Chapter 179: Begin

After all the demonic beasts in Mount Wanling were eliminated.

Ye Qingxuan did not rush to build the city.

The materials used for city construction are mundane; without array protection, they would be easily destroyed.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan prepared to bury the array foundations first, establish the great city-protecting array, and then build the city.

Above the 1,080 array foundations were array patterns that Ye Qingxuan's true body had carved long ago.

Thus, the arrangement was not particularly complicated.

In just over ten days, Ye Qingxuan buried all the array foundations beneath the earth of this region.

He then cast spells to link these array foundations one by one with the earth's veins and the major spiritual veins.

Because the concealment array Ye Qingxuan had previously set up did not cover a large area.

During the array foundation placement, Ye Qingxuan encountered quite a few cultivators who had come to investigate the cause of the disturbance at Mount Wanling.

Ye Qingxuan did not disturb these cultivators.

Before the great city-protecting array was established, Ye Qingxuan did not want to create unnecessary trouble.

With Ye Qingxuan's current cultivation base and capabilities.

It was not difficult to secretly bury the array foundations while deceiving these mid- and low-realm cultivators.

It would only be slightly slower.

After all 1,080 array foundations were buried beneath the earth and linked with this world.

Ye Qingxuan decisively cast a spell to activate all the array foundations immediately.

"Voom!" "Voom!" "Voom!"

The sound of vibrating space frequencies rang out continuously as the array foundations began to absorb energy endlessly, activating their own array patterns.

"What is happening?"

Sensing the sudden disturbance, the cultivators who had come to investigate grew suspicious and uneasy.

But by the time they noticed the signs, it was already too late.

As the patterns on the array foundations were activated, the 1,080 foundations began to resonate.

When the vibration frequencies synchronized, the 1,080 array foundations suddenly erupted with brilliant light beneath the earth.

At that moment, all the array foundations each unleashed several energy chains that spread toward the other foundations.

In an instant, once all the energy chains connected, the phantom images of three great arrays began to manifest within this world.

On the array foundations, without affecting the operation of the great arrays.

Ye Qingxuan had inscribed the patterns of three sixth-realm great arrays in total.

One mid-grade sixth-realm city-protecting array, serving as the city's defensive power.

One mid-grade sixth-realm offensive array, serving as the city's retaliatory power.

One mid-grade sixth-realm comprehensive array, combining air prohibition, suppression, and teleportation, capable of assisting Ye Qingxuan in managing the city.

"Not good!"

The appearance of the great arrays instantly alarmed the cultivators who had intruded into this region.

Realizing they were already enveloped by the great arrays, these cultivators prepared to take action.

But before they could, Ye Qingxuan, who had just taken control of the arrays, used the arrays' teleportation power to move all the cultivators in this region outside the arrays.

As soon as these cultivators exited the arrays, they fled in all directions like startled birds, daring not to linger for even a moment.

After moving the cultivators out, Ye Qingxuan activated the arrays again to launch attacks against the demonic beasts residing in the various hills, valleys, and waters outside Mount Wanling.

The demonic beasts inhabiting the nine million square kilometers surrounding Mount Wanling numbered roughly over a hundred thousand.

However, these demonic beasts were mostly below the fifth realm.

Leveraging the power of the sixth-realm arrays, Ye Qingxuan easily exterminated these demonic beasts.

Then, using the arrays' teleportation power, Ye Qingxuan quickly cleared the battlefield, extracted the demonic beasts' essence blood, and retrieved their demonic cores.

After leaving the demonic beasts' bodies behind, Ye Qingxuan opened the realm gate again to transport the essence blood and demonic cores back to the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven.

Having finished all this, Ye Qingxuan clapped his hands in satisfaction:

"Finally, it is quiet."

From now on, this region truly belongs to him, Ye Qingxuan. After clearing the cultivators from this area.

Ye Qingxuan used the arrays to create layers of mist, completely blocking the view from the outside.

Only then did he retrieve all the city components and the array disk of the teleportation array to begin building the city.

Rows of city walls, towers and small courtyards, shops and pavilions, and ancient streets were arranged and erected in an orderly fashion upon this earth under Ye Qingxuan's control.

Although these were merely mundane objects, making them relatively simple to control.

The area was simply too vast, and the number of buildings to construct was too great.

Ye Qingxuan spent several full days completing the rough construction of the city.

For the remaining details and refinements, Ye Qingxuan planned to let the future residents of the city complete them themselves.

Ye Qingxuan stood in mid-air, looking down at the vast city that belonged solely to him, and could not help but nod.

The entire city had four great gates, each inscribed with three Dao characters: Dongxuan City.

Dongxuan City was the name Ye Qingxuan gave to this city.

In the core area of Dongxuan City, there was a small city that enclosed Mount Wanling within it.

This small city was the market district Ye Qingxuan established for cultivators to trade goods: the Dongxuan Market.

Because the Dongxuan Market was close to the fifth-realm spiritual land of Mount Wanling, and with Ye Qingxuan's guidance, the overall density of spiritual energy within it had reached the standard of a second-realm spiritual land.

At the very center of the Dongxuan Market, within the body of Mount Wanling, Ye Qingxuan had carved out a vast space.

The entire space was illuminated by the source of the fifth-realm spiritual vein within Mount Wanling; the spiritual energy inside was extremely dense, making it a true fifth-realm spiritual land.

This space was named Dongxuan Fudi by Ye Qingxuan.

At the very center of Dongxuan Fudi stands a high platform, its inner walls carved into tiered pavilions, forming unique private cave abodes.

Dongxuan Fudi was prepared by Ye Qingxuan for future auctions.

When the time comes, the first act of Dongxuan City to publicly declare its existence will be to hold a grand auction.

And Dongxuan Fudi is the place where Ye Qingxuan will hold the auction.

In ordinary times, the fifth-realm cave abodes within Dongxuan Fudi can also be rented out to attract cultivators from outside to stay and spend in Dongxuan City.

Within the Dongxuan Market, there are four massive squares in the southeast, southwest, northwest, and northeast directions.

These four squares are reserved by Ye Qingxuan for future teleportation arrays leading to other cities.

So far, each of these four squares has only one teleportation array.

These four teleportation arrays all lead to Qingguang City.

Because the residents of Qingguang City needed to be relocated, Ye Qingxuan temporarily set up four teleportation arrays leading to Qingguang City.

Qingguang City already has one teleportation array entrance and exit.

Once three more teleportation arrays are arranged, the relocation of the residents within Qingguang City can begin.

Mortals need rest.

Ye Qingxuan is not in a hurry, so he does not plan to make the residents of Qingguang City migrate to Dongxuan City day and night.

Calculating that each teleportation array runs for only 12 hours a day and transports 20 people per minute.

The four teleportation arrays can transport 57,600 people in one day.

Ye Qingxuan plans to transport around 3.15 million people; it will take just over fifty days to initially complete the relocation of the mortal residents.

Ye Qingxuan can afford to wait this long.

After making up his mind, Ye Qingxuan returned to Qingguang City through the teleportation array in Dongxuan City.

At this moment, the incident at Wanling Mountain had finally spread to Huangfeng City, the city closest to Wanling Mountain.

The area of Wanling Mountain was concealed by Ye Qingxuan's great formation.

Therefore, no one yet knows that a massive city has been built in that vast region of Wanling Mountain.

"Investigate!"

After learning of the unusual activity at Wanling Mountain, Huangfeng Daoist, the City Lord of Huangfeng City, and Bai Xuanli, the Pavilion Master of the Zhenbao Pavilion branch, both issued orders to investigate.

Especially Huangfeng Daoist; as the City Lord of Huangfeng City, he had always been wary of Wanling Mountain.

Now that an incident has occurred at Wanling Mountain, he will not feel at ease unless he clarifies the cause.

(End of this chapter)