He had built fifteen Max-Level Sky-Piercing Pillars, their power unknown.
He had built a hundred Level-6 Sky-Piercing Pillars, their power unknown.
Altogether, they had consumed over twenty million eerie stones.
Chen Fan clicked his tongue as he tallied the Eerie-Stone Reserves in his warehouse. Mining on the New Continent was progressing rapidly. He had sent fifty thousand auxiliary Mortal Domain members there, where they continually mined vast quantities of ghost bones and eerie stones and transported them to the Mortal Domain through the Undersea Tunnel.
But.
He was burning through them even faster.
Building the Rainy Season Defense Line had emptied out a considerable portion of the warehouse. Over the past few days, a steady stream of eerie stones from the New Continent had replenished it, giving him some breathing room. After building this batch of Sky-Piercing Pillars, though, his purse strings had tightened again.
He felt like his warehouse was one of those freshwater mussels, swelling up one moment and shrinking down the next.
Now, the Mortal Domain's warehouse held only a few million eerie stones.
But getting everything before him in exchange was worth it.
No loss there.
He gazed with satisfaction at the rows of Sky-Piercing Pillars before him, reminiscent of Easter Island. The sight was magnificent. More than a hundred pillars, each several hundred meters tall, stood along the Jiangbei Coastline. Their grandeur was almost impossible to put into words.
Three years from now.
That would be the day this batch of Sky-Piercing Pillars activated.
A strong foundation needed time to develop.
These Sky-Piercing Pillars needed three years to mature.
The Sky-Piercing Pillars' greatest strength was not their power, but their unpredictable method of attack and their extremely long-range strike capability. Once upgraded to the maximum level, their range had increased considerably as well.
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