Chapter 1264: Chapter 1263: Fears of Innumerable Dangers Outside

"Ah? Why?" Lu Yang wondered.

But what puzzled him even more was that his question seemed to have been asked by someone just before.

"How do you assess the Battle of Zhongshan County?"

"The first in both ancient and modern times."

From ancient times to the present, in terms of scale and intensity, the Battle of Zhongshan County was undoubtedly ranked first.

"If there had been no barrier made by the Power of National Fate, what do you think the consequences of the Battle of Zhongshan County would have been?"

Lu Yang was stunned, realizing that he had never considered this before, and then he shivered.

Without a doubt, it would have been a war that brought untold suffering to all living beings!

The battle between Fairy Eternity and Ashy Bean alone was a clue; they fought from the Demon Territory to the Land of No Spirit and then looped back, saying they ascended to the heavens and descended to the earth was not an exaggeration.

With a larger scale for the Battle of Zhongshan County, if there had been no barrier to block it, wherever the battle unfolded, there would have been death and injury.

"Yao Saint is just a puppet created by the mastermind in the shadows, which shows that the true strength of the mastermind is even more formidable."

"The Power of National Fate accumulated from the Battle of Zhongshan County has been depleted by a large margin, and if I were to confront the real mastermind in the shadows, the Cultivation World would surely be destroyed."

"This world cannot withstand battles of such a level; our battleground can only be outside the Box World."

...

Within Captive Peak, the task of printing newspapers came down, and the content of the newspapers greatly shocked them... the Great Qian Force and Great Yu Force had temporarily ceased hostilities.

"Are they going to lift the World Seal?"

Mid-heaven Emperor Lord looked envious; everything he had done was to lift the Seal and see the outside world.

But now, ironically, the Seal was about to be lifted as he found himself imprisoned.

"What luck," Mid-heaven Emperor Lord did not know whether to cry or laugh.

"Look on the bright side; when Yao Saint broke into the Fairy Palace, he informed us that the clue to the Time Dao Fruit was at the Seek Dao Sect and mentioned that his goal regarding lifting the Seal was the same as ours," The Controller consoled him.

"At least we’re luckier than that Yao Saint; we can at least witness the process of the Seal being lifted, while he won’t even catch a glimpse."

"That is true," nodded Mid-heaven Emperor Lord.

...

As the new edition of Cultivation Weekly was published, the entire Cultivation World was abuzz with this news.

"The Four Ancient Immortals have all appeared?! Are they going to lift the World Seal?!"

The Four Ancient Immortals were synonymous with age and mystery; for three hundred thousand years since the end of the Ancient Times, countless people searched for traces of the Immortals in vain.

Only the Yingtian Immortal had appeared after Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou’s Pass Tribulation.

Unexpectedly, the other three immortals showed up all at once!

"But what does it mean to lift the Box World Seal? Where is the Box World?" Ordinary people and the vast majority of cultivators spend their whole lives never leaving their counties or states, unaware of what the true appearance of the world is.

Amid the confusion, the text on the newspaper changed, forming a perspective cube pattern, and marked on the six faces of the cube where Great Xia was, where the Demon Territory was, where the East Sea was...

People felt as if they had emerged from the clouds to see the light of day, finally understanding the true form of the world.

Looking at the paper, did the world map expand?

"I thought the world was already vast, but there’s more world beyond our world."

"But this seems to have nothing to do with us, right?"

So what if the world map got bigger? What did it have to do with them?

What shocked them the most was still the appearance of the Four Ancient Immortals.

Those cultivators who knew the true form of the world, especially those who could cross the void with their physical bodies and shuttle through the cosmos, appeared extremely excited and agitated.

Many, without hesitation, spent a fortune to book entire taverns and brothels.

Some patrons of the brothels, upon hearing this news, came straight out of their rooms and excitedly chatted with their friends next door.

The family elders pondered in silence, nurturing a desire to venture into the outside world.

"We never thought, we would actually be fortunate enough to witness the day when the Box World opens!"

"It’s said that with the advent of the Great Era, the ancient ways would be restored, this must surely be a part of the coming of the Great Era!"

"What does the outside world actually look like?"

"It’s hard to say, the outside probably teems with danger."

"Why do you say that?"

"Think about it, our world is only so big, yet so many cultivators, semi-immortals, and immortals have emerged from it."

"According to Ancient Texts, the outside world is vast and boundless, there must be even more cultivators there, maybe meeting someone with a Cultivation Level like ours, a Body Integration Realm, could happen all the time!"

"In my opinion, when the day comes to lift the World Seal, we ought to go to the outside world together, to have each other’s support."

"That makes sense."

"The Dynasty will certainly send out an expedition team to investigate the outside world, what a pity that we are not officials of the court; otherwise, we could be much safer."

"Let’s pray to the Four Ancient Immortals that we don’t encounter cultivators much stronger than us once we go out."

The Land Money Trade Association saw the opportunity and began to offer personal accident insurance for those exploring the outside world.

...

Emperor Xia, Ming Yu Abbot, Zhu Tian, the Old Dragon Emperor, and the retired Snow Emperor, representing the major forces, engaged in detailed discussions about unraveling the World Seal.

Their representatives Jiang Pingan, Time Immortal, Jiang Lianyi, Ao Ling, and Immortal Jiuchong were hands-off managers and had only a vague understanding of their own forces’ situations; detailed discussions still required these real managers to step forward.

The appearance of the Snow Emperor surprised the other four, who hadn’t heard of a Snow Emperor in the Extreme Northern Lands.

"Snow Emperor, are you the ruler of the Extreme Northern Lands?"

The Snow Emperor sighed. He had barely enjoyed a few days of retirement before being called by Immortal Jiuchong to the meeting: "Not entirely, people in our area think I’m a legend, not a real person."

"Then..."

"But don’t worry, I’m the strongest in the Extreme Northern Lands, once our meeting is over, I can definitely implement the results there. If any of those brats don’t believe me, I don’t mind showing them what it means when the Snow Emperor manifests."

In his youth, the Snow Emperor was an undefeated figure in the Extreme Northern Lands, but after becoming a Semi-Immortal, he gradually became more reserved.

The others exchanged glances, but with the Snow Emperor putting it that way, it seemed there’s no need to worry about the cultivators from the Extreme Northern Lands being disobedient.

Emperor Xia was the first to speak: "When we unveil the Land of No Spirit, countless cultivators will surely venture out; this can’t be allowed to proceed unchecked, it wouldn’t be good for management. I believe we should set up a large Array Method, which could verify the identities of cultivators and check the items they carry, ensuring that anyone entering or leaving the world must pass through this Array Method."

However, Emperor Xia’s suggestion made everyone present somewhat uncomfortable, especially the Old Dragon Emperor and the Snow Emperor.

"Why is no one saying anything?"

"Er, we... in the territories we govern, we have never done identity registration for cultivators."

Verifying the identities of cultivators presumes knowing who the cultivators are, but the East Sea and Extreme Northern Lands obviously didn’t have the means to do so.

The Demon Territory was slightly better off, but Zhu Tian didn’t have a complete census of every member of the Demon Race.

"So, what we need to do first is to compile the identities of all cultivators and create identity certificates?" Emperor Xia sighed, realizing the preparatory work was more extensive than he had thought.

"Actually, there’s a method to save time," the Snow Emperor had a good idea.

"What’s the method?"

"We ask Time Immortal to stop time, and when we go door to door to register identities, we let the person being registered move during the Time Stop, and once registered, we make them stop moving again."

𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"That way, not only can we register the identities of all the cultivators in the world, but even if we were to register all the cultivators and ordinary people in the world, it would take less than a second."