Time flew by. In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.
By now, the cultivation world of the Xu Kingdom and even all of the Heavenly South had undergone tremendous changes. The war that the six Devil Dao sects of the Tianluo Kingdom had brazenly started, nearly sweeping across the entire Heavenly South, had also—unusually—gradually died down.
Of course, they hadn't withdrawn out of the goodness of their hearts to put an end to the war.
They'd been forced to retreat.
Over the past six months, the Flame God Cult of Mount Cuiping, founded by the Flame Immortal, his subordinate Immortal Maiden Mo, and the two disciples of Immortal Carp, had steadily grown stronger. It had driven the armies of the six Devil Dao sects completely out of the Xu Kingdom, taken over the entire country, and extended its influence into several neighboring kingdoms.
So the six sects had no choice but to leave!
In fact, apart from the six Devil Dao sects and the five great sects, which had voluntarily retreated to the Northern Liang Kingdom, the Spirit Beast Mountain—which had betrayed the seven great sects—and Sky Citadel had also withdrawn three months earlier. This left the Flame God Cult of Mount Cuiping unrivaled in the Xu Kingdom, in control of all its crucial cultivation resources.
The six Devil Dao sects, the surrounding kingdoms, the Nine Nations Alliance, the Righteous Dao Alliance, and everyone else had all stayed quiet. None dared to voice an objection or show envy.
Even the five great sects, who had long since fled and resettled in the Northern Liang Kingdom—the Covering Moon Sect, Yellow Maple Valley, Qingxu Sect, the Blade Forging Ravine, and the Giant Sword Sect—had no intention of returning to the Xu Kingdom and reclaiming their former dominion.
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