Free Web NovelChapter 1784: Chapter 16: Void Grassman’s Points Sweep (Part 2)
The Void Grassman took a single step forward and suddenly appeared a hundred meters away from the Three-Fold Boundary Mountain. Then, Zhao Xing began searching for protruding rocks.
"The task of excavating the Three-Fold Boundary Mountain, they say, can be done anywhere. The more Boundary Mountain Stones you dig up within the allotted time, the more points you earn."
"However, most at the Tao Domain Realm can only manage to dig around the exposed corners of the mountain."
"The rest is a seamless whole, the Boundary Mountain Stones have long fused with the void, making them impossible to extract. Only the protruding parts hold any hope."
Zhao Xing was searching, but he did not land on the mountain because the timer would start as soon as he did.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, his gaze swept over a figure’s back.
It was an old man dressed in a dirt-colored Vestment robe, surrounded faintly by five earth veins like colorful ribbons encircling his body, standing at the base of a smooth cliff, shaking his head and sighing.
"The peak lacks corners because the void has fused with the mountain. Even after countless reincarnations, it’s nearly impossible to dig it all out..."
"... Even with the help of a treasure pickaxe, I still failed to complete it, truly disgracing my teacher."
"..."
Some words drifted into the Void Grassman’s ears.
Zhao Xing felt that this figure looked somewhat familiar.
"The attire of the Ancient Hill? Could this person be Emperor Mengshan’s chief disciple, ’Tao Yangzi’?"
"This person doesn’t go digging for corners but stands in front of a seamless cliff, seemingly pondering a solution. Clearly, he’s not an ordinary Geographical Advantage Sect Minister of Agriculture."
"The Grassman can’t provide identification, so it’s hard to tell if it’s him."
Zhao Xing felt this person was likely the chief disciple of Emperor Mengshan who was scolded by the Five Poison Emperor.
"Tao Yangzi could marshal considerable manpower and resources; I even used to call him senior brother in the past life..." Zhao Xing reminisced, but unfortunately, the sight of the figure’s back only appeared in his field of vision momentarily before disappearing, unseen and unheard again.
"Forget it, focus on the task at hand."
......
After searching for two hours, Zhao Xing quickly confirmed the area he would work on.
A corner of the mountain, stretching a thousand miles long, skewering the void like a sewing needle.
"It’s you."
The Void Grassman immediately approached; touching the barrier started the timer.
"Five Finger Mountain!"
The Void Grassman raised his hand in attack, and the Great Divine Power Five Finger Mountain quickly reached for the mountain corner. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
The five fingers like a mountain, rapidly gripped the most delicate top corner, exerting force to try and break it.
"Bang bang bang!"
The mountain corner bent, the twisting causing the void to tremble, with shockwaves spreading outward.
After ten breaths, it was already deflected by over ten degrees.
Though there was a lot of commotion, the mountain corner did not break.
A lot of debris fell, and some Boundary Mountain Stones dropped down.
"The effect is not ideal," Zhao Xing thought to himself, "Trying to break it might not be enough."
The Void Grassman, even with the assistance of the fifth-level Great Divine Power Five Finger Mountain, could break a Taiyin Daoist Soldier.
But the thousand-mile-long corner of the Stacked Realm Mountain remained unbreakable.
"The void energy persistently repairs the corner of the Boundary Mountain, its resilience is too high; I must come up with a solution."
Zhao Xing observed carefully and continued exerting force.
"Grow, grow, grow!"
The Void Grassman quickly enlarged and began absorbing surrounding void energy to ’increase his weight.’
First, to hinder the self-repair of the Stacked Realm Mountain, and second, to increase the weight of the Void Grassman himself, hence boosting brute force.
The Five Finger Mountain combined with the increased weight of the Void Grassman attempted to crush this section of the thousand-mile mountain corner.
Fifteen days later.
"Boom!"
The mountain corner finally broke, completely collapsing.
"Swoosh~"
Zhao Xing flipped his hand and stashed away this section of the mountain corner.
...
A month later, Zhao Xing obtained two sections of thousand-mile mountain corners.
At that moment, he also received a points notification from the Primordial Realm.
[Coral-ranked member Zhao Xing, you have completed the excavation task of the Three-Fold Boundary Mountain.]
[Within the allocated month, you collected two thousand-mile sections of mountain corners, equivalent to 12.54 million Boundary Mountain Stones.]
[You earned 12.54 million points, not entering the record leaderboard.]
"12.54 million points." Zhao Xing was somewhat surprised. "Even so, I didn’t make it onto the record leaderboard?"
The leaderboard for the Three-Fold Boundary Mountain, similar to the Wind and Thunder Canyon, measures the performance of current members.
He couldn’t even enter the top ten; how many Boundary Mountain Stones did the top ten excavate within a month?
Opening the leaderboard.
[First place: Li Chuan, 54.16 million stones.]
[Second place: Wan Qinghan, 42.25 million stones.]
[Third place: Thousand Feet Taoist, 40.12 million stones.]
[Fourth place: Lan Yue, 38.50 million stones.]
....
[Ninth place: Pu Tianrui, 35.01 million stones.]
[Tenth place: Wu Yanlin, 32.10 million stones.]
...
"Among the top ten, only Pu Tianrui and Wu Yanlin are Self Sect’s Ministers of Agriculture, and they barely made the cut."
"The always strong Tuoson failed to make the list; the rest are all Geographical Advantage Sect Ministers of Agriculture, proficient both in support and combat," Zhao Xing checked the information.
"Each profession has its specialty; opening mountains and excavating stones is indeed more suited to the Earth Advantage Sect."
If he didn’t have the Great Divine Power Five Finger Mountain, relying solely on the Void Grassman’s capability, breaking a thousand-mile-long mountain corner would have been impossible.
In fact, what he did earlier involved little skill, just brute force.
Although he broke a section of the mountain corner, the Void Grassman consumed a large amount of spiritual energy.
In terms of task efficiency, it certainly falls short compared to a Geographical Advantage Sect Minister of Agriculture skilled in Earth Palace Skill, Earth Splitting Technique, Mountain Opening Technique, and Spirit Mountain Technique.
"Brute force can only break a thousand-mile-long mountain corner, with considerable time and energy consumption, and it’s not cost-effective," Zhao Xing analyzed. "After all, Five Finger Mountain is a Mountain Law Great Divine Power, not an Earth Splitting Great Divine Power."
"Looking at efficiency, it would be more practical to target the hundred-mile sections of mountain corners."
