Bamboo Mound

At this moment, all the elders were already standing in the square chatting, waiting for the three to arrive.

From Ning Chang's perspective, apart from the square in front of him, there is no trace of development in the entire valley!

The square is paved with bluestone bricks and is circular in shape. After maintaining its flatness, there are no other designs.

On its four sides, there are five identical metal door frames.

The door frame was about four meters wide and five meters high, decorated with simple patterns. If it weren't for the fact that all the elders were gathered in front of one of the doors, Ning Chang would have thought it was just a decoration for the square.

Following the two to the front of the elders, Ning Tongyu raised his hand and cast a spiritual rune into the door frame. At the same time, he summoned another jade tablet that was almost identical to the one given to Ning Chang, which floated in the center of the door frame.

Accompanied by a faint tremor and ripple, a thin, flowing film appeared on the door frame.

Green and blue-purple patterns mingled and drifted slowly within the thin film.

Seeing this, Ning Chang roughly understood the purpose of the door frame.

This is a secret realm!

Recalling Ge Shu's spatial theory, he asked softly:

"Are secret realms also offspring of space?"

Upon hearing this, Ge Shu turned to the side and explained:

"In a sense, that can be understood as well, but the size of the spaces in the secret realms is not the same; some are only a kilometer in size, while others are tens of thousands of miles!"

"However, those are considered relatively small secret realms."

"If we compare space to a tree, then the world we inhabit now can be seen as the trunk, the secret realm as the branches and leaves, and these door frames..."

Ning Chang interrupted Ge Shu in time, saying, "No need. With Sect Leader Ge's analogy, I have basically understood."

Ge Shu nodded again and turned around.

This knowledge only needs one main thread to easily deduce other concepts, so listening to lectures would be a waste of time.

A few breaths later, seeing that the membrane inside the door frame was stabilizing, Ning Tongyu put away the jade token and entered the secret realm first.

Seeing this, Ning and Chang followed them in, followed by the elders.

After a moment of hazy transition, Ning Chang found himself on a vast plain!

Although it is called a plain, there are various areas of different shapes and sizes scattered around it.

Each area is covered by an array, and is a field where a kind of spiritual plant grows!

Some scenes resemble the darkness of night, others the ten suns shining brightly in the sky, and still others the center of a vast ocean...

The spiritual plants in each field are growing vigorously, with the smallest covering several acres!

As I looked around, Ning Tongyu's calm voice rang in my ears:

"This is a place in Medicine King Valley specifically used to cultivate important spiritual plants. Since its establishment, all the spiritual plants originally grown in the sect have been transplanted here."

"The clump of fragrant herbs in the sect is a special case. Even if we simulate an environment similar to the outside world here, it will not be able to be successfully grown. That's why it was left outside."

"Now that we're about to take action, we should try it here first. If it doesn't succeed, we can go back to the outside world and start over."

Ning Chang nodded.

While Ning Tongyu was speaking, all the elders entered the secret realm.

Ning Tongyu then rose up again and flew straight in one direction, leading everyone to a vacant area, which was the edge of the existing spiritual plant fields.

"It's right here. Brother Chang, you can describe the specific terrain, and we can handle the rest."

Upon hearing this, Ning Chang recalled that the mountain itself was originally just a celestial lake, and the surrounding mountain ranges did not seem to offer any benefit to Yao Xiangcao.

So he flew up to a height of over a thousand meters and, relying on his senses, finally determined that the top of Tianhu Lake was two thousand meters high.

Upon landing, he immediately shared his predictions with everyone.

"Even ordinary mountain peaks, after the peaks are removed, number about two thousand. The details will be described one by one after they are built."

“In that case, let’s ask all the elders to work together to build the mountain.” Ning Tongyu nodded in agreement, greeted the elders, stepped aside, raised his hand to establish a connection, and prepared to transfer spiritual power to the elders.

After Ge Shu placed arrays on each of the elders, he retreated to Ning Tongyu's side and sat down in mid-air.

As for Ning Chang, he couldn't get involved, so he consciously followed Ning Tongyu to the side.

After exchanging a few words, the elders dispersed and formed a circle, sitting down cross-legged together.

Instantly, they all emitted a yellowish-brown spiritual light, with a few green lights mixed in among them.

Then, all the spiritual light merged downwards into the earth, and then emerged from the empty space among the elders in a form that resembled a physical object.

Without the expected tremors and roars, a mountain of earth and stone gradually grew out of thin air!

It grows extremely fast, reaching a height of tens of meters in the blink of an eye!

As the "mountain" grew, the distance between the elders also increased, but they still formed a circle around it.

With the combined efforts of the elders, in just over an hour, a flat-topped mountain, two thousand meters high and more than six hundred meters in diameter at the top, suddenly stood on this plain!

Seeing the elders stop, Ning Tongyu shook Ning Chang awake, who was practicing the "Senses" technique with his eyes closed.

"The mountain structure is complete. Changdi, please inspect it and see what the next step is."

Hearing this, he nodded, stood up, and walked a few steps to the top of the flat-topped mountain, standing in front of the elders.

Looking down at the flat and regular mountaintop, Ning Chang condensed his spiritual energy into lines, which then formed a circle, drawing a regular circle on the mountaintop.

The circle is much smaller than the mountaintop as a whole, leaving a distance of about ten meters from the edge.

After confirming that the elders could sense and read the spiritual lines he had drawn, Ning Chang withdrew his spiritual power and pondered for a moment, stroking his chin.

He couldn't be sure of the depth of Tianhu Lake, but it was at least several hundred meters deep, since his spiritual power hadn't reached the bottom of the lake at the time.

But as for the specific depth...

"Round it up, one kilometer."

He made the decision casually and described the requirements to the elders.

When they heard Ning Chang say that he wanted to dig so many more, none of them were angry. At least for the sake of Yao Xiangcao, no matter how difficult Ning Chang was, as long as it wasn't a particularly unreasonable request, they would try their best to meet it.

As for rejection and making things difficult, that's a matter for later. If Ning Chang intends to make things difficult for them now...

After confirming that there were no other requirements for the time being, everyone immediately began to take action.

Don't be fooled by how long it took them to build the mountain; digging it out will be a piece of cake!

The hardest part is controlling the force to avoid accidentally crossing the line.

In less than fifteen minutes, under the careful guidance of the elders, the thousand-meter-deep pit appeared on the mountain.