If you don’t have that much confidence in your own strength, then you have to be patient. You need to wait. Wait for some unlucky city to be slapped flat by some powerhouse, and then there will be a ready-made location to build a city.

As for why this city was flattened by a powerhouse, it could be any reason.

It may be that the city lord refuses to hand over his daughter, it may be that he is interested in local specialties or treasures and wants to grab them, or it is even more likely that some unlucky guy accidentally offended a powerhouse and dragged tens of thousands of people, who were even more unlucky to be in the same place, to the afterlife with him.

In addition, it was also possible that when an immortal flew over the city, he suddenly wanted to try a newly realized palm technique, or he was simply in a bad mood and found the city not pleasing to the eye…

It was said that the most deceitful thing that happened in history was that a certain immortal body cultivator flew over a city, fell asleep on the way, accidentally rolled off his flying sword, and directly smashed the entire city…

So being an ordinary person in this fantasy cultivation world is far more precarious than being an unlucky person on the previous Earth.

In addition, due to various natural disasters and man-made disasters, mountain breaks, river diversions, spirit stone veins uplift, etc., places that were not suitable for building a city suddenly became suitable for building a city.

However, this kind of thing is relatively rare, and whether it can be encountered depends on luck.

Feng Shao is confident in his strength, but he is not confident enough to dare go head-to-head with the lords of the current city-states, and this is not his style. As for patience, he has it too, but not much. Speaking of luck… Feng Shao thinks his luck is pretty good, but he doesn’t want to rely on luck.

He decided to rely on knowledge.

Among the ancient books he has mastered, there are also many geographical charts. Among them, the geographical maps of Qiankun Palace are the most detailed, and some special minerals recorded in it also attracted Feng Shao’s attention.

Among the many minerals in the Upper Domain, spirit stones are undoubtedly the best hard currency.

It can be used for cultivation and trading, and even many sects will use it as building materials to build buildings such as cultivation towers and meditation rooms.

In addition, various types of materials used to create spirit weapons and magic treasures are also in demand.

In the geographical map of Qiankun Palace, a mineral that Feng Shao had never heard of before was identified: Natural Spiritual Energy.

Spiritual energy, as it is known, permeates between the heavens and the earth everywhere. The difference is that some places are rich in spiritual energy and some places are lacking in spiritual energy.

However, the Natural Spiritual Energy marked on geographic maps is different from the spiritual energy that everyone is familiar with.

According to Feng Shao’s understanding, this thing seems to be a bit like natural gas in this world, except that natural gas is used to burn fire, while Natural Spiritual Energy is used for cultivation!

The concentration of energy in Natural Spiritual Energy is so high that it must be diluted for absorption.

And the efficiency of absorbing Natural Spiritual Energy is much higher than absorbing spirit stones.

Coupled with its abundant reserves and simple mining requirements, its value is even much higher than that of spirit stone veins.

It was recorded that the Natural Spiritual Energy is widely distributed in the upper domain, however, most are buried very deep.

The shallowest Natural Spiritual Energy vein is at least three hundred meters from the ground.

Very few forces would search and mine veins buried so deep, so Natural Spiritual Energy could be buried underground for tens of thousands of years without being noticed by the world.

Feng Shao doesn’t know what method Qiankun Palace even used to find out this kind of thing.

But immediately, Feng Shao thought of the Earthly Soul Seal, which ranked second among the Ten Treasures of Qiankun. The Qiankun Palace may have discovered the existence of Natural Spiritual Energy with the help of the Earthly Soul Seal.

After comparing it with the current map, Feng Shao quickly found a suitable place to build the city.

This place is located next to the Lishui branch, about seven hundred miles south of Yunjian Pavilion.

There is a small village living here for generations. Since the river is too narrow for boating, and there are no mineral products, few people would take a fancy to this place, so life in this small village is relatively leisurely and safe.

About thirty miles downstream of the small village, there is a Natural Spiritual Energy vein, buried nearly four hundred meters deep underground, which belongs to the category of Natural Spiritual Energy veins that are easier to mine.

As for its reserves, it is slightly lower than the sum of the currently proven reserves of the spirit stone veins owned by the three major Sacred Lands in Dongzhou.

Feng Shao estimated that this vein could be continuously mined for at least five hundred years before being exhausted.

As for the economic value… a conservative estimate is equivalent to thirty billion spirit stones.

If he doesn’t take it, he will suffer the consequences. Such a huge treasure is hidden right under everyone’s nose. If he turned a blind eye, wouldn’t he be a fool?

With this Natural Spiritual Energy vein, the basic requirements for building a city are met. As for the problem that the river channel is too narrow and the water flow is too little, it can be solved by digging artificial canals.

Now that the site for building the city has been found, and the way to make money has been thought of, the only problem is the manpower.

Yunjian Pavilion is not short of manpower, but since Feng Shao wants to build his own foundation, if he uses Yunjian Pavilion’s manpower, in the eyes of outsiders, it is not Feng Shao creating his own force, but Feng Shao expanding the territory for Yunjian Pavilion.

Don’t underestimate this label and recognition. If it is not handled well, it will easily affect Feng Shao’s follow-up development plan.

Feng Shao thought about it for several days, but he didn’t know where to go to recruit people.

Just when he was at a loss, two groups of people suddenly came to Yunjian Pavilion.

When he saw these two groups of people, Feng Shao immediately realized that he didn’t seem to have to worry about manpower.

Because the ones who came to the Yunjian Pavilion were the Taiwei Sect’s main branch disciples.


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