Mortal Domain.
Chen Fan stood inside the warehouse cave, looking over the dozen or so warehouses packed to the brim and inspecting them one by one. He was not worried anything had gone missing. He simply wanted to look. A long while passed.
Only then did he stop outside the Mustard-Seed Room of one warehouse, remaining silent for a long time.
Mining on the New Continent was progressing smoothly.
The Eerie-Stone Reserves in Mortal Domain's warehouses had now reached 189 million.
189 million Eerie Stones.
Enough to build tens of millions of basic Eerie Fires.
It was an enormous sum.
This many Eerie Stones should never have appeared in Jiangbei. Even digging three feet deep across the Four Regions of Jiangbei would hardly yield so many. Otherwise, Jiangbei would not have been so remote and barren. Without the New Continent, acquiring this many Eerie Stones would have been incredibly difficult.
Nearly ten million Eerie Stones were mined every day. As the rainy season drew to a close, he went to the "New Continent" to build several more outposts and extend some of the High-Speed Rail Lines. And... after the hoes made from "earth gold" were distributed, mining accelerated once again. Three years remained until the "Undersea Strange Tide Landing."
That was enough.
As long as the "Undersea Strange Tide" did not suddenly land ahead of schedule, or the "Thunderstorm Sea" that had persisted for thousands of years did not abruptly disappear, Mortal Domain would grow powerful enough over those three years.
Once he accumulated 300 million Eerie Stones.
He could set up a basic version of the "Northbank Defense Line," then gradually add to it according to how many more Eerie Stones he obtained. "Domain Lord."
Just then—
The Message Talisman in his robes grew slightly warm, and Shao Qiu's