Chapter 368 - 169: Eternal Night Calendar, Year 380, Early July

Chapter 368: Chapter 169: Eternal Night Calendar, Year 380, Early July

"Domain Lord Chen is a man of great vision!"

「Guanxi Plain.」

Inside the Slaughter Immortal Holy Land, the Saint Master had just received a reply from the Mortal Realm. The anxiety that had plagued him for the past seven days finally dissipated like a gentle breeze. Content, he unhurriedly brewed himself a pot of tea.

The Mortal Realm had accepted his apology.

With that, the conflict between them was resolved.

All past grievances were wiped clean.

"Heavenly and Earthly Treasures belong to the fated."

The Saint Master of the Slaughter Immortal Holy Land chuckled, picked up his teacup, and took a light sip. "Domain Lord Chen’s way of thinking is surprisingly in line with my own."

"Right," the Grand Elder of the Slaughter Immortal Holy Land said drily from the side. "You had the same idea when you were plotting to get that Snow Lotus left behind by the one on Jiangbei Nameless Mountain. But in the end, it fell into the Mortal Realm’s hands."

"He was more fated to have it than I was."

"You saw what happened seven days ago. I’m extremely wary of the Mortal Realm. If reconciliation is an option, it’s always the best choice."

"Extremely wary? You mean terrified."

"Obviously. Who wouldn’t be?"

The Saint Master shot the Grand Elder a look. "If you’re not afraid, I’ll give you my position. You can take the Slaughter Immortal Holy Land and go pick a fight to the death with the Mortal Realm right now."

"..."

The Grand Elder silently closed his mouth. He was wary on a scale of eleven out of ten—one point more than the Saint Master.

...

Having returned to the Mortal Realm, Chen Fan was exhausted after several days of rushing about and went to bed early, sleeping soundly until dawn.

「Until dawn the next day.」

Feeling refreshed, Chen Fan stood in his room after washing up. He looked at the calendar on the wall and stretched contentedly.

’There’s nothing left to worry about.’

’In this life, you don’t need a vast fortune to be happy. As long as your heart is unburdened, that’s happiness itself.’

「Eternal Night Calendar, Year 380, March 20.」

’It’s almost April.’

Chen Fan muttered to himself for a moment. He planned to finish laying all the High-speed Rail tracks and Signal Towers on the Guanxi Plain before the beginning of May. The Guanxi Plain was quite large, so the task would be rather laborious.

’I wonder how Shao Qiu’s exploration is going.’

When he walked up to the City Wall, Wang Kui began his report as usual. Currently, all reporting duties in the Mortal Realm fell to him.

"Domain Lord."

"Originally, the Mortal Realm’s Ghost Stone reserves were around 200 million, a fairly substantial amount. However, in the battle to destroy the Heaven-Hating Sect, we used 100 million Ghost Stones to build a hundred Flying Ships, leaving us with only about 100 million."

"However, in the past few days, a steady stream of Ghost Stones mined from the New Continent has been delivered, so the Mortal Realm’s Ghost Stone reserves have risen back to 140 million." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

"Mm."

Chen Fan gave a slight nod. Although the battle to destroy the Heaven-Hating Sect was costly, it was a necessary one. Besides, the hundred Flying Ships were still in the Mortal Realm’s possession; they weren’t single-use structures.

He stood on the City Wall of Cave No. 1.

His gaze traveled across the canyon, toward the faintly visible Jiangbei Defense Line guarding the Jiangbei Coastline beyond Nameless Mountain. The 170-kilometer-long defense line was now complete.

But—

This Jiangbei Defense Line was just an empty shell.

It consisted only of a wall, with no turrets or other logistical defensive structures. It had defensive capabilities, but no offensive power. A wall that couldn’t fight back would sooner or later be worn down to nothing by the Ghost Tide.

’I still need to save up another batch of Ghost Stones to fully equip the Jiangbei Defense Line.’

The Undersea Ghost Tide would make landfall in two and a half years.

They had to endure two more rainy seasons. When the rainy season after that arrived, the endless Ghost Tide would make landfall at Jiangbei, and a sky-blotting black fog would envelop the region.

If this landing of the Undersea Ghost Tide was a test, then two and a half years from now, the Mortal Realm would have to provide a satisfactory answer.

"Time to go."

After listening to Wang Kui’s report, Chen Fan set off on his journey with Hey Hey and two other Mortal Realm Members. For the foreseeable future, the Mortal Realm’s plan was to build the High-speed Rail and Signal Towers on the Guanxi Plain.

He would be leaving the Mortal Realm for a while.

Before leaving, he went to check on the more than one hundred Celestial Pillars at the Port. If the Celestial Pillars had been fully charged, he wouldn’t have needed to dispatch the Flying Ships to destroy the Heaven-Hating Sect; he could have simply activated the turrets.

Once these hundred-plus Celestial Pillars finished charging, they would become another of the Mortal Realm’s trump cards.

’This won’t do.’

Standing before the Celestial Pillars, Chen Fan felt for the Celestial Dao Stone in his pocket, feeling an itch of temptation.

He had acquired a Celestial Dao Stone a while back that could be used on a Max Level Building to grant it a Celestial Dao Blessing Effect, like the damage overflow on the Godslaying Cannon.

He hadn’t used it all this time, partly because he was reluctant to part with it and partly because he couldn’t decide which of the Mortal Realm’s current Max Level Buildings to use it on. But now he had to. If it turned out to be a growth-type Celestial Dao Blessing Effect, the longer he waited, the more he would lose out.

’But the Celestial Pillars aren’t an option.’

The Celestial Pillars wouldn’t be fully charged for another two and a half years. Even if he got a great Celestial Dao Blessing Effect, it would be equivalent to leaving the Celestial Dao Stone to take effect two and a half years later.

’The delay is too long.’

The Mortal Realm currently had 11 Max Level Buildings. Besides the Celestial Pillars, the remaining 10 were:

The Godslaying Cannon, Farmland, Earth Spike, Yunling Pavilion, Life Workshop, Soul-Devouring Sculpture, Suspended Basket, Bridge, Ghost Fire, and Anti-Aircraft Cannon.

The Godslaying Cannon had already used a Celestial Dao Stone, so it couldn’t take a second one.

Max Level Buildings like the Farmland, Earth Spike, and Bridge, which were basically just fillers, were obviously the lowest priority.

The Yunling Pavilion...

’No.’

In a large-scale battle against the Ghost Tide, the role Cultivators could play was minuscule.

Finally, he began to choose between the two remaining Max Level Buildings: the Ghost Fire and the Suspended Basket.