In his heart, Fang Qianyuan would rather have seen peace throughout the world. But he also knew that he could not insist on it blindly. Sometimes, the more one feared war, the more one fell under others' control.
Now chaos lay before his eyes. The entire Northern Frontier had become a battlefield, and there were people manipulating schemes behind the scenes to expand it further, until the beacons of war burned across the world and conflict erupted everywhere.
Three feet of ice did not form from a single day's cold. The Spirit-Taming World had enjoyed peace for so long that many accumulated conflicts had gone unresolved, offering opportunities to the ambitious. When order reached its peak, chaos followed. This accorded with the currents of history and could not be reversed by one person or one sect.
Thus, Fang Qianyuan soon decided to move with the tide and seize the opportunity to grow rapidly.
Whatever he wished to do in the future, he would need sufficient strength. If war truly broke out everywhere, even ordinary Earth Rank Experts would struggle to protect themselves. Only by growing stronger as quickly as possible could he ensure his safety!
On the twenty-sixth day of the tenth month, nearly half a month after arriving in the Pinyi Mountains, Fang Qianyuan received another intelligence report he had commissioned Yu Shixian to compile.
None of it was classified. On the contrary, it was all available through public channels. But most people would not notice it, and even those who did would likely dismiss it as coincidence rather than investigate further.
It concerned powerful experts who had inexplicably been injured or killed over the past three years!
Only now, with belated hindsight, did Fang Qianyuan notice that in just three years, more than a dozen powerful experts had