Both the Human Way Heavenly Court and the True Spirit Heavenly Court had dispersed, leaving behind a sea region of ruins. Poison Dragon Island had shattered, Dao dissolution phenomena and spiritual energy collapse phenomena filled the area—utter devastation everywhere.
Of the Dharma Aspect Sect's four True Lords, only Wang and Bai remained. At this moment, they were gathering the sect's surviving disciples and cultivators from all around.
True Lords Tong and Chen had both perished in the aftermath of the battle between the Human Emperor and the Demon Emperor. The Lotus Puppet Liang Zhaohuang had deployed had likewise failed to escape. Their first battle could truly be called an inauspicious start.
Looking over the ruined sea ahead, scarred beyond recognition, Liang Zhaohuang immediately ordered, "Save them."
"Yes, Patriarch."
Liang Lishi immediately accepted the order, leading her team into the ruined sea region to join the rescue effort.
Half a day later, all surviving Dharma Aspect Sect cultivators had been rescued. Yet of the original ten thousand-plus cultivators and disciples, fewer than a thousand remained, including the wounded.
In a battle between the Human Emperor and the Demon Emperor, even merely beneath the shockwaves of their clash, fewer than one in ten of these low- and mid-level cultivators had survived.
For a time, the ruins over the Poison Dragon Island sea region were steeped in profound grief and pain.
Even Liang Zhaohuang, Liang Lishi, and the others, though they had rescued quite a few Dharma Aspect Sect disciples, received few friendly looks. Instead, they were met mostly with hatred.
That was because the Liang Family was an aristocratic clan of the Immortal Dynasty, while the Immortal Dynasty's Human Emperor was one of the chief culprits behind the destruction of the Dharma Aspect Sect and the tragic deaths of most of its