What Gu Yeqi spoke of were the arrangements for rebuilding order within Da Chen after the Frost Calamity receded.
Although the Frost Calamity had been eradicated, and Chenli's side lacked the strength to interfere after the great war, Da Chen's borders should have swiftly regained order. Yet the officials and martial artists who had used the Frost Calamity as an opportunity to distribute disaster relief supplies and seize control of trade and transport routes were unwilling to easily relinquish the power in their hands. Reconstruction proceeded at an agonizing crawl.
Even Mingjing Nirvana's reconstruction had progressed faster than Da Chen's, despite Da Chen never having undergone a great war. Even now, the borderlands of northern regions such as Xishan remained a chaotic mess—smuggling and illicit crossings ran rampant, bandits and great brigands roamed freely, and many disaster-stricken towns had yet to see any reconstruction at all. Heaven knew where the supplies and provisions dispatched by the court had gone.
In these troubled times, the Tianyi Demonic Sect naturally expanded on a grand scale. Many mountain villages and remote towns would rather accept the Demonic Sect's blood tax than live under a rotten order. Yet the most eye-catching region was still that governed by the branch altar led by Bai Qinghan, the Mysterious Yin Goddess.
As the Mysterious Yin Goddess of this generation of the Tianyi Demonic Sect, Bai Qinghan's actions had always drawn the attention of every faction. Yet unlike what everyone expected, her territory expanded slowly—but whenever she acted, she could overturn an entire great city.
Most of the time, to avoid directly confronting Da Chen, the Tianyi Demonic Sect would choose to expand from remote regions, using martial force as shelter in exchange for ordinary people's loyalty, thereby acquiring manpower and resources.
But Bai Qinghan had chosen from