The City Lord of Ten Thousand Longevity Mountain, such a grand title, only resulted in a mere twenty percent increase in experience within the boundaries of Ten Thousand Longevity Mountain? Ye Yun felt utterly disappointed.
Building Blueprint (Teleportation Array) - A prerequisite item for the Ten Thousand Longevity Mountain building’s teleportation array. It requires 1,500 units of building materials and costs 100 million gold coins and 10 million points.
Purchase! Ye Yun hesitated almost not at all for this item. He also directly bought the required 500 units of building materials, costing a total of 1.5 billion gold coins and 150,000 points.
Following that, Ye Yun chose to construct the teleportation array directly two kilometers in front of the City Lord’s Manor and spent a full hundred Spirit Stones to complete its construction instantly.
"Spirit Stones are nothing, I have plenty," Ye Yun said with indignation. In such a short time, the Spirit Stones spent could almost cultivate a Monarch-level cultivator. Yet here, it only built a hollow shell of a city.
However, the teleportation array was finally constructed. What was needed now was to match it with various one-way teleports to send players back to the maps they originally entered from.
"System Prompt: The teleportation array is automatically matching with teleportation arrays in all main city maps within the Ten Directions Universe game… Match successful. Each player using this teleportation array to return to their original map will be charged an additional Spirit Stone for the maintenance of the destination city's teleportation array."
"System Prompt: Please City Lord 'Jie Ming' set the upper and lower multipliers for the teleportation fee of this array. Players currently pay 2 Spirit Stones + 2 points per teleportation. The City Lord can currently set the price range between 1-20."
Ye Yun immediately opened the detailed information list of the teleportation array. Based on his rudimentary understanding of the current map, this teleportation array was definitely not that simple.
As expected…
Teng City Teleportation Array (lv.1) -
Number of players teleported out: 1/60s
Cooldown time after each teleport: 1/60s
Cost per player teleport: 2 Spirit Stones, 2 points.
Description: This is a miniature teleportation array. The City Lord can increase its teleportation capacity and reduce its cooldown time by upgrading its level.
For the first time, Ye Yun felt like he was about to explode with anger. This was simply too much of a rip-off.
Without a word, Ye Yun directly pushed the teleportation price to the maximum. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be doing justice to this deceptive thing. It could only teleport one person per minute, and it had a one-minute cooldown. This meant it took two minutes to teleport one player out.
Only thirty people per hour, and just over seven hundred per day. This meant that even charging twenty Spirit Stones per player, the maximum earnings per day would only be around 14,000, and that was assuming it was almost fully utilized every day. How long would it take to earn back the cost?
A trap, every step was a trap. Ye Yun suddenly felt his dream of establishing a second massive city moving further away. With the standards of this city, he would struggle just to complete the construction of the current city.
The City Lord's Manor was in place, the teleportation array was in place. After looking for a while, Ye Yun chose to construct a restaurant and five steel-cast high-rise residential buildings to serve as temporary residences for the Ten Directions Empire's early settlement within Ten Thousand Longevity Mountain.
However, due to the height of the city walls Ye Yun had constructed, these five residential buildings could only be built up to thirty-five meters. Anything higher would exceed the scope of concealment for city affairs within the city walls. It was only then that Ye Yun belatedly realized another pitfall of building a city.
A ring of city walls, the City Lord’s Manor, the teleportation array, five apartment buildings, and a restaurant. With this, Ye Yun's over ten billion points were completely depleted. He wondered how many players could afford to support such a city. Ye Yun felt that even if he gave Yao Die another ten years, she might not be able to build it.
"Master, I see your points have dropped significantly. Have you finished building the city?" As Ye Yun just entered the City Lord's Manor, Yue Xia sent a voice message.
"Yes, how far are you?" Ye Yun slumped into the chair, feeling utterly exhausted. The City Lord’s Manor was also empty. All furniture and other items needed to be purchased separately.
Fortunately, the interior was already renovated, and purchasing these furnishings only required gold coins, not additional points. Otherwise, Ye Yun would truly have felt like dying.
"About two more days of travel." Yue Xia replied, inwardly filled with envy and jealousy towards Ye Yun's divine beast mount's speed. Although they also had their respective flying equipment or mounts, they were more than ten times slower than the Golden Crow.
"Alright, I’ll go out and hunt some year beasts to get some points first." Ye Yun's remaining points were only a few million, not even enough to be in the top hundred on the points leaderboard.
Although Ye Yun didn’t prioritize such things, building this city was too costly in terms of points. He still wanted to get some points to build up the city’s defenses. Otherwise, if Yao Die’s group found out, they might come here to cause trouble.
Meanwhile, millions of kilometers away, a troop of over five thousand soldiers was launching a fierce attack on a level two year beast settlement. Although the number of level two year beasts was only a little over a thousand, not many legions currently had the strength to take down a settlement in one go.
And this legion was Yao Die's direct subordinate, her secret army. It was just that the number of personnel this time was slightly larger than three months ago.
"Commander, look at the points leaderboard. That human's points have suddenly dropped out of the top hundred." Captain Tiemu suddenly turned and said to a person surrounded by a crowd behind him.
After emerging from his seclusion last time, Yao Die had reorganized this legion of several thousand into a formal, structured military unit. And their current commander was a parachuted-in non-wood race personnel. They had seen this person in reality; he was someone their Majesty respectfully called "Senior Brother." Known as Ghost Butcher, he was a true god of slaughter.
"Over ten billion points suddenly shrunk to over eight million. It seems that fellow has already built a city." Ye Yun had killed the Wilderness Hunter, allowing all players to purchase those items at any time, and letting all players who entered Ten Thousand Longevity Mountain know the prices of those items.
"What should we do? Do we need to arrange for people to scatter and search for that city's coordinates?" Tiemu also guessed this outcome.
"Are you an idiot? How big is Ten Thousand Longevity Mountain? If we scatter our people now, it will not only severely delay our city-building progress but also greatly increase the possibility of not finding it. Issue the order, expedite the process!" Ghost Butcher scolded, then flashed to the side of a weakened year beast and ended its life with a single blow.
Over five thousand people slaughtering a settlement of year beasts, leaving all the year beasts weakened, and then having Ghost Butcher be the sole finisher – this was their plan for rapidly acquiring points.
"At this pace, earning even ten thousand points a day is difficult, let alone a million."
"Tiemu, issue the order. For the next ten days, all Spirit Stones earned by all members must be handed over! I need to focus on increasing our attack power. Only then can we speed up the rate at which we acquire points each day."
Ghost Butcher waved his hand, and instantly dozens of ghostly shadows shot out from his body, then instantly killed dozens of weakened year beasts around them before disappearing.
"Yes, Commander." No one dared to disobey Ghost Butcher’s orders, not only because of his peak Great Perfection realm strength in reality but more importantly because of Yao Die's attitude towards this Senior Brother and his own influence.
Ghost Butcher, the third disciple of Ghost King Sect’s Ghost King, and also the first Saint Son of Ghost King Sect, had comprehended four laws, three of which were perfected, and one was great completion. He was only one step away from the Quasi-Emperor realm. He was the leading figure among Ghost King Sect's disciples who had entered the mortal world, and he also served as the Grand Commander of the Fu Tian Imperial Palace's Imperial Guard.
Even though the five captains, including Tiemu, were unwilling in their hearts, they had to hand over all their Spirit Stones. Previously, they demanded five-tenths of the Spirit Stones be handed over. Now, this Ghost King Sect fellow demanded all of them at once.
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"System Prompt: Congratulations to player for killing level two year beasts *320,000, gaining 3.84 E E experience points, 32 million Spirit Stones, 32 million points, and 320 Year Geng. War pet 'Xiao Jin' has leveled up, current level is 87."
The experience gained from leveling up did not decrease at all due to Ye Yun's own level increase. Furthermore, with the title of First City Lord, the experience points had increased by an additional twenty percent.
"Year Geng has accumulated nearly 200,000. Good heavens, in these more than four months, I've killed nearly 200 million year beasts?" Ye Yun, sitting on the back of the Golden Crow, looked at the Year Geng in his inventory and found it hard to believe himself.
Two hundred thousand Year Geng meant an increase of 200,000 years of lifespan. If this item appeared in the Ten Directions Star Domain, it would absolutely cause a sensation. After all, in the Ten Directions Heaven and Earth, too many old fogeys were limited by insufficient lifespan and dared not easily enter the world.
If Year Geng were to appear on a large scale, it would be entirely normal for these old fogeys to notice it or even for bloody storms to erupt.
However, the problem was that this item required a Physical Manifestation Card to be used.
Fortunately, Ye Yun had already tasked Qin Zhan and the others with acquiring Physical Manifestation Cards, and the price offered was fifty percent higher than the market price. He believed that a considerable number would be acquired soon.
Secondly, there were the medicinal ingredients for refining the Grain Abstinence Pill. Although a large portion was planted in the Nine Dragon Yang Void Palace in reality, the acquisition in the game had never stopped. The accumulated herbs in Yun Tian City were currently being stored by Wang Chen, awaiting Ye Yun to return and refine them.
After Ye Yun harvested several waves of year beasts in the second region, almost all the year beasts within a hundred thousand li radius of Teng City had been cleared by Ye Yun. As for the flying year beasts, they were all handled by Xiao Long. This meant that players in Teng City would have almost no possibility of leaving the city to hunt year beasts for the next half a month.
After harvesting nearly a hundred million points, Ye Yun returned to his city. He planned to build up the city's defenses first.
The biggest advantage of a city in this Ten Thousand Longevity Mountain was that regardless of whether the city's defensive buildings or defensive troops killed any year beasts or enemy players, the rewards obtained were the same as if a player had killed them.
For example, if Ye Yun killed a level one year beast and gained 10 billion experience points and one Spirit Stone, the rewards for the defense forces killing them would be exactly the same. These experience points and Spirit Stones would be directly stored by the system into Ye Yun's inventory. This could be considered an unexpected income.
The reason Ye Yun wanted to develop defenses was not primarily for the defensive buildings, but for the City Guard!
This was because the City Guard here was significantly different from the City Guard in other maps; they could sortie out of the city to fight.
- Building Blueprint (City Guard Barracks)
Description: Players can construct a City Guard Barracks by combining it with building materials. Upon completion, players can recruit various City Guard armies through this barracks to clear out enemies around the city for the City Lord.
Price: 1 billion gold coins, 80 million points.
Returning to the city, Ye Yun immediately began constructing the City Guard Barracks without a word, and spent a full three hundred Spirit Stones to complete this building instantly. Then, Ye Yun eagerly opened the recruitment panel of the City Guard Barracks.
- City Guard Barracks (lv.1)
Description: The City Lord can unlock and recruit various City Guard units here. At the current level, level one City Guard can be recruited.
Looking at the simple description, Ye Yun's bad feeling immediately returned.
City Guard Barracks (lv.1)
Currently Recruit-able Race Units
-- Human Race (To be unlocked)
1. Level 1 Infantry, recruitment price: 10 million gold coins, 1000 points
2. Level 1 Archer, recruitment price: 10 million gold coins, 1000 points
3. Level 1 Light Cavalry, recruitment price: 10 million gold coins, 1000 points
-- Ghost Race (To be unlocked)
1. Level 1 Yin Soldier, recruitment price: 10 million gold coins, 1000 points
2. Level 1 Vengeful Spirit, recruitment price: 10 million gold coins, 1000 points
3. Level 1 Ghost Wheel, recruitment price: 10 million gold coins, 1000 points
-- Divine Race (To be unlocked)
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The level one units of various races made Ye Yun's eyes blur. However, regardless of the race, all of them were in a locked state. To unlock a race's units, an additional 100 million gold coins and 10 million points were required. These outrageous moneymaking tactics once again refreshed Ye Yun's understanding.
Looking at the remaining over twenty million points, he hesitated. Whether it was human sentimentality or something else, Ye Yun still prioritized unlocking the human race units.
After examining the three level one human units that could be recruited, Ye Yun recruited two thousand level one infantry, five thousand level one archers, and five thousand level one light cavalry.
These units, apart from the HP bar above their heads, had no attribute descriptions. However, according to Ye Yun's understanding, their strength was comparable to level one year beasts.
But…
"Damn it! Are these recruits just wooden puppets?" Ye Yun looked at the black mass of twelve thousand soldiers and felt terrible again. Suppressing his inner rage, he opened the City Guard Barracks again and found the current City Guard soldiers.
"Unintelligent? Need to research Level 1 Intelligence in the Research Institute?? What the hell is this?"
"Setting up a commander requires additional Spirit Stones?"
Ye Yun immediately felt a ball of fire accumulating in his chest. He left Xiao Jin Long and directly exited the game with his consciousness, staging a silent protest.