Chapter 443 - 180: News of Building Defense Towers, Entering a Private Secret Realm

Thanks to the rewards they’d just earned from Shen Fei carrying them through the Heaven-Reaching Tower, the two of them felt this would be no problem at all. Most importantly, this matter was arranged by Brother Chongtian. Given Shen Fei’s current fame, if even a hint got out that this was Brother Chongtian’s idea, the news would definitely go viral throughout all of Qing City, and even the entire Great Xia. This matter would absolutely start trending.

In fact, many players who wanted to join Qing City would see that Brother Chongtian was planning for the city’s future, and the number of applicants would definitely skyrocket again. As Shen Fei had unabashedly revealed his strength, over the past three days, the number of players applying to join Qing City was well into the hundreds of thousands, if not a million.

However, joining Qing City wasn’t so easy. Moreover, with the full update of the Version 4.3 city system, all cities now had functions to manage affiliated personnel. Thus, even setting aside the difficulty of reaching Qing City without teleportation items now that Blue Star’s surface area had expanded, players still had to contend with the city’s management functions.

The nine cities surrounding Qing City had also completely encircled its original location. Under these circumstances, anyone who wanted to join could only apply through official channels. There was absolutely no chance of anyone sneaking in or secretly infiltrating the city. The nine Neutral Cities encircling the outskirts of Qing City’s old location, along with their spheres of influence, blocked anyone trying to sneak in. All players who wished to join Qing City had to apply.

As the new head of the Qing City Tourism Management Office, Zhang Qiqiang was certain that once they finalized their plans and announced the rules for entering Floor 91 and above of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, the number of applicants for Qing City would become even more massive.

"Mm! Also, this Heaven-Reaching Tower Secret Realm was inherited from the game *Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms*! Pay attention and collect the materials, blueprints, and other items for building Defense Towers that it drops, Yu!"

After settling matters regarding the Heaven-Reaching Tower, Shen Fei brought up something else. His greatest gain from taking people into the Heaven-Reaching Tower this time was discovering a new place to obtain materials for crafting Defense Towers. This perfectly met the demand for the extra Defense Tower slots he had gained from leveling up.

Although in reality it was impossible to upgrade towers just by spending Krypton Gold like in the game, and crafting Defense Towers—especially Tenth Tier ones—would be extremely difficult, for Shen Fei, having this channel and method was enough.

Moreover, these materials for crafting Defense Towers weren’t just useful to him. They were extremely useful for all the Tower Masters in the Heaven-Reaching Gang.

Although the others couldn’t yet improve their own strength and items because Version 4.7 hadn’t arrived, it was perfectly feasible to prepare the crafting materials for Defense Towers in advance so they could directly upgrade or build new ones after the 4.7 update.

The Heaven-Reaching Tower, a special multiplayer Secret Realm, had caused Shen Fei and Qing City enormous trouble when it first manifested. But now that it had transformed into a special Secret Realm, its importance had suddenly soared. It was a vital Secret Realm for all Tower Masters to farm materials.

"Okay, no problem! Also, Brother! I’ve already spoken with Gun’Er. From now on, whenever anyone in the Heaven-Reaching Gang wants to inherit the [Other] option, they will report it to him. We’ve already started collecting all the items from the game *Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms*, aside from the main inherited items."

Sun Yu quickly replied to Shen Fei. Beside him, Gun’Er, the Vice Gang Leader in charge of the Heaven-Reaching Gang’s Tower Masters, also nodded in agreement. Regarding the matter Shen Fei had mentioned, they had actually already begun making arrangements.

"Good! That’s good! I suspect that Secret Realms can be upgraded, and can even devour other similar Secret Realms. You should be mentally prepared for that in advance!"

Hearing Sun Yu’s reply, Shen Fei nodded. Based on his experience from his past life, if a Secret Realm became highly valued for its rules or drops, it could be artificially ’fattened up.’ Not only that, some Secret Realms might drop special [Secret Realm Fragments] that could improve and expand a target Secret Realm’s strength and area. Furthermore, once certain Secret Realms reached a specific level, they could even evolve by devouring others.

Shen Fei remembered that in his past life, within the Fanghu Cave Heaven of the Great Xia Divine Capital, there was rumored to be a very special and wondrous Secret Realm that had been ’fattened up.’

Now that it was confirmed the Heaven-Reaching Tower Secret Realm was an important ’asset’ for Qing City, it would have to be ’nurtured’ in the future.

"Really? That’s great! I’ll definitely fatten this Secret Realm up nice and plump!"

Hearing his big brother’s words, Sun Yu’s eyes lit up. If you were to ask who in all of Qing City was the most enthusiastic about the Heaven-Reaching Tower Secret Realm, it would have to be Sun Yu. Because the vast majority of his Defense Towers were placed around the Heaven-Reaching Tower Secret Realm, he was the one who most wanted it to become better and stronger.

"Alright! You guys handle it. Just come find me if you need anything!"

After giving his instructions to Sun Yu, Zhang Qiqiang, and the others, and seeing they had nothing more to say, Shen Fei nodded, summoned his Teleportation Gate Tower, and quickly appeared on the walls of Yang City, a large city within Qing City.

Sitting on the walls of Yang City, he thought, I can’t believe this mandatory mission to enter the Secret Realm seemed so profound, yet we finished it so easily! We just had to clear a single floor, and everyone’s mandatory mission was completed. It looks like this Version 4.5 mission update hasn’t really started to get crazy yet...