Chapter 683: Crescent Island

Soon, Mei Gongzi arrived through the teleportation array.

Seeing that Tang San had returned safely, her first reaction was to breathe a sigh of relief. "You're back so soon. Did everything go smoothly?"

"I told you it’d go smoothly; after all, the sea is my domain. I found an archipelago with large islands suitable for humans. I've also communicated with the sea clans there, and they've agreed to let our people move there. So we need to prepare for the migration, and we need to do it fast. How is the progress at the port?"

"We found a good place to build and we moved plenty of materials there, but we've faced some interference. There are a lot of sea beasts around. Although there aren't many powerful beings near the coast, as soon as we start constructing shipyards and whatnot, they start meddling."

Tang San pondered for a moment and then said, "I'll handle that. You need to mobilize everyone to build the ships as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, I'll use the teleportation array to transport some of our people to the islands to start building a settlement and establish a port on the other side of the sea route. This way, we can open up the sea routes in the shortest possible time."

Mei Gongzi furrowed her brow slightly. "We'll speed up, but I'm starting to understand your concerns more and more. The news that I've become the lord of Kali City has still leaked out, even though we've tried to keep it from spreading. More and more of our people are gathering here, especially after hearing that we have a dedicated human settlement. The humans in the two main cities closest to Kali City are leaving toward us in droves. The total population has almost reached a million. With numbers like these, it's impossible not to draw the Ancestral Court's attention. We've been a bit too hasty."

Tang San sighed softly. Indeed, he had expected this to happen, but that didn’t mean it was an easy problem to deal with. "It's because our people have suffered under the demon clans for so long. Now that they finally have you as their pillar of support, how could they hold back? That's why we need to think even more about their safety. Time is of the essence. The Ancestral Court won't act immediately; they await your report. But once they do act, it will be problematic. We need to move out even faster than I originally expected. Make sure all our people with a Demonic God Transformation are involved in the port's construction. I'll start making some array discs right now, and you can take them back with you."

The array discs that Tang San wanted to create were something he couldn’t entrust to his master or anyone else; only he could make them because he had to leave a trace of his divine consciousness imprint within them. Only the Sea God’s divine consciousness could truly keep the sea beasts at bay.

As his cultivation advanced, the sheer amount and quality of his spiritual power made the conversion to divine consciousness much faster than before. In the past, he wouldn’t have dared to do this, as every bit of divine consciousness was precious. Now, however, Tang San had discovered that if he cultivated within the sea, with the aid of the power of faith, the rate at which his spiritual power transformed into divine consciousness increased significantly.

The next step was to solve the issue of the Sea Plague. If he could do that, there was no doubt that he would immediately gain the support of the sea clans. Although his current cultivation level wouldn’t make them worship him as a god, it would at least ensure that human migration to the Endless Blue Sea wouldn’t be a problem.

Soon, Tang San crafted two array discs and handed them to Mei Gongzi, instructing her to place them on either side of the harbor, submerged in seawater. The discs would naturally absorb the power of faith through his divine consciousness while emitting the aura of the Sea God, ensuring that no sea beasts would disturb the nearby waters.

𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Tang San needed to continue making these array discs for a simple reason—he needed to place them on the ships to be constructed. With the discs radiating his aura, it would be as if he were on the ships himself.

Over the next month, Tang San and Mei Gongzi became extremely busy. Tang San chose a secure location within the human settlement outside Kali City and built a teleportation array there, which was guarded by Wu Bingji, Gu Li, Cheng Zicheng, and Du Bai.

After discussing with Zhang Haoxuan, they began quietly sending people out.

Given Tang San's current cultivation power, such long-distance teleportation could only transport a few dozen people at a time, and they couldn’t have particularly high cultivation.

The first to be transported were trustworthy individuals who had no reason to return to the Daemon Continent anytime soon. They also brought tools to start clearing the islands, establishing ports, and planting seeds to pave the way for the future human population.

Everything was carried out in secrecy.

But since Tang San had not yet reached godhood, even with Mei Gongzi’s assistance, he could only manage three teleportations daily, transporting around a hundred people. That was the limit; anything more would deplete him.

After a month, around two thousand people had been migrated, including one hundred who possessed the demonic god transformation.

On the other side, the Sea Walrus clan had also helped to some extent. The elder of the Sea Walrus clan highly appreciated Tang San, and with the massive bodies of the walruses, the construction of the port became much less labor-intensive for the people.

With two thousand people as the vanguard, Tang San felt that it was enough, and he stopped teleporting people out. The first port in the waters near Kali City had taken shape, and the construction of ships had begun.

In this area, both humans and demons were lacking experience, as those on the Daemon Continent never ventured out to sea. Tang San had to stay by the shore to provide guidance and even personally assist, using his formidable strength to help them build the ships.

Fortunately, the Daemon Continent had no shortage of resources. The dense, hard wood available made for excellent shipbuilding material, particularly the ironflower trees. With the help of many powerful individuals, including gods like Zhang Haoxuan, the process was swift. In just half a month, the first three-masted ship was completed.

Now, however, they faced another challenge—there was a ship, but nobody knew how to sail it. Tang San had to step in again, this time to train the crew.

Humans were lacking in some aspects, but fortunately, intelligence was not one of them, and learning to operate the three-masted ship wasn’t too difficult. The real challenge lay in dealing with storms, various weather changes, and attacks from sea beasts. At least with the latter issue, Tang San's Sea God array disc solved it before it even became a problem.

Thus, a group of people started learning how to navigate. They would be the first sailors in the history of this continent!

The shipbuilding continued, but Tang San didn’t help with that, and neither did he rush to transport more people to the islands. Instead, he took the first group of people who had learned to navigate and set sail for the islands.

They took turns steering the ship and practicing raising and lowering the sails, while Tang San provided guidance.

After one round trip, this first batch of a hundred sailors was basically capable of handling the ship on their own. A round trip from the eastern shore of the continent to the island and back only took about three days with the help of a Sea God array disc and a few people with wind-attribute bloodlines.

A fully loaded three-masted ship could carry as many as five hundred people at once, plus cargo. This was the limit of its capacity. This meant that five hundred people or so could be transported to the island every three days. However, given that there was currently only one ship and more sailors and captains had to be trained, the actual number of passengers would be slightly lower.

Even so, by the fourth month of Mei Gongzi's rule as the lord of Kali City, the migration of humans to offshore islands had officially begun!

Because the largest island was shaped like a crescent moon, Tang San named it Crescent Island.

Besides Crescent Island, there were a number of other islands in the archipelago suitable for human habitation. Tang San had roughly estimated that the entire archipelago could accommodate a population of one million. Of course, this depended on the construction keeping pace, and in the beginning, plenty of resources would need to be brought from the mainland.