The fallen Azurecloud Divine Tree had already begun to wither and dim, and it had lost every last leaf.
After the Order Celestial Clan set it ablaze, the divine tree burned rapidly. Flames spread upward along the trunk, swiftly engulfing the entire tree. For a time, the blaze shot into the heavens, its highest reaches directly touching the burning clouds in the sky.
Rolling black smoke spread toward the mortal world. For a time, the fire rain fell even more densely, and the entire continent seemed to have plunged into an abyss of apocalypse.
On trees, rivers, mountains, and even ordinary grains of sand, an invisible metal cockroach might be crawling. They raised their heads and bathed in the flames, cold and rigid like statues.
Li Tianming saw everything here as though with his own eyes.
This was the outcome of being completely occupied by the enemy.
Azurecloud was the first continent to be fully occupied. On the other continents, although third- and fourth-rate forces had basically been rooted out one by one, the continental rulers—the "second-rate sects"—still stood firm. Like the Azurecloud Soul Hall before them, they had also absorbed the fugitive cultivators of their entire continents.
The first-rate forces were all concentrated near the Sun's South Pole.
In other words, if the ninety "second-rate forces" could not hold on, the Order Celestial Clan would occupy eighty percent of the Sun's land. The balance would be broken. With fence-sitters and traitorous clans mixed into the final top ten of the Heavenly Ranking, how could there still be a future?
To Li Tianming, holding the second-rate sects and the outer-ring continents, then making moves within them, was the fundamental task ahead.
The Xuanyang Army was the vanguard of the Order Celestial Clan's assault on the "second-rate forces."
And now, the