Above the wilderness, the green spiritual light in the sky had vanished. Only a blazing sun hung high overhead, driving away the wisps of mist.
A vast city slowly rose from the wilderness.
The city had six great arched gates, and behind each one stood a massive Array pillar.
They sent towering streams of spiritual light into the barrier above.
Beside the city, many cultivators counted their spoils, while others grieved in silence and pondered what lay ahead.
The losses had been tallied. The six great powers had lost eight Nascent Soul cultivators, while two more had lost their bodies. Over twenty Golden Core cultivators had fallen, and the Purple Palace losses were greater still.
Not even the Ye Family had escaped unscathed. A Purple Palace cultivator of the Qing generation had died, a bitter blow to the Ye Family.
Fortunately, their gains this time were immense, enough to temper the grief.
And just as the Ye Family had expected, the Heavenly Insect Realm suited them exceptionally well. With Spirit Transformation Divine Lords holding the line above, they did not need to fear the Demon Saints. The Ye Family could hunt demon beasts and insects to their hearts' content, and had even secretly gathered a considerable number of beast souls.
Without Divine Lord Zhengyuan as his master, Ye Jingcheng would never have dared let the Ye Family collect beast souls so openly. Now, there was no such worry. The Ye Family was a beast-taming Lineage; collecting beast souls and spirit-beast materials was only natural.
"Junior Brother Ye, there should be a hidden Mantis Saint backing these Sky-Rending Heavenly Mantises!" True Lord Xingyuan walked over, speaking to Ye Jingcheng through a voice transmission as he approached.
It was, in a way, an explanation.
After all, the six great Spirit Transformation powers