Leaving the city at the border between the Eastern Central Region and the Northern Central Region, it didn't take long before he ended up encountering more and more settlements occupied by different small clans and families. All of them, far smaller than the one close to the border, with the average cultivation base of the ones in charge ranging between the Earlier Stages of the Domain Lord Realm to the Later Stages of the Soul Ascension Realm.
Not one of them being guarded by someone in the Dao Seed Realm, let alone a wandering cultivator in the Dao Seed Realm being present. If anything, it was difficult to even encounter a single wandering cultivator at the Domain Lord Realm not affiliated inside these smaller cities and settlements.
All of this without even mentioning the fact that the state of these smaller powers being far more chaotic compared to the city ruled by the Zhang, Qing and Xue Clan.
