In the time that followed, all the cultivators of Qingguang City, under Ye Qingxuan’s arrangements, began taking on tasks—refining the large components needed for the new city in exchange for contribution points.
Every large component was forged according to the blueprints Ye Qingxuan had designed.
Ye Qingxuan planned to make Wanling Mountain the center and divide the city into 10,800 districts.
Between each district, a large stretch of open land would be left for residents to grow mortal grain or spiritual plants.
The city would be protected by formations.
If ordinary mortals were willing, they too could plant some low-grade spiritual grain or spiritual plants.
Ye Qingxuan might not think much of such things, but they could greatly improve the living conditions of the city’s residents.
Since he wanted to be the lord of this city, Ye Qingxuan naturally had to take responsibility for its people.
By doing a few things that cost him little effort and setting a few rules that were insignificant to the bigger picture, he could let these mortals live out their short lives in happiness.
To Ye Qingxuan, why wouldn’t he do it?
To make travel between districts convenient, Ye Qingxuan planned to set up a teleportation plaza in every district to connect with nearby districts.
Qingguang City currently had a population of over four million five hundred thousand.
If seventy percent of the population moved to the new city, that would be roughly three million one hundred fifty thousand people.
Spread across 10,800 districts, each district would only get about 300 people.
That number was still too small for a district.
But this was only the beginning.
As long as the city developed smoothly, the population would naturally grow.
The people who moved there were the new seeds of the city’s future.
With Ye Qingxuan’s protection and constant tending, these seeds would naturally grow more flourishing and brilliant.
As for Wanling Mountain and other places with spiritual veins—
Ye Qingxuan planned to open multiple fifth-tier cave dwellings on Wanling Mountain and rent them out.
For other places with first- to fourth-tier spiritual veins—
Part of them Ye Qingxuan planned to use to build residences for the new city’s guard corps, for their cultivation.
The other part he planned to develop into spiritual estates and cave dwellings.
A spiritual estate meant one estate occupying an entire spiritual vein.
A cave dwelling meant multiple caves opened along a single spiritual vein.
The value of the two was worlds apart.
These first- to fourth-tier spiritual estates and cave dwellings, Ye Qingxuan intended to rent out or use later to reward those under him who had rendered merit.
For the time being, Ye Qingxuan did not plan to sell the new city’s spiritual estates and cave dwellings to outsiders.
The spiritual estates and cave dwellings in the city could only be exchanged through city contribution points.
If outside cultivators wanted to settle in the new city,
they first had to take on tasks issued by the city and earn contribution points,
then use those contribution points to buy ordinary housing in the new city and join the city.
Only after joining the city would they be qualified to use more contribution points to exchange for ownership of a spiritual estate or cave dwelling.
Compared with outside cultivators, Ye Qingxuan was more willing to cultivate the cultivators of his own city.
His lifespan was endless; he had all the time in the world to develop slowly. There was no need to rush for quick results and leave behind hidden dangers for later development.
In addition—
In the core area of the new city, around Wanling Mountain,
Ye Qingxuan planned to build a small inner city around Wanling Mountain and establish a cultivators’ market.
It would be used to sell the city’s cultivation resources and attract outside cultivators to trade.
Only by attracting enough cultivators to come into the city to trade could Ye Qingxuan gain enormous profits.
Within tens of thousands of miles around Wanling Mountain, there were no other cities.
The nearest city to Wanling Mountain was Huangfeng City, three hundred thousand miles to the north.
To the south of Wanling Mountain, because it was only two million miles from the sixth-tier demon beast gathering place known as the Water Marsh Kingdom, no human city had been established there.
Once Ye Qingxuan successfully built a city in the Wanling Mountain region,
the rogue cultivators active around Wanling Mountain would inevitably come to the city there to resupply or rest.
These cultivators were the initial target customer group for Ye Qingxuan’s new city.
Time flowed on, and soon three years had passed.
In those three years,
the formation bases needed for the new city’s defensive grand formation, the formation plates needed for the teleportation arrays, and those large city components had all been refined.
Once everything was ready,
Ye Qingxuan brought all the city components and left Qingguang City, heading for Wanling Mountain.
After reaching Huangfeng City through the teleportation array of Qingli City,
Ye Qingxuan went straight to Wanling Mountain.
He found a remote place, opened the realm gate of the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven Blessed Land,
and transported all the refined formation bases and formation plates over.
Before making a move on Wanling Mountain,
Ye Qingxuan set up a sixth-tier formation around Wanling Mountain that suppressed demon beasts and also served to isolate and conceal.
If he used a sixth-tier killing formation, Ye Qingxuan worried it would damage the environment within Wanling Mountain.
So Ye Qingxuan planned to use a suppression formation to restrain the movements of the demon beasts on Wanling Mountain and prevent them from fleeing.
Then he would use sixth-tier puppets to kill the demon beasts on Wanling Mountain from a distance.
With the formation plates and formation bases that his true body had inscribed in advance,
Ye Qingxuan’s external incarnation could set up sixth-tier formations even without the aid of the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven Blessed Land.
Because he carried the seed of the minor divine power, Deceiving Heaven,
the demon beasts on Wanling Mountain did not notice Ye Qingxuan’s actions while he was setting up the formation plates.
Only after the formation was fully set up
did Ye Qingxuan summon two sixth-tier mid-grade puppets and send them charging into Wanling Mountain.
Of the three sixth-tier puppets in total, one had been left in Qingguang City to protect its residents.
So at present, Ye Qingxuan could only deploy two sixth-tier puppets.
Boom!
As the two sixth-tier puppets charged in, a rumbling sound instantly erupted from deep within Wanling Mountain.
“What’s going on?”
Some cultivators who had sneaked into Wanling Mountain to gather spiritual herbs noticed the great upheaval deep in the mountain and immediately became alarmed and uncertain.
The cautious ones, upon sensing the upheaval, immediately fled out of Wanling Mountain.
The suppression effect of Ye Qingxuan’s formation targeted only demon beasts.
So these rogue cultivators who had entered Wanling Mountain were not suppressed by the formation and all ran extremely fast.
When the energy fluctuations within Wanling Mountain began spreading outward, the other rogue cultivators who were still watching scattered in an instant.
Two sixth-tier puppets dealing with demon beasts suppressed by a sixth-tier formation did not need to unleash their full strength.
Therefore, although these rogue cultivators noticed the great changes in Wanling Mountain, they did not know the energy level of the source of those changes deep in the mountain.
They only knew that Wanling Mountain was beyond their ability to provoke, and whoever was acting against Wanling Mountain was even more beyond their ability to provoke.
So when they saw things were going badly, they simply fled.
At the same time—
Outside the formation Ye Qingxuan had set up,
some rogue cultivators were preparing to sneak into Wanling Mountain to try their luck, but unexpectedly found themselves blocked by Ye Qingxuan’s formation.
For a time, the great changes occurring in Wanling Mountain began to spread rapidly among these rogue cultivators.
Inside the formation—
Thanks to the suppression of the sixth-tier formation,
Ye Qingxuan’s two sixth-tier puppets needed only half a day to deal with all the demon beasts on Wanling Mountain.
Three demon beasts at the peak of the fifth tier, twenty-one demon beasts at the early, mid, and late fifth tier,
plus tens of thousands of demon beasts below the fifth tier.
On this trip alone, the bodies and essence blood of these demon beasts would already bring Ye Qingxuan a huge profit.
After collecting the spoils of war,
Ye Qingxuan transported all the demon cores and demon beast essence blood back to the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven Blessed Land.
He could use the demon cores to refine core-burst pills.
As for the demon beast essence blood, Ye Qingxuan planned to use it to cultivate blood trees and obtain a steady supply of bloodline fruits.
Bloodline fruits were of great help to Qinglong, and in the future Ye Qingxuan would certainly need large quantities of them.
Now that he had a source of demon beast essence blood, Ye Qingxuan naturally planned to cultivate blood trees himself, solving the matter once and for all.
