A large number of immortal cultivators in the city were still hunting for treasures. Ye Chu stayed in the hot spring pool alone for nearly an hour to relieve his mental fatigue.
After that, Caiwei from the Qiankun World was sent out.
"What happened these past few years?"
Caiwei was wearing a blue dress and looked at Ye Chu anxiously: "You, why are you like this?"
Seeing Ye Chu's appearance, Caiwei was also shocked: "Are you Ye Chu..."
"Of course."
Ye Chu smiled awkwardly and said in a helpless tone: "I encountered some troubles in the past few years, and now it's like this."
"Faint to death..."
Caiwei looked at Ye Chu carefully and after confirming that it was Ye Chu, she let out a sigh of relief, but she felt something was wrong.
"You're not hurt, are you?" Caiwei sensed Ye Chu's aura again, and it felt like a calm ocean, vast, deep, and unfathomable.
"No……"
Ye Chu shook his head and said to her: "You and I haven't seen each other for a long time, let's have a drink together..."
"Okay, I'll make something delicious for you." When mentioning this, Caiwei smiled, as beautiful as a fairy.
Ye Chu nodded: "You have learned how to cook. You are such a good wife. Then I will just enjoy it today..."
"Just laugh."
Caiwei and Ye Chu hadn't seen each other for some years. Caiwei had been in retreat after giving birth to her child.
In addition, for the past five or six years, Ye Chu has been in space debris again. In total, he has been missing for more than ten years.
Soon, a table of rich late-night snacks was placed in front of Ye Chu.
There are ten dishes and two soups, some meat and some vegetarian, and the presentation is pretty good.
"Okay, wife..."
Looking at these delicious meals, Ye Chu couldn't help but be a little impressed with her. Caiwei was usually very carefree and he had never seen her cooking before.
Even when cooking, she would bake it directly or stew it in a big pot. It was rare to see her cook such exquisite dishes.
"That's not..."
Caiwei smiled triumphantly, her eyes sparkling, and she took out two pairs of bowls and chopsticks and filled Ye Chuxian with a bowl of soup.
"Drink some soup first to warm yourself up..." Caiwei's eyes were full of admiration.
Ever since she met Ye Chu again, she has truly fallen in love with Ye Chu. In addition, she gave birth to a daughter for Ye Chu, and Caiwei fell in love with Ye Chu even more.
It's just that everyone is usually busy, cultivating immortality, or delayed by other things. Time like now is really rare.
Ye Chu was full of praise for Caiwei's craftsmanship, and the taste was indeed good.
Caiwei didn't see how much she ate. She just sat aside and watched her husband eat the food she cooked. The delicious food made her feel happy and satisfied.
It was a rare meeting between the two, and Ye Chu finally carried Caiwei into the house and gave him to Caiwei for the first time after his rebirth.
Although Caiwei felt a little weird, she still didn't reject him, because there were too few nights like this for the two of them, and they should cherish such days.
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There was no talking all night, and early the next morning, Ye Chu played Tai Chi again in the yard.
The surrounding air, space, and even time seemed to have frozen. When Caiwei came out of the house and saw this scene, she felt very strange.
It feels like you are in a magical place where there is no passage of time or exchange of voids.
Ye Chu's Tai Chi slowly pushed out and slowly slid away from the space, making her feel that time was still passing.
"You're awake."
Seeing Caiwei coming out, Ye Chu immediately retracted his fist, came to her side, and put a robe on her.
"Be careful not to catch a cold." Ye Chu said to her with tenderness and concern in his eyes.
Caiwei's pretty face turned red, and her fairy-like face smiled: "Thank you..."
"Silly girl..."
Ye Chu stroked her beautiful face gently and domineeringly, and he had known Caiwei for many years.
They had known each other since before they went to the Immortal Road, but it was only after they went to the Immortal Road that they fell deeply in love with each other.
At this moment, it has been more than a thousand years, almost two thousand years.
Time passes quickly, and Ye Chu also cherishes this kind of time, maybe because he has a new understanding, maybe because he hasn't been with Caiwei for a while.
After the two had some breakfast, they went out into the street together.
Ye Chu didn't know how long it had been since he went shopping like this with his wives.
Caiwei was like a girl in love, happily walking through the bustling market, holding Ye Chu's arm, buying small items that she liked, and some strange things that could attract their attention.
Absorb the past.
The couple, rarely like a newlywed couple, happily shuttled through various prosperous areas in the city, passing by some beautiful places and enjoying their gaze.
Ye Chu did not hide his figure. While walking around the city, he was discovered by some powerful people in the city who knew him. The news of Ye Chu's return quickly spread in the city.
The famous Lord Ye Dacheng appeared again after more than twenty years without any accident.
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Nanfeng Holy City, City Lord's Mansion.
Acting City Lord Demon Stone and Archdeacon Demon Stone personally reported to Ye Chu the current situation of Nanfeng Holy City in the palace.
"Brother Ye, now the population of immortal cultivators in our Nanfeng Holy City has dropped significantly and has returned to the original level..."
Materia's face looked a little solemn, and the content of his report was a bit depressing.
Nowadays, the population of Nanfeng Holy City is only a mere 3.5 to 3.8 billion cultivators in the main city.
More than thirty years ago, the population of the main city was still over 10 billion. In just a few decades, the population dropped to the level before the rise of Nanfeng Holy City.
The rapid decline and the magnitude of the decline are really rare.
Nowadays, the eight outer cities of Nanfeng Holy City are also extremely cold. The eight outer cities that used to be overcrowded, now have 70% to 80% of the immortal cultivators gone, but they look empty.
"And now the number of people in our City Lord's Mansion has reached 180 million..."
Magic Stone introduced: "There are only about three billion cultivators in the city, and nearly half of them are still in retreat. In other words, there are only more than a billion cultivators who are practicing normally and doing normal activities..."
"We have 180 million managers, nearly 200 million..."
"It's equivalent to a city lord's palace staff, only supervising four or five people..."
The introduction of the magic stone made Ye Chu frown.
A large number of immortal cultivators in the city left, but almost no personnel from the city lord's mansion left.
One is because of the great reputation of the city lord himself, and the other is because the welfare of the people in the city lord's mansion has not been reduced.
Although the current income of the City Lord's Mansion has dropped significantly, the welfare of the City Lord's Mansion staff and the allocation of cultivation resources have not been reduced.
Therefore, most of the people in the City Lord's Mansion did not leave. They stayed in the Holy City and did not abandon the City Lord's Mansion.
"Brother Ye, are we going to dismiss some of the City Lord's Mansion personnel?" Mo Shi asked Ye Chu what he meant.
Ye Chu shook his head: "It's just some cultivation resources. Even if the city lord's mansion has no income, their interests must be guaranteed."
"Just don't recruit new personnel for the time being."
Ye Chu doesn't care too much about this, it's just the expenditure of some spiritual stones, and it's not a problem to spend more every year.
"Well, we earned a lot of resources in the past few years, so it's not a big problem to use some now."
The magic stone showed Ye Chu again. Ye Chu did not look at the accounts of the City Lord's Mansion over the years, but only read a final summary.
Due to the loss of people in the Holy City, the sharp drop in income, and the fact that the number of people in the city lord's palace has not decreased, in the past few years, almost every year, the amount of spiritual stones that have been paid out ranges from 800 to 111 billion.
Of course, it does not necessarily mean the amount of spiritual stones spent, but only the approximate amount that would be lost if other cultivation resources were converted into spiritual stones.
Spending so many spiritual stones every year is indeed not a small amount. It is equivalent to losing trillions of spiritual stones in ten years.
Fortunately, the City Lord's Mansion earned too many spiritual stones in the past few hundred years. Now, the entire City Lord's Mansion has nearly 50 trillion spiritual stone resources stored in several major gods.
If we continue to make losses at this level at the current level, it will be enough to sustain us for about five hundred years.
Of course, during this period, Ye Chu himself still needs to come up with some spiritual stones to support the city lord's mansion.
"Let's do this for now. Don't accept any more lists from Nanfeng Club and the lists I published."
Ye Chu asked Magic Stone to withdraw some of the high-income tasks he had posted on Nanfeng Club, and asked Magic Stone to release some new policies.
Nanfeng Society's points can be purchased directly with the corresponding spiritual stones, and can be exchanged with spiritual stones or other resources to alleviate the huge economic pressure on the City Lord's Mansion.
After all, once the personnel here are lost, the income from spiritual stones will be greatly reduced, and the negative effects of this significant reduction have not yet been fully revealed.
As the flow of people here becomes slower and slower, the frequency of people entering and exiting the main city will also be greatly reduced. The cost of spiritual stones for people entering and leaving the city lord's mansion can be said to have always been the largest income of the city lord's mansion.
After noon, the heads of the six major families came to the city lord's mansion together.
Ye Chu met them in the main hall. Seeing that Ye Chu was safe and sound, the six of them finally breathed a sigh of relief. The previous rumors about Ye Chu made them uneasy.
Now that they saw Ye Chu again, the six of them finally felt relieved. Moreover, seeing Ye Chu again this time, Ye Chu seemed to make them feel much more powerful. His appearance had changed a lot, and his aura gave people a more powerful feeling.
The inexplicable feeling of vastness like the starry sky, this is definitely another breakthrough.
Ye Chu came back again, which was a reassurance for them. This time Ye Chu gave each family a hundred small bottles of fairy spirit powder.