Riding the Kunpeng Dharma Aspect through the Nine Heavens' Heavenly Gang Winds once more, and no longer needing to look after his younger sister Liang Zhaorong, Liang Zhaohuang's Dharma Aspect flew even faster this time.
Liang Zhaohuang no longer observed the state of the East Sea along the way either. From the waters of Liu Province, he headed straight for the Poison Dragon Island waters, where the Dharma Aspect Sect was located.
Ever since Eight Directions Island had been destroyed and developed by the Immortal Dynasty into Ying Province, the East Sea Ten Islands and Ten Sects had become nine islands and nine sects. And since Long True Lord had established himself on Poison Dragon Island over a century ago, it had increasingly seemed poised to replace Eight Directions Island and become one of the new East Sea Ten Islands and Ten Sects.
If the East Sea's situation had remained stable and it had been given several centuries to develop, that might indeed have come true.
But now, the East Sea's Demon Calamity grew worse by the day. Many small and medium-sized islands and sect factions had been wiped out in the calamity, leaving living beings in misery and the people unable to survive. Even great islands and major sects such as Five Elements Island and Four Symbols Island were finding things increasingly difficult beneath the Demon Calamity, forced to seek their own paths of retreat and attach themselves to stronger powers.
Though the Dharma Aspect Sect possessed some strength and had even inherited much of the Beast Taming Sect's foundation, it had ultimately been established too recently and had not developed enough. In terms of strength and methods, it was only somewhat stronger than those medium-sized islands and sects without a Nascent Soul True Lord overseeing them.
Yet faced