The world had no shortage of famous mountains and great marshes, no shortage of renowned lands of spiritual beauty. Heavenly Battle Mountain clearly did not stand out much to the outside world.
It was perfectly normal that Yi Shuyuan had never heard the name before coming here, but that at least showed that Heavenly Battle Mountain was not a place everyone knew.
Yet after actually arriving at Heavenly Battle Mountain, Yi Shuyuan began to feel there was something special about it. After learning more from Old Vine and Xiao Yong, then seeing the Mountain-Topping Grass and experiencing a sympathetic connection with it, that feeling only grew stronger, accompanied by mounting questions.
This was indeed a fine place, and a spiritual treasure like the Mountain-Topping Grass was taking shape here. Although Old Vine seemed only a single step away, his underlying strength was clearly insufficient. That single step was a gulf between heaven and earth.
How could such a spiritually blessed land, rich in nature's wonders, have gone without a Mountain God all this time?
Even if the mountain had never produced a deity capable of commanding its terrain, had the Celestial Court never considered it either?
Although Yi Shuyuan now knew a little about heavenly law, and understood that the Celestial Court would not, in principle, interfere too much with the natural emergence of mountain and water deities, lending a helping hand at the right moment and bringing a great mountain under its jurisdiction along the way was something all the Celestial Courts did.
From what Yi Shuyuan currently knew, Heavenly Battle Mountain had gone at least a thousand years without a Mountain God. Tracing it back a little further would take him almost to the fall of this region's old Celestial Court and the birth of the new one.