Civilization and Barbarism

In the Flying Boat's cabin, a Light Screen Projection had hovered for some time. Several images flickered within it, each depicting a Demon Beast in lifelike detail, as though they might cross the boundary between illusion and reality and emerge from the images the next moment.

The cultivation aura of every Demon Beast was also incomparably clear in those projected images.

Within the cabin, the cultivators each performed their duties. Only Xu Yuan had some leisure to spare. As he studied the images, it was clear that he was perplexed.

Judging from the current situation, the Alliance's massive mobilization this time was evidently for these three Demon Beasts.

According to the Alliance's orders, every division was commanded to advance en masse toward the deep sea and search for the whereabouts of these three Demon Beasts.

The order was exceptionally harsh. Any cultivator under the Alliance who discovered the three Demon Beasts had to protect them at all costs. Whoever paid lip service while acting otherwise, or showed any negligence, would have their souls extracted and refined—executed without pardon! Most importantly, this order had not come from any single faction within the Alliance, but represented the will of the entire Alliance. The decree bore the signatures of Nascent Soul Great Experts from every side.

Though he had only been in this so-called Alliance for a short time, Xu Yuan had naturally long heard of the infighting within it.

After all, this so-called Alliance encompassed powers from all over the realm, including many that remained hostile to one another even now. The endless internal strife among the Southwest Nations, the struggle between the Longevity Sect and the Righteous Path Alliance, the Yunlan Frontline—though it was said to be under truce, it remained in a standoff to this day...

For such an Alliance