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Chapter 88: If You Are Successful, You Should Help The World
🕑 Added 2025-03-11 10:01:01 +0000 UTCIn the end, the three soul bones auctioned by Tiandou Auction House were won by the Star Luo Empire in Box 4, the Spirit Hall in Box 3, and the Seven Tile Glazed Pagoda Sect in Box 5.
After the auction ends.
With a gold card worth more than 200 million gold soul coins in his pocket, Ye Cheng led his apprentice and five newly acquired maids and was respectfully escorted out of the auction house by the auction house’s senior executives.
“Now that we have the money, we should put the construction of Baiyun City on the agenda as soon as possible.” He walked out of the gate and looked around. He felt like he was not at home anywhere.
The "home" here does not only refer to the house you live in, but a place that belongs to you, a place where you can come back to rest and find peace of mind when you are tired.
Ever since his entire family was wiped out when he was six years old, he has been homeless. He has been wandering for many years, like a wanderer. He has been to many places and bought properties in many places. But he never stays in one place for a long time. Because he has no sense of security. In this world full of dangers, sometimes the battle between powerful soul masters who pass by by chance may affect your life.
Therefore, Ye Cheng always had a gap with this world, unwilling to integrate into this world, and even more afraid that he, who had no special skills, would be completely lost in the crowd. He would become a marginal person who would not leave the slightest trace in this world. He was also afraid that he would be assimilated by this world and become a stepping stone for other powerful people.
But now it’s different.
As the saying goes: If you are poor, you should take care of yourself; if you are
Rich, you should help the world! The strength that was enough to dominate the world gave him strong self-confidence. It also made him begin to truly integrate into this world and prepare to change this world!
When he had no strength, all he thought about was how to live better. But after he had strength, he had a higher goal. That was to change the world, to make this world, which he thought was “full of oppression and barbarism, nobles and slaves”, which was extremely sick and backward, strive to move closer to the harmonious society where everyone was equal in the previous life.
And all these changes will start with the establishment of Baiyun City!
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Now we have the money to build Baiyun City.
Then what Ye Cheng has to do next is to recruit some subordinates. After all, a city must have some specialized people to maintain its operation. As the city lord, he can’t do everything by himself, right? Moreover, such a big city cannot be run by him alone.
Therefore, it is necessary to conquer some family forces to assist in management.
The first things he had to conquer were the four major families with single attributes that joined the Tang Sect in the original novel.
Ye Cheng, who had read the original novel, understood that among the four major families, only the Li family might be more difficult to recover, because although the current patriarch of the Li family, Tai Tan, disliked the Clear Sky Sect, he was still relatively loyal to the original master Tang Hao. Otherwise, he would not have joined the Tang Sect founded by his son in the original novel.
However, Ye Cheng did not care about this, because among the four families, what he really needed urgently was the Yu family, and their superb skills in architecture were what was most needed in the current construction of Baiyun City.
Among the remaining three families, the Poyi family has the highest attack power among the four clans, and the Poyi family is good at refining medicine. When he establishes the academy in the future, he will let them see if they can research some potions that can help students practice. Even if they fail, the role they play will definitely not be small, so they can be considered useful.
The power clan is mainly responsible for forging. For people like Tang San in the original novel who need hidden weapons, the existence of the power clan is the most important. The better the hidden weapon, the more stringent the casting skills required.
But to Ye Cheng, their forging ability seemed useless. After all, they were just a group of ordinary blacksmiths, and the so-called forging was just hammering with a hammer to forge some ordinary weapons. They could not forge soul guides or weapons with other special abilities. Otherwise, the status of blacksmiths on Douluo Continent would not be so low.
Therefore, in Ye Cheng’s opinion, the Li clan is the kind that would be best if they could be invited, but if not, then forget it, it won’t have any impact at all.
Finally, there is the Min clan. They can be said to be the worst off clan among the four major families. The Li clan can forge iron, the Po clan sells medicine, the Yu clan can be construction workers, and the Min clan’s only skill is speed and collecting intelligence.
But if you don’t join a force, why would other forces believe your intelligence?
Therefore, without joining other forces, the specialties of the Min clan are basically useless. Only by joining a large force can the Min clan play its role.
Generally speaking, among the four families, Ye Cheng needs the Yu family the most. The other three families can only be regarded as extras. It is good to have them, but it doesn’t matter if they are not there.
After deciding to conquer the four major families, Ye Cheng did not set out immediately. Instead, he rested for a few days and arranged some things before setting out.
This time he did not bring Zhu Zhuqing with him, but placed her in a mansion in his own Tiandou City, letting her practice on her own for a while. The five maids were also placed in the mansion, and he had to go out to do some work, so he had no time to take care of them for the time being.
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Longxing City.
This place is located at the border of two empires. The Yu clan is rooted in Longxing City. They are considered to be the best among the four families.
Ye Cheng flew with his sword at full speed. It took him only half an hour to reach a distance that would take an ordinary person a month to reach by carriage.
This place is located in the north of the Star Luo Empire, less than two hundred miles away from the border between the two empires. It is a true border city.
Longxing City itself was not directly under the jurisdiction of the Star Luo Empire’s royal family, but was a territory within a subordinate kingdom. Because of trade, this small city was extremely prosperous, with a constant stream of merchants passing through.
In order to not attract too much attention, Ye Cheng landed far away from the city gate, then activated the illusion, a layer of mist covered his face, and his whole appearance changed immediately. He did this mainly to avoid attracting too much attention. When they were going to talk about things later, he would show his true appearance.
Follow the crowd into the city gate.
Ye Cheng scanned with his telekinesis and soon found the place. It was a house with a plaque with the word “imperial” hanging on the gate.
In his scan, he found that although the house looked rough, it actually contained many defensive mechanisms. All of them were visible in his perspective scan.
‘Yes, this is exactly the man I need.’
After seeing the mansion of the Yu clan, Ye Cheng was very satisfied with their architectural level.
