Chapter 401
Within the past two weeks, besides the three autonomous zones, the construction of the remaining city had gone on as per usual . However, everyone had their eyes on the battle between the autonomous zones and Wang Baole . As a result, no one noticed the strange new face in the new city .
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Of course, even if there had been no such fight, this additional presence wouldn’t have been discovered . After all, while there hadn’t been a mass influx of new residents to the city, the current city population had already exceeded two hundred million people .
One person to such a vast city was akin to a grain of sand to a vast desert .
That was especially so when this person was adept at disguising his looks and concealing his presence . Perhaps… his cultivation was of such a high and unfathomable level, resulting in his presence not being easily detected .
At present, in the new city zone under Jin Duoming’s charge, within one of its alleys, there was a young cultivator dressed in blue robes conversing happily with someone he had just gotten to know but had nevertheless become good friends with .
“Brother Jiang, the person you’re talking about, is it our City Lord Wang? He’s an important figure . He’s really amazing!” The cultivator beside the blue-robed young man seemed to have drank quite a bit of wine . The man next to him said something . He laughed and replied .
“City Lord Wang graduated from the Ethereal Dao College, one of the four Dao Colleges . He progressed up the ranks swiftly . He is the true nobody who ascended up the ranks, step by step, to reach where he is today!”
The blue-robed young man smiled and nodded as he listened to the other speak . He didn’t say much himself . They walked further and further away into the distance . His partner didn’t realize that there was a fire burning deep inside the blue-robed man’s eyes . It was like the Dark Fire, burning strong without signs of extinguishing .
His partner also didn’t know that this young man in blue robes whom he had just befriended wasn’t someone from the new city . What he was seeing wasn’t the latter’s true form .
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Perhaps, what he should really look like, was a figure covered in black robes, from head to toe…
They walked further into the distance . An hour passed . Suddenly… a black figure dashed from afar into this quiet alley . It revealed itself as it neared . It was the donkey!
Nobody in the city had noticed the strangeness of this blue-robed young man, but the faint scent that it exuded didn’t escape the donkey, whose obsession with food had reached perverse extremes .
From the initial construction of the new city zone to its current transformation into a new city, the donkey had been seemingly wandering around, leaving behind random and indiscernible tracks . In fact, it had been searching for the food that it had eaten previously and couldn’t get out of its mind .
But the food was cunning . The donkey had been searching for it for a very long time but hadn’t been able to find it . It didn’t give up though . It continued to persevere . Finally, today, it caught a scent similar to that of the food . It was slightly different, but seemed to originate from the same source!
It had raced over excitedly . It sniffed around in the alley, seemingly surprised and confused as to why the scents were similar and yet different . It didn’t think too much about it though . It swallowed visibly and, with eyes shining, it continued searching…
The donkey wanted the food all to itself . It wasn’t going to let Wang Baole know about its discovery, not that Wang Baole had time to waste on the donkey anyways .
From the way Wang Baole saw it, it was good that the donkey was out and about . At least it was taking care of its own meals . Else, if it had stuck religiously to his side, the thought of its bottomless pit of a stomach and how it never seemed satisfied after a meal might drive Wang Baole into slaughtering it once and for all .
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As a result, he only checked up on the donkey’s condition daily to ensure that its life signs remained stable . Besides that, Wang Baole didn’t pay it much attention . He would then leave his office and return to his residence .
Wang Baole seldom visited his new residence in the new city since he had an entire office building to himself . Be it seclusion or refining Dharmic Artifacts—he had a designated space for it . There were also numerous cultivators and employees from various departments in the building, as well as more female cultivators than male cultivators, which made it very pleasing to the eye .
However, Wang Baole finally felt slightly inappropriate for staying such a length of time in the office . Especially when it came to studying Dharmic Armaments and their refinement—if something were to happen and resulted in a building collapse, it would adversely affect others .
After some consideration, Wang Baole decided to continue his study of Dharmic Armaments at his own residence . His residence had been constructed and allocated alongside the other buildings in the new city, and it wasn’t far from his office building . It was located in an isolated area that was heavily guarded to ensure the safety of the residents .
He wasn’t the only resident in the area . It had been divided up into lots for ten separate residences .
Besides him, those who were eligible to stay there were the other mayors as well as Deputy City Lord Li Wan’er . However, like him, the rest seldom stayed here .
At present, Wang Baole returned to his residence . He activated the array formation to isolate the area from external disturbances and interruptions and began his daily training . Through his daily training and the augmentation from the Dark Qi, his cultivation had advanced rapidly . Within a brief span of time, he had reached the peak of the late-stage Foundation Establishment realm and wasn’t far from the perfected stage .
His rate of progress made Wang Baole immensely happy . He felt that reaching the Core Formation realm within three years wasn’t an impossible goal . Once he reached the Core Formation realm, even should there be something wrong with his Military Warrant, he would have a sufficiently strong cultivation to protect himself while he advanced further in his career!
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Core Formation realm cultivator and Dharmic Armament master—if I possess both criteria… I can even try to fight for a Primary Rank Two Noble! Wang Baole raised his head proudly . He could sense that he was inching closer to his goal of becoming the Federation President . If he could just work slightly harder, it would be within reach .
Federation President! The thought of that title excited Wang Baole . He took some time to calm himself down and continue his training . It went on for a few days before he finally ended his meditation and began his study on Dharmic Armaments .
With regard to the Spirit Integration and Heavenly Evocation required for a Dharmic Armament, Wang Baole thought the former an easier step to address . The important step was the latter . However, he still had no idea how to go about doing it after studying it for so long . He didn’t lose patience though . He knew that many challenges existed in the refinement of Dharmic Armaments . He just had to go through them one at a time .
Wang Baole continued his seclusion . Besides the donkey, the rest of the new city carried on with life as usual . The construction of the autonomous zones picked up pace . The new city’s look changed from day to day . It began to resemble a great capital city as construction continued and improvements were made to perfect the design .
During this period, the donkey was busy searching through the entire new city . Its obsession with food made it forget exhaustion . It even resorted to staking out certain areas a couple of times . There were even a few times it narrowly missed its target, but that didn’t lessen its enthusiasm .
There was another person in the new city who had first been relieved, then had slowly grown mad, and finally ended up gnashing his teeth .
This person was Wen Huai… the cause of his gnashing of teeth was Liu Daobin . He could do nothing to Liu Daobin, as he had been sent by Wang Baole to keep an eye on him . Liu Daobin was good at his job . He immediately took over the disciplinary aspects of the zone, and he was experienced and familiar with his work .
Wen Huai was beginning to suspect that Liu Daobin had been in this line of work since he was a young boy . He wasn’t wrong . Since Liu Daobin had entered college, he had been in this business, working for Wang Baole . He had been doing this while Wang Baole had been around . After Wang Baole left, he had continued with his work . He was the master of this trade .
Under the masterful supervisor Liu Daobin’s watchful eyes, everyone in Wen Huai’s new zone was in danger . There were even signs of Wen Huai being overthrown and replaced . There had been times when Wen Huai had been simmering with frustration, with no outlet for his venting . He had almost imploded then .
He wasn’t the only one in this state . Similar troubles faced Fang Jing and Chen Mu in their respective autonomous zones . They didn’t have it as bad as Wen Huai, though, as not everyone had the same kind of expertise as Liu Daobin .
Wen Huai and Fang Jing were reminded of how difficult Wang Baole could be and chose to swallow their frustrations . Chen Mu, on the other hand, couldn’t take it lying down . He felt resentful towards Wang Baole . At the same time, he was also deeply displeased with his fiancee, Li Wan’er .
He couldn’t help but think about the legendary dubious recording of the two . If it had been in the past, he might have been able to set the matter aside and not think too much about it . However, at present, simmering with resentment and aggrievement, his thoughts began to linger on the matter . He grew increasingly uncomfortable with the thing and decided to contact Zhuo Yixian again and ask for the video .
“Zhuo Yixian, I know you have a younger brother called Zhuo Yifan . He’s a War Soldier your family has been grooming for you . You need to subdue him . I heard he’s recently gone slightly out of control…”
“I can help you with your problem . What you need to do is to hand over that video in its entirety to me!”