Flying sand

Wan Zhui Qing approaches what should be Fang clan’s most peripheral resource point and finds empty desert where the flying sand tunnel stood, with clear signs that Fang clan relocated the point. Relocating a resource point usually lowers productivity, because the site had already synced with its surroundings; the text compares the move to transplanting a tree whose roots leave their land and must adapt again. Even denser earth path dao marks elsewhere can destroy the point if the arrangement of those marks differs, so super forces rarely move such points. He suspects Fang clan may have shifted earth path resource points under pressure from Heaven Refining Demon Venerable’s demand for them in treasure yellow heaven transactions. ^{ch. 2249}

Inside the sovereign immortal aperture’s Mini Western Desert, Wu Shuai inspects a flying sand tunnel and sets an immortal formation so the resource point can serve as an earth vein node. Earth stench qi first discharges from the tunnel because the relocation method was not good enough and stench had collected inside; the formation clears that threat. Moist sandy rocks then shoot out, fouler than the stench qi, before the discharge settles. After that, a large amount of fine, dry sand grains shoot upward about a hundred feet and sprinkle down like drizzle. That product is flying sand: soft in texture, an immortal material, and only rank six, yet produced in high quantities. With the formation active, the flying sand tunnel becomes one of the earth vein nodes and finishes the second ring of the earth vein at a larger scale than before the battle in Crazed Demon Cave. ^{ch. 2254}