After paying three hundred million origin stones in one lump sum, Ye Chen received a City Lord's Token. The token itself was also a Heavenly King-level treasure, difficult to destroy. It was of little use to Ye Chen, but after his death, it would be the sole proof for his descendants to inherit the position of City Lord. Losing it would be troublesome.
With the City Lord's Token, Ye Chen officially became the City Lord of Spark City. The human race's higher-ups would come to collect taxes once every hundred years; doing so once a year would be too troublesome.
Flamefire Star lay in the southeastern part of the Vermilion Bird Starfield. It was a reddish life planet with a diameter of forty-five million li.
There were not many places on Flamefire Star suitable for human habitation, accounting for less than twenty percent of its surface area. However, its metal deposits and fire-element energy ores were extremely abundant. Every day, quite a few Puppet Warships came to transport metal ores and energy ores, creating a scene of flourishing prosperity.
Flamefire Star had two continents suitable for human habitation: Firecloud Continent in the southern hemisphere and Firecrystal Continent in the northern hemisphere. Firecloud Continent had four main cities, while Firecrystal Continent had five. Ye Chen's Spark City was located on Firecrystal Continent.
As one of the main cities, Spark City was shrouded in an unknown number of formations and restrictions. These formations and restrictions were extremely ancient, having existed for more than ten million years. The origin stones consumed each year merely to keep the formations running probably had to be counted in tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. Of course, Spark City's annual tax revenue was around five million origin stones. Together with other income, seven or eight