Chapter 683 - 345: Immortal Mountain Building Plan (3)

Chapter 683: Chapter 345: Immortal Mountain Building Plan (3)

Watching Wang Tianli hurry away, Cheng Zongyang smiled.

Once this system was fully formed, the families on the various surrounding mountains would radiate outwards, with Jade Peak Immortal City as their center.

They would become reliant on the Immortal City to exist.

The influential families would live on the mountaintops, while the common people, Martial Artists, and Loose Cultivators would reside on the ground. Everything would be oriented toward the Immortal City; they would take from it, but also contribute and serve it.

The Immortal City’s position would become even more secure.

In the future, once he established the passage to the Realm of Ten Thousand Races within the Immortal City, the city would become truly unique!

Even if other powers developed into Major Cultivation Immortality Families, they still wouldn’t be able to build their own Immortal Cities!

He pushed down his visions of the future and made a note of what needed to be done next.

Specifically, he needed a large quantity of combined "Influence Sets" that could provide both Spiritual Qi and Arrays.

For this, he would have to get Luo Dingran to try purchasing them at the Jade Stone Market, and also find a way to make those in the Cultivation Immortality Realm "sacrifice" them.

Of course, there was also a more permanent solution—Spirit Veins!

If he could just dig up the Spirit Veins from the Cultivation Immortality Realm and move them to Jade Peak Immortal City, then he wouldn’t need to worry about all this.

So, he returned to his study, entered the Realm of Ten Thousand Races, and found Luo Dingran. He told him about the method for extracting Spirit Veins, as well as the matter of the Spiritual Qi Influence Sets.

Luo Dingran was stunned when he heard that Cheng Zongyang was actually setting his sights on the Spirit Veins of the Cultivation Immortality Realm.

This was far more surprising than the good idea of using Spiritual Qi combination sets to secure the Immortal City’s position.

’He had thought of this before but hadn’t dared to mention it to Cheng Zongyang. He never imagined that his lord would actually have the same idea.’

The Spirit Veins were the very root of the Cultivation Immortality Realm!

Back then, the surface world’s Spirit Veins had been depleted, causing the entire Cultivation Immortality Realm to relocate underground, leaving the surface to become the Martial Arts Realm.

What Cheng Zongyang was doing now would undoubtedly hasten the decline of the Cultivation Immortality Realm! It would force all of them to either enter the Realm of Ten Thousand Races or return to the Martial Arts Realm.

If it were the former, then Jade Peak Immortal City’s existence would become meaningless. Therefore, the most likely outcome was that they would be forced back to the Martial Arts Realm.

As long as the rules were properly established, the Realm of Ten Thousand Races could only be a place for exploration, not a permanent residence.

But the rules for Territory Number Two had already been set.

Although people could live in the safe zones, it was only for temporary rest—for a month at most, not long-term.

The rule Cheng Zongyang had established was that the longer someone stayed in the Realm of Ten Thousand Races, the slower their rate of absorbing Spiritual Qi and increasing their Cultivation would become, until it stagnated entirely. This process took one month, meaning the effective time one could stay inside was a month.

The Ring Spirit had informed Cheng Zongyang that recovery required spending a corresponding amount of time back in the outside world.

After staying in the Realm of Ten Thousand Races for a month, the process of absorbing Spiritual Qi would stop, and one’s Cultivation would stagnate.

One could only gradually return to normal by leaving the Realm of Ten Thousand Races, a process that would take a few days. However, if the stay exceeded one month, the recovery time would also be prolonged.

This rule was like a "rule poison"; the longer one stayed in the Realm of Ten Thousand Races, the deeper the "toxicity." Leaving the realm was akin to "reverse detoxification."

While this wouldn’t cause one’s Cultivation to drop or affect one’s life, it was a major deterrent unless a Cultivator didn’t mind their Cultivation stagnating and facing a longer recovery time in the future.

The rule didn’t affect ordinary people or Martial Artists. But if they ever wanted to pursue Qi Cultivation in the future, they too would eventually have to face this "rule poison."

This rule was detailed in the regulations for the safe zones. Thus, the Realm of Ten Thousand Races was destined to be a place for exploration and resource gathering, not a long-term residence.

It took Luo Dingran a moment to snap out of it. Then, he smiled. "My lord, there is a way to excavate Spirit Veins."

Hearing this, Cheng Zongyang was stunned. "You’ve already asked?"

Luo Dingran nodded.