A hundred thousand li was truly far too short a distance for a Golden Core Cultivator.
Although Wang Quan had only just advanced to Golden Core and had yet to practice the spells and Divine Abilities of the Golden Core Realm, even the spells he had used before had doubled in power.
Even the speed of the Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust had increased considerably.
The two rode the smoke and dust upstream along the Fury River.
As they traveled, they admired the mountains and waters without growing bored.
Instead, their pleasant mood allowed them to keep discovering different mountain and river scenery.
It was rare for the two to relax. Drifting along like this, they took a full two or three days to cover a hundred thousand li and reach the so-called mechanical dam.
At his first sight of the mechanical dam, even the widely traveled and knowledgeable Wang Quan was shaken.
Beside him, a flash of shock crossed Ying Jiaren's beautiful eyes, and she stared blankly at the dam.
The Fury River was hundreds of li across at its widest and barely a dozen li at its narrowest; the mountains on either bank ranged from a thousand to ten thousand meters high.
The dam spanned a stretch of river over three hundred li wide.
Rising a full eight thousand meters from the ground, the dam was built entirely from an unknown metal.
Rather than a smooth surface, its outer face exposed countless connecting rods, gears, holes, and other features.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Columns of water gushed from the holes, gears, and pipes in the dam, plunging from the sky like waterfalls.
Countless spirit monsters, martial artists, and cultivators carried crude magical implements to gather resources unique to these waterfalls.
Gears a thousand meters tall turned, churning the