The taming of the wolves went smoothly.
Qianyan Army Captain Da Shi tamed eight, to serve as primary guards for the base.
Jiang Xuan kept four for himself, two for the manor villa and two at the foot of Tianheng Mountain.
Hu Tao wanted to send one back to the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor in Liyue Harbor, but due to the parlor's location within Liyue Harbor and the wolves' considerable combat power, Ningguang and the others didn't agree to Hu Tao bringing it back.
As for how they determined the wolves' combat power…
After Ningguang and Keqing each tamed their last two, they took them to the Liyue wilderness to clear out Hilichurls.
Four wolves easily wiped out a Hilichurl camp.
This included four ordinary Hilichurls, two Hilichurl Fire Bannerbearers, a Hilichurl Brute, and finally, they bit a Hilichurl Shaman to death.
Of course, the wolves were also injured, but…
After being fed a few pieces of rabbit meat, they were fully revived.
They even directed the wolves to siege an Ruin Guard.
In less than three minutes, the Ruin Guard was torn to pieces.
Ningguang and the others concluded that if not facing strong enemies with potent elemental abilities or aerial combat capabilities,
such as Abyss Mages and Ruin Hunters,
most Hilichurls, except for the likes of the Stonehide Lawachurl, were no match for an organized wolf pack.
Slimes posed no problem unless it was a large group.
Of course, confronting an Archon in Teyvat would still be tough.
But this was already astonishing.
How many Archons were there in all of Liyue Harbor?
The monsters the Qianyan soldiers usually needed to clear were just ordinary Hilichurls and Slimes.
Powerful enemies still required an Archon's intervention.
This result delighted Ningguang and the others.
If enough wolves were tamed, the Qianyan soldiers would face much less pressure in the future, and their lives would be less endangered.
Wolves could be captured continuously, but Qianyan soldiers were precious citizens of Liyue.
Moreover, Jiang Xuan also said that these wolves, once well-fed, would breed, and their pups would grow quickly.
Roughly estimated, in at most two months, these dozen-plus wolves could multiply to hundreds.
On this day, Ningguang and the others received two more pieces of good news from the Minecraft world.
Enchanted weapons, which solved the problem of top-tier weapons for the upper echelon, allowing their combat strength to continue to soar.
Tamed wolf packs, which reinforced Liyue's lower-tier guard forces, protected the lives of Qianyan soldiers, and strengthened basic combat power.
A bountiful harvest!
This also made Ningguang and the others pay more attention to this world, dedicating all of Liyue's current development to the Minecraft world.
Everything was developing for the better.
The stationed Qianyan soldiers and miners had no acclimatization issues; in fact, they were all eager to stay there.
In their words, here, apart from not being able to use elemental power, they were stronger than the Archons in other aspects.
They could also use their own strength to help Liyue develop rapidly.
This sense of accomplishment made them unwilling to return to Teyvat.
Their enthusiasm was immense, turning Ningguang's original plan of rotating Qianyan soldiers and miners every three days into a seven-day permanent rotation.
…
Half a month passed in a flash.
During this time, Liyue's stationed forces grew from ten Qianyan soldiers and fifty miners at the beginning,
to fifty Qianyan soldiers and two hundred miners.
However, they all needed to be rotated in batches.
Otherwise, cognitive discrepancies about the world could easily arise.
The original eighteen tamed wild wolves had now grown to over thirty, and the young wolves also possessed considerable combat power.
Two rotating Qianyan soldiers each tamed some, and they could also assist in combat when miners went out.
This pack of wolves was very much loved by the Qianyan soldiers, who treated them as their most trusted comrades.
They would rather go hungry themselves than not feed the wolves first.
After all…
These wolves would truly trade their lives for the safety of the Qianyan soldiers.
Miners had also officially begun excavating minerals. Although progress was slow at first,
after becoming familiar with the process, they had now completed mining four caves.
Along the way, they even discovered an abandoned mine shaft. With Xiao and Zhongli leading the team, they recovered a pile of miscellaneous items and seven diamonds.
Adding the diamonds the miners themselves collected from the mines,
Jiang Xuan's next achievement quest was already halfway complete.
And all things considered, Jiang Xuan had only gone mining twice.
Every time he thought of this, Jiang Xuan reflected on the correctness of cooperating with Liyue.
It was truly like completing tasks while lying down; those above worry, and it was no different here.
With continuous mining, an endless supply of wood and stone, and the stone generator and iron farm in operation,
Jiang Xuan now had several chests full of items like iron, though diamonds and gold still couldn't be used freely.
Even so, a significant amount was shipped to Liyue Harbor for sale.
With large quantities and high quality, Liyue reaped huge profits from this, though for now, Ningguang and the others kept the news tightly under wraps.
Even the Fatui in Liyue Harbor were unclear about the situation.
They could only attribute it to new progress in The Chasm.
With sufficient manpower, Jiang Xuan's large-scale construction officially commenced.
Slime farms, automated farms, villager trading centers, and so on…
Almost all essential facilities that could be used in survival were completed with the help of the miners.
The remaining tasks were only redstone contraptions that absolutely required detectors and similar mechanisms.
It's worth mentioning that when selecting villagers to work in the automated crop farm, Jiang Xuan carefully chose a farmer with entirely dark skin.
In Jiang Xuan's words, this was the guidance of the world.
Otherwise, how could villagers, who generally shared similar skin tones, suddenly have a dark-skinned anomaly?
And after the automated farm was established, Ningguang and the others often saw Jiang Xuan holding a leash and "whipping" that farmer.
For that automated farm, Jiang Xuan even inventively gave it a name with a sign:
Cotton Field.
That dark-skinned villager also had a name, Nigge.
Ningguang and the others, however, did not understand Jiang Xuan's grand ambitions.
Besides that, Jiang Xuan's manor also underwent a second expansion, increasingly resembling a small city.
Ningguang and the others also began building their own houses; replica structures like the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and the Yuahaitei were successfully completed by Liyue architects.
Now they were replicating Jiang Xuan's stone generator and other projects.
Ten-odd days might not seem long, but in Minecraft, it was enough time for explosive growth.
Furthermore, there were now hundreds of people involved in the pioneering construction.
The only current problem was that the mines might not be enough, and the mountain behind them was a bit in the way.
A few days ago, Keqing even asked Jiang Xuan if they should just have people level that mountain.
As for why they didn't build on the plains…
Ningguang intended to establish a Minecraft city there, in case something happened to Teyvat in the future, they would have a retreat.
Moreover, many horses lived there, and they currently planned to use it as a natural ranch.
While automation was good, people…
Once they had a mature technological system and convenient ways to acquire resources, they would pursue the taste of a natural, wild existence.
Jiang Xuan understood. In his previous life, when his survival save was perfected, he would open a new save out of boredom and meticulously experience the life of an old farmer.
The major framework of this land's development was clearly on track. As for mineral output, apart from important resources like emeralds and lapis lazuli,
Jiang Xuan let Ningguang and the others take back everything else.
He truly had no further use for them.
As for everyone's individual situations…
Jiang Xuan could only say they were excellent.
Zhongli built a treehouse next to Jiang Xuan's, the six-thousand-year-old dragon showing off a craftsmanship that was truly ingenious.
He wasn't much needed by the miners, so these past few days he was leisurely inviting Jiang Xuan and Xiao to fish, ride horses, and hunt on the great plains.
Visibly, Zhongli's leisure seemed to have greatly alleviated his erosion.
As for Xiao, with three buckets of milk every day, plus four or five golden apples consumed during this period,
his karmic debt was almost completely cleared.
Xiao, having regained his former demeanor, was full of energy for everything he did, no longer caring about Adepti not being able to spend long periods together.
Unless Zhongli summoned him, he would go down into the mines with the miners.
He got along well with the miners, and even earned the title of the most approachable Adeptus.
Cloud Retainer spent these days intensely studying architectural books, humbling herself to learn from Liyue architects, and evidently aspiring to become Liyue Harbor's foremost architect.
Jiang Xuan heard she was gathering materials, intending to manually DIY a Jueyun Karst here.
Her ambition was grand, but it was certainly achievable.
Hu Tao was busy killing zombies every day, while Ganyu and Ningguang were learning to build various automated machines with Su Huai.
Keqing, on the other hand, after Jiang Xuan helped her get some enchanted tools, hadn't appeared much in the Minecraft world these past few days.
According to Ningguang, Keqing had taken a group of miners to the Guili Plains to exchange land…
Seeing Ningguang's delighted expression when she brought it up, it was clear that progress there was also good.
Everything was developing in the best direction.
The opening of the Minecraft world that Jiang Xuan desired was rapidly advancing.
Ningguang and the others' desire for Mora transactions had resulted in Liyue Harbor's revenue exceeding hundreds of billions during this period.
Zhongli's wish for harmony between humans and Adepti was also evident in Xiao and Cloud Retainer.
Everyone was more than satisfied with this world.
"Time passes so quickly…"
Zhongli, sitting on the riverbank with a fishing rod, sighed leisurely.
Not far away, a Drowned Zombie swam over.
Zhongli didn't even look, and Xiao, from his side, backhanded a fishing rod, hooked the Drowned Zombie, and pounded it to death in short order.
He used a trident, glowing with a rich purple light.
This was a top-tier trident Jiang Xuan had enchanted for him, with Loyalty, Channeling, and Impaling.
After all, Xiao was now considered the top bodyguard. Although his damage was lower than the Iron Golems at the miner's base, Iron Golems were too dull.
Xiao really liked this trident, but he still used the Primordial Jade Winged-Spear in Teyvat.
It's worth mentioning that Jiang Xuan also enchanted the Primordial Jade Winged-Spear with Impaling for him.
This small interruption did not disturb Jiang Xuan and Zhongli's fishing competition. Jiang Xuan reeled in a fish with a laugh:
"It's only been twenty days, all things considered. It's too early to say such things, isn't it?"
Zhongli was noncommittal, simply listening to the noisy bustling behind them.
"Twenty days… in Liyue Harbor, that might just be enough to plan out some architectural blueprints, but here…"
"Who would have thought we'd complete so many projects… Liyue Harbor is getting better and better, and this place is getting better too."
"Every time I think about it, your appearance feels like a monumental gift to Liyue."
Jiang Xuan looked at Zhongli with slight horror.
"You, you… why are you suddenly saying such disgusting things!"
Zhongli chuckled and said no more.
A moment later, Jiang Xuan also composed himself and said with great emotion:
"My cooperation with Liyue has indeed been the most correct choice I've made. The construction during this period has truly saved me effort and time, and progress has been very fast."
"As it should be…"
A flicker of pride flashed in Zhongli's eyes.
The steady Geo Archon would never be proud of any ancient achievement, but Liyue was different.
As long as Liyue made any progress, Zhongli felt happy.
This was his child, for whom he was willing to sacrifice his life.
Now, his child was growing rapidly, towards a future he himself would have to look up to.
Thinking back to the future of Liyue he had discussed with Jiang Xuan, Zhongli wished he could retire immediately and truly return Liyue to its people.
"Regardless… thank you…"
Zhongli reeled in his fishing rod, pulling up a piece of rotten flesh, as usual.
"Regarding your Vision, I will try to contact Celestia these few days… extensively."
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