Chapter 178: The Layout of the New City

In the time that followed.

All cultivators in Qingguang City, under Ye Qingxuan's arrangement,

began accepting missions to smelt the large components needed for the new city and earn contribution points.

Every large component was forged according to the blueprints designed by Ye Qingxuan.

Ye Qingxuan planned to center the city on Wanling Mountain and divide it into 10,800 districts.

Between each district, a large open space would be left for residents to plant common grains or spiritual plants.

Within the city, array formations would provide protection.

Ordinary people, if willing, could also plant low-grade spiritual grains or spiritual plants.

Although Ye Qingxuan did not value these things, they could greatly improve the living environment for the city's residents.

Since he intended to be the lord of this city, Ye Qingxuan naturally had to take responsibility for its residents.

Doing simple favors and making regulations that mattered little to the grand scheme could allow these ordinary people to live happy, brief lives.

For Ye Qingxuan, what was there not to like? To facilitate communication between districts,

Ye Qingxuan planned to set up a teleportation square in every district to connect nearby areas.

Qingguang City currently had a population of over 4.5 million.

If seventy percent of the population were moved to the new city, approximately 3.15 million people could be relocated there.

Distributed across 10,800 districts, each district would receive only about 300 people.

This number was still too small for a district.

But this was only the beginning.

As long as the city developed smoothly, this population would naturally grow gradually.

The people who moved there would be the new spark of the city.

With Ye Qingxuan's protection and support, this spark would naturally grow more vigorous and brilliant.

As for Wanling Mountain and other places with spiritual veins,

Ye Qingxuan planned to open multiple fifth-grade cave dwellings on Wanling Mountain for rent.

Regarding other first-to-fourth-grade spiritual vein locations,

part of them Ye Qingxuan intended to build as residences for the New City Guard, supplying their cultivation needs.

The rest, Ye Qingxuan planned to construct as spiritual land villas and various cave dwellings.

A spiritual land villa occupied an entire spiritual vein.

A cave dwelling involved opening multiple dwellings on a single spiritual vein.

The value of the two differed vastly.

These first-to-fourth-grade spiritual land villas and cave dwellings, Ye Qingxuan planned to rent out or use later to reward meritorious subordinates.

For now, Ye Qingxuan did not intend to sell the new city's spiritual land villas and cave dwellings to outsiders.

Spiritual land villas and cave dwellings within the city could only be exchanged for city contribution points.

Outsider cultivators wishing to settle in the new city

must first accept missions issued by the city to earn contribution points, use those points to buy ordinary buildings in the new city, and join the city.

Only after joining the city would they be eligible to exchange more contribution points for ownership of spiritual land villas or cave dwellings.

Compared to outsider cultivators, Ye Qingxuan preferred to cultivate cultivators within his own city.

With endless lifespan, he had plenty of time to develop slowly, without rushing for immediate gains and leaving potential hidden troubles for future development.

Besides that,

the core area of the new city, surrounding Wanling Mountain,

Ye Qingxuan planned to build a small city within a city around Wanling Mountain, establishing a cultivator market.

This would be used to sell cultivation resources within the city and attract outsider cultivators to trade.

Only by attracting enough cultivators to enter the city and trade could Ye Qingxuan gain massive profits.

Within hundreds of thousands of li of Wanling Mountain, there were no other cities.

The city closest to Wanling Mountain was Huangfeng City, located 300,000 li to the north.

To the south of Wanling Mountain, no human city had been established because it was only two million li away from the Waterland Realm, a gathering place for sixth-grade demon beasts.

Once Ye Qingxuan successfully built a city in this area of Wanling Mountain,

the wandering cultivators active around Wanling Mountain would inevitably come to the city at Wanling Mountain for supplies or rest.

These cultivators would be the initial target customer group for Ye Qingxuan's new city.

Time passed, and soon three years had gone by.

In three years, the array foundations needed for the new city's defensive formation, the array disks for the teleportation arrays, and those large city components had all been forged.

Everything was ready.

Ye Qingxuan then took all the city components, left Qingguang City, and headed toward Wanling Mountain.

After passing through the teleportation array in Qingli City and arriving at Huangfeng City,

Ye Qingxuan went straight to Wanling Mountain.

Finding a secluded spot, Ye Qingxuan opened the gate to his Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.

He teleported all the forged array foundations and array disks over.

Before acting on Wanling Mountain,

Ye Qingxuan deployed a sixth-grade array around Wanling Mountain to suppress demon beasts, which also included isolation and concealment functions.

If he used a sixth-grade killing array, Ye Qingxuan feared it would damage the environment within Wanling Mountain.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan planned to use a suppression array to restrain the movements of the demon beasts on Wanling Mountain and prevent them from escaping.

Deploying two more Grade Six puppets to remotely exterminate the demonic beasts atop Mount Wanling.

He possessed array discs and array foundations inscribed in advance by his original body.

Even without the assistance of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan's external incarnation could still set up a Grade Six formation.

This was because he carried the seed of the minor divine ability, Deceiving Heaven, within his body.

While Ye Qingxuan was setting up the array discs, the demonic beasts atop Mount Wanling did not detect his actions.

Only after the formation was fully set up.

Did Ye Qingxuan summon two Grade Six Mid-Tier puppets to slaughter their way into Mount Wanling.

In total, there were three Grade Six puppets, one of which Ye Qingxuan had left behind in Qingguang City to protect the residents.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan currently had only two Grade Six puppets available to deploy.

Boom! As the two Grade Six puppets charged in, a deafening roar instantly erupted from the depths of Mount Wanling.

"What is happening?"

Some cultivators who had secretly infiltrated Mount Wanling to gather spiritual herbs sensed the massive disturbance in the mountain's depths and immediately grew suspicious and uneasy.

Those who were alert, upon detecting the disturbance, immediately fled toward the outskirts of Mount Wanling.

The suppression effect of the formation set up by Ye Qingxuan targeted only the demonic beasts.

Thus, these scattered cultivators who had entered Mount Wanling were not suppressed by the formation and each ran as fast as they could.

Once the energy fluctuations within Mount Wanling began to spread outward, the other scattered cultivators who were still hesitating immediately scattered in all directions.

The two Grade Six puppets, dealing with demonic beasts suppressed by a Grade Six formation, did not need to unleash their full power.

Therefore, although these scattered cultivators sensed the massive disturbance in Mount Wanling, they did not know the energy level of the source of the disturbance deep within the mountain.

They only knew that Mount Wanling was beyond their reach, and the person attacking Mount Wanling was even more beyond their reach.

So, seeing that the situation was unfavorable, they simply fled.

At the same time.

Outside the formation set up by Ye Qingxuan.

Some scattered cultivators were preparing to secretly infiltrate Mount Wanling to try their luck, but they were unexpectedly blocked by the formation Ye Qingxuan had set up.

In an instant, the massive disturbance occurring in Mount Wanling began to spread among this group of scattered cultivators at an extremely rapid pace.

Inside the formation.

Due to the suppression of the Grade Six formation.

Ye Qingxuan's two Grade Six puppets eliminated all the demonic beasts atop Mount Wanling in just half a day.

Three Grade Five Peak demonic beasts, and twenty-one Grade Five Early, Mid, and Late Stage demonic beasts.

Plus tens of thousands of demonic beasts below Grade Five.

For this expedition, just the bodies and essence blood of these demonic beasts alone would allow Ye Qingxuan to make a huge profit.

After collecting the spoils of war.

Ye Qingxuan transmitted all the demon cores and the essence blood of the demonic beasts back to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.

Ye Qingxuan could use the demon cores to refine Nuclear Explosion Pills.

As for the essence blood of the demonic beasts, Ye Qingxuan planned to use it to cultivate the Blood Tree, obtaining a continuous supply of Bloodline Fruits.

The Bloodline Fruits were of great help to the Azure Dragon, and Ye Qingxuan would certainly need a large quantity of them in the future.

Now that he had a source of demonic beast essence blood, Ye Qingxuan naturally intended to cultivate the Blood Tree himself, solving the problem once and for all.

(End of this chapter)