As dawn approached, Lin Xiang's spirit wandered in his own Taoist temple, checking out the location of Nanshan Village.
There used to be rice fields over there and a river passing through, but they are now buried by dense grass and trees.
If it is cleaned up, it is easy to dig a well and get water, and suitable building materials can be found nearby.
There is also a former official road here. If it is repaired, it can connect to other places, not just Qifeng Town.
Perhaps it can be connected with other county towns and even county towns to become a bridgehead for accepting civilians!
In addition to natural conditions, Lin Xiang noticed that there was a wisp of gray fog corroding the land.
If this continues for a long time, the original fertile soil will definitely be polluted, most of the plants growing on it will die, and the small number of plants that survive by chance will also mutate in inexplicable directions.
"We can't go on like this, we have to suppress it as soon as possible!"
The gray fog is thinner in places with abundant human luck and spiritual energy. Lin Xiang cannot disperse the gray fog even with the power of incense and divine power. He can only let the villagers come here to live and work in peace and use human luck to suppress and cleanse it.
This is a matter of extreme strife for both parties. It depends on who can persist.
Originally, humans in the "Ascension" world had been losing ground. After all, there were not enough people, and the combat levels were also very different.
Everyone knows that a strange substance like gray fog cannot be created by ordinary cultivators or even immortals. Behind it is either an extremely powerful person or a drastic change in the entire environment. It is not comparable to those who have not yet ascended.
Fortunately, there are now millions or even tens of millions of gamers helping out, and they are the variables in the game.
It can not only stabilize the existing villages, but also open up new villages.
Lin Xiang is full of confidence in this.
He marked for Ji Yuan here which areas had abundant groundwater resources, which areas had stable foundations and were suitable for building houses, etc.
As for the monsters, ghosts and evil spirits wandering in the gray fog, he ignored them and was too lazy to kill them.
Now that his level has been raised to lv.20, he only gets 1 experience point for killing monsters. It would be better to leave it to the players to obtain, and then he can collect experience points from the players.
As his soul was walking here, Ji Yuan's voice suddenly rang in his ears.
"Lord Landlord, the injured person in the side hall has woken up!"
Lin Xiang's thought flashed back to the land temple, and he nodded to indicate that he had heard it.
Sure enough, there was a lot of noise in the side hall.
The players are all concerned about Lu Ming who has just awakened, hoping to get opportunities from him.
A seriously injured and dying late Jindan cultivator came to the door, it was obvious that he was a grandfather delivering treasures!
"Senior, you finally woke up."
"Senior Lu, are you okay? Do you need some water or something to eat?"
"Senior Lu, do you need us to help you find your way home?"
"This is the Earth God Temple in Huanyufang City. It's safe and secure."
When Lin Xiang appeared, he saw Lu Ming, who had just recovered, in a state of confusion and shock. It was estimated that this intermediate weapon refiner had never felt the enthusiasm of cultivators before.
Even those cultivators who had something to ask of him had never received such meticulous care.
Lin Xiang waved his hand, using his spiritual power as a clever force to separate the players. He said to Lu Ming, who was leaning against a pillar, "Fellow Daoist, you are finally awake. Your external injuries seem to have healed, but I wonder if you have any internal injuries."
Lu Ming used his spiritual sense to scan Lin Xiang, but found that he could not find out the other party's cultivation level at all. In fact, the other party did not exist at all in his spiritual sense.
Usually this situation happens to seniors with extremely high cultivation levels. Only they have the ability to avoid the spiritual scans of low-level cultivators.
Lu Ming then struggled to his feet and bowed to Lin Xiang, saying, "Thank you very much for saving me, Senior. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to escape."
"You were already outside the Shiwan Mountains when you were discovered. Even if we hadn't found you, someone would have surely rescued you if you had drifted downstream." Lin Xiang asked, "Were you injured in the Shiwan Mountains?"
"I accidentally obtained a token and learned that a senior had passed away in a cave in the Shiwan Mountains. I thought it would be an opportunity, but when I went there, I found that the cave had been occupied by a group of demons. Unfortunately, I was injured by a demon cultivator while fleeing, and could only swallow the Turtle Breathing Pill and use the river to hide my aura."
Lu Ming knew that this kind of thing was inevitable. After all, the Ten Thousand Mountains were nominally the territory of demon cultivators, and it was not easy for him to be lucky enough to survive.
People die for money and birds die for food. I already had this mental awareness when I entered the Ten Thousand Mountains in an attempt to find an opportunity to break the elixir and form a baby.
Lin Xiang suddenly realized, "I see, what are your plans next?"
This is a weapon refiner sent to your door by the game system, and you must not miss him easily.
But since it is a recruitment, the other party must stay sincerely. It is impossible to force the other party to stay. In that case, he will definitely not do his best.
"I was originally an elder of a medium-sized sect in the Great Zhou, but the sect leader was accidentally killed, causing the sect to fall apart. Now I don't know where he is." Lu Ming was a little sad. He just learned that he had arrived in Dagan.
Although weapon refiners have no trouble finding a force, whether they can gain full acceptance from others is still a problem.
If you don't know the power inside and out, it will be difficult to integrate into the core.
Lin Xiang knew he shouldn't act happy, so he invited her, "While you're recovering, you can take a good look around our market. On behalf of the market, I sincerely invite you to join us."
If you want to recruit others, it is best to be direct. If you are too shy and reserved, the other party may think that you are not sincere enough.
Lu Ming has been in the world of cultivation for so long, so of course he knows not to agree to others easily.
"Senior, I'm still a little dizzy, so it's best not to make such an important decision right away. Can I take a look first?"
"Of course you can. You can use the remaining buildings in the market as shops for forging magic weapons. If you need raw materials, you can tell me. If nothing goes wrong, I can find them for you."
Lin Xiang then explained his offer: "I know you're in urgent need of pills and techniques for forming a fetus. I can provide you with some pills and thousand-year-old spiritual fruits. In the meantime, you only need to manage the equipment refining shop and run it however you want."
"You don't have to worry about the demons from the Hundred Thousand Mountains coming out to cause trouble. As long as they dare to show up, I can subdue them."
The weapon refiner has no shortage of spirit stones; he just lacks the channels to spend them.
Even the Treasure Pavilion rarely obtains treasures related to forming a baby.
Lu Ming nodded. He kept these conditions in mind and would definitely use them as considerations.
After Lin Xiang laid out the actual conditions, he also began to paint a rosy picture: "At present, our Huanyu Market is just a newly established small cultivation market, but my expectations for it far exceed this. I hope it can become an immortal city!"
The market town is ultimately just a market, but the fairy city is different, it is a city!
This has actually been Lin Xiang’s long-cherished wish, and it just happens to match his future City God.
"Immortal city?" Lu Ming widened his eyes. He knew that there were only three immortal cities in the Southern Continent, and each of them was famous.
This seemingly ordinary place in front of us actually wants to become a fairyland, which is probably just a pipe dream.
"Yes, it's the Immortal City."
Lin Xiang never wanted to be the creator of a market town, but wanted to be a city lord.
The population that the market can accommodate is too small, and its functions are relatively simple, mainly focusing on commercial activities.
The purpose of building the market town in the early stage was purely to attract monks. If we directly built the immortal city, there would be no materials and money, and no people.
Another reason is that there is not enough spiritual energy!
The Immortal City is said to be a place where the gods who have ascended to heaven can come down to earth to practice, and the requirements for spiritual energy are very high.
At present, the Universe Cave Heaven has not developed to the point where it can supply the Immortal City, and it will take some time to grow.
Lin Xiang's jurisdiction covers an area of 40 miles, but in fact, not a single spiritual vein has been found. This shows how scarce spiritual veins are!
Lu Ming really wanted to say "what a fantasy", but he didn't dare to open his mouth for fear of offending the unfathomable senior in front of him.
Lin Xiang knew that his goal was very ambitious, and that less than one percent of it had been built so far.
"It seems like it's time to start building a city. I'll use strengthening the defenses of the market town as an excuse. No one will believe that I want to build a fairy city."
He left the side hall and gave Lu Ming a token that could open the courtyard, allowing the other party to have a temporary foothold and not have to stay in the land temple all the time.
Presumably, the other party would not be willing to practice or check the space ring under the nose of a sacrificial spirit.
…
Since becoming a City God requires a city first, why can't it be a fairy city?
When Lin Xiang was building the Universal Market, he had left enough space to construct other functional buildings on the other side of the market.
What does a city need?
At first glance, I really don’t know why, because these functional buildings or institutions have been integrated into our daily lives, and we only think of them when we need them.
Lin Xiang himself concluded that the first thing that needed to happen was to establish a law enforcement agency, such as the City Guard.
Secondly, the Universal Market can directly serve as a trade fair. In addition, there needs to be other trade markets to sell agricultural and sideline products, semi-processed products, building materials, daily necessities, etc.
By then, the spiritual energy in the fairy city will be very abundant, and only cultivators or mortals who have lived there since childhood can withstand it. Ordinary people can only live in the areas around the fairy city.
Therefore, Dongshan Village, Xishan Village and the yet-to-be-built Nanshan Village will be the areas where ordinary people will live in the future.
The spiritual energy in these areas will become extremely abundant, but it will not cause people to suffer from spiritual energy poisoning. At the same time, it will greatly increase the probability of these common people's descendants having spiritual roots, and more cultivators with spiritual roots will be produced in the future.
At that time, the spiritual fields, spiritual medicine gardens, and spiritual fruit forests that I asked the players to open up will be managed by the planting department, and the breeding of cranes, spiritual fish, and spiritual beasts will be the responsibility of the animal training department.
Other cultivators or forces can open alchemy and weapon forging shops in the Universal Market, but the Immortal City itself must have official alchemists and weapon forgers.
It is better to make than to buy. Only when you master the core technology can you avoid being strangled by others!
The city guards can be directly restructured based on the patrol teams in the Universal Market, and there will basically be no problems.
He also has to deal with social relationships, such as what to do with Dagan and Yueying Palace?
Dongshan Village belongs to Dagan’s territory, but it is also his Taoist temple.
If he occupied part of the Ten Thousand Mountains, there would definitely be a conflict with the Demon King Palace.
These are all factors to consider when building a fairy city.
In addition, the establishment of an immortal city requires a teleportation array to facilitate the monks to travel to other immortal cities or sects.
The teleportation array is a secret of every sect. Not to mention ordinary disciples, even the core disciples may not be able to obtain the method of setting up the array.
There are very few sects that have teleportation arrays, and some sects only have short-distance teleportation arrays.
The teleportation array represents mobility and allows for quick movement between two distant areas.
The primary target of many wars is the teleportation array to prevent the enemy from escaping and calling for support.
Once the teleportation array is cut off, it will take at least half a day or even a day for the other party to get here quickly, and by then it will be too late.
Lin Xiang hasn't found a place that sells teleportation arrays yet. He can only hope that he can get them from the upgrade bag after continuous upgrades.
After all, it is only lv.20 now, and it can be upgraded to at least dozens of levels.
He has only told Lu Ming about his ambition for the Immortal City. Even Tan Mengru and Ji Yuan are unaware of his lofty goals, let alone the players or other cultivators.
Seeing that it was almost dawn, Lin Xiang had to switch to the sword cultivator guise and continue his unfinished business.
After all, the teleportation array can only be obtained from the upgrade kit. Otherwise, you have to hope that you or the other players will be lucky enough to help you find the teleportation array diagram and related materials.
He called Ji Yuan, who hadn't slept all night, and instructed him, "Talk to Lu Ming and try to convince him to stay. I'll see if he needs any materials or tools, and I'll try to get them for him. You just need to contact me through the Yinchaling, and don't worry about the price."
"Lu Ming is a mid-level refiner. If he were here, we could potentially take over the entire refinery market in the surrounding area. The only limitation might be that production can't keep up with demand, after all, he's only one person."
It is impossible for Lin Xiang to force Lu Ming to accept a disciple. Many cultivators are fond of keeping their own things and are unwilling to pass on their inheritance to others easily. They even keep some of their skills to themselves among the disciples they accept.
I can teach the art of refining to players in batches and let them become apprentices of refining masters. In this way, they may be able to gain experience points in refining by doing odd jobs.
He was just a junior weapon refiner and could only teach the most basic things.
Ji Yuan nodded and said, "As you command, I will hand over the tasks of clearing the road and building the village to those young heroes and then ask Master Lu Ming. Fortunately, we have so many young heroes to help share the work, otherwise we would be seriously short of manpower."
"No matter what you need, you can ask them for help. They love helping others, no matter how tiring, difficult or tedious it may be."
The Universal Market has actually created an invisible siphon effect, attracting many players from the surrounding novice villages.
If there are continuous tasks, those players who are struggling in other novice villages will definitely be willing to travel a long distance to the Universal Market.
It seems that there are still tasks after reaching level ten, so there is no need to worry about not having tasks and monsters to kill or subdue.
Yu Xiaoqi, Tai Er Zhenren, and Han Mu are all busy completing their sect's missions. There are no players competing with them in the short term, so of course they are reluctant to leave.
Once the number of players joining the sect becomes too large, the amount of tasks they can complete will decrease, and that is when Lin Xiang will be heard.
…
Song Mingming had just quit his job at the Huanyu Fangshi Bookstore, and he felt quite refreshed after not having a job.
At the beginning of the game, the job of bookstore clerk is quite attractive, after all, you can get spirit stones and buy jade slips and other skill books at low prices.
But as her level and strength increased, this job became a constraint.
After he resigned, the job was taken over by two villagers from Dongshan Village, a man and a woman, both educated. They were happy to work with rare books while also earning money to support their families, which was the best of both worlds.
"What should I do next?"
Song Mingming felt that the people walking on the street in front of him looked very unfamiliar. Before there were no public beta players and no monks from other places, everyone looked very familiar.
Now there is a feeling that time flies and years pass by, as if the small market in the past has suddenly become commercialized.
Fortunately, the land temple in the market town remains the same without any changes.
At this time, there was a crowd of people in front of the land temple, and everyone was discussing something heatedly.
"There's a new mission!"
"Look, look, Lord Ji Ling is actually planning to build Nanshan Village. Do you think there will be Beishan Village later?"
"Beishan Village is right inside the Shiwanda Mountains. There's definitely no such thing."
“Where will Nanshan Village be built?”
"Can one person serve as the sacrificial spirit for many villages at the same time?"
"I only know that Lao Lin is not an ordinary sacrificial spirit. Otherwise, how could he serve as so many sacrificial spirits?"
"Please make way and let me take over the task."
"If there are any tasks, those who have received them should just go aside and stay out of the way!"
Song Mingming originally wanted to form a team to explore the Shiwanda Mountains, but there was a new mission and it was about building a new village, so he had to watch.
When she finally squeezed to the front, she saw the notice posted by the land temple.
[Construct Nanshan Village: A series of tasks, including but not limited to road construction, building house foundations, basic public facilities, and reclaiming wasteland. Rewards: Experience points, varying amounts of Spirit Stones, favorability with the sacrificial spirits, and skills, magical instruments, spells, and elixirs. Requirements: Follow instructions and actively apply to be responsible for modules, including planning, design, construction, and acceptance.]
"There's no specific reward. It's unclear how much it is, whether it's a certain amount or not."
"Have any of you accepted the mission? What is the first link?"
"I suddenly want to ask my mentor to help with this planning."
"Oh my god, this is a great topic. Anyone who can master it will be awesome!"
"It's quite interesting to be contracted to design a village in the game world."
"Hey, I'm a civil engineering major. Let's see if I can get some help from my seniors and my supervisor so we can set up a bidding."
"It would be really cool if we could really build a village of our own in a cultivation game."
The players who were originally a little resistant to this task suddenly had their eyes lit up.
Many people have played stand-alone construction games, but those are usually built for yourself, not for others to see and for game NPCs to actually live in.
Even if players are not majoring in design or civil engineering, they still want to show off their skills in the game, just in case their design is selected.
This is a great opportunity to leave your name in the game and truly show yourself. Maybe new players will appear in this village later!
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