Chapter 168: Lu Yun Schemes Against the Three Teachings Again

Upon learning this news, the sisters Xihe and Changxi were both somewhat annoyed.

Changxi said angrily, "These Three Teachings are truly lacking in decorum. It would be one thing to secretly learn Lu Yun's method of building cities, but they actually want to use such despicable means to steal the spotlight from Lu Yun."

Xihe's expression changed, and she hurriedly covered her sister's mouth, saying, "Sister, do not speak recklessly about the Saints!"

Clearly, she still held the Saints in great awe.

Changxi broke free from her palm and muttered, "I didn't say anything wrong!"

Lu Yun, however, could not help but laugh, saying, "It is no matter. Building a city is not something that can be improved just by using Supernatural Power to speed it up!"

Nuwa, Xihe, Changxi, and Houtu were all stunned upon hearing this, and then they all became thoughtful.

Although they did not quite understand Lu Yun's meaning, upon careful reflection, it seemed that when Lu Yun helped the Human Race build cities, he never pursued speed, but rather tended to let the Human Race participate more.

Otherwise, with those few avatars of his at the Great Luo Golden Immortal level, if they had gone all out, the Human Race would not have needed to do anything at all to quickly possess a city! Lu Yun then added, "However, they have reminded me. Once this city is finished, I should also disperse my avatars to different places to build cities!"

Nuwa's heart stirred, and she asked via voice transmission, "Are you trying to lure the Three Teachings into sending more experts to build cities for the Human Race?"

Lu Yun chuckled and replied, "After all, it is a good thing for the Human Race in various places to possess cities more quickly, is it not?"

Nuwa was somewhat speechless.

She always felt that Lu Yun had become addicted to scheming against the Saints! However, she was happy to see this happen and even actively cooperated, saying, "Since that is the case, I will have my Good Corpse and handmaidens come over to help as well!"

Lu Yun's eyes lit up, and he gave a thumbs up, saying, "That would be even better! In this way, our speed will certainly be faster than the disciples under the Three Teachings!"

The two looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

They believed that with this series of actions, the Three Teachings would certainly increase their efforts, sending out more disciples, and even having their own Good Corpses take action personally.

In this way, the development of the Human Race would inevitably be greatly enhanced! Thinking of this, Lu Yun and Nuwa decisively began to take action.

Next, Lu Yun sent out his avatars one after another, having them disperse to every corner of the Primordial Land to find places suitable for the Human Race to live and build cities.

At the same time, Nuwa also had her Good Corpse and handmaidens come from Wahuang Palace to join these ranks.

As for building cities, Nuwa's Good Corpse and handmaidens did not understand it, so they naturally followed one of Lu Yun's avatars to take action.

Lu Yun's avatars flew over the Primordial Land with Nuwa's handmaidens, overlooking the mountains, rivers, grasslands, and forests below, searching for places suitable for the Human Race to live.

They not only had to consider the terrain, landforms, and climate conditions, but also factors such as the abundance of resources and safety, before finally selecting suitable locations one by one to begin their operations.

Lu Yun, Nuwa, the sisters Xihe and Changxi, and Houtu remained on the grassland, continuing to guide the residents of the Human Tribe in building the city.

They taught the residents how to construct houses, how to plan streets, how to set up defensive facilities, and so on, allowing the residents to gradually master various skills and knowledge for building cities.

Under their leadership, this new city on the grassland gradually took shape, becoming increasingly sturdy and complete. At the same time, this city also became the center for the surrounding Human Tribes, attracting more and more of the Human Race to come and live and multiply.

And under Lu Yun's guidance, these humans also gradually learned techniques such as farming and animal husbandry, beginning to produce food and clothing self-sufficiently. Their standard of living was greatly improved, and their gratitude toward Lu Yun and Nuwa grew ever deeper.

After Lu Yun and the others finished their work here, they did not linger and set off again for other parts of the Great Desolation.

At the same time, the disciples under the Three Teachings were also busy on the Primordial Land.

Xuandu was in a newly completed city, preaching to the Human Race.

Meanwhile, Guangchengzi and Duobao were leading the disciples of the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect respectively, each finding places to build cities.

They soon learned that Lu Yun's side had actually dispersed their people and started building cities in eight places at the same time!

This naturally made them all somewhat panicked.

After some deliberation, they decided to act separately; since they had plenty of people, they would likewise start in eight different places.

But they only had a superficial understanding of building cities to begin with; when a few of them gathered together to work, they could make it look somewhat decent, but once they dispersed, their efficiency plummeted.

The result was that although they also wanted to speed up the construction, they found that no matter what, they could not keep up with the progress on Lu Yun's side.

After all, in terms of cultivation, the strongest among them were only at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level, which was a significant gap compared to Lu Yun's avatars. Not to mention that Lu Yun's avatars had the help of Nuwa's handmaidens, and Lu Yun's avatars could also arrange for the Human Race to assist, whereas the disciples of the Chan Sect and Jie Sect could only rely on themselves to use Supernatural Power and had no idea how to mobilize the strength of the Human Race.

Comparing the two, the gap between them and Lu Yun's side became larger and larger.

This made Guangchengzi, Duobao, and the others secretly anxious, and finally, after some discussion, they hurriedly reported the matter to the Three Teachings.

On Kunlun Mountain.

Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian had already returned from Shouyang Mountain and were currently inside the Sanqing Palace.

Yuanshi and Tongtian had both received news from their disciples, and for a moment, their brows were deeply furrowed.

Immediately, they both came before Laozi and informed him of this matter.

Upon hearing this, Laozi was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "It seems we still underestimated this Lu Yun. No wonder I just discovered that after the disciples of the Three Teachings descended the mountain, the luck of the Ren Sect did not increase but instead decreased!"

Tongtian nodded in agreement.

Yuanshi frowned and said, "Eldest Brother, what should be done now?"

Laozi said helplessly, "The only plan now is to send more disciples to assist!"

Yuanshi and Tongtian pondered for a while and also nodded; they could not think of any other way for the time being and could only follow what Laozi said.

Although the Ren Sect only had one disciple, Xuandu, there were still some Attendants and the like, who could also be sent out.

And the disciples of the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect were numerous.

In addition to the Twelve Golden Immortals, the Chan Sect also had other disciples such as the Antarctic Immortal, as well as Primordial experts who had joined the Chan Sect, such as Randeng.

The number of disciples in the Jie Sect was even greater than that of the Chan Sect; previously, only a portion had been sent out, so naturally, other disciples could be sent now.

Thus, the Three Teachings each sent out a large number of personnel, all rushing to various parts of the Primordial Human Race.

With the addition of these people, the progress of city building under the Three Teachings finally caught up with Lu Yun's side, and even faintly surpassed it.

And whether it was the actions of Lu Yun and his group or the actions of the disciples of the Three Teachings, it inevitably attracted the attention and discussion of other races and forces in the Great Desolation.

"What is the Human Race doing? What is the use of them building these things?"

"I heard it is called a city, but I don't know what its specific use is."

"Nuwa, that Lu Yun, and the disciples of the Three Teachings have all been mobilized; what they are doing now must be very important!" "I don't understand! However, I think perhaps we could imitate them a little!"

"That makes sense! Let us also build cities!"

For a time, a trend of building cities actually formed throughout the Great Desolation!

Various races and factions began to imitate the Human Race one after another, attempting to build their own cities.

Although they did not fully understand the true significance of the Human Race building cities, seeing the Human Race gradually grow stronger because of it, they felt this was a path worth trying.

Not to mention anything else, those human cities just looked much more comfortable than living in caves or the like! However, they soon discovered that building a city was not a simple matter.

Building a city not only requires site selection, planning, and construction, but also requires consideration of many issues such as defense and management.

And they lacked experience, often not knowing where to start; even if they used various Supernatural Powers and arts to build by force, many cities could not exert their intended functions due to problems like improper site selection or unstable construction.

Compared with the Human Race, the gap between them in terms of building cities was truly too large.

The Human Race either had the guidance of Lu Yun and Nuwa, or the help of the disciples of the Three Pure Ones, and there were countless diligent and wise clansmen working together.

While they could only rely on themselves to grope forward, most of them had slow progress and were full of difficulties.

……

Qingqiu Mountain.

A group of the Fox Race looked at the "neither fish nor fowl" result they had managed to cobble together, and for a moment, they all felt it was too painful to look at.

They also did not expect that it was just building a city, yet it could actually stump their Qingqiu Fox Race.

"What should we do now? Should we just give up?"

"Yeah, anyway, I think living in a cave is quite good!"

"No, how can we give up?"

"That's right, the Human Race can do it, it's impossible that we can't!"

……

Amidst the heated discussion, a fox woman suddenly said: "How about we go and learn from the Human Race?"

Once these words were spoken, the surrounding Fox Race suddenly quieted down, and many of the Fox Race clearly revealed looks of being moved.

An elder of the Fox Race hesitated and said: "This... might not be good!"

The fox woman asked in confusion: "What is not good about it?"

The elder said: "We of the Fox Race are, after all, members of the Demon Race, and the Demon Race has already had conflicts with the Human Race before. If we do this, I fear the Demon Emperor will punish us!"

The fox woman, however, did not care, saying: "Now the Demon Race has even lost the Heavenly Court, and the high-level members of the Demon Race can only hide in Outer Space; the Demon Emperor is even wholeheartedly contemplating the Hongmeng Purple Qi, where would he have the spare time to pay attention to us?"

After a slight pause in her voice, she said again: "Besides, when we joined the Demon Race, it was the intention of Goddess Nuwa. Now that the Demon Race has even developed conflicts with Goddess Nuwa, we... perhaps should make a new choice!"

The expressions of the surrounding Fox Race suddenly became serious.

The elder was silent for a moment, then slowly nodded and said: "What you said also makes sense. No matter what, we must definitely stand on the side of Goddess Nuwa! Since Goddess Nuwa now needs people to help the Human Race build cities, then we will send people to help and express our stance!"

The surrounding Fox Race heard this and all nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, the fox woman said: "Since that is the case, let us send people to the Human Race's side to help, and by the way, learn the skills of building cities! I will go personally!"

The crowd of the Fox Race had no objections, and soon they selected several clever and nimble members of the Fox Race, led by the fox woman, to head to the territory of the Human Race together.

……

This fox woman was an outstanding talent among the Fox Race of Qingqiu Mountain; both her talent and her cultivation were top-notch.

Now, she was already at the level of a Taiyi Golden Immortal.

She took a group of the Fox Race, inquired about the location where Lu Yun and the others were currently, and rushed toward that direction all the way.

When she arrived at the side of a huge lake, near a city that was under construction, she realized that it was not only their Fox Race that had the same idea.

Around this city under construction, various kinds of strange beasts of the Great Desolation and representatives of a few minority races had already gathered. They were all attracted by the grand project of the Human Race building cities and wanted to come here to learn.

The fox woman was slightly stunned, but then she felt relieved. She should have thought long ago that countless races in the Great Desolation were paying attention to this move of the Human Race; if their Fox Race could think of coming to learn, other races would naturally be no exception.

"It seems we must speed up, otherwise the good spots will all be snatched away by other races!" the fox woman thought to herself, and then she led the Fox Race to accelerate and fly toward the city.

They soon arrived at the entrance of the city, but were stopped by a group of human warriors guarding there.

"Who comes? This is an important place of the Human Race, no idlers allowed inside!" a human warrior shouted loudly.

The fox woman hurriedly stepped forward, bowed, and said: "This human brother, we are the Fox Race of Qingqiu Mountain, here specifically to help build the city, please make it convenient for us."

Representatives of other races also stepped forward to state their intentions.

The human warrior heard this, and his brows wrinkled slightly.

Although they also knew that many races in the Great Desolation were paying attention to their city-building, they did not expect that there would actually be races who would take the initiative to come and help.

They felt that this was naturally a good thing for the Human Race.

After all, one more person meant one more bit of strength, and they were just in need of establishing friendly relations with other races.

However, they did not dare to make decisions on their own, but instead indicated that they needed to ask the clan elders in the city for instructions.

The fox woman and the others also expressed their understanding and told him to go ask for instructions quickly.

Not long after, the human warrior received a reply and said to the fox woman and the others: "You may enter! However, after entering the city, everything must be subject to our arrangements, and you are not allowed to act without authorization!"

The fox woman hurriedly replied: "That is natural! We will definitely obey the arrangements of our human brothers."

After speaking, she led the Fox Race into the city, and the representatives of other races naturally followed closely behind.

After entering the city, they discovered that the construction progress of this city had already far exceeded their imagination!

(End of this chapter)