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Chapter 757: Chapter 332: The Extinction of the Four Poles, Nine Provinces Split

“Fellow Daoist, are you saying that the Great Cold of Heaven and Earth in recent years is caused by the disaster at Beiming Youdu?”Nôv(el)B\\jnn

As Jinyun’s face turned grim, Lu Yuan also reacted, asking with a somewhat unpleasant expression.

As the weather grew colder day by day in recent years, Chu State, being located in Jiangnan, was not greatly affected by it.

But that was only temporary.

If it was indeed as Jinyun said, the cold air between Heaven and Earth all gathered within Beiming Youdu, and Beiming Youdu acted like a container to hold this cold air.

Now the container had a problem, and the cold air began to leak slowly.

Lu Yuan could not imagine what kind of impact this cold air leakage would ultimately have.

No one knew how much cold air was stored in Beiming Youdu, which had absorbed the cold air of the entire Nine Provinces world?

And if all this cold air were to be released, how strong would its impact be on the climate between Heaven and Earth?

Now it was only the fifth year since the anomaly began.

However, in the northern regions and on the Snowy Plateau, the leaked cold air had already affected the survival of some tribes.

If this situation persisted for a decade or even a century, it was unknown how many of the current Nine Provinces and Ten Territories, or the numerous countries in the North, would be completely transformed into a land of ice and frost.

Lu Yuan did not know about the others.

But as for the Snowy Plateau next to Chu State, would more than half of it become a Snow Country?

As for the Barbarians on the snow plains, even if they did not all die off, at least half of them would surely perish.

If the Snow Plains were not faring well, then Zhou Country and Wei, Zhao, and other countries further north wouldn’t fare much better, would they?

Even if these northern countries managed to withstand this cold disaster with their deep foundations,

heavy casualties would still be inevitable in the end.

Actually, even if that were the case, it wouldn’t matter that much.

But what Lu Yuan was even more concerned about was that these northern countries might, in the face of the cold disaster, ultimately be forced into a grand migration southward like the current Snow Plains Barbarians, and that could be disastrous.

Just imagining the scene of countless northern people in the billions migrating southward, even as a cultivator who had condensed his Qi, he couldn’t help but feel somewhat suffocated.

‘Nevertheless, such a scenario is unlikely to occur. And even if it does happen, the first to suffer will be Wei, Zhao, and other countries.

Then, when Wei, Zhao, and other countries are forced to migrate south due to the cold wave, the first to bear the brunt will be Zhou and Liang.

With Yong State and Qingzhou in the north of Yangzhou, there should be no need to worry about the impact of the cold wave. At most, preparations need to be made early to avoid the desperate acts of Zhou and Liang.’

As Lu Yuan thought about this, his mood improved significantly.

However, Jinyun opposite him confirmed his guess, saying, “Your Majesty is not mistaken. The recent cold wave is indeed due to the influence of Beiming Youdu.”

Jinyun nodded, then looked at Lu Yuan’s troubled face and said seriously, “In ancient times, the current Nine Provinces and Ten Territories were not so finely divided.

At that time, Heaven and Earth were still in a Wilderness state, with Yin and Yang imbalances at the four poles. Earthquakes occurred frequently in the west, storms ravaged the eastern seas, ice and snow froze everything in the north, and poisonous fire burned the earth in the south.

Only the Central State region was barely stable in its earth veins and suitable for habitation.

Later, ancient Immortals broke through the barriers and used their great powers to control the elements of earth, wind, water, and fire.

They stabilized the earth’s veins in the far west, quelling the earthquakes.

In the east, they filled the sea’s eyes, eliminating the storms.

In the south, they sealed off the poisonous fire and nurtured the earth.

In the far north, they created Beiming Youdu, gathering the cold air while using it as the foundation and a channel for the array between the Two Realms.

Such great divine powers stabilized the four poles, making the Wilderness gradually suitable for the survival of the Human Race. Then, as the human population expanded and grew, the territories were slowly divided into the Nine Provinces and Ten Territories.

Once the cold air stored in Beiming Youdu is fully released and scattered back into Heaven and Earth,

I am not sure about the overall impact on other areas in the Nine Provinces and Ten Territories.

However, the northern regions of Bei Grasslands, Western Gobi, and Mysterious Snow Forest, as well as the larger parts of Ji Province and Yan Province in the northernmost Nine Provinces, and even a small part of Xu Province, will definitely become frozen lands.

At that time, the three regions and three states will be covered in ice and snow, no longer suitable for human habitation.

All the creatures living there will face death and destruction.

And the date of this destruction should not be far off.

Perhaps, within 20 to 30 years, or at most a hundred years, all of the cold air in Beiming Youdu is estimated to be fully released.

By then, billions of creatures in the aforementioned areas would either have to migrate to the south or slowly perish in the snowstorms, with no other choice for survival.”

Jinyun recounted the cruel reality word by word.

Nearly a million square miles in the three regions and three states, how many people were living in such a vast area?

Even if the environment in the three northern regions was as harsh as the Snowy Plateau, the combined population of all the tribes and kingdoms there would probably amount to 40 or 50 million people.

As for the remaining Yan, Ji, and Xu Provinces, the total population would certainly exceed 100 million.

In the three states and three regions, Lu Yuan estimated that the total population had already approached two hundred million.

This was a staggering two hundred million people.

If Beiming Youdu completely lost control and the ice came, two hundred million people would be completely deprived of their homes, reduced to refugees, and forced to seek survival in the south.

At that time, the influx of refugees would cause a tremendous impact on the existing social structure of the southern provinces,

‘No, perhaps there is no need to wait for the ice to arrive.’

Lu Yuan looked up at Jinyun, a hint of difference flashed in his eyes.