His flesh, nascent soul, treasure artifacts, storage bag, and everything else were divided among the four devil lords and demon cultivators, with nothing wasted.
He also became the first Nascent Soul-level being in fifteen years to perish utterly, body and soul.
Before this, the higher powers of the Azure Abyss Inner and Outer Seas had both suffered losses. Between the two sides, five Nascent Soul cultivators had been forced to flee with their nascent souls alone, but none had died completely.
Now that precedent had been broken.
At the other defensive battlefields, however, the Inner Sea cultivators had not rashly pursued their enemies. Instead, they had steadily occupied the strongholds and gathered their spoils.
Unable to lure their enemies deep into their territory, the "defeated" demon cultivators could only return with the Demon Race to attack again, without inflicting particularly heavy losses on the Inner Sea cultivators.
Naturally, the Inner Sea Nascent Soul cultivators had not pursued them deep into enemy territory or stumbled into an encirclement. They withdrew at their leisure, though every stronghold they had just captured had to be handed back!
It was a necessary choice, made with the resolve to abandon territory and preserve lives.
Thus, this retreat by the Demonic Path had been part of a grand game to lure the enemy in-a conspiracy born of the alliance between demonic cultivators and demons!
Although they had reaped some gains, those gains had been neither great nor decisive.
They had failed to achieve their expectations.
From then on, however, the Demon Race fully entered the war, and the waters along the boundary between the Inner and Outer Seas became a true meat grinder for cultivators and demons.
The flames of war raged without end!
On Luminous Jade Sky Island, within the Luminous Jade Immortal Palace, the