Since Mu Bai had resolved to tunnel through the Shuhuan Mountain Range, he would spare no effort, hoping to clothe those ten thousand miles of ravines in lush green and bring peace and prosperity to the countless common people. As for the new Taiyuan City, the fighting not far away had already turned it into a bloody killing ground. It hardly looked like a city under construction anymore.
The Dharma Lotus Trading Company and the Taiyuan Merchant Guild had both raised the stakes repeatedly, dispatching more supplies and cultivators as though determined to fight to the death here. Mu Bai was happy to watch them tear into each other like dogs, their mouths full of fur.
Early spring had passed, and the earth had awakened. The excavation site in the Shuhuan Mountain Range grew busy and thunderous again. To speed up progress, each tribe summoned several thousand more cultivators, bringing their combined numbers to nearly ten thousand, with elders from the opposite tribe supervising their work.
Tunneling through the Shuhuan Mountain Range was certainly not something manpower alone could accomplish. That was why the major trading companies had scrambled to transport enormous Soul Crystal Cannons to Ximu City. Leaving aside how the two great trading companies had ultimately used their cannons to bombard each other, at the excavation site, the two tribes first aimed their enormous Soul Crystal Cannons at the notch and bombarded it from afar, cracking the mountain and shattering its hard rock. Only then did the cultivators clear away and transport the rubble.
Ordinary members of both great tribes also came to help, contributing what little they could whenever they had the chance. People from nearby flocked over as well. Often, they first watched the slaughter on Taiyuan City's battlefield from a distance, then came to the