Chapter 148: The Xuzhong Empire
At first, many hoped all of this was a dream and that they would wake up soon, but as time passed, those fantasies soon shattered, and everyone started to accept their fates.
But while some were sad, others were more than happy that the world had changed, as that would mean a new order.
This is where the players come in, as many of them are gamers who are not completely contaminated with the dark side of humanity.
They have taught all the other old-world inhabitants and brought them up to speed so that they can also cultivate and make this world their own along side all the natives.
This is also why everyone accepted the change so quickly, as they knew that they could not go back, so instead, all of them focused on cultivating, which resulted in a massive amount of cultivators appearing in all the cities.
And along with them came the forces created by the players, including the Xu family, who have now created their own Empire.
This is a big deal in creating an Empire; one needs to have more than five cities under their control, an Ace army with 100,000 active personnel, and a proper government to run all the cities properly.
Any one of these requirements would take others more than a year to fulfill, but the Xu family was able to do all of them in a year, which is a historical event.
As for the name of the Empire? It is called the Xuzhong Empire.
This was the name that Xu Qianghua and his group came up with after conquering the last city and making Huang Xinyi the first Empress.
And as they did, the World's Will arrived right on time.
*Congratulations to Huang Xinyi and the Xu family for being the first ones to build their own Empire; as a reward, both Huang Xinyi and the Family Head will receive a small realm upgrade.
They also receive enough population cards to fill up the cities and create lower-level branches so that the area they control is efficiently used, and they receive another Ace Army training manual.*
Hearing this made everyone around the world sigh as they know that the Xu family is unstoppable they have figured out from the player that owning an Empire is something that they would consider when the family is at a stage where no one in the world is able to challenge them.
And they were not wrong, as in the past year, the Xu family has grown from a family with few top-level cultivators to having a stable amount of cultivators in each realm.
Along with the use of Family cards after the first batch of clansmen, the Xu family can be said to be a thriving family with a bright future ahead.
Now, more than 100,000 clansmen live, work, and cultivate in the subspace alone, but this does not make it crowded.
This is because as these clansmen started to grow, the requirement for the family stele upgrade was met without Xu Qianghua having to do anything.
In the past year, the family stele has grown from Tier 1 to Tier 4, which expanded the subspace; now, if the world were flat, the subspace would have the same amount of land as the original world Xu Qianghua was from.
So Li Xinyue had to redo the subspace and make sure that all the public buildings were accessible to the clansmen, which, in the end, resulted in multiple mini teleportation formations being built all around the subspace.
In addition, to accommodate the lower-level cultivators, public transportation such as cars, trains, and other modes of transportation were invented.
However, all of these vehicles use the spiritual Qi in the air or pure spiritual stones as fuel.
All of these inventions were from his past life, which Li Xinyue took the liberty to remember, and now she used her power as the Guardian to come up with them in this life so that the clansmen can have an easier time moving around.
And yes, the World's Will rewarded them whenever they upgraded their stele, which mostly consisted of Family cards, helpful buildings, and other items that they needed.
As for the Empyrean Trade Consortium and the Empyrean Harmony Sect. They have grown to be one of the most well-known forces in the area.
The Consortium even spread across the continent, which no one could have imagined.
But this is mainly because Liu Meiying brought modern items that people lack in this middle-aged world.
such as modern bathrooms, toilets, toiletries, and other items that every old inhabitant was used to and never noticed their importance until they lost them all.
Yeah, they had this while they were in the inns, but that was only for the players and for a limited time; for the people who did not play the game or the players who got out of the inn, it was a nightmare.
As many of the non-players did not know anything about cultivation and so they did not know how to use the Spiritual Qi to clean themselves.
However, a cultivator would need to be in the Foundation Realm even to use the Spiritual Qi outside of their bodies.
So all of them had to live without these modern facilities and amenities, which made Liu Meiying's Consortium expand crazily.
Due to this, Liu Meiying became the richest person in the world and had a huge lead.
Meanwhile, Bai Linyun, who had planned to help her friend out with the business, quit midway and instead spent her time in the subspace making sure everything was going in an orderly manner.
She and Xu Qianghua split the responsibilities so that neither of them got tired of the huge workload of managing more than 500,000 clansmen all around the continent.
This causes the other ladies to be jealous as Bai Lingyun gets to spend the most amount of time with him.
But for Bai Lingyun, it was the worst possible thing as Xu Qianghua never did anything to her while they were working.