"So the Eastern Glory World has already absorbed many other worlds..."
Tang Changsheng could not help remembering the map he had just seen. Judging by its area alone, the Eastern Glory World was dozens, perhaps even a hundred, times larger than the Great Chu World.
True Lord Wu did not answer directly. "The Hundred Savage Lands are much like the Canglan Sea..."
"But dozens, even hundreds, of peoples from other worlds live in the Hundred Savage Lands. The situation there has become so complicated that the Eastern Glory World can no longer absorb more worlds through that region. Expansion has therefore shifted south, overseas.
"In fact, the Taiyi Immortal Sword Order has another important reason for stationing itself in the Nine-Chamber Mountain: to defend against attacks and harassment from the Hundred Barbarian Remnants."
Tang Changsheng was something of a conspiracy theorist. The Taiyi Immortal Sword Order was an outsider here; he immediately suspected that its smooth integration into this world had come at a considerable price.
Guarding the Nine-Chamber Mountain against the so-called Hundred Barbarian Remnants was probably an important condition of that bargain.
He also thought of how the Taiyi Immortal Sword Order ranked last among the Nine Great Immortal Sects. Besides the upheaval of that day and the dispersal of its branches' strength, its long defense of the Nine-Chamber Mountain against the Hundred Barbarian Remnants must have bled it dry...
If one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects had to station itself here specifically to keep them in check, the strength of the Hundred Barbarian Remnants was easy to imagine. They had to be formidable beyond measure.
He could not help asking, "Master, in the Black Rock Mountains, I met the Pan Tribe, who called themselves Witch-Barbarians. Then, in the Canglan Sea, I saw the Witch Undead. And