These two buildings were ahead of their time!
An unknown number of players gathered outside the buildings, but for some reason, none of them could enter. They could only mill about and make noise.
For Ye Yun, the two combined were not as important as the two-story tower before him, which bore the inscription: Qi Tian!
The Qi Tian Tower, also known as the City Control Hub, was a mandatory building for every guild's base in the mid-game! Its importance ranked first among all buildings!
It was the first building established when a guild started a village, and only then could other buildings be erected through the Qi Tian Tower, even influencing the overall village planning! This illustrated the vast utility of the Qi Tian Tower. Its construction cost was a staggering one billion gold coins!
"Detected that player possesses the 'Qi Tian Secret Key'. Does the player wish to activate the 'Qi Tian Tower' and become the sole master of Fengle Village?" Ye Yun received the system prompt as soon as he approached.
"Activate!"
"System Prompt: Congratulations to player for activating Fengle Village's 'Qi Tian Tower', binding successful, bound to - Jie Ming!"
"System Prompt: 10% of Fengle Village's tax revenue belongs to Lu Hang Town. Player Jie Ming possesses 15% ownership. The remaining ownership is vacant. Player Jie Ming can assume the position of Village Chief. Does player Jie Ming confirm?"
"Confirm, a fool wouldn't! I just feel a bit sorry for Old Wang."
"System Prompt: Congratulations to player for becoming the Village Chief of Fengle Village. Do you wish to remove the original Village Chief's position or downgrade it to a deputy role to manage village affairs?"
"Downgrade to deputy!"
After a series of confirmations, Ye Yun finally held the development of Fengle Village firmly in his hands! However, the remaining 75% ownership and its revenue could not be personally collected by Ye Yun, but could be used to develop the village and upgrade its various buildings.
Ye Yun ignored the stunned onlookers and walked directly into the Qi Tian Tower. This tower could only be entered by Ye Yun and those he authorized.
The first floor covered an area of over two hundred square meters. In the center of the entire space was a massive sand table model, which, when viewed as a whole, resembled a thousand-fold miniature version of Fengle Village. Ye Yun could assign professional personnel to re-plan the entire layout of Fengle Village, even placing Level 10 monsters at the novice village entrance!
"What is that? The Lost Land?" As Ye Yun admired his future territory, he suddenly noticed an area on the north side of the village, comparable in size to half the village. The entire area was exceptionally desolate, filled with withered branches and leaves, very similar to the previous Lost Land.
Fengle Village—
Area: 90 square kilometers
Natives: 2
Guard Team: 0
Online Players: 76423
Players Joined Fengle Village: 1
Affiliated Faction: Jie Ming (15%)
Current Financial Funds: 3726850 (jB) 98 (yB) 54 (tB)
(1 Gold Coin jB = 100 Silver Coins yB = 10000 Copper Coins tB)
Current Buildings: 6—Quest Hall (1), Pharmacy (1), Blacksmith Shop (1), Village Fencing 900 meters (1), Spirit Refining Tower (Novice), Professional Skill Academy (Novice).
Wild Area Distribution:
Level 1 Wild Area covers 5600㎡ (adjustable 1000-9000), Monster Count 680 (adjustable 100-1000), Spawn Rate 1.0 (adjustable 0.6-1.5). Cost 1 tB/monster
Level 2 Wild Area...
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Damn…
After viewing the entire sand table, Ye Yun could only exclaim in awe! No wonder it took those major powers and guilds three years and none of them managed to upgrade their base village to the city level; it was too costly!
Let alone anything else, upgrading a single building from level one to level two required a full one hundred million gold coins!
The most outrageous was the Spirit Refining Tower. The novice Spirit Refining Tower only opened floors 9 and 10. To upgrade it to the intermediate level, which would open floors 7 and 8, would cost a full three hundred million gold coins!
Without a massive player base living and consuming there, where would so much gold come from to upgrade these buildings? Would they have to pay out of their own pockets?
More importantly, for every monster that respawned in the wild areas outside the village for players to level up, money had to be paid. This was incredible.
However, relatively speaking, his village was a solid profit overall. Especially after the Spirit Refining Tower was activated, Ye Yun believed it would become the most popular place in his village!
Because the Heavenly Path had only just begun two days ago, the proportion of players who had recharged over 50,000 was still very, very small. Not everyone had that kind of courage; everyone still needed to live.
Compared to the functions of those towns, the only thing missing now was a monster area above level ten for everyone to grind. Although his secret realm dungeons had already been opened, those required money, and not everyone could afford to endlessly run dungeons.
And those dungeons belonged entirely to him, essentially his most important source of income. The drop rates, experience, and monster density within them far surpassed the wild areas. Ye Yun could not offer them for free.
Ye Yun pondered for a moment, then designated several areas within the original Lost Land, deploying 500 monsters each from level 11 to level 15. Simultaneously, he maximized the number of monsters from levels 1-5 and accelerated their spawn rates to the maximum.
Given the ridiculously high experience requirement for leveling up, this should last them twenty to thirty days, right?
Level 11 monsters cost 1 silver coin per monster, with an additional silver coin for each subsequent level. This made Ye Yun's heart ache intensely. But thinking of the alien invasion three years later, Ye Yun let it go, considering it a good deed.
Outside the Spirit Refining Tower, over ten thousand square meters of ground were packed with people. Every one of them gazed at the fifteen-meter-high stone tablet in front of the tower with wonder and excitement. This was because it detailed the functions and usage rules of the Spirit Refining Tower.
"I'm going to die, I just recharged a hundred thousand! Can someone help me get my heart pills out of my pocket." An elderly player clutched his chest and slowly knelt beneath the stone tablet.
"Where are you from? I'll call you an ambulance." A teenager looked at the stone tablet with excitement.
"I protest, this is a typical case of confiscating from the rich and distributing to the poor. Isn't it supposed to be that the higher the recharge amount, the better the treatment?"
"Brother, you're wrong. This is called robbing the rich to help the poor. Understand? You rich people eat and drink well, at least give us poor folks a sip of soup, wouldn't you say?"
"Hmph, a bunch of poor ghosts, you'll never understand the joy of paying to win." A player in full green gear scoffed at the arguing crowd before turning to leave. His recharge amount had far exceeded 50,000.
The appearance of the Spirit Refining Tower caused immense sensation, but it was limited to the players of Fengle Village. It could be said that due to the Spirit Refining Tower, the entire village's players erupted in celebration, thereby downplaying the anomaly of the Professional Skill Academy appearing in a novice village.
When Ye Yun opened the Spirit Refining Tower, the village's funds began to increase at a rate of nearly ten thousand gold coins per second.
He wondered how much he would receive in profit sharing tomorrow.