Chapter 507: Chapter 334 Tan Valley King: Yan Chuan! King City Assessment in Two and a Half Years! [Vote for Monthly Ticket!]_2
Hmm hmm!
Indeed, I see it!
Yan Chuan speculated that these three might be in a subordinate relationship.
He guessed correctly.
"’Tan Valley Royal City’ is subordinate to ’Mo Yin Continent’, and ’Mo Yin Continent’ is subordinate to the ’Yu Fang Dynasty’."
Yu Fang Dynasty!
Mo Yin Continent!
Tan Valley Royal City!
"It is indeed like this!"
Yan Chuan was startled.
Chen Ze was also shocked. He observed closely and hurriedly asked, "My initial ranking in the Heavenly Ladder City was after fifteen million, and the opponents I encountered in the ’Thousand-Person Battle’ were at least limit-breaking. How could there be so many limit-breaking Martial Artists in just the Yu Fang Dynasty?"
Chen Ze couldn’t believe it!
How many limit-breaking individuals does Great Yan have?
It’s hard to say!
But among the thousand or so Heavenly Pride contestants in the Cang Mountain Sword Discussion, many are newfound limit-breakers.
The entire Jian Province may not have more than two to three hundred limit-breaking Martial Artists.
In Guangling County, before the Academy disciples broke their limits, there were only the ’Guangling Ten Elders’ and a handful of others.
A few dozen in one county!
A few hundred in one province!
The entire Great Yan might have at most a few thousand to ten thousand limit-breaking individuals; that’s more or less it.
At first glance—
Too many limit-breaking individuals!
But when compared to those in ’Heavenly Ladder City’, calculating it is truly shocking—
"Fifteen million limit-breaking individuals?"
Wang Zhengyi, Wang Ge, and Fu Yunzhan were also stunned. It exceeds Great Yan by fifteen hundred times; exactly how powerful is this Yu Fang Dynasty?
Everyone was astonished.
But Yan Chuan knew they were perhaps shocked too soon: "I’m afraid this fifteen million limit-breakers are not the ’Yu Fang Dynasty’, but solely just the ’Mo Yin Continent’!"
How could it be!
No one believed it!
But He Hao nodded in agreement: "City Lord Yan is right. These fifteen million limit-breakers are only from ’Mo Yin Continent’, and even more, it’s just the record in ’Heavenly Ladder City’. Outside of this, the number of limit-breakers in ’Mo Yin Continent’ who have never entered ’Heavenly Ladder City’ may also be no less than this number, perhaps several times, perhaps ten times, incalculable."
Just Mo Yin Continent!
Fifteen million!
In reality, the numbers multiply further!
Tens of millions?
Hundreds of millions?
It’s impossible to count!
Astonished!
Astonished!
Astonished!
Wang Zhengyi, Wang Ge, Fu Yunzhan, and Chen Ze were all shocked silent!
They couldn’t imagine it.
Inconceivable.
"If just one ’Mo Yin Continent’ is so powerful, then with the thirteen regions under the ’Yu Fang Dynasty’, wouldn’t the limit-breaking Martial Artists easily surpass ten billion?"
Wang Zhengyi was dumbfounded.
Even He Hao didn’t know how strong the ’Yu Fang Dynasty’ actually was. Currently, Great Yan’s understanding of the ’Yu Fang Dynasty’ is limited to the dynasty’s control over the royal city: "’Yu Fang Dynasty’ has the ’Imperial City Bureau’, and the ’Imperial City Envoy’ in the bureau is responsible for inspecting regions and assessing royal cities. If a small city meets the standards and there’s an opening in a royal city, it can be promoted. Conversely, if a royal city fails to meet standards, its qualifications will be revoked. Moreover, the royal city is tied to the ’Earth Gate’. If the royal city stands, so does the Earth Gate. Therefore—"
"Therefore!"
Yan Chuan understood: "Therefore, if we want to keep the ’Earth Gate’ long-term, and continue entering the ’Heavenly Ladder City’, and exploring the ’Underground City’, we must rebuild the ’Tan Valley Royal City’ and pass the exam before the arrival of the ’Imperial City Envoy’!"
He Hao nodded smilingly, then shook his head: "But that’s not easy."
Yan Chuan looked at Wang Zhengyi, looked at Chen Ze, looked at Wang Ge, Fu Yunzhan, then looked at the ’Earth Gate’ in his hand. He wore a bitter smile, this court, this Emperor Yan, is truly not good—
Offering Essence Stones, but requiring installment payments!
Offering a royal city, but it’s in ruins!
Offering the Earth Gate, but requiring an exam!
All have restrictions!
All have conditions!
Nothing straightforward!
It’s truly frustrating.
The court is truly adept at throwing bait to lure you in, yet the advantages and benefits are something that people really can’t resist.
Yan Chuan smiled bitterly and had to ask again: "The court also has royal cities, they should know what the standards for royal city exams are?"
"Population scale."
"Martial Artist scale."
"Heavenly Ladder Points in Heavenly Ladder City."
"Exploration progress in the Underground City."
He Hao counted on his fingers. There were too many details, he couldn’t cover them all, so he mentioned some key points: "The permanent population of a royal city should be at least two million, with the scale of Martial Artists not less than one-tenth of the population, and limit-breaking Martial Artists not less than one-thousandth of the total population, Innate Martial Artists..."
Various details!
Too many, too many!
Regarding ’Tan Valley Royal City’, just looking at these ruins, not to mention anything else, the first requirement of ’two million permanent residents’ is no less than ascending into the sky!
"How is this difficult?"
He Hao laughed: "The royal city has no people, but the surrounding cities and mountains and marshes have plenty of population. Capture them, organize a great migration, and two million people can be gathered easily."
He Hao made it sound easy.
Yan Chuan didn’t believe a word of it.
Chen Ze, standing by, inquired about the most crucial piece of information: "When will the next ’Imperial City Envoy’ visit?"
This was very important.
If it’s a year or half, they should just rest early; it would be over!
But unfortunately—
...
"Two and a half years!"
"The ’Imperial City Envoy’ visits every three years, the last time was half a year ago, so there’s two and a half years until the next inspection."
Yan Chuan frowned.
This timing is very delicate, making one feel somewhat stuck in-between; with effort, rebuilding the royal city seems likely, but calculating it closely, it also seems unlikely.
Sly rascals!
Truly troublesome!
"Don’t think too much!" Yan Chuan’s frown relaxed, and suddenly he smiled: "Anyway, there are two and a half years we can use to level up in ’Heavenly Ladder City’ and explore in the ’Underground City’. Perhaps in two and a half years when the Imperial City Envoy arrives, we might have already broken through and even surpassed the limit to become Innate!"
He has the ’Purple Mist Palace’, "Mutual Teaching and Learning", why insist?
Wang Zhengyi, upon hearing this, also smiled: "Yes! At worst, doesn’t the court have other royal cities! There will always be a place to go!"
He has an ’Avatar’, limitless evolution, why insist?
Both were confident that without the royal city or the Earth Gate, it wouldn’t have too much impact.
Wang Ge and Fu Yunzhan, influenced by their confidence, also relaxed.
Chen Ze, already an Innate, had already taken a step forward and was even more open-minded.
The five of them reached a unanimous thought—
"Do your best!"
"Success or failure lies with the heavens!"
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"Royal city?"
"Is this your ’royal city’?"
That day, Ban Xianfu, Peng Fannian, Situ Fei, Wei Lingshan, Ding Xiang, Jing Bao, Lu Yuru, and other seven military leaders arrived as promised. Looking at the ruins and broken walls before them, Peng Fannian, Lu Yuru, and Ding Xiang were dumbfounded, Ban Xianfu, Situ Fei, and Jing Bao were silent, and Wei Lingshan laughed out loud: "Haha! Yan Chuan, oh Yan Chuan! Everyone envied you for getting a royal city after your ’Yama’ fame at Cang Mountain Sword Discussion spread across the world, but this is what you got?"
Wei Lingshan laughed heartily.
Ding Xiang, being close to Yan Chuan, couldn’t bear to see Wei Lingshan’s mocking expression and retorted: "Yes, yes! You’re great! So, where are your forty thousand jin of Essence Stones?"
With that comment from Ding Xiang, Wei Lingshan was directly rendered silent.
And it inadvertently injured a large group!
Everyone smiled wryly.
Indeed!
Yan Chuan may have been ’tricked’, ending up with a royal city now in ruins.
But were they any better?
The promised ’forty thousand jin’ of Essence Stones ultimately didn’t materialize, and they ended up as ’military leaders’, boasting, only to find themselves in a desolate place, following Yan Chuan, who lacked a proper royal city, aimlessly!
It’s absurd!
Elder brothers should not mock one another!
Everyone is a victim.
Not just them.
There were also Liu Xin (Chasing God Blade), Ma Hongniang (White Bone Banner), Gongyang Yu (Binding Rope), Luo Qi (Ancient Sound of the Primordial World), Guo Xi (Golden Stick), Zhuge Zhen (Centipede Bee Bag), Cai Ru’an (Five-Colored Stone), Chi Gao (Water and Fire Blade), and a group of Sword Discussion champions, all smiling wryly.
They hadn’t received their ’bonuses’ either, working hard for Yan Chuan, merely hoping their thousands or tens of thousands of jin of Essence Stones could arrive soon.
But they didn’t know then that the court only allocated Yan Chuan six thousand jin of Essence Stones each month. Combining all their bonuses, it would take about seven to eight years to settle.
But with the Imperial City Envoy arriving in two and a half years, it was questionable whether their temporary team could hold out that long.
If the royal city qualifications were lost, who knows if the court would still be willing to settle their Essence Stones on time and in full?
Bonus settlement?
Seems a long way off!
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