Chapter 294: Earth, the disaster finally arrives!

Great Xia Cultivation 749 Bureau.

Hua Tiancheng and the middle-aged man discussed many matters, but the most important goal was on the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron.

"The preparations for the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron are nearly complete, and all the modern construction teams have already arrived at the target location."

Hearing the middle-aged man's report, Hua Tiancheng was extremely excited, "This is the most crucial link, the strongest force for our Great Xia to resist disaster; there must be no mishap."

"The Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron is the top priority of all plans, concerning the fate of the skyscraper's future; it must be completed at any cost."

The middle-aged man's expression was solemn; he nodded, "Don't worry, Bureau Chief, I will surely supervise them properly."

In the preparations for the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron, the most important thing is materials.

Even though Ye Qin had exerted himself to reduce the materials used by the cauldron, it remained extremely complex; to gather all the materials listed on the blueprints, virtually all relevant departments of Great Xia sprang into action.

All the major mineral veins within Great Xia were frantically mined; drilling platforms everywhere operated at maximum power, the drill bits almost smoking.

Copper, iron, gold, and silver need not be mentioned.

According to Ye Qin's leather scroll, not all mineral materials and veins are usable; only the materials from the cores of the most precious and largest veins can be used!

Because these materials gather the essence of the earth's core, they enable the cauldron to exert its maximum effect.

To construct the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron, every inch of mineral vein is the most precious material.

Basically, from mineral veins weighing several tons, only a few hundred pounds of usable material can be refined, showing that constructing the cauldron is no easy task.

Even if Great Xia is vast and resource-rich, it is still difficult to gather all the materials.

Fortunately, Ye Qin considered this; the materials for this cauldron's construction involve no rare earths or erbium and other precious metals, mostly gold, silver, copper, iron, with only a small portion of special gemstones.

Because compared to copper ore, some precious materials have greater ductility and stronger absorption of heavenly and earthly spiritual energy, making them indispensable.

To ensure material supply, Hua Tiancheng waved his hand and directly ordered all major banks of Great Xia to frenziedly purchase gold and silver materials!

The relevant state departments took action, the banks acted, purchasing gold, silver, gemstones, and other precious materials.

Such a thing has never happened before.

Almost as soon as it appeared, gold and silver prices skyrocketed in a short time!

Only a few days have passed, and countless gold, silver, and gemstone hoarders in Great Xia have already made a fortune.

These hoarders tasted success; being profiteers, they began hoarding even more gold, silver, and gemstones at prices higher than the official rate, hoping to gain greater profits from stockpiling.

Facing this behavior of the hoarders, the senior officials remained relatively calm, sending bank representatives to seek a peaceful resolution to the purchases.

But they were refused; almost all the hoarders did not want to sell their gold, silver, and gemstones, wishing to continue hoarding to seek greater profits.

After all, everyone understands the principle that rare goods can be hoarded for profit.

But the state will not indulge them; moreover, at this juncture, upon learning of these merchants' actions, Hua Tiancheng flew into a rage.

Seeing the talks fail, countless personnel from relevant departments sprang into action—tax bureau, legal affairs bureau, trade bureau—moving with lightning speed.

They arrived at the hoarders' shops, warehouses, and trading sites, gathering various evidence,

for example, this batch of ore hasn't paid taxes, that batch has smuggling records, and also fails fire safety inspections, with incomplete paperwork.

All kinds of troubles came pouring in!

The hoarders were left dumbfounded!

You know, these merchants have been in business for so long; who hasn't made a mistake?

How could they withstand such an investigation? They had no means to resist; almost that very night, Great Xia had countless malicious hoarders crying out for their parents.

All maliciously hoarded goods were confiscated.

Some merchants saw red, wanting to appeal and expose this robbery via the media, but it was utterly useless.

Facing these money‑grubbing worms, the approach is simply to turn a blind eye and remain unbothered.

These merchants had never seen such decisive state measures; upon realizing the authorities were serious, they were frightened to the point their eyes almost popped out.

Instantly they became honest, selling numerous gold, silver, and gemstones at market price.

Even so, this batch of gold‑silver hoarders still made a fortune.

Not only the gold‑silver‑gemstone hoarders, but anyone involved in the ore and precious‑materials industries also reaped this windfall.

Among these, the only precious‑material ore that did not rise in price was diamond.

Because in Ye Qin's design, these high‑density carbon polymers have no use at all, so there's no need to purchase them.

But those engaged in the diamond trade, unaware of this, watched as surrounding materials rose in price and gemstone suppliers frenziedly amassed wealth.

Eyes of envy and jealousy turned red.

"Why hasn't all this heavenly fortune fallen to us?"

"Have you made a mistake? Not even bringing us along to get rich."

"Good fellow, everything else is rising, but our diamonds aren't growing at all."

"Is there anyone who can explain what's going on? Is it still timely to switch to another line of work?"

The skyscraper's higher-ups had no mood to heed these voices; after a period of busyness, they finally gathered the materials for constructing the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron!

With Hua Tiancheng's order, countless relevant professionals rushed to the nine regions of Huaxia!

Yangtze River, Yellow River, Kunlun, Taihang, Tian Shan, Nansha Islands, Greater Khingan Range, Mount Tai, Mount Hua!

Nine ancient mountain ranges and great rivers stand between heaven and earth in Great Xia!

Countless artisans gathered here, beginning to construct the ancient great cauldron according to the blueprints.

Besides that, many architectural experts and metallurgy specialists were summoned, and even renowned folk casting masters were all invited over.

All those involved in the construction signed the highest‑level confidentiality agreements, and even their communication devices were confiscated.

When they were puzzled, someone came forward to explain.

"I am Zhao Hai, Southeast Region Chief Officer, fully responsible for the casting of the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron; I know you have many doubts, but there's no time to elaborate now."

"You have all signed the confidentiality agreement, and your families will receive official notices, so there's no need to worry."

"Your task now is only one: to construct the Nine Cauldrons."

Zhao Hai spoke leisurely, but those who heard these words showed a dazed expression.

They were mostly talents in casting and construction, naturally they knew of Zhao Hai's existence; what is surprising is what exactly they need to construct.

Unexpectedly, the overall person in charge of the building's southwest district needs to personally take charge.

Everyone looked around, and there were also many familiar faces; all were talents in architecture and metallurgy, renowned far and wide, known to all.

Pick any few out of them, each is a pillar that can stand alone, yet now they all gather here—what exactly needs to be built that warrants such a massive undertaking?

Time was urgent, Zhao Hai didn't waste words with them; after seeing the blueprints of the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron that were issued, everyone widened their eyes, unable to believe what they saw.

The characters and patterns on the blueprint are densely packed, making viewers dizzy.

The first thought in everyone's mind was: how could there be such a huge, complex cauldron!

They are well-known figures in the industry, with sharp and unique insight; at a glance they know the manufacturing process is extremely complicated, and most importantly, the cauldron's length, width, and height are over 100 meters.

One can imagine how much resources would be needed to construct such a huge cauldron, let alone the materials and ore required—it's simply an astronomical figure!

If it were only the text like that, it would be fine; besides the various images recorded, there are also tadpole-sized characters, simply making one's scalp tingle, with no idea where to start.

"Such a cauldron needs to be completed within two months."

Zhao Hai's tone was not that of a question but a notification.

It seemed as if they were to construct an ordinary building, not such a high-difficulty thing.

Everyone still thought they were hallucinating: "What? Completing construction within two months? This is absolutely impossible!"

"Even half a year might not be enough, let alone two months—this isn't a joke."

"That's right, this project is too huge."

After Zhao Hai calmly told them what was about to happen, everyone went blank, their brains crashed, and a huge influx of information flooded their minds.

Monster of Longyuan Mountain Range?

Heaven and earth catastrophe?

Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron?

Their first reaction was disbelief, thinking it was fake, after all how could monsters exist in this world!

Even if these words were spoken by Zhao Hai, the overall person in charge of the southwest district!

However, the ensuing scene shattered their worldview.

"Thud thud thud—"

With the steady footsteps sounding, the ground seemed to tremble, and a dark figure appeared beside Zhao Hai.

"I come from Longyuan Mountain Range; this time, following my master's order, I have come to help you construct the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron."

A wild wolf over three meters tall, its black fur standing like steel rebar, holding a huge bone-picking dagger in its hand, wearing an apron, standing upright.

Standing beside Zhao Hai, like a small mountain, the originally tall Zhao Hai was made to seem as tiny as a bird leaning on a person.

Seeing this scene, everyone sucked in a breath of cold air, some even losing balance and nearly sitting down on the ground.

There really are monsters in this world!

Monsters appearing and speaking, no matter how absurd and surprising, one cannot help but believe this fact.

Actually, not only is Zhao Hai's location like this, but in the locations of the other Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldrons, there is similarly a fairy from Longyuan Mountain Range appearing to help them construct the immortal cauldron.

Faced with these shocking facts, many people who had never heard of fairies before were almost scared weak in the legs.

After a long while they finally reacted, fully understanding the importance of the matter at hand!

The Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron is a project concerning the entirety of Great Xia!

To say without exaggeration that it concerns the life and death of the people of Great Xia is not an overstatement!

After clarifying the cause and effect, all the architecture and metallurgy experts went crazy, desperately constructing!

Heaven and earth catastrophe descended, no one could escape; Great Xia is the land that nurtured them, not only for themselves but also for the safety of their relatives and friends nearby.

Only then did they finally understand the many things that had previously happened in Huaxia!

Even without any mobilization by the person in charge, they were like injected with chicken blood, brimming with energy.

The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of every commoner!

After a day of careful deliberation and construction, numerous top architects and metallurgy masters of Huaxia secretly constructed on computers a part of the full picture of the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron.

Worth mentioning is that when using computers to construct the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron, if one does not input those tadpole-like runes, it's fine.

But once those runes are input into the computer, all computers will, for some unknown reason, have their CPUs catch fire!

"Computing power insufficient, go get the best machines."

In order to construct the runes on the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron, everyone even had to wait until using the Milky Way Supercomputer to barely run!

Even when using the Milky Way Supercomputer, the image construction of the entire Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron is extremely blurry, lagging to almost frame by frame!

"Buzz buzz buzz—"

The Tianhe supercomputer, the highest computer of Great Xia, is like an elderly person on their last legs, occasionally bursting out with violent coughs, the whole machine seeming as if it could go on strike at any moment.

Seeing this scene, everyone was again astonished, even the Great Xia's highest computer cannot fully simulate successfully!

Then just how powerful must the existence that constructs this thing be!

However, cultivation cannot be fully explained by science either, after all they are not the same system of power.

But no matter what, the construction of the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron has finally begun!

In the following time, Hua Tiancheng and others focused all their energy on constructing the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron; as the monster of Longyuan Mountain Range said, this immortal cauldron is extremely difficult to construct successfully.

Even with the help of great demons, and countless top personnel from Great Xia's architecture-related fields joining forces, it remains extremely difficult.

Countless times they had already completed the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron, only to find at the final moment that the intricate formation patterns' engraving had failed.

Pull one thread and the whole body moves; these formation patterns are mutually influencing, and wherever a tiny error appears, the rest also become useless.

The only option is to erase all the formation patterns and start over from scratch!

These formation patterns are truly too complicated; the ancient giant cauldron, with length, width, and height over a hundred meters, inside and out, densely packed, countless formation patterns, like stars in the sky, too many to count.

Every formation line is as tiny as a tadpole, some even smaller; even if the personnel have the best miniaturization technology,

Wanting to guarantee that so many formation lines are error‑free is practically harder than climbing to heaven.

Countless times they had already finished the construction, carved all kinds of gems and patterns, yet in the end they found that some formation lines were still wrong!

These details nearly drove those top architectural experts mad.

"Heavens, another mistake!"

"Where exactly did the problem occur!"

"If this continues, I'll go crazy."

Usually neat experts and professors are now disheveled, with dark circles and huge eye bags, their heads about to be scratched into a bird's nest.

It was merely the blink of an eye, yet a month has passed!

During this period, the Training Halls all over Greater Xia have been completed, but the Longyuan Immortal Sect, occupying a vast area with a huge workload, has not yet finished.

At the Wu Du Cultivation Academy, those students, under the tutelage of Great Demons such as the Northeast Tiger, have made rapid progress, achieving considerable success.

Throughout Greater Xia, the training craze continues, led by countless internet influencers, stars, and high officials nationwide, and the enthusiasm shows no sign of waning.

At any time, one can see elderly men and women practicing health‑preserving exercises in major parks; they have almost become part of the public's daily routine.

Even schools have arranged special courses to practice this latest textbook; everything proceeds smoothly under Hua Tiancheng's plan.

The physical fitness of the people of Greater Xia is continually increasing, but for now they still do not know this inner power.

During this period, the weather gradually turned cool and returned to normal; even the Earth's original orbit began to move toward recovery, as if everything had been put back on track.

In the face of all this, only the Greater Xia High Officials grew increasingly anxious, for this bore no difference from the predictions concerning the Longyuan Mountain Range.

At this critical juncture, the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron, the most important plan in Greater Xia, remains unfinished.

The many experts and workers constructing the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron have worked overtime, gone days without sleep, and are desperately checking everything to find out where the problem lies.

Hua Tiancheng's hair is nearly half‑white from worry; he wants to send personnel again to the Longyuan Mountain Range to ask the Master of all Demons, namely Ye Qin, for help.

At that moment, waves of exclamations came from outside the Greater Xia Cultivation Bureau.

"Hualala—"

The huge doors were flung open!

A being about two meters tall, entirely golden‑yellow, appeared on the windowsill; its hair was entwined like flames burning, making it look like a golden‑yellow Saiyan.

The Cultivation Bureau's personnel had already seen many Great Demons; although they knew the monsters of Longyuan Mountain acted unpredictably and bore no hostility toward humans, they still felt uneasy about such a showy entrance.

The Great Sage Monkey King glanced at the astonished crowd around him, then fixed his gaze on the central figure in the office, Hua Tiancheng.

"Are you Hua Tiancheng? My master ordered me to deliver a message to you."

Hua Tiancheng came to his senses, hastily had the people around him step back, and asked aloud: "Senior, what are your instructions?"

The Holy Prince's expression was solemn, and brilliant golden light shone in his eyes.

"My master said that a heavenly‑earthly catastrophe is very likely to begin in half a year!"

"Time waits for no one; prepare early!"

(End of chapter)