In the world today, there were three Daoist sects, four Buddhist temples, six sword-wielding schools, six great powers, and fourteen noble clans. Excluding Lanke Temple, where the ends of the earth lay a step away, there were thirty-two in total. Together, they could almost stand against the entire world.
Even divided between Southern Jin and Northern Zhou, each side's high-level fighting strength surpassed that of the Grassland, the Western Regions, and the Southern Wilderness. Moreover, the original five righteous Dharma Body masters were relatively strong, while the Nine Demonic Paths constantly undermined one another. Thus, the righteous forces had firmly controlled the situation, leaving the Left Path hounded on all sides or driven into places like the Southern Wilderness.
But now Gu Erduo had attained the Earth Immortal realm and, in the eyes of the world, once again stood supreme. A gulf in cultivation separated him from the other Dharma Body masters, and he wielded a peerless divine weapon. Though he could not truly unite the Nine Demonic Paths, he could at least suppress their infighting and loosely bind them together. With someone building bridges and threading the needle, the outlines of a Left Path counteroffensive were beginning to emerge!
Recently, the Cao Family Affair had also prompted the Heavenly Venerable and Empyrean Goddess Doumu to probe True Monarch Qingyuan Miaodao, but they had obtained no results so far.
Sima Shi sighed softly upon hearing this. "The Mad King Gao Lan has secret dealings with the Demonic Master. Who knows whether he'll get involved?" After a moment, he added quietly, "Fortunately, Heavenly Venerable Lingbao of the Traces of Immortals proved formidable enough to slay two Dharma Body masters, one demonic and one monstrous. That salvaged the situation and restored the balance."
"'Great Asura' Mengnan is dead, and Blood Sea Rakshasa