657 The Eve of the Immortal-Demon Decisive Battle!

Blood Sea Immortal City's total collapse carried an entirely different significance from Coastal City coming under attack.

The Blood Sea lay between the East Sea cultivators and the Demon Sea as a buffer zone—even if it were battered to ruins, it would not shake the foundations of the East Sea cultivation world.

But Coastal City was different. It was the easternmost and most vital gateway of the East Sea cultivation world. Teleportation arrays connected it to nearly every immortal city in the East Sea, making it the bridgehead fortress of the entire East Sea cultivation world. With such densely packed teleportation arrays, aside from Immortal Palace City, the foremost great city, only Coastal City could compare.

Once this core city fell, the Demon Race cultivators, already holding the upper hand in the Blood Sea, could drive straight into the East Sea through Coastal City. Every island in the East Sea would fall under the Demon Race's threat.

This urgent battle report greatly stirred the nerves that the upper echelons of the Heavenly Dao Alliance and Heavenly Demon Alliance had kept taut for so long.

At such a critical moment, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and produce the more than twenty million high-grade Spirit Stones demanded so greedily by the two Spirit Transformation cultivators.

So long as the foundations of the East Sea cultivation world remained secure, Spirit Stone taxes could be collected year after year. But if the East Sea islands fell into war—or even suffered devastating destruction—the consequences could not be resolved with twenty million high-grade Spirit Stones.

Sect Leader Li of the Heavenly Dao Alliance and the chief grand elder of the Heavenly Demon Alliance personally sought an audience with the two Spirit Transformation cultivators resting in Immortal Palace City, imploring them to swiftly