Yaoguang Floating Island
Lin Xiao could understand this.
The thought that war meant massive deaths made him uneasy.
He sighed, stood up, and said to Liu Yunan:
"Keep an eye on the time and place, and let me know just before the battle begins. I had some important observations during my trip to the Immortal Cultivation Realm; find a time to gather everyone together and have Fuzi tell them about them. I'll be busy with some things these next few days, so I'll probably be staying in the sect's main hall."
After Liu Yunan nodded in agreement, Lin Xiao left the Affairs Hall and went to the sect's main hall.
Upon entering the sect's main hall, Lin Xiao immediately lay down on the ground and stared blankly at the ceiling for quite a while.
After a long while, he finally sat up and ruffled his hair a couple of times.
No, no, there are still so many things to do. I need to pull myself together.
As if to distract him, the system spoke up:
[Ding--Congratulations, host, on successfully activating the sect construction task - sect facilities (8): An excellent sect must have sufficient foundation and heritage. The library is a good place for inheritance. Please build a library as soon as possible and place more than a thousand books in it to provide disciples with a good place for reading and learning.]
[Ding--The host has been detected to possess three Yaoguang Floating Island Fragment. Would you like to synthesize them?]
The previous task was alright.
Upon seeing the system message, Lin Xiao immediately perked up.
Floating islands!
Their sect is going to have floating islands!
Lin Xiao opened his private vault and rubbed his hands together excitedly as he looked at the three neatly arranged Floating Island Fragment inside.
As for the library, he wasn't in a hurry to build it.
He was thinking that perhaps this thing could be built on the floating islands once they were created.
After all, there isn't much usable space left in the sect. Didn't you see that Senior Liao's medicine garden has been built all the way to the back mountain? And he hasn't expanded many of the buildings either.
It's not that I don't want to, it's that there's nowhere to go.
Fortunately, there aren't too many people yet, so it's barely enough for now.
However, if we start recruiting disciples more widely in the future, that definitely won't be enough.
This floating island is a lifesaver right now, provided it's big enough.
However, Lin Xiao thought that since it was a product of the system, it couldn't be too bad, right?
The previous First-Tier Spirit Vein that required collecting three fragments was already in use, and the effect was excellent. The density of Spiritual Qi in and around the sect had increased significantly, and it was also nourishing their Spirit Stone mines.
Just as he was about to synthesize the components, Lin Xiao suddenly looked up at the roof.
I wonder if if I synthesize it inside the sect's main hall, the floating island might break through the roof of the hall when it emerges.
Just to be on the safe side, he went outside anyway.
They then selected the central area within the sect, near the Secret Garden, and began the synthesis process.
[Initiating the synthesis of the Yaoguang Floating Island, please wait]
The next moment, a ball of light suddenly appeared in front of Lin Xiao, and then shot up into the sky like a shooting star and hovered there. Then, the small ball of light broke through the halo around it in the air and suddenly expanded. When its size expanded to about one thousand meters in diameter, it stopped, and the halo around it dissipated, revealing its true form.
[The Yaoguang Floating Island has been successfully synthesized, with an initial hovering altitude of 3,000 meters. The host can control it via the Yaoguang Floating Island Control Console. Friendly reminder: Some functions of the Yaoguang Floating Island Control Console can be copied. If the host needs to delegate control authority, this copy function can be used.]
It's done!
Looking at the Yaoguang Floating Island, which hung high in the sky and whose bare rear end was all visible, Lin Xiao felt boundless excitement.
This is a floating island!
From below, it looks just like Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky from back in the day!
At the same time, poems such as "I wonder what year it is tonight in the celestial palace" and "The Jade Capital in the heavens, with its twelve towers and five cities" kept flashing through Lin Xiao's mind.
It has a somewhat surreal feel, like a myth coming into reality.
Remembering the system notification about the control panel for the Yaoguang Floating Island, he quickly entered the system and saw that a new option, [Floating Island Control Console], had indeed been added.
After clicking on it, Lin Xiao discovered that the Floating Island Control Console even had sub-sections!
There are a total of seven columns.
The other six columns are grayed out and empty, clearly indicating they are inactive, while Yaoguang Floating Island is the only option with its name displayed.
It seems that there is far more than just Yaoguang Floating Island among these floating islands.
However, none of that is important right now.
Lin Xiao opened the control panel of Yaoguang Floating Island.
[Name: Yaoguang Floating Island]
[Initial Level: 1]
[Average Spiritual Qi concentration on the island: 30]
[Island resident population: 0]
[Floating Island Prosperity: 0]
[Floating Island Access Control Settings]
[Floating Island Defense Attack Settings]
After quickly browsing through the options, Lin Xiao prioritized clicking on [Floating Island Access Control Settings].
Two more options immediately appeared before him:
[Access Control Settings]
[Access point location settings]
He first clicked on [Access Control Settings], and then saw a semi-transparent stone platform appear in front of him.
The stone platform wasn't very large, only about two meters in diameter. Following his commands, the platform was positioned as he chose its location, just like the other synthesized structures.
Lin Xiao thought for a moment and then found a suitable open space near the secret garden to put it down.
There was still some space left around, and he planned to arrange the entrances of the seven floating islands into the shape of an inverted spoon once they were all completed.
After all, the floating islands are called Yao Guang, and there are a total of seven of them, which makes it hard not to think of the Big Dipper.
After setting the location of the entrance and exit below, Lin Xiao then opened [Access Personnel Permission Settings].
The system displays that the current access permissions are limited to [floating island residents and floating island owners]. However, there are currently no residents on the island, meaning that only Lin Xiao can currently access it.
Instead of changing the permissions, he first stepped into the stone platform entrance himself.
Although he could fly directly up there, why move it himself when there's an elevator that can do it automatically?
As soon as he stepped onto the stone platform, because he had access to the island, a flash of white light on the platform teleported him directly up there.
When Lin Xiao stepped onto the newly formed Yaoguang Floating Island, he was stunned by the scene before him.
It's not because the scenery up there is particularly beautiful or spectacular.
It's because... as far as the eye can see, it's completely flat!
It's completely bald, not a single hair! Not even a blade of grass!!!
Not to mention the pavilions, towers, mountains, and waterfalls.
This made Lin Xiao wonder if the system had spent all the funds allocated to the floating island on making it levitate.
The only thing that made Lin Xiao feel relieved was that at least there was soil on it, and it wasn't all rocky ground.