Chapter 537: Zhenyue Archipelago
"Let’s find a place to settle down first." Yu Nianzhen said and Jiang Yue rolled his eyes in exasperation.
However, he didn’t refuse.
"What kind of place do you think we should look for?" He asked.
"Somewhere remote." Yu Nianzhen readily answered and Jiang Yue smiled.
With his lover’s personality, it was expected he would choose a remote place.
Fortunately, Jiang Yue didn’t mind.
Most importantly, they were peak immortal realm cultivators.
If they wanted some excitement, they could easily travel to other parts of the Cangxing world.
"Azhen, I have an idea." Jiang Yue suddenly said with a cheeky smile on his lips.
"Tell me."
"Why don’t we create a small secret realm?"
Hearing that, Yu Nianzhen was excited.
Although their space dao mastery wasn’t enough to easily travel to other planes, it was enough to create a secret realm.
"Okay, let’s create a secret realm." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
After that, the two travelled around the Cangxing world trying to find a suitable location.
In the end, they found an archipelago in the East Sea.
The archipelago was in a remote location and comprised of a little more than ten thousand small islands.
"Azhen, we can designate one of the islands as our private property and make it the gateway to our private secret realm. As for the rest of the islands, we can leave them to our friends and families. What do you think?" Jiang Yue asked.
"Okay." Yu Nianzhen agreed and began to look around.
"We need to rearrange the islands to make the archipelago more pleasing to the eye."
"Azhen, you know me so well." Jiang Yue said and chuckled.
With that, the two carefully checked the islands and finally chose one as their private island.
Compared to the others, the island wasn’t the largest.
However, it had the densest aura and its shape was relatively standard.
"Azhen, I suggest we arrange the archipelago in a concentric circles design." Jiang Yue suggested and Yu Nianzhen fell into thought.
After thinking about it for a while, he nodded and agreed with Jiang Yue’s vision.
"Our island will be at the centre of the archipelago and our immediate families and closest friends can make their homes in the eleventh ring." Yu Nianzhen said.
"What about the islands in the first ten rings?" Jiang Yue asked with a confused look in his eyes.
"We will use them to grow herbs and forests." Yu Nianzhen shrugged and said.
Hearing that, Jiang Yue smiled.
"In other words, you don’t want the others to live too close to our private island."
"I am glad you understand." Yu Nianzhen said and Jiang Yue burst into laughter.
In his mind, he didn’t think it mattered whether the others lived near the island or not.
After all, he and Yu Nianzhen planned to create a secret realm.
If things went as planned, most of their time would not be spent on the island but in their own little secret realm.
However, he didn’t object to the swordsman’s plan.
Now that their cultivation had reached the peak of the immortal realm, Jiang Yue naturally wanted to spend more alone time with his lover.
"There is the Yu family, Jiang family, master Yang, brother Li, bother Xuan, and master Chen. Each family can have a group of islands starting from the eleventh ring." Jiang Yue said and Yu Nianzhen agreed.
"We can also create some secret places for the youngsters to practice." Jiang Yue suggested.
"That’s not a problem." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
Although he and Jiang Yue didn’t have children, their relatives would certainly reproduce and their lineages would thrive.
Considering that, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue had to prepare ahead of time.
"Azhen, why does it feel like we are about to become the legendary family ancestors?" Jiang Yue asked with a naughty smile on his lips.
"It’s what we are about to become." Yu Nianzhen said but soon frowned.
"What’s wrong?"
"I don’t want the affairs of the archipelago and families to disturb our lives." The swordsman said and Jiang Yue chuckled happily.
"I have an idea." He said.
"What idea?"
"I will refine a few puppets to handle everything on our behalf. When the time comes, you and I will retreat to our secret realm and leave everything for the puppets and our contracted beasts to handle."
"My XiaoYue is so smart." Yu Nianzhen said and lovingly rubbed his husband’s hair.
After that, the two formulated a detailed plan and began to rearrange the archipelago.
When the rearrangement was done, there was one island at the centre of the archipelago and one hundred island rings.
At a glance, the first ring from the centre only had ten islands while the hundredth had one thousand islands.
Looking at the finished product, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen couldn’t help but be pleased.
However, their work was far from over.
After rearranging the archipelago, Yu Nianzhen helped Jiang Yue arrange a large immortal level guardian formation.
Fortunately, their efforts were not in vain.
After fifty years of hard work, the arranged formation was powerful enough to completely guard against the full-strength attack of a peak-level immortal king.
Unless an immortal emperor attacked the formation, the archipelago was likely the safest place in the entire Cangxing world.
"We have rearranged the archipelago and arranged a guardian formation but we still have a lot to do." Jiang Yue said and sighed.
"We need immortal stone veins." Yu Nianzhen said and looked at the boundless sea.
After the Cangxing world upgraded to a mid-grade world, all the spirit stone veins upgraded to immortal stone veins.
Over the years, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue had acquired some immortal stone veins but the few were not nearly enough for the archipelago.
"Fortunately, we are in the sea." Jiang Yue said.
Compared to land, the sea was richer.
Most importantly, most land places had owners but the sea was mostly ownerless.
If he and Yu Nianzhen worked hard to find immortal stone veins, Jiang Yue was confident they would get enough veins to transform their archipelago into a blessed land.
Five hundred years later, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue looked at each other and smiled.
In the past five hundred years, the two worked extremely hard to transform their archipelago into a cultivation paradise.
Not only did they transplant two immortal stone veins onto each island but they also reclaimed some islands.
Among the ten thousand islands, more than two thousand were reclaimed into herb gardens and monster forests.
Other than reclaiming some islands, the two also created some training places including a gravity mountain, a thunder lake, and even a time cave.
"Our archipelago has become a small sect." Jiang Yue noted with a satisfied look on his face.
Hearing that, Yu Nianzhen chuckled.
As his lover said, their archipelago had become a lot like a small sect.
However, the two didn’t plan to accept disciples or outsiders.
Considering that, rather than a small sect, their archipelago was about to become the residence of a hidden family.
"In cultivation novels, there are always some mysterious hidden families. Do you think our Yu-Jiang family will be a mysterious hidden family in the future?" Jiang Yue questioned with an expectant look on his face.
"Don’t disciples from hidden families always have a bad end?" Yu Nianzhen asked with a mischievous smile in his eyes.
"Now that you mention it..." Jiang Yue frowned.
In most novels, hidden family disciples are powerful but arrogant.
If their family became like that in the future, wouldn’t frequent conflicts affect their world of two?
When Jiang Yue thought about it, he felt a little regretful.
Originally, they didn’t plan to make a big deal of their lives.
However, somehow, they had accidentally started a hidden family...
"Azhen, it’s not too late. We still have time to regret our decision." Jiang Yue said in an urgent voice.
"Do you want to regret our decision?" Yu Nianzhen asked and Jiang Yue fell into thought.
However, after thinking about it for a moment, he shook his head in denial.
"No, I don’t want to regret it." He said.
Although he and Yu Nianzhen had lived in the cultivation world for thousands of years, they still had some attachment to their mortal relatives.
At first, they denied this attachment and wanted to break it from their current lives.
However, in the end, they realised it wasn’t necessary to break the attachment.
It was only after coming to this realisation that they decided to find their relatives and bring them to the cultivation world.
Since bringing the people was to fulfil their own selfishness, they naturally had to be responsible for the Yu and Jiang families.
Otherwise, if their relatives came to the cultivation world but encountered an unfortunate end, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue would most likely breed heart demons.
"XiaoYue, don’t worry." Yu Nianzhen said and looked at his lover with a soft smile in his eyes.
"We will leave our contracted beasts and puppets in charge of the family. As long as they keep an eye on everything, the Yu-Jiang family will never become cannon-fodder." Yu Nianzhen assured.
"Azhen, we can’t keep calling ourselves Yu-Jiang. I have a good name for the archipelago." Jiang Yue said and Yu Nianzhen raised an eyebrow in question.
"What do you think about ’Zhenyue Archipelago’?"
