While Liu Changxu held Cloudreach Mountain and commanded the Yun Xiao and Yu Xiao Demon-Calming Legions against the super beast tide, neighboring powers, including the Great Qi and Great Chu Immortal Dynasties, came under successive attacks from super beast tides as well.
Demon beasts filled the sky and blanketed the wilderness, sweeping across human lands like a black tide. Countless villages and towns along their path fell beneath the rolling torrent of this terrifying beast tide, reduced at last to shattered rubble. Innumerable fellow humans failed to evacuate in time and became bloody fodder in the demon beasts' mouths.
To escape this world-ending calamity, countless panic-stricken human civilians desperately fled toward nearby large immortal cities, hoping to secure a sliver of survival.
Yet many of the colossal cities that ordinary humans believed impregnable proved equally unable to withstand this devastating onslaught by the demon race. One after another, these immense cities fell, ultimately becoming blood-soaked ruins.
Urgent and critically urgent pleas for help flew toward Cloudreach Mountain in an unending stream, hoping for aid from the Liu Lineage.
But Cloudreach Mountain was under pressure far greater than theirs, and Liu Changxu simply had no troops to spare for their rescue.
In fact, when the super beast tide first erupted, Liu Changxu had advised the surrounding major cultivation powers to relocate the human civilians near Demon Territory deep into the rear. However, with so much at stake, the evacuations progressed slowly.
Many small and medium-sized cultivation lineages were unwilling to leave, determined to preserve their ancestral holdings. As a precaution, they merely sent away a handful of promising young cultivation talents.
As a result, countless small and medium-sized cultivation lineages were reduced to dust and ashes in this catastrophe.
However, many wiser cultivation powers and lineages sold off or abandoned the