While Lin Xuan was hurrying on with all his strength, a succession of major events was also taking place in the Outer Seas cultivation world, plunging it completely into a storm of blood and gore.
First, Kuijin Island, which possessed the largest market city, was attacked. The cultivators on it, no matter their origins, were all slaughtered by the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley. Only a tiny handful of lucky ones escaped by the skin of their teeth from that hell on earth.
After that, rumors rose everywhere, saying the two great powers' target was not merely Horizon Sea Pavilion at all, but that they intended to annex the entire Outer Seas cultivation world.
For a time, people's hearts wavered, though those sects and clans of the Outer Seas still remained in a wait-and-see state.
After all, rumors stopped with the wise. Though they could not exactly scoff at such talk, they were at least half-believing, half-doubting.
Yet the way events developed greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.
Very soon, more than thirty sects and clans of all sizes, including Wangu Sect, White Sand Sect, and Demon Whale Gang, were all attacked.
Moreover, the other side's methods were extremely cruel. Once a headquarters was breached, whether old, weak, women, or children, all were slaughtered.
For a time, every rustle of wind sounded like a crane's cry, and the entire Outer Seas was swept by a bloody storm.
Those sects and clans that suffered attacks were naturally both shocked and furious. On one hand, they fought back desperately; on the other, they sent out Sound Transmission Talismans for help to the various powers on good terms with them.
Originally, no one was willing to offend the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Li Soul Valley, but the other side's actions were