After years of accumulation, Five Immortals Hall possessed astonishing wealth and power.
From the moment it reached a cooperation agreement with Ye Zhen, Five Immortals Hall had simultaneously begun constructing the Five Immortals Sect's mountain gate and the sect's Dao Realm establishments throughout Ye Zhen's territories.
Ye Zhen currently held actual control over three commanderies: North Sea Commandery, Le'an Commandery, and Changling Commandery. Aside from Changling Commandery, where the desolation meant that only a Dao Realm establishment had been built in the commandery capital, every county city under North Sea Commandery and Le'an Commandery had a small Dao Realm establishment.
At the same time, owing to Ye Zhen's influence, Five Immortals Hall had also selected sites and built several Dao Realm establishments within the Marquisate of Haiyuan.
Nearly thirty construction sites, large and small, had begun work at the same time. Without relying on any of Ye Zhen's resources, Five Immortals Hall had completed them all using only its own strength in less than three months.
That included Pinghai Mountain, where Five Immortals Hall's mountain gate was located.
Pinghai Mountain had been renamed Five Immortals Mountain, while Five Immortals Hall's mountain gate had officially been named the Five Immortals Sect.
The first phase of the Five Immortals Sect's mountain gate construction included the sect's various functional buildings, separate peaks for each of the five halls, and reserve peaks. In all, thirty-six peaks had been developed, with more than sixty others planned, covering an area fifty thousand li in radius.
By Ye Zhen's experience, such a massive undertaking would have required the conscription of at least two hundred thousand laborers and over ten thousand skilled craftsmen, taking half a year to complete.
Including the construction of Dao Realm establishments elsewhere, another three months would have been needed.
Yet Five Immortals Hall