Chapter 556 - 487: My dear minister, please continue to work hard for a few more years!
"Practicing the Spirit Continuation Blood Refining Skill requires a substantial amount of blood energy, and if there are multiple practitioners, it would necessitate slaughtering a large number of Martial Artists. Has there been a significant number of Martial Artists missing or dead under unusual circumstances in our empire?" Zhou Mao asked.
Wang Zhongzhi slightly shook his head, "It’s still early, and we have not yet conducted a comprehensive investigation, but according to the information received from various places, there has not been a large number of Martial Artists missing!"
The Spirit Continuation Blood Refining Skill works by absorbing the blood energy of Martial Artists to condense Innate True Qi, and the higher the cultivation of the Martial Artist, the more effective it is.
The blood energy of Martial Artists in the Body Refining Realm is extremely weak, and Postnatal Martial Artists are considered the best source of blood energy.
However, Postnatal Martial Artists are not common; they may seem plentiful in Capital City, but they are quite rare among the common people.
Martial Artists tend to cluster, meaning the more prosperous the area, the more Martial Artists it has, and the more Martial Artists there are, the more masters there will be.
Put simply, excluding Innate Martial Artists, the force of Martial Artists in Capital City accounts for almost twenty percent of the entire Da Rong, and the nine border towns account for another thirty percent, with the remaining fifty percent spread across thirteen provinces.
Among these thirteen provinces, Jiangnan, a rich and fertile area, houses the majority, followed by the government office cities of various domains; even in a single county, only a few Martial Artists can be found.
Take the previous example of Anning County, which had very few Martial Artists, but ever since the rise of the Yang family, Anning County has become a gathering place for Martial Artists within Jing’an Prefecture.
This is the clustering effect of Martial Artists.