Compared to the Heavenly Revelation Alliance and the Black Desolation Demons, whose aims were clear, the righteous side had not noticed anything at first. But with Long-Bearded Elder of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion present, even though the heavenly secrets had been thrown into chaos, he could still detect abnormalities from many angles. By piecing together the shifts in fortune across various regions, he deduced that the demons' fortune was trending downward.
But that was merely a surface-level calculation. In reality, looking across Tianyuzhou, the demons' aura was instead growing increasingly rampant, at times even reaching a level of utter madness.
In a sense, the current War between Righteous and Evil was the fiercest moment since the Tianyuzhou Rebellion began. New demons continued to arrive in Tianyuzhou, while the Heavenly Revelation Alliance and some of the powerful Black Desolation Demons already knew it was time to retreat. Thus, they were holding one last carnival, racking their brains to satisfy their desires, and also seizing every mortal they could get their hands on in great swathes.
So-called casualties mattered only to those who cared about them. People suffered when they lost loved ones; a nation grieved when it lost too many citizens; immortal cultivators mourned when fellow disciples fell. But to those demon kings, they had to think of every possible way to exchange this period for profit. After all, there were demons aplenty in the Black Desolation.
At this moment, Ji Yuan's dharma cloud was racing toward the south of Tianyuzhou, searching by instinct for the Old Beggar's location. In truth, Ji Yuan and the Old Beggar shared no shallow karmic opportunity, so finding him was not difficult.
Ji Yuan traveled almost in a straight line through Sword Escape. In less than a day and night, he had already neared the