Su Yun returned to the Imperial Court in triumph, having seized many blessed lands.
The total number of blessed lands in the world was fixed. However many immortal paths there were, that was how many blessed lands existed. Whoever controlled more blessed lands controlled the course of the future.
Only with enough blessed lands could one nurture enough immortals. That was common knowledge.
Yet this campaign still made Su Yun realize that there were people beyond people, heavens beyond heavens. Brilliant minds emerged without end throughout the world; there had to be masters hidden among them.
This time, a Grand Protector Shang Jinge had emerged and beaten him and the six great immortal cities until they were scattered like fallen flowers and flowing water. One could see just how many masters lay concealed within the colossal behemoth that was the Immortal Court!
"Human Demons are extremely important to warfare."
Su Yun summoned Pang Hao and instructed him, "They must not be absent from the battlefield. This Immortal Court invasion has left living beings in misery and caused countless tragedies, so many Human Demons now walk the world. Pang Hao, find more Human Demons and enlist them in the army."
Pang Hao acknowledged the order, rose, and departed.
Su Yun's gaze flickered. Against an existence like Shang Jinge, nearly every divine power and Dao art was useless. Only imperial-level power could injure such a person.
Yet what the Imperial Court lacked was precisely imperial-level power!
However, even an existence as supremely intelligent as Shang Jinge had weaknesses in his Dao Heart. Thus, the simplest way to defeat such an existence was for Human Demons to act directly, destroying his Dao Heart and shattering it completely!
"For powerful people like Shang Jinge, their obsession with and yearning for the Dao are precisely