"Reporting to Your Majesty,
As per your instructions, once the capital's main construction was completed, work was to immediately begin on three north–south and three east–west major arteries—nine in total—each built as a new-style hardened roadway capable of supporting multiple lanes of traffic.
With Chang'an as the core, and Heaven Dou City, Star Luo City, Spirit Hall City, Gengxin City, and others as key nodes, the goal is to connect the entire Douluo Continent into a single whole.
However, during the detailed planning of specific routes and locations, we encountered a major obstacle.
Along the primary east–west axis lies a long, narrow region composed of dozens of towering mountain ranges, with a central basin and river system. This region completely separates Heaven Dou, Star Luo, and the Star Dou Great Forest.
If we detour around it, not only would the east–west route be extended by roughly twenty days of carriage travel, but constructing a north–south line would also become extraordinarily difficult.
Moreover, the mountain range is rich in various precious metal ores. If left inaccessible, these resources would be extremely difficult to mine, which would be highly detrimental to the empire's economy and the upcoming grand construction plans.
I was utterly at a loss. I even considered forming an army of ten thousand soul masters and spending a century forcibly carving through it.
But today, after witnessing Your Majesty display divine might, I suddenly realized how foolish I was.
The solution was far away—yet also right in front of my eyes."
Ning Fengzhi lowered his head, but his voice rang out powerfully, each word clearly transmitted to every spectator present and to the civilians watching through the massive screens.
As soon as he finished speaking, countless people once again stared in shock, their expressions filled with disbelief.
Because the mountain range he referred to was famous across Douluo.
It formed a crooked, Y-shaped structure: one branch extended deep into the Star Dou Great Forest, while the other two forks stretched toward Spirit Hall and toward Jialing Pass, the most critical gateway of the Heaven Dou Empire.
The Heaven Dou section was known as the Death Mountain Range, while the Star Luo portion was called the Cataclysm Mountains.
The vast majority of the mountains were solid rock, barren and lifeless.
At their highest points, the peaks exceeded twenty thousand meters—places where even soul beasts could barely survive, let alone humans.
Could it be…
Was the Emperor planning to carve a passage straight through it?
Under the gaze of countless eyes, Nangong Lingyun's expression suddenly turned solemn.
"Since this is a matter that benefits the nation and the people," he said gravely, "then no matter how difficult it may be, I cannot shirk this responsibility."
A massive screen promptly displayed an image of the Y-shaped mountain range.
A full 3D model appeared, with the height, thickness, and length of every mountain peak clearly marked.
Ning Fengzhi immediately continued:
"Please look, Your Majesty. The Death Mountain Range consists of three major sections. Each individual mountain system is extremely perilous and thick.
Only at the central junction where the three meet is the width less than ten kilometers. If we must choose a place to break through, this would be the most convenient location—and the one that yields the greatest benefit once opened."
"In that case," Nangong Lingyun said calmly, "why wait for another day? Shall we go and take a look right now?"
He turned his head to glance at the others beside him, his gaze lingering pointedly on Tang Chen.
Tang Chen desperately wanted to curse, but still cooperated and said stiffly:
"Your Majesty's concern for the people is a blessing for all under heaven."
About ten minutes later, just as the regional screens finished presenting the overview of the three-vertical-three-horizontal road project, Nangong Lingyun's figure appeared once more.
He stood at the foot of the mountains, looking up at a towering peak that rose like a straight, razor-sharp sword piercing the heavens—sheer and terrifying.
From his perspective, even with a cloudless sky above, it was impossible to see where the summit truly lay.
After holding this posture for a moment, he suddenly stepped back.
Nine extraordinarily thick and radiant soul rings appeared one after another.
His symbolic golden-body martial soul then expanded to its absolute limit.
It did not stop at the thousand-meter scale shown in the virtual space, but continued growing until it approached three thousand meters. Its surface became covered in a heavy suit of armor, brilliant as molten gold.
This was his First Soul Skill: Heaven and Earth Manifestation.
Originally, this skill was called Manifestation of Heaven and Earth, enhancing strength and forming an energy armor to reinforce defense.
But now, with a soul-ring age of three million years, it could freely enlarge the martial soul's true body itself, with strength increasing proportionally—at the cost of an enormous additional consumption of soul power.
Next, two red soul rings appeared.
From one emerged a gigantic battle axe, perfectly matched to his size.
From the other leapt out a colossal dragon-turtle, massive as a mountain.
Nangong Lingyun unleashed the Domain of Universal Unity,疯狂吸收天地元气, while simultaneously circulating the Longevity Art at full power. Together with the Dragon God Turtle, he forcefully severed the mountain peak's connection to the earth's veins, turning it into rootless driftwood.
After brewing power for four to five full minutes—during which countless hearts nearly stopped and breaths were held in suffocating tension—
He raised the battle axe with both hands and brought it down in a devastating strike.
The speed was once again unimaginably fast, leaving behind a trail of afterimages on the screen.
By the time one could blink, the entire image had been swallowed by boundless clouds of dust.
Yet judging from the position and direction of his lowered arms, it was faintly clear that the giant axe had been embedded deep into the mountain range.
In that instant, innumerable spectators felt their hearts seize, their faces flushing crimson.
That was a mountain range.
The Death—no, the Cataclysm—Mountains.
Ten kilometers wide, over ten thousand meters tall, with a volume measured in trillions of cubic meters, and a weight multiplied several times over.
Ordinary Titled Douluo struggled just to demolish a city gate—
Yet His Majesty was carving through mountains.
What was this, if not a divine miracle?
Only a god could possibly accomplish something like this.
Nature's might was indeed terrifying, and the earth's load-bearing capacity far exceeded human imagination.
Even a nuclear bomb, if detonated on flat ground, would only leave a crater a few dozen to perhaps a hundred meters deep.
Even with Nangong Lingyun's all-out effort, he struck more than a hundred times before finally carving out a Y-shaped passage with a base width of two to three hundred meters and a total length of twenty kilometers.
And that was with him secretly using spatial abilities during the preparation phase to inflict just a tiny bit of internal damage, while the axe itself was condensed with an enormous amount of ultra-high-purity destructive energy.
Without that, relying on brute force alone—even several hundred more strikes might not have sufficed.
When the final blow fell and the passage was fully opened, Nangong Lingyun still retained some residual strength.
After all, the Domain of Universal Unity was restoring him every second at high speed, and the Great Longevity Art's innate yin–yang five-element true qi was of terrifying quality—exceptionally durable.
Yet he deliberately put on the appearance of utter exhaustion, even injury.
The golden body vanished instantly, revealing his true form as he fell freely from the sky toward the ground.
Angel Yan hurried forward and caught him midair. After returning to the ground, she considerately shifted the broadcast camera over.
On the screen, the once heroic and majestic face was now pale as paper. Beads of sweat covered his forehead, his arms trembled uncontrollably, and blood seeped from his sleeves.
He seemed about to say something—his lips moved slightly—
And then he completely lost consciousness.
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