Longzang

Chapter 1120 The Great Momentum is About to Be Complete
The Azure Nether Immortal City has once again become a massive construction site, with the main project concentrated on the Mountain and Sea Palace. Currently, eight other Mountain and River Palaces of the same size are being built adjacent to the Mountain and Sea Palace. Once they are refined into one, the existing Mountain and Sea Palace will become nine times its original size.

This is a massive undertaking. Once completed, the Shanhe Grand Hall will be a magnificent building with a radius of 150 zhang and a height of 80 zhang, visible from a distance of 100 li.

Once the entire Shanhe Palace is completed, its internal topographical map will cover the entire Great Tang Nine Kingdoms, as well as a small portion of the surrounding areas. Wei Yuan has also reserved land around the Shanhe Palace, which can be used to build another ring, making it sixteen times larger than the original.

The Shanhai Palace is now too small; it reflects the Western Jin Dynasty but not Yizhou, and is no longer sufficient for its purpose.

The Mountain and River Palace itself is a magical artifact. Due to its extremely large size, Wei Yuan had to ask True Lord Xuan Yue for help to barely complete its forging, but the overall quality was quite low. Now that the nine palaces are completed, when it is time to forge a unified magical artifact, Immortal Lord Yan Shi will need to intervene to unify the nine palaces.

However, the main difficulty in crafting this magical artifact lies in its complete forging; the quality itself is not particularly important. It can be gradually refined and polished with Dao power over time, and its quality will naturally improve. At the Dao Foundation stage, Dao Foundation cultivators only need to refine it slowly.

During the artifact stage, as the quality improves, the area that the Mountain and River Palace can sense and cover will become increasingly larger. At the artifact stage, it can change in real time according to the changes in the earth's veins and celestial timing in the Azure Netherworld and its surroundings. The Dharma Image/Dharma Treasure stage can cover the Western Jin, Zhao, Ji, and Yizhou. Upon advancing to the Imperial Landscape Spiritual Treasure stage, it can cover the nine kingdoms of the Great Tang Dynasty and sense general changes in feng shui and fortune.

If it can be forged into a celestial artifact, who knows what other supernatural powers it will possess.

On his return journey from the new city to the immortal city, Wei Yuan paused briefly in the air to admire the construction site of the Mountain and River Palace. The site was bustling with activity; tens of thousands of formwork blocks flew up and down like bees, placing building materials into their designated positions.

Multiple Golden Core Dharma Images floated in the air, either using their powerful divine sense to supervise and direct the overall project progress, or using their individual strength to directly install the oversized and overweight components in the designated locations.

On the original exterior of the Mountain and River Hall, thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators were still clinging to it, refining the hall piece by piece. Each time every part was refined, the overall quality would improve, until it reached the point of being a perfect magical artifact.

This kind of living template Dao Foundation can be done by anyone, and does not require a special person. Before Wei Yuan had become a Dharma Aspect, his Dao power was equivalent to that of a thousand template Dao Foundations, which was indeed astonishing at the time.

However, Wei Yuan's role in such a large-scale project as the refinement of the Mountain and River Palace was not particularly prominent. Qingming now has hundreds of thousands of template Dao foundations, and there are 10,000 template Daoists taking turns refining them at the Mountain and River Palace alone, which is equivalent to ten Wei Yuans working in shifts back then.

From the perspective of a grand project, Wei Yuan is indeed dispensable to Qingming at present.

Once the Mountain and River Palace is upgraded to the Dao Foundation level and its magical artifacts are perfected, the refining process will be taken over by Dharma Aspect cultivators. They will first refine it into a magic treasure, and then refine it step by step.

Qingming currently has just over a hundred Golden Core Dharma Aspects, but this number increases every year. In the foreseeable near future, having a thousand Golden Core Dharma Aspects is not a dream.

Wei Yuan checked the construction progress for a while before entering the Shanhe Palace.

On the sand table in the hall, three main roads can be seen extending from Qingming. One leads directly to the capital of Jin, another runs north along the edge of the Xu family's territory, stretching towards the northern frontier, and the third runs east from Hanyang Pass, passing through the five southern prefectures and leading to the State of Zhao.

The map of the five southern counties is covered in snow and ice, but clear field plans are visible. Construction sites of all sizes are underway along many rivers, with numerous water conservancy projects being built. Mines are also beginning to appear in the mining areas, along with several roads leading to the rugged terrain.

To mine minerals in these areas, roads and docks must first be built, and workshops for smelting ore should be placed there directly, so that refined ore ingots can be transported out.

Qingming now has a mature and complete process for engineering construction, and every few months or at most once a year, new technologies emerge and replace the old ones.

Statistics from various realms show that most new technologies originate from frontline cultivators at the foundational level. Therefore, Wei Yuan specifically formulated various reward programs to encourage innovation among frontline cultivators.

Standing in the air above the Mountain and River Palace, Wei Yuan felt as if he were looking at the real land of Jin. The transformation of the five southern prefectures was beginning to show results; in just the past quarter, millions of people had migrated from various places to the five southern prefectures, and more would follow. Of the current 70 million people in the five southern prefectures, more than 5 million had already contributed their fortune. Once Wei Yuan had completely solved the problem of food and clothing and promoted body forging and intelligence enlightenment, he could gain another 20 to 30 million people's fortune.

However, the main contribution of the fortune still came from Qingming and Yizhou. At this moment, the azure energy within Wei Yuan's body surged, transforming into an azure ocean, and the entire prosperous sky of the myriad realms turned azure.

Under the one hundred million fortunes that Wei Yuan showed to the celestial beings, there are still one hundred million fortunes remaining.

Therefore, Wei Yuan looked down upon the land of Western Jin with great ambition. Once this area was transformed, it would become a fertile land with a population of over one billion and capable of contributing hundreds of millions of lives.

Now that Qingming's power was firmly established, Wei Yuan no longer concealed his intentions and began to openly expand outwards, transforming area by area. With the power of two hundred million people at his disposal, Wei Yuan was now capable of unleashing two attacks capable of annihilating immortals.

If Cangwu could still harbor some hope before, he wouldn't even dare to show his face in the face of Wei Yuan's two consecutive Immortal-Slaying Slashes.

Looking across the world, there are not many immortals, but not too many either. Every immortal thinks they are unique and holds more or less power over heaven and earth. No one is willing to sacrifice themselves to weaken Wei Yuan's Immortal-Slaying Slash.

Therefore, Wei Yuan currently controls the resources of 200 million people, and this resource is growing like a snowball. If Wei Yuan is not stopped now, it won't be long before he controls 300 million, 400 million, or even more people, making him even more unstoppable.

This is an open strategy, this is the grand and justifiable cause.

In his moment of triumph, Wei Yuan carefully took out tens of thousands of people's supplies and sent them to the Prince of Jin remotely. This was not because Wei Yuan was breaking his promise or being stingy, but because the recent supply of people in Western Jin had far exceeded Wei Yuan's expectations. Many places had not yet seen any real benefits, but just hearing that the Prince of Wei was coming had already caused them to cheer and send wave after wave of people's supplies directly.

Many scholars lamented that the so-called simple meal and drink were nothing more than this.

After the writers finished their reflections, the Development Agency's payment arrived.

Although the amount wasn't much, the scholars were overjoyed to receive it, after all, it was payment from the Azure Netherworld Kingdom. The quantity wasn't important; what mattered was the recognition: "I'm one of those who can receive Azure Netherworld silver!"

Wei Yuan was unaware of these minor details. What he needed to do now was to remain calm and composed in Qingming, focusing solely on expanding his army and preparing for war.

At this time, Li Zhi of Ji State's military strength was growing, and he had repeatedly repelled the main force of Ji's army's attacks, firmly occupying the four southern prefectures, and beginning to encroach on the two neighboring prefectures.

King Ji, on the other hand, accelerated the fulfillment of his secret agreement with Wei Yuan. Various kinds of military equipment and supplies began to be imported from Zhao, and troops began to be secretly re-equipped and trained. However, King Ji remained patient and watched as the Ji army in the south suffered successive defeats. He refused to send the new army to the battlefield, but instead continued to train and expand its size.

Even the powerful beings high above the celestial realms could no longer contain themselves, and they began to secretly unleash their trump cards one after another.

Wei Yuan was unaware that this was actually quite related to him. At this time, some people had already seen that Wei Yuan was about to gain momentum and were preparing to take action to interrupt his development.

Soon, two pieces of news arrived before Wei Yuan almost simultaneously. First, the Abbot of Haotian Temple in Taichu Palace, Zhu Yan Zhenjun, suddenly had a sudden inspiration and felt that the time for his ascension to immortality had arrived!
Secondly, the immortal Zhao Li summoned Wei Yuan, urgently inviting him to the State of Zhao for a meeting.

(End of this chapter)