Chapter 978 - 703: Moving Mountains

On the other side, within the vast expanse of the Great Void.

Chen Sheng carefully tallied what he had gained this time, counting three spiritual materials in total.

"Partridge’s Sand, Rock Essence, these are both common Purple Mansion spiritual materials, not considered rare."

When his gaze fell on the last item, his heart suddenly leaped:

"Is this Warehousing Primordial Gold?"

This item gathers and scatters at will, its whole body forged in a mysterious yellow, with fine star patterns faintly revealing themselves within, subtly aligning with the Gut Mansion’s three-star triangle.

"The characteristics are exactly right."

"Yes, it must be Innate Warehousing Primordial Gold!"

Chen Sheng’s eyes shone with brilliance, fully aware of its extraordinariness:

"Warehousing is the Innate Gold Mother, the golden qi it nurtures is pure and stable."

"According to the ’Kasyapa’s Record of Treasures’, this item firmly ranks as the thirty-seventh Soil Virtue rarity, a top-tier refining main material."

He hails from the Great Snow Temple, a branch monk of the Void Sun faction, with no suitable magical treasures at hand.

"In the entire Great Snow Temple, there’s only one Rohan-level secret treasure, ’Void Star Cup’, bestowed as the great vein treasure when ascending to the Source Temple."

Holding the Warehousing Primordial Gold, Chen Sheng’s heart immediately spawned a scheme:

"Using this primordial gold as the core, personally refining a Lifebound Magical Treasure, will suffice all the way to the Bodhisattva realm."

"In fact, before pursuing gold, there’s no need to replace the magical treasures."

He silently pondered and considered the shape of his faction’s magical artifacts.

"My Void Sun’s Buddhist magical treasures predominantly come in the forms of alms bowls, dharma banners, and vajras, with a multitude of shapes, needing careful selection to match personal divine techniques."

"However, in terms of attributes, there’s no need to worry!"

"Except for the Water Virtue being mutually controlled, all other attributes are subdued by the Sun Vein, all can be utilized!"

"Though not Great Sun, it can produce Sun, still usable for me!"

Upon thinking of this, Chen Sheng couldn’t help but feel amazed:

"This is the mystery of Sun Mansion and Water Mansion!"

"In this dimension, Sun and Water are prosperous!"

"Even loose cultivators of the Southern Border, once they cultivate the Sun Vein and Water Virtue techniques, control various attributes, within the same level, they’re unrivaled."

"The prospects on the path are exceedingly open, cultivation is never constrained..."

"Everything can be refined into Sun brilliance, every type can transform into genuine water..."

He shook his head, silently thought:

"Though dark currents run deep within Spirit Mountain, scheming and disputes are endless, compared to the worldly cultivators, it’s much too fortunate!"

These years he has stationed in the Southern Border territory, most of his time spent closed-door cultivating in the Heavenly Dragon Temple, rarely venturing out.

Yet by relying on the intelligence network spread by the Heavenly Dragon Temple, he’s already well-aware of the current state of the entire Southern Border cultivation realm.

"The world’s loose cultivators have a hard time cultivating, seeking a Dao Foundation inheritance is extremely difficult, let alone matching divine techniques!"

"Even if they luckily obtain inherited divine techniques, eight or nine out of ten are bait traps, secretly planned, a slight mistake leads to an inescapable doom..."

Thoughts reaching here, Chen Sheng suddenly snapped back, eyes sharply looking at the three spiritual materials in his palm, a hint of vigilance rising:

"I haven’t even entered an Immortal Mansion, yet treasures come to my door."

"Is someone scheming against me?"

After pondering for a moment, he calculated with a technique, then slowly shook his head:

"Seems I overthought, Warehousing Primordial Gold is precious but not something I must acquire."

...

Meanwhile.

Deep within the Heavenly Dragon Temple of the Southern Border, the Amber Mountain region.

Black Ebony was activating his lifebound Dao Foundation [Lord of Mountain Moving] to invoke the surrounding mountains, carefully combing through earth veins, stabilizing the landscape step by step.

Seeing the terrain gradually stabilize, initially showing results, a faint smile just flitting across his brow.

The next moment.

His heart suddenly tensed, sharply capturing the violent disturbance surging from deep underground.

"Hmm!"

"It’s coming again!"

His expression turned serious, not daring to delay, immediately manifesting his true form Dharma Aspect as an imposing Bear Monarch.

"Capture!!"

He raised his hand, using the force of the mountains within a radius of thousands of miles, layering heavy barriers to securely protect his subordinates in the center.

The next instant.

Rumblings! Rumblings!

Earth-shattering tremors suddenly erupted, the earth roaring and vibrating incessantly, the entire region’s earth veins completely losing control and collapsing.

Majestic and domineering evil earth qi soared into the sky, sweeping across the wilderness, this upheaval’s intensity far surpassed the previous riot multiple times.

Long after, the world’s chaos gradually calmed.

"Buzz~"

A vast divine light pierced through the sky full of dusty evil qi.

Black Ebony calmly operated his Dao Foundation, with a raise of his hand smoothing out all the ravaging violent aftershocks.

Looking around, the painstakingly repaired landscape had once again been reduced to ruins.

"Alas!"

Black Ebony looked at the scene before him, helplessly shaking his head, with a faint smile, lamented:

"Truly undeserved calamity, collateral damage indeed."

As soon as the words fell, an icy beam shot through the air, it was White Jiao arriving.

"Blackie, how are things on your end?"

Black Ebony pointed at the ruined land, his expression quite helpless:

"You can see for yourself."

White Jiao laughed heartily, full of relief:

"Consider yourself lucky, we’re already extremely fortunate."

"Just then, it was the Immortal Mansion within the earth veins directly shattering, let alone you and me as Dao Foundation cultivators, even Purple Mansion realm experts would be in dire straits."

"Luckily, the master warned and restrained us early, not to hastily go and investigate."

"Just in those brief moments, I know quite a few fellow Dao Foundation cultivators who had their karma cleared by this disaster."

Upon hearing this, Black Ebony understood, having one’s karma cleared means complete demise.

"Exactly!"

They were only facing the leaked aftershocks, already terrifying.

If they had directly faced the disaster’s core impact, the outcome is imaginable, Dao Foundation cultivation unable to withstand is normal.

Black Ebony turned to look at him, casually asked:

"You ran over here, not caring for your Snake Race juniors?"

White Jiao laughed aloud, waved his hand, and a smooth jade bottle flew out.

The jade bottle expanded in the wind, its mouth as wide as a thousand miles, suspended above a collapsed ruin, tilted, endless green waters surged out.

In no time, assembling into a vast lake stretching over ten thousand miles, all Snake Race clansmen securely dwelling within the waters, safe and sound.

He slowly explained:

"You know, my Dao Foundation is called [Sea Jiong Mountain]..."

"Though it bears the name mountain, its nature belongs to the Water Virtue, not conducive to controlling earth vein and landscape."

"After the first earth vein disturbance, masters like ours rushed to the scene to investigate..."

"Fearing the disaster might repeat, I promptly used the Nine Cang Bottle to contain all my clansmen within, properly settled."

"Looking back, it seems fortunate, the second upheaval was far too frightening, had I left them unguarded, I might not have been able to protect them all."

Black Ebony nodded silently, admiring White Jiao’s meticulous thinking and prudent actions.

"How’s the situation inside the Great Snow Temple?"

"There’s no need for you and me to worry about that, complete Rohan protection arrays are installed within the temple."

"Even if the master isn’t in the temple, these aftershocks cannot shake it."

"But as for the various Immortal Cities and Cultivation Markets within the domain, this time they might all be reduced to rubble."

Black Ebony sighed lightly at these words:

"We can do nothing!!"

Faced with such cosmic calamity, at their level of Dao Foundation cultivation, protecting one place is their limit.

He turned to White Jiao and spoke resolutely:

"You stay here and watch over things, I’ll shift the mountains, restore the broken earth veins, and check on the nearby Immortal Cities."

White Jiao nodded slightly in agreement:

"Go ahead, even the Immortal Mansion has collapsed, this turmoil is done, no more repercussions."

Black Ebony said no more, his form directly sinking into the earth veins, following the essence guidance, rapidly heading towards the nearby Immortal City.