Zhang Yang led over a thousand people from Azure Cloud Sect, following behind Lin Zhi as they began gathering all kinds of spiritual materials across the Immortal Continent.
At first, he had been worried that the Heaven-Earth Plate would interfere.
But after discovering that the Heaven-Earth Plate made no move whatsoever, he was completely at ease.
"You all get to work too and collect the treasures of the Immortal Continent," Zhang Yang ordered the people around him. "However, leave things like spiritual herbs and plants alone. I'll collect those myself. Your responsibility is to gather materials, ores, and even other nonliving objects from the Immortal Continent. If you can use those materials, keep them to nurture your magical treasures and Flying Swords. Hand anything you cannot use over to me for storage."
"Yes!" everyone responded in unison.
Then, they swept the Immortal Continent with their divine sense, digging out every treasure buried beneath its earth.
The eight Immortal Kings in particular went all out.
Even as everyone acted, the Heaven-Earth Plate remained utterly motionless and did not stop them in the slightest.
Unable to hold himself back, Zhang Yang asked, "Senior, were these treasures of the Immortal Continent deliberately left for us?"
"No," the Heaven-Earth Plate answered. "No one had come to gather them for all these years, so they remained here."
Lin Zhi also said, "Although I do not like them eating spiritual herbs, if they came to ask for some, I would still give them a portion. Yet after all these years, no one ever came!"
Zhang Yang was completely speechless. If he had known the Immortal Continent was like this, why had he spent five years building a good relationship with the Emperor Armament Heaven-Earth Plate, scheming every possible way... He had thought the Immortal Continent had