After everyone made their decisions, they chose a direction and began to move toward it.
Although they knew that afterwards, they would need more time to explore outside the wall, completing tasks that previously took them only half the time, they had no choice. If they didn't stay together, it was very likely that only one of the three teams would survive.
And the only way those people could return inside the wall was by sheer luck, avoiding encounters with powerful creatures outside the wall or the Power of Heaven and Earth outside the wall. But there's a problem: they didn't know the way back. That means it's almost impossible for everyone to safely return, and the odds are even less than them immediately entering the Taichu Realm.
After all, the scenery outside the wall hardly changes, so for everyone, not taking a detour is virtually impossible.
Because within the unchanging landscape, no one can truly find their direction here. Even if you have a very keen sense of direction, it's useless because this is outside the wall, entirely blocking off all the ways you determine direction, such as your sense of direction, Spiritual Power, Divine Sense, and so forth.
Although they may eventually come up with a way to return to their base, the odds are extremely slim. Even if they follow the Taichu Real Person like they are now, they would still wander aimlessly outside the wall like a group of vagrants, searching for a path back to the wall. After all, merely following the Taichu Real Person doesn't guarantee safety. If Taichu Real Person wants to return inside the wall, back to the base, they still need to explore slowly. Their only option is to occasionally head back in the straight line direction they originally came from, to find the markers they left. This way, at least they won't get lost.
Though this might lead to more pointless detours, it ensures that when reclaiming territories, it's more convenient.
Because this way, at least everyone can have a resting place. Even if over the next few thousand years, they are constantly reclaiming these territories, everyone will still be able to allocate regions through these cross paths.
For instance, one Sect is responsible for the area between these two cross paths.
And another Sect is responsible for the area between those two straight paths; of course, if the Sect isn't strong enough, several Sects might be responsible for one area.
And everyone is prepared for this. Moreover, it's not absolutely necessary that they return to the wall following the currently designated paths; it doesn't particularly matter if they go a bit astray, as long as they can return to the wall. Even if the territories are somewhat more or less now, it doesn't matter. After all, when reclaiming those territories and deploying the Array, they will expand outward a little.
After all, extending outward one meter from a massive sector will significantly increase the total area, so expanding outward by several meters is inconsequential, as for those deploying Arrays, expanding outward isn't too burdensome.
At this moment, as everyone walks on the road, they haven't encountered any creatures outside the wall; instead, the road is eerily calm, and this calmness arouses their curiosity.
It even makes them feel strange, as this is outside the wall where creatures should be everywhere. How could they have walked for so long without encountering any creatures outside the wall?
Moreover, regardless of the strength of the creatures outside the wall they encounter, as long as they encounter one, it often means a period of peace will follow.
The reason why everyone feels this way is because every creature outside the wall has its own territorial awareness.
As long as the creature is solitary and not a group, when they encounter one creature outside the wall, the area in which that creature lives belongs to its territory. If other creatures invade, the incumbent creature will either devour the invader or be devoured by it.
Therefore, overall, encountering one creature outside the wall usually ensures a prolonged period of peace.
Of course, the premise is that you can solve this creature outside the wall, otherwise, encountering this creature marks your death period.
Even though it's said this way, if they truly encounter those group-dwelling creatures outside the wall, this saying becomes inapplicable.
While most creatures outside the wall are solitary, rarely congregating.
However, there are those creatures which have a splitting nature, occasionally splitting off their clones or offspring. Thus, if you encounter one creature outside the wall, you might find many more nearby.
You might even feel like you've encountered an endless swarm of army ants—it's densely packed.
Certainly, such situations are rare, as not every creature outside the wall is willing to share its territory or split its strength.
After all, when they want to split off a new entity, the split entity's strength will correspondingly reduce the strength of the original; it's not like the split creature has identical strength.
Even if it's identical, it's because they divided their strength equally with the split body during the splitting, otherwise, a creature wouldn't split off while retaining unchanged strength.
Although this is a magical world, the basic principle of energy conservation still applies, even in a very unscientific world, some scientific rules persist.
As everyone was curious why they hadn't encountered creatures outside the wall yet, suddenly they felt a scorching heat ahead, and their skin even tingled with numbness—they didn't know what was happening.
However, some of the more sensitive people had already noticed a large mix of thunder and fire attributes, as well as Demonic Qi, Evil Qi, and other negative aura ahead.
They realized they've encountered a creature outside the wall.
Upon encountering this creature, rather than panicking, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
They immediately rushed forward, eager to see what kind of creature they had encountered.
"Yikes, isn't this a Thunderfire Beast? How is there a Demon Beast from inside the wall appearing here?" Ye Tianfan instinctively exclaimed upon seeing the creature, because he recognized the creature.