Lu Yao’s perspective cut into the realm dimension and saw a simple dashboard shaped like a compass on the right.
At the centre of the dashboard was a mass of green dots, with several names squeezed together: [Shard World Unnamed], [Temple in the Clouds], [Spectral Ghost Realm], [Bamboo Reed Kingdom], and [Toastmaster’s Banquet Bird].
The green mass that serves as the axis is the ring-shaped cluster of realms around the Vortex World.
There was only one hand on the dial, pointing in the north-east direction.
In other words, Ryuju was on this route.
Ever since he switched to travelling in the Vortex World, Lu Yao’s biggest problem was the lack of a map, so he could only wander aimlessly in the crawling area, and what he could come across was purely based on luck.
The only thing he had gained since hitting the road was the capture of two Divine Kingdoms, which allowed him to experiment with various ideas.
Now that he knew the general direction of the Dragon’s Lodge, he had a relatively clear coordinates for setting sail. As long as he sailed all the way along this direction, he would be able to find the channel worlds that connected to the Dragonhost.
These channel worlds were either vassals of the Dragon Race in the Creeping Zone, or some of the gods that had befriended the Dragon Race.
Due to the deterrent power of the Dragon Race, the channel worlds were usually relatively safe areas, like a small harbour in the Creeping Zone, maintaining a relatively stable environment.
Lu Yao made a two-handed plan.
If the channel world was intact, it would still be possible to enter the dragon lodges, and it would be logical to have the Silkworm Bush and Ember Sun Dragons under his command pay a visit, and there would still be a chance to make a deal.
If the channel world has been destroyed, the channel world itself is also a divine kingdom – there are still three nails in a rotten boat, one used to collect a rag, and there are still quite a few omnipotent stones in a gravel world like Banquet Bird, not to mention the once divine kingdom.
Now that the development of Banquet Bird was also coming to an end, it was time to find the next engineering project for King Uzi’s team.
After sorting out the pros and cons clearly, Lu Yao set sail and turned, pointing the Vortex World straight at the nearest Dragonhost Passage World.
In the Creeping Zone, each world moved very slowly and couldn’t reach its destination in a moment.
Lu Yao didn’t want to waste Faith to accelerate, so he left it for now.
He cut back to the Yao Race World to first resolve some of the troubles that had accumulated within the world over the years.
……
For quite some time, Lu Yao had focused on the outer cycle of civilisation, which didn’t mean that the inner cycle was smooth sailing. It was just that the internal foundation was relatively strong, so there was no problem with fundamentals.
The Yao tribe had a long term hidden problem that ran through the years.
Fewer new populations were added.
In the two Epochal Renewals, the Yao Race’s population achieved successive doublings. However, initially, the Yao Race’s population base was very small, resulting in the Yao Race’s total number still being less than 500,000 people to date.
This was something that made Lu Yao take it seriously.
It was reasonable to say that nowadays, the Yao Race’s population did not lack food, meat, eggs and milk were also guaranteed to a certain extent, and the urban environment in which they lived was also getting better, so why couldn’t the fertility rate be raised?
He used [Wishing Star] to read about the current situation of the survival of the pixelated little people, asked a group of apostles, and also looked through various data and descriptions of the world’s backstage …… before he initially figured out the reason behind it.
Two factors.
One was the environmental impact.
Currently, the Yao Race had only experienced the Second Era. While the first epoch was relatively comfortable, the second epoch saw the enhancement of poisons and more extreme climates leading to frequent natural disasters, coupled with the continuous growth of transcendental creatures, allowing the Yao Race to experience a certain increase in mortality.
The second was man-made choices.
The overall development of the Yao Race changed after the emergence of magic pills and spectral armour, no longer following the path of refinement from farming and animal husbandry to town crafts.
At the fork in the road of civilisation, the Yao Race entered the field of transcendent technology, a path that had no precedent to follow and brought about a series of unpredictable subsequent developments.
Firstly, the increase in the number of transcendentalists in the Yao race has led to more intermarriages between ordinary people and transcendentalists, and it is more difficult for transcendentalists to reproduce than ordinary people.
Plus, the Yao Race is now accustomed to using magic pills to cure diseases and using magic pills as tools. But after all, the history of magic potions was too short, and the side effects were difficult to assess, and the Yao people were physiologically subjected to a certain amount of stress and influence.
The fertility rate then dropped.
One could only say that there were both objective reasons and subjective choices.
Lu Yao’s methods were: encouraging fertility and bringing in immigrants.
The strategy of encouraging childbirth produced good results in several affluent cities. Especially Salt City and Uda City, which gave high incentive payments and instead pulled a lot of population from other cities over.
Overall, it had some effect.
Bringing in immigrants, on the other hand, consisted of both internal and external parts.
Internal immigrants mainly referred to those scattered mountain people, islanders and aborigines in the Yao world who didn’t go to settle in the Yao cities for various reasons.
External immigrants currently only consisted of recruited labourers from the Ghost World and the Zhulu Kingdom, who were temporarily placed in Sand City so that this group of people could participate in the construction of Sand City and slowly turn into Yao Race city dwellers.
All of these strategies have visible positive effects, it’s just that further population growth will take time.
In the simulator, the pixelated villains look like mass-produced NPCs, however, underneath these pixelated images are individual beings in the lower realm dimension.
Lives had their own choices.
What Lu Yao had to do was to give them a better environment, which was the divine rule he had always adhered to. Don’t turn the pixel world into a canning factory, only pursuing enough numbers and good data.
Aside from the population issue, there was another pain point.
[Brass Hearth Dragon].
The Yao civilisation was trying to promote transcendent technology, so it definitely needed more diverse and abundant quality materials.
Lu Yao pulled up a list of materials with a few boon candidates: rubber trees, acacia trees, and coconut trees.
Rubber trees produce latex, which after drying and solidifying is natural rubber.
The acacia tree has excellent wood and can make ships, sleepers and vehicles, and its seeds can extract oil and secrete resin.
The coconut tree’s coconuts are high-quality fruits, the flesh is edible, and the coconut fibres can be made into durable fabrics such as brushes and carpets.
Lu Yao inwardly favoured the rubber tree.
Rubber was a basic material for industry, and Brass Furnace Dragons could be used in any way.
It was better to ask the person concerned about such things as needs.
“Lord God, all the gifts you give are great gifts ……”
Apostle Fellows carefully worded his words, “The kind of material you mentioned that insulates water, isn’t afraid of fire, and has resilience, is actually something that the Yao Clan already has.”
Lu Yao was left with a head full of questions, you guys can even pound this out?
“It’s the [Black Wu Clay].”
The Skeleton Man explained, “Black Wu Clay has excellent waterproof ability, it can be shaped and bonded with a little heating, and will retain a certain degree of flexibility after solidifying, making it reliable and durable. All of this is the result of the Uzi’s many years of experience.”
“White Castle had considered it at the beginning when designing the [Brass Furnace Dragon], using black ooze to partially encase it, and even building a partially soft channel to allow the artificial dragon’s blood to circulate.”
“But at that time, there was a difficult problem that wasn’t overcome, and that was how to make the Black Ebony Clay fireproof.”
Talking about professional issues, Fellows spoke in great detail, “It wasn’t until half a year ago that an engineer named Tiyang from Yancheng finally found a way.”
“He stirred and reacted the black ooze with borax to form a fireproof layer full of lustre, and it was also very resistant to abrasion. This major improvement completely turned Black Woolly Clay into an advanced material that could be used in a wide range of applications, not only for brass furnace dragons, but also came in handy in other engineering and casting ……”
Lu Yao Man was a bit baffled.
This fierce man called Tie Yang, how did the simulator not remind at all?
“…… Tie Yang is now a lifelong scholar at White Castle, and he is continuing his research on advanced materials at White Castle. Such amazing scholars are still appearing, and the Yao Clan’s atmosphere of creativity and invention has never been thicker.”Fellows said happily.
Lu Yao found that Tie Yang in White Castle.
Engineer Tie Yang was already 72 years old, and only Backstage could find out the details of his experience. Tie Yang started out as an apprentice blacksmith and graduated at the age of 37 after completing a full course at the Engineering Academy, which turned him into an engineer.
His personal history is almost entirely blank, apparently considered mediocre and not worth recording, with the exception of his transformation of Black Ooze.
At the age of 72, Tiyo finally made the discovery of a way to utilise borax.
The black ooze modified by borax was turned into a high level substitute for natural rubber, a renewable material proven through years of use by the people of Uji. White Castle was now constantly pressing for the Prophet Black Forge to produce large quantities of black ooze.
Lu Yao added a point to Tie Yang to raise him to LV10, which might allow him to live a little longer.
“Thank you God Yao …… for …… your grace.”The old engineer was terrified and sat on his knees, constantly expressing his gratitude to the gods for their blessings.
Lu Yao sighed.
The Yao Clan’s internal competition was too fierce nowadays, and the invention of the Boronised Black Ooze was actually not enough to go beyond the same group to trigger the Hero and Prophet’s Transformation Mechanism.
Obviously, there were other inventors of the same level who had made similar contributions.
Lu Yao suddenly felt an emptiness.
I’m such a god that I can’t even find a place to gift something.
Forget it, let’s send you coconuts.
He grabbed a green coconut on the table.
Suddenly Lu Yao thought again, the gift of grace was the icing on the cake for the Yao Race World, but the Sand City side might just be a gift of charcoal in the snow. The Cloud Temple needed more resources to tilt and foster it.
So Lu Yao put down the coconut and looked at the cactus in the potted plant on the table.
“Little Fire, peel a coconut for me.”
“Yes, Lord Divine.”
The cactus stood up from the potted plant and ran to the kitchen carrying the coconut.
Lu Yao searched for a pair of chopsticks and pinched out the cactus next to the potted plant – this was supposed to be used as a camouflage cover for Little Fire, and he had deliberately bought some cacti to make a pile with Little Fire.
The cactus was graced into the shrine of Sand Castle.
Soon, two cacti grew outside the temple.
The gods had sent down their first boon to Sand City, making the residents of Sand City, large and small, excited.
“The gods’ bounty!”
“The gods have given Sand City a blessing!”
“This is a gift and life given by God Yao, we must protect it well!”
“Cacti, we have to plant a lot of cacti.”
“Everyone take action.”
Mayor Slimer’s doppelganger began to lead the crowd and together they started planting cacti.
Lu Yao stroked his chin.
It wasn’t enough.
In an extreme environment like the Temple in the Clouds, ordinary cacti might not be able to carry it, so they had to be given a boost in strength.
Lu Yao tapped on the Golden Wilderness and opened the [Tree of Creation].
