Death... and me

Sure enough, Folesve wasn't the Sect Master of one of the big powers at the center of the Realm of Gods for nothing.

Roan was a master in strategy. With that said, he prepared everything he could to prevent information from leaving his country for as long as possible. That's why he had Luina check all the places he asked for and put their images in jade slips. After the girl went around doing his task, Roan placed thousands of checkpoints around the country. All the routes that could be used to leave Butiva were now closed completely.

Worse than that, most of these checkpoints had cultivators, demon beasts, and spirits holding Rean's copied badges. That meant their Divine Senses were all working perfectly fine. With their cultivations not suffering from the suppression, it made it extremely hard for anyone to sneak past the checkpoints.

Not only that, Butiva Country could receive teleportations from countries outside, but their teleport formations could not teleport anyone back. That meant that anyone coming from outside Butiva was now stuck in Butiva.

One must remember that the highest cultivation for those without Rean's badges was the Nascent Soul Realm. Such cultivation made it very dangerous to travel outside on their own. Last but not least, these 'spies' couldn't fly with that cultivation. They had to try and go back to their own country on foot. Even if we're talking about the Walfure region here, this was the Realm of Gods!

How ridiculously far away was it for Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to move by foot from a single country to another? If they tried to pass through demon beast territories, that might be even more dangerous than trying to sneak through the checkpoints. At the moment, Butiva Country was completely sealed.

Thanks to that, even though the smart ones sent people to check Butiva, not a single one of their spies was able to return to their countries. They were stripped of their spatial rings as soon as they arrived in Butiva, making it impossible for them to use Thoughts Transmission Talismans.

Another thing that Roan loved about this suppression formation was how hard it made for spies to move around. Sure, their Nascent Soul Realm cultivation made them merge with the crowd easily. However, because of that same thing, they couldn't go very far in their investigations.

However, there was still one last resort for those who came to check Butiva, the participants and their two subordinates. The Jamai Sect's disciples were all in the Space Bending Realm, so they could fly here. As for their subordinates, they were in the Transition Realm. Although they couldn't fly as fast as the Jamai Sect disciples, they could still fly as well.

A good example was the guy that appeared above the army that Roan was training during the first week. Then again, he left straight away after he noticed Roan and failed to grasp the real meaning of Butiva's development.

Yet, Roan knew that these guys wouldn't fail to notice the real threat his Butiva Army would pose in the future.

And that was where Rean appeared. After completing the badges' production method and passing it to his sect disciples to make, he immediately passed a lot of these badges to the high-level cultivators, demon beasts, and spirits of the country.

With that, not only did the country have high-level beings at the checkpoints, but he and Roan also positioned a lot of them in key points around their armies. That allowed them to intercept any other high-level beings before they got close to their armies and saw what was happening.

Of course, even this method had its flaws. For example, it would expose the fact that other beings in Butiva Country now had their cultivation back to normal. Then again, that wasn't a problem. That would just mean that no one would want to get close to Butiva anytime soon. If anything, the ones coming from farther countries would be glad that they weren't Butiva's neighbors.

Last but not least, it was very rare for other countries in Walfure to pay attention to Butiva. As mentioned before, they all paid little attention to Luina, who decided to take a country far away from the battlefront. That meant that Transition Realm subordinates or the Space Bending Realm Jamai Sect disciples appearing above Butiva to investigate were an extremely unlikely thing to happen during the first months. If anything, the first guy was a surprise for Roan but also a good thing as he didn't see much during the first week.

The few elders of the Jamai Sect who came to see the competition were quite apprehensive as well. Normally, it would be a good thing that Butiva Country of their Jamai Sect is growing so fast. But then again, most of the disciples that would be swallowed by Butiva were their disciples as well. The only one who seemed to be quite happy was Luina's mother and the few people that came with her. 'Luina really found some treasures in that Jhiod Continent.'

Of course, the competition had just started. Butiva got a lot of attention, but a few other countries and regions also did very well. They were the only ones that made those elders from different continental powers pay attention to them.

For example, there was a region called Glutomak, which was given to the Handolaces Continent's disciples. Handolaces was one of the highest-ranked continents taking part in this competition. Unlike the Jamai Sect disciples, all of Handolaces Continent's disciples worked together from the start, with their top disciple acting as the leader. Instead of trying to gather achievements for themselves, the disciples knew that their elders would kill them if they tried to hold each other's feet.

Thanks to that, the armies of all one hundred countries were working together under the one hundred disciples' commands. And ultimately, they were all following the orders of the same top disciple. It made their army evolve very quickly, and they were definitely a threat once ten years were up.