Dongsheng Shenzhou, Liupingsha.
Bai Xuanling concealed her aura, her gaze sweeping over the bottle-shaped lake that lay calm and still amid the yellow sands before her.
Judging by the map Chu Xingchen had given her, most of the spirit vein tributaries flowed here. Other tributaries were also shifting, and according to predictions, their ultimate destination should be here as well.
Altering spirit veins, even mere tributaries, was an exceedingly difficult task in itself. It could not be accomplished through brute force alone.
Even the Eighteen Immortal Sects had merely established their sects where the main spirit veins flowed, rather than bending their courses. As a result, quite a few Immortal Sects had founded their sects in outrageously poor locations and only gradually corrected this afterward through tremendous effort.
With the Heavenly Derivation Sect's current capabilities, changing the course of a spirit vein tributary was not impossible, but it would come at an enormous cost. Nor could they possibly redirect tributaries as seemingly effortlessly as these Heavenly Demons did.
They had probably employed some means involving authority.
Back when Heaven's Way had collapsed for a time and its authorities had fallen, the Eighteen Immortal Sects had each obtained some, as had the Heavenly Demons. However, most had subsequently been gathered and consolidated by the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect, the foremost sect in the world.
In contrast to the Heavenly Demons' wanton corruption and testing of the authorities' might,
the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect had always done everything it could to return these authorities of Heaven's Way. Each sect had personally witnessed its efforts to return them.
Thus, over the years, the Eighteen Immortal Sects had nominally refrained from researching the might of these authorities too extensively.
After all, Heaven's Way had largely collapsed back then to save the living beings of