At this very moment, in a certain space somewhere in the lower realm, several figures had gathered.
"Martial Nephew Zhong, why did you suddenly send word and summon us here?"
"Now is the critical moment to seize the Chaotic Demon Realm. Without us holding the line, unforeseen changes may arise. What exactly happened to make you so anxious, Junior Brother?"
The speakers were none other than Li Manshan and Yu Linglong of the Tianlan Sect.
This place was naturally the independent space Fang Xiao had carved out within the Small World for the Tianlan Sect, Beimíng Sword Sect, and Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect to communicate with one another.
Aside from those two, every person in power from the three sects had gathered here as well.
There was Jiang Qinyue, inseparable from Li Manshan.
There was also Li Qingyun, who had touched upon the Wind Dao Track and was on the verge of advancing to the late Spirit Transformation stage.
And Fang Heng, who had answered the call of Seven Kill Star, cultivated the sword Dao of slaughter, rapidly caught up amid the campaign against the Devil Race, successfully advanced to Spirit Transformation, and taken control of the sect from Yu Linglong.
During the years Fang Xiao had been away, the lower realm had not remained uneventful.
The second of the four lower realms of the Devil Race—the Devil Race of the Chaotic Demon Realm—had finally emerged from the depths of the void.
Their number was in no way inferior to that of the Xuan Mo Realm.
However, they possessed no trump cards such as half-step Void Refining cultivators or Half-step Dao Artifacts. They were even inferior to the Tian Luo Realm, which had been granted the Forbidden Dao Spirit Pearl.
Thus, before Taichang Realm, which possessed several Half-step Dao