The Yellow Emperor's Sacred Mausoleum on Qiao Mountain had received sacrifices and repairs from successive emperors throughout the dynasties. But too much time had passed. Overall, it could not compare with the tombs of present-day emperors, and even fell somewhat short of those of vassal princes.
Shi Feiyang first found an incense burner and lit an offering of incense. This time, he burned his homemade Dragon-Origin Descent Incense rather than the Heaven-and-Earth Union Incense he had often used before, and offered a heartfelt prayer.
Then he began planning. Combining the celestial palaces of the stars above with the courses and configurations of the mountains and rivers below, he drew up a grand architectural blueprint.
Over the years, Green City, Snow Mountain, and others had steadily advanced their efforts to plant trees and grass in the Northwest. Meanwhile, the growing number of lakes in the Tarim Basin had altered the climate of the surrounding regions. Rainfall in the Northwest had increased year after year, leaving the mountains on both banks of the Yellow River lush and green, with abundant water and vegetation.
In fact, beyond the Northwest, Shi Feiyang also intended to transform the northeast in the future.
Besides the most famous Changbai Mountain, the northeast also had the Greater Khingan Range and Lesser Khingan Range. Those two mountain ranges truly failed to live up to expectations: in winter, they could not block the cold waves sweeping south from the polar regions, leaving the northeast bitterly cold.
He planned to raise these two mountain ranges so they could block the cold waves and retain the warm, moist air blowing in from the ocean during summer. The region would immediately become a blessed land.
In the future, they could open the frontier passes, move settlers in to farm, and cultivate the land