[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu":3,"chapter-eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-152":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Immortal Cultivation for Eternal Life: Starting as a Fortune Cultivator",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1902438,2538,"Chapter 152: Casting the City","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-152",152,"\u003Cp>In the plains of the Xuanmu Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan first set up a massive concealment formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After activating the formation to block external perception of this area,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>looking at the demonic qi filling the surroundings, Ye Qingxuan did not rush to take out the city components to cast the city immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he took out a fourth-tier Spirit-Washing Nuclear Core Elixir.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan slowly guided the energy within the Spirit-Washing Nuclear Core Elixir and released it into this space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The energy of the Spirit-Washing Nuclear Core Elixir collided with the demonic qi, instantly emitting a piercing hissing sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demonic qi was continuously purified by the energy of the Spirit-Washing Nuclear Core Elixir.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the process of purifying the demonic qi, the energy of the Spirit-Washing Nuclear Core Elixir was gradually worn away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the demonic qi filling the plains was only the lowest tier, first-tier demonic qi, while the energy in the fourth-tier Spirit-Washing Nuclear Core Elixir belonged to the fourth-tier level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, a wisp of fourth-tier Spirit-Washing Nuclear Core Elixir energy could purify dozens of wisps of the demonic qi in the plains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the Spirit-Washing Nuclear Core Elixir was not directly detonated, Ye Qingxuan spent three double-hours to purify all the demonic qi within this area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the demonic qi in this area was completely purified, Ye Qingxuan immediately took out all the city components and began arranging them according to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams pattern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rows of city walls and palaces of various shapes, under Ye Qingxuan's control, began to assemble in mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a short while, all the city components had assembled in the air into a small city ten li long and ten li wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the city was ten li long and ten li wide, it was not square in shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire city, as a whole, formed a massive Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams pattern, with a total of eight city gates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the city was built, under Ye Qingxuan's control, it landed directly on the plains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Ye Qingxuan began to lay the flooring on the city streets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For these floorboards, Ye Qingxuan was not too extravagant, using only those refined from first-tier spiritual materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, on top of the floorboards, Ye Qingxuan also carved formation patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the floorboards were laid, Ye Qingxuan activated the formation patterns on them, causing the floorboards to completely merge with the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the city before him, Ye Qingxuan nodded in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire city was divided into nine areas, corresponding respectively to the Nine Palaces in the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking out thirty thousand top-grade spirit stones and placing them in the central palace position of the city, Ye Qingxuan began to activate the dense formation patterns within the city one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the formation patterns continued to light up and activate, a faint energy shield slowly appeared around the entire city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This energy shield could continuously strengthen itself according to the intensity of the attacks it suffered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its upper threshold was the limit value of the attack intensity of an ordinary early-stage Soul Transformation realm cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the future, this city would be the foothold of Ye Qingxuan's clone, the Mysterious Merchant, in the Xuanmu Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan did not think much about the city's name and simply named it the Mysterious Merchant City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the formation was activated, Ye Qingxuan did not immediately cancel the concealment formation outside the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the time the city was being built, the demonic qi in other areas of the plains had begun to gradually spread over here, filling the demonic qi purified by Ye Qingxuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding this, Ye Qingxuan had a countermeasure in mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out eighty-one fifth-tier Spirit-Purifying Trees from his storage ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had only been thirty-plus years since the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven advanced to the third tier; the several thousand Spirit-Purifying Trees planted afterwards had not yet grown to the fifth tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These eighty-one fifth-tier Spirit-Purifying Trees were the batch Ye Qingxuan planted earliest in the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and had never been sold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the trunks of these fifth-tier Spirit-Purifying Trees, formation patterns had been carved long ago by Ye Qingxuan's main body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan planted these fifth-tier Spirit-Purifying Trees around the Mysterious Merchant City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he activated the formation patterns connecting the fifth-tier Spirit-Purifying Trees, setting up a crude fifth-tier Great Purification Formation to amplify the ability of the fifth-tier Spirit-Purifying Trees to purify alien energies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the fifth-tier Spirit-Purifying Trees were planted, under the support of the fifth-tier Great Purification Formation, they began to actively draw in demonic qi from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demonic qi that was originally slowly spreading toward the city\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>began to form whirlwinds under the pull of the fifth-tier Spirit-Purifying Trees, rushing toward the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as they were about to approach the city, these demonic qi whirlwinds were absorbed by the eighty-one fifth-tier Spirit-Purifying Trees, continuously transforming into dense first-tier spiritual energy and pouring into Ye Qingxuan's city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifth-tier Spirit-Purifying Trees can purify up to fifth-tier demonic qi at most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using them to purify the first-tier demonic qi spreading across the plains was naturally an easy task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the gradually thickening first-tier spiritual energy within the city, Ye Qingxuan did not feel happy; instead, he frowned and said in a low voice: \"It seems I must find a way to obtain a fifth-tier spiritual vein source.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To attract cultivators to the Mysterious Merchant City, spiritual energy within the city is indispensable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With only first-tier spiritual energy in the city, although fifth-tier Nascent Soul cultivators could also absorb and utilize it, the conversion efficiency was too slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If relying entirely on spirit stones to fill the city with high-tier spiritual energy, Ye Qingxuan could not afford it for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan pondered for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps, when his next batch of several thousand Spirit-Purifying Trees grows to the fifth tier, his fifth-tier spiritual vein source will be secured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the overall arrangement of the city was completed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan waved his hand, and three hundred second-tier wooden puppets appeared in the Mysterious Merchant City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, operating a city cannot rely solely on his clone alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for recruiting other cultivators in the Xuanmu Realm to maintain the city's operation? Cultivators who risk their lives to come to the Xuanmu Realm are mostly there for the Green Demon Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for cultivators backed by major powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For ordinary independent cultivators casting a city, one basically cannot expect to recruit other cultivators in the Xuanmu Realm to operate the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless you are willing to directly share a large portion of the city's profits with others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Ye Qingxuan never intended to recruit other cultivators to operate the city in the Xuanmu Realm from the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the second-tier wooden puppets lack self-awareness, they are extremely simple to control when not fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan's mysterious merchant avatar, as long as it is within the Mysterious Mall, can easily control these second-tier wooden puppets using spiritual sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using these second-tier wooden puppets to manage the shops and cave dwellings within the city, and to maintain order, is sufficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sixth-tier lower-grade Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation not only has defensive functions but also suppression capabilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the city, even a cultivator in the early stage of Soul Transformation would be suppressed by the sixth-tier lower-grade Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After releasing the three hundred wooden puppets, they were stationed at the eight city gates and behind the various shop buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan took out a storage bag and handed it to a wooden puppet located in a special building at the center of the Mysterious Mall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the storage bag were various resources of the fifth tier and below, prepared by Ye Qingxuan in advance to operate the Mysterious Mall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each of the major shops within the Mysterious Mall has a small teleportation array connecting to this building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This building serves as a special operation center, capable of dispatching supplies throughout the entire Mysterious Mall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once preparations were complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan arrived at the city square.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking out the formation base obtained from the City Lord's Mansion of Xuanmu City, Ye Qingxuan began to set up a large teleportation array based on this foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A teleportation array for short-distance item transport can be set up by a third-tier formation master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A teleportation array for long-distance human transport, at its worst, requires a fifth-tier formation master to set up. Now that Ye Qingxuan is already a sixth-tier formation master, and with the help of the already crafted formation base, setting up the teleportation array to Xuanmu City was not difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Ye Qingxuan finished setting up the teleportation array and activated it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the teleportation square of Xuanmu City, a light gate began to slowly materialize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the light gate, a line of text clearly read the four large characters \"Mysterious Mall.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The appearance of the teleportation gate leading to the Mysterious Mall immediately caused a commotion in the teleportation square.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because cultivators who had been in Xuanmu City for a long time naturally knew this was a newly established teleportation array from someone building a city somewhere in the Xuanmu Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, after the light gate of the teleportation array leading to the Mysterious Mall appeared, although it drew a crowd of cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No cultivator rashly teleported to the Mysterious Mall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the Nascent Soul cultivator who registered Ye Qingxuan also sensed the change in the teleportation square of Xuanmu City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking up, he gazed at the four large characters \"Mysterious Mall\" on the newly appeared teleportation light gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Nascent Soul cultivator was somewhat surprised:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is actually that boy's city? It was built so quickly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he was only surprised by the speed at which Ye Qingxuan built his city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Building a city is not difficult; to truly succeed in building a city and establish a foothold in the Xuanmu Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real difficulty lies in facing the attacks of the Green Demon Clan cultivators after the city is built.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many cultivators who chose to build cities fell under the attacks of the Green Demon Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the years, the cultivators of Xuanmu City have witnessed many city teleportation light gates appear in the square and then slowly vanish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, after the Mysterious Mall's teleportation light gate appeared, the cultivators of Xuanmu City merely watched and waited, without rashly teleporting directly to the Mysterious Mall to investigate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So far, the only cultivators who have truly succeeded in building cities in the Xuanmu Realm and stood firm are Nascent Soul cultivators from major factions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Nascent Soul cultivators who entered with abundant resources and trump cards could truly build a city and establish a foothold in the Xuanmu Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining independent cultivators and cultivators from minor factions basically all ended in failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past decade, those building cities in the Xuanmu Realm were basically individuals or small groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For those major factions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the meager resources brought by the small number of people in the Xuanmu Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the Di Xuan Realm, which serves as their main base, is the primary venue for all major factions to acquire resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were very willing to go out and fight to hunt down the Green Demon Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But asking them to waste resources to build a city in a small, conquered lower realm below was something they were very unwilling to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their view, this would only waste time and energy, trap their disciples in one place, and slow down the cultivation progress of the disciples within their sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For those at the middle-tier factions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with enough resources, they would not waste them on building cities, gambling on the future of a city in the Xuanmu Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because even if the city in the Xuanmu Realm was developed, what they would gain would only be low-tier resources or the corpses of low-tier Green Demon Clan members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Low-tier resources could not help them advance further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, building a city in the Xuanmu Realm, for these middle-tier factions themselves, was a case of being reluctant to discard it yet finding it tasteless to consume, with absolutely no strong motivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a very few small factions at the bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would, like gamblers one by one, put forward large amounts of resources to build cities in the Xuanmu Realm in search of a breakthrough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, if they truly developed the city in the Xuanmu Realm, the low-tier resources and low-tier Green Demon Clan corpses obtained could completely enhance the overall strength of these small factions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps they could even advance further because of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when a goal can arouse sufficient desire can people have enough motivation; cultivators are no different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, currently, those building cities in the Xuanmu Realm are basically individuals or small groups; those truly building cities in the lower realm with an entire faction are extremely rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But among individuals or small groups, ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, even if they establish a city, do not have enough trump cards to protect it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only disciples from major factions, who find it easier to acquire high-tier resources, have the qualification to protect their cities from the attacks of the Green Demon Clan and stand firm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But having said that, most disciples from major factions prefer to rely on their own strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are not willing to be trapped in a single city for the sake of some uncertain external things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Building a city can indeed bring considerable benefits, but they value the improvement of their strength more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After building a city, one might acquire some Green Demon Clan corpses, but the corpses acquired are basically low-tier ones that other cultivators cannot use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For disciples of major factions with considerable strength, choosing to build a city, if managed poorly, could very likely hinder their own cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, currently, only a very small number of disciples from major factions are willing to build a city and enter the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More powers and cultivators prefer to operate flexibly within the nine fallen minor worlds, hunting the Green Demon Clan to strengthen themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the true reason why, in the current Xuanmu World, only one or two out of ten who attempt to forge a city succeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those with the strength to forge a city generally look down on the benefits such a city brings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By slaying the Green Demon Clan, they can still contribute to the Di Xuan World while accelerating the growth of their own cultivation base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those lacking sufficient strength do covet the benefits of city-forging, but can most of them actually defend a city?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nascent Soul realm cultivator responsible for city registration understood these factors perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From beginning to end, he did not believe that a single Golden Core realm cultivator, merely a mysterious merchant, could successfully forge a city in the Xuanmu World and stand firm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Retracting his gaze, the Nascent Soul realm cultivator murmured softly, \"Young man, I hope you can hold out a little longer!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the plaza of the Mysterious Shop, after the teleportation array connecting to Xuanmu City was set up,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan immediately withdrew the concealment formation surrounding the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To celebrate the establishment of his first city, the Mysterious Shop,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan curled the corners of his mouth slightly and took eight third-grade nuclear explosion elixirs from his storage ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quickly hurled these eight third-grade nuclear explosion elixirs in all directions around the Mysterious Shop and detonated them directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom, boom, boom. Violent explosions rang out continuously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosions on the plain and the intense fluctuations of energy soon attracted the attention of human and Green Demon Clan cultivators within the two mountain ranges at the edge of the plain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Ye Qingxuan's primary purpose in detonating the nuclear explosion elixirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If no commotion is made, how can more members of the Green Demon Clan be lured to attack the city?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To avoid arousing the suspicion of the Green Demon Clan, Ye Qingxuan specifically used third-grade nuclear explosion elixirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosion of a third-grade nuclear explosion elixir is comparable to the self-detonation of a Purple Mansion realm cultivator at the peak, rivaling a full-power strike from a Golden Core realm cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such energy fluctuations are enough to attract the attention of the Green Demon Clan in the two nearby mountain ranges without provoking their fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, the commotion caused by the eight third-grade nuclear explosion elixirs successfully drew the attention of the Green Demon Clan within the mountain ranges.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the energy fluctuations subsided,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the powerful figures of the Green Demon Clan detected the location of Ye Qingxuan's Mysterious Shop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of this chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2785,"2026-06-12T14:26:54.351Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","c64ca0da2500746d259209979c419950d666c0eb705a37fe2f4d1fa6c40b65a4","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-153","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-151",660,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-cover.jpg"]