[In the 769,773rd year, although most people had already turned their attention to the upheavals involving the Dao Sect and the major powers within the Three Pure Heavens, an action like the Seven-Colored Lotus Realm using the Seventy-two Realms to strike back against the Thirty-Six Heavens still drew the notice of quite a few watchful people.
More importantly, they discovered that Xuanming Gongqing Heaven, also one of the Thirty-Six Heavens, did not even dare to launch a plundering attack on the Seven-Colored Lotus Realm at such a time. They did not even dare to attempt a strategy of besieging Wei to rescue Zhao.]
[As matters developed further, more and more people learned that a mysterious and powerful cultivator had emerged from the Seven-Colored Lotus Realm. Jue Honglian had slain the Star Sea Quasi-Emperor, something that, to this day, only the two Heavenly Venerates and the nameless Innate God-Demon had been able to accomplish.]
[That same year, Jue Honglian did not choose to launch a direct assault in this counterattack plan. Instead, she chose to besiege strongpoints and ambush reinforcements. With the aid of a Creation Dao Formation you had left behind, one obtained from Seven Luminaries Mo Yi Heaven, she gained a sensing range far beyond that of the other Quasi-Emperors of Chiming Heyang Heaven. One after another, she either trapped or encircled and killed large numbers of cultivators. Among them were a Quasi-Emperor who fled after being severely wounded by using a treasure, and another Quasi-Emperor who remained trapped and unable to leave.
In a world such as Chiming Heyang Heaven, the number of Quasi-Emperor powerhouses was not particularly great to begin with. After Lord Yuyan, their strongest, had died, followed by two more Quasi-Emperors losing their fighting strength, even judging by the surface numbers alone, Chiming Heyang Heaven