Jia Yuan Prefecture was swept by a biting cold wind. Snowflakes drifted lightly like willow fluff, and the world lay wrapped in silver.
At the pass city, cultivators wore exhaustion across their faces. Though the past few years had not seen attacks as fierce as the previous all-out offensive, battles of every scale against the Righteous Path Sect had never ceased.
Even Heretical Cultivators did not possess bodies much stronger than those of righteous cultivators. After so long, they too were worn to the bone.
Nearly all the Nascent Soul Cultivators had gathered in the palaces atop the pass city, discussing their next offensive.
The next moment, a shadow appeared at the palace entrance, followed by Kasyapa True Monarch stepping into view. He strode openly into the hall.
"Senior Brother Kasyapa, what about the Ye Family?" Xuan Ming True Monarch could not help asking.
"The Ye Family is not something we need to concern ourselves with. Someone will handle them." Kasyapa True Monarch offered no further explanation and left it at that.
The fervor on his face for the overall situation in the Central Region had faded considerably.
Profound Sky and Penglai were allies, after all. For Penglai's affairs this time, even Divine Lord Xuanwu had been forced to act. Yet although Medicine King Valley had been wiped out and the Eastern Region's thorn removed, the situation throughout the Eastern Region was now exceptionally dire. Coupled with Tai Peng's death and the need to purge the matter of the Dao Embryo, the Demon Sect's overall position was far from optimistic.
Most crucially, the Ye Family's strength had completely exceeded their control. They had wiped out an established sect with the combat power of four Nascent Soul Cultivators in the blink of an eye.
Even Penglai's Thousand Mirrors True Monarch had