The Outcome Is Settled, the Second Round Begins!
This siege lasted for a full three months.
From the various strategic passes and defenses, all the way south, across the vast land stretching for hundreds of millions of miles, the flames of war raged constantly and never ceased.
Abandoned Spirit Race cultivators scattered and fled in all directions in order to survive, hiding in the deep abyss or escaping into the deep mountains and marshes; they did everything they could to stay alive.
Meanwhile, the Beast Realm army, aided by the divine thoughts of various Dao Venerable, laid a net that stretched from heaven to earth.
Thirty giant skeletal ships patrolled the sky, while the Spirit Transformation elders of the Giant Bear Clan split up to wipe them out.
Every day, thunderous explosions resounded, announcing the annihilation of the Spirit Race's Nascent Soul Spirit Transformation.
Those once arrogant and powerful cultivators of the Spirit Race, who fed on the myriad spirits of heaven and earth, have now become the most sought-after prey.
The Spirit Transformation body is a great elixir for prolonging life;
Nascent Soul Spirit Wood is a top-grade spiritual material for crafting armor;
Years of plunder and karmic consequences were settled in the bloodiest way at this moment.
A month later, several checkpoints on the Spirit Race's front line were leveled by a single blow from the Shan Yue. Many Spirit Race Nascent Soul Spirit Transformation stationed there were torn to pieces, and their remains were devoured on the spot by the Giant Bear Clan, becoming food for them.
Two months later, a remnant force of 5,000 elite Spirit Race who had fled to the Southeast Great Swamp were overtaken by the army of the Ultimate Force Ape Clan.
The warships roared for three days and three nights, the marshland was completely evaporated, and not a single one of the five thousand lives was spared;
Until the third month.
When the last remaining late-stage Nascent Spirit Race Late Spirit Transformation, who was stubbornly resisting, was besieged by multiple Spirit Transformation at Beheading Mountain, his head was shattered and his life force was completely extinguished.
The southern part of the Dao Realm was utterly silent.
The defenses, armories, cities, and Spirit-Draining Grand Array that the Spirit Realm had built over many years in the Dao Realm were completely uprooted by the Beast Realm army.
The very few remaining low-level spiritual cultivators fled like frightened birds into the desolate forbidden areas of the Dao Realm, never to amount to anything again.
The Beast Realm's black and yellow battle banners were planted across every inch of the southern mountains.
Vast amounts of resources, mineral veins, and small tribes that were rescued but later became vassals of the Beast Realm all became spoils of war for the Beast Realm.
This battle solidified the Beast Realm's absolute dominance in the Dao Realm.
Not only did they secure the seven northern passes, but they also swallowed up the most prosperous southern half of the Dao Realm!
One-ninth of the entire Dao Realm is under the actual control of the Beast Realm; the other two-ninths are extensions of the Beast Realm's influence.
Their power occupies one-third of the entire Dao Realm.
The remaining five-ninths are the areas controlled by the eight native clans of the Dao Realm; and the remaining one-ninth is a stronghold occupied by various clans of the Nine Realms.
However, what shook the Nine Realms even more than the territory was the Dao position that collapsed in full view of everyone.
All Nine Realms fell completely silent.
In the Human Realm, deep within the Hidden Sword Dao Palace.
Beside an ancient sword pool suspended high in the sky, several elders carrying ancient swords sat cross-legged, their expressions extremely solemn.
"The Bailu Lingyuan... has collapsed."
"The Vast and Broad Earth Immortal Foundation has been secretly and completely assimilated by the old man Feng Yue; once it condenses, it will inevitably suffer a backlash from Feng Yue."
"The main road is blocked, but Feng Yue has already taken the lead."
An aged sword cultivator sighed deeply, "Pass down the order: all cultivators of all lineages in the Human Realm who cultivate the Earth Path must immediately sever any thought of establishing a [Treasured Earth] Immortal Foundation."
"Any practice involving the Six Foundations of the Treasured Earth is strictly prohibited!"
"That position is no longer a path to heaven, but a forbidden goal, something that the Beast Realm can already possess, and is no longer something that any race can even dream of."
Whoever steps on it will be crushed to pieces.
In the Vast Realm, boundless ocean, within the Crystal Dragon Palace.
Several dragons, their forms stretching for thousands of miles, coiled in the abyss, their immense Water Dao creating towering waves.
"The Myriad Spirits Imperial Clan has really suffered a huge loss this time."
An ancient golden dragon spoke coldly, "Not only was a promising talent like Lingyuan, who was at the pinnacle of the Five-Foundation Extreme Realm, destroyed, but the Dharma Bodies of Dao Venerable Zhang Fate Wielding and Reverse Life were also severely injured. They will need at least ten thousand years to recover their vitality."
"Those mad dogs on the Nether River have certainly had a feast of life-giving medicine this time."
"The Treasured Earth Dao Fruit is now a dead end."
Another dragon deity murmured, "Unless someone can forcibly erase the hidden hand left by the Dao Embryo, or directly slaughter Peak Mountain Emperor Lord."
"Otherwise, within the Nine Realms, it would be impossible for another Treasured Earth Dao Venerable to emerge in the future. Treasured Earth has fallen to the Beast Realm; the overall situation is already settled."
"Send a message to all Sea Race, ordering them to seal off the relevant Treasured Earth Dao and prohibiting any further crossing of these forbidden areas."
Heaven Realm, Mystic Realm, Measure Realm...
Almost simultaneously, the major imperial clans and royal families that ruled over various regions in the Nine Realms all issued similar decrees.
The [Treasured Earth] position, once coveted by countless Spirit Transformation cultivators and representing supreme authority, became a universally acknowledged taboo and dead end in the Nine Realms from the moment Bailu Lingyuan was extracted and bones were chewed up!
No one dared to touch that throne, which was now tainted with deadly poison.
Peak Mountain Emperor Lord never even left the ancestral court.
With just a drop of ink, he forced back the army of the Spirit Realm and extinguished all earth cultivators' unrealistic desires for that position!
The Dao Embryo is supremely powerful, terrifying beyond measure.
Those who uphold the Great Way are like ants to all living beings.
The storm in the Heaven Beyond Heaven gradually subsided.
The Spirit Realm withdrew its troops, and the south was pacified.
In a hidden rift somewhere in the endless void of the Dao Realm, the avatar of the Returning Earth Dao Venerable quietly emerged.
Before him, the figure of the Nether Domain Dao Venerable once again emerged from the darkness, the aura of Death Dao surrounding him even more terrifying than it had been months before.
It faintly exuded a nauseating sense of intertwined life and death, clearly indicating that it had completely refined the flesh and blood of the Bailu Lingyuan.
"Fellow Earth Dao, our Nether Realm is very satisfied with this battle."
The voice of the Nether Domain Dao Venerable was hoarse, and the ghostly fire in his eyes carried a bloodthirsty satisfaction.
Returning Earth Dao Venerable remained composed, slightly cupping his hands and saying, "The Spirit Race has retreated, and the South belongs to my Beast Realm. Now, it is time to fulfill the second agreement between our two realms."
The ghostly flame in the eyes of the Nether Domain Dao Venerable suddenly flickered, and his stark white fangs bared once more.
"The Dao Realm's native land, the Dao Venerable Death Dao [Returning to Stillness]."
"Good."
A glint of light flashed in Returning Earth Dao Venerable's eyes. " With the Spirit Race retreating, the eight native clans of the Dao Realm are now like frightened birds."
"The Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable Guiji currently has no allies, making this the perfect time for a hunt."
"Good!"
The Nether Domain Dao Venerable chuckled softly, the eerie sound of bones grinding echoing in the deathly silence. "Once the Nether Emperor completes the four stages of the Death Dao and achieves the status of Dao Ancestor..."
"This favor from the Beast Realm, my Nether River Imperial Clan will certainly repay you properly!"
In an instant, undercurrents rose again, and a second, more covert hunt targeting the strongest native cultivators of the Dao Realm Dao Realm had already begun silently.
And at this very moment.
Deep within the ancient ruins in the eastern part of the Dao Realm, a desolate and lifeless expanse.
The Black Water Pool.
A charred, mangled body lay quietly curled up in the mud.
The outside world was in turmoil, with great clans rising and falling, Dao Venerable vying for power, and countless lives lying dead and bleeding. But all this commotion had nothing to do with the body at the bottom of the pool.
I don't know how much time passed.
Inside the charred body that seemed to have been dead for a long time, a tiny, almost imperceptible, yet pure, blazing white lightning suddenly shone.
The Righteous Yang Lightning, ever-renewing.
Under the faint light of the lightning, a piece of charred, lightning-struck wood, about the length of an arm, floated above Shi Jian's dried-up and shattered Dantian.
At the core of the withered tree, the dormant aura of [Radiant Yang Lightning] was nurtured by the Righteous Yang Lightning and the remaining medicinal power of the Tribulation-Crossing Life Pill.
Without warning, it jumped for the first time.
Like a burning heart that is reborn amidst ruins and desolation.
The thunder has not yet subsided; they lie dormant, awaiting change.
Waiting for dawn, to be reborn.