What gave Feng Chou an even bigger headache was that Qiankun Pagoda also came over after hearing Natasha's description.
Qiankun Pagoda told Feng Chou that the Steel Soul Sect's cultivation method described by Natasha was similar to an ancient Buddhist sect called the Ascetic Sect.
Buddhism was a sect that paid the most attention to the Dao Heart, which was the so-called "Zen Heart".
The most powerful Zen Sect of Buddhism was a sect that only focused on the Zen Heart. As long as your Zen Heart reached a certain level, you could achieve enlightenment and become a Buddha.
Achieving enlightenment and becoming a Buddha seemed like cheating. Other people's thousand years of hard work couldn't compare to your enlightenment. But in fact, achieving enlightenment was more difficult than thousand years of hard work.
In order to achieve instant enlightenment, the prerequisite was that one's Zen Mind had reached the level of Buddhahood. That Zen Mind, which was also the quality of one's soul, must have reached the level of indestructibility. If one could cultivate one's soul to this level, then Buddhahood was nothing at all.
If the soul wasn't strong enough to pursue Buddhahood, the only outcome would be to be torn to pieces by the world's law.
In this world, only the Zen Bhadanta could achieve Buddhahood, and it wasn't without reason.
The Buddhist Zen Sect's Heart Cultivation Method was extremely mysterious. It was difficult for outsiders to see through it. Not to mention him, even the Ascetic Practice Sect, which was about to be eliminated by Buddhism, had a Heart Cultivation Method that was far stronger than the Dao Sect.
Because Taoism focused on Heart Cultivation, they only thought that Heart Cultivation was an indispensable part of cultivation. Buddhism's cultivation only focused on Heart Cultivation, thinking that the body was just a stinky bag. Naturally, the two couldn't be mentioned in the same breath.
The Steel Soul Sect's Heart Cultivation Method was similar to the Ascetic Sect of Buddhism, so the effect wouldn't be bad.
Qiankun Pagoda quickly formulated a cultivation plan for him.
He suggested that Feng Chou cultivate in the Heaven and Earth Pagoda. No matter if it was cold wind, scorching heat, hot water, or poisonous bees, it wouldn't be a problem. Moreover, he could strictly control the temperature, wind, and the stinging frequency of the poisonous bees. It would definitely allow the cultivation to reach the maximum effect without any danger.
With regards to Qiankun Pagoda's enthusiasm, Feng Chou also had a headache. Wasn't he looking for trouble?
In the end, Feng Chou compromised. Firstly, he was very interested in the powerful Steel Soul Style martial arts. Secondly, Qiankun Pagoda, who was extremely persistent about restoring the Cultivation Method, was so noisy that his head was about to explode.
This time, Feng Chou did not activate Time Acceleration. The construction of the new territory would take at least two years. Moreover, Qiankun Pagoda did not have much Soul Power left.
Because of his experience with the Burning Body Meditation technique, Feng Chou was able to get into the right state of mind very quickly after practicing the normal version of Hedgar's Painful Meditation technique.
The Qiankun Pagoda realized that it was just as Natasha had said. When Feng Chou was surrounded by poisonous bees, it was the hardest for him to enter a meditative state. Therefore, the effect of cultivation was also the best. Very soon, he created a batch of poisonous bees for Feng Chou in the illusion. These poisonous bees were not very poisonous, but the pain caused by their sting was extraordinary …
A week later, Feng Chou came to Kroger Construction Company again and met with Abner, the architect who had received him before.
The architect took out a design drawing that covered the table and a thick design manual.
Feng Chou opened the design drawing and looked at it carefully.
This design drawing refined a part of Feng Chou's design sketch and changed another part of his design.
For example, the simple castle diagram in Feng Chou's sketch was changed into a beautiful villa castle.
It was similar to Chapman Castle. The defensive function of this castle was completely given to the tall and thick outer wall. As the main body of the castle, it was a concave palace-like building.
The palace adopted a Barlow -style dome design and a Rococo style exterior decoration. The color of the whole building was mainly blue and white.
Feng Chou did not appreciate the complicated and luxurious style of the Rococo style decoration. At the same time, in order to save money, he proposed to simplify the interior and exterior decoration of the palace building and use a simple Barlow -style decoration.
Abner immediately recorded Feng Chou's request.
The palace was located in the north and facing the south, with the back against the mountain peak and facing the gentle and wide south slope. It was surrounded by a neat garden. Within 200 meters of the castle wall, all the tall trees were cleared. The hillsides further away were all planted with olive trees. This was Feng Chou's original design requirement. Olive trees were quite good cash crops.
Different from Feng Chou's original design, the original large farmland at the foot of the south slope became a large pasture.
The reason was simple. When the irrigation design was changed, the higher terrain at the foot of the hill could no longer be irrigated. Changing it into pasture was the best way to use it.
At the foot of the west slope of the mountain was the territory's commercial town. The town was built according to the terrain. It was about 700 to 800 meters wide from east to west and more than 1.5 kilometers from north to south. On the west side of the town, there was a somewhat luxurious port by the river bank. The size of the port was also specially requested by Feng Chou.
The farmland began to appear two kilometers away from the foot of the south slope of the mountain and extended to more than 10 kilometers away.
A man-made river was introduced from the east of the territory, upstream of the river.
This man-made river entered from the root of the bay where the territory was located. It meandered through the territory like a snake and returned to the river in the west of the territory.
The entrance of the man-made river was not directly facing the river. Instead, it was slightly downstream of the river. This way, even if there was a flood, the entrance would not be directly affected by the flood.
The designer designed three sluice gates near the entrance of the canal to prevent the flood from flowing in.
Due to the height of the terrain, not all of the farmland could be irrigated by the man-made river. Some of the higher elevations were higher than the level of the man-made river and could not be irrigated, so they were designed as olive groves or vineyards.
The largest piece of land on the south bank of the man-made river that could not be irrigated was designed as a walled village. It was the agricultural center of the territory.
According to the usual practice, pasture and olive groves that were directly used for grazing and not harvesting were not considered farmland. Therefore, the designer created a total of 70,000 acres of irrigated farmland on both sides of the man-made river, which far exceeded Feng Chou's expectations.
After looking at the design, Feng Chou expressed his satisfaction without holding back.
Abner smiled. "This is all thanks to your map. If it weren't for the detailed elevation data on the map, I wouldn't have been able to draw such a detailed plan."
Feng Chou flipped to the last page of the design description and saw that the total price of the project was 4.2 million crowns.
The construction period was shorter than expected. It would only take a year and a half.
Feng Chou did not find it strange that the construction period was so short. With the help of large-scale construction, it was not strange that the construction period was shortened. However, he still could not help but sigh. The development of a territory that involved a castle, two towns, a dozen villages and hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland only took a year and a half in this non-industrial era. Without the help of magic, it would be unimaginable.
Feng Chou put down the proposal and took out a small cloth bag from his bag. "I don't have that much cash right now, so I hope to pay with these gems."
He pointed at the bag and said, "You are a magus. I think you might be interested in the gems inside."