The Third Realm...
At present, all the pioneers within the Xia Kingdom were only at the First Realm Ghost Axe.
As for those in the Second Realm,
only the big shots in the Military Region had reached it.
That was what people said.
But Fang Yi had yet to see any of those Military Region big shots.
During the previous city crises, the military had never appeared.
It was not that they did not want to. They simply could not.
There were two simple reasons.
First, the military and the Spirit Association governed separately. One explored mysterious forbidden lands, while the other oversaw city crises. When trouble arose in a city, asking the military for help was not as simple as making a phone call and summoning people.
A whole series of complicated procedures had to be followed.
By the time everything was actually approved and the military arrived, the crisis might already have been resolved.
The procedures were complicated, but they had to be followed. Standardized procedures could avoid all manner of worse outcomes as much as possible, and every single step had its own story behind it.
This was also the fundamental reason the Spirit Association kept records on pioneers and promoted the Captain Plan.
As for the second reason, it was even simpler.
The changes in heaven and earth were far more than what humanity could see.
Whether anomalies or Beast Tides,
those were only crises affecting cities.
But in places beyond human sight—at the ends of mountains and wilderness, beneath the sea, within the abyss... ahead was nothing but darkness, and the future could not be seen.
Someone had to become a pioneer, light a torch, and venture out to explore.
For ordinary people, evolving ahead of others, stepping onto the path of martial cultivation, and