Building a sect from scratch

"Brother Gou, am I a great emperor? Am I just here to chop stones and cut wood boards?"

The Jade Emperor showed an expression of doubt about life. After exhausting the last bit of mana, he simply let himself collapse on the ground, looking as if his body was hollowed out.

"The capable should do more work. You are the only players with the [Swordsmanship] skill. There is no other way! Work harder. I have assigned two people to each of the three teams over there. Our overall progress is slow now because you are cutting materials too slowly! Don't always think about what you should get every day, but think more about what you have paid! Do you understand?"

Wang Ergou said while putting on the ugly face of a capitalist, while using the [Carrying] skill to lift a new batch of cut building materials and walked away.

The Jade Emperor curled his lips in dissatisfaction and muttered, "Sooner or later, I'll have to put Ergou under the streetlight!"

An NPC who looked like a middle-aged uncle waited for Wang Ergou to leave, rubbed his hands, nodded and bowed to the Jade Emperor, pointed at the carbon line drawn on a wooden board with fear and trepidation, and said, "Immortal... Immortal, there are too many left here, and I have to cut a little more..."

"Oh, cut to the black line, right? Sorry, I didn't pay attention just now, wait a minute!"

The Jade Emperor said, meditated temporarily to restore the blue of a skill, and then swung the sword energy condensed by spiritual power at the black line on the wooden board.

The NPC trembled and turned his body away. With a click, the piece of the wooden board in his hand outside the black carbon line was cut off by the sword energy and fell to the ground.

And on the ground, there were already a lot of scattered scraps of wood and stone, almost piled up into a small mountain - even this had been cleaned up several times!

Fortunately, the five senses in the game can be adjusted, and the so-called brick-moving work is also assisted by spiritual power and various magics. Otherwise, no matter how good the benefits given by Wang Ergou are, and how delicious the promised pie is, it is impossible for players to be patient to do such "labor" as building a city.

After several hours of hard work, the "City Lord's Mansion" that was planned to be built first has already taken shape - the foundation has been completely laid, several beams and columns have been built, and the stone brick walls are neatly built. Only tiles and blue bricks are left in the kiln, and the main buildings of the "City Lord's Mansion" can be built.

This public drawing was arranged and designed by Aunt Wang. There were originally several sets of design plans for the city that Wang Ergou was ordered to build by the task force, but Wang Ergou and Zhao Qing both liked the "Chang'an City" plan at first sight. Based on the principle of minority obeying the majority, everyone chose it.

In the renderings, the overall color scheme is white walls, red paint, and green tiles. It looks majestic and magnificent. The buildings are mostly symmetrical, and the city planning is also divided into zones, which is neat and exquisite, and is a typical Tang style.

However, compared with the real ancient Chinese buildings, the buildings designed in the plan are mostly two to three stories high. This is planned out of consideration for the practicality of building materials and buildings in the world of "Ten Continents".

Although it is currently impossible to replicate the grinding machine with sufficient precision to make cement due to the lack of necessary conditions for industrialization and mechanization, this is a world of immortal cultivation after all. There are some unconventional, unreasonable, and seemingly in line with the rules of the world. Special materials, cement is no longer the best choice.

For example, a very common tree near the Taiyin Sect is called "red iron tree". The bark of this tree is black, but the wood inside is dark red. Its texture is extremely hard. As long as it is cut off from the ground, it will become invulnerable to swords and guns, water and fire in a short time. It is an excellent wood.

If ordinary people were to handle it in the past, they would have to bake the wood for several days to make it brittle, and then soak it in ice water before they could barely use the sharpest black iron to trim it into shape. Or experienced craftsmen would trim it into a suitable size before it leaves the ground, and then cut it down in one go, which would save some effort.

Therefore, due to its superior characteristics and scarcity caused by its extremely difficult processing, red iron wood is highly sought after in the construction industry and has also caught the attention of the project team.

However, for players, the characteristics of red iron trees are completely ignored - too hard? Can you be harder than the sword energy condensed by spiritual power? Need high temperature and ice water treatment? Then you look down on the power of my various talismans?

What's more, the so-called "invulnerable to swords and guns" and "invulnerable to water and fire" only refer to ordinary swords and guns and mundane water and fire. As long as it has spiritual energy, even the worst green special-level knife in the hands of players can easily break the defense of red iron wood.

Even the NPCs who were hired by Wang Ergou to help with a large sum of money went from watching the "immortals" do hard labor in fear to expressing sincere admiration for the "immortals'" work efficiency. Even those hands holding all kinds of exquisitely crafted and shining knives and swords changed from being cautious to being accustomed to it.

The wooden boards and stones that originally required a lot of effort to cut can be easily cut by the "immortals" in just one or two strokes, and then they can be used after a little polishing.

The wood that normally takes several months to dry in the shade, the "immortals" either blow the wind back and forth or use fire to bake repeatedly, and they can dry a large number of wood in less than an hour. Even the furnaces for burning bricks and kilns for baking tiles are "magic weapons" made by the "immortals", which makes people sigh that they are really immortal means.

However, these methods and techniques, including several kilns for burning bricks and tiles, were all researched and designed by members of other groups within the project team. This allowed Wang Ergou and others to use these fruits of modern technology and the wisdom of cultivating immortals from other worlds as soon as possible.

Like a kiln for burning bricks, a formation for maintaining high temperature is carved on the wall and floor of a rough and ugly adobe house. You only need to continuously supply spiritual power to the formation to maintain the temperature of the kiln, and you can easily burn a whole room of blue bricks.

The "technical guide" admired by a group of players is a new member of the third technical group of the project team, and the first dragon group technician who met Wang Ergou and others in the game - of course, ordinary players do not know the true identity of this player, and Wang Ergou also deliberately confuses the audience, claiming that this technical master was "dug" by him after applying for friends to communicate with the accounts that have drawn the activation code.

This technical master has a very ordinary ID, called Zhou Qian, which is a clear stream among the fancy players' IDs.

Although Zhou Qian had just entered the game today and was only at level 1, he had arranged everything in an orderly manner when presiding over the city construction plan of Chang'an City. He even kept muttering to himself while inspecting the work of the players: "The efficiency of the brick kiln is still too low. We have to wait for several days. Since this is a world of cultivating immortals, will there be any formations or talismans that can speed up time? Or is there any way to speed up the process? Hmm... I have to study these two directions later..."