A month later.
Amid the boundless yellow sands.
Standing atop a mountain peak shaped like a sharp fang.
Ling Wuyuan gazed at the distant colossal city, which was being constructed at a pace visible to the naked eye and had now revealed the rough outline of its foundations.
Though his face bore no obvious expression.
Satisfaction still flickered in his eyes from time to time.
This newborn city stood in the central region of the inherent territory belonging to Wang Gaofan and the others, this group of [Fate Defiance Realm] cultivators.
The surrounding area was filled with strange mountain peaks and looked incomparably desolate, like a land where all living things had vanished and no human trace had been seen for ages.
Yet although this place looked exceedingly barren.
Its overall geographical conditions were actually fairly good.
At the very least, the concentration and intensity of the spiritual energy between heaven and earth were both quite high.
Moreover, deep beneath the ground lay a great number of mineral veins.
For countless years before this, the reason everyone had left this region vacant was entirely because there were simply too many surrounding forces, and the overall situation was rather complicated. No one could suppress all the other competitors.
Thus, with so many rivals constantly throwing spanners in the works, this place had been left to waste.
No powerhouse had ever truly ruled this area and established a city here.
At most, some fairly capable individuals had set up a few simple settlements of varying sizes here.
Until not long ago.
Ling Wuyuan had made his powerful entrance and, with an irresistible force, forcibly unified every faction in the surrounding region. Only then did this territory gain a true master in any substantive sense—
At present, within this territory.
Although the newborn