Chapter 110: The New Hong City
Chapter 110: New Hong City
Under Teacher Wang’s guidance and embracing the principle that destruction is necessary for creation, Li Hongshen led his people through a five-year grand transformation.
First, they deliberately dismantled the altar, destroyed the city’s core, and disrupted the structure of the city walls.
Next, Li Hongshen obtained a third-tier altar blueprint from Teacher Wang for free, upgraded the lord’s domain, and used the power of transformation to relocate Fengxi Valley to the center of the lord’s territory.
Then, he led his people to renovate around Fengxi Valley, constructing a new heart for Hong City. The altar and city core were placed squarely at the center of Fengxi Valley.
Following that, the original basic Fengxi Valley fortress was demolished. In its place rose a towering wall over fifty meters high and nearly twenty meters thick, completely sealing off the mouth of Fengxi Valley.
Within the wall, there was a water channel and three entrances and exits. Defensive facilities were built into the wall, and the internal passages were wide enough to allow five people to walk side by side without crowding.
Additionally, the interior was equipped with elevators and lighting powered by spiritual energy technology. With Teacher Wang’s support, energy circuits were embedded within, connecting the entire energy core, eliminating any concerns about power supply.
Once he entered university, Li Hongshen was certain to acquire even better technology, allowing further upgrades without worry about future development.
Under Teacher Wang’s guidance, Li Hongshen then constructed the lord’s mansion atop the city wall. From here, one could overlook the entirety of Hong City and Fengxi Valley.
The mansion’s facade featured several massive floor-to-ceiling glass panels, bathing the interior in transparent sunlight. Standing inside, one could not only enjoy breathtaking views but also conduct effective inspections.
Next came the internal affairs of Fengxi Valley. It was fully developed, and the originally clustered spirit plants were carefully separated.
According to Teacher Wang’s layout, spirit-gathering trees were dispersed throughout the new city. Each tree was embedded with an energy node beneath it, allowing them to interconnect and enable the entire Hong City to benefit from their spirit-gathering properties.
The once-crowded beast garden was divided. The Fengxi Valley peaks were allocated to the Storm Eagles, with numerous caves carved out for them.
Corresponding herding beasts were relocated to the urban area for centralized management.
The vacated territory was assigned to the Fighting Wolves. After multiple rounds of discussion, on Teacher Wang’s advice, all the tiger beasts were sold to Li Fugui, whose cavalry was entirely composed of tiger beasts, making them a perfect fit for this batch of war pets.
According to Teacher Wang, Li Hongshen was guilty of greed, wanting everything and trying to control every potential pet beast, especially those with promise, unwilling to let go.
Yet, he neglected the balance within his territory. Tigers and wolves coexisting was inherently discordant, and unifying them as cavalry only increased the likelihood of operational errors.
Thus, Li Hongshen had no choice but to part with the tiger beasts, consolidating the cavalry mounts for better battlefield coordination.
As for the pandas, Li Hongshen chose to keep them. While the tiger beast riders would grieve their loss, removing the pandas would plunge the entire population into a wave of negativity.
Therefore, he planned three parks within the new city, all planted with fast-growing spiritual bamboo, where the pandas were freely roaming. Of course, residents could also adopt one if they wished.
The Imperial Crocodiles remained as before, released into the city’s moat. In the new city, they could swim directly from the moat to the south gate and then back through the waterway connected to the moat, returning to Fengxi Valley.
Following Teacher Wang’s advice and plans, Li Hongshen incorporated the entire Fengxi Valley into the new city as the first ring, while redesigning the activity zones for the war pets.
Fengxi Valley would serve as the location to embed the energy core. Coupled with the spirit-gathering trees, it could better foster crop growth and accelerate the advancement of war pets. Temporarily, it would also function as the barracks for Li Hongshen’s warriors, a prime example of multi-purpose use.
Beyond Fengxi Valley, across a sixty-meter-wide road, lay a large plaza with a monument at its center. Beneath the plaza was a spiritual energy node, allowing residents to exercise there regularly.
Houses recently built in the old city were dismantled and relocated to the new city, where Li Hongshen constructed a sewage system. Using the sorcery techniques he obtained from Teacher Wang without cost, the sewage was filtered, purified, and recycled.
As the renovations progressed, Li Hongshen demolished the two old city walls, repurposing their materials to build a new wall thirty meters high and twenty-five meters wide at its base around the new city’s perimeter.
Additionally, he acquired the most practical protective shield technology for free. Edge positioning runes were embedded within the walls and atop the corner towers.
These runes connected to the city core’s energy circuit, forming a faint blue membrane that gathered above Fengxi Valley, creating a blue dome over the new Hong City.
Once the city transformation was complete, Teacher Wang began digging pits within the territory to bury stakes for energy nodes and string energy channel threads, ultimately weaving a web of energy across the lord’s domain, centered on Fengxi Valley.
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“Have you made up your mind? Once the energy core is embedded, unlike a city, it can’t be dismantled and reconstructed,” Teacher Wang warned.
“Yes, I’m sure. It’s the spiritual vein core. Didn’t you recommend this yourself?” Li Hongshen replied.
“My advice isn’t the key. What matters is what you think. After all, you are the lord of this territory.”
“All my warriors are from the martial artist class, and with the spirit-gathering trees, I’ve already come far down the path of the spiritual vein core.”
“By the way, the number and effect of your spirit-gathering trees astonish me. It seems your parents left you quite a legacy.”
Listening to Teacher Wang’s words, Li Hongshen pictured Old Master Liu’s unkempt figure and only now deeply appreciated the tremendous help he had provided.
According to Teacher Wang, having just one or two spirit-gathering trees was nothing special and less useful than some other spiritual plants. Before constructing the territory’s energy network, their practical effect was minimal, only offering simple benefits.
This explained why Li Hongshen clustered so many spirit-gathering trees in Fengxi Valley, and why the tree in Hong City was planted at the center of the city’s energy circuit—because that truly was the reality.
However, once the number of spirit-gathering trees exceeded three and combined with energy nodes from the spiritual vein, a spiritual gathering formation could be arranged, further increasing the energy concentration and doubling its effect.
Currently, Li Hongshen had formed a city-wide spiritual gathering formation centered on the main spirit-gathering tree in Fengxi Valley and connected by nine other trees as nodes.
This raised the city’s internal energy concentration severalfold and even transformed the mountain spring in Fengxi Valley into a spiritual spring, a rare and precious occurrence.
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After confirming again and again with Li Hongshen, Teacher Wang produced a palm-sized glass sphere from his spatial equipment. Inside swirled a silver-white thread of energy. He handed it to Li Hongshen.
“This is the spiritual vein core. Embed it onto the lord’s altar in Fengxi Valley.”
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