[{"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-176":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},1902462,2538,"Chapter 176: Required Materials","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-176",176,"\u003Cp>A few days later, Ye Qingxuan arrived at Qingli City once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huangfeng City is one of the five neutral cities in Xingluo Zhou that have a Nascent Soul realm expert stationed there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A neutral power is one that does not participate in any factional conflicts and does not expand its own territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other four neutral cities with Nascent Soul realm experts stationed there are Baixiu City, Fengluo City, Dijian City, and Tiandao City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as a city's population reaches over one million, it can connect its teleportation arrays with these five major cities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the seat of Qingli Commandery, Qingli City naturally also connects its teleportation arrays with these five major cities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more teleportation arrays a city has, the faster cultivators can circulate, which is more beneficial for the city's development.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These five major cities are also one of Ye Qingxuan's future goals for expanding his business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having acquired the population of Qingguang City, the threshold of one million people is not a problem for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason Qingguang City has not built teleportation arrays connecting with the five major cities\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>is mainly that Zhou Qingguang did not have enough spirit stones to hire array masters above the fifth rank to build the arrays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Ye Qingxuan, however, this is a trivial matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the teleportation arrays are connected, doing business in these five neutral cities will be much easier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, he can also use these five cities to attract a steady stream of cultivators to settle in the new city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the teleportation array in Qingli City, Ye Qingxuan quickly arrived at Huangfeng City, the closest city to Wanling Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is said that Huangfeng Daoren secretly raises a group of spiritual beast wasps with formidable combat power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After arriving at Huangfeng City, Ye Qingxuan did not stay in the city for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving Huangfeng City and confirming the location of Wanling Mountain, Ye Qingxuan took out his flying boat and flew toward Wanling Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It took Ye Qingxuan several days to reach the territory of Wanling Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So this is Wanling Mountain?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After spending some time, Ye Qingxuan flew around Wanling Mountain once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He discovered that the entire Wanling Mountain covers an area of over one hundred thousand square kilometers, with an unknown height.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding area is also dotted with numerous first to fourth-rank spiritual veins, forming spiritual lands of various sizes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These spiritual lands include hills, valleys, and pools, of all shapes and sizes, with everything one could need.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flying high above Wanling Mountain, Ye Qingxuan looked down upon this land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, Wanling Mountain could be developed into numerous cultivation caves and spiritual lands for cultivators to rent for cultivation or farming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan also planned to enclose the many spiritual lands surrounding Wanling Mountain within the city and develop them into spiritual vein courtyards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other areas would be used to settle mortal residents, distributing farmland to them so they could support themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, building such a large city would not be something that could be completed in a short time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention the other buildings within the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just the city walls alone would require Ye Qingxuan to consume a considerable amount of materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Ye Qingxuan did not plan to use spiritual materials to build the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he used only spiritual materials to build the city, Ye Qingxuan feared he would go bankrupt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, for the city walls and the buildings within them, Ye Qingxuan planned to use common minerals as raw materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides that,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the city's protective great array is something that cannot be taken lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Ye Qingxuan decided to build the array foundation directly beneath the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, by building array foundations and using them as a basis for the formation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan could completely inscribe multiple array patterns on the foundations to set up multiple layers of formations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the attributes of the great array, Ye Qingxuan decided to focus on the Five Elements, with Yin and Yang as supplements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sixth-rank Five Elements Essence and Yin-Yang Essence are worth approximately 600 supreme-grade spirit stones per cubic meter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Building one array foundation requires approximately one cubic meter of material.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the city, Ye Qingxuan planned to set up 10,000 small teleportation arrays, distributed throughout the city to facilitate travel for the residents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The materials required for one small teleportation array are approximately one supreme-grade spirit stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For 10,000 small teleportation arrays, the total would be 10,000 supreme-grade spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, for the common minerals needed to build the city, Ye Qingxuan intended to purchase them within Xingluo Zhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, such minerals are found everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is just that the quantity Ye Qingxuan needs is so large that mining it himself would consume a considerable amount of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan did not wish to waste time mining the ore himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Array formations are the primary means of city defense; the city walls need not be built too high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just for the city walls, Ye Qingxuan would need to consume one hundred and twenty million cubic meters of material.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adding the buildings within the walls, Ye Qingxuan intended to purchase one billion cubic meters of mundane materials in a single transaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After making the plans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan's main body, far away at the Xuantian Sect, had already begun to act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Zhu Dafu procured the required materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the one thousand and eighty array bases, Ye Qingxuan intended to forge them personally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the main body acted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan's external manifestation in the Xingluo Province also began preparations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, he piloted the flying boat back to Huangfeng City and located the Zhenbao Pavilion within Huangfeng City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a neutral Soul Transformation-level power dedicated solely to commerce, the Zhenbao Pavilion had a presence in almost every major city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Esteemed guest, is there anything you need help with?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon entering the Zhenbao Pavilion in Huangfeng City, a beautiful woman at the Foundation Establishment realm stepped forward with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you sell mundane ores?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mundane ores? Does the esteemed guest wish to cast a city?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding Ye Qingxuan's inquiry, she seemed unsurprised and instead directly stated his purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan felt some surprise but chose not to conceal anything, merely nodding lightly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is correct!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of this chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1458,"2026-06-12T14:26:54.351Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","85a801b3d5c28875f564e2a0572d17c89c211c4d7593b021a54db01b9a8776df","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-177","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-175",660,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-cover.jpg"]