Chen Chaoyan knelt on the stairs, while looking at the palace in the sky, he quietly pulled Chen Jiezhi's sleeve beside him.
Chen Jiezhi first glanced at Mr. Wu Yun in front of him, then turned to look at his niece.
"The palace of King Tang is not so grand, hanging in the sky." Chen Chaoyan said in a low voice.
Chen Jiezhi nodded silently.
On the side, the other two elders of the Chen family felt the same way.
At this moment, they sincerely felt that choosing to come to Chang'an City while being hunted was the most correct decision in their lives.
Here, not only can their clan be safe, but they may even be able to rise again and regain everything they lost from the Eastern Tang Dynasty.
Guo Zi and Hui Tianyu of the Hanshan Sect had never seen what the Eastern Tang Palace looked like.
But they are equally convinced at this moment that the Hanshan Sect has a bright future here.
The little girl no longer looked panicked before, she had calmed down and was looking around curiously.
Mr. Wu Yun, with a faint smile on his lips, looked at the people in Qingfu Palace and Jingyue Tower who were captured on the left and right.
Zhang Dongyun thanked them from the bottom of his heart for not rushing into the original Invincible City with Gu Hechuan, the traitor from Qingyun Temple.
If they come in together, they will not be able to trigger the guardian mission, but will be covered up by Gu Hechuan, who has a higher level of cultivation.
And now...
[Random Guardian Mission 3.1 - Kill or capture the elder He Qian of Jingyue Tower and the elder Shunming Taoist of Qingfu Palace who entered the city]
[The city lord captured He Qian and Shunming Taoist who entered the city, completed random guard mission 3.1, and obtained 800 upgrade experience points]
I had previously eliminated the traitor Gu Hechuan of Qingyun Temple and received 500 guardian upgrade experience, which was just enough to get the 2,000 points needed for the second upgrade.
As for the third city upgrade and expansion, the required protection and construction upgrade experience will be increased again, each costing 3,000 points.
However, thanks to the people from Qingfu Palace and Jingyue Tower.
As soon as the second upgrade expansion was completed, they came to his door and first saved 800 guardian upgrade experience for Zhang Dongyun.
In this way, only 2,200 points are needed before the next upgrade and guardian upgrade experience.
There are still 100 points left for construction and upgrade experience this time, so there is still a shortfall of 2,900 points.
After refreshing the task list, new construction tasks appeared in front of Zhang Dongyun.
[Construction Task 3.1 - Primary cultural education. The current overall cultural level of urban residents under the rule is insufficient. The first step is to reduce the illiteracy rate to less than 50%]
Not bad, not much has changed... Zhang Dongyun thought to himself.
He had previously ordered Hui Tianyu and others to search for and sort out people who could read and write in the city.
It is not necessary to have a high degree of knowledge, as long as you have a basic cultural level.
A lot of hard work is just to prepare for the current task.
However, there is still a long way to go...
At present, most of the people in the city are refugees and surrendered soldiers of the Tang army.
Literacy rates are limited. To improve them is a systematic and large-scale project.
The current basic education capacity in the city may not be sufficient.
It is not easy to reduce the illiteracy rate to less than half.
Well, if this standard for illiteracy is the one I set at the beginning... Zhang Dongyun couldn't help but roll his eyes when he thought of this.
He originally set the standard for illiteracy elimination as literacy of 1,500 and basic reading and writing...
If I had known this, I would have just known ten or eight characters to pass the test.
Lord Zhang Dacheng regretted his mistake.
However, no matter what, the city was once again upgraded and expanded, which made him feel very good.
[City Lord: Zhang Dongyun
Current range: 16 kilometers from east to west, 24 kilometers from north to south, 8 kilometers above ground, 8 kilometers below ground
City wall range: four thousand meters from east to west, six thousand meters from north to south]
Compared with before, the dimensions of Invincible City in all aspects of space have once again expanded four times.
In terms of cross-sectional area, or its area in this world, it is expanded sixteen times.
Now it has reached 384 square kilometers.
Compared with Qinzhou Prefecture, Longbei County, and the Eastern Tang Dynasty, it still seems not that big.
But every time it expanded in the future, the area increased by sixteen times. If things go on like this, it will soon become something that cannot be underestimated.
The current coverage of Invincible City has exceeded the entire Baiyun Yuan and touched other mountains in Longling.
If we expand further, we should be able to reach the bottom of the mountain.
In comparison, the current population in the city can be considered sparsely populated within the coverage of the entire system.
Zhang Dongyun recalled that he had the impression that the task of increasing the population would soon come again.
You can prepare early and be prepared for a rainy day.
However, as the population increases, the difficulty of eradicating illiteracy increases.
I'd better complete the primary literacy task first and earn the construction points.
City Lord Zhang Da sat firmly in the Daming Palace, making calculations while watching the old demon of blood shadow walking up the stairs.
The old devil felt uneasy and arrived outside the palace gate.
The palace door automatically opens to both sides.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The old demon of blood shadow walked into the palace gate respectfully.
There was no one in the Daming Palace, only a faint glow lingered, and some smoke and clouds circulated.
After passing through several levels of the palace, the Blood Shadow Old Demon finally met Zhang Dongyun who had transformed into the Evil Emperor in the central hall.
"No gift."
Zhang Dongyun looked at the old demon of blood shadow who was paying homage below, and ordered calmly.
After thanking him, the old devil stood up, took out several secret objects, and presented them to Zhang Dongyun above.
"This old slave is incompetent. I am ashamed of Your Majesty for not being able to bring that wolf back."
The old demon Xueying first confessed, and then explained: "In the cave, it is not the traitor Yang Li, nor a real Sirius, but... a demon soul of Sirius."
With the support of the Invincible City system, Zhang Dongyun can judge that the other party is telling the truth.
He casually took the things presented by the old demon of blood shadow and pondered in his heart.
Demon soul, rather than a practitioner in the eighth realm of the demon path, the demon soul realm.
In other words, for some reason, a demon practitioner who has practiced the Heavenly Wolf Transformation and is above the eighth level has separated his own Heavenly Wolf Demonic Soul.
The demon soul was left in the secret cave, and the whereabouts of the practitioner himself was unknown.
Considering the relationship between the engraved fragments of the fairy traces, that person should be Yang Li.
The question is, where is Yang Li himself?
There are three items in total presented by the old demon of blood shadow.
A black orb the size of an adult man's fist.
A piece of fur.
There is also a stone slab.
That jet-black orb was the product of the old demon Blood Shadow after he defeated the Demonic Soul of Sirius.
The demon soul gave Wangzhen Guan a headache, but the old demon Xueying relied on the secret method taught by Zhang Dongyun to prescribe the right medicine to restrain the opponent, so he was able to capture it.
Zhang Dongyun studied it carefully and compared it with Evil Emperor Ming Tonghui's memory, and was able to confirm that the demonic spirit of the Heavenly Wolf came from Yang Li.
And that fur should be derived from the magic power of the golden cicada that sheds its shell.
It was a by-product of Yang Li's separation from the demonic soul of the wolf.
The reason why the other party spent so much effort may be due to the fact that they were severely injured by the Evil Emperor Ming Tonghui during the Xianji Incident.
The injuries caused by the Evil Emperor were like maggots on his tarsus, making it difficult for him to reincarnate and rebuild.
Giving up this demonic wolf soul is like cutting off the tail of a gecko to survive.
And on the surface of the stone slab, a mysterious engraving appeared, which was closely related to the fragment of the fairy trace in Yang Li's hand.
Zhang Dongyun raised his eyebrows slightly.
Yang Li left these things in the secret cave. Was it because he was unable to do what he wanted, had no choice, or...