According to reports from the five elite squads ahead, the four True Intent Cultivators from the Central Region, eight local True Intent Cultivators from the Northwest, and three Barbarian bishops whose strength rivaled theirs had all set out for the borderlands as soon as Yang Lingqing gave the order.
Earlier, when Demonic Dao forces had been wreaking havoc in the Northwest, the three Barbarian bishops had offered to join the fighting. But given the peculiar nature of the Dao arts they practiced, Yang Lingqing had kept them stationed in the Barbarian Lands.
As everyone knew, Barbarian cultivators' strength and techniques were closely tied to the three gods beneath the Barbarian Lands.
For now, because their cultivation was limited, the divine power of Bai Que, Huang Ding, and Cang Jue reached no farther than Barbarian territory.
For ordinary cultivators of the Blood Pattern Realm—those considered below the Core Formation Realm by the outside world—leaving the Barbarian Lands for more than an hour meant losing the divine laws that sustained them, and their cultivation would begin to wane.
Those who reached the Incarnation Realm, like Lorraine and Mont, possessed strength comparable to the Spiritual Connection Realm. They could use their soul intent—what outsiders called the Primordial Spirit—to connect with the gods of the Barbarian Land and keep those divine laws upon themselves.
Even so, the distance over which their Primordial Spirits could maintain that connection still limited their movements. They could not travel far from the Barbarian Land and fight deep in the Northwest.
Only those like the three Barbarian bishops, who had broken through their shackles and reached the pinnacle of their cultivation path, could draw on the power of space to fight far from the Barbarian Land.
By linking spaces together, they could connect their location to the Barbarian Land