The Myriad Heavens and Worlds were all about to enter the Dharma Decline Age. Spiritual energy would run dry, and all cultivators, whether human, divine, demonic, or ghostly, would not merely lose their powers and become ordinary and frail. Most would be unable to maintain the states they had sustained for so long, rapidly aging and dying, crumbling into dust.
Thus, apart from those too weak to know anything of the future, who still ran wild and lived in a drunken dream, everyone who foresaw this was seeking a way forward.
Shi Feiyang continued transforming Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain, organizing and mobilizing all thirty million subjects of the Yu Kingdom to gather and refine all manner of materials.
These materials came chiefly from two sources. The first was the heavens: harvested from the Sun, Moon, and Five Planets and the Stars of the Heavens were various kinds of grand void fiendfire, Sun and Moon Essence, cosmic stardust, Qiantian true fire, and more.
The other was the outside world, which they scoured for the essences of the five elements, magnetic primordial true qi, heavenly stems and earthly fiends, and the like.
There were also all manner of heavenly materials and earthly treasures. Everything containing spiritual energy, living or lifeless, flying or swimming, animal or plant, from spirit stones and immortal herbs on land to precious iron and profound ice in the sea... all flowed in an endless stream from across the world to Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain, where they were placed in designated locations according to the plan.
Within the Interior of Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain, everyone worked day and night as well.
Shi Feiyang established an enormous "celestial industry system," having everyone undertake a portion of the manufacturing in workshops or factories, creating numerous industrial sectors and supply chains.
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