Han Lang had a clear plan for renovating the villa complex.
Firstly, the villa complex was situated on the mountainside of Lingyue Mountain, with only one main road leading up and down.
Therefore, by installing a toll gate at the foot of the mountain and building a comfortable security booth, manned by guards daily, the incident where Han Zhongyi and his wife were attacked at the community entrance could be largely prevented.
Of course,
defenses would also be needed against those who tried to force their way through or deliberately sneaked up the mountain from other routes.
For this purpose, a management and security department for the villa complex would also be established on the mountain.
In addition to this,
Han Lang had made more long-term considerations.
As he was a cultivator, he might encounter more cultivators like Tang Haoran in the future.
If he were to offend someone one day and other cultivators came knocking, who would protect his family?
To strengthen this aspect of protection,
Han Lang also planned to set up a "Qiankun Killing Array" for the entire villa complex!
"Qiankun Killing Array"!
While it sounded imposing, it was actually just a common mountain-protecting array used by most low-level sects on the Lichuan Continent.
Almost every cultivator at the late Nascent Soul stage could set up such an array.
It wasn't that Han Lang didn't want to set up a more powerful array,
but rather that the conditions on Blue Star were insufficient for him to complete such an array.
And embarrassingly,
although the Otherworldy Medicine Venerable's alchemy skills were peerless, his knowledge of arrays was not profound. He truly didn't know any high-level arrays.
Therefore, with no other choice, Han Lang had to opt for this array, which was commonplace on the Lichuan Continent.
However, speaking of which, although the "Qiankun Killing Array" was low-level, it was more than sufficient for Blue Star, with its thin spiritual energy and scarcity of cultivators!
Cultivators below the Golden Core stage, upon drawing heavily on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within the "Qiankun Killing Array," would immediately suffer a backlash!
The mildest outcome would be disrupted spiritual energy circulation; the most severe would be the shattering of the dantian, leading to the dissipation of cultivation and death!
Of course,
these were still too distant.
The most important thing at the moment was to find a way to sell all these villas.
The villa complex had obvious advantages:
fresh air, pleasant scenery, far from the hustle and bustle of the city, returning to the tranquility of nature.
But if these were all, it would indeed not be enticing enough!
Nor would it impress those in the upper echelons of society!
Therefore, Han Lang intended to amplify the advantages of the villa complex.
To make everyone who walked in here feel refreshed and amazed.
To constantly experience the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, and warmth in winter and coolness in summer.
Even to truly achieve what he told Luo Jiaying, extending one's lifespan!
Thus...
the crux of the problem returned to spiritual energy itself.
Spiritual energy was the fundamental basis for all cultivators' survival and the raw material for the vigorous growth of all plants and animals.
If a way could be found to increase the spiritual energy concentration in the villa complex, the complex would become different from the outside world.
Plants would become more vigorous; birds and beasts would become more active; the climate would become more comfortable;
achieving Han Lang's description of singing birds, fragrant flowers, warmth in winter, and coolness in summer would be effortless!
And for ordinary people,
spiritual energy could also cleanse impurities within the body and purify toxins hidden in the organs.
Although they would not actively absorb spiritual energy like cultivators, the body's instincts would, without their awareness, actively welcome the entry of spiritual energy.
However, Blue Star's spiritual energy was thin, coupled with various pollutants. Even if the body actively welcomed spiritual energy, it would not be enough to neutralize the daily intake of toxins!
For this reason,
all sorts of illnesses were also increasing.
If not for the advancement of medical conditions, people's lifespans would only become shorter.
However,
if an environment with a higher spiritual energy concentration could be created, the spiritual energy absorbed by people's bodies would naturally increase, and the impurities and toxins expelled would also increase.
With toxins expelled, the body would naturally be healthier, and lifespan would naturally be longer.
But the problem was...
how to increase the spiritual energy concentration in the villa complex?
The answer was the Spirit Gathering Array!
The Spirit Gathering Array was an array commonly used by cultivators on the Lichuan Continent during their closed-door cultivation.
It could gather the surrounding spiritual energy within the array's barrier, thereby achieving a spiritual energy concentration several times higher than the outside.
Of course, this also came at a cost.
To drive the Spirit Gathering Array, a spiritual energy-rich object had to be used as the array eye to provide the power to drive the grand array.
Such an object could be a pill, a spiritual herb, or a spirit stone.
On the Lichuan Continent, spirit stones, as currency, were naturally far less precious than pills and spiritual herbs.
Therefore, to set up a small-scale cultivation Spirit Gathering Array, cultivators would typically choose to consume a mid-grade spirit stone as the array eye to maintain their closed-door cultivation for ten to fifteen days.
Han Lang naturally did not have spirit stones.
And even if he did, he would not have used them.
Spirit stones, in the end, were merely consumables. Once the spiritual energy contained within was depleted, they had to be replaced promptly to maintain the operation of the Spirit Gathering Array.
Not to mention the considerable expense, the most crucial point was that one had to constantly remember to come and replace the spirit stones at a certain time.
This was too troublesome!
Therefore,
Han Lang decided to invest heavily.
He would transplant a ten-thousand-year-old Evergreen Tree from the Three-Story Pagoda to serve as the array eye for both the Spirit Gathering Array and the Qiankun Killing Array.
The Evergreen Tree was a relatively rare spiritual medicine on the Lichuan Continent.
As cultivators improved their cultivation during their practice, their lifespans would also increase.
However, no matter what, in their struggle against heaven, lifespans would eventually end.
Therefore, when cultivators who encountered bottlenecks and could not break through for a long time approached the end of their lifespans, they would choose to consume an Evergreen Pill.
The Evergreen Pill was a pill refined primarily from the Evergreen Tree.
Its effect was to slightly increase a cultivator's lifespan, ranging from ten years to several hundred years.
The difference depended on the age and medicinal efficacy of the Evergreen Tree.
However, to use the Evergreen Pill for life extension, one's cultivation had to be at least at the Nascent Soul stage or above. Furthermore, each cultivator could only consume one Evergreen Pill in their lifetime; consuming more would have no effect at all.
Thus, such a precious Evergreen Pill was most effective for those cultivators who were already halfway through their bottlenecks.
But ultimately,
the reason why the Evergreen Pill possessed such potent medicinal effects was attributed to the characteristics of the Evergreen Tree.
The Evergreen Tree was a spiritual medicine that was only pot-sized, resembling broccoli in shape.
Although small, it was the only spiritual medicine discovered on the Lichuan Continent so far that could grow without consuming spiritual energy and could itself contain a large amount of spiritual energy.
The principle was as follows.
Just like plants on Blue Star performing photosynthesis!
The Evergreen Tree would first absorb surrounding spiritual energy at a certain time to sustain its growth. However, after this spiritual energy circulated within its body, it would be perfectly replicated. The replicated portion would remain within the Evergreen Tree as its nourishment, while the originally absorbed portion would be expelled by it after some time.
This process would repeat cyclically.
The spiritual energy concentration around the Evergreen Tree would not decrease at all.
In this way,
using a ten-thousand-year-old Evergreen Tree as the array eye for the Spirit Gathering Array would allow the entire Spirit Gathering Array to circulate on its own.
Moreover, the ten-thousand-year-old Evergreen Tree itself contained a large amount of spiritual energy. With its "assistance," the effect of the Spirit Gathering Array could naturally be further enhanced.
Although the cost was considerable, for Han Lang, who possessed the supreme artifact, the Three-Story Pagoda, such things were not an issue.
"Alright, Xiao Ying! Since our bet has been settled, leave everything here to me. I promise, you'll be amazed by this place after some time. It's getting late, let's head home!"
"Mm, okay! Then I look forward to that day! Hehe..."
After speaking, the two happily drove away together...