The battlefield had never been limited to the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans.
Even fiercer was the battle at Mount Sumeru in the west.
Under the siege of several Chaos Demon Gods, even with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, Luohou was still beginning to show signs of defeat.
The spiritual light deep within the west was extinguishing at a visible rate.
The azure points of light left behind several Epoch Cycles ago also lit up at the same time.
Qing Xuan did not spare Mount Sumeru another glance. The World Dao spread directly through the nodes reflected by the Earth Book and into the outer reaches of the west.
Qing Yi's power of creation descended in turn, while Zhen Yuanzi simultaneously activated the Earth Book and drew out all the contingencies they had prepared earlier.
They did not touch the Ancestral Vein, which had already been utterly destroyed, nor did they try to protect the vast regions near Mount Sumeru.
That place could no longer be saved.
Yet as the azure points of light along the outskirts awakened one after another, the destruction that had been spreading outward without end was finally stopped in part.
Many nodes still went dark as the main veins ruptured.
But even more Earth Veins ultimately stabilized.
Once the fiercest first wave of cascading collapse had passed, most of the western depths on the Earth Book had dimmed, while a connected expanse of azure light remained along the outskirts.
The west, which should have completely died in this explosion, had ultimately retained a trace of life.
Qing Xuan looked only once before turning his gaze back toward Mount Sumeru.
The place that would truly decide the outcome of this conflict was still there.
Mount Sumeru had long since lost its original appearance.
After the Ancestral