More than two hundred years later, Changsheng Town was naturally no longer the same as when Xiao Hua had left. The entire town had expanded severalfold, and the population in the surrounding area had increased by more than tenfold! Moreover, because of Seeking Scriptures in the Pure Land, Changsheng Town contained only Jiangchao Temple and businesses related to the Buddhist Sect; those multiplied populations were all concentrated outside Changsheng Town! When Xiao Hua had departed, the roads and mountain ranges had been desolate. Now, they were thriving, with many villages and marketplaces springing up. In truth, if not for the constraints imposed by the Buddhist Sect and Confucian cultivators, Changsheng Town would long since have become a prefecture. The Innate Four Directions Great Formation sealed off everything within a thousand li of Changsheng Town, naturally trapping these ordinary people within the formation as well! Without air, cultivators like Xiao Hua and the others could survive, but these ordinary people could not! Xiao Hua either had to destroy the Four Directions Great Formation, or take these ordinary people into Shenhua Continent!
However, before Rāgaratna Tathagata and even Immortal Emperor Gouchen, Xiao Hua had certain misgivings about taking in those people. He feared that these two supreme experts would discover his secret! Especially Immortal Emperor Gouchen—he himself possessed a Haotian Mirror!
Fortunately, the Innate Four Directions Great Formation had only just been activated, and the air within it was still plentiful. Xiao Hua swept out with his divine sense and saw that the people around Changsheng Town were still living happy lives, wholly unaware that death was approaching.
"Ignorance... truly is a blessing!" Xiao Hua sighed, about to move again. Though he had already made up his mind, when the moment came, even at the risk of exposing his secret, he would