"Third Uncle, Third Uncle …"
Chen Chaoyan knelt on the stairs. While looking at the palace in the sky, she quietly tugged at Chen Jiezhi's sleeve.
Chen Jiezhi stole a glance at Mr. Dark Cloud in front of him, then turned to look at his niece.
"Even King of Tang's palace isn't as grand as this. It's floating in the sky," Chen Chaoyan whispered.
Chen Jiezhi nodded silently.
The other two elders of the Chen family felt the same way.
At this moment, they sincerely felt that choosing to come to Chang 'an while being hunted down was the best decision they had ever made.
Here, not only did their family have to be safe, but they might even rise again and take back everything they had lost from the Eastern Tang.
Guo Zi and Hui Tianyu of the Hanshan school had never seen the Eastern Tang Palace.
But at this moment, they were also convinced that the Hanshan school had a bright future here.
The little girl was no longer as panicked as before. She had calmed down and was looking around curiously.
Mr. Dark Cloud smiled faintly. He looked around at the captured people from Qingbokgung and Mirror Moon Tower.
Zhang Dongyun thanked them from the bottom of his heart. They did not rush into the original Invincible City with the traitor of the Green Cloud Temple, Gu Hechuan.
If they had entered together, they would not have been able to trigger the guardian quest. Instead, they would have been overshadowed by Gu Hechuan, whose cultivation level was higher.
But now …
[Random guardian quest 3.1 — Kill or capture Elder He Qian of Mirror Moon Tower and Elder Shun Ming of Qingbokgung who have entered the city.]
[The Mayor has captured He Qian and Elder Shun Ming who have entered the city. Random guardian quest 3.1 completed. Received 800 experience points to level up.]
Previously, he had killed the Green Cloud Temple's traitor, Gu Hechuan, and obtained 500 Guardian Experience Points. It was just enough for him to obtain the 2,000 Guardian Experience Points needed for the second level up.
As for the third expansion of the city, the required Experience Points for Defense and Construction Upgrade would increase again, requiring 3,000 Experience Points each.
However, thanks to the people of Qingbokgung and Mirror Moon Tower.
As soon as the second expansion was completed, they delivered themselves to the door. First, they gave Zhang Dongyun 800 Guardian experience points to level up.
With that, he would only need 2,200 experience points to level up his guardian.
He still had a hundred experience points left for building and leveling up, so he was short of two thousand nine hundred points.
After refreshing the quest list, a new construction quest appeared in front of Zhang Dongyun.
[Construction Mission 3.1 — Elementary Cultural Education. The citizens under your rule have insufficient cultural standards. First step: Reduce the illiteracy rate to below 50%.]
Not bad, not much has changed … Zhang Dongyun thought to himself.
He had already ordered Hui Tianyu and the others to search for literate people in the city.
They didn't need to be very knowledgeable. They just needed to have a basic level of education.
All this trouble was to prepare for the current quest.
However, there was still a long way to go …
Most of the citizens in the city were refugees and surrendered Tang Army soldiers.
The literacy rate was limited. It would be a systematic and big project to improve it.
The basic education in the city might not be sufficient.
It would not be easy to reduce the illiteracy rate to below 50%.
Well, if the standard for illiteracy is the one I set back then … Zhang Dongyun couldn't help but want to roll his eyes when he thought of this.
Back then, he set the standard for illiteracy to be 1,500 literate and be able to read and write basic words …
If he had known this would happen, he would have passed if he could only know ten or eight words.
Castellan Zhang regretted it.
However, no matter what, the city's expansion made him feel very good.
[Castellan: Zhang Dongyun
Current range: 16 kilometers from east to west, 24 kilometers from north to south, 8,000 meters above, 8,000 meters below ground
City wall range: 4,000 meters from east to west, 6,000 meters from north to south]
Compared to before, Invincible City had expanded by four times in all aspects.
In terms of cross-sectional area, or the area it occupied in this world, it had expanded by sixteen times.
It had now reached 384 square kilometers.
Compared with Qinzhou prefecture, Longbei County, and the Eastern Tang dynasty, it still didn't seem very big.
But every time it expanded, its area would increase by sixteen times. In the long run, it wouldn't be underestimated.
The current coverage of Invincible City had already exceeded the entire Baiyun Abyss and reached the other mountains in Dragon Ridge.
If it expanded further, it should be able to reach the foot of the mountain.
In comparison, the people in the city could be considered to be sparsely populated within the coverage of the entire system.
Zhang Dongyun recalled that there would be another quest to increase the population very soon.
He could make preparations early and plan for a rainy day.
However, the more people there were, the harder it would be for the illiterate to become illiterate.
It was better for him to first complete the Elementary Literacy Mission and earn the Construction Points before anything else.
Castellan Zhang sat firmly in Daming Palace, calculating as he watched Blood Shadow walk up the stairs.
The old devil was apprehensive as he reached the palace gates.
The palace gates automatically opened to both sides.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Blood Shadow walked into the palace gates respectfully.
There was no one in Daming Palace, only a faint light lingered and some smoke and clouds swirled.
After passing through several palaces, Blood Shadow finally met Zhang Dongyun, who had transformed into the Evil Emperor, in the central hall.
"Rise."
Zhang Dongyun looked at Blood Shadow, who was bowing below, and ordered indifferently.
After thanking him, the old devil stood up and took out a few secret items, presenting them to Zhang Dongyun.
"I'm incompetent, Your Majesty, for not being able to bring back the Heavenly Wolf."
Blood Shadow apologized first, then explained, "The one in the cave wasn't that traitor Yang Li, nor was it a real Heavenly Wolf, but … a Heavenly Wolf Demon Soul."
With the support of Invincible City's system, Zhang Dongyun could tell that the other party was telling the truth.
He took the items presented by Blood Shadow and pondered in his heart.
It was a Demon Soul, and not a cultivator in the Eighth Realm of the Demonic Path.
In other words, for some reason, a cultivator in the Eighth Realm of the Heavenly Wolf Demon Soul separated from his own Heavenly Wolf Demon Soul.
The Demon Soul was left in the secret cave, and the cultivator's whereabouts were unknown.
Considering the engravings of the fragments of The Immortals, that guy should be Yang Li.
The question was, where was Yang Li himself?
Blood Shadow presented a total of three items.
One was a pitch-black pearl the size of an adult man's fist.
One was a piece of fur.
And one was a stone slab.
The pitch-black pearl was the product of Blood Shadow after he defeated the Heavenly Wolf Demon Soul.
The Demon Soul was a headache for Fuzhen Guan, and Blood Shadow used the secret method taught by Zhang Dongyun to counter the Demon Soul, so it was a piece of cake.
Zhang Dongyun studied it carefully and compared it with the memories of Evil Emperor Ming Tonghui. He was sure that the Heavenly Wolf Demon Soul came from Yang Li.
As for the fur, it should be from the Golden Cicada Shedding Technique.
It was a byproduct of Yang Li's separation of the Heavenly Wolf Demon Soul.
The reason why the other party went through so much trouble was probably because he was severely injured by Evil Emperor Ming Tonghui during the incident in the Immortals.
The injury caused by the Evil Emperor was like a maggot in his bones, making it difficult for him to reincarnate and cultivate again.
Cutting off the Heavenly Wolf Demon Soul was like a gecko cutting off its tail to survive.
On the surface of the stone slab, there was a mysterious engraving that was closely related to the fragment of the Immortals in Yang Li's hand.
Zhang Dongyun raised his eyebrows slightly.
Yang Li left these in the secret cave. Was it because he was powerless and had no choice, or …
Was it intentional?
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