Chapter 2261: Expansion of the Northern Central Region...?

Following something as precious as a dao rune blueprint emerging from the surviving section of the Starfall Observatory, the group of senior figures from the Southern Central Region about to leave found themselves rooted on the spot. Unable to get themselves to even think about leaving the newly formed abyss, their eyes focused on the remaining scriptures, books and other things stored on the cracked bookshelves of the surviving section of the Starfall Observatory.

Although everyone wanted nothing more than to rush forward and seize all those ancient texts, the countless deadly spatial anomalies plaguing the core region of the newly formed abyss prevented anyone from acting out those thoughts. Only able to remain helplessly on the side. Watching in the hopes that another of those precious books was knocked loose and drifted towards the edge of the core zone where it could be picked up.

But... Reality was far from kind, as the chance of something like that happening in the first place was astronomically low.

Even worse, their attempts to throw rocks at the problem from afar to try and knock those books and scrolls loose, were rendered useless as the spatial anomalies swallowed up anything they threw towards them. Only the debris belonging to the Starfall Observatory itself could survive within that dreadful environment- and the debris itself didn’t ever drift far enough away from the deadly core zone for any of the cultivators gathered around the core zone to reach in and grab it.

In the end, the group ended up making no progress when it came to obtaining a second book or scroll from the surviving part of the Starfall Observatory.

The only positive to the situation was the fact that the growing number of powerful cultivators from the Southern Central Region ended up causing the overall chaotic state of the Southern Central Region itself to calm down significantly. Even showing signs of coming to an end.

Of course, while this was something great for the Southern Central Region, it was far from great news in the eyes of the monks who ruled over the Western Central Region.

Even though the different powerful cultivators had yet to start fighting against one another, the second such a battle began, it would undoubtedly be devastating to the Western Central Region.

And not just the Western Central Region, the part of the Northern Central Region that was unfortunate enough to find itself facing the Western Central Region would bear the brunt of such a large-scale skirmish.

However, though the monks wanted nothing more than to get the people from the Southern Central Region to leave, they had no way to do so and could only watch from the side as more people gathered within the newly formed abyss. Praying that the situation would remain peaceful and no such battle would end up erupting.

Not much different from them, the major powers from the Northern Central Region similarly found themselves praying that no large-scale battle ended up breaking out in the Yellow Peak Region. Having not lost anything compared to the damage that the Western Central Region had suffered so far.

On the contrary, if the situation ended now, the newly formed abyss would be able to serve as an apt border between the Northern Central Region and the Western Central Region. Making it far harder for the Western Central Region to expand into the Northern Central Region in the future.

As for the remaining half of the Yellow Peak Region that still faced the Northern Central Region? The different major powers bordering the Western Central Region were already thinking of potentially annexing the territory and incorporating it into their own borders. Using the chaos caused by the major powers from the Southern Central Region as a cover to do this.

In fact, to ensure things transitioned smoothly, some of the major powers in question had already decided to subtly make moves towards annexing the remaining half of the Yellow Peak Region while the different powerful figures from the Southern Central Region were still around. Knowing it would be close to impossible to conquer part of the Western Central Region once these powerful figures were gone.

Of course, the cultivators involved in this subtle expansion of the Northern Central Region were at most at the Soul Ascension Realm or below, as anyone above that had either refused to do something that risky or had already escaped from the half of the Northern Central Region facing the Western Central Region.

Luckily for them, the resistance they ended up encountering on the side of the Yellow Peak Region was negligible, as anyone at the Domain Lord Realm or above had long since evacuated from the Yellow Peak Region by this point in time. Not to mention, the local powers had either been erased by the formation of the abyss that had swallowed half the Yellow Peak Region or already evacuated to the Northern Central Region.

In other words, beyond just having an easy time taking over the practically abandoned half of the Yellow Peak Region facing the Northern Central Region, the different major powers taking advantage of the situation were also able to utilize the legitimacy of the different local powers that had fled into their territory to assert their claims on the new territory. Legitimatizing their expansion into the Western Central Region.

Normally, the Western Central Region would long since have sent someone to deal with this kind of wanton expansion into the Western Central Region, but the current circumstances meant doing that was impossible.

Not to mention, looking back at the history of the Yellow Peak Region, the place had once been a part of the Northern Central Region.

So, in a way, the expansion of the Northern Central Region into the Yellow Peak Region could be seen as reclaiming old territory that had been lost to the Western Central Region in the past.

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"Finally, back.... And the trip this time around took far less time than I originally anticipated..." A few weeks earlier, before the situation in the Yellow Peak Region entered its current stalemate and the major powers from the Northern Central Region jumped at the opportunity to expand their borders during the tense standoff, Xuan Hao found himself returning back to the sect without encountering any problems along his journey back to the sect.

The only somewhat troubling situation he had encountered was the spatial disturbance coming from the Yellow Peak Region, but that had at most caused him to pause for a bit before he continued his journey back to the sect after realizing where the disturbance had come from.

In any case, the fallout of the ancient formation self-destructing wasn’t something he nor the Star Shattering Sect would have to deal with.

Even if the conflict ended up spilling over into the Northern Central Region in the future and dragged the nearby major powers of the region into the conflict, the Star Shattering Sect itself was located fairly far away from the Western Central Region and at the same time also had the demonic cultivators from the Frozen Wasteland serving as a perfect shield against the unrest that might arise from the situation in the Yellow Peak Region.

In a sense, it might even be a good opportunity for Xuan Hao to see just how deep the foundation of the demonic cultivators were, as he had a feeling that they wouldn’t just give up on the Blue Sea Empire after having gone to such great lengths to finally gain a foothold within the central region of the continent.

Unfortunately for Xuan Hao, this would not be happening, as the stalemate in the abyss wouldn’t change in the foreseeable future.

On the other hand, one thing that did draw his full attention was the part of the Void Observation Branch’s inheritance that he had been able to take with him before the formation spirit had gone ahead and destroyed the Starfall Observatory and the remaining parts of the inheritance that he hadn’t been qualified to take away.

Although... To say he only managed to take away a small part of the inheritance would be incorrect, as what he ended up with was essentially the vast quantity of information and techniques that existed at the lower level of importance in the eyes of the Void Observation Branch.

Because of this, he didn’t end up with just a small part of the inheritance of the Void Observation Branch but essentially found himself carrying away a vast majority of the inheritance stored within the Starfall Observatory.

The sheer quantity of information he found himself holding exceeded the scrolls, techniques and books currently stored within the sect’s library. Meaning he would need some time to properly access what he was in possession of, as even with his powerful divine sense, it would take weeks to skim through such a vast quantity of information.

Weeks that soon enough flew by, as he dwelled into the vast sea of knowledge belonging to the Void Observation Branch of the Mirage Sect.

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