Cultivation : I'm an Ancient Giant Bear-Chapter 418 - 396: Show of Force

The new Chief can dismiss the significance of the Dragon Head City branch because they have been parachuted in and have backing.

Although Wang Wu now also has backing, Master Hui is essentially investing, allowing for free growth.

If the situation deteriorates, Dragon Head City could be his stronghold, his home, where he must at least bide his time and cultivate for eight hundred years until reaching Tier Nine Earth Immortal.

Therefore, there must be no perfunctoriness or negligence; building Dragon Head City is more important than his cultivation.

So, where to start?

Hmm?

"Since you are the Deputy Chief of the Dragon Head City Hidden Origin Association branch, Second-Grade Steward Yue Muren formally resigns, taking with him five hundred Hidden Origin Association stewards under his command, with the relevant handover process being legal and compliant, please approve."

"Second-Grade Steward Fan Youhao formally resigns, taking with him three hundred Hidden Origin Association stewards under his command, with the relevant handover process being legal and compliant, please approve."

"Second-Grade Steward Liu Zhengyi formally resigns, taking with him six hundred Hidden Origin Association stewards under his command, with the relevant handover process being legal and compliant, please approve."

——

Damn, they’re throwing in the towel, giving a show of force!

"So, these three are all under Song Guangming’s command. Tsk tsk tsk, they truly act as one unified group, the Four Heroes of the Dragon Head!"

Wang Wu sighed with emotion. Look, look at these names: Guangming (Light), Zhengyi (Justice), Muren (Good Neighbor), Youhao (Friendliness), completely positive energy.

Yet they don’t do any proper work.

Approval! Approved!

Wang Wu was also lazy to put in too much effort, grabbing the three documents from the void, slapping on the small stamps with a "pop pop pop," thinking don’t assume without you, this Dragon Head City can’t function.

Hmm?

"It seems that panic rumors are appearing in Dragon Head City, with many low-level Hidden Origin Association stewards already leaving. The current total number of stewards in the Hidden Origin Association branch is less than three hundred, warning, insufficient mid and low-level stewards will affect the operation of the Hidden Origin Association, without the protection of cultivators, mortals simply cannot survive in this place."

"Warning, the aftermath left by the two Taiyi True Immortals’ battle outside the city is turning into a Spiritual Essence Storm, generating secondary disasters at a rate of twenty times per second, including lightning storms, hurricanes, frosts, flames, toxic smoke, earthquakes, meteorites, etc., please disperse or collect this Spiritual Essence Storm as soon as possible."

"Warning! Over ten million mortals in Dragon Head City have been hiding in the city for several days, food is running low, and over time, panic will spread, causing a significant decline in the Five Qi of the Human World."

Uh-oh, some trouble there!

Wang Wu immediately looked outside, the disturbances created by the two Taiyi True Immortals were indeed extraordinary, though it seemed they had only battled a few rounds, in reality, within a range of ten thousand miles around Dragon Head City, there was no mountain left, all turned into a large basin, only Dragon Head City stood solitary, like a giant stone tower standing here, rising over a hundred meters from the ground.

Nonetheless, this was not the end, the aftermath has all turned into a Spiritual Essence Storm, crazily churning and changing, going up and down, frolicking back and forth.

In this state, wanting mortals to survive?

How to explain to the mortals?

Perhaps no explanation is needed, but at least provide an environment for normal living, right?

If someone is secretly causing trouble, this Dragon Head City branch might even have to relocate.

That would be disgraceful, and would also prove that Song Guangming had foresight...

No time to care about other things, first solve the Spiritual Essence Storm.

Wang Wu directly arrived at the center of the Spiritual Essence Storm, activating Level 18 Spirit Essence, after examining it, he immediately felt quite tricky.

First, the total quantity of this Spiritual Essence Storm is quite huge, approximately on the scale of ten billion points of Spiritual Qi, this is manageable, but the key is these spiritual energies all underwent several mutations due to the very high level of battle.

Moreover, most of them are reverse mixed mutations.

Normally, a mass of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, after cultivation, transforms into Red Flame Spiritual Qi, Ice Spiritual Qi, Cyan Wood Spiritual Qi, etc., this is forward mutation, which is stable, controllable, positive mutation.

But just like a person can turn into a good person, or can turn into a wicked, fallen demon.

Spiritual Qi also has the ability to degenerate into Demonic Qi.

Hmm, the reason is just that simple, not too complicated, not too mysterious, and no ancient legends, eerie myths, repressed sealed demons...

So now, this mass of ten billion point scale Spiritual Essence Storm, is practically on the brink of degenerating into Demonic Qi.

Wang Wu could no longer use Level 18 Spiritual Talent to absorb them, otherwise, he would be in trouble himself.

Qigong Deviation is not a myth.

"Eh?"

Wang Wu suddenly had a thought, shooting straight up, and the next second he saw a strange Spirit Talisman falling, only to be torn apart by the Spiritual Essence Storm.

Not good!

Someone is muddying the waters!

Because that spirit talisman is clearly one that stores and seals compressed Spiritual Qi, and a single one seals ten million points of Spiritual Qi.

Boom!

The Spiritual Essence Storm obviously became more violent.

"Who dares to cause trouble at my Hidden Origin Association!"

Wang Wu shouted loudly, and before he could lock on, an old man in black appeared miles away from Dragon Head City, squinting and grimacing while shouting and running, and quickly threw out three Sealing Talismans.

"Yo yo yo! I’m so scared, isn’t your Hidden Origin Association permanently neutral? I’m just passing by, do you want to rob me too? Help, the Hidden Origin Association is trying to rob me!"

Wang Wu frowned and watched, with a shadow growing in his heart.

Because the Hidden Origin Association is permanently neutral, this old man hadn’t attacked Dragon Head City; he just threw three talismans.

"Oh dear, are you the Chief of the Dragon Head City branch of the Hidden Origin Association? Help, I just lost three talismans. Can I commission your Hidden Origin Association to help me find them? Isn’t this the kind of thing your association does? How can you refuse business that comes knocking on your door?"

The old man squinted and grimaced again, swaggering into Dragon Head City and even spent a fortune to post a Hidden Element Task.

Deliberately, oh, so you’re calling yourself King of Xijiang!

Wang Wu looked at the information instantly appearing on the jade talisman, then glanced at the old man, surprised. After several years, this old thing still hasn’t leapt over the Dragon Gate or obtained that drop of True Dragon Ancient Blood?

You really are too weak.

Wang Wu thought oddly, then looked at the Spiritual Essence Storm, which had skyrocketed to 1.2 billion points of Spiritual Qi in such a short time. Some of the Spiritual Qi had already degenerated into Demonic Qi due to excessive chaotic collisions, leaving only a final effort before it would completely transform into a Demonic Qi storm.

"1.458 billion!"

This number flashed through Wang Wu’s mind, and unsurprisingly, from other directions, several figures appeared. More or less, they collectively pushed this massive Spiritual Essence Storm into the abyss of Demonic Qi.

Then, they laughed and joked, ran into Dragon Head City to have a drink, chat, and post a few tasks, claiming it was to support the event.

But the storm mass that degenerated into Demonic Qi is not only difficult to collect but also hard to subdue. Even if it were suppressed, it would take a long time to degrade, decompose, purify, and convert it back to usable Spiritual Qi, requiring significant expense.

Worse, this Demonic Qi is more sensitive to living beings’ breaths. Now, with millions of mortals guarding Dragon Head City, this Demonic Qi won’t wander off elsewhere but will always revolve around Dragon Head City, day and night, howling.

In this round, Wang Wu lost; the other side won beautifully.

So he didn’t try to absorb or disperse this Demonic Qi anymore; it was meaningless. This Demonic Qi, once formed, is like sticky candy, can’t be shaken off or thrown away. It’s like the ghost of Dragon Head City, circling outside of it, and without 300,000 years, it won’t degrade.

Then, it’s time to change the approach.

Wang Wu returned to the Hidden Origin Bell to check the inner vault of the branch.

It’s worth mentioning that since Song Guangming left, the inner vault has been sealed. Anyway, in terms of internal procedures, the Hidden Origin Association is impeccable and has hardly any loopholes.

The inner vault is large, transformed from a cavern within the Hidden Origin Bell.

As a Fifth-Grade Eternal Immortal Artifact, this Hidden Origin Bell can form nine cavern spaces inside.

One is occupied by Wang Wu, one by the future Chief, three by the inner vault, and the remaining four cavern spaces are like guest rooms. When a First-Grade or Second-Grade Steward settles in, one space is allocated, and when they leave, it becomes vacant.

It’s simple, and of course, if you want more cavern spaces, it’s not impossible; it’s just a matter of upgrading the quality of the Hidden Origin Bell.

However, this is beyond Wang Wu’s reach at the moment.

For now, he must quickly think of ways to address the impending mortal crisis in Dragon Head City.

This isn’t really a difficult problem, because Dragon Head City is actually extremely large in area. It’s a giant city that looks small but extends five hundred miles in radius. Normally, this immense size is concealed.

Without mentioning other things, just within the control area of the Hidden Origin Association, beyond the reach of mortals and cultivators, there are nineteen large and small peaks, several valleys, several streams, three small lakes, and several million acres of Spirit Fields.

These used to be managed by Muren, Youhao, Zhengyi—the Three Heroes of Dragon Head—and enjoyed by them and their subordinates.

Now that they are gone, these cannot be taken away.

Wang Wu immediately opened up a few areas suitable for settlement and farming, and then used the Mountain Moving Talisman to transport in three small mountains, thus creating a region capable of accommodating three million farmers.

With a population of under twelve million, three million farmers, one hundred thousand fishermen, one hundred thousand hunters, one hundred thousand gatherers, one hundred thousand merchants, and two million laborers can barely maintain the situation.

In addition, he issued over a hundred low-level Hidden Origin Association tasks in one go, mainly to guide, command, and maintain order for these mortals with the help of cultivators.

Although there are now less than three hundred mid and low-level Stewards left in Dragon Head City, it’s more than enough to manage these over a million mortals.

Wang Wu only roughly delineated the lines; these cultivators, based on needs, would take on roles as City Lords, County Magistrates, various other officials, or even act as Imperial Envoys.

After all, mortals wouldn’t really care if there was a kingdom or an emperor far away.

Moreover, Wang Wu specifically took out several thousand strands of the Five Qi of the Human World from his own pocket and directly distributed them in Dragon Head City, but this wasn’t to give money to everyone, but to gather the people’s hearts. Because of these Five Qi of the Human World, the wishes and demands of mortals would be more easily condensed; then celestial responses would occur.

For example, if a few hundred mortals wish for more fish and shrimp in the market, perhaps five strands of the Five Qi of the Human World would concentrate, creating a micro Hidden Origin Association task to supply fresh fish and shrimp to the market. Upon completion, one could earn five strands of the Five Qi of the Human World.

Thus, cultivators benefit, mortals become happier, and the Hidden Origin Association can gain what it wants from extras.