The Purple Firmament Ancestor hesitated, but in the end, he withdrew from the Forbidden Zone.
He checked on the Primordial Land and soon confirmed that every Blood Soul belonging to the Blood God Cult had been destroyed.
The thick crimson glow that had blanketed the Primordial Land's sky had vanished without a trace. Its vast blue expanse was clear and pure once more.
However...
Only three months passed.
The shockwaves from the Blood God Cult's invasion had yet to fade from the Primordial Land when another upheaval descended.
Once again, it came from the Gate of Myriad Wonders.
Someone had somehow pried open a crack in the curtain that completely sealed the Gate of Myriad Wonders. In the blink of an eye, faintly illusory figures appeared one after another above the Forbidden Zone.
They were clearly souls as well.
Hundreds upon hundreds of them.
Every soul radiated an aura that made even the Half-Step Ancestors in the Forbidden Zone tremble.
These souls were even stronger than the Blood Souls of the Blood God Cult.
Not one was below a hundred times Peak Sage Constant.
The soul at their head radiated an aura that seemed as unshakable as the Gate of Myriad Wonders itself.
It seemed to have reached a realm beyond Half-Step Ancestor.
At the sight of that leading soul, the same word sprang unbidden into the minds of many top Half-Step Ancestors: Ancestor!
At that moment, terrifying pressure engulfed the entire Forbidden Zone.
It was as though immortals and gods had descended to the mortal world.
Beneath the feet of immortals and gods, all were ants.
Throughout the Forbidden Zone, Half-Step Ancestors great and small involuntarily prostrated themselves.
Against the Blood Souls of the Blood God Cult, they had still possessed the resolve to fight. Before this new group