Dragon's Origin

This time, the grand ceremony was so prominent that it directly overshadowed the Song Kingdom forcing the Dai family to lower their heads, and even overshadowed the fact that Yu Baozhai was building a base in the Thousand Absolute Land. Everyone's attention was on the Emperor and the various feudal lords.

Even Worry-Free City sent envoys to participate in the enfeoffment conference. On one hand, they wanted to secure a feudal state and title for the City Lord of Worry-Free City, and on the other hand, they wanted to reconfirm the status of Worry-Free Kingdom after the establishment of the feudal states. In any case, Worry-Free Kingdom sounded better than Worry-Free City, and Worry-Free Duke or Worry-Free Marquis was definitely much more impressive than the City Lord of Worry-Free City, wasn't it?

While the royal family and the Song family were holding a grand ceremony, and the Emperor and the feudal lords were making big news, Wang Sheng was leading hundreds of people toiling in the Thousand Absolute Land.

After about a month of searching, Wang Sheng finally selected a suitable terrain as the site for the final camp.

This area was a flat land surrounded by mountains. It wasn't exactly a valley, but the surrounding mountains were steep enough to form a circle of high walls around the flat land.

There was only one entrance, a gap about a hundred yards wide. The area inside was a full five li in diameter. Such a large flat land had ample water sources and was enough to accommodate thousands of people.

The surrounding mountains were all solid rock mountains. Even if they wanted to create mountain wall grottoes like the Song family's camp, there were sufficiently hard mountain walls here.

The flat land was covered with lush vegetation, but with everyone's efforts, the vegetation in the area was quickly cleared. Of course, Wang Sheng and the old Taoist had driven away all the insects in the area from the beginning.

The next step was not to start construction immediately, but to have dozens of experts jointly maintain a protective formation that required seventy-seven forty-nine array stones to be activated simultaneously. Only when this formation was activated did everyone breathe a sigh of relief, temporarily not having to worry too much.

The area covered by the formation was larger than this area, extending at least one and a half li outwards. Such a large formation protection area was enough to ensure that the people inside didn't have to worry about being attacked by small monsters and insects. As for large monsters, with so many experts, even if they were let into this area, everyone could attack them together. If that didn't work, wasn't there Wang Sheng's guard?

As long as the hundred-yard-wide gap at the entrance was blocked, this place could basically be said to be impregnable. The master craftsmen specially hired by Yu Baozhai began to survey the surrounding mountain walls and terrain, to design a small city suitable for at least a thousand people to live and cultivate in, combining the terrain of this valley.

With the surrounding high mountains as a barrier, they could temporarily use the mountain walls to resist monsters. At least two lines of defense needed to be built at the entrance, two solid stone walls. At least one wooden wall was also needed in the middle to give everyone more confidence.

Stone was easy to obtain. Anyway, they had to carve out stone caves in the mountain walls, and the carved stone could be used to build the city walls on the spot. Wood was even easier to obtain. The large trees felled when clearing the central area could be used to build a wooden wall first.

Among the hundreds of people, at least two hundred were craftsmen. The average cultivation level of these craftsmen was not high, the highest being the fourth level and the lowest being the third level. After all, they were entering the Thousand Absolute Land, and those without some cultivation should not easily enter to die. After all, not everyone had Wang Sheng's outdoor survival experience.

Undeniably, these craftsmen were very skilled, and each of them was a versatile person who knew more than just one craft. In just three days, a thick and tall wooden wall firmly blocked the hundred-yard-wide entrance. During this period, they also used several ancient trees that had grown in this area for hundreds of years, making the wall strong enough even without using stone materials.

Now with the double protection of the city wall, mountain wall, and formation, the people inside were even safer. Several master craftsmen spent about ten days planning the layout of the entire camp.

As for Wang Sheng, he only provided a suggestion for neat, hotel-standard rooms inside the mountain walls, and then said nothing more. However, Wang Sheng's design of simple kitchens, bathrooms, and living areas amazed the master craftsmen. This design was simply tailor-made for these temporary residents and was adopted in its entirety.

Even the simple principles of toilets and sewers that Wang Sheng had mentioned were all accepted by the master craftsmen and directly used in the design of the mountain wall caves.

Of course, Wang Sheng proposed this design for his own benefit. Many people would definitely come here in the future. Everyone might not be familiar with each other, or even have feuds with each other. It was best for everyone to be separated, minding their own business.

Part of the open space was used to build public functional buildings, such as several restaurants with different flavors, taverns, and grocery stores selling clothing, food, housing, and transportation, as well as buying and selling weapons and elixirs. Of course, these were actually Yu Baozhai's businesses, just trying to broaden their channels.

These functional buildings allowed those who entered the camp not to worry about insufficient supplies or not enough provisions. As long as they brought enough gold coins, they could still enjoy the same treatment as in Worry-Free City. This alone was enough to tempt many people.

When the final plan was presented, Wang Sheng nodded, the Yu Baozhai's accompanying high-level shopkeeper nodded, and even the old Taoist rarely nodded. Originally, some others had different opinions, but when they saw the old Taoist nodding, their opinions immediately became highly unified, and they all passed, immediately entering into a vigorous construction.

The news that Song Hongde wanted to share the Song family's camp with all parties had not yet been transmitted. This was the Thousand Absolute Land, and any messenger birds were completely unreliable. The messenger birds that flew out were eaten by raptors before they could fly out of the Thousand Absolute Land, and those from the outside couldn't get in. Therefore, in essence, during the construction period, the news inside and outside was isolated.

However, even if he knew that the Song family was operating in this way, Wang Sheng was not afraid of competition. Song Hongde would definitely not open up the Song family's own camp, but would at most open up the disguised camp outside. Although he could have a little advantage in time, the Song family's camp still had fatal flaws compared to Wang Sheng's newly selected camp.

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Not to mention the living conditions and the convenience of various designs, not to mention not having to bring your own supplies or spend time and effort risking your life to hunt from the surrounding area, the new camp had an absolute advantage in terms of location.

Most importantly, the new camp was less than two hundred miles away from the core of the Thousand Absolute Land, and more than three hundred miles from the edge of the Thousand Absolute Land to the new camp. The Song family's camp was only about two hundred miles away from the edge of the Thousand Absolute Land. In other words, the new camp was more than one hundred miles closer to the core than the Song family's camp, which was an incomparable absolute advantage.