Immortal blood was indeed precious, but countless people had died in that brutal ancient war.
Even the immortals had vanished without a trace.
Blood shed by the dead was everywhere, and some of it still glimmered with dazzling radiance to this day.
As for where the Empress had fallen, there were several versions along the Ancient Road.
The one most widely accepted was that the Empress had ultimately returned to Peach Mountain.
It was where she and Emperor Yu had met and fallen in love.
But Peach Mountain was not on the Immortal Road. It was located on the Sixth Order Emperor Road.
The last two layers of the Great Dream Thousand Autumn Technique might be on the Immortal Road. Liu Qing and the others had given Li Ye several possible locations.
Just as Domain Saint Liu Qing and the others had predicted, news of Xie Tian's escape after suffering severe injuries threw the other Dark Geniuses into a panic.
Their hearts and guts shattered, they fled in disarray.
Many gave themselves away, hastening their deaths; they were killed by people from the Immortal Road Alliance.
Two months later, the Dark Geniuses on the Immortal Road had been thoroughly purged.
Very few remained.
This battle had claimed more than ten thousand Dark Geniuses.
The rest had either gone into hiding, fled elsewhere, or—as with Li Ye's clone, Dao Master—fallen into some forbidden place that could neither be sensed nor divined.
Some had probably been taken away by Xie Tian.
The Immortal Road was filled with celebration.
Li Ye sat cross-legged on the mountaintop where Bai Yu'er was in closed-door cultivation, sorting through what he had gained over this period.
His gains from the battle in the Land of Tai Chu were especially immense.
Because of the Darkness Rebellion,