The allied forces of the Dou Di Descendant Clans had not particularly targeted the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan back then. After all, the clan had not joined in its entirety, so the alliance had merely suppressed them for a time as a symbolic gesture, making them surrender a considerable portion of their territory.
As for that expert from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, the allied forces of the Dou Di Descendant Clans should have successfully slain him. But to learn more of the inside story, the Stone Clan expert tasked with fighting him had deliberately refrained from destroying him completely. Instead, he had sealed his soul within his bones, keeping him specifically for research.
What they had not known at the time was that the Tunling Clan's methods had come not from the Douqi Continent, but from a world of a higher dimension. Thus, the Stone Clan's research had never yielded any results. On the contrary, Feng Ye's soul had proved extraordinarily tenacious. Even after occupying that skeleton for so many years, it still could not be worn away. The Stone Clan had originally been willing to keep him within the clan, but once the Soul Clan began making its moves, they sorted through their possessions again. Naturally, the Stone Clan did not believe the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan could discover anything new, so they put the skeleton up for auction and sold it to them. Sure enough, the latter took the bait and paid a hefty price for it.
Yet none of them could have known that this decision by the Stone Clan had directly influenced the Extraterritorial Evil Clan's choice, allowing the remnants of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to obtain its power and become enemies of the entire continent.
Feng Ye's strength had now reached the level