Chapter 4008: 3999 Mystic Jade City

Xuan Yue City comes with twelve affiliated Yellow Cities, and within Xuan Yue City itself is a second-tier immortal mineral vein: the Dark Glazed Jade Vein.

Fire Cloud City comes with eleven affiliated Yellow Cities, and within Fire Cloud City itself is a second-tier immortal mineral vein: the Fire Radiance Gold Jade Vein.

Ghost Water City comes with fourteen affiliated Yellow Cities. Within the city, there's a cave that produces Azure Immortal Water, though currently, no such water is available.

Wang Changsheng noted that the cultivation resources associated with these cities were all quite good. There were no mineral veins specifically for refining defensive immortal artifacts. Strictly speaking, it wasn't that they didn't exist, but rather that other forces controlled them.

For example, the Nine Immortals Sect previously controlled two Profound Cities but can now only retain one. Naturally, they would choose the Profound City with the most valuable cultivation resources.

Wang Changsheng ultimately decided to choose Xuan Yu City, which included nine affiliated Yellow Cities. Xuan Yu City contains a medium-sized Grand Unity Profound Jade Vein that, with proper exploitation, could be mined for tens of millions of years.

Some Profound Cities produce immortal water, but they were completely depleted, and it would take a significant amount of time for even a single drop to regenerate. Consequently, some factions chose to relinquish these Profound Cities, often those known for producing immortal water.

Second-tier immortal minerals could be mined, refined, and then resold immediately. However, if they opted for immortal water, by the time a sufficient quantity had accumulated, Chaos Beasts might have already launched an invasion, not to mention the portion that still had to be submitted to the Cao family.

According to the Cao family's regulations, the Wang family must submit a significant quantity of raw Grand Unity Profound Jade ore every thirty thousand years. However, by organizing more personnel for mining, the Wang family could still achieve considerable profits.

In addition to this, there were the nine Yellow Cities.

Xuan Yu City was originally under the control of Hundred Refining Island, which had to relinquish it after suffering the loss of several Golden Immortal cultivators.

Xuan Yu City is located at some distance from Nine Immortals City. The Wang family can establish teleportation arrays to maintain contact with the Qi family, facilitating mutual support.

Once Wang Changsheng made his selection, he handed the artifact disk to Murong Zhengxian, who then passed it on to the other Golden Immortal cultivators after making his own choice.

Less than half an hour later, all the cultivators had completed their selections.

The Sky Moon Clan, Seven Hues Palace, Wang family, and Qi family each obtained a Profound City. The Qi family chose Nine Yang City, which included five affiliated Yellow Cities. This arrangement would allow the two families to establish direct teleportation arrays, facilitating mutual assistance in times of need.

The Nine Immortals Sect, which originally held twenty-five cities, forfeited one Profound City and ten Yellow Cities this time. While the Wang and Qi families gained new territories, the Nine Immortals Sect concurrently reclaimed the cities they had previously granted to the Qi and Wang families.

Wang Changsheng and Qi Shuting, however, were not concerned. With two Profound Cities and fourteen Yellow Cities, their combined territory on the Chaos Continent now surpassed that of the Nine Immortals Sect.

“You must dispatch personnel to these cities without delay and secure them. Grand Unity Golden Immortal-stage Chaos Beasts have appeared in the Hulan Mountain Range, indicating difficult times ahead for us. You should strengthen your forces as much as possible, as the next wave of Chaos Beasts could be even larger. As for when that wave will erupt, it’s hard to say.” Cao Yuanxing urged.

Wang Changsheng and the others agreed and departed sequentially.

Upon returning to Nine Immortals City, Jin Yulan managed a smile and said, “Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Wang and Madam Qi!”

Such courtesies were necessary. The Nine Immortals Sect had already suffered significant losses, and severing ties with the Wang and Qi families would only exacerbate their predicament.

Wang Changsheng and Qi Shuting exchanged a few pleasantries, then each returned to their own residences.

Back in Haoyang City, Wang Changsheng convened a meeting with Chen Yueying and others.

While acquiring ten cities overnight represented a sudden boom in wealth, it also presented Wang Changsheng with a significant challenge: defense.

Even if they were to assign ten True Immortal cultivators to each city, the Wang family lacked sufficient True Immortals to deploy so many across the Chaos Continent, which would leave the Heavenly Morning Sea Region severely lacking in high-level cultivators.

“We’ve acquired nine Yellow Cities this time. I intend to entrust five of them to the Ni family, Zhenhai Palace, Lan family, Wang family, and Taiyi Palace for management. Each of these five cities possesses a first-tier immortal mineral vein, and they will be required to submit a batch of first-tier immortal minerals every ten thousand years. Furthermore, should they receive orders, they must return to Xuan Yu City immediately,” Wang Changsheng stated.

Over the years, Ni Tianlong, Chen Yueying, Lan Fukong, and the Four Seasons Sword Sovereign had significantly contributed to the Wang family, diligently fulfilling every assigned task.

Wang Changsheng intended to assign these five Yellow Cities to their management for several reasons: firstly, to incentivize others; secondly, to alleviate his own burden; and thirdly, as a pilot project. If they managed the cities successfully, the Wang family could expand this model. If they proved unable to defend a Yellow City, the Wang family reserved the right to reclaim it.

“Understood, Senior Wang,” Ni Tianlong and the other three eagerly agreed, their faces alight with excitement.

Ci Lei and the others looked on with envy. While they had also made significant contributions, their strength and connections were far inferior to those of Ni Tianlong and his group.

The Wang family being Wang Ruyan's maternal relatives, Wang Changsheng could offer them support. This arrangement would mean the Wang family only needed to focus on securing four Yellow Cities and Xuan Yu City themselves.

Wang Changsheng issued a few instructions, directing them to proceed to their designated cities and take possession. Wang Qingfeng would dispatch personnel to assist them in establishing teleportation arrays and organize manpower to extract raw Grand Unity Profound Jade ore. This ore would then be given to artifact refiners to extract the refined Grand Unity Profound Jade for use in artifact creation.

Additionally, direct teleportation arrays would need to be established between Xuan Yu City and Nine Yang City to facilitate convenient travel.

Henceforth, they could teleport directly to Yunlang City, bypassing Nine Immortals City entirely.

“With a Profound City, our family’s development will be significantly easier,” Wang Ruyan said with a smile.

Wang Changsheng nodded. He then retrieved a blue Immortal Transmission Mirror, infused it with a spell, and Cao Yuanxing’s image appeared on its surface.

“Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Wang! You can now teleport directly to Yunlang City.” Cao Yuanxing offered his congratulations.

“Fellow Daoist Cao, I anticipate we’ll trouble you often in the future,” Wang Changsheng replied politely.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Cao Yuanxing casually inquired, “Fellow Daoist Wang, your comprehension is truly remarkable! You cultivated your law to the Minor Attainment stage within tens of thousands of years of reaching the Golden Immortal realm.”

“To be frank, Fellow Daoist Cao,” Wang Changsheng explained, “after I cultivated into a True Spirit, the innate divine ability I gained was directly related to comprehension. My capacity to refine Chaos Armor is also connected to this very ability.” Wang Changsheng explained, having anticipated Cao Yuanxing’s inquiry.

Cao Yuanxing’s face showed a sudden realization as he asked, “How many times have you attempted to refine mid-grade Chaos Armor? And how many times have you succeeded?”

“Five times,” Wang Changsheng replied. “I succeeded once, which happened during my first three attempts. The subsequent two attempts failed. However, with more practice, I am confident I can improve my success rate.” Wang Changsheng stated.

Cao Yuanxing nodded, appearing to believe the explanation. In truth, verifying its authenticity would be simple: provide Wang Changsheng with ten sets of materials. If he could successfully refine three mid-grade Chaos Armors, his claim would be true; otherwise, it would be false.

However, Wang Changsheng was an outsider, and the Cao family was unlikely to provide him with ten sets of materials to refine mid-grade Chaos Armors simply to verify his claims.

Of course, Wang Changsheng would be under the Cao family’s observation from now on. If his artifact-refining skills proved truly exceptional, the Cao family might extend special treatment to him, but for now, that was out of the question.

After a brief chat, Cao Yuanxing ended the communication.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan each entered a stone chamber to focus on artifact refining and talisman creation.

It wouldn’t be too late for them to travel there once Wang Qingfeng had completed the city handover and finalized all arrangements.