The important figure smiled and looked at Ying Jiaren. "You think that's fast?"
Ying Jiaren nodded. "Of course it's fast!"
"In two months, I brought the soil across these hundred mu to a depth of ten meters and completed its internal cycle."
"From now on, the soil here will grow thicker every day, and the earth veins will increase."
"If everyone in Bitter Cold City..."
The important figure chuckled. "Even if everyone in Bitter Cold City used your method together, it would take years to see results."
Ying Jiaren blinked. "That's already very fast!"
The important figure shook his head. "For you, it's fast."
"But for us, for the polar region as a whole, that speed is far too slow."
"How long would it take you to bring the land here to a thickness of ten thousand meters, or hundreds of thousands?"
Ying Jiaren looked blank, not understanding.
The important figure rose into the air. Colored clouds swept over, carrying Ying Jiaren into the sky as well, and he pointed down at Bitter Cold City.
"Do you know how long it would take to create Bitter Cold City as it stands now using your method?"
Ying Jiaren looked thoughtful. "Three to five years?"
The important figure nodded. "Exactly!"
"It would take over a hundred million cultivators of the Primordial Spirit, Dharma Form, Blessed Land, and Grotto Heaven realms, and even vast numbers of [One-Way Passage] cultivators, using enormous quantities of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, rare flowers and exotic herbs, and even vast numbers of Magic Treasures, to create a single Bitter Cold City."
"The losses involved would be far too great."
Ying Jiaren asked, "So you abandoned this method and switched to something new?"
The important figure nodded, his face full of pride. "Back then, the three thousand unorthodox