Within the Seven Sacred Lands of the Desolate Ancient Continent,
Boundless Gate lay closest to the Three Southern Passes.
For that reason, of the seven Sacred Lands, it had suffered the heaviest losses in this war between the two continents.
At the height of the fighting, nearly half the Cultivation Pills and Dharma Treasures consumed each day at Second Southern Pass came from Boundless Gate.
Those high-grade Cultivation Pills and Dharma Treasures were painstaking to refine.
Ordinary alchemy furnaces and forging cauldrons could not withstand spiritual energy clashing with such force.
Only Earth-Vein Fire could ensure a steady supply.
During that period, Boundless Gate had all but become the great workshop behind the entire Southern Borderlands front.
Its alchemists and artifact refiners worked in shifts day and night, never stopping for a moment.
The war had ended, but its strength could not recover in three or five days.
More troublesome still was the fear in people's hearts.
During the war, news that the Barbarian God Continent had breached South Pass One reached the interior, throwing cultivators across the Desolate Ancient Continent into a panic.
Rogue Cultivators and small Lineages near the Southern Borderlands moved north with their entire households, fleeing as far as they could.
Even among the Lineages under Boundless Gate, many had taken their families and fled farther north into Taiyi Immortal Sect territory.
With the people gone, no one tended the Spirit Fields, mined the caves, or ran the markets.
Though the Barbarian God Continent had withdrawn its troops, those who had fled would not return at once.
No one knew whether the Barbarian God Continent would come charging back. No one dared wager their life on it.
So when Ji Yuan stepped out of the Teleportation Formation from Taiyi City and entered Boundless City, he felt