Chapter 176: Required Materials

A few days later, Ye Qingxuan arrived at Qingli City once again.

This time, Ye Qingxuan came prepared to use the teleportation array in Qingli City to travel to Huangfeng City, the closest city to Wanling Mountain.

Huangfeng City is one of the five neutral cities in Xingluo Zhou that have a Nascent Soul realm expert stationed there.

A neutral power is one that does not participate in any factional conflicts and does not expand its own territory.

The other four neutral cities with Nascent Soul realm experts stationed there are Baixiu City, Fengluo City, Dijian City, and Tiandao City.

As long as a city's population reaches over one million, it can connect its teleportation arrays with these five major cities.

As the seat of Qingli Commandery, Qingli City naturally also connects its teleportation arrays with these five major cities.

The more teleportation arrays a city has, the faster cultivators can circulate, which is more beneficial for the city's development.

These five major cities are also one of Ye Qingxuan's future goals for expanding his business.

Having acquired the population of Qingguang City, the threshold of one million people is not a problem for him.

The reason Qingguang City has not built teleportation arrays connecting with the five major cities

is mainly that Zhou Qingguang did not have enough spirit stones to hire array masters above the fifth rank to build the arrays.

For Ye Qingxuan, however, this is a trivial matter.

Once the teleportation arrays are connected, doing business in these five neutral cities will be much easier.

At that time, he can also use these five cities to attract a steady stream of cultivators to settle in the new city.

Through the teleportation array in Qingli City, Ye Qingxuan quickly arrived at Huangfeng City, the closest city to Wanling Mountain.

Huangfeng City was founded by Huangfeng Daoren, a great cultivator who had reached the peak of the Nascent Soul realm, and covers an area of... well, it is very large.

It is said that Huangfeng Daoren secretly raises a group of spiritual beast wasps with formidable combat power.

After arriving at Huangfeng City, Ye Qingxuan did not stay in the city for long.

Leaving Huangfeng City and confirming the location of Wanling Mountain, Ye Qingxuan took out his flying boat and flew toward Wanling Mountain.

It took Ye Qingxuan several days to reach the territory of Wanling Mountain.

"So this is Wanling Mountain?"

Looking at the mountain peaks before him that pierced the clouds, shrouded in white mist, with occasional flashes of spiritual light, Ye Qingxuan nodded in satisfaction.

After spending some time, Ye Qingxuan flew around Wanling Mountain once.

He discovered that the entire Wanling Mountain covers an area of over one hundred thousand square kilometers, with an unknown height.

The surrounding area is also dotted with numerous first to fourth-rank spiritual veins, forming spiritual lands of various sizes.

These spiritual lands include hills, valleys, and pools, of all shapes and sizes, with everything one could need.

Flying high above Wanling Mountain, Ye Qingxuan looked down upon this land.

After a brief calculation, Ye Qingxuan decided to build a city with a length and width of 3,000 kilometers each, centered on Wanling Mountain.

At that time, Wanling Mountain could be developed into numerous cultivation caves and spiritual lands for cultivators to rent for cultivation or farming.

Ye Qingxuan also planned to enclose the many spiritual lands surrounding Wanling Mountain within the city and develop them into spiritual vein courtyards.

The other areas would be used to settle mortal residents, distributing farmland to them so they could support themselves.

However, building such a large city would not be something that could be completed in a short time.

Not to mention the other buildings within the city.

Just the city walls alone would require Ye Qingxuan to consume a considerable amount of materials.

This time, Ye Qingxuan did not plan to use spiritual materials to build the city.

If he used only spiritual materials to build the city, Ye Qingxuan feared he would go bankrupt.

Therefore, for the city walls and the buildings within them, Ye Qingxuan planned to use common minerals as raw materials.

Besides that,

the city's protective great array is something that cannot be taken lightly.

For a city covering an area of 9 million square kilometers, if array plates were used to set up the formation, it would consume at least tens of thousands of array plates.

So Ye Qingxuan decided to build the array foundation directly beneath the ground.

Using 1,080 array foundations as a basis, he would draw upon the power of the earth and the spiritual energy within the spiritual veins to set up a sixth-rank mid-grade protective great array.

Moreover, by building array foundations and using them as a basis for the formation,

Ye Qingxuan could completely inscribe multiple array patterns on the foundations to set up multiple layers of formations.

Two fifth-rank spiritual veins, plus the over one hundred smaller fifth-rank and below spiritual veins and the power of the earth surrounding them, could barely support a sixth-rank mid-grade protective great array.

Even if there is a lack of energy in the end, when the great array needs to be activated, he can simply invest some more supreme-grade spirit stones.

As for the attributes of the great array, Ye Qingxuan decided to focus on the Five Elements, with Yin and Yang as supplements.

After calculating for a moment, Ye Qingxuan decided to use Five Elements Essence and Yin-Yang Essence as the main materials to build the 1,080 array foundations.

The sixth-rank Five Elements Essence and Yin-Yang Essence are worth approximately 600 supreme-grade spirit stones per cubic meter.

Building one array foundation requires approximately one cubic meter of material.

Therefore, to build this city, Ye Qingxuan would need to spend approximately 648,000 supreme-grade spirit stones just to build the 1,080 array foundations.

With the current net profit of the Tianfu Shop, it would take Ye Qingxuan several years to earn back such a large amount of spirit stones.

Within the city, Ye Qingxuan planned to set up 10,000 small teleportation arrays, distributed throughout the city to facilitate travel for the residents.

The materials required for one small teleportation array are approximately one supreme-grade spirit stone.

For 10,000 small teleportation arrays, the total would be 10,000 supreme-grade spirit stones.

Ye Qingxuan planned to purchase the Five Elements Essence, Yin-Yang Essence, and the materials needed for the small teleportation arrays within the Xuantian Sect.

However, for the common minerals needed to build the city, Ye Qingxuan intended to purchase them within Xingluo Zhou.

In fact, such minerals are found everywhere.

It is just that the quantity Ye Qingxuan needs is so large that mining it himself would consume a considerable amount of time.

Ye Qingxuan did not wish to waste time mining the ore himself.

Array formations are the primary means of city defense; the city walls need not be built too high.

For a city three thousand kilometers in length and width, Ye Qingxuan planned to set the wall height at ten meters and the thickness at one meter.

Just for the city walls, Ye Qingxuan would need to consume one hundred and twenty million cubic meters of material.

Adding the buildings within the walls, Ye Qingxuan intended to purchase one billion cubic meters of mundane materials in a single transaction.

After making the plans.

Ye Qingxuan's main body, far away at the Xuantian Sect, had already begun to act.

Although Ye Qingxuan's main consciousness currently resided in his external manifestation, Gui Xuanzi, this did not hinder his main body's daily activities or cultivation.

After Zhu Dafu procured the required materials.

For the one thousand and eighty array bases, Ye Qingxuan intended to forge them personally.

As for the ten thousand array plates for the small teleportation arrays, to save time, Ye Qingxuan subcontracted their forging to various channels of the Tianfu Shop.

While the main body acted.

Ye Qingxuan's external manifestation in the Xingluo Province also began preparations.

First, he piloted the flying boat back to Huangfeng City and located the Zhenbao Pavilion within Huangfeng City.

As a neutral Soul Transformation-level power dedicated solely to commerce, the Zhenbao Pavilion had a presence in almost every major city.

"Esteemed guest, is there anything you need help with?"

Upon entering the Zhenbao Pavilion in Huangfeng City, a beautiful woman at the Foundation Establishment realm stepped forward with a smile.

"Do you sell mundane ores?"

"Mundane ores? Does the esteemed guest wish to cast a city?"

Regarding Ye Qingxuan's inquiry, she seemed unsurprised and instead directly stated his purpose.

Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan felt some surprise but chose not to conceal anything, merely nodding lightly:

"That is correct!"

(End of this chapter)