The Undying Immortal System

The temporary defenses I had created for NanLu City were suboptimal, and it would have been a bad idea to rely on them long-term, but they were more than enough to give Tie Yang and his crew the time they needed to complete our true fortifications.

These interim protections consisted of three layers of weak Rank 4 defensive formations. For the low-level ruffians that were trying to invade us, it might take an entire year to get through even the outermost perimeter.

Of course, JiaQi could have just sent a group of mercenaries to sweep them away easily enough, but that would have been a self-defeating strategy. We needed to wait a bit before the harvest was ripe.

So, after ensuring everything with the assault was going smoothly, I returned to my regular business of alchemy, formations, and getting the city back on a path to prosperity.

I just hoped the invaders didn’t try attacking my herb farm or the city’s outlying villages. That would make things… messy. It would provide a bit of fertilizer for our growing crops, but no one wanted to have to clean up a bunch of dead bodies.

Not too long after this attack started, the Grandmaster I had sent to collect essence returned.

He had been gone for several months by this point, and I was beginning to think something had gone wrong, but I needn’t have worried. He had just taken his time getting to JiaQi’s hometown, and once there, he had left the gathering formation active for over a month. Then, he collected it and came back. No one troubled him along the way.

Fortunately for him, he hadn’t tried to uncover the secrets of what I was up to. I had hidden the beryllium oxide bar within a layer of stone, and if anyone tried to break the plate open and look inside, several Rank 5 Explosive Pills were ready to give them a bit of a surprise.

Once I deactivated this trap and removed the bar, I looked at it closely in energy vision.