Yang Yuanhong's Confession

After the demon-slaying war, nearly seventy percent of the Central Region's young prodigies had been killed or wounded.

Though the price had been exceedingly painful, after enduring the great calamity within the Blood Demon Blessed Land, many of the surviving cultivators had made remarkable progress, both in cultivation realm and temperament.

Luo Qianchou, Ling Shuang, and Mo Yunzhou, for instance, formally announced after this demon-slaying war that they were withdrawing from the Heavenly Talent Ranking.

They intended to use the insights and gains from this experience to formally charge at the True Intent Realm and advance to a higher level.

Xuanyuan Xinghe, Rui Qingxue, and Long Zhu also entered seclusion after returning to their Lineages and sects.

Although their gains this time were not yet enough for them to directly touch upon an opportunity to break into True Intent like Ling Shuang and the other two, they still needed quiet cultivation and careful reflection to slowly digest them.

As for the other Central Region prodigies and Spiritual Connection True Persons who had survived the catastrophe, the vast majority shut their doors to visitors after returning to their respective factions.

On one hand, they needed to digest the insights in their hearts. On the other, they needed to lie low for a while.

For the bizarre law within the Blood Demon Blessed Land, where killing people granted cultivation, was no longer a secret.

Whichever faction's cultivators had experienced a sudden surge in realm, the many True Intent Cultivators atop the whale's back had all seen it clearly.

There had only been ten demonic cultivators in the Blood Demon Blessed Land, counting on one's fingers, and all of them had been slain by Ling Shuang and the other top-ranked prodigies.

Then where had the suddenly skyrocketing cultivation of these prodigies and True