Without his clear nod, such a big plan related to the entire Mikawa Plains would not be able to move forward.

Of course, the respect they showed for him was not only due to his extraordinary performance during the process of completing the alchemy, but also the maintenance of his status as a true cultivator of the alchemy.

The meeting place was still the same house where everyone gathered during the last alchemy celebration.

Meng Zhou arrived almost at the same time as Xuanyuanzi, Cao Lie and Song Yang.

There are nineteen futons placed in the room.

There are five futons arranged in a row on the innermost side. On one of them, President Pan is already sitting cross-legged and waiting. The seats on the other four futons are still empty, including Meng Zhou, Xuanyuanzi, Cao Lie, and Song Yang.

The four of them each chose a place to sit down.

There was nothing special about these five positions. Meng Zhou directly chose the position closest to President Pan.

At the entrance, there were fourteen futons placed in a semicircle around where Meng Zhou and the other five people were. On each futon, there was a fake alchemy monk sitting cross-legged. This was also the case except for the five major shareholders.

All small shareholders.

Today, no one is absent.

After everyone took their places, there was no polite greeting. Song Yang said to Cao Lie:

"Fellow Daoist Cao, it's up to you to explain the specific plan."

Cao Lie nodded and said, "Okay."

Meng Zhou perked up, he was still a little curious about how the rebuilt Sanchuan City would be planned.

Everyone else also focused their attention, but there was only one exception, and that was Xuan Yuanzi. After he took his seat, he closed his eyes and rested his mind. He didn't seem to be particularly concerned about the specific plan.

Cao Lie has already started explaining.

“The planning of the new city and the upgrade of city defense are integrated.

After discussion, everyone was not satisfied with just setting up a low-grade third-level city defense formation.

To put it bluntly, the danger of being intercepted by a low-level third-level city defense formation actually does not hinder us much.

At most, it can be solved with some effort.

The purpose of this city defense is to deal with dangers that we cannot solve.

For example, the last time Yuqiao attacked, or to prepare for other situations where Danjie of unknown origin mixes in.

Even if it cannot completely block these dangers, it can at least provide us with safe shelter for a period of time until the power of Qingxuan Sect can react.

And if this is the goal, the third-level mid-level city defense is still a bit reluctant, and the third-level high-level one is more suitable.

...When possible, of course we all hope that the quality of city defense will be as high as possible."

After hearing Cao Lie's explanation, Meng Zhou nodded secretly in his heart.

His explanation was coherent and logical.

Cao Lie paused and then said again:

"However, the contradiction in the problem lies here. On the one hand, we hope that the quality of urban defense will be as high as possible.

Similarly, we also hope that the scale of the new city will be as large as possible.

On the other hand, the higher the quality of city defense, the greater the cost.

The larger the area it covers, the greater the cost!

With the current financial resources of each of our families, if we want to deploy a third-level high-grade city defense, even if we spend all our resources, we can only cover half of the current city area, which is obviously not feasible."

Sacrifice the quality of city defense?

Or sacrifice urban area?

This seems to have become a question of either/or.

Hearing this, Meng Zhou couldn't help but frown and thought about it carefully.

"We originally thought this would be a two-choice problem, but after communicating with Master Chen, she provided us with a third option."

"Master Chen?" Meng Zhou was confused.

President Pan next to him noticed Meng Zhou's doubts and explained via voice transmission:

"It's the third-level array mage Chen Ke who was originally sent by Qingxuan Sect to preside over the upgrade of Sanchuan Yuan's spiritual veins."

Meng Zhou was stunned.

I couldn't help but glance at Xuan Yuanzi again, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, as if it had nothing to do with him.

I thought to myself, no wonder people behave like this.

The plans were all provided by Qingxuanzong. Of course he can now adopt a leisurely attitude as if the old god is here and it has nothing to do with him.

"The third option provided by Master Chen is..."

As Cao Lie narrated, Meng Zhou's heart also flashed with surprise.

Chen Ke, the third-level formation master of Qingxuan Sect, really created a new plan tailor-made for Sanchuan Yuan.

The new plan she gave no longer regards the current third-level city defense formation as an isolated formation, but as the third-level spiritual vein upgrade formation that covers hundreds of miles of the essence of Sanchuan Plain.

part.

Because of the particularity of the Sanchuan Yuan spiritual vein itself, after the upgrade of the Sanchuan Yuan, the gain was not directly fed back to the living world, but was trapped in a huge "reservoir".

Wherever it is necessary to "release water", the permissions will be opened at designated locations.

For example, the third-level cave where Meng Zhou is currently retreating has the corresponding third-level permissions, and the earth veins in the area can provide a steady stream of third-level spiritual energy.

This is equivalent to connecting a "water pipe" that leads directly to the "reservoir".

The core power of the Sanchuanyuan City Lord's Mansion is to control the opening authority of this "reservoir".

Chen Ke, who single-handedly presided over the upgrade of Sanchuan Yuan's spiritual veins, after understanding the difficulties in upgrading Sanchuan Yuan's city defense and rebuilding the new city, took the right medicine and proposed a brand new solution.

——Make full use of this "reservoir".

Objectively speaking, the current utilization efficiency of this "reservoir" is very low. Only Meng Zhou, Cao Lie, Song Yang, Xuanyuanzi and Qingxuanzong, who temporarily arranged to come to Sanchuan Town Market, can use it.

Although these fake alchemy monks here also have third-level caves, due to the actual situation of the fake alchemy monks, they all combined may not consume as much third-level spiritual energy as Cao Lie and Song Yang combined.

As for comparing with Meng Zhou... there is no comparison at all.

If it is not fully utilized, it is a waste.

This waste will exist for the foreseeable long term.

The core of this new plan proposed by Chen Ke is to completely smash the original "water selling" plan of the main palace of Sanchuanyuan City. During this city defense upgrade and new city reconstruction, this "reservoir" will be completely released.

According to her calculations, this can probably form a third-level spiritual land with a radius of ten miles.

This will not only completely cover the existing Sanchuan City, but also go beyond it.

The advantage of this is that by deploying city defense formations on this basis, the consumption of resources will be significantly reduced.

With the financial resources of all parties in the main palace of Sanchuan Yuan City, it is completely possible to use this as a basis to create a third-level high-grade city defense formation with a coverage area of ​​up to ten miles.

Moreover, after doing this, the Lingtian land reclamation plan in Sanchuanyuan, which has been suspended for more than two years, can be restarted.

In the future, if the spiritual veins of the Sanchuan Plain continue to grow and improve with the continuous land reclamation, it will be fed back to this third-level spiritual land. By then, the city defense formation will still have room to continue to improve.

Of course, after talking about so many advantages, we must also mention the disadvantages of doing so.

After doing this, the original dream of "selling water" originally planned by the Sanchuanyuan City Lord's Mansion came to nothing.

Moreover, once this third-level spiritual land is determined, it cannot be changed or moved.

From now on, all third-level caves must be concentrated in this area.

However, this is actually a minor issue compared to the real drawbacks.

Meng Zhou glanced at the fake alchemy monks with normal expressions, not knowing whether they were aware of it or not.

He thought that with the shrewdness of these people present, it was impossible not to realize it.

However, this does not seem to be a disadvantage in the world of cultivation where strength is respected.

The reason why the third-order city defense array deployed in this way can reach the quality of the third-order high-grade is because the third-order spiritual land itself acts as a "battery" and solves the core problem.

After this problem was eliminated, the investment in setting up formations naturally dropped sharply.

But this also makes the third-order earth veins in the area blend into one.

Take Meng Zhou's third-level cave as an example. Now, he can open up and absorb the third-level spiritual energy continuously provided by the veins where the cave is located.

But this is at a time when the "reservoir" is still very abundant. Since everyone can't use it up if they open it up, it doesn't matter.

But when there are more and more people in demand in the future, and the supply of third-level spiritual energy gradually exceeds demand, it will be inevitable to carry out "quantitative management" of each cave.

But now, as the rules change, the underlying logic has changed.

Everyone eats from the same big pot. Those who can eat can eat a lot, but those who can't eat may not be able to get even a hair out of it.

For true elixir monks who can continue to make progress, as their cultivation continues to improve, their "appetite" will become bigger and bigger, and they will eat more and more.

On the contrary, the fake alchemy monk whose "appetite" has not changed much may not eat much now, but may not even be able to drink soup in the future.
To be continued...