The current situation in the Blood Refining World was exactly as Lu Ye had predicted: through the teleportation of Heaven's Mystery Pillars, the cultivator army of the Nine Provinces had scattered like heavenly maidens strewing flowers throughout the Blood Refining World, catching the Blood Race everywhere completely off guard.
In the process of exterminating the Blood Race, many Nine Provinces cultivators had also received missions to gather Spirit Rice and protect Human Race settlements. The two missions could actually be completed at the same time, because to gather Spirit Rice, they first had to find the gathering places of the humans of this world.
Of course, relatively speaking, protecting the Human Race required a certain amount of time. Before the Nine Provinces completely took control of the Blood Refining World, they had to keep guarding them.
The cultivators from the Nine Provinces did not reject this mission, because in the ideals of local Nine Provinces cultivators, protecting mortals well was a cultivator's rightful duty. As long as it was within their power, no one would be stingy about contributing their own strength.
So even without such a mission, once Nine Provinces cultivators realized that fleeing Blood Race members might inflict casualties on human villages, they would still arrange manpower on their own to remain stationed there.
Now that Heaven's Mystery had directly issued missions, with additional Battle Merit to be gained, it could be considered compensation for the cultivators carrying out this type of task.
Large amounts of Spirit Rice were gathered, then sent back to the Nine Provinces through the transfer of one Heaven's Mystery Pillar after another.
Everything proceeded in perfect order.
Lu Ye had already left Sacred Island and was moving from place to place throughout the Blood Refining World.
Fortunately, communication between Nine Provinces cultivators was