Chapter 243: Chapter 126: Household Registration
In White Tiger City, it was bustling with activity, and Li Qiying restrained her aura, blending in like an ordinary person, but secretly expanded her divine thought, watching and listening for any relevant matters.
Soon, she confird the result.
The boy didn’t lie. The affair of the Demon-Locking Tower and the Five Demon-Locking Swords was indeed known to everyone in White Tiger City, discussed by both cultivators and ordinary people.
This left Li Qiying sowhat puzzled.
She wasn’t puzzled about the establishnt of the Demon-Locking Tower itself but rather the dissemination of this information.
The Five Elents Grand Array and the Five Demon-Locking Swords, shouldn’t these matters be top secrets?
Why would the Taiyi Daoist Palace publicize it so widely, making it known to all, even sung by children?
Is it because they have nothing to fear and aren’t worried soone might destroy the Five Elents Grand Array and the Five Demon-Locking Swords?
Or is it intentional, wanting to use this as bait to lure the Demon Dao here?
Or perhaps...
Li Qiying contemplated over and over again, feeling that anything was possible, yet none seed right.
She was quite conflicted for a while.
But she still followed the strategy, coming to a skyscraper that resembled a pillar stone, soaring into the sky.
Demon-Locking Tower?
No, it wasn’t.
Instead, it was...
"The Governnt Affairs Office!"
"Household Registration Office!"
Following the map directions, Li Qiying arrived at a service hall, preparing to register her household.
That’s right, household registration!
According to the strategy, the Demon-Locking Tower does not restrict identity; whether you are a Daoist Palace disciple or a cultivator who hasn’t joined the Daoist Palace, you can enter the tower to eradicate demons and earn contributions.
But the premise of all this is that you have household registration recognized by the Daoist Palace.
Without household registration, not only can you not enter the Demon-Locking Tower, you cannot even stay long in White Tiger City, let alone cross it into the heartland of the Central Plains.
Li Qiying could understand this.
The Demon Heaven Tribulation brought chaos to all beings, causing demons to thrive and the Dao to decline, plunging the world into turmoil.
Although the Taiyi Daoist Palace gathered the demonic flow of the Central Plains into the Demon-Locking Towers of the five cities through the Five Elents Lock Demon Array, there were still demon cultivators coming from overseas causing chaos everywhere.
To eradicate these demons while avoiding harm to the innocent, the Taiyi Daoist Palace established a household registration system.
Overseas cultivators could move to the Central Plains but must first register, obtaining identity docunts issued by the Daoist Palace to settle in border cities or inland.
With these identity docunts, when traveling inland, there would be no need to worry about Daoist Palace law enforcent inspections.
In contrast, without identity, bypassing White Tiger City to enter inland would be regarded as a demon cultivator or an outlaw, to be either killed on the spot or captured and detained.
This matter was widely publicized by the Taiyi Daoist Palace, known even overseas, so basically, there would be no misunderstandings. Those wishing to reside permanently at the border city or move inland should honestly handle their household registration.
The household registration system, while offering various benefits, also posed two significant challenges.
The first challenge was preventing unauthorized entry. After all, Taiyuan Heaven and Earth is vast, with a boundary of thousands of miles between the seas and the inland. Cultivators can fly and move freely; not to ntion one city, even ten or a hundred cities cannot block all paths. If soone was determined to "sneak" in, the Taiyi Daoist Palace couldn’t stop them.
The second challenge was the attitude of cultivators. Cultivators, defying the heavens, cherish freedom and disdain constraints. Managing them like ordinary people, requiring identity registration and household establishnt, is very difficult, with the potential to cause trouble or even bloodshed.
These two major challenges made the household registration system difficult to implent in the cultivation realm.
Of course, in the cultivation realm before, no one wanted to engage in such matters, as each sect and school minded their own business, managing only their own territory, unlike worldly kingdoms, who have leisure to handle household registration identities.
It wasn’t until the establishnt of the Taiyi Daoist Palace that this situation changed.
Regarding those two major challenges, the Taiyi Daoist Palace was quite decisive, dealing with them swiftly and effectively.
Sneaking in?
Indeed, it cannot be prevented.
But I can capture people.
Nurous law enforcent cultivators patrol inland. As long as you don’t have an identity, you’ll be deed a demon cultivator or outlaw, either beheaded on the spot or housed in the Demon-Locking Tower.
Go ahead and sneak; the Demon-Locking Tower not fitting you is my loss.
As for the cultivators, dislike restraints?
If you don’t like it, then leave!
Overseas, where constraints are absent, you can roam freely. No need to move to the Central Plains.
If you plan to move to the Central Plains, you must abide by the Daoist Palace’s laws. If not, then spend ti in the Demon-Locking Tower.
Bloodshed within five steps?
Let it be bloodshed within five steps then!
The Cyan Nether Sword Master truly embodies the Sword Cultivator’s philosophy, striving for straightforwardness, not seeking deviousness.
Even orthodox sects like Taihua Mountain dare not oppose him. What do those heterodox sects matter?
Thus, the Taiyi Daoist Palace plowed through obstacles, strictly enforcing laws, executing large-scale operations, finally establishing this household registration system, not known how many people shed blood in the process, but all were like mantises trying to stop a chariot, utterly unable to halt this grand montum.
Moreover, they had little reason to be mantises stopping a chariot.
The inland, poor in spiritual qi, if not for the Taiyi Daoist Palace establishing the Five Elents Demon-Locking Tower, demon cultivators and loose cultivators from heterodox sects wouldn’t even focus their attention here.
And the Cyan Nether Sword Master’s power is too formidable; in this era, only the Three Calamities Demon Monarch, Three Fierce of the West Sea, and North South Two Madn, ancient demons, can rival him. No one can match him, not even a primordial spirit is spared from being killed at his word.
Thus, after losing several nascent souls and two newly-promoted primordial spirits, the Demon Dao decisively abandoned the idea of destroying the Five Elents Demon-Locking Tower.
As for the heterodox sects, the main reason for heterodox cultivators moving inland was to escape demonic calamities. Only a fool would stubbornly resist the Taiyi Daoist Palace.
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