"All right, finally got Copper Seal Mountain moved over here." Several Gu Immortals exhaled a breath of turbid air, thoroughly exhausted.
One Stoneman Gu Immortal, however, couldn't rest yet and immediately began channeling his power.
After a while, he successfully activated an Earth Path killer move.
Under the effect of this killer move, Copper Seal Mountain seemed to shudder ever so slightly, almost imperceptibly. At the base of the great mountain, a faint earthy-yellow glow first radiated outward.
The glow, thread by thread, quickly coalesced into a semi-transparent, golden-tinged Earth Path mountain root.
The mountain root pierced into the earth and rapidly spread downward.
The Stoneman Gu Immortal maintained the killer move, his expression strained as his immortal essence plummeted tier by tier.
At last, he could hold on no longer and stopped the technique.
The mountain root ceased its rapid expansion, halting its growth as it anchored itself deep underground, beginning its normal, slow process of development.
Over the long stretch of years to come, this mountain root would communicate and intertwine with the surrounding Dao marks, sustaining and even reinforcing Copper Seal Mountain's body.
Trees have tree roots; mountains have mountain roots. Yank one out carelessly, and severing the root means destruction.
That was why relocating famous trees or famous mountains required specialized Wood Path or Earth Path methods. Forcibly uprooting them would do more harm than good.
The Stoneman Gu Immortal sat cross-legged on the ground, beginning to catch his breath and recover.
He was utterly spent, having consumed more immortal essence than any of the other immortals. Of course, once the task was complete, his contribution points would be proportionally higher.
As for the other Gu Immortals, they had finished resting and began their final inspection.
Moments later, the group reconvened.
"The condition of Copper Seal Mountain is excellent."
"The mountain root situation is also quite good. A famous mountain and mountain root of this caliber can absolutely serve as a vein node."
"The Master's vision is truly magnificent, his ambition boundless. To plan and construct an entire artificial vein network spanning the whole of the Minor Five Regions—this project is staggeringly grand. It will take at least ten years, and I can only admire his resolve."
The immortals nodded in agreement, sharing the sentiment.
"All right, let's move out. Next, we transport another famous mountain to its target location."
"Not many Gu Immortals can move mountains, but these tasks will only get fewer as we go. The contributions are so generous—we should push through and complete as many as we can."
"Exactly. Lately, if anyone can't hold on, just make a trip through the Life-Exertion Formation. Don't be stingy about those contribution points!"
"I already went through it before joining this operation."
"Ha, really? So did I!"
The immortals chatted among themselves as they flew away from Copper Seal Mountain.
If one looked down upon the entirety of the Minor Five Regions, nearly ten teams could be seen hard at work, moving mountains.
Of course, it wasn't only famous mountains.
Besides famous mountains, ten types of land could serve as vein nodes.
In the
The ten types were:
All ten could serve the crucial role of vein nodes.
The first phase of
Currently, Fang Yuan could only produce half of the ten types: Earth Abyss, Earth Trench, Earth Path, Birthland, and Battlefield.
The remaining five were still beyond his capabilities.
Take the Graveyard, for example.
This mysterious land's formation—even Blessed Land Immortal Venerable hadn't been able to fully unravel its secrets.
Gu Immortals could be reborn upon it.
The tombstones on a Graveyard were equally wondrous, possessing the power of Information Path. They seemed to have condensed the entirety of a Gu Immortal's life information drawn from the
The greater a Gu Immortal's reputation in life, the more detailed the text on the tombstone appeared to be, and the more helpful it seemed to be for the Gu Immortal's rebirth.
The exact, true nature of this connection still awaited verification.
At this point, the vast majority of Fang Yuan's subordinates were engaged in moving mountains.
The most common type of vein node remained mountains, not the ten types of land.
These mountains had to be at least of the famous mountain tier.
"There still aren't quite enough famous mountains in the Supreme Treasure Vault. For the first phase of the plan, I can only account for roughly thirty percent of the total vein nodes."
The artificial vein network project was enormous, requiring vast investments. After devouring a massive number of blessed lands and obtaining uncountable cultivation resources, Fang Yuan was only now beginning to see the limits of his supply.
He still had one famous mountain in reserve that he hadn't deployed.
That was the newly acquired
"I need to keep this one. My instincts tell me that if I continue following the Chai family's Human Path achievements to their conclusion, I'll eventually be able to distill Human Smoke Mountain into its essence and form the prototype of a
Fang Yuan was a Grandmaster of Human Path, and his intuition regarding Human Path matters surpassed even that of a Human Path Master.
He had slaughtered the masses of people the Chai family had been nurturing, completing the
Once Human Mountain and Human Sea were combined, the power would surely be extraordinary. Even in his previous five-hundred-year life, Fang Yuan had never witnessed it with his own eyes.