"Hm?"
Deep in Yunqiu Mountain, the Mountain God was first to sense the change in the earth. His expression shifted between light and shadow.
As his Divine Thought spread, he caught a surging undercurrent deep underground!
It held countless ancient auras. The Cloud Hill Mountain God had barely touched it with his senses when his Divine Thought began to tremble, threatening to tear free of his control. He decisively severed the connection and probed no further.
"Something's happened to the Earth Veins!"
Soon, the Pingyang City God's Divine Thought reached him.
The City God was asking the Mountain God what had caused the disturbance.
After all, a Mountain God was a deity of mountains and rivers, closely bound to the Earth Veins.
"Don't look too deeply."
After that brief reply, the Cloud Hill Mountain God grew even more uneasy.
"Ever since the entrance to the Divine Treasury appeared a few years ago, troubled times have been upon us. Plenty of Longevity cultivators have come to investigate, even several True Persons. Sigh. By my reckoning, the entrance should have stabilized by now. Let them open it soon, so I can stop living on tenterhooks."
The Divine Treasury might be an opportunity, but several great Immortal Sects controlled it. Even the Heavenly Court, a power in its own right, dared not make a move. What could a mere local Earth Deity do?
To the Cloud Hill Mountain God, having the Divine Treasury on his territory was no prize. It was a scalding yam. He wished it would move elsewhere, or that the whole affair would end quickly, so peace could return.
"Could this disturbance in the Earth Veins be connected to the Divine Treasury too?"
For no clear reason, a purple figure flashed through the Mountain God's mind. He recalled the man