Half an hour later, above Chen Family Village in Yicheng.
A ripple spread through the void, and the Heavenly Shuttle broke through space.
Chen Lin stepped out of the Flying Boat and stood high in the air. Below, the spiritual energy inside the Song-Style Courtyard House was so dense it formed mist. Several kilometers away, Gu Changfeng was drilling a new batch of student soldiers at the Special Operations Base.
Chen Lin took the palm-sized black miniature mountain out of his Storage Ring.
He infused true dragon qi and blood into the control jade token and selected a stretch of wilderness a hundred li across, northwest of Chen Family Village.
"Go."
Chen Lin tossed it casually.
The little black mountain flew from his hand, swelling rapidly in the wind.
The sky suddenly darkened.
A black shadow of incalculable volume materialized out of nothing.
The base of the Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak spanned dozens of li. It descended at tremendous speed with the shrill screech of air friction, dark red flames even flaring around its edges.
Rumble-
This was no explosion, but a collision of continental plates that lasted more than ten seconds.
The wilderness northwest of Yicheng was forcibly compressed into an enormous basin by that unimaginable weight, the mountain's foundations plunging deep underground. A powerful shock wave churned up waves of earth a hundred meters high and drove them in every direction. Only when they struck Yicheng's National Fortune Defensive Grand Formation did they collapse into a sky full of falling yellow soil.
Sunlight shone down again, falling on the ink-black mountain thousands of feet tall and reflecting the cold, heavy gleam of ancient metal.
Violent seismic waves swept outward from Chen Family Village. The ground throughout Yicheng City bucked violently, and air raid sirens wailed.
The countless troops stationed in