Western Sea.
Wind and sand rolled in billows.
Something enormous churned in the sea. A body covered in dark rock broke through the wind and waves, revealing an Earth Turtle as vast as a mountain. It was moving over a hundred islands and islets, one by one.
It was the Spirit Deity Xu Fayan had refined. Three talismans were drawn on its body, corresponding respectively to the mysteries of the Gen Earth divine abilities: [Five Affairs Reverent Stillness], [Four Seasons Plainly Hold One's Place], and [Mountain-Moving and Shifting Peaks].
With the power of Mountain-Moving and Shifting Peaks, Xu Fayan herded these uninhabited islands and islets of the Western Sea into one place. A slight activation of the mystery of breeding soil fused them into a single landmass.
He had created Origin-Nurturing Continent this way years ago. Now that he had obtained the mystery of good earth, he was an old hand steering a familiar cart.
In ten days, he created a continent a thousand li across. That ought to count as carving out a thousand li of territory.
"Drive a million people..."
That was a problem. Though the Western Sea had few people, finding a million was not difficult. The problem was... wouldn't he be sending them to their deaths?
Mortals who entered the Xia Lands would only become fodder.
"If the living won't do, the dead might."
He smiled faintly, an idea already in mind. He sent the many Spirit Deities within his Divine Kingdom out to find the dead rotting in the Western Sea. He might have been better off not looking; once he did, even he fell somewhat silent.
There were too many rotting corpses.
The Western Sea had no Golden Core cultivator of the Immortal Dao presiding over it to begin with, and the repeated changes