Chapter 306: Expansion

Currently, the cultivators joining Dongxuan City are almost entirely graduates of the Dongxuan Academy within the city.

They can be considered the core cultivators of Dongxuan City.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan prepared to grant extensive rewards to inspire the many cultivators of Dongxuan City.

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's words.

Xue Yu smiled slightly, while Jiang Wen, Li Mu, and Liu Feifeng immediately showed joy and spoke in unison:

"Yes, City Lord!"

After speaking, the four turned and left to execute Ye Qingxuan's orders.

Once the four had departed.

Ye Qingxuan stood atop the peak of Mount Wanling, hands clasped behind his back, gazing down over the entire Dongxuan City, his thoughts swirling.

To date, Dongxuan City has existed for only about two hundred and seventy years.

This duration sounds long.

Xingluozhou is merely a starting point.

However, given Dongxuan City's population base, in over two hundred years, the highest talent detected within its borders was only a few with five-element spiritual roots.

Ye Qingxuan was well aware of this fact.

But for the development of the cultivation world, especially for a faction, it is still too short.

Yet if Dongxuan City wishes to achieve truly sustainable development, it must expand its population base and improve its living environment.

As a faction primarily focused on commerce.

Dongxuan City currently possesses no other territorial scope.

The insufficiency of cultivator talent greatly limits Dongxuan City's development speed.

However, he was not in a hurry.

To acquire cultivators with higher talent, one must either expand Dongxuan City's population base and improve its living environment, or attract external cultivators with heavy incentives.

The Di Xuan Realm is vast, and what Ye Qingxuan seeks is not much.

This is the reason Ye Qingxuan wishes to expand Dongxuan City and increase its population base.

Only then can the predicament of Dongxuan City be fundamentally resolved.

All he desires is the land of a single city.

Even the entire Dongji Domain is merely a short-term goal for Ye Qingxuan in the early stages.

For Dongxuan City to produce enough strong individuals and a solid foundation of talent requires time to accumulate gradually.

He has plenty of time to slowly accumulate Dongxuan City's talent foundation.

Currently, the main sources for the guard unit and other cultivation talents are almost entirely from the Dongxuan Academy within Dongxuan City.

For a faction to develop rapidly, besides a large number of grassroots cultivators, talented cultivators are equally indispensable.

To develop a faction from nothing is a heavy responsibility and a long journey; it cannot be achieved overnight.

Ye Qingxuan merely wishes to establish a city in every major prefecture of the Di Xuan Realm.

To gather resources from all corners of the Di Xuan Realm for himself.

Is this goal not excessive?

But to achieve this goal, the accumulation of cultivators and various talents is indispensable.

In fact.

Ye Qingxuan had considered recruiting all cultivators of the Ye Family into his ranks to save time on accumulating a cultivator foundation.

However, after weighing the pros and cons, Ye Qingxuan ultimately abandoned this plan.

The Ye Family is a subordinate faction of the Xuantian Sect.

Without revealing his true identity, it is impossible for the Ye Family, high and low, to be willing to submit to a strange cultivator.

Furthermore, within the scope of the Xuantian Sect, even if he secretly controlled the entire Ye Family, he would be unable to develop extensively.

Unless he was willing to reveal the existence of the World Gate before the Ye Family.

Only by bringing the Ye Family cultivators to the Dongji Domain to serve him could this limitation be avoided.

But at the current stage, neither revealing his identity nor revealing the existence of the World Gate.

Are things Ye Qingxuan is willing to see.

The existence of the World Gate might gradually be revealed later when Ye Qingxuan's commercial faction expands beyond the Dongji Domain.

However, it is far from the right time now.

Rather than risking exposure to control the entire Ye Family.

He might as well have his avatar temporarily stay away from the five domains within the Di Xuan Realm and develop his own faction from scratch.

As for the Ye Family?

With his resource feedback, the Ye Family cultivators currently lack nothing in terms of cultivation resources.

Rather than forcibly bringing the Ye Family under his control.

Maintaining a certain distance from the Ye Family might be best for them.

This way, he can avoid exposing himself and prevent bringing unnecessary trouble to the Ye Family.

Staying away from the Ye Family, staying away from the five domains within the Di Xuan Realm.

Only then can he act without hesitation, allowing his avatar to leverage the advantages brought by his original body to develop and expand extensively in the early stages.

Glancing at the thriving Dongxuan City, which is on the verge of booming development.

Ye Qingxuan's figure faded away and vanished.

When he reappeared.

Ye Qingxuan, carrying the pre-forged wall components, began arranging large-scale walls around the entire Waterland Kingdom.

After assembling, smelting, and arranging these city walls.

Ye Qingxuan still needed to travel across the Water Marsh Realm, setting up array formations and restrictions on spiritual veins above the third tier.

On these spiritual veins, he would open up cave abodes, small private courtyards, or large private courtyards.

Busy as they were, Ye Qingxuan was not the only one.

All cultivators belonging to Dongxuan City were extremely busy at this time.

Dongxuan City had just moved south, and the new district about to be expanded was in a state of disrepair and needed everything rebuilt.

Perfecting the expansion of a city was not as simple as just arranging some buildings.

It involved arranging various mundane structures, laying roads, surveying and enclosing major resource points, planning and setting up spirit fields, and so on.

Many places required cultivators to spend a great deal of time to complete the arrangements.

Given the vastness of the Water Marsh Realm, completely perfecting the entire expansion of Dongxuan City.

Would likely require a considerable amount of time.

However, although the cultivators in Dongxuan City were extremely busy, they were also very excited and worked hard.

Many of them had grown up in Dongxuan City since childhood.

Building Dongxuan City was building their own home.

Moreover, during the busy process.

Seeing the cultivation resources scattered throughout the Water Marsh Realm, even if they did not personally own them, they were still extremely excited.

Furthermore, the expansion tasks for Dongxuan City all came with contribution points.

To ensure the smooth expansion of Dongxuan City, Ye Qingxuan had allocated a large number of contribution points.

Depending on the difficulty of the task, the contribution points awarded varied.

However, regarding the city expansion itself, the most difficult part—the array formations and restrictions—Ye Qingxuan had already completed.

The remaining work was not difficult for cultivators; it merely required spending some time.

As long as the cultivators of Dongxuan City got moving, they could easily earn a good number of contribution points.

Ye Qingxuan's promise had long been conveyed to their subordinates by Xue Yu, Jiang Wen, Li Mu, and Liu Fei.

Now, all members of Dongxuan City knew.

Once the expansion of Dongxuan City was completed, the City Lord would reward them according to their merits.

Naturally, they were very much looking forward to the rewards from the City Lord.

Therefore, while working, the cultivators of Dongxuan City were extremely diligent, eager to finish the city's expansion as soon as possible.

As time passed.

Many independent cultivators could no longer resist the temptation of contribution points.

They actively went to the task hall of Dongxuan City to accept various expansion-related tasks.

The mundane people within Dongxuan City, however, were unaffected and lived very comfortably.

Their current task was simply to have children.

For every child born, they could receive a reward that was substantial for them.

Moreover, the basic upbringing costs for all children in Dongxuan City were basically covered by the city itself.

The mundane residents of Dongxuan City did not need to worry about having too many children they could not afford to raise.

Furthermore, in the cultivation world, as long as Ye Qingxuan was willing to bear a certain cost.

The mundane people of Dongxuan City had absolutely no need to worry about a series of safety issues surrounding childbirth.

So, after Ye Qingxuan issued the childbirth task.

The number of newborns in Dongxuan City had already begun to increase rapidly.

(End of this chapter)