"The Lingxu Origin Quest is complete: Player Hell Lord performed exceptionally well in the city defense battle, successfully upgrading the main city to the Realm Race level. Lingxu rewards the player with 50 million gold coins, 20 million free attribute points, 1 million skill points, and 500,000 class points. The reward also includes a super-rare legendary treasure chest and two Lingxu-level ancient martial arts manuals, which players can choose from in the Ancient Martial Arts Pavilion."
Despite being somewhat prepared, the sheer generosity of the rewards from the Spirit Ruins still made Jiang Hao exclaim "Holy crap!"
The system notification sounds continued to ring in Jiang Hao's ears.
"A realm-level clan-level main city has one opportunity to recruit players across the entire realm. The city lord can recruit players at the quest center."
"Ding! Player Lord of Hell has become the Lord of Dingbei City. The Lord's exclusive quest center, dungeon center, communication center, and reward center have been automatically activated."
"Ding! Congratulations to player Lord of Hell for becoming the Lord of a Realm Race-level Main City. The Ancient Martial Arts Pavilion has been automatically activated for you."
"The Northern Ice Plains has automatically upgraded to a Level 6 Kingdom. The Kingdom is currently initializing..."
Suddenly, beams of white light rose from the northern ice plains. Some were two meters wide, others as thick as an adult's arm. Some were so dense they seemed tangible, while others were so faint they were almost imperceptible. As far as Jiang Hao could see, the beams shot straight into the sky, with snowflakes dancing among them, creating a lively scene.
The city lord of Jinling City, who was frantically killing the American mage player, was now wearing a set of dark gold armor, covering himself completely from head to toe.
Only after the pillar of light rose did he finally stop attacking. Behind the slightly tilted dark gold mask lay a shock unseen by others.
The density and size of the beams of light were astonishing, even to someone who had seen many major cities.
Each beam of light represents a monster that can be continuously respawned.
The size of the beam of light represents the strength of the monster.
A beam of light as thick as an adult's arm represents a monster of ordinary quality, while one as thick as an adult's thigh represents a monster of iron-grade quality. As for a beam of light two meters thick, the city lord of Jinling City had never seen one before and assumed it must be a monster of dark gold grade.
The intensity of the beam of light indicates the amount of reward a player receives after defeating a monster. The denser the beam of light, the greater the reward.
Seeing the two two-meter-thick, solid beams of light within sight, even the city lord of Jinling City had a burning gaze and couldn't help but swallow hard.
About a minute later, white light flashed repeatedly over the northern ice plains, and all the forces that had come to the northern ice plains through the teleportation array disappeared.
The pillars of light, large and small, that covered the entire northern ice plain vanished instantly, replaced by bizarre-looking monsters. Upon closer inspection, one could recognize these monsters as the very ones Jiang Hao had previously used to defend the city.
They vary in size and strength, ranging from ordinary to dark gold level. Each race has a large number of monsters, and the 40 races are scattered throughout the northern ice plains, occupying the entire northern ice plains except for Dingbei City.
"Kingdom initialization is complete, with 40 monster gathering areas and 10 new kingdom dungeons generated. The kingdom is now linked to the main city. The kingdom map has been generated, and players can view it by opening the map after entering the Northern Ice Plains."
Standing atop Dingbei City, Jiang Hao couldn't see the current state of the northern ice plains, but through the vision of the skeletal roc, he could see that the previously densely packed players had been teleported away, and the empty northern ice plains had returned to their previous desolate state.
But it didn't last long before the entire northern ice plains were occupied by monsters.
Jiang Hao finally understood where those monsters he fought in the beginner village came from.
It turns out they weren't real monsters, but rather data generated from the Spirit Ruins!
The monsters that were responsible for the siege were probably also data-generated from the Spirit Ruins, right? But what are the real monsters like?
Once the Spirit Ruins begin to merge with the real world, will those monsters be created from data?
And the dungeons in Lingxu, without a doubt, the monsters inside are also digitized from Lingxu data.
Just as Jiang Hao was lost in thought, a lazy voice sounded from behind him: "Is this the city lord of Dingbei City? How about inquiring about the city's construction and decoration business?"
Jiang Hao turned around and saw a beautiful woman standing prettily behind him. He glanced at the girl's ID above her head: Senior Sister Jiancheng. Behind her, a giant tortoise, more than half a person's height, was fast asleep on the ground.
It was obvious that the woman in front of him was the one who had just spoken to him.
"Your bunch of thatched huts are seriously out of step with the level of your main city. Don't you want to make your main city more magnificent?"
Senior Sister Jiancheng pulled an electronic screen from her bosom and pointed to the pictures on it for Jiang Hao. She said, "Look, the capital city of the Jackal Empire in Realm 5, isn't it magnificent?"
Jiancheng's senior sister swiped her finger on the electronic screen, and the picture inside changed again.
"Isn't this the luxurious capital of the Black Dragon Empire, Realm 1810?"
"This, this, the 6528 High Realm, the human royal city, isn't it magnificent?"
Jiang Hao was indeed shocked by the three pictures she showed him. Although he had heard of the five major clans of Lingxu and their respective royal cities, he had never seen what they actually looked like.
Looking at the magnificent appearance of the three royal cities in the photos, Jiang Hao knew that the woman in front of him was definitely not simple, so he asked, "Did you build these three main cities?"
"Of course not! I'm showing you these royal cities so you can see what a real capital city looks like."
Senior Sister Jiancheng pointed to the thatched hut beside her and said, "It shouldn't be these little pieces of trash!"
Jiang Hao glanced at the roofs of the thatched huts next to him. The thick layer of thatch that had been there had been blown away by the wind and snow, revealing a few rotten logs serving as roof beams underneath.
With a snap, a rotten log was blown in the wind and broke in half, falling into the thatched hut.
Jiang Hao immediately lost confidence. He asked, "How much will it cost to build a city?"
Unlike other salespeople who would say, "Sir, don't talk about money yet, that's not important. The most important thing is the style. Let me show you a few of our sample designs first, then you can choose whichever one you like, and we can discuss it in more detail."
Instead, he put the electronic screen in his arms, crossed his arms, and said lazily, "That depends on how you want to do it."
"I have three types here: casually doing it, doing it properly, and doing it seriously."
Jiang Hao immediately raised his hand and said, "Um, I want to do this seriously!"
Senior Sister Jiancheng smiled and said, "You can easily make 50 million here, make 100 million if you do it well, and there's no limit if you're serious, starting from 1 billion gold coins."
"Huh, huh?"
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