Shi Feiyang had settled the three little ones and originally thought they would each choose a spot to establish their nests. However, they didn't want to separate and instead collectively picked a valley with elevated terrain, beautiful scenery, and a stream flowing through it. Shi Feiyang, adhering to their wishes, transplanted many flowers, plants, and trees to designated spots, then moved their bodies into the valley.

A stalk of Queen Mother Grass stood with its deep green leaves resembling orchids and its narrow build like leeks, with a central stalk like an arrow, about ten feet tall, topped with a cluster of seeds resembling longan fruits—in an elliptical shape, red on the top, black on the bottom, with two eye-like patterns in the middle. Mo Zhui was almost ten thousand years old and was soon to face a significant tribulation.

A stalk of Immortal Mushrooms had a wheel-sized Black Ganoderma on the surface, glossy black and intoxicatingly fragrant; below was a human-shaped root more than five feet tall. Mo Xiang had already surpassed three thousand years but had several times substituted for Mo Zhui during tribulations, suffered from severed Ganoderma, rooted out, and main stem broken. Afterward, Mo Zhui buried his remaining roots back into the soil for regeneration, which cost quite some fire control.

A stalk of Purple River Grass was merely a thousand years old. However, it grew on an isolated island overseas where no humans harassed it, but many poisonous insects and wild beasts fought for guardianship to devour it eventually. Fortunately, when it matured, Shi Feiyang happened to rescue it from snakes, vultures, and Zhuge Jingwo, ensuring a mostly smooth life with its unique constitution, making it the healthiest, an indigo-colored chubby child, the naughtiest and most courageous of all.

The three plants were planted together near the stream, surrounded by bushes and flowers for miles around, with larger trees further out, enabling them to feast on the Sun Essence and grow robustly.

Shi Feiyang carved Circulation God Talismans on the valley's flanking cliffs and set up an Array, forming a transparent layer of Qingliang overhead. He transmitted spells, allowing the trio to control the light's thickness or curvature.

For instance, when Mo Zhui was cultivating at a crucial phase and needed a substantial amount of sunlight, the layer in the middle would thicken, and the edges would thin into a convex lens, adjusting the focus onto him so he could absorb the Sun Essence from dozens of miles around the valley alone.

If today the trio didn't feel like cultivating and wanted to play outside but feared the sun was too strong and might scorch their leaves, they would make the layer concave to scatter the sunlight. Then, by casting spells to lift the water from the stream to transform it into misty rain sprinkling across the area, they could enjoy a cool valley.

The trio were utterly satisfied with their environment, running around and transplanting their favorite plants to decorate their homeland.

Shi Feiyang took out all the Immortal Grass Spiritual Medicines he'd collected over the years and handed them to their care, including the Millennium Rejuvenation Grass, Red Heart Repairing Broken Flower, and hundreds to thousands of years old Ginseng, Polygonum multiflorum, Poria, Purple Ganoderma, and other herbs like Five Solanaceae, Sanguisorba officinalis, Yellow Ginseng, Rehmannia, Sky Winter, etc. Most had been collected by Sikong Hu and his nephews, along with Red Snake and Xuan Turtle when they were at Immortal Mountain.

Being Plant Spirits themselves, the trio knew exactly what these items needed to thrive. They took everything, and for those still viable, they directly planted them in suitable places, watering and irrigating them. For those lifeless, they tried hydroponic methods, infusing them with True Water and using Innate water vapor to nurture and transform them, attempting to revive them before planting them in the soil. They used seeds for those that had seeds and rhizomes for those with rhizomes, reviving almost ninety percent of them.

These were all Spiritual Medicines unique to the Central Earth Continent. Through their efforts, they rooted and thrived on the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain.

For those processed ones that couldn't be revived, even if they were steamed or sun-dried, it was simply let be.

Shi Feiyang then assigned them another task, instructing them to taste and analyze every plant on the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, identifying their medicinal properties. The mountain's plants mainly came from two sources: some had originally grown in the Spiritual Space Immortal Realm and had fallen here with the mountain ten thousand years ago, while others, over the long years, were brought by people or demons entering and leaving, taking root and sprouting here, plus those resulting from the pollination and crossbreeding of the two, with over ninety percent not found in the outside world.

With so many plants and trees, there surely were many usable Spiritual Medicines that had not been utilized before. Now, Shi Feiyang had entrusted this task to the trio to accomplish.

In fact, the way of the Three Emperors and Saint Kings wasn't only about the leader accruing merit—everyone among his ministers had the potential to attain divinity and confirm their saintliness. In this large collective, every word and deed affected thousands of households and even the geomantic pattern of the entire world. If they maintained a virtuous Dao heart, inhabited a good land with a kind heart, benevolent trust, righteous governance, able deeds, and timely goodness, a single policy could accumulate immense virtues. If committed to malevolence, a mere word could bring about boundless sin.

Shi Feiyang had them taste a variety of herbs and determine their medicinal properties, just like the ancient Shennong. If they succeeded, their benefits would pass on to future generations, and it would be an immeasurable merit.

The trio had no intention of accumulating external skills. If Shi Feiyang asked them to do it, ByteArrayInputStream(they would just go along with it—after all, plants and herbs aren't short on patience.

Since the valley was located directly north, Shi Feiyang named it Tianpeng Valley and told them they could utilize any plant in the valley aside from the Heavenly Jade Lotus in the front Tianxin Lake.

At the same time, Xiong Man and Deng Bagu were arranging the Tianrui Palace in the Southwest. Xiong Man loved plants and had brought back a large number of flowers and trees for planting.

Lin Han and Shi Sheng were setting up the Tianren Palace in the Northeast. These two youngsters didn't prioritize the aesthetics of the plants but focused more on whether they bore fruit and if the fruits were tasty. In a few months, they had brought back more than ten thousand various fruit trees and a large number of berry bushes, collected many unique rocks and multicolored shells, built several city walls, made many carved furniture pieces, and statues.

Yuan Hua and Jin Xunu were preparing the Five Bright Palace. Jin Xunu was honest and circumspect in his actions. Yuan Hua was a ghost immortal who had lost his physical body, something different from living creatures with flesh. Considering himself the big senior brother, he intended to set an example for his junior brothers by meditating and cultivating daily. He did not take the lead, and Jin Xunu dared not act without him.

Fortunately, the Five Bright Palace was originally one of the main halls of the Heavenly Palace, grand and majestic by itself. Coupled with the towering ancient trees roughly thirty meters tall, nestled among the rolling hills, it appeared majestic without much embellishment; its ancient simplicity lent it even more depth.

Red Snake and Xuan Turtle regarded themselves as the earliest followers of Shi Feiyang, having been the "Turtle and Snake Generals" serving by his side since their days on Dinghu Peak. They now volunteered to guard the Shenzhe Palace daily, serving the Black Dragon King by guarding the premises. They also decorated with lots of items, while the remaining water spirits and sea monsters collected coral and colorful shells to build the Crystal Palace below.

But when Shi Feiyang had killed the Myriad Cold Centipede and seized the original Heavenly Jade Palace, not to mention that later he caused even bigger commotions by absorbing the heavenly star debris and refining the Five-Colored Divine Sand, cooking the land, and casting mountains and rivers, such powers indeed shocked the myriad demons of the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain.

They had never seen, nor even imagined, such spells!

Originally, they thought he was just a Black Dragon who had intruded from the outer world. How much could he possibly do? Over the past millions of years, people or demons continuously entered through the small path in Little Antarctic during the Winter Solstice. At most, someone would carve out a cave and cultivate inside.

But they were dazzled by Shi Feiyang's divine skills, and as time went on, some started sneaking around the coastlines, trying to make contact. Controlled by Divine Long and Yuan Turtle, who managed the Crystal Palace, they summoned the Water Clan, including Green Flood Dragons, to ask. The others proposed to join.

Shi Feiyang had already set rules for them—anyone wanting to join, regardless of being human or demon, would be accepted; all new followers were first taught the first stage of his modified Sun Refining Great Technique, with a new stage taught each month. After ten months, the technique was fully imparted, and they were registered as nominal disciples.

The Water Clan in the Crystal Palace was managed by Divine Long and Yuan Turtle, while those on land reported to the Shenzhe Palace, managed by Red Snake and Xuan Turtle.

Shi Feiyang's goals and visions were vast, and he refused none who came.

As Han Xin had counted his soldiers—more is better. It's a difficult ability to command many people; the vast majority struggle to lead even two subordinates to cooperatively complete a task.

For people are inherently selfish, wishing to gain more benefits for themselves, and they harbor discontent, feeling jealous if others are better, and arrogant if others are worse. There are also factions, group politics, resource monopolization, and many other challenges. The more people there are, the harder they are to manage. Throughout history, those who could truly embrace "more is better" and organize to accomplish great deeds, turning all subordinates into resources rather than burdens, have all been enlightened beings!

Shi Feiyang knew these humans and demons had various issues—poor foundational attributes, bad temperaments, some were irritable, extreme, petty, bloodthirsty, extremely selfish, or shamelessly immoral. But Shi Feiyang led and allocated them with a higher strategy, educating and guiding them onto the right path, assigning them to suitable roles without worrying about any hindrances.

Those who came to pledge allegiance first gained cultivation techniques and protection, and were jubilantly grateful. News spread from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, and soon throughout the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, more and more creatures and people rushed to join and register.

Red Snake assigned Xuan Turtle to handle registration, recording detailed information such as names and tribe of each follower. If someone didn't have a name, one was given on the spot.

The Shenzhe Palace was surrounded by four courtyards, each about five to six hundred miles wide, much larger than the island of Taiwan on Earth.

Red Snake planned out four hills and sixteen valleys in the right courtyard for the followers to reside in, established various rules to regulate their behavior, and created a merit and demerit ledger—merits were rewarded, demerits were punished. He assigned Xuan Turtle to reward the good, while he personally took charge of punishing the bad.

This large, one-horned, extremely poisonous Red Snake's eyes were ice-cold, his gaze looking as if he wanted to devour anyone he saw. Those with weaker Dao levels felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar, breaking out in a cold sweat under his stare. Even the powerful Great Demons, with thousands of years of cultivation, were unnerved by his gaze. Inside, they constantly reminded themselves not to fear this small snake, telling themselves they could swallow him in one bite if not for fearing the Black Dragon King behind him. Yet, they couldn't help the physiological panic of their racing hearts, not knowing why.

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