Chapter 186: Move-in Ready
Benton was working on the sect grounds when he received a pop up notifying him that Kang Lin requested an attempt to improve her Lightning Shield. He smiled. She, unlike Yang Xiu, didn’t attempt to try his patience by selecting one of the trials he’d forbidden.
After granting his permission, he returned to his labor. Though he’d previously done preliminary work on the sect grounds by placing a lot of the main buildings and housing, that didn’t make the area exactly move-in ready. There was no running water or sanitary system or roads. In order to actually get his sect members living out there, he needed to check all those items off his To Do list, which was why he planned to dedicate the whole night to the task.
Of course, he could use the villagers as a labor force instead of doing it himself, but they would take weeks or even months just to quarry stone, crush it, transport it to the sect grounds, and place it on the streets. And that was just one step in the process.
First, they’d have to dig out a foundation for the streets. Then, they’d need a layer of sand, followed by a layer of gravel. Finally, the top layer would be paving stones.
The final product would be much fancier than anything in the village, where they mostly used dirt with some gravel to shore up muddy spots. But the sect grounds should be fancy. It wouldn’t do to skimp on the infrastructure. If for no other reason, Benton didn’t want people to trapse mud into his nice buildings.
Anyway, his point was that trying to get mortals to do the work would take way, way too long.
He did have a second labor force available, one consisting of over two hundred fifty members. And those laborers were stronger and had much better stamina than any mortal. That group, however, had much more important things to be doing than basic construction, namely growing stronger and earning him Sect Points.
Which meant that the workload fell to him. So work he did.
The good thing about techniques, especially when learned to Mastery, was that they were highly flexible. Just because he’d purchased one specifically to dig foundations did not mean that he couldn’t use it to dig other stuff. It came in really handy to quickly excavate streets about a foot deep and fifteen feet wide.
He ran the main boulevard from his planned location for the front gate, between his pavilions, past the cafeteria, and to the residential area. There, he laid it out between the rows of houses. Finally, he went back to the Central Business District and forked it off to the arena.
Perfect.
The next few hours were spent flying to a nearby river in order to gather sand and rocks. He shuddered to think how difficult that part would have been without his spatial ring.