Meanwhile, situations like those encountered by the disciples of the Flowing Radiance Sword Sect were unfolding throughout the Azure Realm.
Demons were no longer invincible, nor could they be reborn. Once they died, they turned to ash and vanished.
The demons still alive were hardly having an easy time either. They felt an intense discomfort that was eating away at the abilities they had once possessed.
For a time, the once overwhelmingly powerful demons grew weaker and weaker.
Even some of the Heavenly Secret Sect's combat weaklings could hold their own against them again and again.
Some of the demonized cultivators stopped raving, and stopped turning their blades on their friends and family.
Their pitch-black pupils gradually returned to normal, and some even looked bewildered the moment they awoke. They seemed confused about why they were standing there, and why the friends and relatives around them were all looking at them with searching eyes.
The demonic plants that had appeared throughout the Azure Realm began to wither. Those that came into contact with the motes of light in the air withered especially quickly.
One demonic plant attacking humans suddenly began thrashing wildly, as though it had touched some corrosive solution. Before long, it breathed its last and collapsed to the ground.
Yet merely falling to the ground did nothing to lessen the surrounding cultivators' wariness.
By now, almost all these demonic plants had developed intelligence. Who knew whether this was another hunting trick meant to deceive them into lowering their guard?
But a quarter of an hour passed, and the demonic plant remained motionless on the ground. As time went on, patches of discoloration and withered yellow even appeared on its body.
Motes of glowing light landed on the demonic plant, accelerating its corrosion. Before long, it had been eaten