Chapter 184: Dongxuan Academy

After the Dongxuan Ordinances were finalized.

Ye Qingxuan ordered giant steles to be erected at the centers of all 10,800 districts in Dongxuan City.

All the Dongxuan Ordinances were carved onto these giant steles for all city residents to read.

For the Dongxuan Market within the city, Ye Qingxuan personally forged four spirit-weapon-level giant steles with suppression effects.

These steles were inscribed with the Dongxuan Ordinances and placed at the four entrances and exits of the teleportation plazas in the Dongxuan Market.

To effectively enforce the Dongxuan Ordinances, Ye Qingxuan decided to establish an Enforcement Brigade within the Dongxuan City Guard.

For now, Xue Yu would serve as the Commander of the Enforcement Brigade.

To settle the matter once and for all, Ye Qingxuan required all cultivators willing to join the Enforcement Brigade to swear an oath never to violate the Dongxuan Ordinances.

As for the 10,800 mortal districts, Ye Qingxuan did not intend to have cultivators manage them.

Having cultivators manage them would only waste their cultivation time and fail to motivate them.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan directly instructed the district heads of each area to recruit their own enforcement personnel.

However, these enforcement personnel must sign a restriction contract provided by Ye Qingxuan.

Once the restriction contract is signed, if a mortal enforcement officer violates the Dongxuan Ordinances, they will suffer a backlash from the restriction and perish immediately.

With this restriction in place, although few mortal residents were willing to join the enforcement ranks.

At least it would prevent anyone from abusing their authority as enforcers to bend the law for personal gain.

This would save Ye Qingxuan considerable trouble, allowing him to focus his mind on matters other than maintaining the city's order.

After establishing the order of Dongxuan City.

Ye Qingxuan also printed tens of millions of copies of books.

These books contained common knowledge of cultivation and basic information on the four paths of alchemy, artifact forging, array formation, and talisman crafting.

Once the books were ready, Ye Qingxuan had them distributed to the 10,800 districts.

He then issued an order for each of the 10,800 districts to build a Dongxuan Academy to freely teach cultivation knowledge to children under twelve years old in Dongxuan City.

Once the children of Dongxuan City reached the age of twelve, a unified test would be conducted to determine if they possessed spiritual root talent.

As for the Spirit Testing Stones needed for the testing, Ye Qingxuan decided to purchase a batch in Xingluo Province at that time.

In the future, all expenses required by the Dongxuan Academy would be borne by the City Lord's Mansion of Dongxuan City.

The City Lord's Mansion of Dongxuan City was located at the peak of Wanling Mountain; currently, only Ye Qingxuan lived there alone, and he had not yet had time to recruit the various managers of the mansion.

The currency currently used by the mortal residents of Dongxuan City was the gold and silver they had brought from Qingguang City.

Bearing all the costs of the Dongxuan Academy was not a burden for Ye Qingxuan.

Students of the Dongxuan Academy without spiritual roots would not need to remain in the academy after turning twelve.

Those with spiritual roots could continue to stay at the Dongxuan Academy, receiving cultivation supplies provided by Ye Qingxuan.

After cultivating at the Dongxuan Academy for twelve years and reaching the age of twenty-four, they would be uniformly assigned to the various departments of Dongxuan City to serve Ye Qingxuan.

Regarding the mortal districts.

Ye Qingxuan did not intend to forcibly intervene in the markets of the mortal districts.

He would only issue various tasks and assign work, using this method to transfer gold and silver to the various districts of Dongxuan City.

To facilitate transactions for the mortal residents of Dongxuan City, Ye Qingxuan planned to establish money banks in the major districts, allowing residents to trade freely across the city.

Dongxuan City was newly established and still faced many neglected tasks needing attention.

However, for most matters, Ye Qingxuan only needed to issue orders, and people would naturally carry them out.

As long as the wages for the projects were sufficient, the tasks assigned by Ye Qingxuan would not lack participation from mortal residents.

The establishment of the Dongxuan Academy was a decision made by Ye Qingxuan for future development.

Ye Qingxuan planned to start from Dongxuan City and gradually cultivate his own cultivators, alchemists, artifact forgers, array masters, and talisman makers.

Although Ye Qingxuan's Tianfu Shop within the Xuantian Sect had enough supply channels to provide him with various elixirs, magic treasures, array discs, and talismans.

These channels were ultimately just cooperative relationships with Ye Qingxuan and did not fully belong to him.

However, establishing the Dongxuan Academy and the people cultivated by it would be different.

These individuals could be completely controlled by Ye Qingxuan and used by him.

In the future, once Ye Qingxuan's main body's cultivation base increased.

To expand his business across all regions of the Di Xuan Realm rapidly, these reserve talents would be indispensable. Cultivating his own subordinate cultivators starting from childhood.

Although it would take a long time, it would definitely be of great benefit to Ye Qingxuan's future development.

After all, having more cultivators skilled in the four arts of cultivation in Dongxuan City in the future would not be a loss for Ye Qingxuan.

After pondering for a moment.

Ye Qingxuan decided that tasks assigned in the mortal districts would also be settled with contribution points.

Residents could use contribution points to exchange for gold and silver, or even for spirit stones and other cultivation supplies within Dongxuan City.

However, to operate the city's task system, contribution point system, and exchange system more conveniently.

Relying solely on manual registration would undoubtedly be too burdensome.

Thinking of this, a glint of light flashed in Ye Qingxuan's eyes.

He had an idea in mind, but realizing that idea would be too time-consuming.

However, no matter how time-consuming, this matter needed to be done.

Therefore, once the thought arose, Ye Qingxuan's main body, located far away in the Xuantian Sect of the Eastern Region, immediately began secluding himself to research it.

Since the main consciousness had left the body, Ye Qingxuan's main body would be slightly affected, and the research speed would slow down somewhat.

Ye Qingxuan's main consciousness did not plan to leave his external body for now.

This external body of his still had many things to do.

Now, Dongxuan City was slowly getting back on track.

It is time to expose Dongxuan City to the eyes of all factions in Xingluozhou and declare its existence.

At this thought, Ye Qingxuan shifted his mind and instantly withdrew the concealing mist outside Dongxuan City.

Then, harnessing the power of the formation, he proclaimed:

"Dongxuan City is established. It will open to the outside world in ten years. At that time, an auction will be held. Welcome, fellow Daoists!"

Under the propagation of the formation, these words instantly formed sound waves that spread in all directions around Dongxuan City.

In an instant, the various spies outside Dongxuan City were alarmed.

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's words, these spies showed expressions of shock in their eyes.

"The demonic beasts on Wanling Mountain have been exterminated?"

Though puzzled and unable to understand, their actions were not affected in the slightest.

They took out precious, specially made transmission talismans and immediately sent the news back to their respective factions.

At the same time, they themselves quickly departed.

Now that the cause of the anomaly on Wanling Mountain was known,

there was no point in them remaining here.

As for the specific situation of Dongxuan City, that was not something they needed to worry about.

Sensing the cultivators departing from outside Dongxuan City, Ye Qingxuan smiled at the corner of his mouth.

The reason he set a ten-year period was twofold.

First, to allow enough time for this matter to spread and attract more cultivators to Dongxuan City.

Second, Dongxuan City had not yet established contact with the outside world or built a teleportation array.

Ye Qingxuan planned to reserve ten years to connect teleportation arrays with the five neutral Nascent Soul-level cities in Xingluozhou.

This would also facilitate cultivators from other regions of Xingluozhou entering Dongxuan City.

Furthermore, although the Dongxuan Market within Dongxuan City had already been completed,

Ye Qingxuan had not yet transported various cultivation supplies from the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven of Blessed Land, and the shops in the market had not been arranged.

Moreover, Ye Qingxuan had not yet finalized the detailed list for the auction.

Therefore, although Ye Qingxuan chose to announce the existence of Dongxuan City now,

the official opening still required ten years of preparation.

He would use this ten-year period to let the news of Dongxuan City ferment among the cultivators of Xingluozhou.

(End of this chapter)