259: Flying Feather City

Three months later.

"Hmm~"

With a hum, the expansion of Red Pine City was completed, and an invisible barrier rose above the marketplace.

Palaces stretched endlessly with flying eaves and arched brackets. The foundation was made of white jade, and the city walls were made of black iron. The expanded Red Pine City was dozens of times larger than the original.

Red Pine City was no longer called Red Pine City. On the day of its completion, Yue Li officially renamed it Feiyu City, using the title of her Revered Master, Shen Yunshu, True Person Feiyu.

A third-tier grand formation was set up in Feiyu City. This formation was connected to the Red Pine Sect's grand formation, allowing them to support each other when necessary.

In the center of the city stood two tall buildings: one named Qing Feng Tower and the other named Guanghui Tower. They were shops under the names of Shen Yunshu of the Heavenly Sword Sect and Xiao Changfeng, respectively.

Although Feiyu City now belonged to Shen Yunshu, the Red Pine Sect also owned a portion of its assets, roughly equivalent to one-tenth, which was still several times larger than the original Red Pine City.

Strictly speaking, the former Red Pine City was a Mortal city; except for the inner city marketplace, most of the people living in the outer city were Mortals.

Things were different now. After the expansion was completed, the Mortals who used to live there had to continue moving further out.

Guanghui Tower.

Liu Xuan was accompanied by Xiao Ran, the newly emerged-from-seclusion Hu Lingzhao, and his recently favored Junior Sister Tian Yunzhi, as he inspected the opening situation.

"Husband, our Talisman supply from the Lin Family is quite good. However, our Medicinal Pill selection is rather limited, with only one or two types of high-tier Medicinal Pills. The Magical Artifact selection is also average; for now, we can only source them from other Sects. We only have some advantages when it comes to locally produced Spirit materials."

Xiao Ran stated factually: "Qing Feng Tower can transport goods from the Heavenly Sword Sect; we are far behind them in terms of high-end items."

"No matter!"

"There are very few Cultivators in the city right now. Most of them are from nearby counties or Golden Core Sects. Their cultivation is not high, and they cannot afford high-end items!"

Liu Xuan had never thought about competing with the Qing Feng Tower next door right now. It was better that they had different target customers.

The expansion of the city cost no less than a million Spirit Stones, and Shen Yunshu had also brought so many people from the Heavenly Sword Sect. It wouldn't be right if he snatched the main business.

Even if he wanted to snatch it, he had to take it slow; he couldn't just snatch it right away, could he...

Besides, it wasn't necessarily required to snatch it. Feiyu City belonged to Shen Yunshu. If he could win over Shen Yunshu, wouldn't he have everything?

"By the way!" Liu Xuan looked at Xiao Ran and asked, "How are those small shops in the city selling?"

Feiyu City was a large marketplace. In addition to the two tall buildings in the center, there were countless small shops, restaurants, brothels...

It was impossible for all these small shops to be managed by people sent by Shen Yunshu, so they had to be sold or rented out.

"More than half have already been sold. I estimate that just selling these shops will be enough to earn back the cost of building the city, and we can even make quite a bit more!"

Xiao Ran showed a hint of admiration, and a hint of envy.

"With the name of True Person Feiyu, everyone is very optimistic about Feiyu City. Not only are people from the Heavenly Sword Sect buying shops and setting up businesses, but people from the nearby Ice Pool Sect, Zizai Sect, and Duanjiang Sect have also come to open shops."

Liu Xuan nodded in satisfaction, "What about our shops? Are the Families in the Merchant Alliance willing to pay for them?"

Liu Xuan did not intend to sell the portion of shops belonging to Xiao Changfeng in the city to others, but instead intended for the Merchant Alliance to digest them internally.

However, it was not a giveaway, but selling them to his fathers-in-law at a normal price.

Xiao Ran glanced at Liu Xuan. She didn't understand how Liu Xuan convinced her grandfather to hand over such an important matter to him.

The Xiao Family didn't get much benefit from these shops themselves, as they were all sold by Liu Xuan to his fathers-in-law's Families in the Yongning Merchant Alliance.

Once the war started, Feiyu City was very likely to develop rapidly. By then, a single shop would be a cash cow, and the price would likely rise several times over.

This matter caused a lot of dissatisfaction within the Xiao Family. If it weren't for Xiao Changfeng forcibly suppressing it, someone might have already taken action against Liu Xuan.

"The various Families in the Merchant Alliance do not have that many Spirit Stones to buy shops, but I have already followed your instructions and sold them to them temporarily using an installment plan."

"Well done!"

Everything was developing smoothly, and Liu Xuan was exceptionally satisfied.

No longer concerned with these mundane matters, he took his women for a stroll in the city, and even went to the Qing Feng Tower next door to take a look, spending a large amount of Spirit Stones to buy gifts for his wives, Concubines, and children.

The items sold in Qing Feng Tower were all very high-end. Their target users were actually not the locals of the Red Pine Sect, but the Cultivators from the Beast Taming Sect who had not yet arrived.

Therefore, there were not many customers. Most of the people who came in were mainly there to watch the excitement and gain knowledge; very few actually paid money to buy things.

Liu Xuan was different. He had only been inside for a short while, and he had already bought tens of thousands of Spirit Stones worth of items, and by the looks of it, he had no intention of stopping.

"Who is this person? His cultivation is not high, yet he is so generous!" Several guests from outside Sects asked via voice transmission.

"Just arrived, right? You don't even recognize him?"

"Liu Xuan! The contemporary Great Master of the Red Pine Sect, possessing the special 'Stud Horse Spiritual Body', grandson-in-law of True Person Xiao, one person below ten thousand!"

"He is Liu Xuan? I have heard of him for a long time, and today I have finally seen the person himself!"

"Handsome as jade, extraordinary bearing, no wonder he can gain the favor of Foundation Establishment female Cultivators."

...

Some female Cultivators looked at Liu Xuan with full admiration. Not only was he handsome, but he also had high talent, status, background, and money... This was the best choice for a Dao Companion.

It was heard that Liu Xuan was extremely good to his Dao Companions, never stingy with Spirit Stones or resources, and was a famous good husband.

As for him having a few too many Dao Companions and being a bit unfaithful, these were all automatically ignored by them.

The capable work harder, the successful help the world; how could this be considered a shortcoming? At most, it could only be considered an overflow of love...

Unfortunately! The only thing that made them unhappy was that Liu Xuan's standards were getting higher and higher. Many people who offered themselves could only be maids serving others, and couldn't even manage to become a Concubine.

However, they looked at Xiao Ran, Hu Lingzhao, and Tian Yunzhi by Liu Xuan's side, and then thought about the few Concubines of Liu Xuan they had seen in the city earlier, and their hearts were balanced.

Their talent and beauty were far inferior to others; who could they blame?

The male Cultivators' gazes at Liu Xuan were more complicated, with envy, jealousy, hatred, and disdain...

'Relying on women to start his career, he is just borrowing True Person Xiao's name to throw his weight around, a piece of trash!'

'Possessing such an Opportunity, yet not diligently cultivating, indulging in romance every day, his future achievements will be limited after all.'

'Seemingly glorious, but in reality, everything is in the hands of others. With one word from True Person Xiao, everything he has now will disappear. It is just a moon in the water, a flower in the mirror!'

"Parvenus are just this stupid! If such a good spiritual talent had been given to me, I would have already been a Foundation Establishment Ancestor!"

Everyone had countless thoughts in their minds, but what they revealed in front of Liu Xuan was a respectful attitude.

Especially when looking at the two Foundation Establishment Cultivators, Xiao Ran and Hu Lingzhao, everyone didn't even dare to look directly at them.