Seeing the rising power of the incense continuously gathering towards the Ten Courts of Hell formation, Shen Yuan could not help but nodded with satisfaction.

The Lord of Beimang Mountain is not a worshipped deity, and the magical power to exorcise gods has no inhibitory effect on the Lord of Beimang Mountain.

The real effect of the "Eternal Suppression of Beimang" decree is to fully activate the Ten Courts of Hell formation with the power of incense, in order to protect ordinary people who are excavating the ancient forbidden land from being influenced by the Lord of Beimang Mountain.

Although the various means prepared before have been able to maximize the use of rules to suppress the Lord of Beimang Mountain, after all, he is facing the number one ghost immortal ten thousand years ago, so Shen Yuan cannot take it too seriously.

As the scarlet eye that appeared in the ancient forbidden land disappeared, the cold feeling of being watched also disappeared.

Shen Yuan naturally could not hear the angry roar of the Lord of Beimang Mountain in the endless void.

However, even if Shen Yuan could hear it, he would not pay attention to the words of the Lord of Beimang Mountain. The two sides have become mortal enemies and there is no point in saying more.

For Shen Yuan, he has done everything he needed to do. Now he just needs to wait for the Luozhou provincial army to go deep into the ancient forbidden land and destroy the space anchor point.

Compared with the entire Beimang Mountain, the ancient forbidden land is not very large, but to completely destroy it, it will take at least several days even with the power of modern machinery.

This is bound to be a long process.

The roar of machinery resounded throughout the top of Beimang Mountain. Ever since the ten mountain engineering machines were started, the roar of machinery has never stopped.

The Luozhou provincial government troops at the foot of Beimang Mountain were still continuously transporting all kinds of supplies and engineering equipment to the mountain, and the top of the mountain was already a noisy scene.

On a relatively flat mountain not far away, some Qi Transformation Realm practitioners were using magic to turn rocks into mud to flatten the entire mountain and build an airport to facilitate the transportation of large-scale engineering machinery up the mountain.

Most of the mountains surrounding the ancient forbidden area have been excavated, and the valleys can be vaguely seen in them.

Xue Yuan, the commander-in-chief on the front line, stood in a large tent camp. On the sand table in front of him was a model of the ancient forbidden land that was reduced hundreds of times.

On both sides of the sand table, practitioners dressed in colorful uniforms and with extraordinary demeanor were discussing the progress of the project and how to better transport various materials.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Xue Yuan felt as if he was in a dream.

You must know that these practitioners standing in front of him are all big figures holding high positions in Luozhou.

Born in the Langya Wang family, he was the governor of Luozhou, the commander of the Imperial Astronomical Observatory who supervised all officials in Luozhou, the commander of the Luozhou Yunxiao Army, and the elder of the Huamiao Sect.

If it were three days ago, Xue Yuan, a captain of the provincial army, would not even be qualified to meet these bigwigs.

But now Xue Yuan can use his status as the commander-in-chief to dispatch the bigwigs and their subordinates at will to ensure the smooth progress of the excavation work in the ancient forbidden land.

Three days ago, the first thing Xue Yuan did after meeting Shen Yuan was to mobilize all the available forces in the Luozhou provincial army.

Such a large-scale mobilization naturally attracted the attention of various forces in Luozhou. Just a few hours later, the governor of Luozhou and the nobles of major families all wanted to intervene in the affairs of Beimang Mountain.

They didn't know the reason, but they saw the large-scale desolation brought by the ghost den.

Combined with the fact that people from the imperial capital had come several times before, many people suspected that perhaps a rare treasure or a secret realm had been unearthed, and they wanted to intervene forcibly.

Even though Xue Yuan explained to these bigwigs, he did not produce any solid evidence. In addition, since construction had started in the ancient forbidden land, everyone was skeptical about the Ghost King and the ghost den's statements.

The governor of Luozhou was even prepared to forcibly remove Xue Yuan from his position on the grounds of misusing public resources for personal gain.

The disputes among various parties almost brought the excavation work in the ancient forbidden land to a standstill.

However, just as the parties were arguing, a decree from the Director of the Imperial Observatory reached the capital of Luozhou.

A total of five Qi-training-level monks from the Imperial Astronomical Observatory came to the provincial capital together. The governor of Luozhou was dismissed on the spot and escorted to the imperial capital for interrogation. All the high-ranking members of the major families who tried to forcibly lay their hands on the ancient forbidden land were thrown into prison and awaited investigation by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory.

Xue Yuan was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Luozhou provincial army with a bewildered look on his face, and was in charge of the affairs of the ancient forbidden land and had the power to dispatch the resources of the entire Luozhou.

His only task is to ensure the smooth progress of the excavation work in the ancient forbidden land.

Moreover, an envoy from the Imperial Observatory who delivered the decree secretly revealed to Xue Yuan that Emperor Xia and the Imperial Observatory were both concerned about the matter, and told him to act in accordance with Mr. Shen's orders.

Upon hearing the news, Xue Yuan was deeply shocked.

This matter involves a ghost king, so it is normal for the Imperial Observatory to cast a glance at it.

But what kind of person is Emperor Xia? Even Emperor Xia cast a glance at him, which was enough to prove that the danger in the ancient forbidden land and the identity of Mr. Shen were far beyond his imagination.

After realizing the key, Xue Yuan suddenly thought of the relationship between Xue Mingzhi and Mr. Shen.

If Mr. Shen is a person that even Emperor Xia needs to pay attention to, then Xue Mingzhi will definitely be able to achieve something by following Mr. Shen.

Thinking about how Xue Mingzhi, who originally had only a little talent, suddenly became a famous prodigy in the imperial capital, Xue Yuan realized that all this was thanks to Mr. Shen.

And Xue Yuan, thanks to Mr. Shen, became the commander-in-chief of the Luozhou provincial army.

Xue Yuan's heart was filled with gratitude towards Mr. Shen, and he was determined to complete the task assigned by Mr. Shen.

Xue Yuan slammed his hand heavily on the sand table. He looked at the big shots in front of him with a serious look, and said with a heroic spirit:

“Those little things don’t need to be discussed.

I have only one request, that is to dig the valley as quickly as possible while ensuring safety, at any cost!"

"The Imperial Astronomical Observatory has allocated a batch of Sky Dark Stones for setting up the teleportation array. If large transport planes cannot transport them, we will directly set up a teleportation array for transportation. We must ensure that the project is completed as soon as possible!"

Imperial capital, Golden Palace.

Emperor Xia sat upright on the dragon throne and reached out to read the memorial that had just been handed to him.

The content of the memorial was exactly what Xue Yuan had said not long ago in the front camp at Beimang Mountain.

Seeing Xue Yuan's heroic words, Emperor Xia couldn't help but smile in his old eyes, and said to the Imperial Observatory below:

"How precious is the Sky Stone? Xue Yuan actually used such a precious spiritual object to build a teleportation array to send large-scale construction machinery to Beimang Mountain to improve excavation efficiency.

In your opinion, Lord Zhong, what do you think of Xue Yuan's actions?

The Imperial Observatory's expression straightened up, and he bowed to Emperor Xia and said:

“Although the Sky Stone is precious, it is a consumable item and will be used sooner or later. It just depends on whether the time of use is right.

The excavation of that ancient forbidden land is not only related to the Lord of Beimang Mountain, the first ghost immortal who has never died, but also involves the will of the Supreme Taoist.

No one knows what the current status of these two is, and no one knows how far their fight has gone. But the only thing we can be sure of is that if the Supreme Taoist can suppress the Lord of Beimang Mountain, it will be a good thing for the entire Daxia court.

It's just a few empty stones, but being able to help the Supreme Daoist and gain his favor is worth it."

Emperor Xia pointed at the Imperial Observatory and said with a hint of joking:

"You deliberately sent these Kongming stones to Luozhou. Now that Xue Yuan can use them, it is of course in accordance with your wish."

"Your Majesty, please understand!"

Throwing the memorial aside, the smile on Emperor Xia's face slowly faded.

Just as the Director of the Imperial Observatory said, the Supreme Taoist taking action on the ancient forbidden land is definitely a good thing for the Great Xia court.

However, Luozhou is only a corner of the Great Xia court after all. Even if the lord of Beimang Mountain returns to the world, he can only occupy the territory of Beimang Mountain and evolve into a ghost den. He cannot bring real threat in a short time.

The biggest trouble right now is another thing that can affect the entire situation in Daxia.

Thinking of this, Emperor Xia slowly spoke:

"The Imperial Astronomical Observatory invites all the major caves and blessed places to go to Fengdu Town to suppress the chaos in the underworld.

How many of those blessed places responded?"

The head of the Imperial Observatory suddenly looked gloomy and said:

"All the major caves and blessed places responded that the underworld has its own order, and the caves and blessed places are for people in the world of the living, so they cannot arbitrarily interfere in the struggles in the underworld."

Emperor Xia fell silent.

After a long while, the old voice finally echoed in the hall.

"Good one, the underworld has its own order."

A few miles away from the ancient forbidden land, an exquisite quaint attic sits in the wilderness, completely out of tune with the desolate surrounding scene.

This attic is the Mohist mechanical building that Gong Buyu took out from the storage ring. The main body of it is a huge wooden box less than two meters high. When its mechanism is fully unfolded, it becomes an exquisite two-story attic.

The various restaurants, inns, shops and treasure houses that Shen Yuan had seen in the Zhenlong small world's immortal cultivation market were basically all built by the Mohist school.

Otherwise, given the scarcity of resources in the Zhenlong small world, it would be impossible to build such a large market in a short period of time.

When Gong Buyu learned that they had to wait here until the excavation of the ancient forbidden land was completed, he took the initiative to offer this mechanical building to be used as a daily resting place for Shen Yuan.

In the training room in the attic, Shen Yuan slowly opened his eyes and ended his breathing exercises for the day.

Looking up at the sun outside the window, a hint of helplessness flashed in Shen Yuan's eyes.

At this time, three full days had passed since the excavation of the ancient forbidden land. During these three days, Shen Yuan supervised the progress of the excavation of the ancient forbidden land while carrying out daily practice.

Shen Yuan has entered the realm of spiritual transformation. Daily breathing exercises can only increase his magic power. What he really needs is to cleanse his Yin Spirit.

But without being in the secret realm of the courtyard, Shen Yuan could not control the concentration of the sun's true fire in the sunlight. The sunlight from the outside world was simply not enough for Shen Yuan to complete the cleansing of his Yin Spirit, so Shen Yuan's cultivation progress slowed down a lot in the past three days.

The only good news is probably that the excavation of the ancient forbidden land is going normally. After issuing the edict to permanently suppress Beimang, the Lord of Beimang Mountain has not made any moves since.

At present, the excavation progress of the Luozhou provincial army has entered the valley, and those huge construction machinery are destroying everything visible in the valley.

During the excavation process, these machines discovered a large number of corpses under the ground of the ancient forbidden land.

After Shen Yuan checked that these corpses were not space anchors, he ordered all the corpses to be transported out of the ancient forbidden land and asked the provincial army to arrange a cemetery to bury them one by one.

According to Shen Yuan's judgment, these corpses should be the remains of powerful men from various tribes who died in battles in ancient times, as well as some powerful men from the Great Zhou Dynasty who sacrificed their lives in later generations to seal off the ancient forbidden land.

Shen Yuan had no way to comment on the strong men of various races who died in the battle, but he still had some awe for the strong men who died in the Great Zhou Dynasty in order to seal off the ancient forbidden land. Burying them so that their bodies would not be exposed in the wilderness was Shen Yuan's respect for them.

In fact, during the past few days of excavation, the most anxious person was not Shen Yuan, but Xue Yuan who represented the Great Xia court.

After getting some hints from Shen Yuan and realizing that there were even more powerful ghost threats in the ancient forbidden land, Xue Yuan completely entered a state of engineering madness, trying every means to improve the efficiency of excavating the ancient forbidden land.

If it weren't for the fact that the Ancient Forbidden Land is located deep in the Beimang Mountain, making it difficult to transport construction machinery, and the fact that the Ancient Forbidden Land is a valley surrounded by mountains and cannot accommodate too many machines working at the same time, Xue Yuan would have wanted to move the entire Tiangong Division of Luozhou here.

In order to speed up the progress, Xue Yuan also proposed many very creative ideas to Shen Yuan.

For example, using dozens of tons of high explosives to destroy the entire ancient forbidden land, or directly dropping a nuclear bomb to raze the ancient forbidden land to the ground.

As soon as these crazy thoughts were spoken out, they were forcibly stopped by Shen Yuan.

Although the Ten Courts of Hell formation is a formation for suppressing ghosts, a formation of this level will inevitably have a certain protective effect.

If dangerous weapons such as high explosives and nuclear bombs were used, it might trigger the protection of the Ten Courts of Hell formation.

Failure to destroy the ancient forbidden land would be a small matter, but if these explosives affected the stability of the Ten Kings of Hell formation and gave the Lord of Beimang Mountain a chance to break free and escape, that would be a huge disaster.

Compared with the huge risks involved, Shen Yuan naturally prefers to carry out normal excavation, which would only take a few more days at most.

Looking at the roar of mechanical digging in the distance, his brows furrowed slightly.

"Everything is normal in Beimang Mountain, but why do I feel inexplicably uneasy?"

Just as Shen Yuan was about to use his astrological powers to deduce the source of the problem, a figure riding a beam of light suddenly flew from the foot of Beimang Mountain to the front of the attic. It was Xue Mingzhi.

Xue Mingzhi landed hurriedly and shouted to Shen Yuan in the attic:

"Sir, something terrible has happened!"

Shen Yuan looked at Xue Mingzhi's panic and asked in surprise, "What makes you so panicked?"

Xue Mingzhi gasped and replied:

“My master asked me to use the Xue family’s connections to search for information about the underworld, and now I finally have some results.

The yin and yang in Taizhou are in chaos and evil spirits are rampant. The Imperial Observatory is unable to suppress so many evil spirits. The Daxia court wants to reactivate the city gods and use their power to suppress the evil spirits.

According to rumors from all sides, the bigwigs in the underworld are not satisfied with the separation of Yin and Yang, and intend to let the city gods return to the world of the living to start a world where humans and gods rule together! "