Chapter 296:
Emerald Valley.
Beyond the Outer City of Black Cloud, past the fringe towns and wildlands, lay a small valley known for producing rough jadeite, situated just beyond the Mist wall.
When Lin Hui arrived, Ouyang Yining was already waiting with her personal guard. She held a Relic array disk and bowed.
"Excellency, this is the Mist-parting array disk gifted by the Great City Lord," she said. "It is typically used to establish new cities. A single disk can isolate a Mist-Free Zone of roughly one hundred li in radius, and once deployed, it consumes approximately one hundred thousand units of Feather Blood per year."
"No wonder so few build cities out here," Lin Hui sighed. "That kind of consumption is practically burning money."
"Indeed. Only major clans backed by a Blood Ancestor have the financial power to open private territories," Ouyang Yining agreed. "The expense is staggering—and the larger the Mist-Free Zone, the steeper the cost."
"That will do." Lin Hui said.
She passed him the disk. He leaped into the air above the valley.
The governance core of the Sacred Form of Heaven was the atmosphere over the region, so he first needed to understand its state.