Northern Region, Rotten Axe Mountain.
Rotten Axe Mountain was an exceptionally peculiar place. Time flowed there at bizarrely inconsistent and chaotic speeds.
Once, a Golden Core cultivator with three hundred years of lifespan remaining entered it in search of treasure.
Three days later, the Golden Core cultivator left Rotten Axe Mountain. It was not because his treasure hunt had failed, but because his lifespan was nearly exhausted, leaving him on the verge of death.
Such a perilous place should have become forbidden ground for cultivators. Yet Rotten Axe Mountain was covered in enormous trees and bamboo groves, all heavenly materials and earthly treasures essential for crafting magic artifacts.
Affected by Rotten Axe Mountain's distorted flow of time, those giant trees and bamboo groves grew at an incredibly rapid pace.
For the Heavenly Craft Sect, which needed to manufacture mech puppets, the existence of Rotten Axe Mountain was more important than having one or two additional Mahayana cultivators in the sect.
The virtually inexhaustible supply of materials was simply too beneficial to the Heavenly Craft Sect.
This place was later occupied by the Zhao Family.
As a result, the Heavenly Craft Sect had no choice but to pay a steep price to purchase certain precious materials it needed from the Zhao Family.
After Yuan Shi led the Heavenly Craft Sect's people here, there was no explanation, nor was there any harsh declaration.
Several thousand mech puppets descended from the sky, catching the Zhao Family cultivators stationed here completely off guard.
The Zhao Family elder at the mid-stage Fusion Realm, who was in charge of Rotten Axe Mountain, had just been about to make a threat.
Then he suddenly discovered that his vision had become disordered, as though heaven and earth had flipped upside down.
Yuan Shi, who had appeared behind him