Waiting for Orders!

Waiting for Transfer Orders!

No one spoke.

But the look in many people's eyes had changed.

It was no longer just reverence before "powerhouses from beyond the heavens," but a clear-headed confidence that came from truly being acknowledged.

Because the core of Luo Wen's words had not been, "You're lucky we saved you."

It had been, "You had your own backbone all along. Now you've simply learned one more way to look at the world."

After the meeting ended, several tribal chiefs from the West Wasteland stayed behind specifically to request that the newly established rules for the Black Tide Forbidden Zone be written into a dual inscription that conformed both to the Dynasty's public decree and to their tribes' traditional oaths. The Dynasty also agreed to list the Black Tide Forbidden Zone as one of the few legally designated special zones across the realm that were "forbidden to enter but not to be exterminated." Unless a major incident occurred, such as it actively crossing the boundary and injuring people, any large-scale punitive campaign, harvesting, hunting, treasure-seeking, or unauthorized intrusion would be treated as a serious crime.

The Xuanzhao Sect, Lihuo Valley, Beiling Sword Sect, and other sects also began revising their own management standards for Forbidden Lands and Old Gates according to the results of this screening. The Academy was even more direct. Using Mirror Mountain and the planet-wide inspection as its foundation, it opened a new long-term course devoted to identifying abnormal signs, classifying naturally high-risk environments, and teaching the basics of off-world coordination.

The entire cultivation world of Linyuan seemed to have been pushed overnight out of an old era where it could only grope forward in the dark by experience, and into a new stage with a broader view and clearer boundaries.

As for Luo Wen,