Soul Heavenly Emperor's fall brought enormous changes to the Dou Qi Continent.
When the Soul Race received the news, the entire clan was immediately thrown into panic.
There was no question that the Soul Race was the strongest of the seven Ancient Clans.
Even without Soul Heavenly Emperor, a Nine-Star Dou Saint, the Soul Race still had several Eight-Star and Seven-Star Dou Saints.
They also had far more Dou Saint experts of other ranks than the other Ancient Clans.
After all, Nihility Devouring Flame's efforts over the years had not been in vain. The Soul Race's Dou Emperor bloodline was purer, allowing them to nurture more experts.
But no matter how many Eight-Star or Seven-Star Dou Saints they had, they could not match Gu Yuan, a Nine-Star Dou Saint, much less withstand the allied forces of the six clans.
Over the past thousand years, the Soul Race had offended all six of the other clans.
Now that Soul Heavenly Emperor was dead, they did not mind settling old and new scores together.
Thus, to prevent Gu Yuan and the experts of the other clans from invading the Soul Realm—
After sending a small portion of their clansmen to various parts of the Dou Qi Continent, the Soul Race experts decisively destroyed every Spatial Tunnel connected to the Soul Realm, severing all contact with the outside. At the same time, they concealed the Soul Realm's spatial coordinates.
This way, even Gu Yuan would not be able to locate them anytime soon.
Although the Soul Race could not remain hidden forever—
Gu Yuan could not keep troubling them forever either.
After all, the Dou Qi Continent now had a Dou Emperor expert and a Nine-Star Dou Saint on the verge of becoming a Dou Emperor.
Those two great experts were the ones