Less than a month after Liang Ruiqin's Nascent Soul banquet, the Yang Family of "Dragon River" had finished preparing all the materials needed to relocate the "Dragon Gate" and transform the "Dragon Tomb" secret realm, and brought them to Liu Province.
Over the following months, Liang Zhaohuang and Liang Ruiqin personally led selected members of the family—disciples talented and trained in talismans, artifact refining, formations, feng shui, geomancy, and other arts—together with the people sent by the Yang Family, including Yang Xiue and True Lord Yang Tingguang, in transforming the "Dragon Tomb" secret realm, relocating the "Dragon Gate," and planting the "Black Dragon Wood."
After three or four months, the Yang Family successfully relocated the "Dragon Gate," while the Liang Family successfully planted the "Black Dragon Wood" within the "Dragon Tomb" secret realm, where it replaced the "Dragon Gate" as the core suppressing the entire secret realm.
At the same time, after its transformation, the entire "Dragon Tomb" secret realm had shrunk by nearly one-seventh—far less than the one-fifth originally agreed upon.
As the secret realm shrank, vast amounts of water surged out from it, flowed into the underground dark river, and entered Liu Province.
This time, however, the Liang Family had long been prepared. The waters rushing from the underground dark river were deliberately restrained and guided by the Liang Family into designated locations throughout Liu Province.
Across Liu Province's eleven commanderies, the various commandery clans and county clans had long received orders from the Provincial Governor's Office to dig channels, embank shores, and build lakes, diverting, dredging, and absorbing the waters surging from the "Dragon Tomb" secret realm within Liu Province. They even took the opportunity to reclaim considerable spiritual farmland, greatly benefiting Liu Province's development.
Naturally, Liu Province City, Red Flame Lion City, Azure Roc City, and