52: Chapter 52 Lintian City

"Holy Purification! Dispel all negative status effects!" Lin Tian's eyes flashed with brilliance, and he clapped his hands forcefully. "Excellent! This is exactly what I wanted!"

The corrosion from polluted monsters, the toxins of certain fiends, mental attacks, continuous elemental damage... these tricky problems that previously required consuming vast amounts of healing resources and could even lead to casualties now had a targeted, powerful solution! This wasn't just an improvement in healing; it was a major breakthrough at the tactical level!

"Not bad! Very good!" Lin Tian praised without reservation, then waved his hand. "Fuse all the remaining 300 holy lotus fruits!"

With Commander Lin Yu's successful experience, the remaining Fusion went smoothly.

Patches of holy white light lit up one after another in the priest formation, like three hundred white lotus flowers blooming in succession during the morning. When the light faded, a phalanx of three hundred Holy Healing Priests, their auras connected and their holy light faintly resonating, had remarkably formed!

Standing there, they were like an invisible barrier of purification and life for the entire army.

With this, the four main legions under Lin Tian's command had completely finished their integration and sublimation:

Lin Feng (Crimson Sun Divine General, Legendary High-grade) - Commanding 2,000 Heavy Armored Spearmen.

Lin Yin (Holy Envoy of the Profound Moon, Legendary Mid-grade) - Commanding 2,000 Moon Shadow Archers.

Lin Yan (Zhenyue Spirit General, Legendary High-grade) - Commanding 1,000 Mystic Rock Spirit Guards + 1,000 Rock Armor Soldiers.

Commander Lin Yu (Holy Healing Priest, Excellent High-grade) - Commanding 300 Holy Healing Priests.

A massive army of over six thousand people, with complete unit types, clear hierarchy, and infinite potential! More importantly, these weren't just numbers; they were a formidable force forged after experiencing baptism by blood and fire, infusion of resources, and core sublimation!

Afterward, he called Lin Yin and the others to bring out the fruits, vegetables, and beast meat obtained from yesterday's exchange and hunting. After finishing breakfast with all the soldiers, he ordered all the commanders to continue clearing and exploring in the directions from yesterday.

Watching as Lin Feng, Lin Yin, Lin Yan, and Commander Lin Yu each led their massive legions of over two thousand soldiers into the jungles in four directions like four torrents of steel, they began a new round of hunting and exploration.

Especially after instructing Lin Feng to keep an eye out for Minotaurs and try to obtain intelligence, Lin Tian's territory instantly went from bustling with noise to somewhat empty, leaving only the unfinished buildings.

"Alright, the brothers are out earning a living, so I, the head of the house, must get the house built properly!" Lin Tian stretched, his face showing no signs of slack, but rather filled with excitement to "do something big." He had long since planned the core task for this fifth day - building the city!

Qian Duoduo's efficiency was extremely high; the agreed-upon eighty thousand units of stone had already been stored in place via the system.

Lin Tian pulled up the [City Wall (Permanent)] blueprint, took a deep breath, and began precise planning. With the Lords Mansion and the core altar as the absolute center, he outlined a perfect circle with a diameter of 300 meters in his consciousness.

This area was sufficient to accommodate the existing main buildings and leave some space for future development. Lin Tian wanted to build it bigger, but his pockets were tight. For now, it was enough, and he would find a way to expand later!

"Build!" With a thought, he invested a massive amount of stone.

A miracle, or rather the magical rules of the Eternal Continent, manifested at this moment.

Following his mental command, the city wall didn't slowly extend from a single point; instead, along the planned circular path, like an image with the play button pressed, it "grew" from nothing, from bottom to top, synchronously!

Under an invisible force, the heavy stone automatically stacked, interlocked, and reinforced, emitting a low and reassuring rumble. One meter, ten meters, fifty meters... the sturdy wall rapidly rose and extended.

What surprised Lin Tian even more was that the pale golden protective barrier that had been shielding the territory actually expanded outward synchronously with the construction of the city wall, as if it had a life of its own! When the nearly one-thousand-meter-long circular city wall finally closed at the last point, forming a complete closed loop, the edge of the protective barrier clung seamlessly to the outer edge of the newly built city wall, as if plating this circle of newborn ramparts with a layer of eternal light!

"Wonderful!" Lin Tian clapped in admiration. "This protective barrier is quite intelligent; it knows to follow the 'property deed' boundary!"

He didn't seal the city wall completely. For traffic and tactical needs, Lin Tian left a five-meter-wide magnificent city gate passage in each of the four directions corresponding to the southeast, west, and north. Then, he built city gates at each of the four openings.

With a flash of light, four tall, heavy, intelligent city gates forged entirely from Refined Iron, with faint energy patterns flowing on their surfaces, rose from the ground. He gave the gate facing the Lords Mansion its own unique name, "Lin Tian City," while the others were named East Gate, West Gate, and North Gate respectively.

They could open and close instantly via commands authorized by Lin Tian, and their durability far exceeded that of ordinary city walls.

Along the wide stone stairs built on the inner side of the city wall, Lin Tian climbed to the top of the ten-meter-high wall. Beneath his feet was a solid wall five meters thick, built neatly and seamlessly, giving a sense of incomparable security.

"This stone was worth the cost!" He stomped his feet hard, feeling that solidity, and was very satisfied.

On both sides of the top of the city wall were parapets over half a person's height with shooting ports, and in the middle was a flat passage four meters wide, enough for soldiers to pass through quickly side-by-side or to deploy defensive equipment.

"Having just a wall isn't enough; it needs teeth!" Lin Tian began to patrol along the city wall.

He walked slowly, and every time he reached a strategic point with a wide view that could control an area, he stopped and built a City Defense Giant Crossbow.

These giant crossbows were massive in volume, needed to be fixed on special crossbow platforms, had complex structures, and the crossbow arms were comparable to an adult's waist in thickness.

After filling in 1,000 Spirit Crystals, the building's filling energy displayed 100%. Lin Tian couldn't help but be happy. "Expensive has its reasons. Just based on the functions of not needing manual operation, intelligent adjustment, and automatic shooting, it's worth the price."

He evenly deployed twenty City Defense Giant Crossbows, about one every forty to fifty meters, forming a crossfire coverage with no blind spots.

When he finished the full circle and stood on the city gate tower overlooking the inside and outside, his heart was filled with grand ambition. The ten-meter-high, grayish-white, towering city wall was like a sleeping stone dragon, tightly embracing the territory. The twenty ferocious giant crossbows were like spikes standing on the dragon's spine. The four intelligent city gates were the throat controlling entry and exit.

"Now, it finally looks a bit like a 'city'!" Lin Tian stood with his hands on his hips, filled with pride and satisfaction.

"Even if the protective barrier disappears after seven days, relying solely on this city wall and the giant crossbows, ordinary monsters and fierce beasts below Silver rank probably won't even be able to scratch the wall! Polluted monsters? If they come, they'll just be live targets for the giant crossbows!" He even felt a hint of anticipation for the upcoming challenges, wanting to see just how sturdy his "city" really was.

With a sense of great accomplishment, he went down from the city wall and began planning the expansion and upgrading of buildings like the Barracks and warehouses.