Change had been happening all along, whether people were ready to accept it or not.
News of Wei State's calamity quickly spread far and wide. This was because the remaining extraordinary cultivators of Wei State's First Commandery had begun fleeing en masse! They carried their panic into a wider world.
Dantian Martial Path had once flourished here. Wei State had for a time become the center of martial cultivation north of the Long River, thriving with boundless vitality—enough to make one imagine the grand spectacle of the Middle Antiquity Era, when Xue Gui and Wei Xing debated the Dao here, gathering tens of millions of disciples... Yet overnight, it withered away.
More desolate than broken walls and shattered ruins was the emptiness left when all the people were gone.
Even now, on the streets of Liheng City, Wei State's capital, one could scarcely see an extraordinary cultivator.
The ordinary people, meanwhile, were more tenacious than wild grass. They still spread through the various streets like crawling ants—they could not stop living because of fear. So long as they were alive, they still had to go out and work. When their hands stopped, their mouths stopped too.
As the Kuiming Tournament raged in full swing and Sun Xiaoman took the stage against Wu Yu, a rumor spread swiftly through the Great Void Illusion Realm—
"The reason Jing Kingdom was able to precisely eliminate Wei State's extraordinary cultivators was that they had locked onto them in advance through the Great Void Illusion Realm. Their final means of killing was also carried out through the Great Void Illusion Realm!"
As everyone knew, Great Void walkers could fully manifest their real-world strength within the Great Void Illusion Realm. Thus, every Great Void walker had left behind a wealth of personal information there.
When the