Volume 1, Chapter 4 – I’ll Let You Live to a Hundred

“System,”

Gu Han asked silently in her mind,

“How exactly do I use this construction card? Can I directly turn this place into a sect?”

[In theory, yes, but this system does not recommend using the “Sacred Land Construction Card” here.]

[First, the spiritual veins here are thin and the land is barren. It does not possess the foundation needed to support the long-term development of a powerful sect.]

[Second, the location is poor. It lies on the border of a dynasty, with scarce resources. This is unfavorable for recruiting disciples and obtaining resources.]

[Third, the heavenly phenomenon the host just triggered has already attracted the attention of many parties. If you remain here, there will be endless trouble afterward.]

Gu Han nodded. The system’s analysis made perfect sense.

Make one move, then change locations. That was the proper way.

If she stayed here, was she supposed to wait for those people to come knocking and hold some “Immortal Ascension Experience Exchange Conference”?

“Then what do you suggest?”

[It is recommended that the host find another blessed land to serve as the sect’s foundation. As for this place…]

[With the host’s current strength, moving mountains and filling seas is no difficult matter. If the host is attached to this place, you may relocate it in its entirety.]

“Relocate it in its entirety?”

Gu Han’s eyes lit up. “Move the whole mountain away?”

[Exactly. With the host’s current cultivation and the system’s assistance, this mountain and everything on it can be “packed up and taken away.”]

“Good! Then that’s what we’ll do!”

Gu Han hardly hesitated at all.

She truly had no particularly good memories of this mountain or this broken-down temple.

But she had still spent ten years here. It counted as her first “home” in this strange world.

More importantly, this was the place where she had ascended to immortality in a single step. It was tied to her fate and fortune. She did not feel safe leaving it to others.

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Once she made up her mind, she acted immediately.

With a thought, Gu Han’s body slowly floated into the air. Her snow-white hair drifted without wind, and a faint radiance began to spread around her.

She closed her eyes. Her vast divine sense, like the most precise scanner, instantly enveloped the entire mountain.

From the summit to the depths beneath the earth, the structure and lines of every inch of soil, every stone, every blade of grass, and every tree were clearly reflected in her sea of consciousness.

The mountain was neither especially large nor especially small, spanning several dozen li.

In the past, she would never have dared imagine moving it even the slightest bit. But now, it felt no different from handling a somewhat larger toy.

“System, assist me with spatial cutting and compression.”

[Understood. Constructing spatial coordinates… defining relocation range… establishing energy shield…]

As the system’s prompts sounded, Gu Han felt her power being guided in a more efficient and exquisite way.

She raised her right hand and made a grasping motion at the mountain below her.

Bzzz!

An indescribably vast power spread outward from her as the center, instantly wrapping around the entire mountain.

Ripples like water spread through the air, and space itself seemed to turn viscous and warped in that instant.

In the village below the mountain, the villagers watched in terror.

That mountain, together with the run-down Heavenly Maiden Temple on its slope, had actually begun to tremble slightly.

Then the entire mountain seemed to break free from the earth and begin a slow but steady ascent.

“The mountain… the mountain is flying!!”

One sharp-eyed villager let out a shrill scream.

The light around Heavenly Maiden Peak twisted, and the point where the base of the mountain connected to the earth was cut apart by a layer of gentle light.

The massive mountain slowly separated from the ground and rose into the sky.

But strangely enough, there was no earthshaking scene of destruction.

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Even the trees on the mountain only swayed softly, as if they were being gently lifted by an invisible giant hand.

At the same time, as the mountain rose, it began shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The enormous mountain, the thick forests, the dilapidated temple.

Everything was compressed by a profound power into an ever-smaller unit of space.

A mountain spanning several li quickly shrank to the size of a house, then to the size of a millstone.

In the end, it turned into a tiny “stone” no bigger than a fist, glowing with a hazy green light and etched with patterns of mountains and rivers on its surface!

Gu Han hovered above the huge pit where the mountain had once stood and reached out to catch the tiny stone.

She nodded in satisfaction and stored the little stone, which carried ten years of her memories, into the system space.

Just as she was about to leave, her gaze swept across the village below, which had fallen into panic and chaos.

After all, she had spent ten years here. She had known those people for a time.

“System, erase all their memories related to me.”

[Command confirmed. Beginning regional memory overwrite… operation complete.]

At the same time, following her instincts, Gu Han lightly waved a hand toward the village.

There was no earthshaking brilliance, only vast and gentle spiritual energy silently covering the entire village.

Strand after strand of pure spiritual energy quietly flowed into every villager’s body, washing away hidden ailments.

That trace of spiritual energy was enough to keep them strong and healthy, free from sickness, and grant every one of them the blessing of longevity, allowing them to live to a hundred in the future.

After doing all that, Gu Han’s expression remained calm.

What she had given them, the villagers would never know.

What she had taken away was only their memories of her.

With karma settled and each side getting what it should, that was for the best.

All that remained on the spot was a huge pit.

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The rock at the bottom lay exposed, gleaming with a fresh sheen, proof that a mountain had once truly stood there.

The villagers below were still immersed in shock.

And yet they all felt vaguely as though they had forgotten someone, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not remember who it was.

Gu Han did nothing else.

Her divine sense swept the surroundings once more, and after confirming that no traces directly related to her had been left behind,

her figure flickered and disappeared from the spot.

The next step was to find a site for her sect.

She activated her divine sense like an invisible radar and swept it across the vast earth at astonishing speed.

Mountains and rivers, plains and swamps, kingdoms and cities…

Countless scenes and pieces of information poured into her sea of consciousness like a tide.

The criteria she was looking for were very clear:

abundant spiritual veins, dangerous or secluded terrain, far from the centers of mortal nations, and ideally a place with no current owner.

Her divine sense crossed mountains and seas, sweeping past countless places, some prosperous and some desolate.

Along the way, she sensed several places where the spiritual energy was especially rich.

But most of them already had owners, occupied by cultivation sects or powerful clans. Some places even still bore traces of restrictions.

“Tch. All the good places have already been taken.”

Gu Han curled her lips and continued searching.

At last, when she cast her divine sense toward a mountain range, she found a particularly unusual place.

That place was shrouded in poisonous miasma all year round. Demonic beasts ran rampant within it, and the environment was harsh, making it a forbidden zone for mortals and even low-level cultivators.

Yet in the deepest part of that mountain range, there was a valley hidden by a natural formation.

Inside the valley, the concentration of spiritual energy far surpassed that of the outside world, and even deeper underground, there seemed to be a spiritual vein of fairly high quality hidden there!

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And there were no signs at all that the place had ever been occupied. It was completely undeveloped land.

“This is the place!”

Gu Han was delighted.

The harsh environment there was itself a natural barrier, while the spiritual vein and concealment within the valley made it the perfect place to establish a sect.

Once she had identified the target, Gu Han stopped hesitating.

She took a single step, and her figure began weaving through fold after fold of space, moving at an unimaginably fast speed.

In only a few breaths, she had already crossed tens of millions of li.

From the border of the Great Yan Dynasty, she arrived in the depths of that unnamed mountain range.

With a flicker, Gu Han appeared at the entrance to the valley covered by the natural formation.

She extended a finger and tapped lightly.

Pop.

A soft sound rang out.

The natural formation, strong enough to block Spirit Transformation cultivators, shattered in an instant and revealed the valley’s true appearance.

At once, a surge of pure spiritual energy rushed toward her, refreshing the spirit.

Looking out, she saw that the valley was vast and boundless. In the center lay a clear lake, while lush green grass carpeted the shore and strange flowers and exotic herbs grew everywhere.

Farther away stood forests of verdant ancient trees. In the distance were flying waterfalls and flowing springs, wrapped in drifting mist, like a paradise beyond the mortal world.

The spiritual vein beneath the ground was like a sleeping dragon, radiating abundant life force and spiritual energy.

“Good! What a good place!”

Gu Han could not help but praise it aloud.

Compared with that drafty, leaking Heavenly Maiden Temple, this place was practically heaven.