Running Water

[Congratulations, host! Xiushui City has been successfully built. Your sect has acquired its first subordinate city, triggering a hidden reward. The reward has been sent to your private treasury. Please check your account.]

Lin Xiao no longer cared about what the system's reward was; he just wanted to see the completed Xiushui City with his own eyes.

Xiushui City covers a fairly large area, and its city gate is very close to Emerald Peak Town, only about Ten-Li away.

The original Xiushui Village was located at the deepest part of the entire city.

Xiushui City does not include the Lingxian Sect, but the Lingxian Sect serves as a barrier at the rear, connecting the left and right city walls.

The small mountain villa that the villagers of Xiushui Village gave to the Lingxian Sect was converted into the offices of the Trade Center, with a large sign hanging outside: [Trade Affairs Center].

From then on, cultivators who came to Xiushui Village to trade would have to come here to register their goods and other matters.

The fields surrounding the Trade Affairs Center were also transformed into spirit fields by the people of the Lingxian Sect, and planted with basic Spirit Plant.

These vast expanses of basic Spirit Plant are enough to awe cultivators in the Mortal Realm.

The Xiushui Village, located in front of this Trade Affairs Center, has also undergone a dramatic transformation.

People discovered that although the layout of the village remained the same, their own houses had undergone significant changes!

Originally, most of the houses in the village were made of mud bricks and tiles, or even thatched huts. Now, they have all been transformed into large houses with blue bricks and tiles. The quality of the bricks and tiles is no less than that of the wealthy families in the city.

Once all the noise had completely subsided, some daring villagers, shocked by the changes to their houses, rushed inside to check. They found that although the building materials were different, the furniture and other items inside were still familiar to them.

The villagers were intrigued, looking at one house after another, and eventually exploring every corner of their homes.

Some villagers discovered that even their own outhouses had changed!

The outhouse in their house used to be very dirty, with a large pit underneath used to store fertilizer, but now that smelly pit in their outhouse is gone!

Thinking of the fertilizer they had painstakingly collected, the anxious villagers rushed out of their homes to ask their neighbors:

Is your fat dog still there?

"I didn't see it. Is yours the same?"

"Ah, yeah, where did this fat go?"

"How would I know? Why don't we go ask Yunan?"

"Okay, I saw him heading east earlier, let's go ask him."

However, perhaps anticipating the villagers' reaction, before they could even look for Liu Yunan, Liu Yunan, who had already patrolled other areas to make sure nothing was amiss, had gathered the villagers on the drying ground and explained the changes to their homes to them.

When the villagers heard that the fertilizer in their outhouses hadn't disappeared, but had been moved and was no longer vertically below the outhouse, and that there was a special fertilizer extraction mechanism that could directly pull out the fertilizer without them having to scoop it out one scoop at a time, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not that they should just disappear.

Liu Yunan then explained to them the changes in how everyone would use water in the future.

When he brought this up, people were a bit confused. What changes could possibly occur with water usage?

Until Liu Yunan walked to a new thing near the drying ground that no one had ever seen before.

Then, in front of everyone, he turned and opened a mechanism on top, and clear water began to flow continuously from the small pipe below, leaving everyone stunned.

What is this thing? It's so convenient!

"This facility is called a tap water system. Every household in our village has one. From now on, we won't need to carry buckets to the well to fetch water anymore!" Liu Yunan said.

"Oh--!"

When the villagers heard him say this, they were overjoyed and cheered.

The immortals have thought of everything so thoroughly!

Tap water! Everyone thought about the name and suddenly realized, "Isn't that just tap water? Just twist a little with your fingers and you'll have an endless supply of water. It's something we never even dared to dream of!"

Today, the entire Xiushui City has a complete underground water system.

Moreover, many of the convenient living facilities in the city were conceived by Lin Xiao and developed together with Mo Yuanjiao in the Formation Hall during this period.

These correspond to various buildings within the city and the small changes in everyone's homes. Liu Yunan patiently explained each one to everyone.

Besides the most basic latrines and running water, there were also things like streetlights that would automatically turn on at dusk, and horse-drawn carriages that didn't require human drivers and went to designated times and places. Oh, now we can't call them horse-drawn carriages because they weren't pulled by horses. The immortal said that because they were for public use, we called them public vehicles.

Anyone entering the city who wants to take this bus only needs to pay one cent to travel to any of the stops set up in the city.

The fares collected by these buses will be managed uniformly by the city lord's mansion of Xiushui City.

Besides, what surprised the villagers of Xiushui Village Xiushui Village the most was that their residential area had been fenced off!

The word "enclosed" means that a low fence surrounds all their homes within a certain area, and the immortal said that outsiders would not be allowed to enter their village at will.

They can come and go as they please.

If any girls marry into the village in the future, they must register with the local household registration office in the city before they can freely enter and leave Xiushui Village Xiushui Village.

Liu Yunan told them that from now on, their area would be called Xiushui Residential Community.

He also explained to everyone why he did that.

After all, Xiushui City will be a bustling place with all sorts of people. To ensure everyone's safety, even though Xiushui City is already quite safe, Lin Xiao still decided to add an extra layer of protection for the villagers.

One reason is to protect the villagers' sense of clan identity.

Lin Xiao wasn't worried about the impact of the villagers forming a group; on the contrary, he hoped they would.

For him, these villagers he had lived with day and night since childhood were far more important than outsiders. He could provide outsiders with the safety of Xiushui City, but he wanted to provide these villagers with an extra layer of safety within the city.

This was also a piece of pure land he wanted to preserve for the villagers after he suddenly made the decision to build the city.

At the very least, we should reserve a quiet living area for the villagers.

Although building the city was objectively a good thing for the villagers, Lin Xiao believed it was always a result of the villagers' half-hearted participation under his coercion.

He couldn't fathom whether everyone was truly delighted that their lives had undergone such tremendous changes in just a few years.

In this world, there are people who strive for success and people who are content with the status quo. As long as it doesn't affect others, Lin Xiao doesn't see any good or bad in them. Just live happily according to your heart.