When Wang Qi received Zhao Xiangshen's covert message, he was conducting experiments in a newly found location.
The place was a water-seeping mine pit.
Unable to find a suitable sect to make his move against in the short term, he had simply come here—a mine pit at the northwestern end of Linghuang Island's underground city.
Linghuang Island was a volcanic island formed tens of millions of years ago. Because the dragon race had nailed down the continental plate where the Western Sea lay, this region was exceptionally stable and saw few earthquakes. The volcano that had originally formed Linghuang Island had long since gone completely extinct. Yet over tens of millions of years, a massive Spirit Stone vein stretching for a thousand li had formed beneath the island. This Spirit Stone vein was enormous. Only the "Central Plains Vein," which had once supported the age when ancient immortals spread the teachings, and the "Kunlun Vein," "Qinshui Vein," and "Jianglong Vein," which had upheld the splendor of the Middle Ages, could compare to it.
Without those once-vast mineral veins, long since mined dry, there would have been no glory of the Immortal Dao.
When this massive vein had first been discovered, the Holy Emperor's prestige had briefly reached its peak. People believed it was "ordained by Heaven" and "the righteous method blessed by Heaven."
According to the Ancient Method Cultivator classification, the Spirit Stones produced here were either of the Fire Element or Water Element. For many cultivators who belonged to neither Water nor Fire, they were difficult to absorb, but still better than nothing. Without the support of this vein, no matter how powerful the Holy Emperor was, he could never have led the Ancient Method Cultivators to endure until today.
But after more than two thousand years of mining,