Chapter 629

There was a huge spirit vein at the base of the main peak, connecting several spirit veins at the base of the nearby peaks. It was like an extension of the main peak.

Naturally, this was the best choice for the main pavilion, and no one would dispute it.

Next, Zi Chen asked Heifeng to find some people to decorate this place. Of course, they had to start decorating the place where Lu Peng had locked the spirit.

The ancient trees would be dug up, and the mountain peaks would be shaved. Every day, there would be the sound of energy surging, and every day, there would be the light of spirit weapons flashing.

Creating a force was naturally not something that could be done in a day or two. This was a huge project, and the time it would take was unimaginable.

Fortunately, Zi Chen had enough resources and manpower. This could greatly reduce the time.

After planning everything, it was time for the Flight Warriors to act according to the plan. There was nothing left for Zi Chen to do. After leaving Wang Shan here to supervise, they went back because there was still a lot of things to do.

Zi Chen now ruled an area with a radius of a million miles. His subordinates were more than a hundred Core Realm cultivators and more than ten thousand Levitating Realm cultivators. Many of his subordinates were not working for him for free. He needed to pay them, and Zi Chen was not stingy. Naturally, he would pay them more than other forces.

Therefore, even though Zi Chen had many resources, the first thing he considered was self-sufficiency. He had to make his daily income at least balanced with his expenditure. Only then could he continue to cycle.

Always paying with his own resources was not a long-term thing.

Compared to the inner region, although the outer region was large, it had relatively fewer resources. Therefore, it was indeed difficult to rule this place and support so many subordinates.

Fortunately, Zi Chen had a Spirit Devouring Rat. This kind of existence was born to find treasures, and it played a great role at this time.

Mineral veins were not like spirit veins. Just because the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was dense, there would definitely be mineral veins. Perhaps under an unremarkable hill, there would be a rich mineral vein. Therefore, to find mineral veins, one had to be professional, and the Spirit Devouring Rat was undoubtedly a natural-born professional.

A while ago, the Spirit Devouring Rat had already traversed a radius of a million miles and found several large mineral veins. As for those small mineral veins, the Spirit Devouring Rat didn't even bother to investigate them. In its words, these mineral veins didn't have a lot of resources, and there was still room for growth. It would wait until millions of years later when they grew into large mineral veins.

After the Spirit Devouring Mice marked out the locations of these mineral veins, the next step was to gather people to start mining and gathering resources. Naturally, there was no need for Zi Chen to personally instruct these matters. As the future Deputy Pavilion Master, Wang Qiong gave the orders.

Furthermore, three days later, he had already mobilized over 65,555 True Energy Realm miners, over 6,555 Airborne Realm cultivators, and 75 Core Realm cultivators from other mineral veins to head to those mineral veins. Those who were supposed to be mining were mining, and those who were supposed to be guarding were guarding. Everyone was performing their respective duties.

It had to be said that Zi Chen's generosity was not only shown on Zukong, but also on the True Energy Realm miners who had no human rights in the Fringe.

Usually, they would mine day and night without rest, and there was almost no reward. However, since Zi Chen had successfully taken control of this place, he had given these True Energy Realm miners time to rest and cultivate, and also gave them rewards.

Zi Chen's decision naturally puzzled many people because there were plenty of Airborne Realm cultivators in the Fringe. Every day, there would be Airborne Realm cultivators from other regions teleporting to this place. There was no need to waste resources on these True Energy Realm miners.

Moreover, the rewards that Zi Chen gave were not just a few or even dozens of yuan stones, because there were simply too many True Energy Realm miners in this place. There were so many of them that they could be counted in the hundreds of thousands. There were so many of them that it was unimaginable. Dozens of yuan stones per person per month meant that the total reward for all the miners would be an astronomical figure.

Even if the reward was only low-grade yuan stones, it was still a huge expenditure that many major forces would feel pressured by.

Facing the doubts of the crowd, Zi Chen smiled and explained, "There are indeed a lot of Zukong here, but there aren't many who can be of great use. Only those who are personally nurtured are the most loyal. Unfortunately, there are no True Energy Realm cultivators here. If there were, I would rather spend more time and effort to nurture them from the True Energy Realm."

The meaning of Zi Chen's words couldn't be more simple, but they had an extremely long term meaning. If they were to do this, they might not be able to make ends meet in the short term, but in the future, Zi Chen would have many loyal subordinates by his side, and many loyal talents who could be of great use to him.

With experts who had surpassed the Inner Core realm, and many loyal subordinates, wasn't this the sign of the rise of an overlord force?

The simple explanation allowed the crowd to see the wildness hidden under Zi Chen's calm expression. This was the ambition to become the sixth overlord force, and even the number one overlord force in the future.

"Lord Zi Chen." Suddenly, a voice came from outside the door.

"Come in." In the room, Zi Chen was discussing something with Wang Qiong and the others.

"Lord, we have discovered a large army flying towards our area." The intelligence officer came in and reported respectfully.

"A large army."

Zi Chen frowned slightly. Even the overlord forces were defeated, and there were still people who dared to make a move against them under such circumstances.

"Yes, a large army is approaching our area, and it looks aggressive. They should be coming with ill intentions."

"How many Inner Core realm cultivators are there, and how strong are they?"

"There are only ten Inner Core realm cultivators, and they are only at the early Inner Core realm."

"If ten can be considered a large army, could it be that there are other realms?" Zi Chen asked.

"Yes, there are also thousands of Zukong." The intelligence officer said respectfully.

Ten early Inner Core realm cultivators and thousands of Zukong. It was indeed a large army. Zi Chen waved his hand, indicating for the intelligence officer to leave.

"What do you guys think?" Zi Chen looked at the others in the room.

Tyrant, Wu Mo, Heifeng, Wang Qiong, and the others walked in front.

"Is there a need to think? Let Heifeng lead thirty early Inner Core realm cultivators. They will be defeated in one round, and all of them will be annihilated in two rounds. Are those forces stupid? They can't even defeat the Inner Core realm cultivators, and yet they dare to send Zukong. Are they here to die?" Tyrant was the first to speak.

"Are you still a monk? Killing for no reason. Is it because you have been killing too much recently that you have gone crazy?" Zi Chen joked.

When they first came to this barbarian land, Tyrant still had a benevolent side to him. Usually, he would only injure and force them to retreat. However, after staying here for a long time, he had developed a murderous intent.

In fact, it was not only him. Everyone was changing, including Wang Xian 'er. Of course, she was still as beautiful as when Zi Chen first saw her, and she hated evil.

Zi Chen ignored Tyrant's suggestion, and looked at the others.

Wang Qiong shook his head and said, "It is not appropriate for Heifeng to fight. Moreover, the other party only sent Zukong and early Inner Core realm cultivators, not even middle Inner Core realm cultivators. Obviously, they want a fair fight. When we faced the overlords, we asked for a fair fight. Now, we can't bully the weak."

Heifeng nodded, "That's right. I also think it is better to send cultivators of the same level."

Suddenly, Heifeng seemed to have thought of something, and said, "Logically speaking, they should be scared of us. They shouldn't send people to provoke us. But is this the case now?"

"What?" Everyone looked at Heifeng. At the same time, they were confused about why the other forces sent Zukong.

"I just thought of a rumor about the big forces, but I don't know if it is true or not."

Heifeng said, "This is the Land of Chaos. It has been a huge battlefield since ten thousand years ago, and it has been so until now. Every day, there would be many Zukong coming here from various teleportation formations. Although there are battles every day, and Zukong would die every day, the rate of death was far slower than the Zukong that came in. Slowly, as the number of Zukong increased, this place felt like it was overcrowded."

"The more Zukong there are, the more resources would be wasted. It would also invisibly increase the expenses of the big forces, and become a burden. Therefore, these big forces would start a battle at a certain time. Although these battles have the purpose of snatching resources from each other, their ultimate goal is to deplete the number of Zukong."

"Deplete the number of Zukong? Isn't this sending them to their deaths?"

"It's precisely to send them to their deaths. That's because there are simply too many people in the air. Furthermore, most of them are limited by their innate talents and can't advance any further. Before a huge war, such existences are originally a burden that consumes resources. Of course, all of this is just what I've heard, so it can't be taken seriously."

Although Heifeng had only heard rumors, it was very reasonable. Just like the overlord forces, they only nurtured existences that broke through to the Inner Core realm with their own strength. They didn't want ordinary Inner Core realm existences because they felt that it was a waste of resources.

Moreover, when there was no battle, they were a burden. Not only the overlord forces, but also Zi Chen.

Previously, he was still recruiting Inner Core realm experts with high prices, but now that the battle was basically over, he didn't want ordinary Inner Core realm experts anymore.

"In that case, let's send someone of the same level to fight with them." In the end, Zi Chen said.

Wang Qiong nodded and then went out to arrange the manpower.

For this battle, Wang Qiong arranged for Wu Liu and nine other early Inner Core realm experts to fight. They led a thousand Zukong to fight with the enemy.

In a battle of this level, there was naturally no need to talk about battle formations. It was just a blind slaughter.

As the energy surged, large numbers of Zukong fell. Groups of Zukong died. After fifteen minutes of fierce fighting, the enemy retreated in defeat.

Wu Liu and the others didn't pursue.

Battles of this scale occurred frequently in the following days. More Zukong and a small number of Inner Core realm experts charged towards Zi Chen's territory.

They weren't fighting aimlessly. Instead, they directly attacked the mines that Zi Chen occupied. As the number of people increased, Zi Chen's side clearly became more and more strenuous.

At the same time, some of the other forces in the outer regions also started to launch effective attacks to fight for Zi Chen's mines.