Chapter 496 Preparation

Li Yannian glanced at it briefly and nodded repeatedly: "Not bad, no wonder you are so anxious to invite me to go there, this is a rare good place. Although it takes a lot of effort to drive away the monsters and build long-term defenses, as long as the foundation is laid, it will be able to develop rapidly into a big city in the future."

After the matter was finalized, Li Yannian gave Ye Changsheng a jade slip.

It contained some building materials and spiritual objects needed for building the city, and Ye Changsheng needed to purchase them as soon as possible.

After that, the two sides left contact information with each other so that they could communicate at any time.

Li Yannian then personally sent Ye Changsheng out of the cave, and the two said goodbye to each other again along the way.

The smile on Li Yannian's face was very sincere. Obviously, he was grateful for the appearance of the purple peach, and he also had a better impression of Ye Changsheng, a generous customer.

After leaving the cave, Ye Changsheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

All the way, he had always been nervous, worried that Li Yannian would not give the green light, but now he was quite satisfied with the result.

As long as Li Yannian can successfully spare time to preside over the construction of the fairy city in three years, and then with the support of other weapon refiners, formation masters, and sufficient labor and resources, the fourth-level fairy city that he has been thinking about will have the hope of being officially completed.

Walking away from the cave area on the west side, Ye Changsheng looked up and looked at this majestic fifth-level fairy city again.

The streets in the city are bustling, and the air is mixed with the faint scent of various magic weapons and elixirs. This is the center where countless cultivators gather, and it is also a place where news, transactions, adventures, and opportunities converge.

Although it took only half a year to arrive on this journey, in fact, he has been planning for this family fairy city that is about to be built for a long time.

Now, one of the key figures in the construction of the city, the fourth-level spiritual builder, has finally been finalized. At least in his heart, a heavy stone has fallen.

After walking out of Li Yannian's cave, Ye Changsheng did not rush to leave Shengfeng City.

He still stopped here and was about to make more thorough preparations for the next city construction. Now, the fourth-level spiritual architect Li Yannian has been confirmed, and the most critical link has been stabilized.

However, this does not mean that everything is fine.

To truly build a solid and fully functional fourth-level fairy city on that plain, it is far more than just confirming a spiritual architect - it also requires the support of a large number of equipment refiners, array masters and even other types of auxiliary talents.

Coupled with sufficient spiritual materials, spiritual gold, spiritual ink, and a large number of labor supply, this city can truly take root and develop sustainably.

Three years seems to be ample, but it is a bit urgent for city construction.

Ye Changsheng is well aware of the truth that "sharpening a spear before a battle is not fast, but it is also bright", and he must not let Li Yannian find that the project cannot even guarantee the most basic manpower when he arrives three years later.

He spent a full three months wandering around Shengfeng City and several large cities around it, recruiting equipment refiners and array masters through various channels.

Among them, there are not only individual cultivators who work alone, but also disciples from other hidden families who hope to take the opportunity to earn spiritual stones or accumulate connections.

Shengfeng City is located in a prosperous area, and it is also a place where cultivators have frequent trade exchanges, so the information flow is very efficient.

In addition, Ye Changsheng is willing to pay a lot of money and give generous remuneration, which attracted many interested cultivators to apply.

During this period, he was also worried about the competition from other fourth-level immortal cities - if those big families with a thousand years of heritage were also recruiting forces at the same time, then the list for him to choose from might not be so generous.

However, the development of things made him feel relieved: after all, those real big families had the support of their own family members in the early stage of building the immortal city, and the number of external recruitments was limited.

In this way, although Ye Changsheng spent a lot of spirit stones, he finally completed the manpower of formation masters and weapon refiners.

According to the final statistics, ten third-level weapon refiners, twenty third-level formation masters, fifty second-level weapon refiners, and one hundred second-level formation masters were successfully recruited.

Such a scale finally made Ye Changsheng's heart, which had been hanging for a long time, fall.

In order to ensure that these personnel would not be poached by other forces during the construction of the city, he simply paid a large deposit in one go and placed them in several inns near Shengfeng City.

Three months later, nearly one million high-quality spirit stones had been burned just for the advance payment.

Although these expenses were high, Ye Changsheng thought it was worth it - if these people could fully cooperate and provide support in terms of city defense arrays, city gate restrictions, city defense puppets, etc., then he would save not only spirit stones in the future, but also the safety and efficiency brought by avoiding countless potential troubles.

After recruiting array masters and weapon refiners, Ye Changsheng asked around and finally learned from an old friend that a third-level prospector who was good at exploring spirit mines had come to the north of the city. He had a strange temperament, but as long as he was paid enough, his ability was very reliable.

Ye Changsheng immediately set out to visit him and spent a lot of time and spirit stones to invite this prospector.

The prospector was named Xue Qiushan, with black hair and slightly white temples, and a wise and rebellious look.

Ye Changsheng had a good chat with him and promised to give him a generous reward, hoping that he would help find the distribution location of the second-level spiritual ore in the southern foot of the Tianyuan Mountains so that it could be mined and stored in time.

Xue Qiushan was straightforward, as long as the money was in place, everything would be fine.

Ye Changsheng quickly gave him an advance of the initial spiritual stones and asked him to set off to the plain first to start field exploration.

In the world of immortal cultivation, building an immortal city requires a large amount of spiritual ore as basic materials, especially to build sufficiently strong walls, as well as spiritual stone slots and rune inscriptions that support many formations.

If you only rely on high-priced purchases on the market, the cost is often so high that it hurts.

But if you can find enough second-level spiritual ore veins first, you can effectively save a lot of expenses.

Therefore, the success or failure of Xue Qiushan's trip is crucial to the entire city.

At the same time, Ye Changsheng was not idle.

He repeatedly studied the list of building materials and spiritual objects given by Li Yannian, and found that there were quite a lot of materials needed: in addition to various levels of spiritual gold, there are also various special minerals, high-level spiritual wood, rune ink, etc. required to make formation flags, formation plates, and forbidden objects.

Even some special materials, such as rare spiritual gold containing thunder or fire attributes, are also on the list, in preparation for integrating attack effects into the city defense formation.

In order to ensure that there would be no frequent shortages of materials and work stoppages in the future, Ye Changsheng simply purchased sufficient or even excessive amounts of common and rare materials - "It is better to spend more spirit stones to stock up than to be stingy at the critical moment of city construction" - this is the principle he has always adhered to.

When all the hundreds of spirit golds and thousands of various array materials were prepared, he roughly calculated the accounts and found that he had spent 50 million high-quality spirit stones.