Although the amount of information after the analysis was still huge, Luo Xiu reported it selectively to Supreme Hao Yue. At the same time, this information also brought unexpected gains to Luo Xiu. He had a clearer understanding of the overall situation of this world.
For Luo Xiu, the relationships between the major forces were tangled and complicated. Although it was not enough to make his scalp tingle, he still felt that it was somewhat inconceivable. However, with the strong rise of the Dragon and Tiger Sect, everything had changed.
Compared to three years ago, the current Hao Yue City was even more prosperous. Moreover, due to Luo Xiu's wise leadership, the current Hao Yue City could be said to have become the largest trading hub in the entire Southwest Region. It was to the extent that the City Lord's Mansion could extract over a million Top Grade Spiritual Stones every day.
Under such a prosperous scene, the defensive power of Hao Yue City also became more and more powerful. As the concentration of Evil Blood Qi in the endless abyss below Hao Yue City increased, the concentration of the essence of the world in Hao Yue City also increased.
What made Luo Xiu even more ecstatic was that he found a lot of heavenly materials and earthly treasures that could help him improve his cultivation. Moreover, they were all purchased at a very low price from various shops in the city. The Secret Blood Refining Technique also provided him with a lot of convenience.
Although most of the secret techniques had completely lost their power because of the new world, the Secret Blood Refining Technique showed its function that made people go wild with joy. Previously, the cultivation speed had slowed down because the Lunar Sutra could not provide more energy for the Innate Hong Meng Qi. As a result, the Innate Hong Meng Qi returned to its former lazy state, like a kitten that was too lazy to move after eating.
Now, because of the Blood Refinement Secret Art, Luo Xiu's speed of devouring natural treasures had increased, causing the Primal Chaos Purple Energy to become active as well.
In this period of time, Supreme Hao Yue also revealed his extremely terrifying strength. The situation wasn't always calm and peaceful. Now, Hao Yue City was also facing some threats. From time to time, some devil path experts would come to the city to cause trouble. While disrupting the order of transactions, they also made Luo Xiu helpless. At this time, Supreme Hao Yue had to personally take action. Moreover, Luo Xiu also obtained huge benefits from this. Not to mention, the souls of the devil path experts who were beheaded by Supreme Hao Yue were all given to Luo Xiu.
Of course, Luo Xiu would not use such a vicious method to ravage these people's primordial spirits. However, after completely purifying these people's primordial spirits and using them to cultivate the Lunar Scripture, it was something he liked to do.
Most importantly, Luo Xiu noticed a shocking secret, and it was that after the Natural Primordial Violet Energy in his mind devoured a sufficient amount of Soul Core Energy, it actually underwent a strange transformation.
For the time being, he didn't know whether this change was good or bad. However, Luo Xiu was sure that although his current strength wasn't necessarily very strong, his survivability had greatly increased. Luo Xiu had tried it before. He could persist for about half an hour in Supreme Hao Yue's Immortal-slaying Sword Formation. Such a strong survivability also made Supreme Hao Yue completely let loose.
Nowadays, Supreme Hao Yue rarely appeared in the City Lord's Mansion. He was speeding up his closed-door training to refine the Heavenly Demon Doppelganger. Although Luo Xiu gave him the doppelganger before, Luo Xiu didn't refine it in an ordinary way. As a direct result, refining the Heavenly Demon Doppelganger became very difficult.
During this time, Supreme Hao Yue hardly went out. Refining the Heavenly Demon Doppelganger consumed most of his energy. During this time, Luo Xiu unified all the armed forces of the entire Hao Yue City under his command. He discovered that Hao Yue City was richer than he had imagined. An army of tens of thousands of cultivators was equipped with standard Dao Tools. A large portion of them were even proficient in Spirit Secret Techniques. Moreover, the formations they practiced were extremely suitable for large-scale battles.
Luo Xiu saw something different. What made Luo Xiu feel even more inconceivable was that Luo Xiu discovered that Hao Yue City actually had an incomparably huge treasury. Even when True Monarch Hao Yue and Luo Xiu were plundering the place, Luo Xiu didn't get any information about this treasury from True Monarch Hao Yue.
Only after this matter was over did he find out everything from the mouth of True Monarch Hao Yue. Everything in the treasury made him feel so shocked. Even Luo Xiu saw a lot of things that were helpful to the system in his mind. He didn't hesitate to pack up everything that he could use and take it away.
At the same time, the storm that Luo Xiu had been waiting for didn't come as expected. Life in Hao Yue City also returned to normal. Luo Xiu wasn't a person who was content with peace. Although his current life was what he had yearned for, he still couldn't adapt to it after truly integrating into this world. He had experienced many planes of different sizes in the Myriad Heavens, but he had never found a safe place to stay. Now that he was in Hao Yue City, Supreme Hao Yue gave him an unprecedented feeling of experience, which made Luo Xiu somewhat understand why it was easy for people to be intoxicated by mountains and rivers.
With regards to Hao Yue City, the current Luo Xiu could already be said to be able to handle it with ease. He had a unique advantage in handling the affairs of Hao Yue City. He managed the entire Hao Yue City in an orderly manner, and even made it into an intelligent city management system with the help of the system. For example, when entering the city, before registering, they would use the method of Soul Jade Slips to register. However, many times, it was a taboo for many cultivators of unknown origins.
Luo Xiu used the method of iris recognition to sample every cultivator that entered the city. The newly developed aura collection by the auxiliary system greatly increased the sense of superiority of the people of Hao Yue City. At the same time, because of this novel experience, it also attracted many cultivators who came because of its reputation. This was a place that Luo Xiu had tried his best to facilitate. Many of the methods that seemed inexplicable to everyone had obtained unexpected gains.
Again and again, his orders were quickly and thoroughly carried out. From the initial resistance to unconditional obedience, Luo Xiu only spent more than five years to make Hao Yue City soar. Today, not only did the number of top experts in Hao Yue City soar, but also because of Luo Xiu's special response, the whole city was now full of vitality.
The most unfathomable thing was that Luo Xiu's many insignificant government decrees made Hao Yue City completely different. Not to mention other things, just the circulation of cultivators alone made Hao Yue City no longer the same as before. Many cultivators, especially those rogue cultivators, rushed to settle down in Hao Yue City. This made True Monarch Hao Yue, who had just come out of seclusion, feel incomparably shocked. Luo Xiu's method of strategizing and managing the city had truly made Hao Yue City, which was originally like a plate of loose sand, into a rope.
Following the display of Hao Yue Supreme's valiant strength, many of the former hostile forces had completely stopped looking down on Hao Yue City. In addition, Hao Yue City had recruited many powerful loose practitioners, causing the overall strength of the city to rapidly increase within a month.
Of course, the entire Hao Yue City couldn't be said to be united. However, in order to protect Hao Yue City, Luo Xiu believed that as long as the people of the Dragon and Tiger sect dared to come looking for trouble, what awaited the Dragon and Tiger sect would definitely be a thunderous retaliation.
Even if they couldn't contend against the Dragon and Tiger sect on the battlefield, the loose practitioners whose homes had been destroyed were all desperadoes. They didn't mind stabbing the Dragon and Tiger sect in the back. It should be because of this potential threat that the Dragon and Tiger sect had become especially cautious. The long-awaited revenge didn't come, and the development of Hao Yue City became more and more unfathomable.
Now that Hao Yue Supreme had completely hidden himself behind the scenes, the affairs of the city were all handled by Luo Xiu. Under his rule, Hao Yue City had undergone earth-shattering changes. Hao Yue City had gone from a dilapidated state to suddenly brimming with vitality overnight. Coupled with the extremely dense Yuan Qi of Heaven and Earth in Hao Yue City, even the cave dwelling rental business in Hao Yue City was flourishing with each passing day.
More importantly, due to the stable situation in Hao Yue City, the rent of the shops in Hao Yue City had skyrocketed. Even the price of ordinary residential houses had risen along with the tide. What was even more unfathomable was that Luo Xiu had uniformly adopted a method of renting all the shops in Hao Yue City. It was completely a method of harvesting leeks. Furthermore, he had taken the initiative to reduce the tax on those transactions by ten percent.
These various measures further protected the interests of the traders. At the same time, it also attracted a large number of people. Due to the distrust between the two parties, many of them chose to carry out their transactions in Hao Yue City. This was because Luo Xiu had once said in public that if anyone was not at ease, or even felt that their transactions would not be protected, they could go to the City Lord's Mansion to seek protection from the City Lord's Mansion.
In the past ten years, Luo Xiu had taken action many times, getting rid of those who did not keep their promises. Moreover, this was done by his orders. He himself had taken action twice. Although the deterrence effect was not strong, it made all those who had some thoughts about Luo Xiu withdraw their underestimation of him.
In the past ten years, Hao Yue City had become more and more prosperous. This made the Goshawk Sect, the Cangsong Sect, the Heavenly Eagle Sect, and the Guangcheng Mountain around Hao Yue City more or less have some different ideas. However, the three sects did not dare act rashly due to the terrifying cultivation of Hao Yue Supreme.
More importantly, under Luo Xiu's continuous attacks, the methods he used to win them over were different. For the Guangcheng Mountain and the Heavenly Eagle Sect, Luo Xiu directly used the method of winning them over, but for the Goshawk Sect and the Cangsong Sect, he used a suppressive stance. Over the years, Luo Xiu had united the majority of his forces to suppress the individual troublemakers.
On this day, Luo Xiu, who was dealing with miscellaneous matters, suddenly received a soul transmission from Hao Yue Supreme. Luo Xiu did not dare to be negligent. He hurriedly took a few steps forward and arrived in front of Hao Yue Supreme's secluded dwelling. This was in the middle of the formations in the underground palace. Hao Yue Supreme was still refining the Celestial Demon Doppelganger. Although more than ten years had passed, he had only barely managed to refine the doppelganger.
It was simply unrealistic to say how much power it could display. Therefore, he had been in secluded cultivation all this time, releasing a false signal to the outside world in an attempt to paralyze the enemy. Through this method, he could even lure the enemies hiding in the dark to take the bait.
"Martial uncle, what do you want from me? You have been in secluded cultivation all these years, and some people have already suspected something. Please wait patiently for a while, and we will be able to identify all the people who are hostile to us in the dark. In this way, we can turn from passivity to initiative. Taking the initiative to attack won't be a problem. After all, with the strength we have now, we absolutely don't have to worry about any forces daring to harm us!"
Seeing Hao Yue Supreme like this, it was very clear that the old guy wanted to come out of seclusion. This made Luo Xiu somewhat nervous. He had managed to appease Hao Yue Supreme with great difficulty, and he had also established his prestige in Hao Yue City. At this critical moment, which was related to life and death, Luo Xiu didn't want Hao Yue Supreme to go out and cause trouble for him. He didn't want to see Hao Yue Supreme go out and cause trouble for him.
Of course, Luo Xiu did not want to make Hao Yue Supreme a mere figurehead. He was fully aware that a large force couldn't have two voices. From Hao Yue Supreme's attitude towards Hao Yue City, it was not difficult to see that the old guy had been managing the entire city in a laissez-faire manner.
Although this kind of management was somewhat inappropriate, it couldn't be said to be effective. However, Luo Xiu had changed his way of managing Hao Yue City. At this time, if Hao Yue Supreme went out to cause trouble for him, then the order that had been established with great difficulty would be affected.
At that time, the subordinates would have different opinions about who they should listen to and who they shouldn't. They might even split into two factions, which would slow down the handling of some matters. As a result, the subordinates wouldn't know what to do.
If we don't think of a way to reinforce it or find some other way to deal with it, the seal can only hold on for another three to five years before the Demon Race will break through from the inside. At that time, we won't be able to withstand the pressure of the Demon Race's army. That's why I called you over to ask if you have any good ideas. It would be best if we could completely solve this problem, but this old man doesn't have the cultivation of the Dragon Tiger Celestial Venerable, so it would be very difficult for me to do that. Even if I have a very good friendship with some of the experts in the three palaces, they wouldn't risk their lives to help this old man. Therefore, I was thinking whether we should reveal what is about to happen here and test the reaction of the three palaces and six sects so that we can come up with a corresponding countermeasure as soon as possible. Otherwise, if we are really led by the nose by the Demon Race, not only will we be in a passive position, but we may also be caught unprepared! "Supreme Hao Yue pointed at his feet with a solemn expression and said in a serious tone," This old man wants to see if you have any good ideas. It would be best if we could completely solve this problem, but this old man doesn't have the cultivation of the Dragon Tiger Celestial Venerable, so it would be very difficult for me to do that. Even if I have a very good friendship with some of the experts in the three palaces, they wouldn't risk their lives to help this old man. Therefore, I was thinking whether we should reveal what is about to happen here and test the reaction of the three palaces and six sects so that we can come up with a corresponding countermeasure as soon as possible. Otherwise, if we are really led by the nose by the Demon Race, not only will we be very passive, we may also be caught unprepared! "