Even if all the major Jianghu forces were gathered to pool their money and labor to build the city, the Holy Dynasty's investment would still be substantial.
At this point, the Holy Dynasty had no great shortage of manpower, but funding was a completely different matter.
One had to know that throughout the country, quite a few places were still waiting for the court to allocate funds for post-disaster reconstruction.
Seeing the puzzled expressions on everyone's faces, Jiang Liu waved his hand, telling them not to be impatient and to sit down first.
Only then did he slowly say, "The Heaven and Earth Essence concentration in these places is at least about twice as high as in other areas."
"What?"
Upon hearing this, everyone in the Hall of Governmental Affairs could no longer remain seated.
Only then did they realize why the strength of those exotic beasts had suddenly become so powerful.
Moreover, they had taken advantage of the current cave crisis to emerge from the mountains and wreak havoc in human cities.
The powerful members of those beast races had sent them out to test the strength of the Human Race martial artists.
Fortunately, even though those exotic beasts had grown stronger quickly, the Human Race martial artists in the various cities had not fallen too far behind.
That was how they had withstood the beasts' probing attacks without allowing them to gain too much of an advantage.
However, building cities on their territory now meant completely cutting off the exotic beasts' means of survival. It would be strange if they did not fight desperately when the time came.
"All right, don't be nervous. These six places merely have denser Heaven and Earth Essence compared with other areas."
"I haven't occupied every place with dense Heaven and Earth Essence.