support those refugees. As long as the refugees cultivate the land and plant seeds under her arrangement, she will cast spells in a very short period to make the seeds take root, sprout, and harvest.
Following this, the refugees will then harvest.
The refugees receive thirty percent of the grain, and the remaining seventy percent belongs to their Liu family, ensuring that the refugees newly accepted by the Liu family and those without land to cultivate do not starve.
In my analysis, her cultivation technique and the characteristics of her mana should be very suitable for farming, and also very suitable for dispelling the negative factors within the barren land.
This would allow the barren land to return to its normal state.
Although it's uncertain if she can completely restore that barren land, theoretically speaking, it should be no problem to completely restore the outermost part of the barren land.
With the outermost part of the barren land restored.
Combined with their family's high-yield grain varieties, it would be enough to support the over one hundred million refugees who have survived.
Perhaps this is their family's confidence."
Regarding the Liu family, Emperor Daqian naturally could not trust them without investigation. However, Ding Yun's current actions were indeed beyond reproach, so he truly couldn't criticize the investigation results.
"It doesn't seem to have any flaws. A special cultivation technique and high-yield grain varieties can also be attributed to coincidental encounters. However, even so, what is the use of them wanting that troublesome land and over a hundred million refugees?
I don't quite believe their family is purely benevolent and wishes to save those refugees. Working so hard for so long without any benefit, how is that possible?"
Analyzing from a human perspective, Emperor Quhe did not believe the Liu family would have no other motives. He always felt they were plotting something big, which made him uneasy.
"Imperial Grandfather, are you perhaps overthinking things?
Besides, even if the Liu family has any intentions, our family can easily suppress them. After all, no matter what intentions she has, she is still just a Golden Core True Monarch.
Our imperial family's three Nascent Soul Venerables are not to be trifled with.
Their family cannot cause any major trouble!"
Emperor Daqian felt that Ding Yun's proposal had no issues and was even quite welcome. This was because his thought was that Ding Yun's strength was not particularly strong.
If the outer regions of the barren land could truly be restored.
Perhaps it would be a good opportunity for him to reap the rewards.
After all, it was merely a Golden Core lineage. Even if their cultivation technique was special, could it still challenge higher realms? Even if it could, it would at most be effective against those cultivating ordinary techniques.
Their imperial family's cultivation techniques were not inferior.
Could they not deal with a mere Golden Core lineage?
They were far too adept at discarding tools once the job was done.
Hearing this, Emperor Quhe also felt he had been overthinking. In the cultivation world, why worry about schemes and tricks? As long as strength was sufficient, no amount of schemes could cause much trouble; they could be suppressed with a mere flick of the wrist.
Therefore, he soon nodded in agreement.
The other old ancestors of the imperial family felt the same.
Following this, Emperor Daqian naturally paid his respects and withdrew, then issued an imperial decree externally, agreeing to Ding Yun's request and formally enfelegating all the barren land to Ding Yun.
Furthermore, he required Ding Yun to be responsible for the resettlement of all refugees.
Upon receiving the imperial decree, Ding Yun immediately began arranging for the Liu family members to receive those refugees, while simultaneously leading over ten million refugees under her command back to their homeland, that is, directly towards the barren land that now belonged to the Liu family.
Although everyone knew the state of that barren land, firstly, they truly missed their homeland, and if possible, they would naturally prefer to return.
Secondly, they also believed in Ding Yun's assurance.
They believed that Ding Yun could restore the barren land to its original appearance.
Therefore, Ding Yun's actions did not provoke any dissatisfaction. Moreover, since she did not resort to coercion, she allowed the few who were unwilling to leave to stay.
Consequently, this grand migration proceeded very smoothly.
To minimize wasted time and potential personnel losses during the migration, Ding Yun specifically set up numerous teleportation arrays at various nodes, and thus, in a very short period, transported the first batch of over ten million refugees to the edge of the barren land.
The subsequent second, third, and fourth batches.
Would also arrive successively via the established teleportation routes.
And what Ding Yun had to do now was one thing: lead the first batch of refugees to rebuild the barren land.
In summary, it was actually very simple.
It was still farming.
The outer region of the barren land was merely arid and waterless. Although the temperature was high, it was not so hot as to kill people, so normal planting was still possible.
The problem was that the seeds basically could not take root.
However, what Ding Yun had them plant were not ordinary crops, but special fire-attribute spiritual seeds like Fire Spirit Wheat, Fire Cotton Trees, and Blazing Sun Spiritual Rice, which could absorb fire-attribute spiritual energy and were most suitable for cultivation in arid regions.
These spiritual seeds were cultivated by her in a previous world.
Using her golden finger.
At that time, she had specifically left behind a large number of seeds and stored them in her soul space, thinking they might be useful someday. Now they were indeed being used, and they were quite effective.
When the fire-attribute spiritual seeds were stimulated, they would absorb the soil and even the scorching heat in the air at an extremely fast pace. Once these seeds absorbed all the scorching heat in the outermost region, seeds could be sown and planted further into the unreclaimed areas.
This way, not only could the barren land be rapidly eliminated.
It would also prevent the scorching heat from the unreclaimed barren land from re-eroding the reclaimed areas.
It could be described as killing two birds with one stone, achieving the best of both worlds.