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Chapter 876: 882 Chapter: Severe
After the long stalemate in the great war between the Cultivators and the Sea Clan, small disturbances began to appear in various places.
Such as in Wanxian Province, the largest gathering place of Devil Beasts, the Great Snow Mountain!
Initially, numerous Devil Beasts were recruited to ambush the Li family and prevent their further growth, but instead, due to Li Zhirui’s breakthrough into Divine Transformation, their vital energy was severely damaged and they even feared the Li family’s retaliation, leading to a massive escape of Devil Beasts.
Nevertheless, a large number of Devil Beasts still congregated in the Great Snow Mountain.
Now, the Li family had pulled most of their combat power to participate in the war against the Sea Clan, which led to their inability to properly suppress Wanxian Province, giving the group of Devil Beasts an opportunity!
What opportunity, you ask? Of course, it was the chance to stir up the situation and fish in troubled waters, seizing a big haul in the process.
After most Devil Beasts broke through to the third-order, they gained great Spiritual Intelligence, hardly different from cultivators. How could they not see that the Li family’s current situation was only temporary!
Once the Sea Clan was repelled, Li Zhirui, leading many Cultivators from the Li family, would return, and they wouldn’t be able to cause any trouble.
Moreover, they would have to flee far away, since anyone bold enough to stay would not escape the Li family’s subsequent retribution.
The risks were not small, but neither were the potential gains!
Especially for those third-order Devil Beasts, if they cultivated step by step, it might take them a hundred or two hundred years to break through, but if they made a big score in this operation, they might see hope within a century!
Thus, several fourth-order Great Devils barely surviving in the Great Snow Mountain, along with a group of third-order and Low-Order Devil Beasts, stirred up a beast tide and launched attacks on nearby Immortal Cities and Marketplaces.
However, what they didn’t know was that the Li family had already anticipated that the Devil Beasts wouldn’t behave. After all, opportunities like this were rare, and they had devised a response plan.
The largest two Immortal Cities not only had fourth-order Great Arrays re-laid, but also had two fifth-order puppets stationed!
When the Devil Beast Army arrived, those Devil Beasts looking to loot in the chaos were immediately met with a relentless barrage, like a tempest.
In an instant, a large number of Devil Beasts were crushed into dust like fallen leaves swept by the autumn wind, and many fled frantically toward the rear.
The chaos caused by the Devil Race did inflict some damage on the Li family and Wanxian Province, after all, they didn’t attack these two large Immortal Cities right off the bat.
Before that, many places were breached by them.
Fortunately, the Li family was well-prepared and had evacuated their stationed kin early, preventing numerous casualties.
If the Devil Beasts had been smarter and divided their forces instead of focusing on the Immortal Cities and Marketplaces, they would have caused significant trouble for the Li family.
Since the Li family really couldn’t muster much strength, otherwise they wouldn’t just defend those two Immortal Cities and let other Territories be occupied by Devil Beasts.
Nevertheless, with just this one battle, the Devil Beasts that were already gasping for breath now couldn’t make much of a difference.
Actually, in Wanxian Province, those wanting to seize the chance to create chaos weren’t limited to the Devil Beasts from the Great Snow Mountain. For instance, entities like Wuya Mountain and Water Spirit Sect, Nascent Soul powers that were once on par with the Li family, had always harbored some discontent towards the Li family deep down.
However, they were more cautious and didn’t dare to make a move rashly.
Of course, the most important thing was that their Sects’ powerful Cultivators had all been sent to the Boundless Sea to participate in the battle against the Sea Clan, leaving behind only limited strength Cultivators at the Sects, who didn’t dare to stick their necks out.
Knowing the tragic fate of the Devil Race, many Cultivators breathed sighs of relief, thankful they hadn’t made a move, or they might have been the ones to suffer.
Indeed, they hadn’t expected the Li family to leave two fifth-order puppets behind on Wanxian Island and not take them to battle, which, after all could have influenced the outcome of the battle to some extent.
This situation wasn’t confined to the remote Wanxian Province; compared to other places, the turmoil in Wanxian Province didn’t cause much destruction and was quickly suppressed.
However, in other areas, they didn’t have that kind of strength or perhaps luck.
Devil Beasts, Demon Cultivators, Loose Cultivators, and some entities unwilling to remain subordinate to others were all causing trouble, seeking to gain more benefits for themselves!
As the saying goes, "If man does not act for himself, heaven and earth will annihilate him," not everyone holds a big-picture perspective. What’s more, many of these powers are not human but Devil Beasts—how could they possibly consider the human race’s interests?
They would rather see the cultivators and Sea Clan fight indefinitely, the longer, the better, so they could have more time to stir up trouble. In the end, they hope both sides suffer greatly!
Then the Devil Race could take advantage of the situation, strike the cultivators, and seize more territory for themselves, seeking further benefits.
Thus, devil races from various territories simultaneously began causing chaos, harassing and striking at the cultivator forces.
Among the most tumultuous were the Undying Volcano in the Southern Domain, the Cold Ice Plains in the Northern Domain, and the Hundred Thousand Mountains at the junction of the Eastern, Southern, and Central Domains.
These three places housed the most Devil Beasts, and their power was the strongest.
They shared one common characteristic—harsh environments unsuitable for widespread human habitation.
Nonetheless, an exception was the Central Domain!
Here, the cultivators held absolute advantage over territories. Moreover, the terrain was even, very suitable for mortals to live, further encroaching upon the Devil Race’s living space.
However, the more mortals there were, the fewer the wild beasts, and a significant portion of Devil Beasts originated from these wild creatures.
Especially in the Central Domain, where there were not many Devil Beasts, the pathway for wild beasts to evolve into Devil Beasts became even more crucial.
As such, there were very few Devil Beasts in the Central Domain, and any beast that showed signs of undergoing transformation would be preemptively killed.
Although the cultivators in the Central Domain did not have to cope with the Devil Race’s trouble, they had to face invasions by Demon Cultivators!
Since the Demon Cultivators did not have to face the attacks from the Sea Clan, they could mobilize all their power to launch attacks against the cultivators.
And that was really just the Central Domain!
It’s known that the environments in the Southern and Northern Domains are terrible, one worse than the other; Demon Cultivators would hardly bear great costs to occupy such insignificant territories.
The covetous desire of Demon Cultivators for the Central Domain had existed for many years!
After all, the Central Domain was well-known for its abundance of natural treasures and outstanding people—a truly blessed land!
The reason the Sea Clan had not reclaimed the coastal regions in the Western Domain was that these waters had been contaminated by Demon Cultivators and had become unsuitable for the Sea Clan to inhabit!
Within the Demonic Tao was a top-tier Great Sect known as the Blood Sea Sect.
Their sect was established over the waters in the Western Domain, using secret techniques and a massive amount of blood to transform a five-thousand-miles radius of the sea into a sea of blood!
A real sea of blood, formed by the convergence of vast amounts of blood!
And over these years, the Blood Sea Sect had been continuously collecting blood to expand this sea. 𝘯𝑜𝑣𝑝𝑢𝘣.𝑐𝑜𝑚
From initially less than a thousand miles to now over five thousand!
Thus, it was actually the Sea Clan that constantly had to be on guard against the Demon Cultivators, fearing their continuous expansion into the distant seas.
The Central Domain now faced a very dire situation, with the Sea Clan invading and necessitating the deployment of a large number of cultivators to support various regions.
And with the Demon Cultivators seizing the opportunity to wage a major war, aiming to expand the territory of the Demonic Tao.
