The Ambitions to Conquer the Official Career-Chapter 701: Experts Arrive

Ji Yang hadn’t expected the experts from Capital City to arrive so quickly, and it wasn’t just one person who had come, but a whole team, which even included a few elderly people whose hair had turned white yet who looked very spirited.

Others couldn’t see it, but Ji Yang noticed right away that they were all martial artists.

In the subsequent time, Ji Yang didn’t get involved with the matter, as from what he understood, the progress of decrypting the texts was going very smoothly.

"Brother, do you know? This time we’ve really discovered an ancient cultivator’s cave dwelling!"

Feng Xiaozhi appeared very excited, reverting to a more informal address when no outsiders were around.

"What have you been busy with recently?"

These past few days, Feng Xiaozhi had also been out of sight.

"Now, our ancient city is swarming with people, you don’t know, but once the news was spread online, the next day a huge wave of tourists began to arrive, all coming to find out about the situation. Fortunately, many of our inns are now inhabitable, and many people stayed right away. Today was even more extreme; many people came."

"Let’s go have a look."

Ji Yang naturally placed great importance on the development of the ancient city and headed there with a few others.

And really, the ancient city was now completely different from before, the entire waterways were cleaned up, and with the garbage removed, the place had transformed, the airs now clear and lacking any foul odor.

At that moment, information about formations suddenly popped up in Ji Yang’s mind.

Ji Yang knew these were ancient formations inherited to him.

With that knowledge of formations, when Ji Yang looked around again, his view was entirely different.

Indeed, it was a simplified version of a formation.

It could be said that this was a Fengshui Formation, but in Ji Yang’s eyes, this was not a mere Fengshui Formation but a Spirit-Gathering Formation, meant to draw spiritual energy to this location. With this Spirit-Gathering Formation, through the formation, most of the spiritual energy was directed into that cave.

In fact, surrounding that cave were nine Spirit-Gathering Formations. Because these formations differed from modern ones, most people assumed they were naturally formed.

Then, Ji Yang arrived at several key nodes of the formations.

It was apparent that Dimanxi had some understanding and had made some modifications, yet he wasn’t fully aware of the intricacies of the Spirit-Gathering Formation, so his adjustments were suboptimal.

Since he understood this stuff, Ji Yang naturally wanted to help renovate it.

After inspecting, Ji Yang had Feng Xiaozhi arrange for some changes to be made, involving constructing some pavilions, sculpting statues, and placing decorative rocks and the like.

Since this area was already under construction, all kinds of materials were indeed available. Feng Xiaozhi, following Ji Yang’s instructions unquestioningly, immediately began to organize people to carry them out.

After half a day’s work, the missing elements were adjusted as per Ji Yang’s request.

While others might not feel it distinctly, Ji Yang’s Divine Sense immediately sensed a significant change, that being a large amount of spiritual energy converging from all directions toward this place.

Ji Yang had cut off the flow of spiritual energy heading towards the cave; all the gathered spiritual energy would now accumulate here.

With such a surge of spiritual energy arriving, the ancient city began to transform further, abounding with spiritual energy, benefiting everyone present.

While doing these things, Ji Yang also observed the situation of the tourists.

Ji Yang noticed that many of these tourists indeed had some level of cultivation. Although their cultivation levels seemed weak in Ji Yang’s perception, they were evidently much stronger than ordinary people.

Indeed, Earth had many mysterious aspects, even cultivators existed, only unknown to most.

While it was said that Mortal Dust Qi could cause damage to a cultivator’s True Yuan, Ji Yang noticed that some still had True Yuan within them, indicating they could engage in cultivation.

Perhaps, after discovering the peril of Mortal Dust Qi, the Qi Refining Practitioners modified their Cultivation Techniques, and the cultivation method Ji Yang practiced was likely one that had been adapted.

Since Ji Yang could introspectively see his own energy flow, he tried his best to keep the flow smooth, thus he made many modifications to his technique. As a result, his Cultivation Technique had diverged from the original.

This was also one of the reasons for Ji Yang’s rapid improvement in cultivation level.

"How much longer until all the renovations are complete?" Ji Yang asked.

"We are renovating while still keeping the area open, there’s no choice now!"

Feng Xiaozhi felt a bittersweet sensation; she hadn’t expected to draw in so many tourists so quickly. If much of the ancient city had not been renovated already, the county city might have struggled even to provide lodging.

"We need to accelerate the construction even more; the next wave of people could be even bigger."

With so many tourists arriving even before the experts had released information, who knew how many would come once they did.

Moreover, Ji Yang knew that once he had perfected the formation here, making the spiritual energy richer, even those with chronic diseases could naturally heal over time if they stayed long enough.

"We are not only speeding up but also planning further expansion of the ancient city; we have been negotiating with the local government regarding land."

To avoid conflict of interest, Ji Yang had Feng Xiaozhi and the others deal directly with the local government, and it seemed that progress was being made swiftly.