When the Azure Cloud Sect's Grand Supreme Elders at the Spirit Transformation Stage learned that the Black Evil Sect had offered the Sea-Covering Seal in exchange for military support from the Mountain Sea Sect, they erupted in collective fury.
They had never expected that all their hard work would end up sewing a wedding gown for someone else-the Mountain Sea Sect. This was something they absolutely could not tolerate.
After receiving the news, the Azure Cloud Sect's senior leadership held urgent deliberations, then immediately dispatched a formidable force of three Spirit Transformation cultivators and dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators to launch a direct surprise attack on Black Evil Ridge, the Black Evil Sect's headquarters.
Yet they arrived a step too late. The Black Evil Sect had already made preparations, and two Spirit Transformation cultivators from the Mountain Sea Sect had reached Black Evil Ridge ahead of them.
Thus, the cultivators from both sides fought an earth-shaking decisive battle outside Black Evil Ridge.
The battle lasted seven days and seven nights. Across tens of thousands of miles beyond Black Evil Ridge's sect-protecting formation, mountains collapsed, the earth caved in, and rivers were forced from their courses. The hundreds of millions of mortals living there suffered devastating casualties and were driven from their homes!
The destructive power of battles between Spirit Transformation cultivators was simply too terrible. Were it not for the lure of a spirit treasure, the Azure Cloud Sect would not have wanted to send Spirit Transformation Stage cultivators into battle. Even when attacking another nation, it usually relied on nibbling away at its territory.
Although the Spirit Transformation cultivators of the Black Evil Sect and the Mountain Sea Sect temporarily held off the Azure Cloud Sect's attacks with the help of the Black Evil Sect's Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, they