Over the next couple of months money rolled into my pockets. Yang Xin kind of became a flirty assistant to me and started learning alchemy from me.
The standards of warriors skyrocketed to insane levels. The city lord implemented all sorts of changes to the schools and systems in the city being backed up by my basic army of insane warriors. It became a dictatorship for the betterment of the people. There were new fighters and demon spirtualists being made everyday with the help of proper cultivation, training and medicine any power hungry people where thrown into an isolated part of my kingdom with other dickbags who tried to pull stuff.
I had stolen most of the books in the kingdom from the school and the alchemy association and replaced it with other knowledge that's more appropriate and useful with the help of nie li.
Before there where about 60 black gold demon spiritualist but now there where thousands and they all had proper cultivation manuals. Not like what I'd give the girls but like what nie li would give his friends. They were also able to buy proper demon spirits. As most of the spirits around the area were all ice types there weren't proper ones for everyone to use and the ones they did have all where like common garbarge.
The spies in the city where all killed off and the whole city locked down for growth.
While all this was happening I had decided to go steal a weapon from the school.
Behind the holy orchard academy was a kind of small separate realm called the sacred border. Inside this border was an amazing place to cultivate for students as it was filled with energy.
I happily slipped into the border looking around at the multitude of colorful surroundings and making my way towards the center of the realm.
There was a spirit inside the realm. He was one of the old founders of the city before he could spew any bullshit I revived him and just threw him out of the realm.
Finally reaching the center of the realm I came upon what I was looking for. It was a massive blue greatsword called the thunder god meteorite sword. I hate long named weapons man.
The sword was what caused all the excess energy for the area as it was made of legendary materials and housed souls of tens of millions of spirit beasts it had slain. It had grown it's own sword soul but it was violent and evil and tried to corrupt everyone who touched it.
I just walked right on over and stored it inside my soul realm to have the shit kicked out of it by masamune and the other sword spirits until it decided to behave. I'll examine the materials it's made of later.
As soon as the sword dissappeared the realm started to collapse so I just hopped on out and went home ignoring the newly revived man looking at me in shock.
Next up was glory city itself. Using the multiverse tool kingdom building I was able to claim it as my territory and just start making upgrades and changes I had the city lord pay for everything after I stolen the good stuff from his vault that I wanted.
I had made the city into a veritable fortress. Adding on magic protections to prevent infiltration and such along with my insanely serious guards looking over things we where super prepared for anything the dark guild wanted to do.
Nie li had been given a mission to go the the mountain area I had got yu yan from and recruit the people there to come to the city. He's more of a happy go lucky people person and I just brute force things.
The people in the mounts had a single problem and it was that there wasn't much food at all. There was no place to farm on the rocky plateau so the only foods they got were from hunted down spirit beasts. At this point he was strong enough to deal with them by himself although ziyun decided to go with him their relationship was progressing nicely.
There was a person that was however not happy about all these changes happening. It was the city lords adopted son. All his life he has trained to be the next city lord and marry ziyun even though she had no feelings for him.
I recall from the story he had betrayed and poisoned the city lord with the help of the dark guild to try and take over.
I watched him slowly grow more and more discontent with the way things where growing and he gained this kind of sinister air about him and started doing creepy things and trying to sneak out of the city.
So I had soi fon kill him and get rid of the body. We don't deal with bullshit like that and let it grow into problems later on nope.
So one day he just dissappeared to the eyes of everyone else. However his body was just burned to a crisp and left in the woods nothing more than ashes in the wind.
The dark guild had enough time to fully prepare. They would be sending millions of beasts to attack the city while some high level fighters would join in and try to go for a two pronged attack and destroy the city lords manor and take hostages.
This plan was going to crash and burn harder than anything they have ever witnessed. On the orders of the demon lord as he called himself. The leader of the dark guild who had massive hatred for glory city for reasons I don't remember the plan started to get into motion.