Cloud Dream Marsh.
The various Demon Race factions were still embroiled in conflict, but the plan had reached the final step Cui Hao had arranged-changing the demons' thinking and goals by making an issue of the purity of wish power.
The focus of the conflict had also shifted. Changing their methods could make humans provide better resources, so their targets naturally became the demons competing for those resources.
Under the tremendous pressure imposed by the Cloud Marsh God, the demons could only restrain all violent means.
But that did not mean everything was safe, or that everyone would endure.
Restraint and losing restraint were separated by nothing more than a single thought.
There were no restrictions at all, only whether they wanted to or not.
All of Cloud Dream Marsh continued to function as before, but now it was like a powder keg.
Such a powder keg was naturally no good thing for humans. They would inevitably be caught in the blast.
But Cui Hao no longer had time to employ any more measures. Or perhaps his senior sister's current mission was the final measure he intended to employ.
Igniting the powder keg ahead of time might minimize the fallout.
Then, with Zheng Zhaoling stepping in to suppress it, the fallout affecting humans might subside completely, leaving only the demons' struggles.
Chen Baiqing stood on the branch of a towering tree, with Cui Hao, Lu Lingyi, and the other Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect cultivators close at hand.
Although Chen Baiqing had nominally subdued some Golden Core demons in Cloud Dream Marsh through both threats and inducements, they were only stationed on the perimeter to block escape during this operation.
These demons were shrewd as could be. They fought ferociously with the wind at their backs and fled smoothly when it