Chapter 38: The Five Great Sovereigns, Confronting Each Other's Power

  The war on the eastern border of Honghuang was a heavy loss for both the Allied Forces and the Demon Domain, Magic Domain armies. Although they have temporarily ceased fire, it can be foreseen that the war is far from over, and the next battle will be even more brutal.

  Ben Zun, Hong Jun, Yang Mei, Luo Hou and Shen Ni showed their invincible fighting power on the battlefield, shocking the entire Hong Huang, and the five were also revered as the Five Great Sovereigns.

  The true body is too mysterious, no one knows his surname, so he is called the Blood Prison Supreme.

  The Union Army was severely weakened as most of the Saints and Elders were killed, and even the surviving Lu Ya Old Ancestor, Yin Yang Old Ancestor, and Qian Kun Old Ancestor had gone into hiding. The Golden Immortals, Mystic Immortals, and Heavenly Immortals also suffered heavy losses.

  Thus, the six holy dynasties and the two great alliances of East and West officially announced their dissolution. The alliance began to form a unified force with Hong Jun and Yang Mei as its leaders, and even the three tribes were no exception. The prestige of the two men reached an all-time high.

  In fact, the three tribes also suffered heavy losses in this battle, but because they retreated early, the troops sent to participate in the war were not their main force. The highest strength, Zu Long, Tian Feng, Lin Zu and others, can be compared with Lu Ya's existence, did not appear at all.

  After the alliance was unified, the three tribes almost took up half of the discourse power, and their momentum was even more magnificent than before the Great Calamity. If it weren't for Hong Jun and Yang Mei's war strength being against the heavens, with a wave of their hands, tens of millions of cultivators would have been reduced to ashes, the sky would have collapsed, and the earth would have cracked, and their position would have been impossible to shake. Perhaps by now, the alliance's power has already become something within the three tribes' grasp.

  Of course, Hong Jun and Yang Mei didn't pay much attention to these things either. At their level, what rights and status are all fleeting clouds; only proving the Tao is where their hearts are directed.

  Especially after seeing the strength of Ben Zun, he was stimulated in his heart and devoted himself to cultivation. Everyone is a chaotic demon, extremely proud in their bones, although they don't show it, but in the end, no one wants to fall behind others.

  As a result, the two of them brought stability to the Allied Army and then began to close themselves off, not caring about the affairs of the Alliance, which indirectly helped the three tribes, Zu Long, Tian Feng, and Lin Zu, greatly increase their prestige.

  The four supreme beings of the two major forces have all entered a state of seclusion, and the Blood Prison Supreme Being has always been indifferent to worldly affairs. As a result, both major forces are accumulating strength and preparing for the final battle. Therefore, almost all the Golden Immortals in the entire Hongyuan have been recruited by the two major forces. As for the outcome of those who resist, it goes without saying.

  Of course, although the two major forces are working hard to restrain each other and no large-scale war has occurred, small battles have been happening constantly. The ferocious beasts in the eastern and southern parts of the Desolate Lands have almost been wiped out, and the Demonic Cultivators do not dare to easily set foot in the eastern and southern parts.

  Of course, the north and west are also the domains of ferocious beasts and demons, except for Blood Prison City.

  The two major forces also constantly sent small groups to raid each other's mineral veins, spiritual stone resources and other key strongholds. The eastern and western borders had become a killing field, with you ambushing me today and me ambushing you tomorrow, in utter chaos.

  Generally calm, locally war-torn, in the midst of a leisurely passage of 500,000 years, the killing aura and evil energy between heaven and earth also reached an extreme point, causing the entire Primordial Chaos to be shrouded in a dark curtain, devoid of daylight.

  All masters are clear that the final decisive battle is not far away.

  At this time, Li Yi stood on a desolate mountain in the east, gazing at the white bones below, and couldn't help but sigh. Over the years, Li Yi had gone through countless killings on the border, his name shaking the world, because his weapon was the Qinglian ancient sword, and he was also skilled in swordsmanship, so all the cultivators called him the Qinglian Sword Venerable.

  In fact, at this time, the main position in the vast wilderness is still occupied by Golden Immortals. After all, there are too few Mahayana Golden Immortals. Although the number of cultivators who fell in the two great wars was counted in hundreds of millions, the fallen Mahayana Golden Immortals were very rare, only a few hundred.

  Before the Great Calamity, there were roughly over a hundred Da Luo Golden Immortals in each Holy Dynasty in the vast expanse of the Primordial Chaos. Other forces had similar numbers, except for the Demon Realm and Beast Realm which had slightly more. Adding other scattered cultivators, there were approximately 4,000 in total. The Primordial Chaos spanned tens of thousands of light-years, meaning that on average, not even one Da Luo Golden Immortal would appear within billions of miles. This shows just how rare Da Luo Golden Immortals are.

  There are probably over 3,000 Daluo Golden Immortals left in the desolate expanse now. Each of them holds a high position and spends most of their time cultivating, rarely taking action unless it's to deal with some particularly important strongholds. Every time a Daluo Golden Immortal falls, it will cause a stir.

  Li Yi was almost invincible in the Golden Immortal realm, and even when facing a powerful Golden Immortal like Da Luo, as long as he wasn't surrounded, he still had a great chance of escaping. Over the years, he had killed nearly ten thousand Golden Immortals at the border, and several times, he had relied on his incredible speed to escape from Da Luo's pursuit, causing shockwaves throughout the border region.

  So Li Yi's status in the alliance is also very high, except for Daluo Jinxian who is often in a closed state and several rising stars from the three clans, it's his turn.

  Recalling the fifty million years of killing, Li Yi couldn't help but sigh, and also somewhat understood why the immortals and Buddhas of later generations viewed human life as insignificant, with indifference.

  On one hand, it's indeed a huge gap in strength and level of life, while on the other hand, it may be due to having experienced too much and being accustomed to life and death.

  Especially the great masters of divine communication who have existed since the beginning of heaven, after experiencing numerous catastrophes, countless practitioners fell, and looking at those weak and small living beings, they couldn't even produce an equal mentality, just like humans and ants, thinking that whenever they want to pinch them to death, they can wipe them out without any scruples.

  It is better to be a dragon or elephant for all Buddhas than to be an ox or horse for all living beings.

  Shaking off these unnecessary thoughts, Li Yi sorted out the gains of these years. Without unearned wealth, one cannot become rich; without midnight grass, a horse cannot become fat. Having killed nearly ten thousand Golden Immortals, he obtained over a dozen Pre-Heaven Spirit Treasures. The rest were all Post-Heaven Spirit Treasures, which Li Yi didn't bother with.

  Among the dozens of congenital spiritual treasures, there were actually three top-grade spiritual treasures. This really made Li Yi sigh in admiration. It seemed that not only he was lucky, but many Golden Immortals also possessed top-grade congenital spiritual treasures. They just kept them hidden and didn't reveal them to others.

  These three top-grade Primordial Spirit Treasures are: the Earth-Shattering Pearl, the Blood Spirit Tower, and the Purple Cloud Halberd. As for the remaining Primordial Spirit Treasures, there's no need to count them individually.

  This also allowed Li Yi to get rid of the embarrassing situation of being almost penniless, thinking back then he didn't even have a Primordial Spirit Treasure to reward Qing Xiao with, now he finally doesn't have to worry about this anymore.

  These spiritual treasures actually have little effect on Li Yi, whether it's his clone or his true self, neither of them need these spiritual treasures to arm themselves, so after preparing a few pieces, he handed the rest over to his true self as a reward for Blood Prison City.

  In fact, Li Yi's greatest gain was not these spiritual treasures, but the insight into life. When leaving Penglai Island, Li Yi only had a thread of understanding about the power of life, and in these five million years, Li Yi, while constantly killing, also unconsciously increased his comprehension of life.

  Witnessing countless monks struggling and falling in the great disaster, that kind of helpless despair, screaming, sorrow has been invading Li Yi's innermost heart at all times.

  In the face of the great calamity of all living beings, hundreds of millions of cultivators actively responded to the disaster, wearing blood-stained clothes, crossing broken blades, fighting bloody battles, and opening up a bloody path with their lives. The unyielding image of risking death to create a glimmer of hope also moved Li Yi deeply.

  Joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure, the hundred flavors of life. Li Yi's understanding of life has grown deeper and deeper, and now he is only a thin membrane away from breaking through to introduce the power of life and perform "Rebirth Sword Dao".

  Now Li Yi had an extremely strong premonition, as if the breakthrough was just in front of him. So Li Yi quietly came to a relatively remote mountain on the border, without attracting anyone's attention, and prepared to break through here.

  However, Li Yi knew that if he rushed, he wouldn't achieve his goal, so he didn't hastily close up his senses. Instead, he first organized the gains of these years, reviewed the memories of the past 500,000 years, and sorted out what he had obtained. He combed through his thoughts, put everything in order, calmed his mind thoroughly, and prepared to break through, introducing the power of life.