With the fall of Great Snow Mountain Holy Land and the deaths of the Ice Phoenix Clan's two Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lords, the Western Desert war was declared over.
Northern Plains Tushan Central Court had won a complete victory!
The work ahead would mainly focus on clearing out the remnants of the cannibalistic Demon Race in the Western Desert, punishing criminal humans and demons, establishing grassroots rule, and collecting taxes.
At present, the most important task in the Western Desert was naturally restoring its population.
Under the Demon Race's rule over the past several thousand years, compounded by their recent defeat, they had slaughtered Western Desert human slaves in a frenzy to vent their rage. The Western Desert's human population had fallen below one million, less than one-thousandth of its peak. It could be said to be on the brink of extinction.
The same was true for mortals, and naturally for cultivators born from that mortal foundation.
Across the entire Western Desert, it was hard to say whether there were even a thousand cultivators above Foundation Establishment. The Western Desert's human immortal cultivation civilization had basically ceased to exist.
Without outside influence, it would take at least another several hundred thousand years of decline and rebirth, the accumulated wisdom and Bloodbone of countless prodigies and heroes, to slowly recreate the current immortal cultivation civilization.
That was under favorable circumstances. With slightly worse luck, the entire race could very well go extinct.
This was the greatest difference between humanity and other races. Bloodlines were fundamentally meaningless; everything depended on acquired civilization.
The height of immortal cultivation civilization directly determined the strength of the local human race.
Without civilization, humans were weaker even than the feeblest pig demon clan—ants among ants, unfit even to be slaves.
Without civilization, pig demons and ox