After discovering the tiny secret realm, Fang Shu immediately set to work again, arranging formations throughout the entire immortal mountain.
He also specially summoned the mountain's one hundred and eight strongmen and jade maidens. After pondering it repeatedly, he issued a decree.
From this day forth, anyone on his mountain was forbidden from leaving and could only grow old and die here.
Once this decree was announced, the expressions of the one hundred and eight strongmen and jade maidens all changed slightly.
One of the strongmen even braced himself and spoke up. "Master, our lives and deaths are all in your hands. Please rest assured... Besides, we can handle all the miscellaneous affairs within the estate for you. If we are completely forbidden from descending the mountain, would that not delay your affairs?" Before he could finish, Fang Shu smiled and erased that man's life-and-death talisman on the spot.
With a hum, a streak of flowing light returned to the strongman's head.
This action instantly drained the color from the speaking strongman's face. He knew he had been cast off the mountain, yet he did not dare utter another word and merely silently retreated into the crowd.
Fang Shu had summoned them today not to discuss matters with them properly, but merely to inform these strongmen and jade maidens.
Still, he was kind-hearted and did not force them. He briefly explained:
"I prefer stillness to movement. As for the various trifles within the estate, the fewer, the better.
"As for you all, anyone who wishes to descend the mountain may do so. I will not forcibly keep anyone. But if you choose to remain on this mountain, then from now on, there will be only one path for you: to spend the rest of your lives here."
Once he had