Of all the stumbling blocks barring the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage's path to restoring the Western Continent, only Jieyin and Zhunti remained alive!
But Jieyin and Zhunti had also been driven out of the Western Continent. They now stood apart from it and no longer counted as beings of the Western Continent, but of the Southwestern Continent!
Now, the Northern Continent was much the same!
Although the Northern Continent was sparsely populated and lacked Dao rhyme and vitality, with resentment and baleful energies swirling between heaven and earth, making cultivators there prone to demonic corruption, some mighty figures still held sway there.
Some of these mighty figures remained because of their own paths of cultivation, but most had been unable to make a place for themselves elsewhere.
Now, however, they were either dead or had met the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage's requirements, agreed to abide by its rules, and joined it.
And the Five of Yuan Jie had led the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage's experts in sweeping away those mighty figures who harbored ill intentions or hoped to slip through the cracks, striking with the crushing force of thunder.
No obstacles remained to their guiding and relocating the innate earth veins, rebuilding the Northern Continent's earth vein network, and modifying and inscribing Great Dao Array Patterns to lay out the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation.
With them and the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage's experts working as one.
In fewer than ten epochs, they completed every preliminary step of their plan, relocating the Northern Continent's many earth veins to their designated positions and inscribing the array patterns.
They needed only to activate the measures they had left in place to connect the Northern Continent's innate earth veins into an endlessly circulating earth vein network. Then, by activating the Great Dao Array Patterns and