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Erasing all the demons from Stone Man Mountain took Che Shidao only a few breaths' time.
However, dealing with the aftermath, gathering survivors, and relocating citizens took him nearly half a month; after several back-and-forths, he finally managed to move everyone to the vicinity of City of Yunlan.
Once everyone had been moved back to City of Yunlan, the population in and around the city officially surged to over five hundred thousand people.
The desolate scene within ten thousand miles nearby was finally contained, and a faint sign of rejuvenation could be noticed.
Lu Yuan also took the opportunity to select more than twenty qualified disciples from the newly gathered citizens to join the sect.
This brought the number of disciples in Taiping Dao to over forty.
A sect flourishing with more than a hundred disciples was within reach.
However, after returning, Che Shidao had no time to look after these disciples, as he was soon preoccupied with other matters.
