The Great Tribulation of the Dharma Ending Age had already begun to show its traces. All cultivators would be reduced to ash beneath it, so how could cultivators from every path not fall into chaos?
To survive until the very end of the Great Tribulation of the Dharma Ending Age, cultivators from every path naturally had to plunder resources at any cost and struggle to endure. To avoid being hunted down by old enemies after the Dharma Ending Age was over, everyone naturally had to find ways to establish their own forces and organizations. Mortal organizations that Transcendents had once disdained now became prized morsels, watched closely by Transcendents of every faction.
With the Calamity of the Dharma Ending Age descending, everyone faced reckoning. To preserve themselves and their Lineage, they naturally spared no cost in creating organizations.
Thus, rebels ran rampant throughout the territories of the great feudal lords, bandits gathered in the mountains and proclaimed themselves kings, and the major Lineages secretly intertwined their roots and gathered martial world forces. The great feudal lords also waged campaigns of mutual conquest, and for a time, the entire realm was thrown into a pot of porridge.
Yet compared to the upheaval among the feudal lords throughout the realm, Zhang Chen's northern lands remained steady—so steady it was almost unbelievable. They had not been affected by the outside world in the slightest.
Under Zhang Chen's iron-blooded suppression and purges, not even a ripple rose across the northern lands. There might have been people harboring ill intentions, but beneath the surveillance of Zhang Chen's Blood God Sons, the oversight of the Inspection Directorate, and the deterrence of countless experts within the "Shelter," the entire northern lands fell into a rare state of tranquility.
The northern lands developed frantically. Their population continued to