Today's second update: Chapter 3574! 2/4!
At this moment, on the battlefield.
The more than four thousand Netherworld creatures of varying forms had completely perished along with the process of dimensional reduction. Every trace of their existence on Blue Star had been erased, like erroneous strokes wiped away entirely.
Yet the "deaths" of the One Hundred and Eight Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends, who formed the core of the Mount Tai Ghost Race's power and authority, were not a complete end—at least, not the conventional kind of utter soul destruction.
The Liangshan Altar was their true root.
No matter how their external incarnations "fell," as long as the altar remained intact, the source of their stellar true spirits housed within would slowly absorb energy over time, taking root and sprouting anew as it awaited its next awakening and descent.
From this perspective, although Xu Kun had single-handedly destroyed the surface-level fruits of this powerful race's centuries of efforts, a race ranked fifty-third in the S-tier Sequence, and ruthlessly knocked it from the upper echelons of the myriad races into the dust, he had not truly exterminated the most fundamental spark of its inheritance.
But that was precisely one of the "strategies" Xu Kun had long decided upon when he chose to strike at the Mount Tai Ghost Race first—a strategy that best served his many plans.
What he wanted was not simple slaughter, but the destruction of its existing combat system, a severe blow to the foundation of its development, and a "reset" of its value. At the same time, he wanted to complete Chao Gai's decapitation, advance Li Jing's karmic fate, bestow an opportunity upon his daughter, and... plant a "controllable" foreshadowing for an even grander future layout.
The fundamental requirement for carrying out this strategy with such