Even with the Mountain-Driving Whip to assist them, selecting suitable immortal mountains and then moving them to the Corpse Tuo Mountain Range would consume an enormous amount of energy and time, severely affecting their cultivation!
However, Shen Mo had already made his position so clear. No matter how unwilling Shi Nianyao and the other two were, they could only accept this miserable task. After all, they had sworn Dao oaths before moving to Five Dragon Mountain; it was too late for regrets now. Fortunately, all three had attained the Formless Realm and possessed nine thousand years of lifespan. Delaying their cultivation for several decades was still within an acceptable range.
Shen Mo understood their thoughts as well. Based on their respective cultivation levels, he gifted them differing quantities of Five Qi Returning to Origin Pills. These were sixth-grade spirit pills, beneficial even to the growth of one's Dao cultivation in the Formless Realm. With the pills' aid, they could make up for part of the cultivation time delayed.
Shi Nianyao and the other two hurriedly declined, but under Shen Mo's insistence, they finally accepted the pills with unconcealed delight.
Afterward, Shen Mo made three jade slips, detailing all the conditions required of the immortal mountains for the formation—such as their size, the shape of their mountain bodies, the nature of their earth veins, and so forth—so that Shi Nianyao and the others could find suitable mountains.
Most immortal mountains, large and small, within the Corpse Tuo Mountain Range had already been claimed. Even the barren ones belonged to Immortal Jade Spring, making it inconvenient to directly relocate mountains from elsewhere in the range. However, roughly fifty million li to the southeast lay the former lair of Venerable Myriad Saints. This vast region contained quite a few medium- and lower-grade immortal