Mei Xuan sighed. "These people are utterly mad. They know perfectly well that rushing in together to fight over the food will only lead to them slaughtering one another, yet they insist on doing it. Where has all their usual shrewdness gone?"
Li Chen remained composed. "Men die for wealth, birds die for food. The ancients summed it up long ago. Across countless years, anyone who still covets profit has been unable to escape this cycle-even you and me..."
He was now engrossed in his studies and had no time to concern himself with so much else.
To him, the plans for the Myriad Realms Marketplace were gradually unfolding. A few setbacks were merely bumps along the road of development.
If those people wanted to stir up trouble, he would let them.
Some time later, in a deep valley behind the Azure Billow Immortal Abode.
As excavation continued, the mountain behind the Immortal Abode grew increasingly hollow. Using the mountain itself as his foundation and incorporating the existing Mountain Gate Grand Formation, Li Chen built an enormous hive-like base, half concealed underground.
This place was gradually replacing Base No. 1 beneath Broad Cloud Peak as his new stronghold.
Li Chen had done this deliberately.
Although Broad Cloud Peak remained the foundation of his holdings in the public eye, neither its capacity to supply wealth nor its potential for future development could remotely keep pace with his growth.
Had he relied solely on that place's output to sustain such a headlong advance, he would likely have gone bankrupt several times already.
Thus, his true base and administrative seat had long since been quietly relocated here. Only because Li Chen was cautious by nature, and the Azure Billow Immortal Abode was such a precious grotto-heaven blessed land, had he kept it concealed