All four hundred and thirty-one External Sects of the Southern Border began to rebel against the rule of the Great Yi Dynasty, news that far exceeded the expectations of Yan Moshan.
Although Yan Moshan understood that the Great Yi Dynasty had long oppressed, restricted, and enslaved these External Sects, the Dynasty's power was overwhelming and its authority firm as the heavens, so the Sects did not dare to rebel. They only mustered some resistance when the Great Yi Dynasty invaded the Four Barbarians, aiming merely to survive and prevent the conquest of their last refuge.
Yet, in the thousands of years since the founding of the Great Yi Dynasty, such a thing had never happened—every Cultivator and Sect of the Southern Border had begun to resist, committing all their manpower and resources to the cause, exceeding Yan Moshan's imagination!