South Sea, Five Dragons Sea Region.
Azure Lotus Island. A towering colossal city rose from the island, its walls a hundred zhang high and built from some kind of enormous azure bricks. Profound runes covered their surfaces, emanating faint, obscure Restriction fluctuations.
The colossal city stretched three thousand li long and nine hundred li wide. Above its gates hung a shimmering plaque, upon which four large golden characters were inscribed: "Azure Lotus Immortal City."
This was the Wang Family's new territory. Wang Changsheng had mobilized several hundred cultivators, and only after more than a year of construction was it finally completed. Naturally, outsiders had built the city itself, while the internal layout and formations had been personally arranged by Wang Family members.
The Wang Family possessed two large islands with Fourth Order Spirit Veins in the Five Dragons Sea Region, eighteen islands with Third-Order Spirit Veins, and one hundred and eighty-three islands with Second-Order Spirit Veins.
Azure Lotus Island served as the Wang Family's main base, while Golden Lotus Island served as a Market. Nine islands with Third-Order Spirit Veins guarded Azure Lotus Island, arranged in groups of three. The other nine islands with Third-Order Spirit Veins had been leased out. As Lu Jiaheng had rendered meritorious service in building the Market, Wang Changsheng leased him one island with a Third-Order Mid-Grade Spirit Vein, along with twenty other islands.
The remaining eight islands with Third-Order Spirit Veins were leased to five Immortal Cultivation Families and three Immortal Cultivation Sects.
The Wang Family controlled two islands with Fourth Order Spirit Veins, nine islands with Third-Order Spirit Veins, and more than two hundred other islands. The rest had been leased out, allowing them to command seventeen Core Formation Cultivators and eight powers overseen by Core Formation Cultivators.
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