It was like how, once anyone got hold of a piece of land, they would start wondering what to plant on it...
Artisans, never mind their morals or character, and setting aside their abilities and talents—even so, the one thing Heavenly Selections of Embers could not stand was waste.
What they valued was making full use of everything.
Take Seven Cities, for example.
Having finally gotten their hands on such a large territory, why wouldn't they do whatever they pleased?
Do something big, something big!
There had been no conditions amid the chaos of war in Central Earth, and too many shackles in the Federation to properly cut loose. But in Seven Cities, couldn't he do whatever he wanted? First, build a wonder!
And so, after slapping his thigh, Ji Jue got straight to work. With the drive expected of a Crown, he buried himself in tinkering with his own little patch of land.
Hundred-year-old wild ginseng and thousand-year-old fleeceflower roots did not even make the cut. Leaving aside the enormous consumption of materials, he first took a knife to the lighthouse's original structure. After sweeping revisions, he linked it to the Heavenly Origin Law constructed by Red Firmament as its foundation... With the Paradise System's comprehensive control, the coordination of vast numbers of spirits of the King of Flies each performing their duties, the Curtain as the primary body encompassing all things, massive supplies of Spiritual Substance from Lou Da Shao, and finally an entire Workshop control framework—
Numerous theories derived from the Nine Forms were revised and tested within this new framework. After adding a whole heap of vicious tricks, both aboveboard and underhanded, and pairing it with Isis's exquisite control, the new Seven Cities defense system was complete!
Ji Jue, however, preferred to call it Damocles.
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