22 Schools

Like this, three months had passed in a blink of an eye. Feng was not training too hard, rather, he was enjoying his current situation.

Within these past three months, all eight of the sects who Feng had negotiated with finally finished moving into the city and even took over some of the smaller townships for Feng.

Life for Feng was very peaceful now that so many leaders and elders were also in the city with him. Feng felt that each sect deserved to have a say within the city so he made a city council and implemented small roles for the council to take charge of.

It was obvious that Feng was the almighty ruler of this city, but at the same time, Feng did not want to completely govern the city. Feng was the type that wanted to focus more on his cultivation, and as long as he had trustworthy individuals handling other areas, he was satisfied.

Due to so many other sects finally living within the city and all contributing to the growth of the city, Feng decided to make a public announcement.

Surprising enough, each new sect that moved into the city, also brought along small schools they were in charge of to bring in nearby talent to their sects. However, until now, Feng did not allow there to be any schools within the city.

The reason for waiting, was that Feng wanted all of his new allies to become situated within the city before implementing cultivation schools for citizens of the townships under his city's control. This was not just to keep things more organized, but Feng wanted to squeeze out every last soldier for his army that he could.

"From this point forward, our city will allow cultivation schools. Every citizen who is not a soldier, will be able to get tested in order to join each school. If a citizen reaches the requirements needed, they can choose to join the school of their choosing."

"Also, the top students of each school may enter a small city wide tournament every ten years. We will have the Young Dragon division for the youths, and the City Wide division for those over fifteen years of age to twenty five years of age!"

"In addition, the top three performers of each tournament will have the opportunity to join the noble family's ranks! By joining the noble family's ranks, each individual will be gifted a noble title and cultivation resources." Feng announced to the citizens of the city.

With so many new sects stationed within the city, this news had spread to surrounding cities. Like a wild fire, over the following six months, citizens of nearby cities who did not have a good standing, took their chances at trying to meet the requirements to join the cultivation schools of Feng's city!

Due to such big news spreading out to numerous cities, the cities who had local tyrants who only treated their soldiers well, started to migrate to Feng's cities so that they could become citizens and have a genuine shot at walking the path of immortality.

When it came to these lands, many cities did not have enough resources to implement cultivation schools. This was mainly due to the fact that majority of the time, each city would be owned by a single sect, rather than a collective of many sects.

Having such favorable conditions for not just soldiers, but for every citizen, other townships immediately surrendered to Feng's city which made it that much easier for his forces to take over nearby cities.

It was now two years later and Feng was finally updated by his head general that the fourth city was now under their control. Though, growth like this was extraordinary, within these lands alone, existed over one thousand cities. However, right now with five cities under his control, Feng was now able to claim his current cities as a whole Duchy!

Over one thousand cities and over fifty duchies in this land area existed, however, Feng's new duchy would make it now fifty one. Feng was excited, except, he was unable to come up with a name for his newly established duchy.