Above the clouds.
Li Ping drove the Flying Boat beneath his feet forward at full speed while looking down at the land below.
The Demonic Path believed in the laws of "the weak becoming meat for the strong, survival of the fittest, and the elimination of the inferior." It rarely interfered with mortal rule in its territories, leaving mortals to wage war against one another until their corpses piled into mountains.
Seeing war fires blazing everywhere and bandits running rampant below, Li Ping inwardly shook his head. What a world of chaos. The Yuan Kingdom has now become entirely the territory of the Four Demonic Sects!
The Yuan Kingdom had originally served as a barrier west of the Qi Kingdom.
It had also been the battlefield where the Defender Alliance blocked the Four Demonic Sects' westward advance. But after the last war between the righteous and demonic factions ended, Donghua Mountain became a public Market Ward jointly administered by both sides, while the Yuan Kingdom fell entirely under demonic control.
Farther east of the Yuan Kingdom lay the Four Nations of Nine Chariots, Featherflame, Azure Dusk, and Chariot Cavalry, occupied respectively by the Bloodshadow Church, the Nine Nether Sect, the Acacia Sect, and the Spirit Taming Sect.
According to what Li Ping had learned,
the Spirit Taming Sect should have been the strongest of the four, and the Bloodshadow Church the weakest. The Nine Nether Sect and the Acacia Sect were roughly equal in strength, falling between the other two.
However, ever since Lu Old Devil disappeared with his Scarlet Flood Dragon spirit beast, the Spirit Taming Sect no longer had enough strength to firmly suppress the other three sects.
Withdrawing his gaze, Li Ping looked again at the ancient bronze mirror in his hand, which was the size of