Li Chen had not bothered to attend this "counterterrorism meeting." He was not particularly interested in the matter of Che Rong. The man had not provoked him, after all, so he dusted off his backside and left.
This was precisely the advantage of being a guest elder. A guest adviser was little more than a nominal consultant. Had his cultivation only been in the Qi Refining Realm, he might still have been subject to the council of elders and unable to act as he pleased. But as a Foundation Establishment expert and a master artisan among Puppet Masters, who could tell him what to do?
At present, Zhen Zhuo, Lin Jiang, and Mo Yuehe were practically praying that he would stay out of it, allowing the three of them to stand out and establish their authority.
Li Chen asked He Ran and Wu Ding to help recruit workers around the Yunshan Market District, while he hurried back to Suyang City to recruit Puppet Masters skilled in construction and order some ordinary goods, such as furniture, along the way.
Then Li Chen made another trip to Crouching Tiger Hill to survey the site in person.
Several hours later, Li Chen stood atop a high ridge in Crouching Tiger Hill, looking down over the valley.
As far as he could see, a large basin stretched more than ten li across, surrounded by mountains on three sides-easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Although this terrain offered little protection against high-level cultivators, it was only a small false blessed land, after all. There was no real need to guard against such cultivators in the first place. The actual threats mostly came from wild beasts in the mountain forests, or even demon beasts and demons, which could inflict casualties on ordinary people and Qi