Villain Cultivator (Web Novel)

Ju Shoufen ’s Residence

Cao Mao and Ju Shoufen were alone as they had been discussing their future plans.

The battle was over, and everyone in the city was busy cleaning up after the messes.

The previous explosions and shockwaves depleted 80% of the arrays ’ power. Ju Shoufen had to replace the essence cores, which had been used up to fuel the arrays.

Then, it came with a piece of bad news. Ju Shoufen ran out of essence cores to use as array batteries. She reached out for Cao Mao, asking him to share some of his resources to cover the city maintenance.

Cao Mao, who had just lent the soul sword to Jia Shan, had been expecting this type of development. He smiled and asked the Ju Shoufen directly.

”How many essence cores do you need to maintain the arrays for a year or two? ”

Ju Shoufen counted her fingers, ”Five arrays are active right now. The concealment array for the entire city consumes 300 cores a year, and the array for the water source takes 10 cores a year. The city blockade array consumes 50. The defensive barrier can be turned on and off, but it consumes the most during battles. We ’ve spent 500 cores just to protect the city against two or three shots from that stupid orc. The killing array takes 100 cores for standby mode, but it can take up to 2,000 cores if someone attacks the barrier directly… And the Qi filter array takes 300 cores. ”

300 + 10 + 50 + 500 + 100 + 300 + variables.

At the minimum, they would need 1,260 cores a year to maintain all arrays, assuming that no one would attack the city. However, that was not an ideal amount as the protection array would require more cores to upkeep during wartime. Cao Mao believed that they might even need more than 100,000 cores to defend the city against a large-scale invasion.

Managing a territory could be costly, but it was necessary for his future preparations. After all, he might have to fight against several villainous organizations and protagonists at the same time since they might want to steal the precious pylon tower and the city.

Reluctantly, Cao Mao allocated 1,000,000 essence cores to an empty ring and passed it to Ju Shoufen.

The loli grandma took the ring and sighed. She didn ’t expect a lot of essence cores, but she didn ’t bother scanning the ring ’s content.

”I know that it ’s hard for you, but we need every help we can get. I know that you need cultivation resources to cultivate, but we need to scrap everything we can get to maintain the basic arrays. Oh, don ’t worry, though. You don ’t need to give me everything. Just 10 or 20 essence cores will do. Maybe, we can disable some of our arrays to lower the upkeep. We might have to turn off the Qi filter array after the tower is completed. And- ”

Cao Mao pointed at his ring, ”Before you make the conclusion, check the content in the ring first. Do you think I ’m that poor? ”

”Huh? ”

Ju Shoufen raised her eyebrows. Then, she scanned the ring with her Qi sense.

1,000,000 white orbs piled into a mountain within the ring ’s space.

Sensing a large number of valuable cores, Ju Shoufen ’s brain stopped working for a moment.