Building a sect from scratch.

After being resurrected, Renxin Huadao and the others hurriedly returned to the ruins via a teleportation array.

This time, nothing went wrong. The five players flew across the long river and, on the sand not far from the riverbed, immediately spotted the altar that the other teams had mentioned.

After Renxin Huadao removed the small box inscribed with "Grant you eternal life," a sudden earthquake shook the ground. All the altars emitted an unsettling, dark red light, and then began to slowly descend.

The altar continued to sink for about five or six minutes. Suddenly, the gloomy soil and stone walls around it disappeared, and the view became unprecedentedly wide. Players could even see several other altars in the distance that were also descending.

It's a huge underground world!

This underground world was shrouded in a dark red mist. Although things were not clearly visible, one could vaguely make out the strangely shaped rocks on the ground, which were eerie and terrifying. More importantly, looking along the longest and highest mountain range, countless travertine mines were scattered all around.

These stones shimmered with a warm white light, adorning the blood-mist-filled landscape like a star-studded night sky. It was precisely because of the illumination from these stones that the players witnessed an extremely terrifying scene.

The entire ground was filled with headless figures amidst the blood-red mist!
They wandered around slowly and aimlessly, like zombies.

The brave players were fine, but the few timid players were trembling with fear when they saw this scene.

"What on earth is this thing?!"

"A corpse? That doesn't seem quite right!"

"Cannot be identified!"

"Take a screenshot and send it to the group chat to ask!"

Everyone was talking at once, but no one recognized what this headless person was.

but……

"Where did you guys go?! How come you're surrounded by rare ores?! And do you even have a panoramic view? It looks like a spirit stone vein!"

Although the screenshots sent to the group failed to identify the source of the headless man, they did reveal an extremely unfamiliar ID: 【鸽白尼】.

Suddenly, this usually inconspicuous group member excitedly sent several messages in quick succession—

"That green crystal ore can be used to extract cerium, lanthanum, plutonium, thorium and the like... Although our technology is limited right now, that stuff is very important!"

"What is the exact location? Is the land available for purchase? What are the transportation options?"
"This is an open-pit mine, there's no difficulty in mining it, my God, my God, my God!"

Renxin Huadao couldn't help but interrupt Ge Baini's self-indulgent ramblings, sending a message asking, "Big Boss, calm down first. Although you said a lot, I didn't understand a word you said. Are you saying this is a spirit stone mine?!"

“That’s right!” Ge Baini quickly replied, “It’s obvious that travertine is a by-product of spirit stone mines. Such a large amount of travertine, distributed very evenly around a mountain range, almost certainly indicates that there is a spirit stone mine here! However, it’s a bit hard to understand why all the screenshots you’ve shown are of open-pit mines…”

Renxin Huadao said, "Uh, actually it shouldn't be considered open-air; this is actually underground..."

"underground!?"

Renxin Huadao explained in a few words: "To be precise, it's an underground area within a dungeon. Our raiding group triggered a quest, and then a dungeon called 'Yinglong Ruins' appeared. We went in to explore and accidentally discovered this place... Anyway, the background in the screenshot is underground!" Players in the group who saw Renxin Huadao's explanation became envious: "Wow! What kind of group are you? You're so popular!?"

"Make some!"

"Can people without a quest come in? It's a spirit stone mine! Wouldn't it make you rich if you dug a few holes?!"

"Could this dungeon have become their guild's private property?"

"Probably not..."

While other players were spamming their chat with witty remarks, Ge Baini himself took off running towards the sect's library.

Thanks to Fang Xianyu's efforts to enrich the Taiyin Sect's library, it was filled with all sorts of documents and books. Of course, most of them were not secret manuals or cultivation techniques, but rather various records of strange tales and miscellaneous books introducing the Guixu Realm that she had purchased through various merchant guilds and alliances. These were intended for players to learn about this cultivation world.

However, her painstaking efforts were not well discovered. Normal players wouldn't be idle enough to spend time in the library reading such trivial things. On the contrary, it was the obvious national team members who were diligently flipping through these books. I heard that there was even a language expert who had truly mastered the Middle-earth language and Middle-earth script!
Of course, Ge Baini's plan to search for clues in the book was destined to fail, because even Fang Xianyu himself was seeing this kind of underground world for the first time.

No, to be precise, almost all the small worlds and various ruins should be considered "underground" worlds, since those sun, moon and stars are projections of the sun, moon and stars of the Guixu Realm, and do not actually operate in those small worlds.

The underground world that the players discovered, though eerie, is clearly a 'sacrifice pit' used for rituals.

It can be roughly speculated that in ancient times, there was a group of people, or cultivators, who attempted to "resurrect" Yinglong. So they built these altars and used their ability to move mountains and fill seas to dig out this underground space to house ordinary people who thought they had gained immortality.

This ritual was continuous, and the sacrificial offerings were banished here after the ritual, living in a daze, neither alive nor dead.

Of course, these were all guesses made by Fang Xianyu based on her own knowledge, but now that she had a free knowledge base to refer to, the guesses were only fleeting.

She concealed herself, standing where the players couldn't see her, and took out a shard of mirror from her bosom, gently wiping the mirror surface with her sleeve.

An illusory figure immediately appeared beside Fang Xianyu.

"Jun Chou, do you know what's going on?"

Jun Chou is the spirit of the Douxuan Treasure Mirror, and strictly speaking, it has no physical form. The reason it takes on a "human" appearance is for the purpose of communicating with others. In reality, it is more like an invisible "consciousness," traversing every corner of the Guixu Realm, which is why the Douxuan Treasure Mirror is said to be omniscient.

"Ugh……"

Jun Chou's long sigh echoed in my ears.

He remained silent for a moment before speaking: "Many cultivators in ancient times were extremely ignorant."

"Legend has it that Yinglong killed Chiyou and Kuafu, and controlled thunder and rain, possessing boundless power. Therefore, a group of cultivators hoped to revive it and worship it to strengthen themselves..."

"At that time, many people believed that human skulls were spiritual bones, a special kind of spiritual material. So these sacrificial skulls were collected and used to build the skeleton of the Yinglong they wanted to resurrect."

Fang Xianyu was unusually astonished: "Using human skulls to build the skeleton of the Yinglong?! How could that be done? The shapes are completely different!?" (End of Chapter)