Stone Wall

Having finalized the change from Xiushui Village's development plan to a city development plan, the next step is naturally to discuss the specifics.

Now that it has become a city-building project, some of the previous designs need to be adjusted.

However, no major changes are needed, as the original plan only involved adding some town management structures and commercial areas.

The location of the management structure does not need to be changed, since the original area is closest to the Lingxian Sect, and this arrangement is fine for the core department.

However, the newly added residential and commercial areas will need to be re-divided.

After all, farmland still accounts for the majority of the area in Xiushui Village, and the living area for people is not that large.

The farmland has been cultivated and passed down by the villagers of Xiushui Village for generations, so it is impossible to fill it in and turn it into construction land for them.

Therefore, when building a city, all the extra structures need to be expanded outwards.

That's one point.

The second point concerns the specific city structure and construction plans.

Regarding this, since neither Qin Jianghe nor Liu Yunan had any concrete concept of city building, although they had visited many prefectural cities in recent years, they were completely clueless when it came to actually designing them. Therefore, they did not naively think of doing it themselves, but instead planned to ask Lin Xiao for his opinion first.

If Lin Xiao has no objections, then they will seek help from professionals in the private sector or the government.

Lin Xiao... he actually has some ideas.

However, his idea wasn't about how to build the city specifically; rather, he thought about the system's building synthesis function.

So, while listening to Qin Jianghe and Liu Yunan explain the plan, he mentally asked the system:

"System, now that you've updated and upgraded it, has the building synthesis function also been upgraded?"

[To adapt to the new version and ensure smoother progress of advanced tasks, all functions have been upgraded in this update. Please review them carefully.]

Since the system update, Lin Xiao hadn't really looked through all the functions in detail.

"Can the building synthesis function now synthesize cities?"

[It can be crafted as long as there are enough of the corresponding building materials and blueprints.]

Receiving a positive response from the system, Lin Xiao felt much more at ease.

In that case, they can build a more formidable city in Xiushui Village.

So he said to Qin Jianghe and the other man:

"We'll need blueprints and the corresponding amount of construction materials. You should first ask the royal family about this; they definitely have many talented people in architecture. Ask them to help design the blueprints, and then we can make some minor modifications according to our needs. After that, we can start preparing the construction materials."

"Don't rush to hire craftsmen after you've done all this preliminary work; I have other plans."

"Okay, I'll contact Li Zhouxuan in a bit," Liu Yunan said.

"As for building materials, Jiancheng will definitely use a lot. I'll contact the workshops to order some basic ones first, so that their production speed won't be too slow to keep up with our demand," Qin Jianghe added.

"Very good. By the way, Jianghe, I just borrowed 100,000 Spirit Stone from the Yuan Household head to buy the necessary items for a Trade Center. He has already agreed. You can arrange the manpower to go there." Lin Xiao said to Qin Jianghe.

Upon hearing this, Qin Jianghe's heart trembled at the thought of such Dayi expenditure. Ten thousand Spirit Stone was no small sum; they only earned about ten thousand or eight thousand Spirit Stone each time they traded in the Immortal Cultivation Realm.

This amount also needs to be deducted from the Spirit Stone consumed by the Heaven and Earth Shift Disc, various Spirit Stone expenditures of the sect, and occasional procurement expenses of the sect. In the end, the remaining amount is not much. With the Spirit Stone mines unusable, it would be quite difficult to repay 100,000 Spirit Stone at this rate of accumulation.

However, since Brother Xiao said it was necessary, it definitely had to be used. Therefore, although he felt a chill run down his spine, he didn't have any doubts.

"Alright, I'll go there in a couple of days and make sure to bring the Spirit Stone back safely."

However, Lin Xiao clearly noticed the shock on Qin Jianghe and Liu Yunan when they heard about the 100,000 Spirit Stone, so he smiled and explained:

"Once the Trade Center is established, everyone trading here will have to pay taxes proportionally, so we won't have to worry about running out of Spirit Stone."

Then he said to Liu Yunan:

"The Li Clan is generally of decent character. You can reveal some of the city's development plan to them. Although our Trade Center will not be under their jurisdiction in the future, they are already beneficiaries in the territory of the Pusi Kingdom, so there's no need to worry about them leaking information or having any ulterior motives."

"Okay, I understand. Don't worry, Brother Xiao, I'll definitely communicate with them." Liu Yunan nodded in agreement.

That was the end of the discussion. The three of them finalized a few more details and then went their separate ways.

Lin Xiao watched as Qin Jianghe and Liu Yunan left the sect's main hall to attend to their business. He glanced at the sky and headed towards the disciples' dormitory on Azure Cloud Peak.

He Yi was studying the second chapter of the "Original Essence Heart Sutra" in his dormitory when he suddenly heard a familiar knock on the door.

"Please come in."

The restriction was lifted, Lin Xiao pushed the door open, then closed it.

He saw the cultivation manual on He Yi's desk and raised an eyebrow:

"Oh, you're practicing right now, did I disturb you?"

"Does the sect leader have come with some important business?" He Yi answer him, but asked directly.

Knowing that the other party was upset about being interrupted while studying the cultivation technique, Lin Xiao smiled and didn't waste any words. He took out the Jade Slip containing the arrangement pattern of the Execution Stone from his bosom.

"Take a look at this. Have you seen it in any ancient books or similar things?"

Upon hearing this, He Yi frowned slightly and took the book. Clearly, Lin Xiao had come to him to talk about the contents of the 'ancient book,' which were probably related to either Origin Qi or the Execution Stone.

Lin Xiao himself has mastered the Origin Qi, so the latter is clearly more likely.

He probed his Divine Sense and, sure enough, it was true.

After carefully examining each pattern, he withdrew his Divine Sense and looked at Lin Xiao:

"I haven't seen one exactly the same, but I have seen some that are somewhat similar to a few of them, just somewhat similar, so I'm not entirely sure."

He thought about it carefully again and then said:

"Moreover, the pattern wasn't recorded in a diagram, but rather carved into a stone wall."

"Stone wall? Where is that stone wall?" Lin Xiao asked.

He Yi frowned in thought:

"I saw those patterns in the cave abode when my father took me there when I was a child. They were carved into the stone wall."

"I was young then, and I couldn't understand what they were saying. I just wandered around the cave abode and looked around. When I came to an archway, I looked inside and saw a pattern like this carved on the screen wall inside. But after only one glance, the person came over and gave me a jade Swordsmanship as a gift. Later, I left with my father."