A Meeting

This news left the cultivation world of Chenping Continent somewhat surprised and confused.

The value of a spirit stone mine capable of producing superior Spirit Stones on the scale of a hundred billion went without saying.

But in fact, more than ten mines of this size had already been discovered in Chenping Continent, and all of them were under the control of the Five Great Sects.

Du Cang Mountain, which could now freely call upon all of Chenping Continent's cultivation resources, had no need to personally control mines capable of producing hundreds of billions of superior Spirit Stones.

Many cultivators speculated that True Person Ducang's real goal wasn't the mine discovered in Wuxian Mountain Range, but something else entirely.

Some guessed that Du Cang Mountain had taken control of Wuxian Mountain Range to better balance Empty Mountain Sect to its north and Mirage Palace to its south.

Others believed True Person Ducang had sealed off Wuxian Mountain Range because some unknown secret lay hidden within it, and Du Cang Mountain wanted to keep the information under wraps as much as possible.

Three years after Du Cang Mountain took effective control of Wuxian Mountain Range, a large cultivation sect's ruins were discovered in the depths of the Abyss in northern Chenping Continent. They were said to predate the Tian Ding Mountain era, and no record of them appeared in Chenping Continent's historical texts. Du Cang Mountain took them over as well.

With the precedent of Du Cang Mountain's control over Wuxian Mountain Range, its takeover of the Abyss in northern Chenping Continent caused no further stir in the continent's cultivation world.

Year forty-five of the Du Cang era.

Southwestern Wuxian Mountain Range, Western Regions of Chenping Continent.

Since the mine in Wuxian Mountain Range had been discovered, a city had