Taking advantage of this hour, Lu Yao focused on the mining progress of the [Banquet Bird].
King Wu Ji was a novice when it came to governing a city and expanding civilisation, but when it came to underground mining and excavation, it was just like going home.
No one knew the underground better than the Wuzhi people.
The Wuzhi mining team created a ground arch at the bottom of the world, and the groundwalking boats drilled into the ground from the ground arch passages, digging tunnels through the abandoned gravel worlds in search of ore formations.
They worked well together internally, with one earthbound boat drilling into the ground, and another returning from the earth arch to spit out a pile of already dissolved and purified omnipotent stone. The Uzis on the surface, on the other hand, stacked these shiny strategic ores in batches, synchronising the count and adjusting the direction of the commanding underground operation.
King Uzi was the overall commander and chief architect of this Gravel World’s great development, and He relied on the power of the gods to be able to judge the area of the Omnipotent Stones with some precision, and then a squad of Uzi people would rush to the field to excavate them.
Unlike the bewilderment and chaos of war, the Uzis who carried out the underground excavation acted swiftly and efficiently, with every step skilfully and orderly, as if they were a humanoid assembly line.
It was obvious that their talent lay in underground work.
In just half an hour before and after, a large pile of Omnipotence Stones had been piled up on the ground.
Lu Yao clicked the mouse and pocketed it.
The upper left corner showed: 1,761 Omnipotence Stones.
1300 pieces had already been dug out in such a short while.
However, as the digging progressed, the output became significantly less and the speed slowed down.
Lu Yao didn’t care.
The Gravel World was small on the world level, but its size was comparable to a small half of the Wu Ji Kingdom, so even if the content of Omnipotence Stones was low, the total number would be relatively considerable.
What he had to consider was the distribution.
The Omnipotence Stones were actually of little use if he took them himself, just in case of an emergency.
In the Yao world, however, the skilled craftsmen were in great need of this special material. With the Omnipotence Stone, they would be more certain of creating fine-grade props.
Lu Yao thought for a moment and had an idea.
He told King Wu Ji. All the Omnipotence Stones in this Gravel World were exclusively mined by the Wu Ji Clan. And the Omnipotent Stones obtained were all included in the finances of Uda City, so they could forge on their own or trade with other cities.
Lu Yao only had one request.
These resources must be used up and turned into fuel to propel the development of Uda City.
“With such love from Lord Zheng Shen, I will work desperately to do this well and utilise these resources! Never let your expectations fall short!”
An exuberant expression with glowing eyes appeared on King Wu Ji’s head.
He instantly announced God Yao’s decision, causing one Wu Ji man to be thrilled as smiling faces rose above his head, and his digging became even more vigorous.
Lu Yao pondered, with this Gravel World’s Omnipotent Stone Mine, Uda City could be considered a landed city anyways.
Even if the people of Wuzhi did nothing and took the Omnipotent Stone to the cities of the world to buy and buy and buy, it would still be able to drive the economy of various places and allow the manufacturing industry to be strengthened in disguise.
On the other side of Crystal City, there was also progress at this time.
The old capital of the empire, which was originally more chaotic, had regained order due to the White God’s descent.
The killing flying locusts in the city were cleared out as much as possible, collapsed houses were built up again, damaged roads were further repaired, and the imperial capital was recovering.
The White God brought in a group of new immigrants. They came from Yao City, Salt City, Saniro and even the northern strait docks, and were basically the poorer local people, mainly farmers and fishermen, with a few artisans.
After arriving in Crystal City, these people were arranged by the White God to do one thing: burn glass.
The city’s wonder [Glass Stone Kiln] came with its own glass technology, and it had a luck increase for artisans, which also increased the success rate of glass making.
Although Salt City had now mastered the technology of glass firing, the production was very low, just because the Glass Clan’s glass firing was extremely dependent on this one wondrous spectacle.
On the flip side, glass products are very expensive and profitable today.
The White God had the believers burn the glass products, and then using the merchant caravans, he sold them to the many cities in the south in exchange for food, cotton and hemp, and various raw materials.
The glass industry gradually became the core industry of Crystal City’s beginnings, making the first believers rich quickly, and more people came from all over the world, wanting to be able to get a piece of the glass.
On top of that, the White God started planting roses inside and outside the city walls.
These rose seeds were cultivated by Pinkman in the experimental area, and while they weren’t quite as good as they had been in the days of the Rose Kingdom, they were beginning to take shape.
The roses grew rapidly under the people’s watering and fertilising, growing as tall as trees.
All that grew in Crystal City were green roses. The White God said that it was the variety specifically chosen by Pinkman considering that Crystal City was a long way away and there were quite a few locust swarms that would harass and affect trade.
Lu Yao clicked on one of the plants.
……
[Mild Green Rose LV5]
Life Value: 125/125
Mana: 11/11
Damage: 5
Defence: 4
Speed: 4
[Thick Skin
Innately possesses a high life value.
[Carrion Eclipse]
Can slowly restore life and mana by devouring corpses or decaying matter.
[Counterattacker]
Attacks only when threatened.
[Needle Stab]
……
[Ranged]
……
Pinkman does have a knack for raising roses.
The green rose turned into a plant with both protective abilities that could maintain the safety of the city.
Once the White God entered Crystal City, it didn’t take much time to get the place in order, and quite a few Imperial Ghosts had also integrated.
Lu Yao was about to take another look at the current status of the ghosts when the simulator popped up a prompt.
[Anchoring of the Tree of Silvanus to the Temple in the Clouds is complete.]
That’s for another time then.
Lu Yao clicked on the Golden Wilderness and began to check out the history of the Cloud Central Temple.
This Vortex World was even more broken than the Yao Clan’s world, and in [Rule Repair] mode, the entire world’s virtual and real lines were fragmented. It was like a book that had been soaked and then torn to shreds, with words and phrases missing badly, making it very difficult to read.
The Cloud Temple had once been a divine kingdom, and it had spent 4,215 epochs since it had been stripped of its fragmented world, only that the records about the epochs were almost all damaged.
Even the word epoch was displayed as [Invalid], representing the complete cessation of epoch updates in this world – like a server that had been shut down.
But regardless of whether the word entry was complete or broken, it couldn’t be bypassed by the deity here, [Yun Cui Hak].
The name of the Temple in the Clouds was taken by Yun Cui Hak.
Although this deity was a god of the gods, it was rather peculiar in that He was always busy, constantly perfecting and repairing the broken rules and every blade of grass and tree in the divine kingdom.
The huge Cloud Temple had never had a single divine war break out, which made Lu Yao find it unbelievable.
Unfortunately, the background records didn’t tell the reason why.
However, there was a special phrase in the world rules.
[Ascension]
Under Ascension, there were two secondary phrases: [Cloud Transforming Monk] and [Sand Walker].
[Sandwalker] was completely deleted or disappeared after it, and [Cloud-Converting Monk] has a relatively complete description.
……
[Monk of the Transforming Clouds] – [Ascension] – [Temple in the Clouds]
[Introduction]: After completing the initial metamorphosis, he transforms himself into a cloud and merges into the world of the Temple of the Clouds, becoming part of the rules, thus completing his ascension and generating a large amount of Flame of Faith.
【History of Development】: A special pathway pioneered by the Cloud Cui-ui Hak that allows the transcendents among the believers to break through the limits and attempt to enter the realm of the gods without the aid of the Godhead.
……
Lu Yao summarised the remnants under the words.
A Cloud Transformation Monk is one who allows a Transcendent to become one with the weather [clouds], thus becoming part of the rules of the world and thus becoming transcendent. More and more Cloud Transforming Monks incarnated as clouds, and also grew this rule, which then fed the functioning of the entire world.
This was very close to the power of the gods.
But the later facts proved that the Cloud Cui-ui Hak’s approach failed.
The Cloud Transformation Monks all completely integrated into the rule and became part of it, or rather, transformed into the clouds of this world.
It was also because of the unprecedented growth of the [Clouds] that the entire world was shrouded in dense clouds that could not be dispersed all year round. It was once damp and cold all year round, and the fog elemental creatures flourished in abundance, turning the entire land into a zephyr.
So Cloud Cui Hak had to further repair the rules of the world, and in the process, He opened up another ascension path.
Sandwalker.
Unfortunately, in the backstage rules, there were all blanks underneath [Sand Walker].
After reading this content, Lu Yao began to organise a team to conduct a preliminary field mapping of the Temple in the Clouds.
Participating in this operation were: the White God, Isabel, Sarina, the Blood Knight, and the Yeti.
The Apostle Squad assembled and entered this ancient vortex world through the passageway opened by Lu Yao.
