Ling Qing and the others remained in the venue, contemplating the heavenly realm that was about to be opened.
Meanwhile, after Li Li and the others left with Leng Ximo and Xu Yi, they arrived in a grand hall.
At its center stood a map sandbox, vividly displaying the terrain of every region.
"Since ancient times, it has been said: Heaven and earth hold qi, mountains and rivers transform into dragons."
Xu Yi pointed at the sandbox. "To establish a barrier, we must first forge the Nine Cauldrons. To forge the Nine Cauldrons, we must first divide the Nine Provinces. To divide the Nine Provinces, we must first sort out the qi of heaven and earth.
"What we must do next is measure every inch of mountains and rivers, and comb through every thread of qi vein.
"Only then can we gather the qi veins, locate the main nodes, draw together the qi veins to divide the Nine Provinces, and forge the Nine Cauldrons.
"Now, I will command this operation."
He immediately assigned everyone to their respective locations, giving each of them a peculiar piece of gold-jade and having them sort through the qi veins there, gathering a strand of qi vein into it.
The area assigned to Li Li and the others was within Lu Province, so they were quite familiar with it.
Whenever they sorted out an area, the sandbox would reveal the state of its qi veins.
And whenever the qi of one area clashed with that of an adjacent area, it meant there had been an oversight on one side and the area needed to be measured and sorted through again.
The land of the Nine Provinces was boundlessly vast, making this task extraordinarily tedious.
It took nearly three hundred Earth Immortals almost three months to