Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 290 The Freedom of the Martial King City
In the end, Ah Zhi still learned how to mine.

Of course, he wasn't taught by Nietzsche; he learned it from a local quarryman.

The quarryman was from Rongyu Mountain and was specially hired by the Daoist of Human Nature. The techniques he taught were still quite primitive: first, he would use a hammer to strike the chisel attached to the outer wall of the ore to knock off the entire piece of raw stone containing the spirit stone, and then separate the travertine and spirit stone from the raw stone. As a by-product of spirit stone, travertine accounted for a larger proportion; often, it would take dozens of kilograms of travertine to extract one kilogram of rough spirit stone.

This mining method is relatively inefficient, but it's normal in a world without an industrial base.

The only problem was that the NPCs who had come from the wilderness couldn't communicate with the quarryman, which frustrated Nietzsche and the others. Fortunately, quarrying and mining were physically demanding jobs that required stamina and patience, with limited skills. They could communicate fairly well using body language, so Azhi and the others quickly got the hang of it.

And Wuwang City has become the second city built by players to show its scale, after Chang'an City. After all, Longshan Port and Rongyu City are still incongruous due to their complex designs, and the latter was only built around the same time as Wuwang City. They haven't even started planning the foundation yet. All you can see are the people of their community taking measurements and drawing lines everywhere, as if they are preparing for a big project.

But Wu Wang City was different. Nietzsche, Renxin Huadao, and others discussed it and decided to sell land directly at extremely low prices to attract some people to settle in Wu Wang City and quickly build up the scale of Wu Wang City.

The method was quite effective; in just half a month, many people flocked there. However, what truly drew everyone to Wuwang City was its greater "freedom" compared to Chang'an City.

The Haoqi Changcun community has very limited manpower. Unlike Wang Ergou and his gang in Chang'an, who had official backing and could get whatever they wanted, they don't have any guard agencies in Wuwang City. Therefore, no guard agencies have been established in Wuwang City, and no effort has been put into formulating any laws. Most importantly, you won't get caught and have your public service points deducted for doing parkour on the rooftops! Of course, this requirement comes from the obsession of an anonymous member of the Haoqi Changcun community.

In short, this "freedom" attracted many people, and in just half a month, many simple houses were erected one after another. Among them were not only many players who were impatient with the rules and regulations of Chang'an City, but also many daring mortals and cultivators who wanted to get rich.

Therefore, in just half a month, the number of NPCs living in Wuwang City actually reached several hundred!
This brings us to how players like Nietzsche, whose righteous spirit endures in the community, made their fortunes.

Although Nietzsche and the others knew that there were many mineral veins near Wuwang City, the first to be mined was naturally the spirit stone mine. Because this spirit stone vein was rich in minerals, mining was very easy, without even the need for drilling, and the output was relatively considerable.

The crude spirit stones mined locally can also be used as currency; at least the Fortune, Prosperity and Longevity Merchants Association accepts them, though their value is slightly lower.

Nevertheless, the first dozen or so NPCs, who were not very skilled, could mine hundreds of kilograms of crude spirit stones a day, and the associated mineral, crude travertine, was plentiful, amounting to several thousand kilograms!
It should be noted that the weight of a unit of spirit stone is only a few ounces! Even though a hundred pounds of spirit stones are of slightly lower value due to their crude quality, they are enough to make the people of Haoqi Changcun suddenly rich!
After making their first fortune, Nietzsche and his team immediately decided to hire more NPCs to mine spirit stones and other ores, which led to the current Wuwang City having more than a hundred miners in just half a month.

With more miners, other industries also sprang up, such as various food stalls, tailor shops, and blacksmith shops. Many daring NPCs who had gotten rich early in Chang'an City, envious of those who had secured their positions, came to Wuwang City in groups.

Wu Wang City is an underground city with a harsh environment. Ordinary people who live there must wear the Five Thunder Talisman at all times. However, there are many jobs to be found there. Whether it is mining or doing small business or trading, there is money to be made. Unlike Chang'an City, the market share has long been saturated.

The prosperity of Wuwang City was something Nietzsche and his companions had never expected. They could only hastily copy many of the designs of Chang'an City and suspend the reclamation of the Ten Thousand Mountains, instead deciding to deal with the reclamation of the Haoqi Alliance's cave world first.

The underground world where King Wu's City is located, strictly speaking, occupies less than a fingernail's width of this small grotto-heaven, it's pitifully small. The mountains, rivers, and trees outside are countless. Therefore, after King Wu's City was largely on track, Nietzsche, along with the members of the community, formed a pioneering team and is now enthusiastically developing this small grotto-heaven.

Since this small world was already considered to belong to the righteous community, no one was cautious enough to conduct any scouting or guarding. The group was divided into four teams by Nietzsche and continued to run outwards in the same direction as the original four altars.

Nietzsche himself led a group of people, some of whom were in the direction of the altar they had discovered themselves.

After flying for more than ten minutes, the group finally saw a new view: a very large architectural ruin.

"Wow……"

Everyone was stunned by the magnificent and breathtaking scenery—from the air, the main buildings of the complex were arranged in a yin-yang pattern, with a string of tall stone pillars forming a semi-circle at the outermost edge, each pillar engraved with strange symbols. These stone pillars were exactly the same as the broken stone pillars that the players had seen when they first entered this cave world.

The reason we can be sure this is an archaeological site is because the buildings in the distance are almost all broken walls and ruins, and their style is quite similar to that of the stone pillars at the entrance, suggesting that they were built by the same group—or at least the same civilization.

The collapsed stone house, the broken stone pillars, and the shattered tiles scattered all tell the story of the terrible things that happened here in the past.

The entire site was deserted, with no corpses. Between the houses were only knee-high weeds and shrubs, and various trees that had somehow grown out of nowhere.

"Everyone be careful."

Nietzsche gave instructions in the clump of wheat, carefully leading the way.

The ruins were eerily quiet; there was still no sound of birds or insects.

When the four altars were first discovered, only the altar on the other side of the river had a relatively normal environment, and it is said that birds were seen flying over it normally.

But the other altars were not so lucky; each one was discovered in a more bizarre way than the last. This sense of déjà vu made Nietzsche tense up, almost to the point of being on high alert.

As the players were walking, several vines suddenly emerged from the ground in front of them, and they looked somewhat familiar!

(End of this chapter)