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Chapter 55: You Only Regret Not Having Enough Money When You Need It
🕑 Added 2025-03-08 11:41:36 +0000 UTC“Well, the foundation is there.”
Ye Cheng looked at the area below him that he had turned into a vast plain, and began to think about another problem. “The next thing to consider is the manpower and material resources needed to build a city.”
There is no doubt that if you want to build a city of your own dreams, the resources and manpower required will be absolutely massive!
No matter how strong Ye Cheng is, he is just one person after all. He has no power behind him. If you ask him to destroy something, he is a good hand and can destroy several cities in a few minutes. But as for construction… that is absolutely impossible.
It's not about money. To be honest, he has too many ways to get money. The simplest way is to just take a soul bone and auction it. It can definitely be sold at a sky-high price that is more than enough to build a city!
The key Is how to use the money to hire workers, people who understand construction, and various aspects of urban planning… In short, if you want to build an ideal city, you need professionals.
Most of these professionals serve the royal family, or other noble clans and major forces. You can’t hire them just because you have money. It's too troublesome.
“How about making up a future video in which I rebuild ‘Baiyun City’? Using the relationship between this city and the character, I can make the city come to life?” He suddenly had an idea, but quickly gave up the plan.
Because there was no way to explain a city that suddenly appeared. And if you do this too often, it will inevitably leave flaws. People will definitely notice something is wrong.
No one is stupid.
Ye Cheng never dared to underestimate the wisdom of the people in this world. He would not think that he was superior to others. So it was better to avoid making up such things out of thin air.
“Do I have to ask for help from the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect?” He first thought of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, which was known as the richest sect, but quickly shook his head and rejected this plan.
Although judging from the current situation, if he asked the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect for help, his cheap father would definitely be more than happy to help him rebuild Baiyun City at all costs, just to ease the relationship with him and improve his favorability.
But is Ye Cheng such a person without principles?
Since he has no intention of returning to the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect, he will never accept the slightest favor from that sect. Otherwise, he would feel sorry for his mother who died without waiting for rescue.
As for why he recognized Ning Rongrong as his sister, it was mainly because he liked this character when he read the novel in his previous life. Therefore, he didn’t mind having such a cute and well-behaved sister.
However, Ning Rongrong is Ning Rongrong, and the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect is the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect. In his eyes, the two are separate. Accepting Ning Rongrong as his sister does not mean that he will return to the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect. These are two completely different things.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to ask for help from the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect and use the resources of the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect to build his own “home”. Ye Cheng cannot accept it emotionally!
Therefore, we have no choice but to choose other options.
He remembered that when Tang San founded the Tang Sect in the original novel, among the four major families, the Yu family seemed to be specialized in the construction industry. In addition, the other three families also had their own strengths.
The Po clan is good at medicine.
The Min clan is good at reconnaissance and is skilled in transmitting information.
The power clan is good at casting.
These four families have their own strengths, and the skills they possess are exactly the elements needed to build a city.
If he could conquer these four families, then he would pay the money and leave the rest to these four families. Rebuilding Baiyun City would be extremely simple because they were professionals in this area, much better than him, a layman.
To put it another way, even if he couldn’t take back these four families, he could just hire them directly, right? He remembered that these four families seemed to be in a tight financial situation, and they would definitely not refuse money. Especially for such a big business!
“Well, we have a plan. The next step is where to get the money.” Ye Cheng nodded and began to think.
Selling soul bones?
This is something he could consider, but the key point is that he only has a 100,000-year soul bone. And the value of this thing, to be honest, cannot be measured by money. No one would put such a treasure up for auction.
Although Ye Cheng has no shortage of spirit bones, he will not be foolish enough to auction off his 100,000-year spirit bones. He will be considered a fool.
Therefore, even if soul bones were to be auctioned, at most they would be some ten thousand year soul bones.
The key point is that he doesn’t have such a low-level thing as the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone on him now.
“Tsk, if I had known I would need soul bones, I would have found a random excuse to take a few soul bones from Tang Hao for emergency use.” Ye Cheng felt a little regretful as he realized he had too little money when he needed it.
“But it doesn’t seem too late now. How about I take a few pieces off his body now?” he thought.
At the same time, Tang Hao felt an inexplicable chill on his back. It felt like he was being stared at by an inexplicable terror!
“Forget it.”
Ye Cheng finally gave up this tempting plan. After all, he had let the person go, but now he suddenly ran up to beat him up and took away his soul bone. This was too fickle.
He still has to have some shame and not do such a thing.
“It seems that I can only wait until I have time to go to the Soul Beast Forest and ask those soul beasts to contribute a few soul bones.” Ye Cheng finally made a decision. Because for him, it was too easy to know whether a soul beast had soul bones.
When other people face a soul beast, they may not be sure whether the soul beast has soul bones, but he is different. Don’t forget, as the best among gem-type martial spirits, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower naturally has the function of appraising treasures! It can vaguely sense the value of a certain item. The Seven Treasures Glazed Sect has accumulated a lot of wealth by constantly picking up leaks.
Ye Cheng’s Nine Treasures Glazed Tower is naturally even more exaggerated as a product of cheating. Its treasure identification function can even directly know the specific situation and detailed information of the item.
For example, if he uses the treasure appraisal ability to lock on a certain soul beast, he will be able to know whether the soul beast has soul bones, what part of the soul bone it is, and what soul skills it has.
And it doesn’t stop there. His ability can also be used to identify soul guides. Some soul guides handed down from ancient times don’t know their functions. As long as he uses the appraisal, he can know what the soul guide is for and how to use it.
In addition, it can also be used to identify unknown herbs and easily know their medicinal properties…
There is no doubt that Ye Cheng set up this treasure appraisal function for his martial soul, mainly for the purpose of easily knowing the efficacy of these herbs when he went to the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire to collect immortal herbs in the future, so as not to be like Dugu Bo, who was blind and had nothing but treasures in his hands without knowing it.
Now I suddenly realize that this treasure identification function is also very useful in other aspects.
