Across the entire Huayang Realm inhabited by Human Race Cultivators, including the Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent where the Floating Cloud Mountain Range lay, there were five continents and four seas—nine major Cultivation Worlds in all.
Like the Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent, these major Cultivation Worlds were inhabited by more than just Human Race Cultivators. There were also countless living beings such as the Demon Race and demonic cultivators.
It was simply that, in some major Cultivation Worlds, Human Race Cultivators held the overall advantage, ruling most of the territory and multiplying there.
Other Cultivation Worlds were ruled by powerful Demon Races, with Human Race Cultivators driven into a corner of the continent, able only to barely occupy a small patch of land and survive.
Still others were ruled by numerous demonic cultivators, becoming the lairs of many High-tier Demonic Cultivators in those Cultivation Worlds. Neither Human Race Cultivators nor Demon Race cultivators dared set foot there lightly.
The Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent where Song Qingming and the others were located was a major Cultivation World jointly ruled by humans and demons.
However, more than sixty percent of the continent's territory was currently controlled by the Demon Race, and the Northern Frontier Demon Race as a whole was stronger than the Human Race Cultivators.
Other than the Eastern Phoenix Kingdom Cultivation World in the west of the continent, where over seventy percent of the continent's high-tier Human Race Cultivators had gathered and the situation remained relatively stable—
—in places in the east of the continent such as the Floating Cloud Mountain Range Cultivation World and the Tianhai Cultivation World, where Human Race Cultivators were weaker—
—Human Race Cultivators had been harassed by beast tides year after year. Lacking the strength to contend with the powerful Demon Race, they could only retreat