At the same time.
Elsewhere.
Within the Heavenly Sea, the many Heavenly Venerables dispersed, each returning to their own domain.
This grand banquet at the Ancestral Dragon Hall, followed by the calamity of the Blood Sea, had seemed to arrive in a flash and vanish in an instant, yet it had indeed brought turmoil to every region.
In just a few days, several hundred small and medium-sized sects with shallow foundations had their mountain gates shattered and their inheritances severed. Thousands of island cities and ports had likewise been reduced to ruins, leaving life in utter desolation.
Even inland, blood rain had spawned rampant aberrations. Though the major powers reacted swiftly and casualties were not too severe, the contaminated Spirit Veins and farmlands—as well as the terror buried deep in people's hearts—would require a long time to heal.
But this great calamity had also nurtured a great many seeds of martial artists.
The coastal orphans, the survivors of cities that had been destroyed, the young people who had slain the aberrations invading their homelands in return, and the many sea clans who had endured the Blood Sea's corrosion and transformed through the calamity...
Fortune was flowing and converging. When countless people died, the innumerable ownerless karmic ties and fortunes began flowing like streams toward new lowlands, eventually becoming "Fate Grids" that blessed others.
One "Child of Calamity" after another was born in response.
Seeds that had survived calamity.
The finest seeds of martial artists.
Every power across the Ten Continents of Huaixu, whether righteous Heavenly Sects or demonic Upper Sects, understood this perfectly well and immediately took action.
On the surface, it was a wave of counterattacks and reclamation of lost territory. In truth, it was a scramble for people and a redrawing of the boundaries between powers, its tides