Chapter 437

The design of the new city was ingenious; all the main gates were only a few zhang high, and the city walls were only three zhang, unlike other fortified cities that were easily ten or twenty zhang high.

Wei Yuan mobilized one hundred thousand Body Forging cultivators to open stone and build the city on the spot, and the speed of the city's rise was extremely fast.

The City Lord's Mansion was built at the highest point in the city, looking like a small, miniature city. Before the fields around the city could be opened, they began digging trenches and fortifications.

Bao Yun and Wei Yuan stood on the Northwest main gate, holding the city construction design drawings, discussing the details. The Northwest direction was the main force of the city defense, so a platform protruding forward was built on both sides of the main gate, both only three zhang high.

Bao Yun had been away from Qingming for nearly a year, and in this year, Qingming had changed drastically, so at first, she didn't understand why the city had to be built so low, thinking they still had to fight underground battles with the Shaman tribe. But after looking at the defense map Wei Yuan produced, she understood that the current defense system had changed.

The core of the defense was the two giant crossbows set up in the City Lord's Mansion. These were the giant crossbows Wei Yuan had snatched back from Hanyang Pass, and both mobile units were placed in Ding'an City.

The main force of defense on the city walls was the short-barreled lethal cannon newly launched by the All-Beings Equality War Equipment Research Institute.

This type of cannon mainly focused on killing a large number of the enemy's ordinary soldiers; its range was only a few miles, but its power was enormous. The shells fired weighed a hundred jin, and one shot would produce thousands of fragments, basically wiping out everything in the first two realms of Body Forging within a ten-zhang radius.

In addition to this, there were various flying sword launchers and firelocks. Directional flying sword landmines could also be temporarily deployed on the city walls and below.

This defense system truly did not require very tall city walls.

Wei Yuan looked at the defense map, his consciousness simulating the scene of the Shaman army's attack. In the Dharma Form of Human World Renjian Yanhuo, each city defense firepower point came to life, continuously killing the enemy.

Wei Yuan made continuous fine-tuning adjustments to the defense deployment based on the simulation, such as moving a flying sword launcher's position forward by ten zhang.

Bao Yun's admiration for Wei Yuan's optimization and adjustment of every detail turned into confusion, and she asked: "Isn't it a waste of time to adjust even the position of a single flying sword gun? When the war starts, the frontline commanders will adjust it themselves."

Wei Yuan said it was no trouble. Anyway, this kind of adjustment was just a waste of brainpower for a dozen mortals for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

Bao Yun said: "This habit of yours is very bad. Those who achieve great things do not dwell on trifles; even if you achieve the Dharma Form, your time and energy are always limited. You can't do everything; you must put your energy into the most important things."

Wei Yuan felt this made great sense and accepted it with an open mind, but he didn't change.

The many mortals in Human World Renjian Yanhuo became more spiritually adept the more they used it; now, dozens of the earliest mortals had already achieved the Dao foundation, their thoughts as fast as lightning, one of them worth dozens of ordinary mortals.

Moreover, the operating mode of Human World Renjian Yanhuo had been continuously iterated and updated, gradually moving toward a way that even Wei Yuan found difficult to understand. After being broken down by the Immortal Plant nodes, some large tasks would become as many as hundreds to thousands of sub-tasks.

The stronger the Immortal Plant, the more sub-tasks it could break down, and the single sub-tasks became more abstract, sometimes looking like they had no meaning at all. The corresponding result was that mortals only felt they were thinking hard, but they were thinking about particularly strange problems, such as how to put an elephant into a jewelry box.

This was still good; many times they didn't know what they were thinking about, only that they were thinking.

Only when mortals completed their sub-tasks would they be pieced together into meaningful results at the Immortal Plant.

And the girl's yin-yang could instantly break down tens of thousands of sub-tasks and then instantly summarize them.

Compared to the task mode, the various research institutes still operated in a mode that humans could understand, but they were also gradually beginning to be influenced by the Immortal Plants. The Dao foundation cultivators in the research institutes had thoughts much faster than mortals; they often were responsible for breaking down large research projects and then distributing the sub-tasks.

Besides research, mortals were also busy planting vegetables, harvesting, building cities, worshipping gods, cultivating, forming cliques, slandering the other research institutes, reporting each other to Wei Yuan, and so on.

After dealing with the city defense, Wei Yuan came to the City Lord's Mansion with Bao Yun and began to help Bao Yun set up her new home. Unlike Wei Yuan, her current cultivation required an environment rich in spiritual energy. Therefore, the residence needed to be set up with a powerful spirit-gathering formation, and at the same time, two or more types of Immortal Plants needed to be planted. She had already prepared these materials, and Wei Yuan was just helping to set them up.

The two were busy for an afternoon, and it was basically set up. Bao Yun lay on the couch and stretched, her posture unfolding, which immediately made Wei Yuan look away, but not completely away.

Bao Yun had brought all the furniture in the room, and even Wei Yuan admired that her bracelet could really hold so much. However, a question surfaced in Wei Yuan's mind: why did she pack so much furniture in her bracelet for no reason?

Bao Yun on the couch shifted her position, clearing a small space, and signaled Wei Yuan to come over and sit.

Wei Yuan came over and sat, sitting very carefully, not touching her body.

Bao Yun propped up her upper body and said: "I like this place very much. You built such a city for me—do you want me to stay here forever?"

"If you like it, stay here; if one day you don't like it, you can leave at any time."

Bao Yun bit her lip lightly and said: "Playing hard to get, are we? Very well, I like it very much now, so……"

Bao Yun put one hand behind Wei Yuan's neck and slowly pulled him down; the two leaned closer and closer.

They reached the distance where they could perceive each other's heat again; Bao Yun closed her eyes and tilted her head slightly.

Wei Yuan didn't move.

The two remained stiff like this, with only the distance of a sheet of paper between them. In the blink of an eye, the time it takes to drink a cup of tea passed, and the distance remained unchanged.

!.

Bao Yun blew a light breath, the airflow brushing over Wei Yuan's lips, almost making him mistake it for a touch, but he immediately knew it wasn't.

Bao Yun sat up and asked: "Why are you so well-behaved now?"

Wei Yuan didn't know how to answer, so he could only smile bitterly. He couldn't say that he perceived her body was ready to strike, and if he leaned forward just a little bit, he would be kicked down by her, right?

But Bao Yun clearly didn't intend to let Wei Yuan off so easily, and she slowly leaned in again, asking: "Why don't you have any reaction? Am I not good-looking?"

This question was still easy to answer, but the next question after answering would definitely be a fatal one. Wei Yuan had no choice but to pretend to be thoughtful to stall for time.

Just at this moment, the heavens and earth in Qingming suddenly shook, and the energy of heaven and earth appeared, pouring down toward the seclusion site. At the same time, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and a double heavenly tribulation gradually took shape.

Wei Yuan's expression changed, and he said: "Junior Uncle Yu and Junior Uncle Sun are both about to achieve the Dharma Form! I must go and guard them!"

This was a major event; Bao Yun put away her playfulness and rushed over with Wei Yuan.

Looking from afar, the two heavenly tribulations were extremely close, but they were distinct and did not interfere with each other.

Yu Zhizhuo cultivated the Metal-element Dao foundation, so the lightning tribulation at this moment was reddish, with fire in the lightning. Sun Yu, on the other hand, had Water and Wood generating each other, so the lightning tribulation was blue with hints of gold.

Wei Yuan estimated the intensity of the lightning tribulation and felt relieved. Although these two heavenly tribulations both had the implication of the five elements restraining each other and were much stronger than ordinary heavenly tribulations, they were still primarily lightning. With Sun Yu and Yu Zhizhuo's abilities, plus the lightning protection equipment at the tribulation site, passing the heavenly tribulation was no problem. However, for the sake of stability, Wei Yuan still flew over to prevent any accidents, so he could intervene in time.

An accident did occur.

When Wei Yuan approached, the fire in Yu Zhizhuo's tribulation flared up, turning into a lightning-fire heavenly tribulation. On Sun Yu's side, the golden light simply turned into materialized golden blades, each one incomparably sharp!

(End of chapter)