While Profound Ghost Saint Ancestor and the cultivators under Holy Lord Youjia were fighting fiercely, several dozen cultivators were also engaged in bloody battles across three other regions.
Two of those battles made use of mechanical behemoths and artifact formations.
The same terrifying power ravaged heaven and earth, leaving the cultivators on both sides trembling with fear. No one was unafraid. Even top Mahayana cultivators such as Saintly Venerable Shiyou and Fairy Yaoxi felt a chill run down their backs in the face of such explosive might, as though the danger of falling were pressing heavily upon them.
The external forces prepared by both sides could be said to be evenly matched. Neither side could secure a stable upper hand.
This made both sides suddenly understand that relying solely on external objects would never make the other side bow their heads. The true victor of this great battle could only be decided by the actual strength of the cultivators on both sides.
Only by truly fighting one another and killing large numbers of the enemy could they obtain final victory.
Thus, the two clashes quickly subsided, and the battles began to resemble the scene around Profound Ghost Saint Ancestor. The fighting spread across an area tens of millions of miles wide, with rumbling shaking heaven and earth.
The other battle, however, appeared much more peaceful.
This battlefield was presided over by Ancestor Jiao Wei, Holy Lord Chisha, and Three Fiends Saintly Venerable. Opposing them were a group of cultivators led by Saintly Venerable Ji Shuang and Yingyue Holy Lord.
Neither side deployed an army of mechanical beasts or an artifact formation. Instead, they used the relatively gentler method of successive wheel battles.
Each side sent out three cultivators. The six of them fought within tens of thousands of miles around