Chapter 1157 - 1257: Careful Deliberation

With the help of Ye Tianfan and Yu Shan.

Ye Tianfan and Yu Shan discovered that more and more Sects had already returned, and every single Sect had suffered the same devastating casualties. There was even one Sect that had only a single person come back; all the other disciples were dead.

Ye Tianfan's mood grew heavier and heavier, because it made her feel like she had killed all of them.

After all, it was Ye Tianfan who had obtained the Chaos Treasure Lotus, and it was Ye Tianfan who had proposed developing the area outside the Wall.

Moreover, the reason Ye Tianfan proposed developing outside the Wall was entirely because she wanted to return to her original world.

That directly led to Ye Tianfan's desperate urge to open up the outside of the Wall being extremely intense. If one said the success of developing outside the Wall was driven by Ye Tianfan, that wouldn't be wrong; and that only further proved that Ye Tianfan was the one who had harmed the people of all the Sects.

Of course, no one felt that Ye Tianfan had harmed them. After all, before heading beyond the Wall, they already understood what they might encounter there. Every one of them had prepared themselves for the worst, so they were mentally ready for whatever might happen outside the Wall. It was just that this time happened to be the worst-case scenario.

But according to what Ye Tianfan thought in her heart, she believed that in the end the reason still lay with her. After all, if Ye Tianfan hadn't wanted to go back to her original world, she wouldn't have been in such a hurry to tell Taichu Zhenren and the others that she possessed this Chaos Treasure Lotus, and then pushed them to announce these matters to the whole world.

At this moment, Ye Tianfan's heart was filled with melancholy. She didn't know what to do next. After all, practically every Sect had been affected, and many Sects had even had their lineages cut off. In other words, many Sects had vanished in this incident—in other words, they had already died outside the Wall.

This discovery made Ye Tianfan even more sorrowful. After all, Ye Tianfan also knew that each Sect had people left behind to guard their Sect, but now, those people would never again be able to wait for their comrades to return from beyond the Wall.

As more and more people came back, Ye Tianfan grew more and more desolate inside, because as the numbers increased, Ye Tianfan could clearly see that some people had already lost all hope. That meant their injuries were too severe; even if treated, they would be left with extremely serious aftereffects. Worse yet, some no longer had any value in being saved, because they had already been completely invaded to the marrow by Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and other negative auras, making them fundamentally incurable.

Ye Tianfan watched corpses being thrown out of the tents one after another. Her eyes instantly reddened. She was at a loss, not knowing what she should do from here on out. Because Ye Tianfan had wanted to go back to her original world, she had ended up dragging most of the people in the cultivation world down with her. In truth, Ye Tianfan herself didn't even understand why such a thing would happen. After all, no one could have predicted this kind of outcome.

Before coming outside the Wall, Taichu Zhenren and the others had considered that there would be many consequences and many possible situations, but they had never imagined this kind of situation would occur.

The Heaven and Earth fell out of balance—no one had imagined that Heaven and Earth would actually help those creatures outside the Wall. And because of that help, the Sects inside the Wall suffered a massive blow.

The most crucial point was that they had no enemy to hate— or rather, they didn't know how to take revenge. It wasn't as if they could go and kill Heaven and Earth. Besides, they had no way to kill Heaven and Earth, and they couldn't even find a method to inflict harm on Heaven and Earth. This left everyone thoroughly dispirited.

The entire Big Ben was shrouded in a dazed, lost expression. A few people even went mad, trying to rush outside and die together with those creatures beyond the Wall. If Ye Tianfan and Yu Shan hadn't forcefully dragged those few back, the atmosphere in Big Ben would have been even more despairing than it already was.

"Sect Leader, what do you think we should do next?" Ye Tianfan asked Taichu Zhenren with a somewhat confused look. At this moment, Ye Tianfan didn't know what to do. If they continued to explore beyond the Wall, then the Power of Heaven and Earth outside would inevitably interfere again, and that would once more cause heavy casualties. But if they no longer explored outside the Wall, then it would mean that they had simply taken a stroll outside, sacrificed countless lives, and then returned to the original inside of the Wall without gaining a single thing, continuing to eke out a living until the resources inside were completely exhausted, and all the Cultivators inside the Wall grew weaker and weaker, until they vanished.

Taichu Zhenren also let out a soft sigh at this moment. To put it bluntly, Taichu Zhenren himself didn't know what to do next.

After all, he had absolutely no way to cause any harm to the Power of Heaven and Earth outside the Wall. In other words, if they continued exploring outside, they could only passively endure blows and suffer heavy casualties. But if they retreated back inside the Wall now, they would feel unwilling.

At this moment, each of them harbored some resentment in their hearts. This resentment wasn't directed at Ye Tianfan, but at the Power of Heaven and Earth inside the Wall.

After all, when those corpses of creatures from outside the Wall had rampaged however they pleased inside, the Power of Heaven and Earth inside the Wall hadn't shown any reaction whatsoever. But the moment they set foot outside the Wall, before they had even done much, they were nearly wiped out by the Power of Heaven and Earth out there.

This left everyone feeling extremely disgruntled, so they all had a bit of a "take things as they come" attitude. Many of them were already thinking that it probably wouldn't be long before they returned inside the Wall, because there was simply no way to continue anything outside.

The opponent they had to face was the Power of Heaven and Earth outside the Wall. As for this kind of Power of Heaven and Earth, there was basically no other way to deal with it. The only thing that could contend with the Power of Heaven and Earth was another Power of Heaven and Earth, but the Power of Heaven and Earth inside the Wall was completely unreliable. So no matter how long they insisted on staying, they could only eventually return inside.

Some people had even started to pack up their belongings, because even if they stayed outside the Wall, they could only idle about here, and they couldn't even cultivate. After all, to cultivate they needed sufficient Spiritual Power. It wasn't that the Energy Shield didn't contain enough Spiritual Power, but that the Spiritual Power within it simply couldn't supply that many people.

Although many people had already died, there were still many survivors. If all these people cultivated at the same time, they would instantly consume an enormous amount of Spiritual Power, and this Spiritual Power was something Ye Tianfan had no way to convert all at once.

So some people had already finished packing, waiting only for Taichu Zhenren to give the order so they could leave this place. After all, outside the Wall was ultimately not their home.

Moreover, the Sects they each belonged to had suffered too much damage; they needed to return inside the Wall to replenish fresh seedlings.

They had to carefully tend to their wounds, and then bring their respective Sects back to their former state.