Breaking Through to Core Formation Middle Stage, Late-Stage Divine Sense! Origin Treasure Seed Ready, Pill Flame Transformed

Now the situation in the Eight Kingdoms Region had shifted again, its currents treacherous and unpredictable, with six kingdoms either actively participating in the wars or being dragged into them.

Ever since the Demonic Path's great eastward advance, war had raged throughout the Yue Kingdom, and the Righteous Path Alliance had retreated defeat after defeat. The precarious balance they had once maintained had long since vanished; flames of war blazed along the border between the Jin Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom, while the Song Region had already dispatched an advance army of cultivators into Jin to join the fighting; the Lu Kingdom and the Zhao Kingdom had just divided up the Jinwu Kingdom and were digesting their gains-

At present, only the Liang Kingdom and the Yuanshan Kingdom remained uninvolved.

For the moment, they retained their peace.

But Lin Changheng was not optimistic.

The reason was simple.

The Liang Kingdom bordered the eastern reaches of the Yue Kingdom. Once the Demonic Path achieved a decisive victory in Yue, annihilated the righteous factions, and "swept the house clean," it would have only two choices-

The first was to march south; the second was to expand east.

The former would bring disaster to the Song Region, while the latter would inevitably point its spear straight at the Liang Kingdom.

As for the Yuanshan Kingdom, it was wedged between a host of great powers. Any one of them, driven by malicious intent or some particular interest, could easily bring the flames of war to its doorstep.

Moreover, the Yuanshan Kingdom had no Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, making it a soft persimmon ripe for squeezing.

Its so-called "neutrality" existed only because other kingdoms needed it as a buffer. Once they no longer did-it could be torn away at any time.

It offered no protection