The Position of Deputy City Lord

"If Flowing Cloud City can be upgraded into a medium-sized city, it may even be able to set up a teleportation array afterward. This would also benefit your clan, Fellow Daoist..."

After Wu Yiyang explained why he had come, he told Li Qianqing a great deal about the benefits of Flowing Cloud City upgrading from a small city to a medium-sized city.

Changes to a city would bring changes to its Cultivator Market.

With a larger Cultivator Market, more forces would do business there. If the Li Clan needed anything in the future, they could also buy it more easily in Flowing Cloud City's Cultivator Market, without having to travel somewhere farther away.

Li Qianqing listened while nodding.

Wu Yiyang had said so much for no other reason than to bring up the final matter.

He needed the Li Clan's help.

If a city wanted to complete a City Upgrade, it was not something the City Lord could accomplish just because he wanted to.

For a small city to upgrade into a medium-sized city, if Li Qianqing remembered correctly, the entire Human Race territory seemed to have only a handful of slots every thousand years.

There were extremely few slots, and all small cities could participate in the competition for them. If one wanted to secure a slot steadily, there had to be a Void Refinement force around that small city.

There was a special map in the Divine Prefecture.

Each city on the map, along with its surrounding sphere of influence, had been given an extremely suitable size.

Clearly, on this special map, the Li Clan's Changling Mountain had been classified within Flowing Cloud City's territory.

"...Whether a city can undergo City Upgrade or not, the scores of the nearby forces are the weight that tips the balance." At