The Sword God of the Universe

Chapter 2475: Chapter 2475: Cultivation Tower Completed

How could outsiders possibly know that Jing Yan had proposed conditions for Tianyin Building to list Hongmeng City as a Three-star City?

The answer is obvious: this was news deliberately released to the outside by Tianyin Building itself. The method is actually quite crude, but very effective—it just shifts the focus.

Previously, the Cultivators outside all felt it was unfair that Tianyin Building refused to list Hongmeng City as a One Star City, and they questioned Tianyin Building’s credibility. But once they heard that Hongmeng City had actually put forward such an excessive demand, they stopped thinking it was Tianyin Building’s problem and instead felt it was Hongmeng City’s own problem.

As things stand, no one believes Hongmeng City is qualified to be listed as a Three-star City.

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”Cultivation Tower? The City Lord of Hongmeng City says they’re building a Cultivation Tower, and a Heavenly Cultivation Tower at that?”

”What is that City Lord even thinking? Heavenly Cultivation Towers—there aren’t many in the entire Kunling Sky Domain! And he actually claims he wants to build the most powerful Heavenly Cultivation Tower!”

”Let’s just leave this matter at that!”

The upper echelons of Tianyin Building, even the Elder Council, didn’t take Hongmeng City’s Cultivation Tower to heart.

The functional construction of a single Cultivation Tower is not something you can complete just by talking about it casually. Especially a Heavenly Cultivation Tower—its construction will easily demand more than ten trillion, or even far more, Black Crystal Stones.

In the Heavenly Domain, some Heavenly Cultivation Towers are valued at up to a hundred million trillion Black Crystal Stones.

Those were slowly completed over countless ages.

Hongmeng City!

Jing Yan paid no heed to the outside world’s criticism; right now his mind was fully on constructing the Cultivation Tower and perfecting the Qianhe Zhenye Elixir.

Jing Yan had already attempted to refine Qianhe Zhenye. Although he failed, he still gained many new insights.

Qianhe Zhenye may only be a special Divine Pill, but among the materials it requires, some are extremely rare and extremely expensive, so Jing Yan couldn’t just casually keep trying to refine it. Every failure was a massive loss.

However, this path was the correct one. By refining it personally, he could discover more problems, and with Jing Yan’s ability, he could solve those problems in the shortest possible time. He believed that if he continued to experiment in this way, it wouldn’t take long before he perfected the Pill Formula for Qianhe Zhenye.

Time flowed by; the years slipped away.

Fifty years later.

The permanent population of Hongmeng City broke through two million, and the floating population surpassed the massive figure of five million, making a total of seven million.

This number already counts as relatively high among small cities. Under normal circumstances, the population of a small city is only around five million. Of course, there are some rather special small cities whose population can exceed the ten-million mark.

Generally speaking, two-star cities all have populations in the tens of millions. Cities such as Tianji City and Mystic Underworld City have populations of around twenty to thirty million. And in many two-star cities outside the Thunder Domain, the population may reach fifty million or even approach one hundred million.

Compared with those cities, Hongmeng City’s population is still not large, but it is steadily Zeng Jia.

Hongmeng Cultivation Tower, Ninth Floor!

Jing Yan exhaled deeply.

It’s done!

The Formation on the Ninth Floor was basically complete, and resources such as Fire Cloud Crystal Stone and Netherworld Crystal Stone had all been properly inlaid within the various Formations.

The construction speed of Hongmeng City’s Cultivation Tower was extraordinarily fast. From start to finish, it had taken only fifty years. Of course, without Jing Yan, this would have been impossible.

Within Kunling Heaven, Jing Yan’s strength in Array Formation might not count as particularly formidable, but in terms of speed, probably no one could match him, Immortal Emperors aside. Array Formation, Alchemy, and Artifact Refining all consume Divine Soul Power. And Jing Yan’s Divine Soul Body is terrifying beyond belief.

He almost never makes omissions or mistakes when laying Formations, which greatly saves formation time. On top of that, he doesn’t need much time to rest and recover his Divine Soul Power, which is why he could complete the functional construction of the Cultivation Tower within just a few decades.

At present, the number of Array Masters in Hongmeng City has reached twelve, with Niu Bo as the leader. Fifty years ago, there were seven Array Masters; over these fifty years, Hongmeng City has successively recruited five more Array Masters. Those recruited Array Masters weren’t all joining Hongmeng City just to earn resources; some of them came to improve their own Array Formation skills and level.

Jing Yan’s speed of Array Formation and his understanding of Formations were things these Array Masters had never seen before. Some Array Masters, the first time they saw Jing Yan laying out a Formation, nearly had their eyeballs scared out of their sockets.

Jing Yan remembered that once, when a newly joined Array Master of Hongmeng City’s formation team saw him forming an array, that man voiced his doubts on the spot: ”With a Formation laid out like this, can it actually operate normally?”

Indeed, that Array Master thought the Formation Jing Yan laid out was trash and unusable. Although on the surface he couldn’t see any major problems in the arrangement, he still couldn’t believe anyone could construct an Immortal Array so quickly.

But once the Formation was completed and began operating normally, he was completely convinced and decided to stay in Hongmeng City permanently.

For Hongmeng City’s Cultivation Tower, the lower three floors were mainly laid out under the direction of Niu Bo, this Immortal Array Master. The middle three floors and upper three floors were led by Jing Yan, though Niu Bo and the others also helped with tasks; they could all arrange some basic Formations.

On this day, Jing Yan summoned the Tower Master Luo Hao and the twelve Array Masters together inside the Cultivation Tower.

”You’ve all worked hard these fifty years,” Jing Yan said.

”City Lord, there’s no need to be so polite. We are the Array Masters of Hongmeng City—this is what we should do. Besides, we have gained enormously in the process. If anyone should be thanking someone, we should be thanking you, City Lord, for your selfless teachings.” Director Niu Bo said, his expression and tone sincere.

The other Array Masters all echoed his words.

Over these fifty years, every one of them had their horizons greatly broadened. Whenever they encountered difficulties, Jing Yan would unhesitatingly guide them, which made them very grateful. Even the five Array Masters who joined later all made tremendous progress in their Formation skills. Some Array Masters even achieved a massive breakthrough in their level on the path of Formations.

They naturally felt grateful to Jing Yan, the City Lord of Hongmeng City.

Jing Yan nodded and went on, ”Next, you can rest for ten days. Ten days from now, you’ll have to get busy again. Our city is going to expand once more.”

The present scale of Hongmeng City is still the same as the Inner City at the beginning, which was built entirely by Wuxia and Xu Yiming.

City buildings are easy to construct, but the corresponding Formations must be laid out by Array Masters.

The Inner City can roughly accommodate fifteen to twenty million people.

Right now, Hongmeng City already has seven million people. On the surface, the city is still relatively spacious, and there are quite a few empty buildings on the outskirts that haven’t yet been sold.

”City Lord, this Cultivation Tower has been enormously costly. The Grand Steward has repeatedly said that the city’s Treasure Vault is almost empty. We barely have any Black Crystal Stones left.” Luo Hao spoke up softly from the side.