Chapter 834: 834
Half a month after accepting Emperor Haozun's appointment, Wu Qi and Princess Zhang Le returned to Dong Hai Province with a large number of subordinates .
Thanks to the rapid promotion of his title, in addition to Dong Hai Province, Wu Qi's immediate fiefdoms now included thirty nearby provinces which were taken over from Zhong Province and two other first-grade provinces . These provinces were the fiefdoms that he could pass down to his heirs . As long as he did not conspire to revolt and offered a certain amount of tribute to Liangzhu every once in a while, he and his descendants were free to do whatever they wanted on the land of these thirty provinces .
With a large number of administration officials, Lu Chengfeng began to take over the vast territory newly transferred into Wu Qi's name . Thirty provinces, thousands of counties, hundreds of thousands of cities, from Prefecture Overseers to County Governors, City Lords and administration officials of all grades, they all needed to be handled and arranged by him . If would be convenient if Wu Qi had thousands of children and grandchildren now . By just sprinkling his descendants across the thirty provinces, the basic administrative framework would be in place . In fact, this was also the most common means by which the powerful clans of Great Yu governed their territories .
The problem was that now Wu Qi and Princess Zhang Le had no descendants . They did not have enough people to run these provinces, so all the trouble was left to Lu Chengfeng . For the time being, it was a good idea to keep the existing officials in place, as long as Yan Bugui sent enough spies to keep an eye on them .
Wu Qi and Princess Zhang Le were too lazy to pay attention to these trifle affairs . They had focused only on Emperor Haozun's appointment .
Thirty-six revered elders from the Secret Palace had followed Wu Qi secretly to Dong Hai Province . Beneath Dong Hai City, in a huge cave dug out overnight using magic, they carefully produced an oddly shaped Supreme Tower .
The pyramid-shaped Supreme Tower was all dark and several miles high, with a huge circular hole dug in the middle . Dazzling light could be seen flickering inside the hole that ran through the pyramid, while a violent aura of space energy was constantly spreading out from it, making many soldiers and generals in the cave extremely nervous .
The cave, dug by magic at a depth of a thousand miles, was twenty thousand miles in diameter and eight hundred miles high . Standing in such an enormous cave, the Supreme Tower looked tiny . At the moment, following Wu Qi's instruction, tens of thousands of soldiers were carefully carving complex patterns on hard rocks around it . Thirty-six revered elders carefully examined the carved patterns, and then filled them with an alloy solution made by a mystic art .
After solidifying, the purple-glowing alloy solution turned deep black . As the revered elders worked tirelessly, a huge formation ten thousand miles in diameter, which looked like a black peony in full bloom, was gradually taking shape .
Thousands of energy crystals mined from beneath You Xiong Plain were sent into the air by magic . Suspended hundreds of miles above ground, these huge energy crystals were miles in diameter and contained enormous amounts of energy . All of them were carved into perfect spheres with complex runes on their surfaces .
The formation on the ground and the crystals suspended in the air formed a complete network of energy . When the last crystal was sent into the air, the cave began to fill with faint energy pulses that felt like the beatings of a heart, which made the soldiers and generals staggered as if they were drunk .
After that, 3,600 huge black stone pillars were erected . They were topped with green pillars of fire a hundred feet in diameter, which shot up to a height of a hundred miles, giving off an eerie green light that illuminated the whole cave . These pillars were used to suppress the energy pulses emanated from the formation and stabilize the surrounding void .
Wu Qi's divine sense swept through the round cave . Because of the 3,600 pillars, the surrounding void had become extremely stable . He roughly calculated and concluded that it should be able to withstand the full-force blow of an immortal who had just stepped into the realm of Primordial .
'These revered elders from the Secret Palace do have some fascinating techniques . ' Wu Qi was amazed as he looked at the thirty-six elders who were busy with their work .
After the pillars were erected, the revered elders performed a grand blood sacrifice under the Supreme Tower . Large numbers of livestock were slaughtered and blood was spilled all over the ground . Then, as the incantation murmured by the elders echoed across the cave, a blinding light burst from the hole in the middle of the pyramid . Immediately after that, viscous liquid energy turned into two monstrous water dragons and poured out of the hole with a terrible force, smashing into the rock walls thousands of miles away in an instant .
The huge cave began to tremble violently . Fortunately, the pillars had sealed off the void and made the rock walls immensely strong . Even so, Wu Qi saw that the void, which was strong enough to withstand a full-force blow from a ninth-tier Primordial expert, had cracked with numerous seams and was almost shattered by the two water dragons, which were purely made up of liquid energy .
The streams of liquid energy kept on pouring out of the holes . Soon the cave had turned into a sea of liquid energy, and its level was rising rapidly . In just a quarter of an hour, the cave was as full of liquefied natural energy as the huge spirit cave beneath You Xiong Plain, with extremely rich Pangu Sacred Energy surging back and forth restlessly like giant purple dragons .
This was the spatial corridor Emperor Haozun had ordered the revered elders of the Secret Palace to construct for Wu Qi . It connected this cave with the enormous spirit cave beneath You Xiong Plain, drawing endless natural energy there over here to help Wu Qi train his army .
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