West of Liu Province, thirty-six thousand li west of the Azure Roc Mountains, a great battle was erupting.
This was still land shrouded by the Demon Realm Underworld. The Black Tiger Sword had transformed into the Black Tiger Devil Master, commanding a vast host of Demonic Beasts as it fought a Corpse Devil Master.
Just as Liang Zhaohuang had expected, as time passed, although the Black Tiger Sword possessed Devil Master cultivation and had gathered a large number of Demonic Beasts, it gradually found it difficult to control the hundreds of thousands of li stretching across western and southern Liu Province.
Within the Demon Realm Underworld, Devil Lords had begun leading Demonic Beasts forth to seize territory and assault Liu Province.
The Corpse Devil Master facing the Black Tiger Sword now was merely the first—but it would absolutely not be the last.
Across hundreds of li of vast land, Demonic Beasts were divided into two sides, charging into each other and slaughtering without cease.
At the center of the battlefield, the Black Tiger Sword had become a thousand-zhang demonic tiger, fighting fiercely against a Devil Master who had likewise taken the form of a thousand-zhang corpse demon.
"You idiot! Why aren't you attacking Immortal Dynasty territory? What are you fighting me for?"
That corpse demon had been a demonic cultivator who advanced to become a Devil Master. When he underwent his tribulation and ascended to the rank of Devil Master, he had borrowed the power of the Demon Realm Underworld to successfully pass the tribulation and advance.
For that reason, after passing his tribulation and becoming a Devil Master, he had been drawn into the Demon Realm Underworld and suppressed within it, transformed into a Corpse Forest as he endured the Demon Realm Underworld's corrosion and control.
That suppression had