At those words, several Spirit Tamers among the group formed hand seals without another word and summoned three Spirit Creatures shaped like pangolins, each the size of a small elephant. They began digging at that spot.
These creatures were called Earth Aspects. They were a type of earth-aligned Spirit Beast skilled at digging and burrowing, and could also work with their Spirit Tamers to perform their innate divine ability, Earth Escape.
Their combat power was low, yet their inherent rank was not. They counted among the most thankless supreme-grade Spirit Creatures of the Human Rank, and ordinary rogue cultivators would never deliberately acquire them.
But just as no one would take a shovel into battle, yet could not do without one when digging a pit, the group had come to find ore veins in the Immortal Mountain and were doing work akin to tomb robbers. These Spirit Creatures, along with experts in esoteric arts who could read the winds and qi, trace dragons, and pinpoint auspicious sites, were essential.
For this expedition, the Yan clan had spent well over a hundred thousand Spirit Jade to acquire the necessary Spirit Creatures and hire the experts.
Before long, a shaft several feet wide and over a hundred feet deep appeared before them.
Yan Heyan beckoned and jumped into the shaft with an elderly man who was somewhat older than him, yet had white hair and a youthful face. They carefully examined the soil below.
This old man was a geomancer whom the Yan clan had paid a fortune to bring from the Spirit-Taming World, sparing no expense to have him cross starfields and travel to the Outer Domains to pinpoint the site for them. Known as Master Earth Dragon, he had learned the Geomancy Secret Art through a chance encounter. His livelihood