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Xiangliu created the first swamps after eating and vomiting up nine of these places. Emperor Yao appointed Gun to try to stop the Great Flood after consulting with a set of four advisors named after these places. A fable in Liezi tells of a “foolish” old peasant who seeks to destroy two of these places (15[1])through years of labor. One of these places called Buzhou became tilted after Gonggong smashed his (*) head into it, requiring Nuwa to repair the sky. The Queen Mother of the West resides in one of these places near her orchard of the Peaches of Immortality. In Journey to the West, the Buddha’s hand becomes one of these places that traps Sun Wukong. A Han-era mythical geography text is titled for being a “classic” of these things “and seas.” For 10 points, name this sort of geographical feature exemplified by Kunlun, an axis mundi in Chinese mythology. ■END■

ANSWER: mountains [or shan; or mount; or peak; or pillar; accept the Four Mountains]
<Taylor Harvey, Mythology>
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