Night Without End
Chapter 217 - 140: The Edge of the World

Chapter 217: Chapter 140: The Edge of the World

In a single day, they traversed forty thousand li, crossing over the pitch-dark and boundless frontier, aboard two High-level Abnormalities, the group arrived at the edge of the world.

Even though everyone had strong physiques and experienced several rebirths, some of the youngsters still could not adapt, their faces pale, only feeling grounded when their feet touched the ground.

"Why don’t we just go directly into the city?" someone asked.

This was a wilderness, the night thick, with many old trees growing and disorderly branches stretching everywhere; a faint light from afar should be a city.

"Once here, I will give you all a lesson." The Elder from the Six Imperial Ancestor Court spoke.

His name was Elder Zhou, with silver streaks in his hair, his pupils swirling with a golden light, he said: "Approaching the edge of the world, you cannot directly enter the city from the night sky, as it would be considered an enemy attack. Even High-level Abnormalities would be blown apart by special crossbow bolts!"

Following that, everyone became aware of the sort of realm they were in, the frontier domain of the previous Great Opening Era!

Of course, with the change of times, it had been a long time since any expansion took place, and this place no longer had the bustling scenes filled with people and experts like in the old days.

Qin Ming was somewhat in a daze, traveling forty thousand li in a day, to arrive at such a place, was beyond his expectation.

He thought that the Great Opening Era was still far off, but unexpectedly, he had arrived in this kind of frontier ahead of time.

The crowd whispered, discussing, and walked towards the city in the night.

The city was not very large, its walls revealing their age, with some parts damaged on the hard-as-iron Black Gold Stone surfaces, showing terrifying claw marks that were several meters long.

This changed the expressions of many, as they could imagine the heart-stopping scenes of the bygone grand era, with its past of blood and fire seeming to surge forth.

Elder Zhou seemed to know what they were thinking and said with a light smile: "These are all trivial matters, merely the tracks of some little cats and mice that were left in the last few years."

"Ah, has the era of the Great Exploration already begun?" someone couldn’t help but ask.

"Not yet." A young disciple shook his head.

He then said, "Do you think it’s usually very peaceful around here?"

After having their identities checked, the group smoothly entered the city and gained a rough understanding along the way.

The frontier region of the Great Exploration, the border line was very long, and this place was just a corner of it.

Precisely because of that, along the extremely vast edge of the world, various creatures often broke through and harassed the border residents, they were unforeseeable and unavoidable.

The situation was getting worse, with frequent severe bloodshed incidents.

Therefore, the higher-ups were getting impatient and wanted to conduct a Great Exploration once more.

As for now, all kinds of preparations were still proceeding in an orderly manner.

"You’re born in an era full of challenges. Once the Great Expansion commences, marching deep into the vast Yewu World, countless opportunities will emerge, with innumerable resources and creations, witnessing legends, with some rapidly rising to power, and the emergence of those Close to Immortal or Classical Divine Beings is not impossible."

"Every Great Exploration will see new people rise like the Fierce Sun crossing the sky, illuminating the Yewu World, and they may sit as equals with the old giants."

"Perhaps amongst you, there is a Young Master level individual who will pioneer the way!"

Elder Zhou and several young disciples from the Six Imperial Ancestor Court sketched out a vague outline of a grand era in just a few simple sentences.

The group of youngsters was tumultuous with surging passion.

There were also some who remained calm, their youthful hearts not stirred, because they knew that such a brilliant era was destined to have many deaths.

This was a county town, with a Third-level Fire Spring cluster, the population barely over a hundred thousand.

Qin Ming and the others already knew what kind of assessments they were about to experience, and which Demon Monsters and creatures they needed to deal with!

"After the last Great Exploration, some people migrated over, and it was indeed very prosperous early on, after all, with plenty of resources and sparsely populated, but now they suffer greatly. Various monsters keep transgressing the borders, they are impossible to fend off, bloodshed incidents are increasingly frequent, and there are even tragic events of village and town slaughters."

The group already understood what Elder Zhou meant by not wanting them to fight amongst themselves, it was better to hunt at the world’s edge and help solve the border troubles.

"You can form teams or act alone, whoever kills the most powerful Evil Monster or slays the most Demons, will receive a higher evaluation."

Then, some began to discuss forming teams, while others remained silent, preferring to venture alone.

Elder Zhou spoke seriously: "I will assign areas according to your strengths, and before each of you starts, read those materials carefully and act within your capacity."

He seriously reminded them that it was still not too late to withdraw, otherwise, there would definitely be deaths, if the young who have never experienced life-and-death combat should not participate, as newbies were the most prone to accidents.

Each person had a stack of papers in their hands, all documents about the surrounding areas, some dating back a long time, and some were recent, all recording bloodshed incidents, reported by the local people.

"As for those documents about giant beasts and even more formidable Demon Monsters, I will not give those to you. Sending you to such places would be sending you to your deaths."

Elder Zhou told them that danger came with opportunities; some special creatures had heavy concentrations of Spiritual Material, like Silver Creatures that failed to evolve, with their bodies retaining the immensely valuable silver blood.

This also meant that they were extremely dangerous.

And some Alien Species had Jade Horns and spirit bones that could be used in medicine or as excellent materials for forging Spiritual Artifacts, very precious and not to be missed.

Some of the youngsters had a strong sense of justice and asked: "Elder Zhou, since the border people have been suffering in recent years, why wouldn’t you and others simply push over and deal with it? After all, we’re of lower realms and might not solve too much."