"5"
Accompanied by Crippled Monkey, Chen Fan rode his Skeleton Horse out of the Canyon and stopped at its entrance, gazing toward the Seaside as he considered his next steps.
There wasn't a cloud in the sky.
The sunlight felt warm against his skin, driving away much of the chill.
In the other three directions along the horizon, however,
dark clouds filled the sky. The rainy season was underway in South Jiangnan, South Jiangxi, and East River.
The Canyon entrance was roughly a Thousand Meters from the Coastline.
He planned to build a New City to the left of Nameless Mountain.
After thinking it over for a while,
he quickly settled on a site.
The only problem was...
How large should this New City be? Even the lowest-grade Level-1 City Wall cost ten Eerie Stones per meter. A Thousand Meters would cost ten thousand Eerie Stones, so building a Four-Sided Thousand-Meter City would require forty thousand Eerie Stones for the walls alone.
Not only was the expense enormous,
the result would still be a small city—more like a slightly larger station than a proper city.
This wasn't a Natural Eerie Fire Zone.
Keeping the Eerie Fire burning each day would also consume Eerie Stones.
Chen Fan sat silently on his Skeleton Horse, gazing toward the Seaside. Upgrading the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion required a Sea Embryo, which, judging by its name, surely had to be obtained from the sea. Now that the Jiangbei Rainy Season had passed, the Sea was calm.
They could begin exploring.
He would find a few good swimmers and see whether they could dive to the seabed and find anything.
"Let's use this spot."
Pointing to the Open Ground left of Nameless Mountain, Chen Fan said softly, "Build a small city for now. The workers Little Qiu brought