Five years had flown by in the blink of an eye.
The spirit energy was most abundant in this temple, especially in the separate space where the Soul Tree stood. At some point, many simple wooden buildings had sprung up around it. A great number of cultivators were frantically drawing upon the rich reserves of pure spirit energy in this space.
After Lei Dong had used the means by which he killed Elder Shadow to also eliminate Tian Luo, another elder of the Unicorn Race, the cunning White Bone Old Devil had grown wary. No matter how Lei Dong tried to lure him out, the old devil stayed holed up in a trial space. Lei Dong's mastery and control of the Space Sacred Artifact were still too rudimentary. He couldn't manipulate the heavenly lightning within it to strike the old devil, nor could he send Lei Long, the guardian of the Soul Tree, into the trial space to kill him.
And so, for a time, the two sides were locked in a stalemate.
Prophet Kukas had originally been among Lei Dong's targets for elimination. But after Lei Dong took the Saintess as his maidservant, his relationship with the Guardian Clan had changed considerably. Saintess Lan Qisi stepped in and persuaded Prophet Kukas to temporarily join Lei Dong's side. Yet unlike the Saintess, whose lineage had preserved its full inheritance through the generations, neither Kukas nor the Guardian Clan as a whole had retained their original purpose. Through a long and turbulent history, most of the descendants of the Guardian Clan had forgotten their mission. In a sense, the Guardian Clan of today was an independent race. If Lei Dong wanted to bring the entire barbarian race under his control, it wouldn't be simple.
In the end, everything still came down