Chapter 838: The Legendary Artifact Has Returned
After spending time recuperating on the quarrying island, which was rich in spiritual energy, Grand Ancestor Fuyou had recovered at least half of his former cultivation power. With no eighth-realm cultivators around, his red mist of mayflies became a weapon of mass control—an unstoppable force against the disciples of the Penglai Supreme Sect.
Whether they were trying to quell the chaos or stir it up, once they were engulfed by the red mist, both the Penglai Supreme Sect and the Penglai Secondary Sect disciples ended up on the same side. They all became Grand Ancestor Fuyou’s puppets.
Together, they worked to harvest spirit plants.
Harvesting mature spirit plants was perfectly reasonable, but pulling up the immature ones would normally be a terrible waste. However, Grand Ancestor Fuyou proposed an alternative method—uprooting entire mountains or groves along with the spiritual-energy-rich soil or the spiritual veins and channels running beneath them.
Of course, this wasn’t something one or two people could manage alone. However, with over a dozen cultivators working together, unearthing the spiritual veins became possible, even with some of them at lower cultivation levels.
The miners from Starhold Island were especially quick. After all, they had been digging for days and had grown quite skilled at it.
In groups of three to five, they excavated large chunks of the underground spiritual veins, leaving one massive crater after another across the three islands.
Du Wuhen was filled with such excitement as he led a group of puppets forward and shouted, “This way, this way! If you’ve dug up a spiritual vein, follow me!”
Everything happened so suddenly that the crowd fell silent. No one had expected someone like that to appear out of nowhere.
Even Lin Poyun was stunned. He couldn’t help but think to himself,
Well, damn. We were just here to snatch a few spirit plants and enchanted artifacts. But this old man? He’s ripping up their entire foundation. Now that’s what I call ruthless. Why didn’t I think of that? Guess I’m just not bad enough yet.