The southern wilderness has long since been reduced to a desolate wasteland.
The once beautiful and fertile land, home to Myriad Races, is now nothing but shattered earth, broken star marks, and a vast, lingering energy in the air.
Those once invincible powerful figures of the myriad Myriad Races of the Southern Wilderness, along with their established foundations here, were all wiped out by Ye Changge with a single hand.
He stood in the void, his golden divine radiance hanging like the sun in Nine Heavens heavens. With a wave of his hand, a massive Devouring Heaven Returning Array, spanning billions of miles, was instantly formed. The array patterns intertwined, like chains of Heavenly Dao, drawing in, purifying, and compressing every last bit of cultivation, essence, and power of law that had dissipated after the destruction of the Southern Wilderness. This transformed it into the purest and gentlest Origin energy, which flowed continuously through the void passages into the Human Race's secret realm.
Inside the secret realm, Sun Wukong, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and other fierce Human Race who followed Ye Changge sat cross-legged, frantically devouring the immense power that had descended from the sky.
Sun Wukong's body blazed with golden light, the phantom of his Golden-Hooped Staff swirling behind him, his fighting spirit Soaring Straight into the Clouds. His original realms were broken through layer by layer as if made of paper, instantly reaching the peak of the Zero Realm, his physical strength approaching that of the Half-Step End. Guan Yu's Qinglong Crescent Blade phantom glowed with scarlet blood light, his loyalty and fighting spirit merging with the laws, his domain as solid as a mountain, also firmly standing at the peak of the Zero Realm. Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and others also experienced a surge in aura, their divine bodies becoming clear and their Zero Power perfected, each possessing terrifying strength capable of sweeping across an entire realm.
However, the Half-Step End Realm is a huge leap in the level of life, which cannot be achieved by simply accumulating energy. It requires the understanding of the Way of the End of Heaven and Earth and the condensation of one's own Dao Fruit. Even with the support of the massive amount of energy personally delivered by Ye Changge, it is still missing the last layer of paper.
With a quick mental scan, Ye Changge took in the state of everyone under his command.
He didn't force things to grow faster; he simply raised his hand and cast a seal, protecting the entire Human Race army deep within the secret realm, allowing them to nurture and comprehend their abilities. When the time was right, things would naturally fall into place.
"A bunch of clowns, they're not even worthy of their help."
Ye Changge calmly, and with Ying Yi movement, he stepped out of the Southern Wilderness.
Without pausing for a moment, his target was the west—the Western Wilderness.
"The Western Wilderness was once the place where the first Buddha of the Human Race founded his sect, Human Dao, continuing the Buddhist lineage, and protecting all living beings. But now... it has been occupied by a group of remnants of Myriad Races draped in Buddhist robes."
Ye Changge looked westward, his eyes calm and expressionless, yet concealing an undeniable indifference.
If the true Human Race still exists in the Western Wilderness, he will leave a sliver of hope; but if, like the Southern Wilderness, it is occupied by Myriad Races that harm the descendants of my Human Race, then he would not hesitate to unleash another bloodbath and completely level this hypocritical Buddhist land.
With one step, time and space folded, and billions of miles were covered in an instant.
Western Wilderness, the Final Buddhist Temple.
This supreme palace, standing in the heart of the Western Wilderness, is Buddha's Light Shines Everywhere and filled with the sounds of chanting. It appears solemn, sacred, and untouched by dust. However, if you peel back the veil of false Buddhist light, you will see that none of the Buddha, Arhats, and Vajras seated inside are actually Human Race.
Some are actually ferocious beasts that devour the heavens, some are ancient demon spirits, and some are evil races from beyond the realm. They have simply transformed into human form, donned cassocks, and, by taking advantage of the lineage of the former Human Race Buddhist master, disguised themselves as Buddha to dominate the Western Wilderness and enslave the creatures of this place.
Just then, a young monk, his face deathly pale, stumbled and crawled into the main hall, his voice trembling uncontrollably:
"Buddha! Something terrible has happened!"
"That Human Race, Ye Changge... has already crossed the southern border and is heading towards my western wilderness! He will arrive outside my Buddhist temple in no more than half an hour!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the entire Temple of the End fell into a deathly silence.
The Buddha, who had been chanting sutras with their eyes closed and exuding solemnity, suddenly opened their eyes. Their eyes no longer held compassion, but rather naked terror and rage.
" Ye Changge?! That Human Race demon who unleashed carnage in the Southern Wilderness?"
A fake Buddha with a lion's head and a human body slammed its fist on the table, instantly shattering the throne. "He wasn't satisfied with slaughtering everyone in the Southern Wilderness; now he dares to covet my Western Wilderness? Does he really think that no Myriad Races in the All Under Heaven can stop him?!"
"Throughout the Southern Wilderness, billions of martial artists and countless lives were slaughtered by him alone, sparing neither the old nor the weak. This boy is vicious and cruel, truly the number one evil star in the world!"
"We occupy the Western Wilderness, living peacefully and without conflict. Why must he exterminate us?"
"Where is the Heavenly Dao? Where are the laws? Why not unleash divine punishment and annihilate this fiend?!"
The Buddhas roared, their chanting turning into a fierce howl, and the sacred temple was instantly enveloped in a violent aura.
The angrier they are, the more fearful they become.
The fate of the Southern Wilderness is right before our eyes.
That was the Southern Wilderness, home to several half-step End Realm experts. Before Ye Changge, it couldn't even offer a moment's resistance, being swept away like clay chickens and earthenware dogs, its inheritance, writing, and bloodline completely uprooted. And their Western Wilderness, though known as the Buddhist Land, was only on par with the Southern Wilderness in strength; how could they possibly withstand this god of death?
They were afraid, terrified, and lived in constant fear.
They coveted the fortune of the Western Wilderness, the identity of the Buddha, and the desire for immortality and power; they feared death more than anyone else.
"What's the panic!"
The Buddha of the End, seated at the very top of the main hall, gave a deep shout, his voice carrying the pressure of a half-step End Realm expert, barely managing to stabilize the situation.
This Buddha has a perfect human form and a compassionate face, but deep in his eyes lies the ferocity of a beast. His true form is a Devouring Demon Ape that has lived for hundreds of millions of years. Back then, he ambushed the Human Race Buddha and usurped the throne, thus securing his position as the Lord of the Western Wilderness.
"No matter how strong Ye Changge, he's just one person! My Western Wilderness has hundreds of millions of Buddhist soldiers, ten guardian Buddha, and my Endless Buddha Formation to protect us!"
"Send the order! Martial law throughout the entire Western Wilderness! All billions of Buddhist soldiers are arrayed, the Ten Guardians guard the four directions, activate the End Buddha Formation, gather the power of the entire Western Wilderness, even if it means attrition, we must wear Ye Changge down!"
The moment the order was issued, the Western Wilderness trembled.
Buddhist cities activated their defenses, sacred mountains rose with protective barriers, chanting Buddhist prayers transformed into killing sounds, and prayer beads became weapons of mass destruction. Those monks and Buddha who usually chanted words of compassion now revealed their ferocious side, laying down a net of Heavenly Net and Earthly Web, all to stop Ye Changge alone.
The entire Western Wilderness was shrouded in fear.
"It's over... Ye Changge really came..."
"The Southern Wilderness is a cautionary tale; we simply can't stop it!"
"He's a devil who crawled out of Hell, and nobody can stop him!"
Countless ordinary monks and believers trembled in fear. They were merely beings dependent on this place and had no idea about the grudges of the past. They only knew that the Human Race named Ye Changge left nothing but desolation wherever he went.
Many young monks who had recently Buddhist Sect looked ashen-faced.
They originally intended to cultivate themselves and seek the Dao here, but who would have thought that they would encounter this catastrophic disaster as soon as they stepped into the Western Wilderness.
Above the void, Ye Changge's figure slowly emerged.
He stood in the sky above the Western Wilderness, dressed in White Robe, untouched by dust, looking down at this hypocritical Buddhist land with an indifferent, godlike gaze.
"The Western Wilderness, home to the false Buddhas of Myriad Races, slaughtered my Human Race and seized our Human Race lineage."
"Today, I, Ye Changge, have come here not to kill, but to settle scores."
The sound wasn't loud, but it clearly resonated throughout every inch of the western wilderness.
Golden divine light erupted from his body, instantly overwhelming all the Buddhist light and chanting in the Western Wilderness.
Inside the final Buddha Hall, all the false Buddhas were deathly pale and trembling.