The Conflict Begins, Refining a Calamity-Quelling Treasure

Within the Kunlun Domain.

Just as Qin Ming obtained the True Spirit Essence Blood and prepared to begin refining a Calamity-Quelling Treasure.

The Wood Crystal Clan, Earth Spirit Clan, Feathered Spirit Race, and Azure Radiance Clan that had previously visited the human race joined forces with human cultivators, forming an allied army of cultivators. They began dispatching cultivators toward the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss to purge and suppress the ghostly creatures of the Netherworld Underworld.

And over the period that followed.

The allied forces erupted into no fewer than dozens of conflicts, disturbances, and small-scale local wars with the Demon Race, as well as several other foreign races connected to the Netherworld.

Both sides suffered losses.

Most of the fighting centered around the regions surrounding the Yellow Springs Devouring Abyss, where the war gradually intensified.

Even Thousand Machine Immortal City, where Qin Ming had once stayed, was razed flat by foreign cultivators.

It was said that the Netherworld Sect and Yellow Springs Sect, two Refining Void sects, had both become sacrifices in this conflict.

Amid such chaos, everyone feared for their own safety.

Of the Heavenly Star City Star Guards dispatched to the front lines on missions, those who returned alive could truly be called blessed with great fortune.

Yao Tiannan, too, had gone out on a mission and returned having lost half his life.

Later, his master Yu Hanzi arranged for him to remain in Heavenly Star City and maintain order in the surrounding regions.

Yet what neither the human race nor the several foreign races expected was—

Just as Wind Rider Elder had told Qin Ming before, once conflicts and frictions among the races began along the border, even the area around Heavenly Star City was affected.

Many savage beasts living in the wilderness, driven by the border