Chapter 90: Inviting the Demon Yaofang Mountain-Mover to Shift the Precious Mountain Back to the Daoist Temple

The setting sun filled the mountains, clouds leveled with the trees, a vast expanse of crimson.

Intertwined around were large pines, embracing one another, lush and elegant, with green clouds drifting slowly.

Qingli wore a green hairpin, a simple green dress and skirt, a dark green divine sword hung at her waist, her skin surpassing frost and snow, crystalline like glaze.

Her eyes were dark, sword intent rising from her body, like clouds, like mist, her sleeves fluttering as she walked along the mountain path.

All around were misty bamboo and trees, hanging vines of green ivy, the emerald hue clinging to her clothes.

The light of the sky and the color of the trees fell upon her, making her, already clear and beautiful, appear even more graceful and ethereal.

A short while later, Qingli arrived at the summit of Baoping Mountain.

She came behind Fang Longye, stood with her hands hanging down, neither moving nor speaking.

Fang Longye stood among the pines and cypresses atop a cliff, clear light rippling from the auspicious clouds above his head, surrounded by misty, iridescent halos of light, crystalline and radiant.

Expanding and contracting, like stars, dazzling and eye-catching.

Dao Rhyme emerged in clusters, as if there were whispers, faint and indistinct, all sorts of insights transforming into jade dew and sweet rain, seeping into his heart, bringing forth many inspirations and wonderful ideas.

What a pity~

Fang Longye opened his eyes and looked down at the vast, deep green waves below Baoping Mountain.

Beyond the sparkling waves, lotus leaves covered the water, red lotuses rising three to five zhang from the surface, reflecting the sunset glow, shining brilliantly, swaying with the wind.

It was a pity that at his current realm, even the effect of promoting his cultivation from a True Immortal of the same level was no longer significant.

Absorbing the Creation Spiritual Essence of seven True Immortals had only increased his progress by half a fraction.

However, this was also because the further one progressed, the greater the disparity between cultivators, even those in the same realm.

Only a True Immortal with the strength of Chiyang Yaowang could be of great benefit to him.

He had calculated that if he did not consider absorbing the Innate Five Elements Qi to lay an supreme foundation.

With another ten or so True Immortals like Chiyang Wang, who could defy the odds and defeat those in higher realms, to be absorbed as Creation, he could ascend to the Golden Immortal Realm.

The key, at present, is that none of this matters! Innate Spiritual Objects are what he urgently needs right now.

Putting aside his thoughts, he turned to look at Qingli and asked, "Have the remaining demon masses been rounded up clearly?"

"Your instructions have been completed," Qingli bowed slightly and smiled, "Out of the million demon masses, about seven hundred thousand remain~"

In her light, casual tone, a hint of bloodthirstiness was revealed.

"Chiyang Yaowang was quite popular with the people!" Fang Longye sighed.

In Beiju Luzhou, where the situation is 'the demon masses are iron-clad, the kings are flowing water,' being able to filter out so many demon masses who harbored hostility toward him was quite rare.

Qingli looked at this precious mountain and asked, "All kinds of treasures have been collected. I wonder how you intend to deal with this precious mountain, Young Master?"

"Do you intend to do as other demon kings do, and directly extract the Creation Spiritual Essence of this precious mountain and take it away?"

"No~ Don't you think it would be better to bring this precious mountain directly back to our Cangmang Mountain?" Fang Longye waved his hand and said.

"But according to the regulations of the Demon Master Mansion, isn't it only those at the Golden Immortal Realm and above who can do that?"

"That is not necessarily true; any rule in this world is meant to be broken~" Fang Longye said with a smile.

What Qingli mentioned was, in fact, the common practice for demon kings below the Golden Immortal Realm in Beiju Luzhou after killing their opponents.

Because the Demon Master Mansion established rules forbidding demon kings below the Golden Immortal Realm from expanding their territory.

Many demon kings below the Golden Immortal Realm, after killing their opponents, could only choose to extract the Creation Spiritual Essence of their opponent's Dao Abode and integrate it into their own.

Previously, Fang Longye thought the Demon Master Mansion did this to eliminate disputes, although it was obvious it had no effect.

But later, upon reflection, he realized this was a different kind of 'insect-raising' method.

The Creation Spiritual Essence of a demon king's Dao Abode in Beiju Luzhou is something each successive demon king continuously accumulates and nurtures using various means and treasures on the original foundation.

The richer the Creation Spiritual Essence, the denser the spiritual energy of the Dao Abode, and the deeper the contained Dao Rhyme, which can even promote the Mountain Lord's cultivation insights.

The Demon Master Mansion uses this method to entice demon kings to plunder the Creation Spiritual Essence of others' Dao Abodes. While raising up one powerful demon immortal after another, they also harvest one profound and deep immortal mountain Blessed Land after another.

Does it sound familiar? This is modeled after the way Earth Immortal Dao cultivators nurture Blessed Lands. However, it certainly cannot compare to the professionalism of those 'Earth Immortal Dao' cultivators.

And in this process, although the demon king extracting the Creation Spiritual Essence of a precious land is damaging the heavens and earth.

But as mentioned before, these Creation Spiritual Essences are not all inherent to these precious lands; more are accumulated through the investment of spiritual objects or the application of methods by previous demon immortals.

Many precious lands were even transformed from barrenness, just as Fang Longye did previously at Chixia Feiliu.

This means the total amount of Creation Spiritual Essence in Beiju Luzhou is constantly increasing. Consequently, it naturally brings Merit and Luck to the Demon Clan.

The reason it is so troublesome and deliberately guided is that the Demon Clan pursues brute force more, and most prefer fighting and killing.

Each one is deeply influenced by their Bloodline; at low realms, they simply cannot listen to those grand principles. Without some guidance, they have no patience to nurture a Dao Abode.

To use the words of that racist on Kunlun Mountain, they are "beings with fur and horns, born of wet eggs, unworthy of being taught."...

After explaining the intentions of the Demon Master Mansion he had savored to Qingli.

Fang Longye added, "Actually, simply extracting the Creation Spiritual Essence of other precious lands to nurture another place is an extremely shallow practice and cannot be considered the best method."

"What is truly brilliant is to drive hills and move ridges, using multiple precious lands to change the Earth Veins and Dragon Veins, drawing in the earth energy from all directions to gather and nurture the Creation Spiritual Essence. By borrowing the timing and geographical advantages, one becomes self-contained."

"But this is impossible for ordinary True Immortals to achieve."

"For example, moving a precious mountain Blessed Land without damaging the Earth Veins is a difficult problem for ordinary True Immortals."

"And the subsequent arrangement and layout—if those ordinary True Immortals can understand even a little, that would be considered good."

"Not to mention, if there were no such restrictions, too many fools would force the movement of precious lands while pretending to know what they are doing, damaging the Earth Veins and bringing Karma upon the Demon Clan."

Fang Longye spread his hands and said, "Therefore, it is not surprising that those big shots of the Demon Clan above, knowing the nature of the lower and middle-level demon clans, simply issued a ban to end it once and for all."

"And you, Young Master, are naturally not an ordinary True Immortal," Qingli smiled, "Rules are only meant to constrain ordinary people; you naturally do not need to follow them."

Fang Longye shook his head: "With your Young Master's current ability, I still cannot break this ban. You do not know that when I returned to the Cave Abode earlier, that old turtle from Yuyang Yaofang visited again and gave me two gifts."

"What did that old thing give you again?!" Qingli looked vigilant.

A flash of light passed, and after Qingli understood, she breathed a sigh of relief. This time there was nothing untoward.

After another turn of thought, she smiled and said, "The North Sea Dragon Palace can actually influence the decisions of the Demon Master Mansion? It must be that Jiao Mowang, right?"

Fang Longye smiled and said nothing.

This old turtle had come to visit and brought two gifts specifically tailored to Fang Longye's current needs.

One was that the Demon Master Mansion, which controlled Beiju Luzhou, would open its doors to him for moving other treasure mountains. It was equivalent to allowing him to occupy other treasure mountains before he became a Golden Immortal.

The other was a Yaofang Establishment Token. It was a voucher to apply to the Demon Master Mansion to establish a marketplace; a Yaofang established through this process would be under the protection of the Demon Master Mansion's forces.

These two gifts truly hit the mark for him.

The key was, which of these did not require the permission and participation of the Demon Master Mansion?

Therefore, Fang Longye also concluded that this was likely a gift sent to him by Jiao Mowang, who had joined the Demon Master Mansion.

He just didn't know if Jiao Mowang was aware that his sisters had been forced upon him by his own father.

"Let's go. Once everything is packed up, it's time to return to the mountain."

Fang Longye stood up and looked into the distance, "It's time to make a trip to Yuyang Yaofang."

Although he did not have the means to move a treasure mountain thousands of miles away, Yuyang Yaofang had a profession specifically established for this purpose—the Mountain Driver.

After all, even among Golden Immortals, not everyone possessed Great Divine Abilities like 'Whip Mountain and Move Stone'.

……

Cangmang Mountain.

The Earth Qi boiled, the earth shook, and the phantoms of two magnificent mountain peaks hovered in the air, causing the gathered demons to panic.

"Do not panic, these are just two treasure mountains I have moved back."

Just then, Fang Longye's voice came, steadying the hearts of the people.

Hu Qiuyue said with pleasant surprise, "So it is the Young Master who has returned!" She then looked at one of the treasure mountain phantoms and discovered it looked exactly like her own Yushu Mountain.

That was right; in fact, this mountain peak was her previous Cave Abode treasure land, Yushu Mountain.

Since one sheep is herding, two sheep are also herding. Fang Longye simply had the Mountain Driver he paid to hire help move it over as well.

With light halos circulating, the formation covering the entire ocean slowly opened. Under Fang Longye's direction, a yellow-robed demon immortal submerged the phantoms of the two divine mountains into the ocean in front of the Huan Shan Chengchi of Cangmang Mountain.

Five-colored brilliance rose from the ocean on both sides of the continent connected to Cangmang Mountain. Beneath them, Earth Veins were continuously generated.

Finally, the terrain rose, and two treasure mountains several thousand zhang high rose on both sides, stretching for nearly ten thousand li.

Immortal mist rose, and treasure light and auspicious clouds shone, reflecting off the Cangmang Mountain behind them.

The spiritual energy was dense and abundant, completely different from the hundreds of mountain ranges in the ocean.

Outside Cangmang Mountain, after the True Immortal Realm demon immortal finished his work, he wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He said respectfully to Fang Longye, "Great King, along with the Earth Veins, both treasure mountains have been placed in the positions you requested. But as for how to specifically integrate them with your Dao field, that depends on your own methods!"

The implication was that if Fang Longye did not complete the subsequent layout himself and failed to achieve the expected results, it would not be his problem.

"That is only natural!" Fang Longye laughed.

……

The second chapter of yesterday~ Ashamed, I was late again! Kneeling and begging for forgiveness~

(End of this chapter)