I fabricated myths to guide the revival of spiritual energy.

The globally synchronized "dragon's roar" had subsided, but the atmosphere in the command room was even more tense than before, as if the air was filled with gas about to be ignited.

The world map on the big screen was now covered with red markers, but all the red eventually converged into a thick straight line, pointing to the western part of China.

"Reporting to the Director! The triangulation results are confirmed!"

A technical major jumped to his feet, his voice cracking with excitement:

"Earthquake epicenter located! Error within ten meters!"

He pushed the data to the home screen.

That was a high-resolution satellite image from above.

At the center of the image is a vast mountain range covered in snow, and deep within the mountains lies a strange, dark red canyon, like a scar on the earth.

"That is..." Li Guozhong squinted, looking at the familiar coordinates.

"Kunlun Mountains, Lengger Valley".

Professor Wang, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up, his fingers trembling slightly as he held the long-extinguished pipe in his hand.

"Commonly known as 'Death Valley,' or... 'Gates of Hell.'"

"Why there?" Zhao Feng asked, frowning. "There is indeed an abnormal magnetic field there, and lightning strikes are frequent, but there has never been such a high-energy reaction before."

"Because it is the 'ancestral lineage'."

Professor Wang took a deep breath, pushed up his glasses, and the lenses reflected the cold blue light from the screen.

"In Taoist classics and feng shui, the dragon veins of the world originate from Kunlun. If that sound just now was the heartbeat of the earth, then that place... is the valve of the heart."

Just then, a communications officer responsible for monitoring the Skynet satellites suddenly shouted:

"Chief! Look at the satellite cloud image! The clouds over the Kunlun Mountains... something's wrong!"

Li Guozhong suddenly looked up.

On the right side of the screen, in the real-time weather cloud map, the thick cumulonimbus clouds and blizzard that originally covered the Kunlun Mountains were now spinning wildly in a way that defied fluid dynamics.

It wasn't blown away by the wind.

Instead, it was as if it had been brutally torn apart by an invisible giant hand.

A huge, clear, circular hole appeared in the center of the clouds.

The moonlight poured down without obstruction, and in the very center of that void, above Death Valley, the air seemed to be severely distorted, refracting the light into colorful halos.

"Energy level off the charts!"

"An extremely high concentration of spiritual energy has been detected!"

"This wavelength... is exactly the same as the spiritual energy reaction we detected at the 'Dragon Locking Well,' but the concentration is... ten thousand times greater!!"

The command room was deathly silent.

Ten thousand times.

What does that mean?

If it's radiation, it's enough to turn a hundred miles around into a dead zone. But if it's spiritual energy...

"He's there."

Zhao Feng stared intently at the bizarre, colorful dot on the screen, his voice hoarse but resolute.

"I believe the answer to all of this lies there."

Li Guozhong turned around abruptly, the medals on his military uniform clanging loudly.

"Get the car ready! We're heading to the airport!"

"Notify the Western Theater Command to immediately seal off a 300-kilometer radius around the Kunlun Mountains! Establish a military restricted area!"

"Whatever he's doing, this time... we have to be in the front row!"

……

【Deep in Death Valley, Kunlun Mountains】

Time: 05:15 AM

In reality, this place is a desolate, uninhabited area.

The ground was littered with animal bones and charred stones, and the air was filled with a faint smell of sulfur.

But at this moment, Gu Qing's figure was suspended in mid-air, a hundred meters above the ground.

The cold wind howled, yet it couldn't stir his clothes in the slightest. This was because he was surrounded by an invisible force field constructed of spiritual energy.

He looked down at the desolate land beneath his feet.

"The stage is too simple."

"Since it is the ancestor of all mountains, it should have the grandeur of the ancestor of all mountains."

Gu Qing opened the system interface and looked at the blueprints for the [Immortal Grotto-heaven] that he had just designed.

[Script loading progress: 10%]

[Phase 1: Environmental Modification (Filter Layer + Fine-tuning of Realistic Scenery)]

"System, activate the follow-up effects of 'Earth Vein Resonance'."

Gu Qing gave a soft order, "Disrupt the magnetic field here, and intensify the thunderstorms. I want to turn this place into a forbidden zone for mortal technology, a sacred land that only cultivators can set foot in."

Boom—!

Following Gu Qing's command, although a hole appeared in the clouds in the sky, purple lightning began to roam wildly at the edge of that hole, forming a natural lightning curtain that tightly enveloped the core area.

Any electronic device that attempts to pass through this veil will be instantly burned out.

This ensured that the subsequent "miracle" could only be seen with the naked eye or captured by a camera with Gu Qing's permission.

"very good."

Gu Qing nodded in satisfaction.

Then, he turned his gaze to the deeper underground.

The true "Kunlun Void" cannot be a castle in the air; it must be built on a solid foundation.

"Now, it's time to get serious."

Gu Qing's finger hovered over the option called "Guidance of Crustal Movement".

This step is very dangerous.

If not handled carefully, it could trigger a truly massive earthquake, affecting surrounding cities.

But he had to do it.

Because he wanted the whole world to see with their own eyes that the mountain had grown taller.

"System, deduce the optimal geological stress release point."

"I want to make this main peak rise three thousand meters overnight."

[Calculating geological structure...]

[A plan has been generated: Use spiritual energy as a lubricant for the Earth's crust to guide the vertical uplift of tectonic plates.]

Estimated time: 30 minutes.

[Earthquake Sensation Level: Level 3 in surrounding cities (felt but harmless), Level 12 in the core area (catastrophic).]

Gu Qing took a deep breath, and the humanity in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by an almost divine indifference.

"Let's begin."

"Let the world see what... the transformation of the world into mulberry fields really means."