After all the demon beasts on Wanling Mountain had been dealt with,
Ye Qingxuan did not rush to build the city.
The materials used for building the city were all ordinary mortal things. Without the protection of formations, they could easily be destroyed.
So Ye Qingxuan planned to first bury the formation bases and set up the city’s defensive grand formation before building the city.
On the 1,080 formation bases, the formation patterns had already been inscribed by Ye Qingxuan’s true body long ago.
So setting them up was not complicated.
In just over ten days, Ye Qingxuan buried all the formation bases beneath the ground of this region,
and cast spells to establish connections between these formation bases and the earth’s ley lines and the various spiritual veins, one by one.
Because the concealment formation Ye Qingxuan had previously set up did not cover a very large area,
during the period of burying the formation bases, Ye Qingxuan also encountered quite a few cultivators who had come to investigate the cause of the upheaval at Wanling Mountain.
Ye Qingxuan did not alert these cultivators.
Before the city’s defensive grand formation was set up, Ye Qingxuan did not want to create unnecessary complications.
With Ye Qingxuan’s current cultivation and methods,
wanting to conceal his actions from these mid- and low-tier cultivators and secretly bury the formation bases was actually not difficult.
It would only be a little slower.
After all 1,080 formation bases were buried beneath the earth and connected to this world,
Ye Qingxuan was very decisive and directly cast a spell to activate all the formation bases.
“Buzz!” “Buzz!” “Buzz!”
The sound of spatial vibration frequencies rang out continuously as the formation bases began to absorb energy without end and activate their own formation patterns.
“What’s going on?”
Sensing the sudden commotion, the cultivators who had come to investigate all became alarmed and uncertain.
But by the time they noticed something was wrong, it was already too late.
As the lines on the formation bases were activated one after another, the 1,080 formation bases began to resonate.
When the vibration frequencies synchronized, the 1,080 formation bases suddenly erupted with brilliant light beneath the earth.
At this moment, all the formation bases each shot out several energy chains that spread toward the other formation bases.
In an instant, once all the energy chains connected with one another, the illusory forms of three grand formations began to emerge in this world.
On the formation bases, without affecting the operation of the grand formations,
Ye Qingxuan had inscribed the formation patterns of three sixth-tier grand formations in total.
One sixth-tier mid-grade city defense grand formation, serving as the city’s defensive power.
One sixth-tier mid-grade killing grand formation, serving as the city’s counterattack power.
One sixth-tier mid-grade comprehensive formation, integrating air restriction, suppression, and teleportation into one, which could assist Ye Qingxuan in managing the city.
“Oh no!”
The appearance of the grand formations instantly alarmed the cultivators who had trespassed into this region.
Discovering that they were already enveloped by the grand formations, these cultivators were just about to make a move
when Ye Qingxuan, who had just taken control of the grand formations, used their teleportation power to move all the cultivators in this region outside the formations.
As soon as these cultivators left the grand formations, they scattered and fled like startled birds, not daring to stay for even a moment.
After moving the cultivators out, Ye Qingxuan once again activated the formations and launched attacks on the demon beasts in the hills, valleys, and waters outside Wanling Mountain.
These demon beasts, occupying the nine million square kilometers around Wanling Mountain, numbered roughly over a hundred thousand.
However, these demon beasts were basically all below the fifth tier.
With the power of the sixth-tier formations, Ye Qingxuan easily cleared out these demon beasts.
Then, using the teleportation power of the formations, Ye Qingxuan quickly cleaned up the battlefield, extracted the demon beast essence blood, and took out the demon cores.
After leaving the demon beast bodies behind, Ye Qingxuan once again opened the realm gate and transported the essence blood and demon cores back to the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven Blessed Land.
Having done all this, Ye Qingxuan clapped his hands in satisfaction:
“Finally, some peace and quiet.”
From now on, this region would truly belong to Ye Qingxuan’s territory.
After clearing the cultivators from this region,
Ye Qingxuan used the formations to create layers of mist, directly blocking the view from the outside world.
Only then did he begin taking out all the city components and the formation plates for the teleportation arrays, and start building the city.
Row after row of city walls, building after building of houses and small courtyards, shop after shop of pavilions, and street after street of simple, ancient-style roads were, under Ye Qingxuan’s control, orderly arranged and erected upon this land.
Although these were only ordinary mortal things and easy to control,
the area was simply too vast, and there were too many buildings to assemble.
Ye Qingxuan spent a full several days before completing the rough construction of the city.
The remaining details and finishing touches, Ye Qingxuan planned to let the city residents who would move in later complete on their own.
Ye Qingxuan stood in midair, looking down at the enormous city that belonged solely to him, and could not help but nod.
The entire city had four great city gates, and above the gates were written three Dao characters—Dongxuan City.
Dongxuan City was the name Ye Qingxuan had given this city.
In the core area of Dongxuan City, there was a small city that surrounded Wanling Mountain.
This small city was the market Ye Qingxuan had established for cultivators to trade goods—the Dongxuan Market.
Because the Dongxuan Market was close to the fifth-tier spiritual land of Wanling Mountain, and with Ye Qingxuan’s guidance, the overall spiritual energy density within it had already reached the standard of a second-tier spiritual land.
At the very center of the Dongxuan Market, within the body of Wanling Mountain itself, Ye Qingxuan had opened up an enormous space.
The entire space used the source of the fifth-tier spiritual vein within Wanling Mountain as its light source. The spiritual energy inside was extremely dense, making it a proper fifth-tier spiritual land.
This space was named by Ye Qingxuan as the Dongxuan Blessed Land.
At the very center of the Dongxuan Blessed Land was a high platform, and the inner walls of the space had been carved into layer upon layer of pavilions, forming unique private-room cave dwellings.
The Dongxuan Blessed Land was prepared by Ye Qingxuan for future auctions.
When the time came, the first action Dongxuan City would take to announce its existence to the outside world would be to hold a grand auction.
And the Dongxuan Blessed Land was the place where Ye Qingxuan would hold the auction.
In ordinary times, the fifth-tier cave dwellings within the Dongxuan Blessed Land could also be rented out to attract outside cultivators to come to Dongxuan City to stay and spend.
Within the Dongxuan Market, there were also four enormous plazas in the east, south, west, and north directions.
These four plazas were the reserved spaces Ye Qingxuan had set aside for opening teleportation arrays to other cities in the future.
At present, each of these four plazas had only one teleportation array.
These four teleportation arrays were all arrays leading to Qingguang City.
Because the residents of Qingguang City needed to be relocated, Ye Qingxuan had temporarily opened four teleportation arrays leading to Qingguang City.
Qingguang City already had one teleportation array entrance and exit.
When three more teleportation arrays were set up, the relocation of Qingguang City’s residents could begin.
Ordinary mortals needed rest.
Ye Qingxuan was not in a hurry either, so he did not plan to make the residents of Qingguang City travel day and night to move to Dongxuan City.
Calculating the teleportation arrays as operating only 12 hours a day, with each array transporting 20 people per minute,
the four teleportation arrays could transport 57,600 people a day.
Ye Qingxuan planned to transport about three million one hundred fifty thousand people, which would take only a little over fifty days to preliminarily complete the relocation of the ordinary residents.
Ye Qingxuan could afford to wait that long.
Having made up his mind, Ye Qingxuan returned to Qingguang City through the teleportation array in Dongxuan City.
Meanwhile, the upheaval at Wanling Mountain had finally spread to Huangfeng City, the city nearest to Wanling Mountain.
That region of Wanling Mountain was concealed by Ye Qingxuan’s grand formations.
So at this time, no one yet knew that in that vast region of Wanling Mountain, someone had already built a massive city.
“Investigate!”
After learning of the strange movements at Wanling Mountain, Huangfeng City’s city lord, Daoist Huangfeng, and the master of the Treasure Pavilion branch, Bai Xuanli, both issued orders to investigate.
Daoist Huangfeng in particular—as the city lord of Huangfeng City, he had always been wary of Wanling Mountain.
Now that something strange had happened at Wanling Mountain, he would not be at ease unless he found out the reason.
