The source of the void power that had spread across nearly half of the Zero Realm was indeed at the center of the Chaos Realm.
Especially within a radius of more than a hundred kilometers around the Chaos Realm, aside from the powerful protective mechanisms of the Great Realms, any small or medium realm that suffered nearly fifty percent destruction had its public areas turned beyond recognition. No life remained, and lower lifeforms were directly converted into dark matter and annihilated by the void energy.
The only ones in the entire Zero Realm who knew exactly who had caused this were the Dao Sect, which was connected to the Bodhi Patriarch.
The Cultivation World of the Zero Realm lay near its southern region, its overall territory bordering the Endless Sea. Here, the Dao Sect ruled the entire Cultivation World through extreme dictatorship. Its goal was to claim the entire Zero Realm for itself, even if it meant violating its Daoist Mind and slaughtering all living beings.
Only a small portion of the Cultivation World's inhabitants were elite figures who had ascended from the human world. After all, exceptional talents like Jia Xin were far too rare. The strength of a True Immortal was comparable to that of the powerhouses in the Ghost Realm.
Thus, to make up for its shortage of personnel, the Dao Sect also learned from the Bodhi Patriarch's methods. Using the Cultivation World's abundant Daoist immortal energy, it nurtured Zero Realm creatures with Innate Spiritual Roots and trained them into Daoist weapons of slaughter in a short period of time.
The Dao Sect was incomparably stubborn regarding its own convictions, insisting on carrying out its beliefs to the letter. Anyone who dared defy the Dao Sect's true intent in any way would be utterly erased from the