329: The new Tianji City

Xiao Shi understood.

The significance and value of the heavenly secret box are extraordinary; it will be a crucial reliance for Tianji Hall to rise again on the Tianwu Continent.

Although Tianji Hall has now reappeared on the stage of the Tianwu Continent with Xiao Shi becoming the Hall Master of Tianji Hall, its strength and status are not what they once were.

The Tianji Hall of the past was a powerful force capable of challenging the Great Wu Dynasty and making even the Martial Emperor wary.

However, the current Tianji Hall is far from possessing such strength and status.

After all, the Tianji Hall is still incomplete at this time.

Only one of the four important zones has been opened.

Only by opening all four of these zones can Tianji Hall be considered complete.

And the heavenly secret box, as a unique item of Tianji Hall, its greatest appeal lies in the fact that anyone has the opportunity to open unexpected and powerful items from it.

The unknown is always the most attractive!

Especially since the heavenly secret box can even produce items that have been lost for a long time on the Tianwu Continent, which is truly terrifying!

Even if not every heavenly secret box is guaranteed to produce a good item, as long as there is such a chance, the heavenly secret box will possess immense value!

After all, many lost treasures, as well as Dao Lord Level, and even demigod-grade treasures, no longer have acquisition methods.

With the heavenly secret box having a chance to produce these items, even the three demigod-grade Heavenly Kings cannot ignore its importance!

Of course, opening the zone that forms the heavenly secret box is not Xiao Shi's only option.

He can also choose to open the zone that allows for regional traversal within Heavenly Secret City.

The opening of this zone is equally important.

Without opening this zone, members of Tianji Hall cannot perform regional traversal.

This means that members of Tianji Hall, such as Wu Muzhen in Star Luo Territory, can only stay in the Xingluo Zone within Heavenly Secret City; unless their real-world location changes, they cannot leave this region.

This restriction will greatly hinder the development of Tianji Hall.

The reason Tianji Hall was so powerful in the past was precisely because its members could traverse regions within Heavenly Secret City at any time, allowing them to communicate with each other regardless of the vast distances separating them.

However, without the ability to traverse regions, Tianji Hall would be like a scattered pile of sand, making it difficult for Xiao Shi to unite its members.

This made him clearly realize that if he wanted these members of Tianji Hall to work together and better develop Tianji Hall, it was necessary to first open this zone.

In addition, Xiao Shi could also choose to open the last zone.

However, he was completely unaware of the situation regarding this zone.

He could infer the general function of the other zones, but this particular zone had no information or intelligence whatsoever.

Xiao Shi fell into deep thought about this.

After a lengthy period of contemplation and weighing the pros and cons, Xiao Shi ultimately decided to first open the zone that allows for regional traversal.

He felt that the development of Tianji Hall should take precedence for now.

Although he is also a member of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect in addition to his identity as the Hall Master of Tianji Hall, his experiences in the Great Wu Dynasty this time made him thoroughly see through the Great Wu Crown Prince's character.

A monarch who only values his own power and disregards meritorious officials—what right does he have to demand his service?

The Great Wu Dynasty can only serve as Xiao Shi's temporary dwelling place.

He will not, like Chen Yuan, wholeheartedly assist the Great Wu Crown Prince and help the Great Wu Dynasty rise.

He is now more inclined to develop his own power, which is Tianji Hall!

And to develop Tianji Hall, regional traversal is the most crucial point.

Although the heavenly secret box can also promote the development of Tianji Hall, after much thought, Xiao Shi felt that he could open the heavenly secret box zone when he breaks through to the Saint Grade.

On the one hand, he believes that only by reaching the Saint Grade will he have the right to speak on the Tianwu Continent and the ability to negotiate with the lords, and even Heavenly Kings, of the Tianwu Continent.

Only then can he exchange benefits or engage in cooperation with these forces through the heavenly secret box.

On the other hand, Xiao Shi considered that currently, in terms of the Martial Soul Realm, he does not lack treasures and can continuously acquire Martial Soul Grade items by killing Martial Soul Realm sea beasts.

However, after reaching the Saint Grade, it becomes extremely difficult to kill Saint Grade beings.

It will not be so easy to acquire items through killing then.

Furthermore, the Myriad Treasure Pagoda only has four Saint Grade treasures.

At that time, he will most likely face a shortage of Saint Grade treasures.

The heavenly secret box happens to be a good way to acquire Saint Grade treasures.

Opening this zone at the Saint Grade stage is just right.

Thinking of this, Xiao Shi no longer hesitated.

He directly walked into the zone that allows for regional traversal.

With a thought, the heavens secret mask on his face immediately emitted a dark, gloomy black light, instantly brightening this dim zone, thus completing its opening.

Xiao Shi could clearly see that the moment this zone brightened, a phantom instantly appeared from within it.

This phantom was none other than a scaled-down Heavenly Secret City!

Within this scaled-down Heavenly Secret City, there were numerous lines dividing it into dozens of different regions.

These lines were now rapidly disappearing, causing these divided regions to gradually merge and become a single entity.

Not only that, as the various regions merged, buildings rose from the ground within Heavenly Secret City, making the formerly empty Heavenly Secret City suddenly become vibrant.

In an instant, all members of Tianji Hall, whether they were currently inside Heavenly Secret City or not, felt their souls tremble as if sensing something.

Immediately, everyone entered Heavenly Secret City through their heavens secret mask.

"This is..."

The moment these Tianji Hall members appeared inside Heavenly Secret City, everyone was dazed by the scene before them.

They found that the current Heavenly Secret City had undergone significant changes.

Tall buildings filled the entire Heavenly Secret City, making it completely new, as if a poor and backward small town had transformed into a bustling metropolis.

"Hall Master... he opened another zone!!"

Wu Muzhen's expression was excited.

Not long had passed since Xiao Shi last opened a zone, and he hadn't expected him to open another one so quickly.

And the opening of this zone allowed them to traverse regions within Heavenly Secret City, while also forming many buildings within Heavenly Secret City.

These buildings all have different functions and effects, which are very beneficial to these members of Tianji Hall.

Next, they can conduct various information transactions within Heavenly Secret City.

Whoosh!

As Wu Muzhen was still excited, his figure suddenly flashed, and he was directly teleported into a spacious hall.

The hall was vast, with many chairs, and on one of them sat a person shrouded in a large amount of light, whose figure and appearance were indistinct.

Wu Muzhen's body trembled, and he immediately bowed respectfully.

"Greetings, Hall Master!"

Xiao Shi nodded slightly, playing with a golden coin in his hand, and said, "I summoned you here this time to give you an important task."

"Please give your orders, Hall Master," Wu Muzhen said respectfully.

Ever since he started working for Xiao Shi, he has always done his best in every task Xiao Shi assigned him.

"Now that the Heavenly Secret City zone is open, I need to establish order and rules here, but I don't have that much time to manage it, so... I need a Proxy."

As Xiao Shi's words came out, Wu Muzhen's heart pounded wildly.

He clearly knew what this Proxy would mean!

His entire body trembled uncontrollably.

"I plan to have you serve as this Proxy. Do you have the confidence to fulfill the role?" Xiao Shi asked.

Wu Muzhen took a deep breath, an indescribable joy and excitement welling up in his heart.

At the same time, he felt overwhelmed by the honor.

Although from the moment he first encountered Xiao Shi, he knew that as long as he wholeheartedly worked for him, he would surely achieve good development with the Hall Master in the future, he never expected that the Hall Master would appoint him as a Proxy!

Once he became the Hall Master's Proxy, his status within Tianji Hall would be second only to the Hall Master!

At the same time, he would also possess some special and powerful authorities within Tianji Hall.

This was something Wu Muzhen had never dared to imagine.

Xiao Shi gazed at Wu Muzhen.

Although in terms of strength and cultivation, Wu Muzhen could only be considered average among the members of Tianji Hall, in the management of Tianji Hall, strength and cultivation did not hold much significance.

All Tianji Hall members had the same strength and cultivation within Heavenly Secret City.

Moreover, combat was forbidden within Tianji Hall.

It could be said that Wu Muzhen was the most suitable candidate.

After all, since Wu Muzhen started working for him, he had never disappointed him; he always did his best in every task.

Rather than finding a powerful Tianji Hall member to serve as a Proxy, it was better to find someone who was absolutely obedient, had accomplished many feats, and was trustworthy.

After taking a deep breath, Wu Muzhen excitedly responded, "Understood!!"

Xiao Shi nodded with satisfaction, tossing the golden coin he was playing with directly to Wu Muzhen.

This golden coin would be the symbol of the Heavenly Secret City Proxy, granting Wu Muzhen many of the Proxy's authorities.

At the same time, Xiao Shi began to generally inform Wu Muzhen of the order and rules he intended to establish within Heavenly Secret City.

First, he planned to use Heavenly Secret City to screen out a group of Tianji Hall members loyal to him.

Due to the special nature of the Tianji Hall organization, it was destined to be difficult for its members to completely submit to the leader of the force, unlike other forces.

As a free organization, and with Xiao Shi joining Tianji Hall later than any other member, he also lacked ruling-level strength.

When he became the Hall Master of Tianji Hall, he only had Blood Martial Realm strength; at that time, any Tianji Hall member could easily kill him.

This made it very difficult for him to gain the loyalty of these Tianji Hall members.

Many Tianji Hall members even harbored ulterior motives, wanting to discover his real-world identity, kill him, and take his place.

Therefore, Xiao Shi had always avoided contact with too many Tianji Hall members.

Now, with the improvement of his strength and cultivation, although he is still not the strongest in Tianji Hall, he already has sufficient self-preservation ability.

Coupled with the opening of this zone, Tianji Hall will officially usher in large-scale development.

Xiao Shi felt it was necessary to screen out a group of Tianji Hall members loyal to him.

He had no requirements regarding the number of these members.

The most important thing was that these people were sincere and had no ulterior motives.

This would require Wu Muzhen to conduct multiple tests.

In addition, Xiao Shi planned to use the buildings within Heavenly Secret City to develop Tianji Hall effectively.

These buildings all had different functions.

For example, the grand hall where Xiao Shi was currently located had the function of allowing Xiao Shi, as the Hall Master, to issue tasks within it.

Besides buildings that allowed the Hall Master to issue tasks and bounties, there were also buildings that allowed other Tianji Hall members to issue tasks and bounties.

At the same time, there were also buildings with various different functions such as providing transactions, teleportation, and setting up stalls.

Of course, these buildings all needed to be managed.

Currently, Xiao Shi entrusted Wu Muzhen, the Proxy, with this management.

Simply put, the current Heavenly Secret City was like a massive market.

All Tianji Hall members could exchange information here, issue tasks, and claim bounties, among other things.

Even treasures could be traded within Heavenly Secret City.

There were buildings within Heavenly Secret City specifically for item transactions.

However, for these Tianji Hall members, the items they could carry into Tianji Hall were often limited in quantity, allowing only small-scale item transactions.

This was also the meaning and value of opening this zone.

It wasn't just to allow these Heavenly Secret City members to traverse regions; even if they were far apart in reality, they could meet within Heavenly Secret City.

More importantly, it could unite these Tianji Hall members, no longer like scattered sand as before.

Xiao Shi felt that he could now issue a task within Tianji Hall to investigate which other zones on the Tianwu Continent could be refined.

However, on second thought, if he were to issue this task, many people would likely associate it with the current Hall Master of Tianji Hall possibly preparing for a Saint Grade breakthrough.

At that time, many people's attention would be focused on those in the Martial Demon Realm.

They would pay extra attention to anyone attempting to break through to the Saint Grade.

Once he became a Saint Grade, it would inevitably arouse suspicion.

After some thought, Xiao Shi realized that this task... could not be issued!

"It seems that even if I want to investigate which zones can be refined, I can only do so secretly, not openly," Xiao Shi thought to himself.

No matter what, he must hide his identity.

Even after reaching the Saint Grade, he would not publicly reveal his identity as the Hall Master of Tianji Hall.