Chapter 681 - 300: Upgrading to a Town! A Great Celebration for Xuanhe Town! (Part 2)

"Oh, the inspection method is to spar with Spark."

"Awooo..."

Cola’s eyes widened even more. It didn’t want to experience the feeling Chen Yuan described, nor did it want to be beaten up by the boss lady. It quickly ran to the yard to start training.

Watching Cola’s hastily departing figure, Chen Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

There was only one month left until the Donghuang Conference began. Although he couldn’t find a match in the entire Qin Province, heroes were as numerous as the carp crossing the river. In the vast Donghuang, there would always be a few Beastmasters so formidable they seemed to be cheating.

But fortunately, they only seemed to be cheating—Chen Yuan actually had cheats.

After washing up briefly, Chen Yuan came to the yard to exercise, ready to start his plans for the day.

As the head Forest Ranger of this area, he hadn’t been into the mountains for a while for patrols. He decided to take advantage of this rare free time to stroll around the mountains, check for hidden dangers, and visit the Mysterious Forest to see how Qing Bo and Cyan were doing.

The matter of the Divine is of great importance. Even though the Mysterious Forest has always been under the surveillance of the Beastmaster Association, Chen Yuan still needed to occasionally check it personally.

If there’s any anomaly with Cyan, the entire Qinling would be in danger.

But as Chen Yuan began preparing the supplies to go into the mountains, familiar shouting came from outside the farm, accompanied by rapid footsteps approaching quickly.

"Yuan, Yuan, great news!"

Chen Yuan turned his head to see Zhang Hao, the Piggy Knight, riding a Gray-armored Wild Boar into the farm, waving excitedly at him.

"Yuan!"

The Gray-armored Wild Boar made a sudden stop five meters in front of Chen Yuan. Due to inertia, Zhang Hao’s body uncontrollably flew forward, landing on his knees in front of Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan raised an eyebrow, teasing, "I know you’re excited, but there’s no need for such a big salute."

Zhang Hao’s face showed no embarrassment. He quickly got up, ran to Chen Yuan, casually patted the snow dust off his knees, and grinned, "Yuan, this time it’s really good news."

"What good news?" Chen Yuan asked.

"Our Xuanhe Village has been upgraded to Xuanhe Town!" Zhang Hao beamed, gesturing wildly.

Chen Yuan was taken aback, "Xuanhe Town?"

"Yeah!"

Zhang Hao couldn’t hide his excitement, his eyes gleaming, "Our Xuanhe Village has a special geographical location, and with the recent buzz, it’s finally been upgraded to a town."

Pausing slightly, a broad smile spread across his face as he began to envision his future commercial empire, "Now that it’s Xuanhe Town, there will definitely be more outsiders and Beastmasters coming. Just relying on inns and Pet Beast rental services won’t be enough."

"I need to quickly prepare to open restaurants, open shops..."

Ignoring Zhang Hao’s future business plans, Chen Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, deep in thought.

He had known about this news for a while.

In recent years, to promote new urbanization, Donghuang had been implementing administrative measures to replace villages with towns, but this ordinance had nothing to do with Xuanhe Village, nestled deep in the mountains.

However, after the Spiritual Energy Revival, the geographical factors that once hindered Xuanhe Village’s development became a great boost for its progress. The higher-ups had already been preparing plans to turn Xuanhe Village into a town, which finally came to fruition.

Later, as a consultant for the Qin Province Beastmaster Association, Chen Yuan learned more details from Zhou Xu.

It turns out the higher-ups wanted to build Xuanhe Town as one of the main entry points into Qinling, gathering scattered Beastmasters here. One reason is to better promote the development of the surrounding areas, and the other is to implement unified standardized management.

According to the higher-up plans, the infrastructure of Xuanhe Town should be more complete, requiring a more comprehensive Beastmaster Office, a Pet Beast hospital, and a security office.

Seeing this, Chen Yuan was stunned, "Where would these facilities be built?"

"In the sky?"

Xuanhe Town is surrounded by mountains, and the only flat area has long been occupied by houses. There’s no space left to build new facilities.

Zhang Hao pointed northwest, "Yuan, did you forget about that flat land?"

Following Zhang Hao’s gesture, memories flooded into Chen Yuan’s mind, muttering, "I see."

Indeed, two hundred meters northwest of Xuanhe Town, there is a relatively large flat area. Still, the former Xuanhe Village had no extra construction needs.

After all, young people left to work elsewhere, leaving only the old, young, sick, and disabled in the village. Who would want to build houses in the village?

But now it’s different. Upgrading to a town, Xuanhe Town is bound to welcome ordinary people and Beastmasters from all over, urgently needing to expand its range and build houses and infrastructure.

"Wait."

"If I’m not mistaken, isn’t that area inhabited by a group of golden monkeys, no, Flowing Fire Spirit Monkeys?" Chen Yuan suddenly remembered something important.

Xuanhe Village is located in Taibai County. In the nearby mountains, there was a group of golden monkeys, one of the four treasures of Qinling, which had attracted experts and professors for research many times.

After the Spiritual Energy Revival, this group of golden monkeys evolved into Flowing Fire Spirit Monkeys with fire attributes, claiming the flat land as their habitat.

To take over this flat land, Xuanhe Town would need to persuade the Flowing Fire Spirit Monkeys to leave.

"That’s a small matter." Zhang Hao waved nonchalantly, a confident gleam in his eyes, as if every challenge and obstacle were insignificant in the face of profit, "I’ll negotiate with them, ensuring they obediently move."

Chen Yuan nodded slightly.

Zhang Hao has the gift of gab, excelling at communication, sure to make it a breeze.

Wait, they’re not people?

That’s okay. Zhang Hao, with his emotional intelligence and skills, can also easily resolve any Pet Beast issue.

But Chen Yuan knew Zhang Hao well—he wouldn’t get up early without the lure of profit. Besides, he was usually busy; why would he voluntarily offer to solve such troublesome matters?