Chapter 72: The Beginning of the Dispute Between Law and Martial Arts

  Time flies, years are like water, and in the blink of an eye, a thousand years have passed.

  For thousands of years, the situation in the Desolate Era has become increasingly severe. It started with the war between the Devil Cult and the Dragon Clan, but the war quickly spiralled out of control when the Dragon Clan was no match for the Devil Cult.

  The Ancestral Dragon then invited allies from all sides, and first of all, the Tianyu Dynasty of the Blue Sky was involved. The situation of the war became more and more intense, and finally even the Motian Dynasty of the Primordial Chaos joined in. In the end, all seven major forces in the Honghuang Universe were involved.

  The Feng tribe and the Qilin Alliance, although they are also one of the three major races in the Honghuang universe along with the Dragon tribe, have long since become sworn enemies. The Knife Emperor Ye Qing, as the backing force behind the Feng tribe and the Qilin Alliance, has a deep-seated grudge against the Dragon tribe's leader. This is well-known throughout the Honghuang universe. Therefore, after discussing it with Tianfeng and Moyun, they led the Feng tribe and the Qilin Alliance to join the Demon Sect's camp over the past thousand years.

  In this way, there are four major forces on the side of the Demon Sect: Motian Dynasty, Feng Zu, Qilin Zu.

  The Dragon Clan has three major forces: the Tianyu Dynasty and Heaven.

  At the beginning, the Demon Sect camp had the upper hand in the war against the Dragon Clan camp. However, things took a turn when the Ancestral Dragon personally infiltrated the Demon Sect and manipulated Xuan Huang and Mo Tian. As the Grand Elder of the Phoenix Tribe, Xuan Huang controlled nearly two-fifths of the tribe's military forces, while Mo Tian, as the Grand Elder of the Qilin Tribe, controlled two-fifths of his tribe's military forces. Under the righteous cause of the Ancestral Dragon and the three major tribes of the Primordial Chaos, the two men led their controlled troops to rebel against the Demon Sect and join the Dragon Clan camp.

  On that day, Feng and Mo Yun discovered that Xuan Huang and Mo Tian had rebelled, but it was too late to stop them. As a result, the Phoenix Clan and Qilin Clan officially split, greatly weakening the Demon Sect's camp, while the Dragon Clan's camp gained significant strength, restoring balance between the two sides.

  For thousands of years, the two camps have fought big and small battles, with both sides having wins and losses, but such battles are simply to consume each other's strength.

  The hatred between the two sides grew deeper, and it was either you die or I live. For thousands of years, the number of dead warriors on both sides had reached tens of billions, and this was still the result of both sides trying their best to control themselves.

  As the hatred between the two sides deepened, the Great War almost engulfed the entire Honghuang universe. Originally, both sides were vying for dominance in the Honghuang universe. As the war progressed, more and more extraordinary skills and techniques were created. Although these methods had many differences, they can be broadly divided into two categories: Fa Xiu and Wu Xiu.

  The war between the two sides gradually evolved into a dispute between Fa Xiu and Wu Xiu. Since Luo Ye, Hun Dun, and Ye Qing in the Demon Sect camp can all be considered Wu Xiu, for the Hong Huang masses, the Demon Sect camp can be considered a Wu Xiu camp. The Dragon Clan's Qing Tian, Zu Long, etc. are Fa Xiu camps.

  As a result, Hongjun and Yangmei, who were not willing to participate in the war at first, had no choice but to join Fashu's camp. As Fashu's representative figure, although he did not have any ambition to dominate the universe, what he cared about most was the inheritance of his own lineage. If this war resulted in a victory for Wuxiu, then from now on, the status of Fashu in the Hongyuan universe would be extremely lowly, and it can be imagined how dire the situation would be for Hongjun's lineage.

  As a result, powerful beings like Hong Jun and Yang Mei, who did not participate in worldly affairs, also had to join the Dragon Clan camp for the survival of their own lineage. When the two major camps became a war between Fa Xiu and Wu Xiu, the scattered cultivators in the vast wilderness could no longer maintain their independence and joined the two major camps one after another. This led to the arrival of the first Great Tribulation in the Hongyuan universe, with more than 90% of the cultivators joining this grand Great Tribulation.

  "I don't know how many living beings in the vast wilderness will be left after this catastrophe."

  The first era of the vast universe is about to end. Ye Qingling stood in the Guanghan Palace, gazing at the vast expanse of the Hongyuan continent below and sighed.

  Over the years, the vast continent of Honghuang has grown larger and larger. Now, even with Ye Qing's cultivation, it is impossible to know how large the universe of Honghuang is. It is only known that it is very, very large. Although it cannot be compared to the starry universe of later generations, it is still extremely large. To know that this universe was initially nearly three times larger than a normal universe, with resources abnormally rich.

  Otherwise, this universe has just opened for tens of billions of years, and so many powerful creatures have emerged? If it weren't for the extraordinary abundance of innate spiritual energy in this universe, it would be impossible to emerge countless quasi-saints in just tens of billions of years, let alone saints.

  Since learning that the Feng tribe and Qilin alliance had joined Luoyi's side, Ye Qing knew that the course of history had completely changed. Although Ye Qing didn't think much of Luoyi's faction, asking him to help the dragon clan was simply impossible, more difficult than a mortal ascending to heaven.

  It's already not bad that Ye Qing didn't destroy the dragon clan, but now he has to go and help them? That's even more unbearable than killing Ye Qing. Ye Qing doesn't want to humiliate himself for the sake of some so-called greater good, or find fault with himself.

  In addition, for Ye Qing's cultivation method, that is an iron-clad martial cultivator. Even if he wanted to join the dao cultivators, it would be impossible, so why humiliate himself and look for trouble.

  Thinking of this, Ye Qing's heroic spirit was greatly aroused. So what if the dragon clan was a bit stronger? Could they defeat him just because of that?

  As a result of what happened to the Phoenix and Qilin clans later on, Ye Qing became even more displeased with the Dragon Clan. The Phoenix and Qilin clans relied on me, Ye Qing, and all living beings in the Primordial Chaos knew this. Wasn't what the Ancestral Dragon did a blatant slap in his face?

  Although Ye Qing was a descendant of the Dragon's people in his past life, as a炎黄子孙, it was just a pride for his own nation. However, this life, as a congenital demon god and ancient magic ape, living in the vast expanse of Honghuang for nearly tens of billions of years, Ye Qing had long considered himself a congenital demon god, rather than a human.

  Although the human race still has a concern in their hearts, it is impossible to let Ye Qing always help the human race. Not to mention that the human race in this universe is not the original human race, even if they were, Ye Qing does not want to be a nanny for the human race. If the human race can become strong and not be toys of future holy realm experts, Ye Qing may still be able to help them secretly. But wanting him to always openly help the human race is an impossible thing.