The Gods Make Their Moves

The Demon Clan's highest ranks held only Di Jun and Taiyi. Beneath them were just over twenty Quasi-Sages and Primordial Origin Golden Immortals—less than a third of the Earth Court's number, and inferior in strength as well.

Thus, Di Jun and Taiyi received no less Fortune than the Thirteen Ancestral Witches, and perhaps even more. Demon Experts likewise received no less Fortune than Earth Court cultivators of the same rank.

As a result, Di Jun, Taiyi, and the Demon Experts made swift progress in their cultivation.

In just seven or eight hundred Epochs, Di Jun and Taiyi broke through to the Eighth-Layer Primordial Golden Immortal one after the other.

Many other Demon Experts also advanced to varying degrees.

During this time, Di Jun and Taiyi repeatedly concealed the Heavenly Secrets and sent Demon Experts to lead armies down into the lower realms to stir up trouble. Minor clashes with the Earth Court never ceased.

The Demon Clan held the Thirty-Three Heavens. Whenever they hid themselves, the Earth Court had no way to find them. They could attack at will from an unassailable position, while the Earth Court could only defend, suffering many losses in these skirmishes.

The Earth Court did not simply sit and wait to be struck, of course. Its experts laid traps time and again, ambushing and killing demons who descended to cause trouble.

The clashes continued, but they did not alter the balance of the Primordial World. Its many great powers were not affected in the slightest.

The successive emergence of peerless formations such as the Primordial River-Luo Grand Formation, the Twelve Heavenly Fiendish Gods Formation, and the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation left Minghe feeling threatened. He set aside his cultivation for the moment and devoted himself entirely to refining the Blood Sea Origin and merging deeply