Transmigrating over ten thousand years late, I was forced to become a mighty presence

Chapter 393: Chapter 180: The Co-governance of Gods and Humans_2

Xue Yuan’s heart was filled with gratitude toward Teacher Shen, and he also made up his mind to definitely complete the task assigned by Teacher Shen.

Slamming his hand heavily onto the sand table, Xue Yuan looked at the important figures before him with a solemn gaze and said with bursting enthusiasm,

“There’s no need to discuss those trivial matters.

My only demand is to excavate the valley with the utmost speed while ensuring safety, at all costs!”

“The Imperial Astronomical Bureau has allocated a batch of sky stones for setting up the transportation formation. If the large transportation machines are difficult to move, we will directly establish a transportation formation and guarantee the project is completed as soon as possible!”

…

In the Imperial Capital, Golden Throne Hall.

Emperor Xia sat upright on the dragon throne, flipping through the memorial that had just been presented.

The content of the memorial was exactly the remarks made by Xue Yuan at the front-line camp at North Mang Mountain not long ago.

Looking at Xue Yuan’s full-spirited words, a hint of a smile couldn’t help but appear in Emperor Xia’s aged eyes, as he spoke to the superintendent of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau below,

“How valuable indeed are the sky stones! This Xue Yuan is actually using such precious spirit objects to set up a transportation formation to send large engineering machinery to North Mang Mountain to improve the efficiency of excavation.

In the view of Superintendent Zhong, how is Xue Yuan’s action?”

The superintendent of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau straightened his expression, bowed to Emperor Xia, and said,

“Although the sky stones are precious, they are consumables that will sooner or later be used; it only matters whether the timing of their use is appropriate.

The excavation of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land not only relates to the First Ghost Immortal, the master of North Mang Mountain who has not yet perished but also involves the will of the Supreme Taoist.

No one is clear about the current state of these two, nor does anyone know how far their struggle has advanced.

But the one thing we can be certain of is that if the Supreme Taoist can suppress the master of North Mang Mountain, it would be a good thing for the entire Great Xia’s Imperial Court.

Just a few sky stones, after all, being able to contribute to the commands of the Supreme Taoist and to gain some good will from him would indeed be worthwhile for us.”

Emperor Xia pointed at the superintendent of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, his words carrying a hint of teasing,

“These sky stones were deliberately sent to Luo Province by you, and now that Xue Yuan is able to use them, it certainly follows your wish.”

“Your Majesty sees clearly!”

Nonchalantly throwing the memorial to one side, Emperor Xia’s smile slowly faded.

As the superintendent had said, the Supreme Taoist making a move on the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land is definitely a great boon for Great Xia’s Imperial Court.

However, Luo Province is ultimately just a corner of the Great Xia’s Imperial Court; even if the master of North Mang Mountain were to reemerge in the world, he would only occupy the territory of North Mang Mountain and proliferate water monsters, unable to pose a real threat in the short term.

The biggest trouble at present is another matter that could affect the entire situation of Great Xia.

Thinking of this, Emperor Xia slowly began to speak,

“The Imperial Astronomical Bureau has invited various grotto heavens sacred grounds to go to Fengdu City and suppress the chaos in the Netherworld.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

How many of the grotto heavens sacred grounds have responded?”

The face of the superintendent of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau suddenly darkened as he said,

“The grotto heavens sacred grounds have responded that the Netherworld has its order, and as people of the Yang World of the grotto heavens sacred ground, they cannot interfere with the Netherworld’s struggles at will.”

Emperor Xia fell into silence.

After a long while, an aged voice echoed in the hall.

“Quite the response, ‘the Netherworld has its order.'”

…

Meanwhile, several miles away from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, a quaint and exquisite pavilion sat amidst the barren mountains and wild ridges, completely out of place in the desolate scenery.

This attic was Mo family’s mechanical tower that Gong Buyu had taken out from a Storage Ring. Its main body was a huge wooden box less than two meters high, which upon complete unfolding, transformed into a beautiful two-story pavilion.

Shen Yuan had once seen various taverns, inns, shops, and treasure pavilions in the Ingenious Tiny World Immortal Marketplace, which were basically all created by the Mo family.

Otherwise, given the scarce resources of the Ingenious Tiny World, it would have been impossible to construct such a large marketplace in a short period of time.

Once Gong Buyu learned that they would be waiting here until the excavation of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land was finished, he actively offered up the mechanical pavilion for Shen Yuan’s daily rest.

Inside the cultivation room of the attic, Shen Yuan slowly opened his eyes, concluding his daily breathe-in and breathe-out practice.

Looking up at the sun outside the window, a hint of helplessness flashed in Shen Yuan’s eyes.

At this moment, three full days had passed in the excavation of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land. During these three days, Shen Yuan monitored the excavation progress while performing his daily cultivation.

Having entered the Spirit Transmutation Stage, Shen Yuan’s daily cultivation breathe-in and breathe-out could only increase Mana; what he really needed was to purify his Yin God.

But without being in the Courtyard Secret Realm, Shen Yuan couldn’t control the concentration of True Sunfire in the sunlight, so the sunlight outside was utterly insufficient for purifying his Yin God, which greatly slowed down his cultivation progress over these three days.

The only piece of good news was probably that the excavation of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land was proceeding normally. After establishing the Imperial Edict of “Suppress North Mang Forever,” the Master of North Mang Mountain had not shown any further movement.

Currently, the Luo Provincial Army’s excavation progress had reached inside the valley, where huge engineering machinery was destroying everything visible in the valley.

During the excavation, these machines unearthed a large number of corpses beneath the land of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.

After verifying that these corpses were not spatial anchors, Shen Yuan ordered that all remains be transported out of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and arranged for the provincial army to find a proper burial place for them.

According to Shen Yuan’s judgment, these bodies were likely the remains of powerful experts from various clans who died in battle during Ancient Times, as well as some from the Great Zhou Dynasty who sacrificed themselves to seal the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.

Shen Yuan had no room to comment on the fallen powerful experts of the clans. However, he held a measure of reverence for those from the Great Zhou Dynasty who fell in order to seal the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, and considered burying them so that they wouldn’t lie exposed in the wilderness an act of respect towards them.

In fact, during these recent days of excavation, the most anxious one was not Shen Yuan but Xue Yuan, who represented Great Xia’s Imperial Court.

After receiving some hints from Shen Yuan and realizing there were even more potent ghostly threats within the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, Xue Yuan became completely obsessed with the engineering project, thinking up every possible way to improve the efficiency of the excavation.

If it weren’t for the difficulty of transporting engineering machinery deep into North Mang Mountain and the fact that the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land was a valley surrounded by mountains which couldn’t accommodate too many machines working at the same time, Xue Yuan would have wished to move the entire Celestial Works Division of Luo Province there.

In an effort to speed things up, Xue Yuan also proposed many highly creative ideas to Shen Yuan.

For example, using tens of tons of high explosives to destroy the entire Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, or directly dropping a nuclear bomb to flatten the area.

Shen Yuan immediately stopped these crazy ideas as soon as they were expressed.

Although the 10th Hall Yama Array Formation was designed to suppress ghostly entities, such a high-level Array Formation would surely possess certain protective abilities.

Employing high explosives or nuclear bombs could provoke the protective features of the 10th Hall Yama Array Formation.

If they failed to destroy the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and such explosives destabilized the 10th Hall Yama Array Formation, giving the Master of North Mang Mountain a chance to break free from constraints and escape, it would constitute a catastrophe of immense proportions.

Given the tremendous risks involved, Shen Yuan naturally preferred a regular excavation even if it meant spending a few more days.

Gazing at the distant sound of machinery roaring from the excavation, he frowned slightly.

“Everything at North Mang Mountain appears normal, but why do I feel such inexplicable unease?”

Just as Shen Yuan was about to use his Star Astrology Divine Power to deduce the source of his concern, a figure riding a Flight of Light suddenly flew up from the base of North Mang Mountain and arrived in front of the pavilion—it was Xue Mingzhi.

Xue Mingzhi landed hastily, shouting up to Shen Yuan in the pavilion:

“Teacher, something terrible has happened!”

Shen Yuan looked at Xue Mingzhi’s flustered appearance with some surprise, “What matter has you so panicked?”

“Teacher, you had asked me to use the connections of the Xue Family to search for news about the Netherworld. Now, we finally have some results.

Above the territory of Tai Province, there is chaos between Yin and Yang, evil spirits are rampant, and the Imperial Astronomical Bureau is struggling to suppress the numerous evil spirits. Great Xia’s Imperial Court wishes to reinstate All City Gods and use the authority of the City Gods to suppress the calamity caused by evil spirits.

According to rumors, the major figures within the Netherworld are not satisfied with the separation of Yin and Yang for governance and intend to have All City Gods return to the Yang World, ushering in an era of shared governance between humans and gods!”