However, the Heavenly Gang Green Wood Sword was his natal spiritual treasure, forged at great cost and nurtured with his own essence blood for many years.
Then there was Su Shi'er's choice when the Half-Immortal Artifact Treasure Umbrella emerged in Quicksand Land.
And Baili Lingquan's death.
The seeds of hatred had long since taken root in his heart.
Though he did his utmost to restrain himself, the image and voice of his son, Baili Lingquan, kept surfacing in his mind.
Those features and voice that could exist only in memory left the fury in his heart forever impossible to quell.
The instant the Teleportation Array lit up and spatial ripples emerged,
Baili Chen transformed into a streak of light within the radiance and sped toward Shangzhou at astonishing speed.
No matter what tricks the Devil Race was playing, the Demon Extermination Plan on Azure Star had ended, and the overwhelming majority of devils had been wiped out. That was an established fact.
Even if he failed to find Su Shi'er on this journey, finding surviving devils would be enough. He could slay demons and defend the righteous path, venting some of the hostility in his heart.
With his mind made up, Baili Chen flew ever faster.
Leizhou.
As the spatial passage between the two realms closed, Earth Qi steadily stabilized at a rate visible to the naked eye.
The natural disasters erupting across all of Azure Star also gradually subsided.
Moreover, the elites of every faction had returned and immediately joined the rescue efforts.
In just a few days, countless living beings had been saved.
Only then was this great calamity truly resolved.
As countless mortals regained safety, the living beings originally from all over the Nine Provinces were organized by cultivation forces great and small and began migrating