Chapter 77: Sifang City! Never hate your enemies, it will affect your judgment!
Sifang City.
Square and rectangular.
Even though this was the second time Jiajing had seen the Sifang City, he still felt very shocked every time he saw it.
He had an idea of the size of Beijing in his mind, but it was precisely because of this that he was shocked when he saw the square city.
If Jiajing were to make an approximate calculation, the Sifang City would be equivalent to the size of two Beijing cities in later generations. At first glance, at first hearing, it is almost impossible to imagine how big it would be, only that it is huge.
But in this world of cultivating immortals, the size of the city has been calculated by the academy, and the detailed information is clearly known in the minds of the cultivators who pay close attention.
Sifang City is one of the twelve great cities for cultivating immortals in the Great Wilderness.
One hundred and twenty years ago, the White Horse Academy announced to the world of immortals that a decree had been issued to open up the wilderness.
Afterwards, the Eastern Wasteland was directly divided into twelve equal parts on the map. The academy personally built a large city for cultivating immortals at these twelve points to make preliminary preparations for the war.
The total area of Sifang City is 49 million mu.
The city wall, built with a special unknown stone, looked like a square frame, gleaming in the sun. It was 217,448 feet long and 4 feet high.
From a distance, the buildings of different heights appear messy yet majestic and grand. It is shocking, and shocking.
It is hard to imagine that such a magnificent complex of buildings is within human reach, but it was certainly not built by mortals, but by cultivators or sects of immortals that specialize in architecture.
The closer it got, the richer the spiritual energy became. All the spiritual energy from all directions between heaven and earth seemed to be moving towards it.
Jiajing naturally knew the reason. The last time he came, Liu Quan told him that there were spiritual veins under the Sifang City, and there was also a "Tianshu Spirit Gathering Array" gathering spirits.
This "Tianshu Spirit Gathering Array" is one of the top spirit gathering arrays in the entire Arcturus, and even from Liu Quan's introduction, it is known that even in the entire world of immortal cultivation, it is a top-notch spirit gathering array, with a grade as high as the first grade.
Yes, the Spirit Gathering Array is also divided into different grades.
The first grade has the highest quality, the ninth grade has the lowest, and the coverage area is probably only about one acre of land.
"Is the spiritual vein under Sifang City of the first grade?" Jiajing asked as he looked at the city that was getting closer and closer and whose majestic aura was becoming more and more pervasive.
When he came for the first time, he was still a mortal, and Liu Quan just took him around for a brief tour without giving him a very detailed introduction.
When I came for the second time, I was introduced to the history of the city, some family business branches and so on.
As for the spiritual vein, he didn't go into detail. At that time, Jiajing's mind and attention were not on this, so he didn't mention it.
"First grade?" Liu Quan grinned, raised his hand and made a spell, controlling the shuttle to begin falling outside the city. "That's only the upper limit of the grade, not the upper limit of the spirit vein's quality."
"There are twelve large cities. Under each of them, there are at least three first-grade high-quality spiritual veins converging, and they are all using the Tianshu to gather spiritual energy."
"Buzz buzz buzz." The shuttle began to vibrate, slowly descended, and landed a few hundred meters outside the city, stopping on a thirty-meter-wide avenue.
"Hey." Liu Quan grinned, "If someone can extract these three spirit veins, place them on a dead star, and then use the Tianshu spirit gathering formation to reverse the order of the array and nail the spirit veins, I estimate that this dead star can be resurrected within a hundred years... Here it comes..."
After saying that, Liu Quan jumped up gracefully, flipped out of the shuttle, and Jiajing followed suit and jumped down.
Some words, although unintentional by the speaker, may touch the heart of the listener.
"Resurrect the Death Star..." Jiajing was fascinated by the city in front of him as he looked closely at it. It was becoming more and more magnificent, huge, and full of oppression, making people feel as shocked as an ant.
Dead stars refer to those planets without spiritual energy.
Generally, there will be living beings on this kind of planet, like Arcturus. It is a constellation, referring to a group of stars around it. Naturally, there are some small stars around it, which are dead stars.
However, there are still mortals living on them, and many large sects with the conditions will choose these death stars when sending disciples for training.
The mortals on the Death Star do not practice cultivation. Most of them practice martial arts or are ordinary mortals, and are also governed by Confucian academies.
Some good seedlings, either children favored by the academy or ordinary people, will be brought to the academy for training.
The academy recruits people according to the star region. The best and most special ones are often all in the academy.
Therefore, there is a saying in the world of cultivating immortals that if a person with a rootless fate has a glimmer of hope for a turnaround, it is to go to an academy.
But, what does it matter if you have a rootless fate? No matter how special you are, in front of the academy, you may just be an ordinary person.
What's more, the world of cultivating immortals is too vast. Even for an academy, its vision is limited and it is impossible to take care of every inch of land.
"The Earth is also a dead planet..." Thinking of this, Jiajing suppressed the desire and passion in his heart.
These are not what I can ask for now.
The more you understand this vast and magnificent world of cultivation, the more powerless you feel about it.
What he needs to do is to take one step at a time, steadily and slowly build up his business. He must not aim too high.
With a wave of his hand, Liu Quan put away the flying shuttle, put it into the storage bag, and then went towards Sifang City with Jiajing.
Baima Tower is the "landmark building" of Sifang City. It is located in the center of Sifang City. It is not the tallest, but it is the most central location of the entire Sifang City.
The White Horse Building has a total of thirteen floors, but actually it is twelve floors because the top thirteenth floor is not open to the public.
It is about 340 meters high, with a base of 180 meters long and 30 meters high. The height of each floor is nearly 30 meters. The roof is an octagonal double-eaved pointed roof, which looks magnificent and majestic.
With it as the starting point, twelve main roads about eight feet wide extended out, dividing the square city in an orderly manner, all the way to the pre-booked box on the fourth floor of the White Horse Building.
Jiajing came to the main seat in the room and sat down, while Liu Quan was willing to serve as a foil and sat next to him.
"Sir, this is old man Huang Feng," Liu Quan took out his own mirror, his natal object - the Great Ming Treasure Mirror.
Well, before, the name of his natal object was "Taixu Guanzhao". Later, in order to fit in with the Daming Immortal Sect, he changed its name to "Daming Baojian".
After all, his natal object can discern truth from falsehood and can tell the lies of cultivators or mortals.
I heard that he planned to polish his natal object into a "natal reflection magic weapon", so this name is quite fitting.
Jiajing looked at Jianmian.
The figure of an old man with a white beard, slightly red skin, neatly trimmed hair and sinister and fierce eyes emerged.
Huang Feng, the head of Huangfeng Valley, is a cultivator in the early stage of Jindan.
"This is the Great Elder Geng Huo of the Yellow Wind Valley, who is in the middle stage of the foundation building stage," Liu Quan said in a serious tone, "This grandson has a hot temper, and his natal object is a flying sword, so he can be considered a sword cultivator."
"Sword cultivators have the strongest attack power and the most murderous aura among all cultivators. A cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building can even fight against cultivators in the late stage of foundation building. Old man Huang Feng thinks highly of him."
"During this pioneering war, I suggested to the headmaster that we find an opportunity to get rid of this grandson, but he escaped several times..."
"Yeah." Jiajing nodded, remembered the leader and elders of Huangfeng Valley, and then retracted his gaze with a calm expression.
"Sir," Liu Quan looked at Jiajing, who looked calm, and couldn't help asking, "How do you plan to convince old Huang Feng?"
"Can't bear it anymore?" Jiajing looked at Liu Quan, his expression slightly relaxed.
After confirming the time yesterday, Liu Quan wanted to ask himself several times, but he held back every time, fearing that he would give Jiajing the impression that he was not patient enough. Now he finally asked.
"Hey, nothing can be hidden, sir." Liu Quan smiled awkwardly and said, "I really can't understand why Mr. Huang Feng would give in given the relationship between our two families."
"This old guy has flattered the Qingyuan Immortal Sect and the Xiaoshushan Immortal Sect. The three sects can open up trade routes. There is really no need for them to trade with us."
"We should be able to impress them without any bargaining chips."
"I remember you said that the leader of the Qingyuan Immortal Sect is older than Huang Feng, and has more than one Taoist partner. He is greedy, lustful, and narrow-minded, right?" Jiajing raised his finger.
Jiajing recalled the intelligence about several sects that stood in the way of the Ming Dynasty that Liu Quan had sent him after he left the country.
Before the retreat, he had asked Liu Quan to collect intelligence on several major sects. After he came out of retreat yesterday, Liu Quan gave the intelligence he had investigated to Jiajing. The leader of the "Xiao Shushan Immortal Sect" is very young.
The point of interest binding with Huangfeng Valley is that the youngest son was taken away by the patron of the 'Little Shushan Immortal Sect', the 'Shushan Sword Sect' in the Central Plains.
As for the "Qingyuan Immortal Sect", it is equivalent to a marriage.
The only thing that Jiajing was afraid of was his second daughter, who looked harmless but was admitted to the White Horse Academy.
The academy would not interfere in the struggles between the sects, but Jiajing would not think that the human relations and social etiquette were so simple. However, at least on the surface, there was no need to take this into consideration.
"Yes," Liu Quan nodded, "Old Huang Feng sold his daughter to a man of similar age as a Taoist partner. How shameless!"
"This is enough to show that this person is a person who puts his own interests first. He is also a qualified person in a higher position, isn't he?" Jiajing said in a slightly slower tone, "The only thing a person in a higher position wants is to take care of his family and clan!"
“If Huang Feng’s path to immortality is really hopeless, then he would arrange marriages and send two girls away to inherit his sect’s incense and heritage… everything is ultimately for profit.”
"The entire Eastern Wasteland is a new land," Jiajing paused and said, "The new sects, within the three generations of the headmaster, are protected by the academy, and there will be no annexation."
"As long as the Huang family in Sifang City is still there, the sect will have a constant influx of fresh blood and grow stronger."
"Everything that the head of this generation does is to quickly accumulate wealth for the sect before his own death. This way, he can smoothly and steadily pave the way for the second generation of head."
"On the top, there are people from the academy; in the middle, there is the Central Plains major sect 'Shushan Sword Sect' as a retreat; on the bottom, we can form an alliance with the 'Qingyuan Immortal Sect' and 'Xiaoshushan Immortal Sect' here."
"That's why I said this is a qualified superior."
"A qualified leader is always result-oriented and profit-oriented. He is destined to put aside hatred and embrace profit."
"Hiss!" After listening to Jiajing's twists and turns, Liu Quan couldn't help but take a breath, and took out the "Great Ming Treasure Mirror" to call up Huang Feng's hideous old face, and said in surprise:
"I underestimated this old guy. Does he have such a brain?"
At this moment, Liu Quan felt like, we all come from bandits, so how come you are so cultured.
"What Huang Feng did doesn't seem like something a mere bandit could do," Jiajing said, looking towards the door. "Go check carefully about his background before he became a bandit."
"Fighting within the rules is often bloodless, but it is also more bloody and cruel!"
"Remember, never hate your enemies, it will affect your judgment!" Jiajing tapped the armrest with his fingers leisurely.
"I understand..." Before he knew it, Liu Quan had stood up and stood beside Jiajing. His face became serious and his tone was more serious than ever before.
Looking at Jiajing, who was sitting on the chair beside him with a calm and orderly expression, Liu Quan felt admiration and gratitude in his heart.
Fortunately, I decided to lure Jiajing into the mountain stronghold!
"..."
(End of this chapter)
