With the first harvest of Liang rice secured, the mountain of a burden weighing on the realm’s shoulders was visibly lighter.

Body-tempering stage cultivators had far greater appetites than those of ordinary people. Without spirit food to supplement their diet, they would have to eat five or six times as much as the average person to eat their fill. Otherwise, not only would their cultivation stall, they would become lethargic and find it difficult to carry out even daily activities.

That was why Wei Yuan always distributed a batch of rations post-haste prior to every battle to ensure the warriors were well-fed. Not only that, another batch of rations had to be distributed after the battle because everyone’s stamina would be sitting at almost rock bottom due to Life is a Flash. Otherwise, they would literally starve to death.

These two meals alone—one before and one after the battle—amounted to three days’ worth of food for an ordinary mortal, and this was after Wei Yuan had calculated the bare minimum he could provide his warriors without risking starvation.

By consuming 100,000 catties of Liang rice, the cultivators were saving the realm 300,000 catties of ordinary rations. Their cultivation would also improve.

At this very moment, Wei Yuan finally understood the meaning of the saying:...