"Everyone here comes from the Qing State as loose cultivators. For decades now, we’ve all been tormented by the Demon Cultivators of the Nether Realm. Your brothers and sisters, parents, friends, even wives, daughters, and masters, might have all perished at the hands of those Demon Cultivators."

His eyes carried a tragic resolve, and he took a deep breath, as if lost in memory.

Decades ago, he himself had also been a happy loose cultivator.

His cultivation wasn’t too bad, being at the early stage of the Golden Core.

He even had a partner who had been with him for a century.

The only regret was that his partner hadn’t given birth to any children for him.

Until one day, his partner became pregnant.

A year later, a baby girl was born...

He should have accompanied his wife and daughter, raising his daughter on the path of cultivation, and peacefully living out his life.

Until an inhuman massacre of the city occurred...

The entire small city, out of a hundred thousand people, only he managed to escape by chance.

From then on, he embarked on the path of revenge.

The memories flashed by, and he took a deep breath, then spoke loudly:

"I won’t say any more emotional words. Everyone here is trustworthy. This time, I’ve obtained information that three days ago Changyu City was destroyed, and a ten-thousand-strong Demon Cultivator army is advancing toward another city in the southwest. That city is only three thousand miles from us."

"...Therefore, I have decided to lead everyone to ambush that Demon Cultivator army. If successful, it will not only strike a blow against the Demon Cultivators’ arrogance but also attract more warriors to join the Martial Arts Palace, to collectively resist the Demon Cultivator army..."

After speaking, this Martial Venerable level expert looked around, waiting for everyone’s response.

After a while, a Martial Spirit level expert stepped forward two steps, asking, "Cang, are you really confident? That’s the Nether Realm’s army. I’ve heard that Demon Monarch Huiyue, the current Lord of the Nether Realm, is a cultivator from the Spirit Realm. If they discover us, no matter how many people we have, we’d likely face certain death."

Cang was silent for a moment, then looked around at everyone, speaking with certainty:

"Rest assured, based on the intelligence, the army is led by only two Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, with no more than a hundred Golden Core cultivators, and the rest are mostly Foundation Establishment Stage Demon Cultivators. With our strength, we can completely block this Demon Cultivator army."

He paused for a moment, then continued:

"Moreover, I have already contacted several other comrades, and they will also launch a surprise attack on the Nether Realm Demon Cultivator army at the same time. Nowadays, there are quite a few people in the Qing State cultivating the Martial Path, but we lack the force to unite everyone as one. This operation is the best opportunity. As long as we can severely damage the Demon Cultivator army, it will prove that we have the strength to resist the Nether Realm, and at that time more and more cultivators will stand up to join us to fight against the Demon Cultivator army."

"As for the Lord of the Nether Realm, Demon Monarch Huiyue... everyone need not worry. Based on my speculation, his true form should still be in the Spirit Realm. What’s stationed at the Nether Realm base in Qing State is at most just an avatar of his. Although his avatar might have Divinity Transformation cultivation, he would not travel tens of thousands of miles to the front line to attack us. After this operation, we’ll hide immediately and secretly recruit more warriors while avoiding Demon Cultivator retaliation."

Cang was evidently very respected among this batch of loose cultivators.

As he laid out the plan, the surrounding martial artists and cultivators nodded and agreed.

Soon, this army of several thousand people left the small town marketplace and headed southeast.

...

Three days later, the Nether Realm capital, Mingdu.

In a majestic hall, Demon Monarch Huiyue sat on the throne, eyes slightly closed, fingers rhythmically tapping the armrest, seemingly deep in thought.

At that moment, several Nascent Soul Demon Cultivators hurriedly rushed into the hall, looking anxious: "Your Majesty, it’s not good! That group of martial arts rebels attacked the Nether Realm army at the front line, and tens of thousands of soldiers were completely annihilated. We beg Your Majesty to make a decision quickly to extinguish these rebels at the front line!"

Demon Monarch Huiyue slightly opened his eyes, but his expression was unusually calm.

He remained silent for a long time, only replying softly: "I know."

The Nascent Soul Demon Cultivators exchanged glances, filled with doubt.

For decades, this was the first time a front-line Demon Cultivator army had suffered such a large-scale ambush.

According to the original plan, most of the Qing State’s territory was to be annexed by the Nether Realm, but this attack greatly slowed the expansion process.

"Your Majesty..." The Nascent Soul Demon Cultivators wanted to persuade further.

But Demon Monarch Huiyue had already slowly risen, looking forward.

They saw a hint of displeasure in the Demon Monarch’s eyes and hurriedly retreated.

After they left for a while, Demon Monarch Huiyue murmured softly:

"Heh, is the army plundered? Do they really think that something like this can stop the momentum of the Qing State?"

He smirked, having never informed anyone that he didn’t care at all about the so-called Nether Realm army’s losses.

Unlike the previous Demon Path leaders in Qing State, he was from the Spirit Realm.

Neither the rise and fall of the Nether Realm nor the trends of the Demon Path mattered to him.

He only sought to complete his task.

As long as he could stabilize Qing State’s fate, providing the Spirit Realm with enough Dao and Spiritual Energy, his task was considered complete.

By then, he would be able to glimpse the mysterious Returning Void Realm.

In other words, to him and the Spirit Realm, it didn’t matter who dies in Qing State.

Whether it’s a Righteous cultivator, martial artist, or Demon Cultivator, their deaths would all turn into nourishment, returning Dao to the heavens, and consolidating the Spirit Realm’s status.

In the empty hall, Demon Monarch Huiyue contemplated for a long time, murmuring to himself: "Martial Arts Palace? A bunch of rats with nowhere to hide."

He knew that those loose cultivators who claimed to be descendants of the Martial Arts Palace had only practiced the Martial Arts Breathing Technique for a few years.

Since decades ago, the relics of the Martial Arts Palace had emerged out of nowhere, sweeping across the Five Great States like a storm.

This is the great trend of heaven and earth, the birth of another cultivation system in the Cultivation Realm, unpreventable by human effort.

And after that Spirit Realm conference, the upper echelons had tacitly allowed the spread of the Martial Arts Breathing Technique.

After all, compared to the lower-level cultivators, those in high positions had more advantages when cultivating the Martial Arts Breathing Technique.

According to the current situation, the martial arts in the Qing State are still not enough to overthrow the Nether Realm’s rule in Qing State.

But the people above are already pushing hard, he needs more deaths, more cultivators to return Dao to the heavens.

Even if it’s the Nether Realm Demon Cultivator army that dies, he welcomes it. Therefore, he hasn’t stopped any of this from happening.

...

Blue Star, Great Xia Country.

More than three years have passed since the third revival of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.

In these three years, as Great Xia’s Spiritual Energy became more and more abundant, the number of cultivators surged.

The number of Golden Core cultivators has approached over six thousand, and Nascent Soul cultivators have exceeded three hundred. As for Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators, their numbers are incalculable...

Currently, the overall strength of the Great Xia Cultivation Realm even surpasses the Qing State, and the other four continents in the Cultivation Realm’s Five Continents.

However, compared to the cultivators from the Spirit Realm and Yunzhou, it still falls short.

Besides, Great Xia’s martial arts development is also extremely prosperous. In the past decade, Great Xia has formed a complete Demon Beast cultivation system.

Thanks to the "Demon Feeding and Spirit Returning" method brought back by Lin Chen, and the sea beast meat brought back from the Endless Sea Domain, Great Xia now has its own Demon Beast meat cultivation system.

Even some Martial Masters can eat Demon Beast meat to increase their Qi and Blood and improve their Martial Arts Realm.

Meanwhile, three consecutive revivals of Spiritual Energy have made the land within a thousand miles, centered on Great Xia’s Kyoto, more suitable for cultivating Spiritual Medicine.

The main ingredients for Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, Foundation Establishment Pill, Qi Blood Pill, and even Golden Yuan Pill and Nascent Soul Pill, rapidly grow under the night and day nurturing of hundreds of thousands of Wood Spirit Root cultivators.

The pill production in Great Xia has reached an astonishing level, with a systemized production speed far surpassing that of Qing State and the sect model of the Cultivation Realm.

...

As the Great Xia Cultivation Realm flourished and Qing State’s people and cultivators suffered under Demon Sect’s ravages, ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Country Celestial Ruins, ten thousand miles beyond Jiangdu.

A silhouette floated in the air, precisely Lin Chen.

He slightly closed his eyes, catching the Space Law and Spatial Nodes between heaven and earth.

In the next second, he stepped forward and appeared outside Jiangdu city.

A step that covers ten thousand miles, Shrinking Inches.

"The Space Law has finally reached Great Success." Lin Chen couldn’t help but smile.

Fifteen years have passed; he devoted the majority of his time and energy to cultivating the Space Law.

And what he realized was not only the Space Law but gradually touched the threshold of the Spatial Domain...