Cole immediately return to city lord mansion as Virgo inform him that a personnel from the empire arrived. That person probably bring the Mother Center Stone and Projection Stone Pirro promised to give him.

When he arrived at the city lord mansion, a man send by Pirro hand a Magic Pouch. After looking at it, it truly contain what he expected; a single Mother Center Stone and five Projection Stone.

Cole smile after receiving them. This'll be a main source and base for him to develop media.

Pirro intend to gift the Mother Center Stone and Projection Stone on him, however, since he have a clear path and he definitely will develop it into something incredible, he don't want to receive this favor. He'll try to have a monopoly regarding the media technology he intend to develop and he don't want a time to come that he have to share it with the empire through this gift and favor.

Therefore, eventhough Pirro give the Mother Center Stone and Projection Stone as a gift, Cole still 'pay' for the items under the guise of the same reason—gift.

And it was something that exceed the value of Mother Center Stone and Projection Stone. Furthermore, it was something that is extremely rare kind of gifts—vitality and life attributed medicinal herbs he acquire from challenging the dungeon monolith. The amount and value is enough to extend a Peak Nascent Soul stage cultivator life by five years and one year for Void Sensing stage expert.

Not only his gift exceed the value of their's, it was also something that many people that has one foot on grave greatly needs. Due to that factor, its value were at least doubled.

"Please do me a favor and give this back to master Pirro. Tell him that I'm thankful for his wonderful gift."

The sender Pirro send was a Eight-level Nascent Soul-stage cultivator, a powerful figure in entire Azure Territory. Perhaps because Cole only release a might compare to Core Formation stage, the sender look down at him. He only store the Magic Pouch inside his spatial ring and leave the city.

It was a good outcome. He fear that that person will pocket some of the herbs if he knew its values.

Now that he have the Mother Center Stone and Projection Stone in his hand, he could finally check it more closely.

The main material used by Mother Center Stone is actually a Recording Stone, a rare treasure of heaven and earth with light and sound attribute that capable of recording video like a high quality camera. It was also known for its another name Inheritance Stone since it was mainly used for recording inheritance of experts.

However, depending on its rank, it has a limit of duration of video it could record. The higher the rank of the Recording Stone, the higher its capacity.

The one he has is only a Sky-Rank Projection Stone and become a Heaven-Rank Mother Center Stone after being inscripted with various runes and inscriptions.

The Projection Stone is also made from Recording Stone but unlike the Mother Center Stone, it was only an Earth-Rank Recording Stone. Not only its limit were more lower, perhaps just several minutes, the quality of the video it could record were also far more inferior.

In the end, the Mother Center Stone were processed into main recording stone due to more higher quality of image it could capture while the Projection Stone were processed into something that'll only project image.

This was the first time Cole holds a Inheritance Stone and he don't have it among his properties. However, its source is not a problem for him since the Nine-World Elven Ancestral Tree could give birth on it inside its world.

Nine-World Elven Ancestral Tree is capable of producing anything that a normal world could give birth to depending on its bidding. Spirit Stone Mine, medicinal herbs, spirits and even beasts of different rank. Inheritance Stone were also included in this category.

However, Nine-World Elven Ancestral Tree is not omnipotent that it could give birth into anything. For instance, it wasn't capable of producing something that is a product of civilization. For instance, refined pills and forged weapons for cultivation world and phones and the likes from the earth.

In some sense, the Nine-World Elven Ancestral Tree is capable of producing any raw material but not finished product.

After checking the Mother Center Stone, Cole immediately send it to Nine-World Elven Ancestral Tree so that it could mass produce Inheritance Stone.

Fortunately, since its first out of nine created world «Yggdrasil» is a high-level world just like the Nexus Realm. And not like a declining Nexus Realm but a rich world full of spirituality with the support of it's [Creation Well].

Nine-World Elven Ancestral Tree told him that it could produce Sky-Rank Inheritance Stone in a day, Heaven-Rank Inheritance Stone in a week and Monarch-Rank Inheritance Stone in a month. It could produce Emperor-Rank Inheritance Stone after six months and a whole year for Holy-Rank. Ten years for Divine-Rank and a whole 100 years for True-Rank.

The expected time were according to the time flow of Nexus Realm. Therefore, it'll be times seven inside the [Inner World]. The higher the rank of Inheritance Stone, the better but it'll take a long time to acquire it.

It could be said that Cole only need to wait for a day and he could mass produce what Pirro just give him using his Summoning Grimoire's [Creation Magic] and the Sky-Rank Inheritance Stone the Nine-World Elven Ancestral Tree will produce.

However, he don't have the intention of doing it now. He'll wait at the end of the month when he'll take the full control of the city then he'll take out everything that is necessary, including his own created Mother Center Stone and Projection Stone.

...

Time pass by and the month Cole give to original citizen of Heavenly Fire Empire to leave his independent territory finally arrived.

Not only Cole but the whole city is busy for the last month.

Cole and the officers of the city were extremely busy on different matters regarding the process of the city and the problems that sprung up along the way.

For example, a week after announcing independency, under the suppression of external and local merchants, the prices of basic commodities of the whole city sprung up and majority of commoners got drained of their budgets.

Without telling them the reason, they could tell that the reason why the prices drastically increased were because of the new city lord. If not because of him, the merchants shouldn't have increased the prices.

In addition that Cole is the reason of many changes in the city like losing jobs of the majority, the commoners might not say anything but anyone could feel that they're starting to hate the new management.

Cole already anticipated it and eventhough he don't control the decisions of merchants, external and local, he also anticipate that the populace will have a bad opinion of him if that happens. He won't deny that he practically cause everything that happen in the city.

However, before the commoners got consumed by many problems and food dilemmas, the city lord started to provide food supplies.

The same as before, the supplies they received depends on the count of heads in the family. It was a good news that even the elderly and children were given the same amount of food supply but it was cream of the top that even a new born were included in head count. The food pack were to be given weekly.

Per head, one will receive a five kilograms of rice, two kilograms of corn, one kilogram of eggplant and one head of cabbage.

For commoner family who live their whole lives saving whatever food they can and just consume what is needed, and only ate two times a day—morning and in the night—, that amount is enough for adult man who do heavy work for a week.

Therefore, if they have an elderly and a child in the family who usually consume less, the food supply given by the city lord even have a surplus.

The food supplies distributed by the city lord were like a piece of coal in the middle of the winter, or a water in the middle of the desert.

When every commoners receive their share, all the worry on their life vanished and was replaced with smile.

In addition, due to that move, besides the finished city wide population statistic, those who were in their right mind already concluded that the new city lord is someone that care about them, the lowest commoner.

Cole's image in the whole city become holy and liked. One could hear praises about him in any part of the city.

And those praises gets Celia's approval. At the least, she have a neutral expression when she roam the smelly city.

The food supply distribution also reduce the rate of commoners that leave the city. They want to leave the city because of its unknown prospect but it was apparent that the city lord will take good care of the commoners. It is better to stay in something good than to go to unknown land with unknown rules.

After that move, every merchants return their prices into normal. But since the city lord already distribute supply and even added a news that it'll be given every week, not to say raking profits, their business even become deserted and bleak. External merchants even ate some losses.

However, merchants were merchants after all. Since Cole, the city lord, destroy their chance to acquire some profits, they show some retaliation.

The prices of foods, specially rice and corn return to normal but prices of others quadruple in price. Meat increased its price by 7 times its original price while salt increased by 10 times.

Cole had tons of meat with him after challenging the Random Beast Nest Monolith Dungeon for several times. However, it was ant meat and Heaven-Rank at that. It contains potent spiritual energy plus earth-energy that any commoners would burst into spray of blood should they consume it.

Unfortunately for those merchants that challenge him, Cole is a transmigrator from earth who was born in information era. He might not have his own back on his home planet but he have a general concept about it.

Therefore, Cole choose a plot of land at the unpopulated area at the edge of the city and established a poultry farm and raised an initial three thousand Curled Tail Chicken.

Of course, it was after some research inside the [Inner World] with the assistance of Virgo.

He try to raise some Curled Tail Chicken inside. And approximately, if it ate the grasses inside the [Inner World], it'll mature after ten days with cultivation of Seventh-level Tier-1 Normal Beast.

Virgo's assistance were mainly to speed up the growing speed of the Curled Tail Chicken using her time arts.

It takes him several days inside the [Inner World] until he made an appropriate feed ingredient for Curled Tail Chicken.

The feed formula could provide all the necessary nutrients to the chicken and it'll mature after thirty-five days under the environment on the outside world. In the [Inner World] with abundant spiritual energy, the feed formula is enough to mature the chicken for eight days.

In addition, the feed formula makes the body of Curled Tail Chicken more bigger and bulkier, which increase the meat that could be harvested by it.

And lastly, mature Curled Tail Chicken's generally have a cultivation level of Third-level of Tier-1. It was an extremely low level and its meat contains almost a negligible amount of spiritual energy but long term consumption will still provide hidden benefits for commoners.

In second week, Cole the city lord, show a solution of meat supply problem in the city.

At that time, a speculation that the city lord truly put an importance to commoners finally flooded the whole city. Not only he solved the problem of ,commoners regarding their staple food, he even research a way to provide a steady supply of meat for the city.

Meat were a luxury among the commoners. One would be considered well off if they have meat once a week.

However, an speculation that the city lord intend to provide a steady supply of meat in the city in an affordable price for commoners.

Perhaps by now they won't be able to see and feel it but in the future, a time will come that meat will become affordable that they could eat it once a day.

Cole didn't release the news. In fact, he only learned about it when half of the population of the city started to talk about it.

Instead, the one that release the speculation were one of the workers he hired in the poultry farm.

Not even a month passed and Cole become a respected person by the commoners.

At time like this, commoners were usually left on their own. No one will bother to help them including the city lord. This was also the time commoners where they sell their own family. Loving fathers sell themselves to become a slave to give their family money while some heartless parents sell their own child for their own benefits.

Chaotic times is where commoners use drastic measures and show their dark sides that wasn't any inferior to most cultivators.

...

After the statistics of the whole Towering Tree City got finished, Cole then command those officers to survey the villages outside of the city that got included in his territory.

Unlike the commoners that live in the city, the commoners on the villages were least affected by all the changes.

The change of lord of the city only affect the taxes they paid. Whether it increase or decrease is the only thing that'll affect them.

When it comes food price hike, it won't affect them since they produce their own food. Most of villagers were usually a farming village. They sell their surplus produce but after stocking enough food for themselves.

However, Cole didn't forget about them. Eventhough they don't forget about them. And what Cole gave to the city dwellers were also given to them when they got visited by the city officers.

At the same time, in order to provide more jobs for commoners, Cole started to launch some projects.

For instance, he hired commoners that'll clean the whole city. They removed all the filth, trash and even some human waste on the city and make it relatively clean.

And to make sure that the commoners won't dirty the city, he made some orders regarding the matters.

For instance, he made a law that any deliberate or indeliberate attempt of any kind of dirtying the city will be punished accordingly. If they got caught, they will be asked to pay a fine.

In addition to the prestige Cole created, not to say that they need to pay their own money, the populace basically stopped any act of dirtying the city.

And since Cole can't spend manpower for lookout for the whole city 24/7, he announced that any commoners that report others when they saw any act of dirtying will be rewarded accordingly.

With that, he don't have to spend manpower since the commoners themselves will watch each other. After all, the reward were basically a free money.

And to ensure the cleanliness, Cole put trash bins in different part of the city. It was a designated place where commoners could dump their trash.

As for the problem regarding human waste, Cole made public toilets in different part of the city. He use the properties sold by commoners that leave to the city lord's mansion as a site for the public toilets.

Due to lack of technology, the toilets were just a simple latrine pits and he put potted plants that could purify strange smell in the air.

At the third week, Cole started to address the matter regarding the strong body odor of the commoners.

Cultivators have a more powerful sense the higher their cultivation is. For commoners, their body odors don't affect them since it was faint and their senses were used to it but for cultivators, they basically have to suppress their senses to the very minimum so that they won't be overwhelmed the odor that could kill even gods.

It was one of the reason why commoners weren't like by cultivators. They were practically a walking trashcan in their eyes and nose.

In fact, it was very simple why commoners have strong body odor since they don't use any detergent when washing their clothes. They look clean on the outside due to skillful hands of washers but they were full of impurities.

On the other hand, wiping their bodies with wet towel is the main way for city commoners to take a bath. It wasn't really effective on removing dirts and odors of the body.

Not only they don't have soap for body wash, the water itself is a scarce resource in the city.

Therefore, his plan regarding commoners hygiene takes a long time before he could open it in the city.

In fact, his plan regarding the matter were simple as opening public bathhouse in different part of the city.

The same as public toilet, the public bathhouse were created on the spaces left behind by commoners that leave the city.

He also made a home-made bath soap and hair wash that'll be used in the bathhouse but it was the matter of water that takes a long time before taking shape.

Cole didn't manage to create a suitable water source system in a month and the bath houses failed to open in that month.

Regarding the security of the city, both inside the city and outside, Celia alone solve this issue.

Anyone that was caught by her were instantly turned into frozen statue. After several times of example with more than twenty frozen statues that litters the different part of the city, specially even a Core Formation stage expert got frozen by her, no one dares to make another chaos again. No one dares to steal the treasures that is on hands of commoners inside the city ever again after that.

However, when those troublemakers learn their lesson that they can't make a crime inside the city, they shift their targets to those commoner family on their way on leaving the city that holds a gold coins with them given by the mysterious city lord.

Even the mountain and forest bandits resort on robbing the commoners.

When that happen, the rate of those who choose to leave drastically decreased.

Although it was a good news for Cole but the fact that a villain roam in his territory doesn't sit right for him.

Instantly, he command the extermination of those robbers, killers and bandits.

Cole even command that they use their full power on doing so to show the might of his territory. He need to show some deterrence so that small fry won't cause trouble in his territory while those with power needs to consider the martial force of his city if they want to cause some troubles.

Robbers on the road appear on the second week but they were exterminated in the third week. No one dares to cause trouble on the road inside the territory of Towering Tree City, not even a Body Tempering stage small fry. That is because even if they were the lowest and weakest of cultivators, the city send a ridiculous Nascent Soul expert to exterminate them in the face of the earth.

Every powerhouse could tell that it was the move of Towering Tree City new lord to show its might.

And it indeed deter them since the city show four Nascent Soul stage cultivators. It was a force that surpass many kingdoms and could contend with majority of second rate sects like Yin Yang Wonderland.

Different force in the Azure Territory can't help but take the new powerhouse that appear seriously.

And a month passed after all of that.