Arushiman had been forced by Lin Qi into a set of traditional goblin attire. Wearing a comical pointed cap, he stood atop a small rise on Holy Mountain, his head cocked as he looked at a thousand-meter-tall, snow-white cliff ahead. The cliff had been polished by the Abyss Goblins under Lin Qi's command until it shone brightly enough to reflect like a mirror.
Countless intricate, delicate magic runes had been carved into the smooth, lustrous surface of the cliff. Threads cast from mithril were embedded within the runes, glittering beneath the sun. The interior of the cliff had been hollowed out, and twelve enormous magical-energy furnaces had been installed within, linked as one with the magic rune arrays outside.
The entire cliff had been tempered with molten metal by the material craftsmen of the Celestial Sprite Clan. The cliff had originally been formed of incomparably hard granite, but after undergoing the Celestial Sprite Clan's secret tempering art, it had become several times tougher than ordinary magical alloys, while also gaining an extremely powerful ability to resist the erosion of magical elements.
This was the Celestial Sprite Clan's unique Magic-Nullifying Formula for materials. Materials forged using this technique were essentially like dragons, possessing absolute magic immunity. To destroy the cliff before them, one had to smash it apart through brute physical force. Any elemental attack, including the divine arts of the gods, could inflict only an exceedingly limited amount of damage upon it.
Several hundred Celestial Sprite masters and goblin craftsmen busy around the cliff withdrew from it. At Arushiman's command, countless golden and silver magic patterns suddenly lit up across the cliff's surface. With a low buzz, the cliff—one thousand meters high and nearly ten thousand meters in both length and width—slowly rose into the sky.
With Holy Mountain as