After the Huanyang, Shangchen, and other sects fled to foreign domains, they used the Azure Spirit Heavenly Branch to open up many void domains beyond, providing places to dwell. The four factions were not located together, relying entirely on the Azure Spirit Heavenly Branch to link them to one another.
The four factions had originally followed different paths and held their own disagreements. Yet with Celestial Xia as an external threat, none of them dared separate from the others, for only by huddling together could they withstand Celestial Xia.
The Huanyang Sect's Void-Refining Calamity Sun had always clashed in vital aura with the Azure Spirit Heavenly Branch. Beyond that, the two sides had long been riddled with conflicts. Otherwise, Celestial Xia would not have joined hands with Upper Firmament Heaven to drive out the Huanyang Sect back then.
Thus, the Huanyang Sect's present dwelling lay at the farthest edge of the void domains opened by the Azure Spirit Heavenly Branch, with it and Upper Firmament Heaven stationed at opposite ends. On the surface, they did not disturb one another in ordinary times, but in truth, Upper Firmament Heaven had become half-dependent on the Huanyang Sect due to its lack of strength.
At this moment, within the Huanyang Sect's void domain, the Void-Refining Calamity Sun hung high in the heavens. All around it was barren silence and emptiness, as if only that mass of Calamity Sun light remained.
This was only natural. Even in a place of exceptional abundance, once the Huanyang Sect arrived, it would immediately devour and seize everything. Once all things had been wholly transformed and taken, they would move to another region and repeat what they had done before. From the standpoint of their Dao path, this conduct would not end until all things beneath heaven had