After glaring at Meng Chen hatefully, Ning Yuyan turned around and flew towards the golden pillar of light above the enchantment workshop.

Although he didn't know what Ning Yuyan's move meant, Meng Chen would definitely not let her succeed easily.

Meng Chen immediately ordered the Linghua Luan Bird: "Stop her!"

Chirp~!

A pleasant cry sounded, and the Linghua Luan Bird spread its wings and rose into the air to chase Ning Yuyan.

Alfred also noticed Ning Yuyan, and in an instant, he turned into a blue-white shadow, blocking between Ning Yuyan and the golden pillar of light.

"Get out of here!"

Ning Yuyan snorted, and a golden talisman appeared in his palm, emitting wisps of golden streamer, shooting towards Alfred like an overwhelming force.

Wind Blade! Whisper of the Wind!

Alfred wielded a thin sword and swung a myriad of blue-white streamers that collided with the golden streamers.

Note: Alfred's exclusive sword, the Wind Rose, has been destroyed, and this rapier is a new side sword that Kobe Bryant created for Alfred, and has been enchanted by Keynes himself to reach a dark green color.

Bite! Bite! Bite......

For a while, a sharp and piercing sound sounded in the air, and all kinds of lights intertwined a gorgeous picture.

Chirp~!

At this time, the Linghua Luan Bird suddenly flapped its wings, and one after another, the five-meter-long white light blades slashed towards Ning Yuyan in the air.

Ning Yuyan, who was attacked on his abdomen and back, bit his silver teeth secretly, and ruthlessly crushed the golden talisman.

Zheng~!

With the sound of a melodious guqin, Ning Yuyan's body erupted with dazzling golden light, suspended in mid-air like a golden sun.

At the same time, the golden light illuminated a radius of hundreds of meters, and any inhabitants who were directly illuminated by the golden light all froze in place with a dull expression.

Meng Chen, who opened the arcane shield, although he did not fall into a stiff state, was also unable to move half a step under the suppression of the golden light, "Damn! Ning Yuyan actually had such hole cards, and it was not revealed until this moment. It's really bearable! ”

Alfred, who was closest to Ning Yuyan, barely resisted the golden light with his own strength, while the Linghua Luan Bird faintly showed signs of collapsing into the aura of heaven and earth under the illumination of the golden light.

After crushing the golden talisman, Ning Yuyan, who was pale, dragged his weak body and flew towards the golden pillar of light not far away.

Meng Chen's heart was anxious, and he immediately shouted: "Alfred, stop her!" ”

Drink!

After receiving Meng Chen's order, Alfred burst out and forcibly shook the shackles of the golden light.

Of course, this did not come without a price, Alfred's internal organs were wounded, and a wisp of bright red blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

Yikes!

As the sound of a sword blade entering her body sounded, Ning Yuyan was pierced through her heart by Alfred's sword when her right hand had just touched the golden pillar of light.

Meng Chen stared at Ning Yuyan closely, and said secretly in his heart: "Are you dead?" ”

Ning Yuyan's weak face faintly showed a hint of a smile, and she exclaimed softly: "Return to the spirit!"

As Ning Yuyan's voice fell, the surface of his body lit up with bursts of golden light.

Seeing this situation, Meng Chen's face changed, and he said secretly: "It's not good!"

Airplanes~!

A slight humming sound sounded, and Ning Yuyan turned into a golden light and merged into the pillar of light.

Immediately afterward, the golden disc instantly flew into the air and shot towards the golden pillar of light in the southwest direction.

Meng Chen looked at the golden disc in the distance with a dull expression, as if he couldn't believe that Ning Yuyan ran away like this.

Alfred fell back to Meng Chen's side, knelt down on one knee and said ashamedly: "Lord Lord, my subordinates are incompetent!" ”

After a moment of silence, Meng Chen sighed and said, "I don't blame you!" It was I who was confused by Ning Yuyan's performance during this time. It's come to this, it's useless to say more! Alfred, command the aftermath of the soldiers! Lift those stiff residents into their dwellings, and it may take them a few days to fully recover. ”

"Yes! Your Lord!" Alfred replied respectfully.

was swept away by Ning Yuyan's big move, and more than 600 residents in the inner city fell into a state of stiffness all over their bodies.

Fortunately, the residents were just stiff and there were no large number of casualties.

Staring at the golden pillar of light in the distance, Meng Chen secretly said in his heart: "Ning Yuyan, this time I let you escape." If you dare to provoke the City of Hope next time, you won't be as lucky as this time!"

It didn't take long for the golden pillar of light to slowly dissipate from the bottom up, and finally completely disappeared between heaven and earth.

Meng Chen guessed that this huge golden pillar of light should be a teleportation channel connecting the two worlds.

Ning Yuyan obviously mixed a lot of false information during the interrogation.

She definitely didn't break into the ruins by mistake and was teleported to the Underworld Blood Demon Realm, but a planned and organized invasion.

Ning Yuyan may just be one of the spies of the Immortal Cultivation Sect, and there may be more Immortal Cultivators returning to the Immortal Blood Demon Realm in the future.

In this regard, Meng Chen had no way to stop it, so he could only work hard to accumulate his own strength to cope with possible changes in the future.

After Ning Yuyan's toss, Meng Chen was no longer interested in going to the mountain pass, and instead began to count the family in the City of Hope.

Currently, there are 2,700 productive workers in the City of Hope.

Among them, 1,200 second-order farmers work the east side of the inner city to cultivate 120 second-order plantations.

This year, the plantation has already harvested the second crop, and the time before the cold winter is too late to plant the third crop, so the plantation is planted with fruits and vegetables with a short growth cycle.

The Tier 2 Lumberyard in the Flamemane Lion's territory has a total of 100 Tier 2 Lumberjacks cutting wood, producing up to 600 units of Wood (white) per day.

Six Tier 2 quarries in the northwest corner of Dilong Valley employ 600 Tier 1 quarrymen excavate stone, producing up to 1,000 units of stone (white) per day.

At the base of the Jade and Xuanshi Quarries, a total of 600 Tier 2 quarrymen excavate stone, and can produce up to 400 units of stone (green) per day.

At the base of the Darkiron Mine, a total of 100 Tier 2 miners mine ore, and after the Darkiron Ore is refined by the Blacksmith Shop, it can produce up to 350 units of metal (green) per day.

As for the energy mines that are about to be depleted, with the excavation of 100 Tier 1 miners, a maximum of 1,000 white tribute stones can be produced per day.

Today, the supply of resources in the City of Hope can fully meet the needs of development, and the only thing missing is time!

Aside from resource extraction, the city of hope's military has changed dramatically.

Due to the tens of thousands of soul power obtained from the battle with the Nanban tribe, in addition to the 20 second-order tomb guards who can increase 60 soul power every day, coupled with the harvest of the hunting team led by Alfred, the City of Hope has been training soldiers frantically for nearly two months.

Today, the City of Hope has a total of 4,530 soldiers, including 590 Swordsmen, 560 Marksmen, 422 Elite Swordsmen, 436 Elite Marksmen, 322 Sword and Shield Warriors, 378 Marksmen, 682 Knights, 740 Rangers, 200 Elite Knights, and 200 Elite Rangers.

In addition, the City of Hope has 40 Soldier Instructors, including 20 Tier 3 Instructors, 12 Tier 4 Instructors, and 8 Tier 5 Instructors.

Among them, 2 Level 5 instructors had already met the requirements for continued promotion, and were sent to the academy by Meng Chen to receive promotion training a week ago.

Each Tier 5 Instructor's promotion training costs 72 soul power, 400 gold coins, and 27 days.

After being promoted to the rank of a Tier 5 Elite Knight Instructor, he will become a Tier 6 Champion Knight Instructor.

After being promoted to the rank of Tier 5 Elite Ranger Instructor, it will become a Tier 6 Wind Ranger Instructor.

In order to meet the upcoming Tier 6 soldiers, enchantment workshops, blacksmith shops, leathersmiths, etc., are crafting higher-tier soldier equipment.

The new Tier 6 Soldier will be equipped with a dark green color, and the blacksmiths will also install Ink Essence Iron Armor on the armor, which will greatly increase the defense of the new armor.

Note: These Ink Xuan Essence Iron Armor Pieces were customized by Meng Chen through resource space and consumption of a large amount of gold coins.

After leaving the various artisan workshops, Meng Chen came to the warehouse in the inner city.

At this time, there is a transport fleet in the warehouse loading and unloading stones.

In a group of stone-carrying coachmen, Meng Chen saw a familiar bald man, and this bald man was none other than Shakya.

I saw Shakya, like the coachman, shirtless, carrying heavy stone slabs from the ox cart and carrying them to a warehouse dedicated to storing stone slabs.

These Tier 1 charioteers have a strength stat of 7 and can carry three stone slabs weighing 200 kilograms at a time, while Shakya can carry seven stone slabs of the same weight.

Looking at the sweaty Shakya, Meng Chen took advantage of the fact that after he finished unloading the stone slab, he asked curiously, "Shakya, why don't you read in the library?" ”

Shakya wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and smiled, "My lord, although you have allowed me to stay in the library, as a citizen of the City of Hope, I cannot enjoy this with peace of mind. Besides, carrying stone slabs is also a practice! ”

"Practice?"

Meng Chen was stunned in his heart, and immediately checked Shakya's attributes through his spiritual power.

。。。。。。

Civilian number: 6966

Loyalty: 95

Condition: Good

Occupation: Monk

Level: Tier 2

Attributes: Strength 15, Agility 15, Intelligence 30

Skills: Martial Arts Knowledge Mastery Lv1, Mixed Vitality Lv2, Jade Pillar Gong Lv2

Talent: Light of Wisdom

。。。。。。

"Monk? Shakya really already has a profession, and has comprehended the mixed vitality and jade pillar skills, does he plan to follow the path of qi martial arts practitioners? Meng Chen was secretly surprised.

Then, Meng Chen patted Shakya's shoulder and laughed, "You did a great job!" Come on! ”

"Yes! Your Lord! Shakya bowed in response.

Looking at the back of Shakya's departure, Meng Chen muttered in his heart: "Shakya's potential is very great, there are two demon pills left, which one should be given to him?" But...... There is no rush now, he must wait for him to be promoted to transcendent before he can withstand the huge energy of the demon pill. ”

Subsequently, Meng Chen began to count the resources in the warehouse.

There are 66,420/224/622 units of wood (white/green/blue), 27,680/6,120/1,944 units of stone (white/green/blue), 3,612/8,240/2,680 units of metal (white/green/blue), and 2186240/164,980/192,320 units of grain (white/green/blue).

"The stock of white quality stone is still too low. Do you want to transfer the Tier 2 quarrymen at the base of the mine back to the quarry in the northwest of the Dilong Valley? Meng Chen said secretly.

The reason why Meng Chen cared about the stock of white quality stone was because the defensive array would be completed on October 10th.

Once the 4,000-meter-long defensive array is fully completed, Meng Chen plans to begin building the infrastructure of the new inner city.

The infrastructure construction of the new inner city cannot be fully covered like the old inner city, otherwise the current strength of the city of hope will also be dragged down by this huge project.

According to Meng Chen's plan, the infrastructure construction of the new inner city will cover one-third of the inner city area, about 320,000 square meters.

The project is expected to consume 100,000 gold coins, 100,000 units of stone (white) and 2,000 units of metal (white).

After pondering for a moment, Meng Chen still decided not to transfer back to the second-order quarryman for the time being.

After all, green quality stone is more valuable than white quality stone.

It's a big deal to continue work during the Evil Moon, and the City of Hope did the same last year.

When Meng Chen returned to the town hall, the pale blue sun had already set in the west.

In the city hall, Ellie was holding an account book in her hand and was waiting for Meng Chen to return.

After seeing Meng Chen, Ellie bowed down and said, "Lord Lord, the trading volume of the Dilong Valley Market has returned to its peak today, with a total of more than 6,000 gold knife coins, more than 10,000 stone gray quality metal ore, nearly 30,000 stone white quality metal ore, and more than 500 stone green quality metal ore. In addition, there are more than 1,000 books of various kinds, and a number of special wood and plant seeds. ”

"Thank you, Ellie!"

Meng Chen nodded and asked, "By the way, how is the matter of the auction in Earth Dragon Valley being promoted?" ”

Ellie replied, "My lord, in the last two Earth Dragon Valley Bazaars, my subordinates have promoted the Earth Dragon Valley Auction to merchants and warriors, and have issued a large number of auction catalogs. The feedback was very positive, and many people expressed their willingness to participate. ”

"That's it for Nanban City, the focus is on Wumeng City, the three major sects are all local tyrants!" Meng Chen laughed.

Ellie smiled and said, "Half a month ago, my subordinates have entrusted a friendly caravan to go to Wumeng City with the lot album. Today, I received a reply from Wumeng City, and the three major sects will send representatives to participate. ”

"Ellie, you're doing a great job!" Meng Chen praised.

Ellie pursed her lips and said, "My lord, are you only going to give verbal rewards?" ”

"Huh? Hehe...... How can it be? Ellie, do you have any requirements? Just ask me and I'll satisfy you! Meng Chen smiled awkwardly.

A glimmer of light flashed in Ellie's eyes, and she moved closer to Meng Chen, opened her pink lips slightly, and said with a blushing face: "The subordinate's request is very simple......"

Seeing that Ellie was so close, Meng Chen seemed to realize something.

Before Meng Chen could react, Ellie pecked Meng Chen lightly between her lips, then turned around and quickly left the city hall.

Meng Chen, who was forcibly kissed by his subordinates, touched his moist lips, sniffed the fragrance between his noses, and said abruptly: "This is too fast, right?" ”

Finally throwing Ellie's figure out of his mind, Meng Chen began to think about the upcoming auction.

The time of the auction in Dilong Valley was set by Meng Chen on September 15, that is, half a month later.

This was the first auction held in the Earth Dragon Valley, and in order to enhance the attractiveness of this auction, Meng Chen deliberately took out a large number of high-quality equipment and objects, including a reduced version of enchanted weapons and equipment, several immortal cultivator magic weapon embryos, and even a light blue magic weapon as the finale.

For precious lots such as ritual embryos and finished ritual vessels, Meng Chen will only accept bids from Ao Yuan or Gongshi, and the relevant auction details have been recorded in the auction catalogue.