Black Stone Mountain.
This mountain range of jagged black rocks had, in just a few short years, seen all manner of buildings rise beneath its enormous deep pits.
Especially the plank roads along the sheer walls of those pits, as well as the excavated cave abodes.
Dense crowds of cultivators worked desperately to mine spirit ore. Every massive pit contained several thousand cultivators.
Scattered throughout the mountains were furnaces equipped with formations. Cultivators continuously poured freshly mined spirit ore into them.
After preliminary smelting, they obtained chunks of slightly refined Gold Essence Mine ore.
Cultivators could be seen everywhere in the mountains—some mining, some supervising, and others tending the formations beside the furnaces or escorting shipments. They were packed together like grains of rice, and there were tens of thousands of cultivators mining the Black Stone Mountain range. The Black Stone Mountain Market at its center was where cultivators laboring here could occasionally unwind.
Besides all kinds of cultivation resources, the market also had many female cultivators who practiced dual cultivation amid the dust and wind, soliciting customers.
"Black Wind Old Monster, aren't you going too far?"
Inside Black Stone Mountain's main hall, three Nascent Soul Cultivators glared furiously at Black Wind Old Monster, who merely let out a disdainful sneer.
"In the Cultivation World, the strong are honored. The last time this old man left on business, the mineral resources that should have been mine were swallowed up by you three. If I do not come looking for you, then who should I seek?" As Black Wind Old Monster came to fight for benefits, the other Nascent Soul Cultivators in the hall all assumed an attitude of hanging high what did not concern them. Black Wind Old Monster had suffered a great loss last time. Now that he had