Gathering materials

He had already been at the peak of the fourth layer before returning to earth. With the experiences he had had today he felt enlightened. After an hour he finally broke through to the fifth layer. The gunk that Damian exuded from the breakthrough was instantly cleaned by the formation in the room leaving Damian and his robe spotless. Damian at seeing this was truly grateful for this function, he would not need to worry over staining everything with gunk. He spent the rest of the night stabilizing his cultivation.

He knew that what he had read in novels about breaking through in the middle of a battle was suicide. The cultivation after a breakthrough would be unstable and could be damaged. The only exception to this was tribulation, as precisely when the cultivation was unstable could tribulation lightning refine the body and dantian.

Once the sun rose, Damian felt the worst of the instability had already passed. He should be able to fully stabilize his cultivation the next day.

Some more excursions to gather different resources were being secured. Damian didn't take part in those, as he still had matters to attend to as a member of the council.

Damian put up a notice that he was searching for a clan member who knew how to make leather, and some threat or yarn. While he waited Damian gave the stored meat to the person in charge of cooking, the spiritual herbs he planted in his garden, and the beast parts he stored in his chest.

A day later, a Clansman by the name of Francisco reported to Damian he was a thirty-year-old man in the middle stages of the Foundation Establishment. He was an old man close to ninety years before being rejuvenated by Tian Long; he knew how to make leather and yarn. Francisco was amicable enough and after discussing for some time, they reached an agreement.

Damian would provide the skin he had collected. Francisco would make the leather with the skin provided and seek a good material for the yarn and after producing it, he would return it to Damian. Who then would make bags of holding and would return three to Francisco, one to himself, one to his wife, and one to his grandson who was at the peak of the Foundation Establishment realm.

Days passed as Damian fully stabilized his cultivation and continued his duties at the council. He placed the library at the side of the Clan hall where he continued with the restrictions placed. However, he added one restriction a clan member could borrow one manual each month for a time of one month. Upon the month they would need to return it. If a clan member delayed, they would not be able to enter the library for a month, and a spirit stone penalty would be established once they began to be in circulation. However, clan members were free to read mortal, earth, and sky manuals while on the premises of the library.

The cloned copies the library had produced in the special space created by Tian Long. Damian requested back to those in the Golden Core realm and peak Foundation Establishment. They had already memorized the contents of the cultivation and techniques manuals. Those manuals would not be of use to them. With that, the library was in no shortage of copies of the manuals.

On the sixth day since his arrival on earth, most of the Violet sky clan state had been built. Bricks were making their appearance in buildings and houses now, as well as a periphery wall to protect the city.

Damian walked down the streets observing the changes to the village. Now looking much more built, streets were made of dirt, of course, but many commodities had found their way back to the earth. One such commodity was brooms and buckets, hot water, and even electricity, although it was generated by Qi.

They had found some ores in a mountain valley nearby, close to where they had put the spirit stone mines. Both resources were already being mined.

The Violet Sky city had been provided with four white spirit stone mines, three red spirit stone mines, two yellow spirit stone mines, and one green spirit stone mine.

Each mine of white spirit stone mine produced around thirty million spirit stones a year, after that, they would need to be left to rest for a period of two years to regrow spirit stones. A red spirit mine produced seven million spirit stones a year, before needing to rest for two years. A yellow spirit mine produced three million spirit stones a year before needing to rest for three years. Lastly, a green spirit stone mine produced one million spirit stones a year before needing to rest for five years

As per the exchange value. They had decided to establish an exchange rate of one hundred white spirit stones to one red spirit stone, one hundred red spirit stones to one yellow spirit stone, and one hundred yellow spirit stones to one green spirit stone.

They were a valuable resource that would need to be allocated among the families living in the city. Fortunately, cultivators didn't have many mundane needs so a cultivator could use around three spirit stones a month to fill in house necessities. One spirit stone could afford several kilograms of food, one spirit stone powered the arrays in the house, and one to cultivate. The minimum monthly wage would be set at eight white spirit stones. Mainly reserved for mortals with null spiritual roots that could only remain in the Qi Condensation realm.

As a council member of the Violet Sky clan. Damian would have a monthly salary of ten yellow stones, fifty red spirit stones, and a thousand white spirit stones, as well as a yearly allowance of fifteen green spirit stones.

The money the clan produced and wasn't used on expenses or salaries would go to the treasury. It would need at least the approval of four council members to take spirit stones from the treasury.

Damian's walk was ending as he approached the city hall, where the council held sessions. Francisco was waiting for him in front of the city hall. As Damian approached Francisco came to meet him.

"Damian, we meet again. I have brought the leather and yarn requested," said Francisco, wearing the clan robes. His hair was black, his eyes brown, and his skin olive-colored. He could be described as mildly handsome.

"Good, come by tomorrow and I will provide three bags of holding as promised," replied Damian.

They exchanged a few more pleasantries, then Francisco retired to continue his duties.