Cheat Cultivator's Ascension - Chapter 483 - 483: Plans Before Going to the Western Continent
“The central unit of the entire project is complete now as well… we only need some time before we can really use it…” Hua Jingxian added as he stood up from his seat, looking down through the clear glass separating his office from the outside, smiling.
As he does so, he also starts wondering just what sort of expressions the people down below and all around will have should they know of the fact that the devices that exploded in popularity nowadays are, in fact, a tool for their creator to gather intelligence all across the Eastern Continent.
Heaven’s Eye, it was, initially, a mere suggestion of something that can exist, and the interest that the middle-age man in front of Su Xiaotian expressed about this project previously is, while still great, but it was due to the fact that it is an idea that came from this immortal-like young man that he expects to achieve a lot of great, significant things.
Now, however, his interest and focus on this project was no longer just because the creator of this plan is someone he values not only as a great genius but also as a family member, but also because he greatly, if not fully, grasps the massive boon that this project will give the Heavenly Secret Tower once it is completed.
And this benefit? A massive network of information without the need to send their own personnel to the field, with them now only needing the jade slip devices to transmit images, projections, and sounds, all while the old personnel that were tasked with gathering information outside now only need to monitor the information being transmitted by the devices.
“You’re about to pull-off something that has never been done in the history of this continent, brat, considering your age, I wouldn’t even doubt if you claim that you’re someone who remembers their past life…” seeing the controlled, still calm expression yet fiery glow on the immortal-like young man’s eyes, Hua Jingxian mentioned in praise, with the young man merely smiling at those words before he responded to the middle-aged man’s words.
“I will take that as a compliment, Uncle Jingxian” Su Xiaotian replies with just a little hint of modesty on his voice, not shying away from such praise, something the middle-aged man in front of him often enjoys whenever he converses with him, causing the two of them, despite being soon-to-be in-laws, act like they are brothers separated by a generation.
As the two of them continue to discuss their plans for the immediate future, them continue to talk about some more interesting things for a while, with Hua Jingxian being the one speaking more often as he tells stories about his treasured daughter’s younger years, stories that Su Xiaotian can listen to with all ears.
“Alright brat, If you want to leave, you can leave now, I won’t send you out, there’s still a lot of paper that I need to deal with” Hua Jingxian said as the two of them pauses for quite a long while after they enjoyed their conversations, after stating so already having his hand on one of the papers on his table.
“Thank you for the update, Uncle Jingxian,” the immortal-like young man replies as he stands up once more, moving towards the door, opening it, and taking a step back to the long hallway where he encounters several people who are all significant, if not high-ranking members of the Heavenly Secret Tower.
Returning to his own private room within the Heavenly Secret Tower’s headquarters, a place requested for him by the empress-like Hua Xian’er and was given to him by this lady’s father, he laid down for a while, thinking about what he wants to do during these past few free days that he will have before he proceeds with his travel to the Western Continent.
‘Sure, I need to tell them about it, I don’t really need to prepare anything else for now, if there’s anything, I hope I can grasp the chance to increase my cultivation again in the next days…’ he thought to himself with closed eyes, taking deep, long, consistent breathes for a while as if he had already fallen asleep.
This state wouldn’t last for long, though, as, acting as if he remembered something important, he immediately opened his eyes before the semi-transparent, floating golden screen appeared right in front of him, the description of one of the Universal Shop System’s Sub-Systems.
‘That’s right, I have something like this, maybe I can improve the island some more before I go to the Western Continent,’ he thought to himself as he read through the information of this sub-system, his lips forming into a smile as he thought of how convenient this tool is.
[City Lord System (Lvl 1) (This system is exclusive to the host and inaccessible to the shared users, the shared users will have a corresponding system equivalent, but not the same as this system)]
[Grants the user the ability to mark a place as their own territory. Within the territory, bonuses and buffs are given to the people deemed as citizens of the territory, and debuffs and restrictions are imposed upon the people allowed to enter the territory but are not citizens of it. The rights to grant citizenship is given exclusively to the City Lord (User) and the Vice-City Lords (Shared Users). All of them possesses absolute authority within the range of the territory, and whether they like it or not, even celestials will bend according to their will inside the territory]
[City Lord: Su Xiaotian]
[Vice City Lords: Su Meiyao, Jiang Xinyue, Mo Lingxue, Hua Xian’er, Hong Lian, Li Yan, Astaria Seraphina]
[Build Infrastructure]
[Allows the City Lord and Vice City Lords (Under the City Lord’s approval) to create infrastructures that are fundamental to the city. The users are free to design how the structures will look like and what will be used as materials for constructing it and the system will automatically build it, however, the users must provide all the necessary items for the structures.]
[Manage Politics]
[Allows the City Lord and Vice City Lords (Under the City Lord’s approval) to look for the information of all the people managing the territory under them, giving them the rights to know about all the activities related to the city and notifying them once people did something corrupt, allowing easy cleanup of the city’s government structures. In addition to that, this feature also shows the loyalty and faith of the people to the city and its leaders]
[Manage Economy]
[Allows the City Lord and Vice City Lords (Under the City Lord’s approval) to look into the economic status of the city, assisted by an autonomous calculation and prediction intelligence that offers multiple choices to the user and the shared user for them to decide on with regards to the finances of the city]
[Important Information]
[Informs the City Lord and Vice City Lords about the important things happening in the city. The users and shared users are able to freely set what the important information are]
After looking through it, he thought that the minerals that was collected in the Auxiliary Job System might also be useful for the building of the infrastructure, his intention on also creating place to live and cultivate below the World Trees that populate the island he and his family own and live on.
‘There should be priority to who will be allowed to live on the World Tree, ‘ he added a mental note to himself, knowing that in the future, the place which he now call the Roaring Heaven City will receive more and more individuals and cultivators, and given that this is practically a paradise for cultivation with the ambient spirit qi providing a skyrocketing boost in cultivation quality and speed, there will definitely be people who will covet locations on the World Trees where the spirit qi is the most abundant.
And to prevent such things from happening, he thought that he needed to separate those who do not intend to contribute to the improvement of the place and those who do want to contribute. This, to him, is a reasonable method to identify and classify people who will populate the Roaring Heaven City in the future.
‘Alright, I think I know what I need to do for now…’ after opening the Auxiliary Job system and checking out the resources he had in stock there, Su Xiaotian then smiles as he pulled an Unbounded Spatial Talisman from the Universal Shop System, immediately using it with the intent to return to the island without showing himself to his family first, intending to work around and check for where in the entirety of this vast land would it be good for him to start with his new goal for the development of this place.
After roaming around and seeing some good places to start, he then decided to return now, as he intends to discuss his leaving home again for the Western Continent, and while still certain that the ladies will agree, he still couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous thinking of talking about this with them.
