Across thirty million li of land in diameter, only a small portion had been cultivated by humans. Most of it remained vast stretches of primeval forest.
Only areas along rivers were suitable for establishing cities of intelligent life. Villages lay scattered like stars across the sky, numbering roughly a billion when counted carefully.
A single village usually held dozens to hundreds of people, bringing the total population to around sixty or seventy billion.
Around thirty or forty billion people lived in cities and towns. This was the population distribution of the entire Earth Venerable Dynasty.
Evergreen Daoist frowned deeply as he pondered, "First of all, this person couldn't possibly split off that many avatars. To roam the entire Unique Universe continent and stir up such enormous currents in Heaven's secrets, he would need at least ten thousand avatars."
"Then the avatars' strength generally wouldn't exceed the Underlying Logic level."
"To create such massive chaos in Heaven's secrets and karmic fate in such a short time, he must have used his avatars as bases to contact a great number of villages in a short span."
"And cities. Only places where huge populations gathered could rapidly spread the chaos of fate."
"My Earth Venerable Dynasty occupies only two-thousandths of the land across the five great continents. So among those ten thousand or more avatars, there can be at most twenty here."
"Finding twenty suspicious villages among a billion villages is like fishing for a needle in the sea."
"But considering that he needs to contact cities, he must be focusing on major cities."
Maps of the Earth Venerable Dynasty's many large cities surfaced in his mind, and before long, the hundred most populous cities appeared within his thoughts.
"Each of these hundred cities has nearly a hundred million residents. They are the