Divine Continent world, at the foot of Cloud Top Mountain.
This majestic immortal mountain still stood silently upon the land. Covering more than one hundred thousand square kilometers, it utterly dwarfed Mount Everest in the real world and was the tallest mountain An Yang had ever seen.
It had weathered countless storms and witnessed the world, spending who knew how many years here.
Its silhouette could be seen from far beyond Yue Prefecture, and it had practically become Yue Prefecture's symbol. Throughout these vast, boundless years, it had long since blended into the lives of ordinary people.
At the foot of the mountain, whose circumference stretched over a thousand kilometers, villages and ancient towns had been built along the slopes and beside the water. They awoke at dawn beneath the first rays of sunlight cresting Cloud Top Mountain, then fell peacefully asleep at dusk with their backs to this immortal mountain of endless legends, immersed in the magnificent sunset shining upon them from across the river.
Vast and lonely, through countless years and generations.
Especially after the founding of the Divine Continent Empire, when the new economic system replaced the old one, development of Cloud Top Immortal Mountain had yet to be put on the agenda. Even so, people's lives had grown more prosperous. With Taoist magic education and other supernatural-civilization education becoming widespread, more and more people voluntarily traveled to the foot of Cloud Top Immortal Mountain to admire this mysterious, miraculous mountain mentioned in their textbooks.
Some had even come here to settle because of Cloud Top Immortal Mountain's fame and spiritual energy. After all, aside from being impossible to climb, no danger had yet been discovered there.
But more than a month ago, the government had issued a relocation order, moving away all civilians living at the