From the time Shang Xia had started cultivating, he had taken dozens, if not hundreds of lives. He couldn’t be classified as a saint in any way.

However, the fate of the Manyu Continent was like a giant rock that weighed down his heart when he thought about their impending doom.  

Because his state of mind had been negatively affected, Shang Xia increased his speed as he went to inspect the rest of the formations. He ran into several low-leveled cultivators along the way. Luckily for them, he just chased them away without taking their lives.

With the core region of the Tongyou Institution as the center, Shang Xia separated the outer region where the formations were located into 8 quadrants. He made his rounds around the 8 quadrants one by one and he would chase away any low-leveled cultivator he found digging into the ground.

One day when Shang Xia was inspecting the third quadrant, he felt the sudden appearance of a foreign divine perception. When he tried to look for the source, he discovered that he couldn’t find anyone in the surrounding dozens of m...