Destroy Myriad Saints, Campaign West against Western Yi
In the 52nd year of the Great Xia Calendar, the Far North Military Region finally reached the edge of the Underworld.
They haven't conquered the Myriad Saints Alliance yet; they've only occupied half of it. It feels a bit like the bottom lane being pushed onto the high ground.
Because this place is too large, and the core area of the Myriad Saints Alliance is not here, but in the west.
Unfortunately, the Tianfei Palace is in the west, so it's far away and inconvenient for you to find the ladies.
Although the core area wasn't reached, the fact that the territory was breached still caused a stir within the Myriad Saints Alliance.
The two factions that started the war were thoroughly criticized, and they even came up with the idea of selling them off in exchange for the safety of the Myriad Saints Alliance.
Why should I sacrifice my fellow Daoist to save myself?
Moreover, due to the suppression by major sects such as Tianyi Sect, there are not many high-level cultivators on the Myriad Saints Alliance side. The highest cultivation level is only the fourth level of the Spiritual Law Realm. Furthermore, because of Yang Ning's Absolute Earth Heavenly Connection a few years ago, they were unable to continue their cultivation.
On the Great Xia side, the highest cultivation level revealed was already the third level of the Spiritual Law Realm.
Although the cultivation level is higher on the demonic path, the people on the Great Xia side have more supernatural Divine Ability.
It's not impossible for someone with three Divine Ability to defeat thirty others and be defeated by someone who reverses the flow of immortality.
So those big shots with impressive titles like First Demon Emperor, Fifth Demon Sect, and Seventh Ghost God, outwardly shouted slogans that made them irreconcilable enemies with the Great Xia Dynasty and that they would fight to the death.
Behind the scenes, he secretly sent his disciples to the far north military and even directly to the Great Xia to bribe the Central Cabinet.
The meaning is simple: lend a hand to a brother.
Like those rebel armies, we can surrender or join the Great Xia. We'll spare everyone's lives, and we don't need high-ranking positions or generous salaries; a throne would be enough.
The Tianyi Sect also stepped forward, stating that although the righteous and the demonic are irreconcilable, yin and yang are mutually generative, and the demonic path is orderly, making it impossible for one side to completely overwhelm the other.
Since Great Xia already holds a significant advantage, why not give the Myriad Saints Alliance a break?
The Tianyi Sect certainly doesn't like the Myriad Saints Alliance, but it doesn't want to see a super empire emerge that occupies the territories of the former Taiheng, the Myriad Saints Alliance, and the Taiyin Sect.
If they had known Hengming's situation, Tianyi Sect would have already taken action.
However, there are too many intelligent people within the Great Xia Dynasty. Before the envoy from the Tianyi Sect even spoke, they had already analyzed the Tianyi Sect's intentions.
Then, do exactly as instructed.
If you won't let me fight, then I won't fight. You're the World's Number One Sect, I respect you!
However, we certainly can't give up the territory we've already occupied.
The Great Xia now has a large population, having absorbed not only the original populations of the Four Regions, but also over 30 billion civilians from the Taiheng Sect.
This would be a good opportunity to relocate these people to a part of the far north.
The land you occupy may not necessarily be yours. You still need to relocate residents, build cities, and establish government offices there in order to achieve long-term stability.
To make life easier for the people, the Great Xia Agricultural Research Institute produced rice and wheat varieties that could grow even under the influence of Demonic Spiritual Energy.
The Industrial Research Institute) has developed an array that can break down and purify Demonic Spiritual Energy.
Various colleges provided substantial support of faculty and students to help build universities specializing in magic, Ghost Dao, Blood Dao, and curses in the Far North Region.
Xia Enterprises and its individual enterprises also responded to the Great Xia's slogan of "Going to the Demon Plain, going to the North, going to the most difficult places," sending a large amount of supplies to the Far North Region.
On this land, which the Great Xia named the Demon Plains, traces of large-scale human activity have finally appeared after hundreds of thousands of years.
The reaction of the Myriad Saints Alliance was not beyond the expectations of the Great Xia Dynasty.
After receiving support from the Tianyi Sect, they immediately became arrogant, thinking, "Do I not need to surrender? I have someone backing me!"
So they completely ignored all the letters and gifts that had been sent to Great Xia before.
Of course, they still wouldn't dare to attack them; they were waiting for the Great Xia soldiers to be unable to withstand the bitter cold of the Demon Plains and leave after a while.
Taiheng was like that before.
Then they watched helplessly as the Great Xia people laid foundations, built cities, set up formations, burned forests, cultivated land, and relocated people.
These people aren't leaving?
This won't do.
So the Far North Myriad Saints Alliance quickly sprang into action.
It's still not war; they know they can't win, so they don't dare!
They started causing destruction, buying explosives on their phones to blow up cities, fields, and the like.
Unsurprisingly, and quite normally, these people were captured on the spot by the Great Xia soldiers.
So Da Xia informed Tianyi Sect that the other side had struck first. These bastards, who kill even civilians and destroy farmland, could no longer be considered human; this was the true nature of the demonic path.
Such a beast deserves to be killed by everyone.
Anyone who dares to support them is one of their accomplices, a scoundrel of evil!
The Tianyi Sect had nothing to say, and the Demon Origin Military Region took the opportunity to advance westward.
In half a year, the Hundred Veins of the Myriad Saints Alliance were annihilated, and all the Demon Emperors and Demon Gods either fled to the Three Ring Island or joined the North Sea Yuan Family and the North Sea Mu Family.
Thus, the Far North Myriad Saints Alliance, which had wreaked havoc in the Far North Region for tens of thousands of years and which countless righteous sects had been powerless against, perished!
As the territory expanded, the number of neighboring countries inevitably increased as well.
Originally, the neighboring countries of the Great Xia were: to the north was the Myriad Saints Alliance, to the west were the Western Yi Witch God Cult, the Jinxiang Sect, and the Man South Sea Man Family, to the south were the South Sea Tan Family, the Nanming Island, and the South Sea Exchange overseas, to the east was the Taiyin Sect, and across the sea was the Sun Sect.
Now, the Taiyin Sect has been destroyed, and the Far North Myriad Saints Alliance has been destroyed.
The neighboring countries of Great Xia became Three Ring Island, Tianfei Palace, Demon Alliance, North Sea Yuan Family, North Sea Mu Family, Diluo Temple, Western Yi Witch God Cult, Jinxiang Sect, South Sea Tan Family, South Sea Man Family, Nanming Island.
Among these, the Western Yi Witch God Cult is in a very important position. It is located in the northwest of the former Great Xia Dynasty, and in the southern part of the western half of the former Far North Myriad Saints Alliance.
It's situated right between two regions.
These three countries together form a grid, with the Western Yi Witch God Cult being the bottom left square.
If we can also take over the Western Yi Witch God Cult, the western regions of Great Xia and the Myriad Saints Alliance can be connected.
However, there is this place in the middle, which means that if you go from Daxia West to the far north of the Myriad Saints Alliance West, you have to turn into the Demon Plains, which is an unnecessary detour of more than 8,000 kilometers.
However, a problem arose: this sect was extremely isolated, with no one ever venturing out, and no voice heard on the global internet, let alone any opposition or attack on Great Xia.
Since they haven't opposed you or attacked you, what right do you have to hit them?
But it's not a big problem.
Can't find a reason to punish you?
You wait here, I'll flip through the history books.
Great, found it!
Forty thousand years ago, the Western Yi Witch God Cult launched a massive attack on the Taiheng Sect's Western Splendor, using witchcraft to harm more than thirty million people!
Taiheng Sect did nothing at the time; he merely drove away the Western Yi Witch God Cult and that was it.
But the Great Xia is not the Taiheng of the past. The Great Xia is an empire that puts people first. You killed so many civilians and didn't even offer an apology. How can I forgive you?
Confucius said, "The enemy of a gentleman can still be avenged ten generations later!"
First, the descendants of the survivors went to the county government to beat the drum and appeal for justice, and then tens of thousands of people wept bitterly, begging the upright official to make a decision.
The prefect of Xihua Prefecture was unable to handle the matter and could only report it to the Central Cabinet.
After research, the Central Cabinet believes that although 40,000 years have passed, cultivators have long lifespans, and the executioner from back then may still be alive.
In our Great Xia Dynasty, the death penalty has no retroactive effect; it is investigated no matter how far back in time. Moreover, there is a regulation that any report from the people to the authorities will be investigated.
Since there were no procedural or moral issues, the matter was naturally approved.
Therefore, the Xihua Public Security Office immediately set up a special task force and issued a notice to the Western Yi Witch God Cult, requesting their cooperation in the investigation and, ideally, to hand over the murderer from that year.
The Western Yi Witch God Cult were ignored.
There was no other way; the Public Security Office had to transfer the case to the military.
The Xihua Army had long envied the Northern Plains and Moyuan Army's territorial expansion. Now that they heard about this good thing, they were naturally very excited and immediately set out as soon as the order came.
Although the territory of the Western Yi Witch God Cult is large, it is indeed a small sect, with only two unparalleled Peerless Divine Abilities throughout the entire sect.
The reason they were able to occupy such a large territory was not because the Western Yi Witch God Cult was powerful, but because this place, like that Land Country, was full of Gobi desert, where crops could not grow and no sects would bother with it.
However, this isn't a problem with the land itself, but rather a problem with the cultivators.
With the abilities of cultivators, it's not difficult for a single Daoist technique to unleash torrential rain and transform deserts and Gobi into a land of plenty.
No cultivator would do that, not even the local cultivators of the Western Yi Witch God Cult.
The reason is simple: their Divine Aspect Realm is not just for show; it truly requires faith. Only when people live in poverty, struggling to make ends meet, and unable to survive without the immortals, will the common people develop the greatest dependence on them.
The Great Xia Dynasty is different. The foundation of the Great Xia Dynasty is the [Great Supreme Art]. Faith can be replaced by National Luck, so the demand for faith is not high. On the contrary, the more people there are, the wealthier the people are, the stronger the National Luck is, and the greater the boost to cultivation.
So forget about the frigid far north, the barren deserts and Gobi of the west; even the moon and Mars will be transformed into life-bearing planets by the Great Xia!
Not to mention that although the land in the Western Regions is barren, they are not lacking in mineral resources, such as oil, copper, gold, and rare earth elements.
Many ores are useless to agricultural countries, but are complete treasures to industrial countries!
Not only were the Western Barbarians powerless against the Great Xia, but their leader, perhaps having been too arrogant within his own territory for too long, didn't even consider fleeing; instead, he wanted to test his skills against the Great Xia.
Then he was trapped in the army formation and died from exhaustion.
At this point, the Great Xia's far northern Myriad Saints Alliance was united, and Great Xia now occupied three-fifths of this continent!
The remaining two-fifths belonged to the Demon Alliance, Tianfei Palace, Jinxiang Sect, Lin Huan Sect, Tianyun Dao, South Sea Tan Family, South Sea Man Family the South Sea, Nanming Island, who were trembling on the sidelines.
After the Xihua Military Region occupied the Western Yi region, it invited Master Jinxiang Sect Master Yuanxiang to pray for the soldiers.
Before the mighty and imposing million-strong army, Guan Yu, the Grand Marshal of the Xihua Army, asked, "Buddhism also flourishes in our Xihua region. In exchange, the Western Splendor wish to do some business with the Jinxiang Sect. I wonder if Master Yuanxiang would agree?"
Master Yuanxiang silently tallied up the number of monks, guns, and cannons in his own Buddhist temple.
After a long while, Master Yuanxiang clasped his hands together and nodded. "Give and take is the natural order. The Jinxiang Sect welcomes every Western Splendor who abides by the Jinxiang precepts!"