Chapter 559: – Opening Mountains, Splitting Stones, Building the Xiuchang City

Li Xiang nodded, "Exactly, a problem arose that can't be solved. I came to ask you what can be done; they're too superstitious, insisting on forcing people into the foundation, which I stopped, but I'm worried my words won't work, so I came to you—please don't cause any deaths."

Nan Qinghuan couldn't stay calm, immediately set down her chopsticks, "What, force people?"

"Yes, they say it's a custom of their Tribe— isn't this murder?"

Li Xiang could not comprehend such ignorant foolishness, yet he could not stop it either.

But he knew Nan Qinghuan could.

Nan Qinghuan instantly stood up, "Take me to see."

Sure enough, when they arrived, a sturdy man was bound and about to be pushed into a deep trench; seeing this, she shouted loudly.

"Stop."

At her command the men actually halted; the leader, seeing Nan Qinghuan, rushed over, "Ou Mu, why are you here?"

That's right, the ones responsible for building the Great Wall are none other than Dashan and Ji Lei; they are both Ying's men, so they listen to Nan Qinghuan.

"I ask you, how can you throw a living person down? What exactly is happening here?"

Ji Lei was helpless; he didn't want to do it. He glanced at Li Xiang, realizing he was the one reporting, paused, and said, "Ou Mu, it's like this: this place has never been built successfully; delaying the schedule makes Ying angry. Our Tribe has a custom—if something can't be built, throwing a person in makes it finish quickly. We have always done it that way."

"Yes, Ou Mu, we used to do it like this. You should go back; we've already bought this person, he's a cheap slave."

"Shut up."

Dashan's words made Nan Qinghuan very angry; she strode to the slave, and when she saw he was a young lad, she immediately told Li Xiang to draw his Dagger and free the man.

"Hey, Ou Mu, what are you doing? We bought him with money."

"Shut up."

After Nan Qinghuan freed the man, his face was covered in mud, looking pitiful, his upper body and feet naked, his whole body smeared with sludge.

She could hardly imagine that even here, cannibalism could occur.

Too terrifying.

"Don't be afraid, they wouldn't dare kill you."

The man had a pair of blue eyes, which darkened Nan Qinghuan's expression—blue‑eyed person? Foreigner? "Where are you from?"

The man said nothing, just hung his head, unwilling to look at her; Nan Qinghuan assumed he was scared and said, "Senior brother, you go and clean him up."

Li Xiang hurriedly took the man away; they are people from the modern era and cannot tolerate using living people for Ritual.

Too terrifying!

After Li Xiang left with the man, Dashan sighed helplessly, "Ou Mu, don't worry about this; if we don't kill people the construction fails, and when Ying blames us, what will we do?"

"You shut up, who said you must have dead people to finish building?"

Dashan was helpless; he knew Nan Qinghuan was formidable, but they had already built here many times, and having no choice they consulted A Mu, who gave this method.

Buying slaves at the market isn't a big deal; those slaves are just for people to play with—if they die, they die.

Dashan still clings to old thinking, unchanged; although now they are city folk, the tribal customs still persist deep inside.

"We've filled here many times, but each time it collapses after completion. Ou Mu, we truly have no other way."

Dashan and Ji Lei truly have no choice; if not for the rushed schedule they wouldn't want this.

Killing isn't what they want to see, but now aside from killing they can't find another solution.

Nan Qinghuan doesn't believe in superstition; after carefully examining the terrain she discovered a huge funnel below. Building a wall there easily collapses because the foundation is unstable—whether you kill or not is irrelevant.

"Tell me about building here?"

"It's Youchao Xuan; he arranged everything here."

"Bring him here."

Soon, Youchao Xuan learned of the incident and rushed over; he has been sun‑tanned while building the Great Wall, his hair even whiter.

"Goddess."

"Did you choose this terrain?"

Youchao Xuan nodded, knowing something went wrong, "I chose it, Goddess, any problem?"

"Of course there's a problem; you see, this is a funnel—you can't build here, you must relocate."

"No, there is a suitable spot, but the stones there are indestructible, cannot be moved; I can only detour here. Goddess, I've considered everything you said, but it's impossible."

"What? Big stones—what kind of big stones?"

Quickly, under the scorching sun, Nan Qinghuan was led by Youchao Xuan to a bend ahead; the spot is suitable for building the Great Wall, better than the funnel, but indeed many huge stones cannot be moved.

"Look, these are the stones. I tried blasting them with Gunpowder, but it didn't work; I also tried manual hauling, even had Dashan use an Excavator, but they wouldn't budge—just stone. I thought we had no choice, so we changed location."

Youchao Xuan isn't a fool; indeed this place is impossible, so he chose the funnel location, but it never succeeded.

This makes him irritated, not knowing how to explain to Ying.

Hearing his words, she strode toward the stones; the stones were massive clumps on the ground, covered outside with moss and many wild grasses.

This is… she tapped the stone; indeed it is Diamond, extremely hard—if the explosive power is insufficient it won't burst.

But it isn't without a solution.

One can use leverage to accomplish this.

Youchao Xuan saw her looking left and right beside the stone and knew she must recognize what stone it was.

"Goddess, do you know what stone this is?"

Nan Qinghuan nodded, "I know what stone it is, I understand."

"What?"

Nan Qinghuan discovered many fossils beneath the stone—dinosaur fossils. These stones overturned her learned knowledge, as she had never seen such hard dinosaur fossils, and she became excited.

Perhaps it's a professional hazard; she immediately stood, "Youchao Xuan, I know what stone this is—it's a fossil, can't be blasted, too wasteful. I think this can help our study of the animals that lived here; we can have people excavate it without affecting the Great Wall."

Her words made Youchao Xuan shake his head, "Goddess, it can't be excavated; I've had people try."

If it can't move, how can we dig?