Mount Fuji sat at the triple junction of tectonic plates, and its hidden potential eruption energy was considerable. It was only eighty kilometers from Tokyo, too.
Most of Neon's infrastructure had been preserved, so although power generation and various resources had declined, transportation remained efficiently connected.
Mount Fuji wasn't all that far from Tokyo, and the Qingyun Sect's "Founding Ceremony" could be called the biggest event in Dilong City's New Frontier.
Many people from the Outer City had come by teleportation, drawn by its reputation. The local inhabitants with ambitions of their own were heading this way, too.
After falling into the Abyss, nonessential activities like "tourism" had declined sharply. Yet the crowds gathering at Mount Fuji now far outnumbered even those during the peak tourist season—hundreds of thousands of people!
When Tao Yu and Mikami Shion arrived, the place was already packed, with people jostling shoulder to shoulder.
Every so often, a powerful presence streaked through the sky. Boundary Breakers, who were rarely seen on ordinary days, had already appeared more than a hundred times in just half a day.
Their appearances occasionally drew gasps from the crowd.
"That one who just flew past looked like Young Master Cheng from Tianlong City."
"People from the Bai family of White Star State came earlier, too..."
"What an event."
"I wonder if we'll get a chance..."
"..."
The appearance of more conspicuous and well-known Boundary Breakers always drew a wave of admiration.
Tao Yu also learned that quite a few people had come from White Star State.
But Tao Yu had entered among the local inhabitants and didn't want to invite complications.
Besides accompanying Tao Yu, Mikami Shion had come with a small hope of being chosen herself, hoping to defy fate and change her life.
For now, no Catastrophe-level figures