Before long, Xia Ping and the others arrived at the outer disciples' dining hall of Green Jade City. On the black wooden plaque above were several large golden characters: Azure Jade Imperial Kitchen.
This was where Green Jade City's countless outer disciples ate. It sprawled across an area equivalent to ten Forbidden Cities from Xia Ping's past life on Earth.
At this moment, quite a few people had already entered the Azure Jade Imperial Kitchen for a meal. They gathered in groups of three or five, chatting animatedly, seemingly discussing martial cultivation and intelligence on various missions.
On closer count, there were at least a hundred thousand people here.
"I never expected the Primordial Sacred Land to have so many outer disciples."
Kong Cheng of the Yellow Sand Sect exclaimed in amazement.
"That's only natural. This is merely a portion of them. Just the Eastern Universe, Southern Universe, Northern Universe, and Western Universe alone have quite a few people," Wei Liangsheng of the Lingyun Sect said. "Not to mention that in the Central Universe, our human race controls nine hundred million worlds. The number of humans living in each world is simply beyond calculation.
"Even if every world produced only one genius, that would still be nine hundred million outer disciples. Of course, entering the Primordial Sacred Land is far more difficult. Perhaps not even one genius capable of entering the Primordial Sacred Land would emerge from a hundred worlds.
"Moreover, countless geniuses are eliminated from the Primordial Sacred Land every year. Even so, when all those numbers are added together, the number of ordinary outer disciples in the Primordial Sacred Land has always remained in the tens of millions."
Everyone nodded. The universe was simply too vast, and the human race was too numerous to count. Even if the