In this life, I had not even tried to seize the Nether God Divine Godhead Fragments. I had left all five fragments to the Ghost Race.
My aim was to keep the Ghost Race from setting its sights on Great Xia too soon.
At the same time, I secretly spread word of the Nether God Divine Godhead Fragments to the Other Races, hindering the Ghost Race's efforts along the way.
Sure enough, as Great Xia continued to retreat...
Grand Ghost King Wutian had not even attacked Great Xia.
Or rather, he had no interest in attacking Great Xia.
This time, I had not confronted the Four Great Ghost Kings and the World Tree head-on...
After Great Xia evacuated all its residents, headquarters decided to cede North China to the Ghost Race;
and East China to the Yagu Dynasty.
Great Xia kept pulling back its defensive lines and shrinking its territory...
As I watched the lands and cities that had once belonged to Great Xia fall into the hands of the Other Races, who destroyed them with impunity, waves of grief rose within me. Yet there was nothing I could do.
To achieve ultimate victory, I had to find a way out through one rebirth after another!
Sooner or later, I would make those Other Races who had ravaged Great Xia's lands pay their blood debts in blood!
I made up my mind.
The forced abandonment of East China and North China did bring Great Xia one piece of good news...
With the Ghost Race and the Yagu Dynasty occupying neighboring territories, neither would yield to the other, and clashes broke out frequently.
That gave both me and Great Xia a chance to catch our breath.
Although I had no Nether God Divine Godhead Fragments in this life, I drew on