Legend of the Great Sage

none of the dead from the various worlds to slip past.

While the Hungry Ghost realm stood no chance against the Hell realm, they rapidly devoured the trichiliocosm and continued to expand through their extraordinary will of the world.
Often, they would attack the other worlds indiscriminately in an attempt to turn all of the living into the dead.

The Daemonic Beast realm was a primitive and wild place.
Even though it constantly produced powerful existences, it was extremely chaotic.
It was the one that least resembled a country.
However, apart from the Hungry Ghost realm, it had no other enemy states.

The Human realm resided between order and chaos.
Overall, it was not weak, but it neither possessed the strict and impartial order of the Heaven realm and Hell realm, nor was it fanned on by the intense will of the world like the Hungry Ghost realm and the Asura realm.
The overt and covert conflicts between sects were even more intense than the Daemonic Beast realm, yet it also opposed all the other worlds at the same time.

Countless sects and cultivators, due to their own demands, would go to the Daemonic Beast realm to hunt daemonic beasts and collect mounts, go to the Hungry Ghost realm to raid tombs for treasure and enslave undead, or infiltrate the Heaven realm and the Asura realm to steal precious weapons and valuables.
They even directly captured deva and asura, using their flesh, blood, and souls to cultivate, refine pills, and forge artifacts.

Without any heed for moral alignment, countless cultivators went to the Hell realm to break prisoners out purely because they were powerful, for the sake of various emotional reasons, leading to the most plentiful of bizarre stories.
It left Li Qingshan with a very deep impression.

This obviously led to a very severe issue of boundaries.
Deva, asura, and even daemons and undead could enter the Human realm freely, but they killed all intruding humans that resisted.
In particular, the security in the Hell realm was the strictest.

This was not a particularly large problem either, as the Human realm also worked with the other worlds.
Whether it were daemons or undead, there were no eternal enemies, only eternal benefits.

Small skirmishes continued endlessly, but rarely would they develop into a war between nations.
The worlds all hated humans, but none of them treated the Human realm as an enemy state.
Even the most invasive Hungry Ghost realm did not pose too great of a threat to the Human realm due to the suppression of the Hell realm.

However, wicked people would have their own kind to deal with, which was the Demon domain that stood independent from the six realms of saṃsāra.
Fanned on by the wicked, chaotic will of the world, the twelve Demon Gods led the demonfolk army and colluded with various demonic sects, constantly invading the Human realm.

The orthodox sects of the Human realm were forced to band together and suppress these “wicked existences” internally while guarding against the Demon domain externally.
With how established the Myriad sect was, they possessed a large number of cultivators, so they had always served as one of the primary forces.

Under these circumstances, the Department of Military Provisions possessed extremely great authority.
When the need arose, they could conscript disciples into the army, and the so-called times when the need arose was when the master of military provisions thought there was the need.
That also happened to be direct disciple Ge Xing.

“Li Qingshan, military orders are absolute.
Those who defy them will be executed.
Please report to the Department of Military Provisions with me immediately!” the officer said impassively.

“I’m an inner disciple.
Can he execute me just because he wants to?” Li Qingshan said proudly, glancing at Pi Yangqiu.

Pi Yangqiu smiled.
“That’s right.
If senior brother Ge wants to forcibly enlist an inner disciple, it’s probably not going to be that easy.”

Seeing how Pi Yangqiu had spoken up, the officer eased up slightly.
He lowered his head and clasped his hands.
“I am acting under orders.
If junior brother defies the military orders, I’ll return right now and report back to the Department of Military Provisions.”

Li Qingshan asked Pi Yangqiu, “What do I do? Do I go or not?”

Pi Yangqiu touched his nose.
“Military orders cannot be openly defied.
You still need to pay a visit to the Department of Military Provisions, but you can’t just go like this.
Ask for help from your senior sister Ruan.
You belong to the Hundred Herbs garden, and you’ve made such a great contribution to the Hundred Herbs garden.
As such, she’s duty-bound to step forward for you.”

“What about you?”

“I manipulate everything from behind the scenes.”

At the same time, Xiao An stood on the arched bridge, between the waterfall, gazing at the two large words over the city gates—Myriad City.