As the pressure on the many cultivators present sharply decreased, they joined forces to counterattack.
The once-arrogant high-level devil cultivators were either slain outright or severely wounded. No longer able to resist the invisible pull, they were drawn toward the passage between the two realms.
Most of the devil cultivators who had remained on Azure Star had already been exiled over the previous few days.
At this moment, the remaining devils' desperate last-ditch plan had utterly failed.
In that instant, the situation on the battlefield reversed. The cultivators broke free from their predicament, their fighting spirit soaring.
In contrast, amid boundless despair, the countless devils were swallowed by the inter-realm spatial passage at an astonishing speed.
Across Azure Star, in places that had been ravaged and shrouded by Demonic Qi for more than a century,
as the Demonic Qi dispersed, spiritual qi began to spread in.
The land, which had originally been steeped in deathly stillness, had clearly not changed much in appearance, yet it visibly gave off a vibrant sense of life.
Yet no one noticed.
At the edges of the various regions of the Nine Provinces, the earth was faintly trembling.
Amid the tremors, the vitality that the land had yet to fully recover began to drain away once more.
The land was no longer blackened scorched earth blanketed by Demonic Qi, but yellow-brown deserts instead.
And the deserts spread rapidly in every direction at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Within the Endless Sea, many demonic beasts and sea beasts had been infected by Demonic Qi due to its invasion.
But the Endless Sea was vast beyond measure, and in its deepest places, the waters stretched more than ten thousand zhang deep.
Countless living beings dwelled within. Like the Cultivation World, it also had formidable demonic