The Six Source Ancestral Land was boundlessly vast, spanning more than a hundred Great Worlds in total. Countless billions of living beings dwelled within it, with mountains, secret realms, spiritual lands, and dragon veins too numerous to count. Its foundations were so profound they were impossible to measure.
Since the Source Realm army had invaded across realms, the Ancestral Land's native cultivators had united against the enemy, with forces everywhere fighting desperately to resist. The war had become deadlocked and brutal.
Yet as the conflict dragged on, the Ancestral Land's Emperor Cultivators gradually came to understand the Source Realm's top-level strength and saw the disparity between their foundations. Their will to resist crumbled by the day.
In particular, many local powerhouses who had been stuck at the late Emperor Realm for years, with no hope of further cultivation, switched sides one after another. They proactively joined the Source Realm Allied Forces and became guides for the invaders.
These traitors knew the Ancestral Land's terrain, secret realm restrictions, resource vaults, and treasure troves intimately. They devoted themselves to guiding the Source Realm Allied Forces in purging local factions, plundering source treasures, and betraying their homeland without the slightest restraint.
At the root of it all was the Five Ancestors of the Six Sources' long-standing monopoly over the Ancestral Land's Dao traditions. They had monopolized the five top-tier Qi Cultivation Methods and resources, deliberately sealing off the paths for local late Emperor Realm cultivators to advance.
Countless Ancestral Land Emperor Cultivators had cultivated bitterly only to find no road ahead, and resentment had long taken root in their hearts.
The Source Realm's large-scale invasion had instead become their only hope of breaking free from their shackles, resisting the Five Ancestors, and seeking progress on the Great Dao.
With the Source Realm's overwhelming