The Sword God of the Universe

Chapter 2467: Chapter 2467: Hongmeng City’s Counterattack

When Wuxia entered the room, both Chief Bai Han and Supervisor Ru Li bowed slightly to her.

They all knew that Wuxia had a special status in Hongmeng City.

Although Bai Han was a strong Immortal Venerable Peak realm practitioner, he still maintained respect for Wuxia because she was likely the city lord’s woman and the young madam of the Thunder Domain.

"Wuxia, take a look at this pill." Jing Yan tossed a jade bottle to Wuxia.

This jade bottle contained none other than the High Grade Immortal Pill, Celestial Void Eye.

Wuxia opened the jade bottle and immediately recognized the Celestial Void Eye.

In the decades since she came to Kunling Heaven, Wuxia has been meticulously managing the Hongmeng Pill Tower and, in her spare time, learning about various elixirs and alchemy materials. Her thought was that since Jing Yan entrusted the Hongmeng Pill Tower’s management to her, she must diligently perform this duty. Although she wasn’t a Pill Master, she aimed to become thoroughly knowledgeable about various elixirs and materials.

"High Grade Immortal Pill... Celestial Void Eye?" Wuxia looked up, her beautiful eyes gazing at Jing Yan.

"Yes, I just recently refined it." Jing Yan nodded with a smile.

When Bai Han and Ru Li heard the name of the pill and that City Lord Jing Yan mentioned it was recently refined, their hearts were suddenly shocked.

Hongmeng Pill Tower already had the Nine-star Primordial Spirit Pill, such a top-grade immortal pill. If Celestial Void Eye were also available for sale, there would be two types of top-grade immortal pills. In the Heavenly Domain, top-grade immortal pills could not be casually acquired, and their variety was scarce. Pill towers that could sell two types of top-grade immortal pills were rare in the entire Heavenly Domain. Such pill towers generally belonged to very strong alchemy powers.

"That’s wonderful!" Wuxia’s stunning face also showed a gleam of joy.

"City Lord, because our Hongmeng City hasn’t entered the Tianyin City ranking list recently, there have been many unfavorable rumors outside, saying our Hongmeng City’s strength is lacking. If our Hongmeng Pill Tower can sell two kinds of top-grade immortal pills, just the pill tower alone would be enough to let the city enter the Tianyin City ranking, right?" Wuxia smiled, revealing pearl-white teeth.

Although she generally does not leave the Hongmeng Pill Tower, she also understands and controls the matters outside the tower.

"Yes, if Tianyin Tower doesn’t let Hongmeng City into the city ranking, we won’t insist. However, naturally, some will question the fairness of the Tianyin City ranking. At that time, it won’t be us who need to worry." Jing Yan nodded.

"This is truly excellent! City Lord, I didn’t expect you to have countermeasures already. We were just getting anxious earlier." Chief Bai Han was genuinely happy.

"This time, let Tianyin Tower shoot itself in the foot, especially that Wuling Building Master from the branch. Haha, let’s see if he can still sit still." Ru Li also said with a smile.

"That’s the plan!" Jing Yan said.

"Wuxia, I’ve already refined a batch of Celestial Void Eye here. Take these pills to the Hongmeng Pill Tower. Tomorrow, announce to the outside world that the Hongmeng Pill Tower is selling this second type of top-grade immortal pill. Ru Li, you are responsible for coordinating the pill tower’s publicity." Jing Yan instructed.

"Yes!" Wuxia responded.

Ru Li also immediately responded.

Everyone in the room felt slightly excited. In the past few days, they had been in a passive position, and external public opinion about Hongmeng City was not good. But now, it’s time to start striking back.

Wuxia, Bai Han, and Ru Li left the City Lord Mansion.

After the three left, Jing Yan quietly slipped out of the City Lord Mansion, heading to a building not far away. This building, always under control, had nine layers, making it a rather conspicuous structure in the city’s center. This building’s shape was also quite peculiar, looking like a tower.

"It’s time to construct the Cultivation Tower!" Jing Yan entered the building, a smile at the corner of his mouth.

Cultivation Tower!

This type of facility is present in almost every city. A city without a Cultivation Tower is an incomplete city.

In Hongmeng City, this Cultivation Tower had been built long ago but remained idle for decades. It wasn’t that Jing Yan didn’t want to open the Cultivation Tower after making it complete for public use, but he couldn’t.

The construction of the Cultivation Tower building is straightforward, requiring mere building materials. But to get the Cultivation Tower operational, such that cultivators can use it to train and enhance their strength, is exceedingly challenging. The cost of functionally establishing a Cultivation Tower is astronomical. Even for Jing Yan, it’s an incredibly overwhelming number.

Jing Yan doesn’t want to build a low-level Cultivation Tower in Hongmeng City; if it were to open, it should be as an Advanced Cultivation Tower.

Even a low-level Cultivation Tower requires investment usually amounting to several hundred billion Black Crystal Stones. For an Advanced Cultivation Tower, the basic expenses start at trillions of Black Crystal Stones.

For this reason, the vast majority of cities have low-level Cultivation Towers. Even the Cultivation Towers in two-star cities like Tianji City and Mystic Underworld City are low-level.

Advanced Cultivation Towers are extremely rare. It can be said that only a few of even the Three-star Cities have Advanced Cultivation Towers.

The investment for a Cultivation Tower is enormous; constructing an Advanced Cultivation Tower strains even superpowers.

However, after the Cultivation Tower opens for public use, it too becomes a treasure basin like a pill tower. Cultivators have to pay high fees to use the Cultivation Tower; it’s not free.

The foundational component of constructing the Cultivation Tower’s functions is various arrays, primarily the Spirit Gathering Array. The Spirit Gathering Array is not overly complex and can be arranged by a typical Array Master. The problem is that a Cultivation Tower requires a large number of Spirit Gathering Arrays.

Taking, for example, the Cultivation Tower Jing Yan is preparing to construct, the First Layer alone has 999 cultivation rooms. In each of these rooms, at least one Spirit Gathering Array needs to be arranged. In other words, the First Layer of the Cultivation Tower requires at least 999 Spirit Gathering Arrays.

Moreover, in addition to the Spirit Gathering Arrays, other types of arrays are needed, such as isolation arrays. The Spirit Gathering Arrays in each room must not interfere with one another, and unexpected incidents must be prevented when cultivators use the cultivation rooms; this requires monitoring arrays during cultivation, among others.

In conclusion, this work is extremely intricate and astonishingly costly.

If not for the influence of the Tianyin Tower incident, Jing Yan might have waited a while longer before proceeding with the functional establishment of the Cultivation Tower. Over these decades, Hongmeng Pill Tower has earned a vast amount of Black Crystal Stones, yet much of this gain has been spent like flowing water on city construction and recruiting cultivators.

For a city in its expansion phase, no amount of resources is sufficient for consumption. Thanks to the remarkable sales capabilities of Hongmeng Pill Tower, coupled with the greatly reduced costs in producing elixirs due to Jing Yan’s efforts to improve the abilities of Pill Masters, Hongmeng Pill Tower can earn more wealth than other pill towers.