Fight! Fight with resolve! But when we aren't fighting, we must also farm and develop with resolve!
In the Half-Step Continent, the Source River Basin, birthplace of civilization, remained a land ravaged by war. Not only did military calamities rage year after year, but countless warlords carved up the land, attacking one another and leaving the common people in unspeakable misery.
Amid these changes, many outside forces had also entered the fray. There were chiefly two sides. One was naturally the strange people from the Western Lands, resembling yakshas and ghosts, often hired specifically for slaughter. The other consisted of immortal masters who had crossed the sea from overseas immortal mountains.
These immortal masters all possessed abilities and were treated as honored guests by the various warlords. Many simply became military advisers; nearly every army had one, practically a standard fixture.
By comparison, Wu Siping, who had only recently risen to prominence, appeared isolated and weak. He had yet to gain the ability to attract overseas immortal masters to serve him. Yet he was highly skilled at warfare. After escaping some time ago, he had gathered a force around the refugees of that time. First he struck mountain bandits, then he wiped out river pirates. But rather than claiming a mountain as king, he stationed troops and developed his territory, soon forming a Qi Manifestation.
On the other hand, because Qiu Yan's Heart Demon Body had defeated the long-haired god on the transcendent level and obtained the Ancient God Core, Western forces had declined, while the overseas Immortal Path had also been restrained to a degree. Thus, this land that had developed around the Land of the Divine Remains became the Central Lands, its Fortune surging forth. It stood alone amid the chaos of war; shifts in mortal powers were